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5 February, 2012 : - Peterson Crisanto has taken out the Oakley Pro Junior in thrilling fashion defeating reigning Junior Series champion Thomas Woods. Epic one-metre, right-hand pointbreak waves again rolled through North Stradbroke Island’s Cylinders Beach, as last year’s event runner-up Crisanto went one better in 2012, winning a nail-biting...

4 February, 2012 : - The Surfing Heritage Foundation has hired Bolton Colburn, former director of Laguna Art Museum, as executive director. (In the late 1970s, Mr. Colburn was a US Amateur Surfing Champion.) Bolton, who left the Laguna Art Museum in May 2011, will work with the Foundation's board and staff to lead the organization's development...

4 February, 2012 : - After an action packed day at the Oakley Pro Junior, eight surfers remain ahead of tomorrow’s final day. Epic two-metre waves rolled through the right-hand pointbreak at Cylinders Beach, with the best junior surfers in the world, staking their claim for tomorrow’s title. Quarter Final 1 - Vasco Ribeiro vs. Peterson Crisanto....

4 February, 2012 : - California standout Nathan Yeomans put on a domineering performance at the Volcom Pipe Pro, battling through massive Pipeline conditions to finish 4th overall. Yeomans’ spot in the Final marked him as the last non-Hawaiian standing at one of the world’s most deadly waves. Yeomans’ run to the Final was impressive....

Philip Edwards was the first surfer to ride Banzai Pipeline, in Hawaii, back in 1961. Phil, also known as "The Guayule Kid", was born on the 10th June 1938, in Long Beach, California.

Before completing 10 year of age, Phil Edwards was already feeling the attractionof water, ocean and waves. In those days, California was the Mecca of international surfing. The US West Coast had everything for everyone. Waves of all types, a vivid surf culture and an emerging surf industry.

In Dana Point, California, surfers tried to impress spectators with serious wave riding stunts at the famous surf break of Killer Dana, a spot for experienced watermen. Killer Dana was "the" surf spot where you might became the most influential surfer of all time, in a matter of day.

In 1953, Phil Edwards was ready to challenge Killer Dana. As soon as he catches and completes the first wave, something had changed forever in the sport of surfing. Phil was 15 years old and he had just cut back a wave.

"This was Phil Edwards' first attack on Killer Dana. Jim 'Burrhead' Drever took Edwards out with him and kept an eye on him. As the story goes, they took off on a wave together. Burrhead yelled, 'Head for the green!' when Edwards cut back toward the curl", explains Nat Young.

3 February, 2012 : - The New York Surf Film Festival presented by Barbados is pleased to announce our fourth charitable digital screening room today with a special screening from the NYSFF 2011 Official Selection Archive, Manufacturing Stoke by Pierce Michael Kavanagh. In honor of No Impact Project’s 100,000 program enrollments to date...

4 February, 2012 : - Sony Ericsson announced an expanded global strategic alliance with Billabong which connects the Xperia smartphone brand to a new and highly influential consumer audience and extends to a retail offering for smartphone users. At the center of the partnership is the XperiaTM active Billabong Edition smartphones designed with...

4 February, 2012 : - 'Surfing Sicily - Live Fearlessly,' the seriocomedy penned by Federico Badiali and Scott Joseph Foster, is the most recent effort by the entertainment community to raise money for research to cure cystic fibrosis, still called an 'orphan disease' due to the fact that so few in the U.S. are afflicted by it...

4 February, 2012 : - Aun así que no se alzara con un título al que fue favorito consecuencia de su alto nivel mostrado en las temibles olas del Banzaii Pipeline, en Hawai, el costarricense Carlos Muñoz recibió ayer de manos de la organización, el premio al mejor performance del Volcom Pipeline Pro con el 'Todd Chesser Hard Charger...

4 February, 2012 : - Chris Beresford of San Diego dominated the Open Divison final at the Kneeboard Surfing USA Championships at Huntington Beach. Beresford attacked the head-high waves on the south side of the pier with an impressive display of stylish full-rail surfing and big moves. Local favorite and 2008 champion Tom Backer surfed flawlessly...