The Business of Surfing

San Onofre Surf Club is founded

In San Francisco, Jack O’Neill coins the term “surf shop” as the name of his newly opened retail store

Hobie Alter makes 99 boards in his garage and then #100 in his new surf shop in Dana Point

Dale Velzy opens a surf shop near the Hermosa Beach Pier, with “Hap” Jacobs glassing for the Velzy-Jacobs label

Hobie Alter is handed a small block of polyurethane foam. Hobie proclaims it “the future”

John Whitmore of Cape Town begins building foam-core surfboards, with distribution throughout South Africa

Gordon Duane opens Gordie Surfboards, the first surf shop in Huntington Beach

Bing Copeland opens Bing Surfboards in Hermosa Beach

Funded by actor Cliff Robertson, Dave Sweet makes the first commercial polyurethane blanks

Peru International Surfing Championships held in Lima

Walking at Waikiki, Pat Curren is hired to make 20 rental boards as good as what he’s carrying

Hap Jacobs splits from Velzy; opens Jacobs surfboards in Venice Beach, CA

Hobie and Grubby Clark rent a secret shack up Laguna Canyon for dangerous foam experiments

David “Dewey” Weber opens Dewey Weber Surfboards in Hermosa Beach, CA

La Jolla surfer Pat Curren makes the best big-wave boards in the business

Nancy and Walter Katin begin making custom surf trunks in Seal Beach, California

Inexpensive molded surfboards are called “pop-outs”

Larry Gordon teams with Floyd Smith to invent the surfer tee-shirt and better polyurethane blanks

Jack O’Neill moves his surf business and family from Ocean Beach, SF to Santa Cruz

The demand for their surfboards forces G&S to move from Floyd’s Pacific Beach garage into their first surf shop

Con Surfboards is established by Santa Monica surfer/shaper Con Colburn

Roller Derby introduces the first commercial skateboard, with clay wheels and ball bearings, it sells for under $10

Santa Barbara’s Renny Yater opens Yater Surfboards

Dewey Weber, the incredible California hotdogger, opens the first Weber Surfboards shop in Venice, California

John Severson’s pamphlet promoting his film Surf Fever turns John into one of the sport’s great entrepreneurs

Robertson-Sweet Surfboards advertise as “hand-crafted” but the pop-outs are selling for $100

Duke Boyd launches Hang Ten, the first iconic surf wear brand to go big

Ron DiMenna in Long Beach Island, New Jersey founds Ron John Surf Shop

After selling surfboards out of his mother’s garage, Long Island’s John Hannon opens the area’s first surf shop

Reef Magazine one of earliest but short lived surf magazine

Dick Brewer opens Surfboards Hawaii in Haleiwa

Gordon “Grubby” Clark opens Clark Foam in Laguna Beach, California

Birdwell Beach Britches is founded in Santa Ana, California, producing rugged trunks for surfers

Harry Bold imports first polyurethane foam boards from California to South Africa

Hobie and Dick Metz buy back the Hobie dealership from George Downing and open a retail shop

Considered surfing’s first professional contest, at Bells Beach, George “Ming” Smith earns one pound sterling

The Surf-O-Rama, the surf industry’s first trade show, is held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Charlie Bunger opens East Coast Surfboards, later changed to Bunger Surf Shop

Rich Harbour moves from the family garage he has been building surfboards in to open Harbour Surfboards

The debut East Coast Surfing Championships held in New York

Dick Metz opens Surfline Hawaii to sell Weber, Bing, Noll, Hansen and G&S surfboards

Hobie releases the Phil Edwards signature model board

The second Surf-O-Rama is held in Santa Monica, California, and includes a concert by The Beach Boys

Ron DiMenna opens a second Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach, Florida. The store grows to a city block

Surf Guide magazine first to presents an all American Surf team

The cost for a brand-new custom Dewey Weber surfboard between 9’0″ and 10’0″ ranges from $100 to $110

