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Nic Von Rupp has nailed the first Pawa Tube Fest, in Pascuales, Mexico.

The Portuguese surfer has showed an amazing overall performance and defeated some of the worlds best tube riders to claim the inaugural Pawa Tube Fest.

"It has been a really tough week and I am so stoked to come out as the winner. Coming here to surf one of the best waves in the world with some of the best tube riders has been an amazing experience", says Nic Von Rupp.
The Pawa Tube Fest presents a new and innovative contest format in which the final results are accumulated from the athlete's overall heat performances.
"It's really difficult to forecast Pascuales. This wave is under the influence of so many elements and factors that it becomes very hard to predict", explains says Carlos Hernandez, contest director.
The final heat delivered some of the greatest tube rides of the event with Gabriel Villaran opening up with a 7.83 and with a quick second wave score of 7.0 points.
Diego Silva picked the best left of the final with a highest single wave score of 8.83. On the very next set Nathan Hedge and Nic Von Rupp split the peak with Nathan scoring a 7.3 on the right and Nic scoring a 8.33 on the left.
Nic closed the final with a solid backside tube to score a 8.03 and clinch the Pawa Tube Fest.
Pawa Tube Fest Final:
1. Nic Von Rupp (PT)
2. Gabriel Villaran (PER)
3. Diego Silva (BRA)
4. Nathan Hedge (AUS)
5. Brian Conley (CA)
6. Nils Schweizer (FLO)

Best Tube of the Event: Diego Silva

Allan Byrne, a New Zealand surfing legend, has suffered a motorcycle accident in Indonesia and fights for life in a Bali hospital.

Byrne, 62, slipped into a coma and is now on life-support. He was expected to competed in the Masters division, at the Rip Curl Cup Padang Padang, when an accident fractured his skull.
The Kiwi surf icon has conquered four National Open championships and also won the Junior title four times. Allan Byrne participated in the World Surfing Championships in 1966, 1968 and 1970.
The surfer from Gisborne finished runner-up at the Pipeline Masters, in 1981. Byrne has been living in the Gold Coast since 1977 and shaping signature surfboards.

The "guru of the channel bottom" has introduced a revolution in surfboard design, after learning aerodynamic techniques in the New Zealand Air Force.

Tidal bores and river waves are always a special moment for the surfing community. For inland surfers, in many cases, it's a one shot opportunity to ride a long wave of joy. For surf tourists, it's a rare and sometimes odd moment.

Surfing tidal bores and river waves is possible and can be done safely. Bores only happen in a few places in the world and may only hit your spot once in a year. If you're lucky, it's the ultimate experience.
This particular wave is usually consistent and strong due to the funnel-type effect on the river side. Fortunately, there are incredible good tidal bores in America, Europe and Asia.
The phenomenon consists of a tidal moment that creates a wave that travels up against the natural direction of the river. Some towns and villages publicize the exact day and hour to attract all types of visitors.
In the American continent, Canada offers two different waves. The "Habitat 67", a river wave located in the city of Montreal and Bay of Fundy, a very famous tidal bore located in Nova Scotia.
The United States present two great examples that fit every surfer's dream: Turnagain Arm, in Cook Inlet, and the wave of Pueblo, in the Colorado state. In Brazil, the Amazon River is especially known for its dangerous tidal bore waves. You've probably heard of Pororoca, with its omnivorous "piranhas".
In Europe, the River Severn is one the best tidal bores for surfing, in the world. Located in England, Severn attracts hundreds of surfers trying to beat the record for the longest wave ride. Also in England, there's the Trent Aegir bore.
Germany holds one of the most famous river waves of the world. The Eisbach experience has also been filmed and published in DVD. It's the only and best surf spot of the Munich wave riders. France has a very good tidal bore for surfing in the La Gironde River and another inconsistent attempt in the Seine River. Can you imagine catching a wave in Paris?
In Asia, three great tidal bores. The "Black Dragon", in the Qiantang River, China, has been attracting Western surfers, in the past years. In Indonesia, go for the Kampar Bono experience, while Sri Aman is the option if you visit Malaysia.
Surfing tidal bores can be exciting. Enjoy the endless waves respecting all safety procedures. The best tidal bores and river waves for surfing are:

Montreal (Canada)
Bay of Fundy (Canada)
Turnagain Arm (USA)
Jackson Hole (USA)
Pueblo (USA)
Pororoca (Brazil)
Trent Aegir (England)
River Severn (England)
La Gironde (France)
Seine River (France)
Eisbach (Germany)
Qiantang River (China)
Sri Aman (Malaysia)
Kampar Bono (Indonesia)
Bobr River (Poland)

Two Californian surfers have surfed the Petitcodiac River's tidal bore for 29 kilometers (18 miles) to set a new continental record.

