Jordy Smith and Sarah Baum yesterday become part of the first WSG cohort of athletes who will be surfing in Tahiti next year at the Paris Olympic Games after the other Saffas fell away in El Salvador.
With Olympic qualification looming, the world's top surfers are battling through a gruelling ISA World Surfing Games in El Salvador, with five of six South Africans still in the hunt.
In a (kind of) warmup for the metronomic rhythms of Supertubes in JBay, Carissa Moore (HAW) and Griffin Colapinto (USA) conquered the chlorine walls of the Surf Ranch Pro in Lemoore yesterday.
In a happy parallel with the recent SA Para Surf Champs at Muizenberg, recent research at Swansea University shows surfing helps people with brain injuries to live more engaged and meaningful lives.
It was a tale of two surf days for the Tyrelife SA Para Surf Champs on the weekend with cranking 3ft surf at Muizies turning to onshore mush on Sunday, but history was made on a special weekend out.
Last weelk on Friday 5 May, sublime conditions descended on Sunset Reef near Cape Town to usher in the Southern Hemisphere winter. Alan van Gysen was there to shoot this video.
Feature documentary Humanity Stoked about the intersection between the human condition and skateboarding has won best feature film at the Wavescape Surf and Ocean Festival in Cape Town.
Jordy Smith and Matt McGillivray will ensure their presence at the Corona J-Bay Open when they made the mid-season cut at the Western Australia Margaret River Pro yesterday,.
