The Woolworths SurfGroms season is ready to make a splash as it kicks off this month, marking the 14th year that the SurfGroms program has been active. More than 8,000 groms, aged between 5 and 12 years, are...
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Series 12 of the Hyundai Australian Boardriders Battle set to start in West Oz this weekend
The search for Australia’s top boardriding club begins this Saturday at Trigg Beach, as the Hyundai Australian Boardriders Battle (ABB) kicks off its 12th consecutive series along Perth's metropolitan beaches. Club...
Top 5 Men and Women prepare for surfing’s biggest single day of competition at WSL Finals
The WSL Finals are right around the corner, and the women’s and men’s Final 5 surfers are locked in and ready to battle for the 2024 World Titles at Lower Trestles in San Clemente, California. The one-day,...
INSIDE THE PROGRAM: An in-depth Q&A with Surfing Australia’s Joanna Parsonage on ‘Paddle2Podium’
In 2020, Surfing Australia launched the Paddle2Podium (P2P) project with the goal of maximising sprint paddle performance for female athletes in challenging wave conditions. This innovative program was pivotal in...
2024 World Champions to be decided at the WSL Finals
The World Surf League (WSL) will soon be crowning the 2024 World Champions at the WSL Finals. Featuring the men’s and women’s Final 5, the winner-take-all competition will take place on a single day during the waiting...
Surfing Australia welcomes new partner, Kennards Hire to Hyundai ABB
Surfing Australia is thrilled to announce Kennards Hire as the Official Major Equipment Hire Partner on a two-year deal for the Hyundai Australian Boardriders Battle (ABB) to support grassroots boardrider...
Three Aussies in surf world title race
Australia will again have three surfers challenging for a world title with Ethan Ewing joining Jack Robinson and Molly Picklum at the California one-day decider next month. Robinson and Picklum already secured their...
World’s best surfers eye Pacific perfection at Fiji Pro
The World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) has returned to the pristine waves of Cloudbreak for the Fiji Pro, Stop No. 9 on the 2024 CT. For the first time in over six years, the world’s elite will compete...
Hyundai Australian Boardriders Battle – Series 12 Launch
The 2024/25 Hyundai Australian Boardriders Battle is set to be bigger and better than ever as it launches into a twelfth season kicking off on September 14 at Trigg Beach in Western Australia.In what is the biggest...
Sally Fitzgibbons and Alan Cleland Jr win US Open of Surfing
Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) and Alan Cleland Jr (MEX) won the World Surf League (WSL) US Open of Surfing, Stop No. 4 of the 2024 Challenger Series. Two-to-three-foot, inconsistent swell was no issue for Fitzgibbons and...
Surfing Australia Q&A with Matt Formston
Matt Formston is arguably the world’s greatest blind surfer. Diagnosed with Macular Dystrophy at age five, Matt has lived life with only three percent of his vision. But it hasn’t slowed him down. In fact, it has...
Byron Bay to host the Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championship
Bryon Bay will host the Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championship between March 26 - 30 in a huge win for the region. The event will be an official stop on the Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship...
2024 ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship – Team announce
Surfing Australia is excited to announce the three surfers who will represent Australia at the 2024 ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship in Copenhagen, Denmark next month. Kobe Schulz (Mermaid...
Champions crowned at the Ingenia Australian Para Surfing Titles
Five new Australian Para Surfing champions have been crowned at the Ingenia Australian Para Surfing Titles on the last day of the Hyundai High Performance Centre Australian Surf Championships at North Haven in the Port...
Testing conditions at Club North Haven Shortboard Titles
The 2024 Australian Shortboard Titles got underway at North Haven with Open Men's heats contested in clean 2-3ft waves just north of the break wall. New South Welshman Josh Stretton top-scored in round one of the Open...
PARIS 2024: Robinson secures surfing silver for Australia
Jack Robinson has claimed Australia's best-ever result in Olympic surfing, a silver medal, after falling to local Kauli Vaast in the gold medal match in Tahiti. The Margaret River-raised surfer beat Gabriel Medina of...
PARIS 2024: Robinson will surf for gold after Teahupo’o semi win
Jack Robinson will go for gold in the Olympic surfing after stunning Brazilian Gabriel Medina in their semi-final. The Western Australian pulled out a mighty barrel run at Tahiti's Teahupo'o break to lock up a medal....
PARIS 2024: Lay day in Tahiti ahead of finals
With finals for surfing at the #Paris24 Olympics called off for another day in Tahiti, Team Australia has been exploring this beautiful island paradise. We now expect a Monday finals day with the schedule yet to be...