Colin Whitbread and JJ Wessels have clearly improved the previous record of eight kilometers (4.9 miles) by riding a single wave from Belliveau Village to the causeway in Moncton.
The Petitcodiac River is located in New Brunswick, Canada. It is also known as the "Chocolate River" because of its brown water look.
The tidal bore has been growing in popularity following the extremely controversial decision to open the causeway gates in Moncton.
"There were death rocks three feet away, this is not for amateur people. "I mean to get involved in this, you have to be in expert shape, and be like a waterman", says Colin Whitbread.
"There's nothing like it in the world, so it's an experience totally unique. I'll never forget this."

In the next years, Moncton is going to promote its surfing tidal bore to foreign visitors. The endless ride attracted more than 30,000 spectators to the banks of the Petitcodiac River.

iscover the most famous river waves and tidal bores of the world.

Dungeons, South Africa's best known big wave spot, has awakened with the swell peaking on 5.4 meters, at 19 second.

The 5th August 2013 will stay in the memory of many South African chargers, plus Hawaiians John John Florence and Albee Layer.
Dungeons has delivered an incredible day of big wave surfing, in super glassy conditions and ultra long period swell.
Mike Schlebach, James Lowe, Simon Lowe, Frank Solomon, Jurie van Dyk, Dave Smith, Grant Baker, Benji Brand and Andrew Marr were some of the surfers who got the most out of the South African barreling train.
"Dungeons was the best ever. Maybe not the biggest ever recorded, but the most perfectly big", explains Alan Van Gysen, photographer and assistant editor at our friends in ZigZag.

The thunderous big wave break of Dungeons is located off Hout Bay, near Cape Town, and is frequently visited by great white sharks. The pioneers of Dungeons are Pierre de Villiers and Peter Button

Tramore surfer Craig Butler is going to paddle 5km’s naked on an SUP to try and raise funds to reach the European Surf Champs in the Acores. Craig has been trying to make the Irish team for the last six years so now he has made it he is determined to get out there. The sponsorship target is 1200 Euro, or about £1,000.
Initially Craig stated “I have 1,207 Facebook friends, if each one of you gave me 50 cent it would bring me up to my total of 1,200e that I need to raise to compete at the European Championships next month”.
Obviously maths not a strong point, but if it made you laugh then surely it is worth a Euro? Plus we get to see him entertaining the old local ladies down the Tra when he has to do the naked paddle. Bargain!
His PayPal address is craigsurf@hotmail.co.uk
Please give a Euro!

*If you are planning an imaginative way to get to Eurosurf 2013 let us know!

Surfboard bike racks are the best of traveling to your local surf spot without spending money on gas.

Do you live near your favorite surf spots, but it is too far to walk to the waves? Are you saving your monthly budget from expensive car travels? Fortunately, surfboard bike racks were invented, so that you can easily move from your house to the beach without wasting money and polluting the atmosphere.
Sometimes, good waves are within a long walking distance. A bicycle is fast and will warm up your legs before hitting the line-up. There are three ways of transporting surfboards on a bike: side mounted, rear mounted and upright mounted.
The most popular way of driving a bicycle with your surfboard is with a side mounted rack. Although your bike gets wider, you have no security problems and wind won't halt you from speeding up.
Rear mounted surfboard racks leave your both sides free, but may blow you from side to side when wind is stronger. The upright mounted version puts your surfboard in a vertical position, right behind the seat.

Finally, there are also surfboard trailers, with wheels, which allow you to carry your surfboard and extra gear. Of course, you should watch out when turning and in steep roads and streets.

Surf filmmaker Jack McCoy will be inducted into the Surfing Walk Of Fame, in Huntington Beach, California.

Known for his prestigious surf movies, McCoy's film collection includes "Tubular Swells" (1976), "Bunyip Dreaming" (1990), "The Green Iguana" (1992), "The Sons of Fun" (1993), "The Occumentary" (1998), "Sabotaj" (1998), "Blue Horizon" (2004), "Free as a Dog" (2006) and his latest "A Deeper Shade of Blue" (2012), among others.
Jack McCoy Jr. is an internationally recognized surfing photographer, writer, director, producer, and cinematographer, and has been filming the global surfing scene for some 35 years.
Hew grew up in Hawaii on the windward side of Oahu in Kailua. His father Jack McCoy Sr., pushed his 8-year-old son on his first wave at Waikiki Beach, beginning Jack's lifelong love of the ocean.
When he was 12, Jack saw a Bruce Brown surfing film at the Kailua High School Auditorium. It captured his imagination, and inspired passion to create his life's work. Jack put up posters for surfing films coming to his town, including early surfing films by Bruce Brown, Bud Browne, and MacGillivray/Freeman Films.
Jack was privileged to meet Bud Browne, the pioneer water and underwater photographer, whose work he emulated and continues to expand on with new angles and technology. McCoy now resides in Australia.

