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John John Florence wins 2012 Billabong Pro Rio. Photo: ASP/SCHOLTZ The last six months have been pretty good for 19-year-old surfer John John Florence. The Hawaiian took the 2011 Van Triple Crown Championship in December, won the Volcom Pipe Pro in January, went home with first from the Drug…
Mick Fanning. Photo: ASP/Kirstin Surfer Mick Fanning, 31, came from behind in the final round of the Billabong Pro Tahiti to snatch the title from countryman Joel Parkinson. 鈥淚 held the lead in a 35-minute final until the four-minute mark,鈥 Parkinson said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 frustrating to lose that way,…
John John Florence was 19 when he became the youngest surfer ever to win the Triple Crown. Is he the next great phenomenon?
YOSEMITE NEEDS YOU came the rumbling call. With a crisp salute, our gung-ho correspondent rushed headlong into the summer-job fantasia of weed pulling, suitcase lugging, kamikaze tourists, and underpaid underlings who cower before the stiff-brimmed silhouette of Ranger Rick. A grunt's-eye report.
Kelly Slater wins the Volcom Fiji Pro. Photo: ASP/Kirstin Kelly Slater, 40, beat Gabriel Medina, 19, in the finals of the Volcom Pro to win the 49th tour event of his career at Cloudbreak in Fiji. To add some perspective to those numbers, the 11-time world champion has been…
A couple of months ago, I caught up with 21-year-old pro surfer and youth activist Kyle Thiermann. Possibly the world's most upbeat environmentalist, Kyle's spent the past five years surfing his way through Indonesia, Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Australia, and Hawaii, shooting documentaries to draw attention…
Josh Kerr, beer in handIn 2007, surfer Josh Kerr was competing on the World Tour against the top names in the surfing world: Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, and 41 other hungry surfers. He didn鈥檛 enjoy that first year and dropped off the tour to pursue surfing his…