Hobie and Makaha skateboards are the biggest sellers in what has become a fifty-million-unit-per-year business

Greg Noll offers custom-made Hawaiian Gun surfboards 10′ to 12′ for $130. Standard 9’0″ boards start at $100

The Detroit auto industry capitalizes on surfing’s West Coast wave mecca by introducing the Chevy Malibu

Surfboards Hawaii introduces the Buzzy Trent model, or “Elephant Gun.” Prices (10′ to 11’6″) start at $250

World Surfing Championship observed by 60,000 at Manly Beach, Australia. Midget Farrely wins

In Hermosa Beach, Bob and Bill Meistrell create the Body Glove brand wetsuit

The Tom Morey Invitational is held on Fourth of July weekend in Ventura, California and offers a $1,500 purse

The Weber Performer changed the entire way surfboards are marketed. He made 4,000 units in 1966

The Endless Summer is blown up to 35mm and put into general release. The $50,000 film made $30 million

Greg Noll, together with Miki “Da Cat” Dora, release “Da Cat” model. It sold for around $175 in 1966

Doug Warbrick and Brian Singer start Rip Curl Surfboards in Torquay, Victoria

The Los Angeles Surf Fair is held in Santa Monica

A brand-new custom Weber Australia with a removable Guidance Fin System, under 7’0″, costs $110 to $120

Alan Green borrows $2500 and encourages Warbrick and Singer to make Rip Curl wetsuits

Alan Green registers Quiksilver boardshorts and Ug Manufacturing for “ugly” boots

Gerry Lopez and Jack Shipley found Lightning Bolt Surfboards, in Hawaii

The Hollister Ranch, north of Santa Barbara, is chopped up into parcels and the parcels are then put up for sale

29-year-old Gordon Merchant and his wife Rena sell hand-made Billabong boardshorts

Ocean Pacific is set to become the world’s biggest surfwear company

Frederick Herzog of Carpentaria, CA introduces Mr. Zog’s Sex Wax

Rip Curl professionalizes its long-running Easter contest at Bells Beach

20 surfers begin competing on the “Gypsy Tour” of pro events from Hawaii to Rio to Durban

The majority of surfers in Hawaii are riding Lightning Bolt surfboards

Tom Morey markets the Morey Boogie: 4′ 6″ x 3 pounds by 125,000 units in four years

Skateboarder Magazine’s first issue is published by Surfer Publications, with Warren Bolster as the editor

Gordon and Smith Surfboards and Skateboards introduces the G&S “nickname” abbreviated logo

Fred Hemmings and Randy Rarrick of Hawaii launches the first world professional surfing tour, the ISP/ASP

The first contest of what would become World Championship Tour is won by Rory Russell, who receives $2,000

Bob McKnight and Jeff Hakman secure the U.S. license for the Quiksilver brand

Alan Green and John Law take Quiksilver and Ug, Warbrick and Singer take Rip Curl

Peter Townend becomes the first professional world surfing champion. Peter Townend’s total prize purse in 1976 was $6,825

Bronze Aussie was created to promote professional surfing and improve to lots of pro surfers. From by Peter Townend, Ian Cairns and Mark Warren

The second year ASP World Tour, seeding ratings are announced. Only one, Hawaii’s Rory Russell is a goofy foot

Mike Boyum registers G-land’s Blambangan Surfing Club and takes visiting surfers for $200 each

Surf Expo, an East Coast-based trade show, debuts

Peter Drouyn’s man-on-man heat format is revealed at the Stubbies Surf Classic

The Stacy Peralta Waprtail skateboard by G&S became the number one selling model skateboard of all time

The ISP/ASP Men’s Pro Tour is won by South Africa’s Shaun Tomson. Shaun earns $11,200 on the tour in 1977

Margo Oberg becomes the first ISP/ASP women’s professional world surfing champion

Golden Girls was formed by Jerico Poppler and others to promote womens surf competitions

The top 10 seeded surfers for the pro tour, Hawaii’s Rory Russell is still the only goofy-foot

World tour pro Michael Tomson launches Gotcha surf wear

Broadcast live on Australian television, Larry Blair beats Wayne Lynch in perfect barreling lefts. Blair nets $9,000

G&S Surfboards license the Mark Richard twin fin surfboard model and logo for sales in the U.S.

