Despite erratic conditions, surfers Bruce Mackie and Chelsea Tuach triumphed at the Barbados Surfing Associations’s fourth Surfer Of The Year Contest at Cattlewash recently.
Source: The Nation Newspaper. For the full story, click here.

Another epic day of waves greeted competitors for day two of the Na Papa Australian Surfmasters Titles, heralding dominant performances from Australia’s best. It was the Open Men and Women who shone the brightest, with the standard of surfing matching the near-perfect two metre conditions.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

You’ve seen them on webcasts, in photos and videos, pre-amping, bobbing their heads, psyching up and so on, but what exactly are the world’s best surfers listening to before they surf? Self-help tapes? The latest Miley Cyrus opus? Slayer’s X-mas album?
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

Conlogue, who took the bronze medal at this year’s ISA World Junior Championships in France, captured the U.S.title for girls under 18.
Source: OC Register. For the full story, click here.

Surfing America, the national governing body for the sport of surfing, is excited to name eight new USA Surfing Champions after the youth divisions wrapped up in two-to-four foot Huntington Beach, CA surf. After six days of competition at the SIMA Surfing America USA Championships presented by PacSun, the new PacSun USA Surf Team was also announced.
Source: Surfline. For the full story, click here.

The Billabong Pro Junior, an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Grade-2 Men and Women’s Pro Junior event, came to an end today at the beautiful beach of Ribeira d’Ilhas (PRT) and got the 2008 ASP European Junior Championship closer to its end as one two events remain in the women’s division and one only in the men’s before the champion is crowned.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

In another first for the sport of stand-up paddle (SUP) surfing, the major honors for the C4 Waterman/Honolua Surf Co competition, presented by Blue Planet, went to a woman today. Waikiki’s Candice Appleby out-performed a field of world-class SUP surfers to win both the pro division and the women’s category. Among Appleby’s casualties in the pro ranks were Brian Keaulana (Makaha), Noland Martin (Makaha), and Noah Shimabukuro (Kula, Maui).
Source: Drift Magazine. For the full story, click here.

It was another day of exciting action at Ribeira d’Ihas, home of the ASP Grade-2 Pro junior, and some unexpected major upsets in both women and men’s divisions put things under pressure as the champion will be crowned tomorrow.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

What surfing does to my hair, people buy in a bottle,” says the 26-year-old Kassia Meador, a world-class longboard rider from Oceanside, California, at the Women’s World Longboarding Championships in Biarritz. “Surfing’s like a beauty salon: rosy cheeks, surf-spray hair, fit body.”
Source: Times Online. For the full story, click here.

Kaua’i’s Mia Melamed won the women’s division of the Surfing America USA Championships this week at Huntington Beach, Calif.
Source: Honolulu Advertiser. For the full story, click here.