BELLS BEACH, Victoria/AUS (Thursday, April 5, 2018) - Today, Stephanie Gilmore and Italo Ferreira won the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, Stop No. 2 of the World Tour. After an exciting week of competitive drama, upsets and emotion, the final day of competition ran in 4-to-6ft conditions at the world renowned Bells Beach… 2018 marks the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach’s 57th year around the sun.
Kelly Slater, Stephanie Gilmore, Tyler Wright, Gabriel Medina, Julian Wilson and more… the world’s best surfers came out to celebrate the retirement of 3x World Champion Mick Fanning.
Rip Curl’s World Tour surfers honour Mick Fanning’s incredible career by stickering their boards with his famous “Black Sticker”. They will keep it on as they surf through the 2018 Rip Curl Pro Bells, Mick’s very last World Tour event.
On December 1st, at 7.29pm, at her home in Kauai, Hawaii, Alana Blanchard had her first child with her boyfriend, Jack Freestone. The world was introduced to Banks Harvey Freestone. It's been about six weeks since then, and we thought it was high time we gave Alana a call and asked how it's all been going.
We spend most of the trip finding hidden little features in mangroves. Nice ledges to slide and a 12-foot heavy impact drop for breakfast… it’s perfect.
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.
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.
