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Guilherme Tamega defends crown of the Bahia Bodyboarding Show
Brazil will be hosting its second competition of the year from September 21 to 25. The Bahia Bodyboarding Show will be one of the last chances for riders to fight for precious points on the world tour and increase their situation on the ranking. The competition will give 1000 IBA points and a total purse [...]
Annual Nuns Surfing Contest At New Jersey
Annual Nuns Surfing Contest At New Jersey: The Sister Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will launch the 15th Nun’s Beach Surf Invitational with proceeds going to the maintenance of its 150-bedroom beachfront retreat on the harbor, the New York Post reports. The pact between surfer and nun in Stone Harbor was forged more [...]
Guilherme Tamega Defends Crown Of The Bahia Bodyboarding Show
Guilherme Tamega Defends Crown Of The Bahia Bodyboarding Show: Brazil will be hosting its second competition of the year from September 21 to 25. The Bahia Bodyboarding Show will be one of the last chances for riders to fight for precious points on the world tour and increase their situation on the ranking. The competition [...]
Base Jump 2010
Base Jump 2010: Local and foreign “Base” jumpers will be performing out-of-the-ordinary feat by jumping at night from Wisma Sanyan, Sarawak’s tallest building from Oct 15-16 this year. Sibu Resident Sim Kok Kee said besides Malaysia Base Jump Association chairman Captain Abdul Aziz Ahmad, others would be from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. “Normally they [...]
Extreme Sports
Few sports have grown as quickly or in as many directions as mountain biking, and in many ways Whistler has always been in front of the curve. Trails like A River Runs Through It changed the way people looked at bikes, while the Whistler Mountain Bike Park – now in its 11th year – changed [...]
Bodyboarders Are The Plastic Men Of modern surfing
Bodyboarders are the plastic men of modern wave riding. In less than a month, two competitions boosted the image of the sport founded by Tom Morey. The Zicatela Pro, in Puerto Escondido (Mexico) and the Shark Island Challenge, in Cronulla (Australia) have shown why pro bodyboarding is a very serious venture. While surfing, kitesurfing and [...]
Surf’s up for a wild weekend of girls-only fun
IT'S wild, it's wet and it's taking Ireland by storm — surfing is gaining huge popularity around the country and for lots of different reasons. Only surfer chicks need apply for the Ladies' Surf Weekend in Tramore where budding and accomplished female boarders can apply for up to 60 all-expenses-paid places at the two-day competition [...]
Extreme Sports
Few sports have grown as quickly or in as many directions as mountain biking, and in many ways Whistler has always been in front of the curve. Trails like A River Runs Through It changed the way people looked at bikes, while the Whistler Mountain Bike Park – now in its 11th year – changed [...]
Hawaii’s Moore wins Women’s final
Six days before the Women's final at the U.S .Open of Surfing came the big announcement. To the winner of Saturday's finale would go a record $50,000. That was $30,000 more than the previously set first-place prize of $20,000, which was also a record. No wonder Carissa Moore of Hawaii was all smiles late Saturday [...]
Bill Jason competes in all-day cycling events
It's sometime in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, and Bill Jason begins to feel it.First, it creeps in his legs, then into his weary head. "Maybe it's the other way around," Jason says with a laugh. Regardless, the 41-year-old mountain biker from Fairfield is tiring, and the sun has yet [...]
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