HUNTINGTON BEACH, California/USA (Thursday, March 8, 2012) – After wrapping up the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast, freshly crowned event winner Taj Burrow (AUS), 33, and reigning 11-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), 40, skipped down the coast to score some barrels at the Australian slab, Ours. Surfline.com was there to catch the magic as [...]

NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Thursday, March 8, 2012) – MEREWETHER point offered young surfers from Australasia and around the globe perfection on day one of the CHIKO Pro Junior at Newcastle’s Surfest. The two-to-three metre (6 foot) southerly swell that lit up Merewether was whipped up by a deepening low pressure trough that moved up from the [...]

NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Wednesday, March 7, 2012) – This week Newcastle’s Surfest will play host to some of the world’s best surfers for the 27th time, making it one of the longest running surf events in Australia. 2012 has also seen the Men’s division, the Burton Toyota Pro, upgraded to an ASP 6-Star rating making Surfest [...]

LOS ANGELES, California/USA (Monday, March 5, 2012) – The highly anticipated arrival of ASP World Championship Tour rookie Kolohe Andino (USA), 17, has finally gone down, with the California Prodigy taking a 13th place finish in a solid showing, where he nearly scalped eventual Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast runner-up Adriano de Souza (BRA), 25, in [...]