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.
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.
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.
They are innovators, dreamers, role models and Searchers. They push the limits, and when they reach the top they just keep going. From global elite athletes to regional rising talents, no matter where you are in the world, the best surfers, snowboarders, skiers and wakeboards will be riding with a Rip Curl sticker on the nose of their board.
60 World Tour events. Six full years on tour. A lifetime of training, focus and preparation, all the while overcoming personal trials and tribulations in the public eye. This is just a fraction of what it’s taken to reach this moment.
