“I swear it was a major driver for my qualification,” said the newly minted 2025 CT surfer Isobella Nichols. “I first made the CT in 2020, and that was the year Snapper dropped off the tour. I can’t ...
Having entered the World Surf League (WSL) J-Bay Open at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa wearing the symbolic yellow jersey, Championship Tour surfer Jordy Smith is now out of the competition. Wearing ...
The wave at Jeffreys Bay is one of the best waves on the planet. When it’s working, it’s just about as perfect as a wave can be. It picks up a lot of swell, and on September 16, things were wild, ...
It wasn’t the wallpaper-worthy Jeffreys Bay that was initially predicted, but if you were on a surf trip and woke up to what the Championship Tour surfed yesterday, you’d be stoked. Overhead walls ...
Filmed by Nick Christy, Mike Ruthnum and Diego Alvares Heres. Edit by Tom Vaughan. “That was as perfect as J-Bay gets.” Luke Thompson is just coming off the back of a four-day run of swell in South ...
JEFFREY'S BAY, South Africa, Reuters (July 19) - Australia's triple champion Mick Fanning survived a shark attack in Sunday's final of the World Surf League's J-Bay Open, fighting off the circling ...
The rivalry between Australian wunderkind Mark Occhilupo and California soul champion Tom Curren produced the most exciting competitive clashes in the history of surfing. For the first decade of ...
There's always something special about surfing at your home break, as Jordy Smith showed off in his latest edit of him ...