IPS/ASP World Tour is won by Australia’s Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew. “Rabbit” earns $22,200 in prize money

Of the top ten rated surfers for the ’79 Men’s World Tour, all are regular foot. None are from the USA (5 from HAW)

Mark Richards wins the first of four consecutive ASP World Tour Championships

Mark Richards enters the year as IPS world champion. Margo Oberg is the women’s champion

Of the world’s top 10, one, Larry Blair, is a goofy foot. 7 are Australian, 2 are Hawaiian and 1 is South African

The IPS men’s pro tour carries $243,850 in prize money. Women’s pro surfing, has a total of $10,000 in awards

Linda Davoli is the first woman to surf against a man in a major pro event, losing to Stewart Campbell 74.0 to 60.6

Australian pro, Derek Hynd loses his sight in one eye after being hit by his board in a heat in Durban

Joey Buran wins the Waimea 5000 in Brazil, beating Cheyne Horan to become the USA’s first Pro Tour event winner

Buzzy Kerbox works as a model in British Vogue, thanks to his friend, super-fashion photographer, Bruce Weber

Ian Cairns wins the world cup in twelve-foot Haleiwa, saying, “They can’t put us old guys out to pasture yet”

Mark Richards wins his second world title with a solid victory over Dane Kealoha at the “Pipe Masters”

LaJolla surfer, Chris O’Rourke, dies of Hodgkin’s disease

The first IPS (later ASP/WSL) WCT event ever held in California, at Malibu, is won by Mark Richards

The first Action Sports Retailer Show in Long Beach draws 150 exhibitors and 500 retail buyers

Simon Anderson brings his new Thruster design to Florida’s Surf Expo and gets three orders

Marui leads the Japanese surf-culture boom with its first contest, The Marui Surf Pro

Two Argentine brothers, Fernando and Santiago Aguerre, launch their new brand, Reef Brazil

Chris Bryne, ranked ninth in the world, retires from pro competition due to chronic back problems

Tom Carroll falls over a fence at a Sydney pub and faces knee surgery, which may end his surfing career

Ray Keller announces a $100,000 plan to sponsor all Hawaiian tour surfers on behalf of his insurance company UIIA

Simon Anderson wins Pipeline on a 7’6″ thruster, most surfers are forced to agree, three fins are working

Willy Morris is third in the world cup, the highest placing by a Californian for the year

Mark Richards collects his third world crown. Margo Oberg retains her pro women’s title as well

Ian Cairns arrives in Hawaii, recruiting pro surfers for a new organization (ASP) to replace Fred Hemmings’s IPS

The inaugural O.P. Pro at Huntington Beach attracts a Labor Day crowd of 60,000 spectators

Posting a near perfect final heat, regular foot Michael Ho won his first ASP Tour event at the Pipeline Masters

Tom Carroll ends the season by winning his first pro tour event, the World Cup

Mark Richards wins his fourth consecutive world title. Debbie Beacham is tops on the women’s tour

Ian Cairns’ coup against the IPS forms the ASP, which becomes the governing body for pro surfing

Tom Curren, 19, wins the first event of the Grand Slam, the South Side Open, beating Shaun Tomson

Free-surfing maestro Martin Potter, 17, posts his first pro tour victory at the Stubbies Classic in Australia

Dave Clark and Scott Funk open Tavarua Island with 8, two-person rooms and a 66-year lease

Hans Hedeman wins two pro tour events in a row in South Africa

Australian Mark Occhilupo, places equal third in Japan after breaking the nose off his board earlier in the event

Hawaiian pro tour events are blackballed by the ASP after Fred Hemmings refuses to pay sanctioning fees

