At the start of this year, Owen Wright didn’t know if he’d be able to compete in the 2017 WSL season. Hell, at the start of this year, Owen Wright was basically re-learning to surf.
Australia’s Tyler Wright has just won her second and consecutive World Title during the Maui Women’s Pro, clinching the massive win in pumping 6-8 foot surf at Honolua Bay.
The Maui Women’s Pro got underway today in picture perfect 3-4 foot Honolua Bay – the start of the last event of the 2017 WSL Season, and the event that will decide the 2017 Women’s World Title.
The opening days at the Rip Curl Pro Portugal offered up some of the best surf we’ve seen on the WSL webcast this year. Pumping, perfectly offshore, six-to-eight foot barrels pulsed through the lineup at Supertubos as rounds one, two and three were run and done. The world’s best had a canvas they could stretch out on, and they didn’t let it go to waste.
A few months back, Alana Blanchard and her boyfriend Jack Freestone announced that they were having a baby boy. When the couple went public on Instagram we sat down with Alana and talked about what it meant for her and Jack, for her career, and how she was feeling about it all.
Mick Fanning was one of the main pushers for change in surfing. He was one of the first men on the World Tour to really start training, and taking that training very seriously. He is an athlete, and he has lived his life like one.
After several close calls at Padang Padang in recent weeks, the waiting period for the 2017 Rip Curl Cup Invitational has drawn to a close without the magic swell required to run the hallowed event.