The 20th year of the Surfing Walk Of Fame highlights people within the surfing lifestyle and culture who have made their mark in their career. Jack McCoy will be a Surf Culture Inductee for 2013.

The creation of one standard surfboard produces nearly 600 pounds of CO2, which is a lot considering that most boards weigh in around six pounds. In 2012, determined to find a solution to this, Michael Stewart and Kevin Whilden cofounded Waste to Waves and challenged surfers to help cut that footprint in half.
The response was extreme. Stewart and Whilden put a call out for foam waste—the kind used as packing for TVs, computers, or anything from Ikea—and they got plenty of it. Thousands of pounds of Styrofoam were collected, loaded into semis, then transported to factories to be reground and mixed into blanks. But the process was inefficient, it wasn’t cost effective, and due to the varied densities of the foam being blended, the blanks were inconsistent.
Progress, they say, often stems from necessity. So the program adapted.
Enter one industrial-grade machine and something called “foam densification.” Standard Styrofoam is 98 percent air and 2 percent plastic, but using this process you’re able to remove the air and reduce the Styrofoam waste to 1/90th of its original size. Basically, the machine allows you to transform various foam waste material into a new solid block of plastic that’s the exact same material used to create virgin EPS blanks.
Stewart and Whilden found access to a densifyer and put the compressed plastic back into the market, which Marko Foam (the leading supplier of surfboard foam in the US) now uses to make new, fresh blanks with 60 percent recycled content. Blanks that could be your next board.
“At its base, pilot level, Waste to Waves was just a Styrofoam collection and recycling program,” said Stewart. “But then we had a moment where we realized we had way more foam regrind than there’s a market for. We weren’t going to send the excess back to the landfills, so we decided to turn it all back into recycled EPS foam, and now Marko can buy as much back as the surfboard market can handle.”
Marko’s recycled blanks, called ECOBOARDS, are stamped with the green arrows and shipped out good as new to shaping bays across California as an option for anyone who wants an EPS board.
“We’re creating ways for surfers to look for a recycled label on boards that are already produced,” says Stewart, “or if they’re getting a custom from Patterson or Biolos or Stretch or Cole or any of these guys, they can simply say ‘Hey, make it with a recycled blank.’ It’s really that easy.”
Torrey Meister can vouch for how simple it is. “I was interested in finding a surfboard that was better for the environment but would still work well,” said Meister. “Waste to Waves and Marko offered to make me a blank, and I got Roberts to shape me a little groveler. Honestly, I couldn’t believe how great it worked. I had my doubts, but as soon as I got it in the water the thing went insane. I didn’t feel any kind of negative differences between the recycled blank and a normal one. If anything, I felt like the recycled blank had more pop and speed then a normal one. The potential is huge for these boards.”

All said, it remains undetermined what exactly it’ll take to encourage surfing’s masses to buy recycled. But demand runs economics, and demand is built one board at a time. “The program is in place,” said Stewart. “Now it’s really just about educating surfers that there are recycled options out there.”