Hawaii’s own, Michael Ho, wins the first Triple Crown of Surfing title in answer to the ASP Pro Tour politics

Tom Carroll avoids the inherent politics and bad vibes in Hawaii, staying in Australia to train for next year

The ASP fines all surfers who enter blackballed Hawaiian events. Eventually all pay the fines except Dane Kealoha

Tom Carroll wins the ASP Pro in FLA. The surf is so small a boat is run past the break to kick up some swell

Quiksilver’s The Performers is one of the first, for-sale home videos from a major surf company

Tom Carroll becomes the first goofy-foot to win an ASP Men’s Pro World Championship

The 1984-85 ASP season (WCT) had gotten off to a poor star – First seven contests, only $94,000 in prize money

The ASP Tour returns to Hawaii after the 1983 ban. To many top surfers, the Triple Crown remains more important

Joey Buran, The “California Kid” wins the Pipe Masters in some of the biggest, most flawless Pipe on record

The Hawaiian Triple Crown of Surfing, run by Randy Rarick, is won by local favorite Derek Ho

OP pulls out of their celebrated ASP blanket sponsorship

Ian Cairns is punched by an unidentified assailant in Ehukai Beach Park, on Oahu

The Professional Surfing Association of America (PSAA) is founded by Joey Buran

A new era of glassing dominates, with clear, free-lap layups superseding cut laps, and airbrush on the foam

The popularity of thrusters, quads, and channel bottoms calls for more muscle and sweat by surfboard sanders

Citing “beach erosion,” Supervisor Anthony Noto of Babylon, New York, attempts to ban surfing at all town beaches

Occhilupo is the Pipeline Masters winner in yet another non-ASP-rated Hawaiian event

Frieda Zamba, a goofy-foot from Florida, wins the women’s title and begins three years of domination in her division

Tom Carroll secures his second ASP world title (1984–85) and then announces he will not surf in South Africa

Australian Nat Young establishes a professional world longboard tour and promptly wins 4 of the first 5 titles

Quiksilver is the first major surf company to go public, with a listing on the NASDAQ

Tom Carroll, won the Bell’s contest by beating Curren in the finals. Carroll’s prize purse for the event was $8,400

Shaun Tomson’s victory in South Africa, makes him, at 31, the first surfer over 30 to win an event on the ASP tour

Pro bodyboard competition is included as part of the U.S. Bud Tour

Derek Ho won the Pipe Masters and Triple Crown for ’86, the Ho brothers took the title in each of it’s first 4 years

Tom Curren and Freida Zamba of the USA win the men’s and women’s 1986 ASP World Championships (WCT)

Graham Cassidy is voted in as Ian Cairns’ replacement. ASP headquarters moves to Australia

Barton Lynch wins the OP PRO. Second place Sunny Garcia makes his pro statement

OP Fiji opens the way for specialty events on tropical islands

In Japan, Damien Hardman goes to the ASP points lead

Tom Carroll sets a world point record in the final of the Margaret River Thriller, averaging almost 9 points per wave

Brilliant Australian surfer Gary Green, sixth in the world tour ratings, and moving up, quits the tour

Gary Elkerton dominates the Hawaiian leg of the tour with two wins in the Hard Rock and the Billabong

Curren wins his second crown, going away. Carroll is runner-up

ASP votes to change tour’s end to Hawaii, meaning a world champ will be decided in 7 months, from May to December

Damien Hardman’s WC title surprises everyone. Greg Day his manager, has another WC in Wendy Botha

Tom Carroll signs a sole endorsement with Quiksilver for $1 million (Australian)

Jeff Booth wins $21,500 in a PSSA event at Salt Creek

Australian Gary Green quits the tour again, then signs an “image contract” with a wetsuit maker

Fred Hemmings requests that drug testing be permitted in Hawaii and fear fills the pro surfing world

