The outsider in the Roxy Pro final, Lindsay Steinriede (California, USA) claimed the 2011 Roxy Pro longboard event on her 28th birthday, and leaves France leading the ASP Women’s World longboard ratings with confidence towards a possible maiden world title next October.
Stephanie Gilmore (Gold Coast, AUS), 23, won the Roxy Pro in Biarritz today, the charismatic champion clinching her first victory of the season ahead of freshly crowned 2011 ASP Women’s World Champion Carissa Moore (Oahu, HAW), 18, in good quality three-foot (one meter) waves and finding the only clean barrel of the event en route to victory.
The Roxy Pro was treated to world-class action and sunny weather on Day four of the waiting period, some clean two-to-three foot (0.7 to 1 meter) waves breaking along Biarritz’s coast and providing both event venues with quality surf conditions.
The Roxy Pro got underway in two-to-three foot (0.6 to 1 meter) waves in Biarritz today, the famous Cote des Basques beach allowing three heats of Round 1 to wrap-up through the incoming morning tide.
The Roxy Pro, second-to-last stop on this year’s ASP Women’s World title season and first of two ASP Women’s World Longboard Tour events, kicks off today at Cote des Basques beach in Biarritz, France for a seven-day waiting period that promises intense world-class surfing in presence of surfing icon Lisa Andersen.
For nearly a decade, Roxy has been uniting competitive surfing with an art festival featuring exhibits by photographers, sculptors and painters, all of whom share a common theme: surfing and the ocean.
The Roxy Pro is a priceless opportunity to raise awareness about environmental issues that are naturally important to the surfing community and the Quiksilver group. This year, the Quiksilver foundation will be introducing the art collective skeleton sea and once again opening a charity shop on the Côte des Basques.
Mission: possible
Portugal explodes onto the global big wave circuit.
Thirty thousand
Richard James shoots a surf trip of 30,000 kilometres along the west cost of Africa.
All in Hand
When it comes to surfcraft there’s a newcomer making waves
A Few Smooth Lines
Chris Preston interviews Sydney's Matt Chojnacki
The train to Taghazout
Mat Arney attempts to hop aboard the slow train to Morocco, boardbag in tow.
Single Fin Serendipity
The unusual return of Bobby Owens' magic board.
Nature on display
Chris Burkard’s photographs are about the scenery being the star of the show.
Peterson Threebeard
All aboard the good ship Peterson Threebeard
Surfilmfestibal 2011
The surfilmfestibal festival attempts to connect the global surfing community
Walls of Perception
Ben Thouard joins Oxbow in search of adventure and virgin waves.
Upper Water Love
Rui Ribeiro talks with Renaud Cardinal about the past, present and future of UWL.
African Rhythm
Mark Sankey travels to Senegal where the deserts of North Africa meet the jungles of the tropics.