Tom Blake was a man’s man, a jack of all trades and one of modern surfing’s most decorated forefathers. This book, Tom Blake: The Uncommon Journey of a Pioneer Waterman, is a comprehensive look at his life and legacy. This review is anything but. Whet your appetite on a few tales here,
Blake was from Wisconsin. Born in 1902 in Milwaukee, which isn’t a beach town but it at least has Lake Michigan. His father Tom Sr. was a bicyclist and a dancer, his mother, Blanche, a stenographer who died when he was eleven months old. When he was nine he watched a newsreel of surfers in Waikiki, and at 18 he met Duke Kahanamoku in Detroit after the 1920 Olympics; these two events would combine to be the catalyst for Blake’s lifetime commitment to surfing.
Blake and Duke were bros. Four years after meeting in Detroit, Blake crossed paths with Duke again in Waikiki and bonded first over competitive swimming, an easy segue to the bond they would share while revolutionizing surfing. They acted, swam, surfed, partied, and eventually became legends together.
He was a lifesaver. His swimming background was a natural introduction to lifeguarding for Blake, who in 1924 patrolled in Santa Monica. His interest in surfing piqued while on the waterfront, where he’d later guard with Duke at the Santa Monica Swimming Club. He’d go on to work on coastlines around the country, with large amounts of time spent lifesaving in Hawaii.
He was an actor. In 1922, Blake got his big break into the movie industry with some stunt work in Where The Pavement Ends, a film starring Ramon Navarro, wherein he wrestled a dead shark for an action scene. He’d later fill in as a body double for Clark Gable and appear in a good number of motion pictures to maintain a steady income while living in L.A. and commuting to Hawaii to surf. In 1927, Blake was part of a tragedy where multiple fellow actors and local extras drowned in the Copper River in Alaska. The incident sparked his interest in water safety, which he’d go on to dedicate most of his life to.
He was a Guardsman. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Blake decided to enlist in the Coast Guard because it was “the thing to do,” despite the fact that he was 40 years old at the time. Over the course of 3 years, Blake rapidly rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a platoon leader and commanding a company of 54 men and 20 canines for search and rescue. His lifeguarding and waterman expertise served him well, and at 43, after drafting multiple rescue manuals and survival guides, he was honorably discharged so he could return to his surfing and seafaring ways in Waikiki.
He was an author. In his book, Voice of the Atom, Tom Blake wrote that “Nature = God”, which for him “provides a ready framework for human ethics.” It was inspired by time spent in dialogue with Anthony, an itinerant monk, and the book contains all the knowledge that Blake says he “patiently gleaned from seventy eight years of life on earth.” The entire text is included, and Blake concludes and sends the reader forth with this sentiment: “So, young surfer and old, play the game of life the same way as you have been successful with the live, breathing ocean. And good riding.”
He was an inventor. Blake was autodidactic, a self-taught man and a wealth of knowledge. His contributions to surfboard design are immeasurable. From his varied inventions to his progressive templates, his biggest impact in surfing can be whittled down to the work he did with those era-defining boards. He made the first hollow board ever, calling it first a cigar box then later a kook box. The fin, a keel of sorts for the giant boards of the era, was his brainchild, as was the leash, which he at first attached around his waist. He invented the sailboard, which in itself invented windsurfing, and then there was the collapsible surfboard experiment, which is only worth mentioning out of novelty. He was doing so much on the water he wanted it documented, so he created the first waterproof camera housing, changing surf photography and kick starting what was probably the early genesis of a movement to compile those photos in a magazine with words written about them and thus, in essence, creating my job.

Damn, Tom Blake, you were a badass.

Creed McTaggart. A fresh-face out of West Oz, a laid-back bloke who listens to The Velvet Underground and has long hair and has for the last six months been perpetual putty for the hippest in surf. He’s been paraded as a cultural magnate, photographed more out of the surf than in it, earning such editorial praise as, “he isn’t afraid to publicly puff a ciggy when he feels the need.” He’s been molded into the embodiment of the paradigm hipster-shift within the industry.
I have no problem with Creed, I’m actually a huge fan. He’s humble in person and loud in the water. Style for days and a versatile bag of tricks. His short-form film Abyss was great. I’m just disappointed that I’ve seen him on two magazine covers in the past month without a surfboard in sight. Puffing ciggies and chugging fishbowls or some other form of posturing that is so far from surfing it’s obscene. He’s better known for his signature sunglasses than his aerial repertoire, and that’s a road of faux surf celebrity that fades fast. Creed deserves to be on covers of magazines, but he deserves to be there on a surfboard, on or above a wave.
Creed, before they make you cut your hair, and film it, and run a full feature about the experience, heed this advice: Stay in the damn water. It’s the only place you’re safe.

Here’s to Creed someday getting the Page 1 he deserves;
enjoy five reasons Creed should just keep surfing:

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) has announced the acquisition of the global Big Wave World Tour (BWWT), with arrangements for support in 2013 and formal sanctioning commencing in 2014.

Currently servicing six international big wave events in Pichilemu, Punta Hermosa, Lincoln City, Half Moon Bay, Baja California and Punta Galea, the Big Wave World Tour was founded by Gary Linden and pits the world's best big wave surfers against the elements in some of the most intense venues on the planet.
"We are very pleased to have finalized the deal between the ASP and the Big Wave World Tour. The competitors on the BWWT are some of the fiercest and most-respected watermen on the planet and we are eager about the opportunity to take their tour to the next level", says Paul Speaker, ASP CEO.
"This arrangement also allows the world's best surfers on the ASP World Championship Tour (WCT) to compete in big-wave events moving forward. 2014 will be an exciting year on all fronts".
The new-found arrangement will allow for top ASP surfers such as 11-time ASP World Tour champion Kelly Slater, reigning ASP World Champion Joel Parkinson, Hawaiian phenom John John Florence, amongst others to join respected BWWT surfers like Greg Long, Grant Baker and Carlos Burle, in competition with waves in the 25-foot-and-above range.
"The Big Wave World Tour is thrilled to be joining the ASP family. ASP run the best events in the world and we're thrilled to have their support and guidance as we continue to build the platform of big wave surfing", adds Gary Linden.
"We also look forward to seeing some of the world's best surfers tackle some of the world's biggest waves in the coming years".
The acquisition of the Big Wave World Tour will complement the current ASP tours of the Men's and Women's ASP World Championship Tour, the ASP World Junior Tours, ASP World Longboard Tours and regional tours around the globe.

