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“ISA Releases Statement Regarding Teahupo’o Olympic Judging Tower Debacle” by Alexander Haro via The Inertia

by admin | Dec 6, 2023 | Community, Competitions, News, Olympics, Surf, Sustainability

The old judging tower on the reef at Teahupo’o is slated for destruction and replacement in time for the upcoming Olympics. Photo: WSL The proposed new judging tower on the reef at Teahupo’o for the upcoming Olympics has not been well received locally, and a recent...

“20 Million Dollars: Prize money in skateboarding over the last 8 years” by Blair Alley via Transworld Skateboarding

by admin | Oct 25, 2023 | Competitions, Event Planning, Industry, News, Olympics, Skateboard

“$20 million dollars: Rob dove into the data stack to analyze a decade of prize money earnings in skateboarding and how it evolved from women earning just 8% and Japan earning 0% way back in 2015. Following, that, we’ve got highlights from The Boardr Global...

“Kelly Slater Could Technically Still Qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics” by Dashel Pierson via Surfer Mag

by admin | Aug 19, 2023 | Competitions, Industry, Legends, News, Olympics, Surf

11x World Champ may not have qualified via the CT; but there’s another way. So, you’re saying there’s a chance… After finishing the 2023 Championship Tour season with a dismal 23rd place, Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer to ever live, was not...

“The Athletes Who Can’t Afford Their Near-Death Experiences” by Adam Elder via The Intelligencer

by admin | Jun 20, 2023 | Competitions, Industry, Insurance, News, Olympics, Skateboard, Snowboard, Surf

Tom Lowe surfing in the 2018 Jaws Challenge in Hawaii. Photo: Richard Hallman/World Surf League via Getty Images In late April, British big-wave surfer Tom Lowe paddled for a famous slab wave off the coast of Tahiti called Teahupo’o as its 25-foot wall...

“Alexis Sablone Is Not Your Average Skateboarding Architect” by Bindu Bansinath via The Cut

by admin | Apr 6, 2023 | BRA Community Partners, Community, Competitions, News, Olympics, Skateboard

For Alexis Sablone, skateboarding was never supposed to be the thing, which is not something you expect to say of a person who does their thing at the Olympic level. But Sablone is a multi-hyphenate who walks the walk, an artist and designer and architect with...

“2024 Olympic Surfing at Teahupo’o: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” by Sam George via The Inertia

by admin | Mar 24, 2023 | Competitions, Olympics, Surf

Just imagine putting an inexperienced young WSL or ISA Olympic hopeful into the kind of position that almost killed heavy water veteran Rodrigo Reinoso. Photo credit = Ted Grambeau Recent headlines concerning Kelly Slater’s Olympic aspirations has me...