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If the Southern Hemisphere season is any indicator of what lies ahead this winter, Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour events will have an additional role as a pre Olympic battleground. This was showcased at the 5Star Burton New Zealand Open with neve...

While surfers in the Northern Hemisphere await the arrival of El Niño-fueled big winter waves, there has been no shortage of massive swells around the world in the last six months. Just last week, Shipstern Bluff -- a notoriously shallow wave of...

The Action Sports Medicine Foundation (ASMF) will be present during the entire weekend of the ABA Disney Cup Fall Nationals providing racers an elite standard of onsite medical care. The ASMF staff consists of Orthopedic Surgeons, Physician Assist...

Round 3 of the Rip Curl Pro Search has been called on in pumping six-to-eight foot (2 – 3 metre) waves at the primary site of Supertubos. Event No. 9 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, the Rip Curl Pro Search has ran competition at three backu...

Super clean and fun small waves at Pasta Point today were not quite enough to entice organizers to run Round 2 of the Oxbow World Longboard Tour Maldives event. With a great outlook for swell for the remainder of the week, surfers simply enjoye...

Defending ASP Longboard World Champion and No. 1 seed, Bonga Perkins (Hawaii), was the standout surfer today at the Oxbow World Longboard Tour, the final event of the 2009 ASP World Longboard Tour, posting both the top-scoring single ride of the d...

The opening day of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) 6-Star O’Neill Cold Water Classic Canada kicked off today in three-to-five foot (1.5 metre) surf at the primary site of Cox Bay and saw local surfer Peter Devries (Tofino, BC), 2...

In 2010, the Roxy Chicken Jam presents itself with a new location and an extended supporting programme. The seventh edition of the world’s biggest female snowboard competition will take place from the 08th to the 10th of January 2010 at the Nigh...

Pro Snowboarder and GO211 athlete, Hannah Teter, has a heart of Gold to go along with her Olympic Gold Medal. Besides smooth aerial combinations in the halfpipe, Hannah is also renown for funding villages in Africa and sponsoring global charity fu...

Some early snow has arrived in Europe and the global snowboard circus is getting ready for the 11th Burton European Open (BEO) in Laax, Switzerland, from Jan. 9 – 16, 2010. The BEO is the second stop of the Burton Global Open Series 09/10 and a ...