The Big Wave World Tour is currently on high alert for a possible run of the Quiksilver Ceremonial at Pichilemu in Chile in the coming days.

The world of pro surfing is changing. ZoSea has bought the ASP World Tour and drastic changes will be seen in the 2013/2014 season.

"ZoSea? What's that?". When asked about the new business player in the world of professional surfing, Dane Reynolds showed why he is living in his own free surfing world.
The truth is that ZoSea Media Holdings, the new owner of the ASP World Tour, kept a very low-profile, in the last two years. Founded by Paul Speaker (former executive at Quiksilver) and Terry Hardy (Kelly Slater's career manager), ZoSea showed interest in changing the future of pro surfing management, with the back support of financial moguls.
"Our focus this season is protecting the interests of professional surfers, preserving the integrity of competition, refreshing the ASP brand and establishing a new commercial model for the sport", Paul Speaker revealed in February 2013.
"The ASP will be more fan-centric - the structure of tours, the production of broadcasts and everything in between will be geared towards enhancing the fans' experience".
Pro surfing will be a more serious business. The cost of each event will drop from $3 million back to $1 million, pro surfers will see a prize money increase, a pension plan will be created.
Not all surf brands enjoyed the promised revolution. Billabong and Quiksilver raised their green flags, while Vans and Rip Curl showed the red card.
Surfers and fans may expect to see a mix of exotic locations and urban surf contests. Speaker and his team will try to balance the remote Teahupoo formats with cosmopolitan breaks like Rio de Janeiro and New York.
The future ASP World Tour infrastructure will be designed to meet the global sports league concept and model. This also means that management, sponsorship and broadcast rights will be centralized. The Big Wave World Tour is part of the family, too.
There will be an Office of the Commissioner, a position that will work as the authority on all technical aspects of the sport including judging, venues, scheduling and rankings, among other components of professional surfing.
Will surf fans pay for watching their favorite surfers battling the best waves on the planet? Probably not. Better not.

Who is Paul Speaker, CEO at Association of Surfing Professionals International (ASP)?
Paul Speaker has built a career in sports and entertainment. His executive management experience includes serving as Director of Marketing and Ideas at the National Football League, President of Time Inc. Studios, and President of RKO Studios.
Speaker worked in the organizations' creative development, advertising and organization-wide integration of marketing strategies.

He stepped down as Lead Independent Director for Quiksilver as part of the organization's board of directors to serve the Association of Surfing Professionals International (ASP), as the new CEO.

The iON the Barrel crew have had a massive couple of months chasing hollow waves from the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia, down to spicy Mexico and then over to Tahiti to test our courage with an epic swell in early June.

Monthly Grind host Peter Hayes bagged more barrels than he can count and this month’s segment takes you inside a few super sweet ones. You don’t want to miss the XXL waves that pounded Teahupo’o and big wave legend Garrett McNamara among others in this month’s Grind and you absolutely have to see Raimana in action, and his close call with a kite…

Surfing Australia has announced the expansion of its High Performance Centre (HPC), Casuarina, New South Wales.

Federal Government funding of $350,000 will allow for the construction of a new dedicated sport research centre on the second level of the HPC. It will also include athlete testing and treatment facilities.
Construction is due to commence 1st August and the new facilities will be ready by November in time for summer.
Authorities will also be backing Surfing Australia with funding of $250,000 as it embarks on an exciting new development into the rapidly growing area of digital content and online broadcasting.

Working with global content experts Brand New Media, Surfing Australia will be building a new IPTV Channel known as MySurf.tv. The online surfing channel will allow viewers to access fresh, high quality surfing content on any device.
"Not every sport can secure the big broadcast deals that the major football codes are attracting these days so we need to look at innovative ways to commercialise our content", explains Andrew Stark CEO at Surfing Australia.

MySurf.tv is scheduled to launch in time for summer at the end of November 2013.

Can you imagine riding a cork surfboard? A small company from Bristol, UK, has decided to produce environmentally conscious surfboards that perform very well with an alternative material.