Damien Hardman wins his seventh event of the 1988 season

Tom Carroll springs into world title favorite’s slot with a magical win in 10-foot Sunset at the Hard Rock World Cup

The Pipe results are inconclusive, with explosive extrovert Robbie Page coming out on top

Surftech Surfboards making molded boards is founded by Randy French in Santa Cruz, California

The Surf Industry Manufacturer’s Association is founded with 350 surf companies as members

After seven years in Long Beach, ASR show adds a second yearly show in San Diego

Quiksilver’s annual revenues jump from $5.3 million to $70 million in six years

Top pros ring in the New Year in a depraved manner

Barton Lynch, in a sensationally controlled performance, takes the crown. He is the oldest world champ, at 25

Of the worlds new top 10, seven are goofies. Seven are Australian, one each is Californian, Hawaiian and British

The men’s world tour has $2,345,000 prize money. The women’s tour has $245,000

Michael Tomson’s company, Gotcha, is selling around $80 million a year and Quiksilver’s share price has tripled

Surfboard prices in Southern California approach $500

Martin Potter wins the O’Neill after a lengthy holiday in Hawaii

Tom Carroll splits with manager Peter Colbert

Martin Potter wins Bells

Martin Potter wins the Coke. Barton Lynch says, “He’s only human”

Martin Potter wins the Marui Pro, making it four out of five events on the year’s tour

26 of the top of the 30 rated surfers on the WCT bypass the South African leg of the world tour

SIMA, The Surf Industry Manufacturer’s Association is founded with 350 surf companies as members

Joel Tudor, 13, becomes the youngest surfer to place in the finals of a world-class pro contest, at Oceanside, CA

Richie Collins, wins the OP PRO. Asked if the win fulfilled his greatest dream, he says, “No, it’s to go to heaven when I die”

Tom Curren wins his 24th tour event in France, extending his own record win count

Proving his Triple Crown Title in ’87 was no fluke, Gary Elkerton of Australia won his second Triple Crown in 3 years

Martin Potter decisively wins the ASP World Championship Tour title. He reportedly earns over $300,000

Derek Ho wins the Triple Crown, making him and his brother Michael winners of 6 of the first 8 events

Total world tour prize money for the men jumps from $500,000 in ’84 to $2.1 million

Keone Downing, son of big-wave pioneer, George Downing, wins the 1990 Quiksilver in memory of Eddie Aikau

Surfrider Foundation receives barely $100,000 from a surf industry worth close to $2 billion

A bidding war for Kelly Slater ends with a $200,000-a-year Quiksilver contract

ASR San Diego has 900 exhibitors and more than 10,000 buyers

ESA alumni Todd Holland and Frieda Zamba take the men’s and women’s divisions at the OP PRO

Derrick Ho wins the Triple Crown title, making him and his brother Michael winners of 6 of the first 8 Crown titles

Quiksilver surfware launches the women’s surfwear line Roxy

Surfrider Foundation and Mark Massara win huge $66 million Clean Water Act case in NorCal

Tom Carroll’s display of utter mastery in the finals at the Pipe Masters included two perfect 10s

Tom Curren’s first wave at Jefferys Bay becomes an instant legend. Witnesses were left speechless

New-school longboarder Joey Hawkins of Huntington Beach brings the Oxbow World Longboard Championship to California

Kelly Slater wins his first world pro title, the first of six he would win in the 1990s

The ASP World Tour divides into two tours: the WCT and the WQS

Progressive longboarder Joey Hawkins wins the Oxbow World Longboard Championship

Print fabrics for clothing (Hawaiian Shirts) are laminated onto surfboards to add color and graphics

Spray-on deck traction sees a return on both short and longboards

2 to 4 foot surf greets the competitors at the 25th Easterns – where John Schmidt takes the ESA men’s season title

Kelly Slater takes the first ASP World Tour Championship of his career. (As of 2010 he has ten world championships, six more then the next on the all-time list)

Makaha’s Rusty Keaulana wins the first of 3 straight Longboard World Championship titles

