Recent Surf News
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Triple Crown Champ Sebastian “Seabass” Zietz Ready to Take on the ASP World Tour
Despite the events of the past couple months, Sebastian “Seabass” Zietz is still the same outgoing, three-thumbed, dance-machine from Kauai that the surf community knows and loves – he’s just added a few new facts to his Wikipedia page: Triple Crown champion and a member of the ASP World Tour. One was the springboard unto the other. His showing in Hawaii during Winter 2012 solidified what so many had believed about the 24-year-old: he has the pedigree to compete and thrive among the best surfers in the world. Beginning in 2013, he will have the opportunity to do just that – and his fellow WCT surfers are anxious to have him.
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Brazilian Wunderkind Gabriel Medina Joins Oakley's Global Surf Team
In this day and age of rapid-fire information and Youtube and social media, it’s rare when a young talent seemingly appears out of thin air and in the span of a year, turns a sport on its head. That’s sort of the story of Gabriel Medina. Upon qualifying for the ASP World Tour during the 2011 mid-year shuffle (which no longer exists), he proceeded to win two events and prove that he was more than another Brazilian with a flare for airs. In the short time since, he finished in the top 10 in his first full year on Tour and was awarded the the “AI Breakthrough Performer Award” at Surfer Poll. At just 19 years of age, “Gab,” as he’s sometimes known, is already considered a world title contender.
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Oakley Pro Bali: Making the Dream Tour a Little More Dreamy
When deciding on where to host its first-ever ASP World Championship Tour event, major metropolis’ weren’t part of the discussion in the Oakley war room. The “Dream Tour,” as its sometimes called, deserved to be more dreamy and the world’s best surfers deserve to gorge themselves on Nasi Goreng, Oakley brass decided. Many thanks go out to the generations of juniors for their years of recon. The Oakley World Pro Junior has been a smashing success for years, but the time and location was right to bring the world’s best surfers, the ASP World Tour, to Bali and share with the webcast-watching world what exactly Keramas is all about. We imagine it will take about two waves to understand that “world-class” is a fitting adjective for the right-hand reefbreak.
Sebastian Zietz
Kilauea, Hawaii - "We got an ice cream truck!"
Bruce Irons
Hanalei, Kauai – "...and still holding it down there."
Julian Wilson
Coolum Beach, QLD. "My parents lived in the same house for nearly 40 years; I only just kinda moved out."
Jordy Smith
Durban, South Africa
Adam Melling
Lennox Head, NSW
Kolohe Andino
San Clemente, California – "The old school, new school town."
Gabriel Medina
Maresias, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tom Whitaker
Sydney, Australia
Erica Hosseini
Newport Beach, California – "Enough said! Everyone whose been ... stays! :)"
Sage Erickson
Ojai/Ventura, California – "It's 25 minutes inland away from the ocean. Country music is a necessity! I now live in Ventura on the water."
Tyler Wright
Lennox Head, NSW, Australia
Eric Geiselman
New Smyrna Beach, Florida - "Where the beach meets the streets."
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