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The WSL tour schedule ended this week, and the final event in Tahiti was exactly what you’d want for a season finale. After a long, frustrating week of lay days, Teahupoo turned on for the WSL on Thursday, providing flawless 5- to 8-foot reef pass slabs for the crew to go bonkers in. Between Kelly Slater’s run to the semifinals, Nathan Hedge’s return to form with a near-perfect airdrop to spit storm, the solidifying of the final five for the WSL Championship event, and Matthew McGillivray’s perfect 10 for an impossible drop to barrel, spectators were rewarded for their patience...

The WSL announced this week that one of the tour’s most legendary competitors will be retiring after the Bells Beach event. No, it’s not Kelly Slater—despite being over 50, he is still going strong. Instead, it is Australian Owen Wright, who has spent the past 10 years dominating the heavy-water stops on tour, and who orchestrated one of the most incredible comebacks in the sport when he won his first event back after suffering a traumatic brain injury that nearly ended his career (not to mention his life). View this post on Instagram A post shared by World Surf League...

Qualification Scenarios Tighten with One Challenger Event Left The EDP Vissla Ericeira Pro finished today, marking the penultimate event on the WSL Challenger series. After a hard-found event in Portugal, Brazilian Deivid Silva and American Alyssa Spencer came out on top, earning much-needed points for their qualification campaigns. Silva beat Jake Marshall in the final, while Spencer beat out Luana Silva. With one Challenger event left at the Corona Saquarema Pro in Brazil, the qualification picture has now come into focus. The top 10 men and top 5 women will qualify for the 2024 CT, and thus far three athletes...

Although 20 million people saw Matahi Drollet’s previous post, and hundreds of thousands of people shared and interacted with it, the Paris 2024 Olympic Committee is still pushing to replace the existing judging scaffolding at Teahupoo with a new, larger, fancier facility that will require the drilling of dozens of new concrete footers in the coral reef.  @matahidrollet Matahi and the people of Teahupoo have been protesting this expansion for the past month, peaceably arguing that the existing WSL facility is adequate for the Olympics, and that any additional development will create irreparable damage to the Teahupoo ecosystem. Despite the...

Local Hawaiian surfer Carissa Moore won the first ever Olympic gold   The 2020 Tokyo Olympics marked a monumental milestone for surfing, as the sport made its Olympic debut and saw its first ever gold medalists crowned. On the women's side, Hawaiian superstar Carissa Moore etched her name in the history books by claiming the inaugural Olympic surfing gold. The 4-time World Champion from Honolulu defeated South Africa's Bianca Buitendag in the finals to ascend to the top of the Olympic podium.   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Team USA (@teamusa)   Moore's triumphant Olympic run...

Robbo Seals Olympic Berth with Win at Tahiti Pro For a while there, it looked like Gabriel Medina was about to pull off a year-long comeback and the ultimate hat trick. With nine minutes left in the final at Tahiti, he was once again dominating—as he had been all event. All he had to do was maintain his momentum and he’d win Tahiti Pro, earn a spot in the WSL Title Event, and nab a spot on the Brazilian Olympic team for the 2024 Games. Photo Credit to WSL Unfortunately, Jack Robinson had other plans. Throughout this event, the main...

Oi Rio Pro 2022 Anyone who underestimates the power of the yellow jersey needs to look no further than the Oi Rio Pro this past week. Photo Credit to WSL Coming into the event, Felipe Toledo had a commanding lead on the men’s tour and Carissa narrowly led the women (despite the fact that Carissa hadn’t yet won an event this year). The confidence of coming into a clutch event as the tour leader gives you a bit of extra oomph when it comes to winning heats—and both Felipe and Carissa rode their momentum straight into the finals, and ultimately...

Kelly Slater is without question the greatest competitive surfer of all time, with 11 world titles, 56 world tour event victories, and a win at The Eddie.   He was also the youngest and oldest surfing world champion, and perhaps most incredibly, his career has spanned multiple generations. He joined the world tour in 1992 at the age of 20, and has competed virtually nonstop since then, aside from a short hiatus after his first “retirement.” Now 50 years old, Slater is still rated in the top 15 on the world tour, has already qualified for next year’s 2023 season,...

The Ultimate Surfer—ABC’s Newest Surf-Themed Reality TV Show Photo Credit to @ultimatesurferabc The Olympics just awarded its first surfing gold medals, Bali and Puerto Escondido are on lockdown, COVID-19 is still raging, and the WSL has adopted some hair-brained new competitive format whereby the world title will be decided at a one-day champions event at Trestles. Just when you thought surfing couldn’t get any weirder—well, it turns out it can. ABC announced a new surfing reality TV show this week, and, based on the trailers, it will be chock full of beautiful influencers, cheesy drama, and, of course, Kelly Slater....

Biography John John Florence, also known as "John John," is a professional surfer from Hawaii. He was born on October 18, 1992, in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was introduced to surfing by his mother, Alexandra, who is also a surfer. Florence started surfing when he was just three years old, and he caught his first wave on a bodyboard. Since then, he has become one of the most dominant surfers of his era, winning back-to-back world titles on the 2016 World Surf League and 2017 World Surf League Men's Championship. Early Life  John John Florence grew up on the North Shore...

El Salvador Pro They say that lightning never strikes twice, but if your name is Felipe Toledo, Griffin Colapinto, or the El Salvador Pro, that might not be true. Last year’s inaugural world tour contest at Punta Roca was dominated by the two high-speed, high-fi regularfoots. Felipe and Griffin met in the final, where Griff came out on top with a dominant performance in the head-high rights. Considering the conditions on offer in El Salvador this year, as well as Toledo and Colapinto’s pedigree in small right-hand point breaks and the fact that they came into the event ranked third...