Derek Ho was Hawaii’s first ASP World Champion, capping the season with a win at the ’93 Pipe Masters

Hobie Alter is given a SIMA Waterman Achievement Award

Florida’s Lisa Andersen wins the first of four consecutive women’s world shortboard titles

San Diego hacker Ron Britvich shows surf-cam images of Carlsbad on his SurfNet site

The World Longboard Championship is held at Malibu Surfrider Beach. Rusty “Russ K” Keaulana wins the event

Sunny Garcia of Hawaii wins his third Triple Crown title in three years

Kelly Slater takes the victory at the 1995 Quiksilver Pro at G-Land in Indonesia

Sean Collins’ Surfline goes online via the Internet

Rusty Keaulana wins his third consecutive world longboard title at St. Leu, Reunion Island

Lisa Andersen becomes the first woman on the cover of Surfer Magazine in over 15 years

Surfing Magazine runs the first “Airshow” contest

The ISA’ first biannual World Surfing Games runs with an eye toward the 2000 Sydney Olympics

Michael Ho, 40, again made it into the Pipe Masters finals, placing second to Johnny Boy Gomes the event’s winner

Michael “Mike” Rommelse, of Australia, accumulated enough points to claim the 1997 Men’s Triple Crown of Surfing

Layne Beachley of Australia wins the first Women’s Triple Crown Championship

Kelly Slater wins his sixth World Championship title in the 1990’s

Ken Bradshaw tows an Outside Log Cabins wave that is the largest wave ever ridden to that time

Bob Hurley gives up the Billabong USA license and launches his own clothing line: Hurley

Taylor Knox wins the K2 Big-Wave Challenge, pocketing $50,000 by riding a 50-foot wave at Todos Santos in Baja

Californian Joel Tudor, 22, wins his 1st world title at Oxbow’s World Longboard Championship in the Canary Islands

Colin McPhillips travels to Australia for Oxbow’s World Longboard Championship and takes the Longboard World title

The Puerto Escondido Central Surf Longboards Invitational is called off because of the dangerous ocean conditions

Daize Shayne wins the first modern pro Women’s Longboard World Champion in Costa Rica

Rabbit Bartholomew is named president of the Association of Surfing Professionals

George Downing, Paul Strauch and Ben Aipa sue Abercrombie and Fitch for using a 1965 photo of them in a four-page ad spread

Gavin Beschen wins the Red Bull Tube Ride in Brazil, an event combining short boarding and longboarding

The big island’s Myles Padaca won the ’01 the Triple Crown of Surfing

Signature model fins gain market share, with designs endorsed by luminaries like Tom Carroll and Kelly Slater

The U.S. Professional Longboard Surfing Championship Series debuts in Oceanside, California

Julie Whitegon wins the women’s division of the first professional U.S. Longboard Championship Series

Colin McPhillips repeats as World Longboard Champion (his third overall) at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Andy Irons wins the Triple Crown (his first of four), the Pipeline Masters (his first of four) and The ASP World Title

Andy Irons wins his second Hawaiian Triple Crown title

Layne Beachley of Australia wins her sixth consecutive ASP Women’s World Shortboard title (1998-2003)

Joel Tudor wins his second World Longboard Championship title in Biarritz, France

Sunny Garcia captures his sixth Triple Crown Championship

With an extensive line of molded product, Surftech becomes the largest surfboard manufacturer in the world

A surfboard painted by artist Julian Schnabel sold for $75,000 at a Surfrider auction

For the first time since 1986, longboarding does not crown a world champion due to a lack of sponsorship backing

Clark Foam, responsbile for 90% of the surfboard blanks in the U.S. abruptly closes its doors

Hawaii’s John John Florence, at the age of 13, he became the youngest surfer to compete in the Triple Crown

Andy Irons wins his third Hawaiian Triple Crown title

Josh Constable wins Rabbit Kekai Longboard Classic/ASP Men’s World Longboard Championship and ’06 title

Author Paul Holmes documents the life of surf legend Dale Velzy in the book “Dale Velzy is Hawk”

Julia Christian becomes the first US woman in over 20 years to capture the ISA World Championship

Peruvian Sofia Mulanovich captures the Women’s Triple Crown Championship in Hawaii

Andy Irons wins his 4th Triple Crown title in 5 years. Irons tied with Sunny Garcia for most Crown wins, seven total

Kelly Slater wins his eighth shortboard world title, further cementing his legendary status within surfing history

Stephanie Gilmore win’s her first of four consecutive women’s ASP World Championships

12 years after winning his first longboard world title, Bonga Perkins wins his 2nd Longboard World Championship

Kelly Slater wins the Pipe Masters on a 5’11”, four-fin surfboard later called “the Wizard Sleeve”

Joel “Parko” Parkinson won his first Triple Crown of Surfing title without winning any of the Triple Crown events

Kelly Slater wins his record-breaking 9th ASP World Title

World-wide recession is instigated by massive financial failure of Wallstreet and U.S. banking system

After her 4th consecutive WTC (2007-2010), Stephanie Gilmore (22) went on to win The Women’s Triple Crown

Joel “Parko” Parkinson won his third consecutive Vans Triple Crown of Surfing title

Kelly Slater wins his tenth ASP world title. Jordy Smith (ZAF) and Mick Fanning (AUS) finish second and third

TransWorld Skateboarding magazine recognizes G&S as the number-one selling skateboard brand of all time

Hawaii’s John John Florence, 18, became the youngest surfer to ever become a Triple Crown of Surfing Champion

Kelly Slater wins his eleventh ASP WCT men’s title, setting the proverbial record that will never be beaten

The ASP reports that Kelly won $526,250 in 2011, bringing his Pro Tour career prize purse to $2,932,005

Surfing magazine reports that top pro surfers are negotiating annual endorsement contracts of up to $2 million

Kelly Slater, 40, at The Fiji Pro at Cloudbreak, got 2 of the 5 perfect 10s in the event and 2 of the top 5 heat scores

Kauai’s Sebastian “Seabass” Zietz won the coveted Triple Crown title and a spot on this year’s ASP World Tour

In So Cal, a new top of the line pro style tri-fin with a removable three-fin system will cost you about $600 to $850

Approximately 85% of surfers on the ASP/WSL World Pro Tour would order more than 50 boards

Kelly Slater again wins the Pipe Masters at Pipeline in an exiting final with young phenom John John Florence

John John Florence wins his second Vans Triple Crown title. John John was born and raised on the North Shore

The name, Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) is retired, rebranded now into the World Surf League (WSL)

The ASP officially became the World Surf League (WSL), overseeing the elite men’s and women’s WCTs

Australian goofy foot Owen Wright recorded two perfect heats (two 10.0 point scores) on his way to the Fiji Pro title

The ISA announced surfing is to be included on the Sports Programme for the 2019 Pan American Games in Peru

The sponsorship of Kelly Slater by surfwear giant Quicksilver was concluded recently after 25 years. What’s next?

Mick Fanning was attacked by a great white shark during his heat with Julian Wilson at J-Bay. No one was hurt

U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware has approved the financial restructuring of Quiksilver by Oaktree Capital

Adriano de Souza, of Brazil won the 2015 Pipe Masters thus securing the year’s WSL-WCT Title

Amazingly, no Hawaiian finished better than 14th at this year’s Pipe Masters. At 9th, Slater was the highest finishing USA surfer

Gabriel Medina of Brazil, wins the 2015 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Title and a 40k purse

Adriano de Souza, of Brazil, won the 2015 WSL world title with Mick Fanning and Gabriel Medina 2nd and 3rd

Hawaiian phenom Carissa Moore claimed a third WSL/ASP Women’s World Title

The WSL announces an 11 event schedule for the men’s WSL Pro Tour for 2016

Surfing Magazine ceases publications