The recently concluded CANAM Surf Championships event holds great significance, as it not only crowned the champion for 2023 but also determined the Canadian team for the upcoming ISA World Championships in El Salvador, scheduled to take place in May. The newly named Ripcurl CANAM Surfing...
Twelve individual surfers will claim Olympic slots in Puerto Rico Top-Ranked Men’s and Women’s national teams to earn an additional Olympic slot for their nation The ISA President announced that Puerto Rico will be the location of the 2024 ISA World Surfing Games (WSG), the all-important final...
COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA (March 12, 2023) – Scoring 13.17 points in the final round, Canadian Reed Platenius captured victory in the Ron Jon Quiksilver Pro Junior, his first career World Surf League Qualifying Series Junior Tour event title. In the final round, Platenius rode six waves,...
VICTORIA (March 13, 2023) – Surf Canada is proud to announce the addition of the Canadian Union of Skilled Workers (CUSW) to their family of partners. In a multi-year partnership agreement, CUSW will be the first Exclusive Union Partner of Surf Canada, the National Surfing...
Driving north across the Hawaiian island of Oahu from Honolulu can feel like a bit like journeying back through time. Far from Waikiki’s towering hotels, manicured beaches and Chanel outlets, the freeway suddenly ends, giving way to the sand-dusted Kamehameha Highway. The Kam wends along Oahu’s...
Mathea Dempfle-Olin and Taj Lindblad emerged victorious at the World Surf League (WSL) SLO CAL Open at Morro Bay hosted by Surfing For Hope, a men's and women's Qualifying Series (QS) 1,000, after taking down their respective, heavily-contested fields at Morro Rock. Dempfle-Olin and Lindblad overpowered the...
Erin Brooks is no ordinary 15-year-old. Not in how she lives her life, and certainly not in how she surfs. Brooks has an affinity for flight, and is already making history competing against and beating men twice her age and size. The Canadian has shown an X-factor,...
Erin Brooks: "I feel I'm just a kid out there, just surfing and having fun" The 15-year-old Canadian is considered one of the rising stars in her sport. She doesn't see herself as a pro surf star: "Professional surfers are like, Carissa Moore, Kolohe Andino...
4-time world champion hopes to see sport make Paralympic debut in 2028 Zack Smart · CBC Sports · Posted: Dec 27, 2022 7:22 PM ET | Last Updated: December 27, 2022 Canada's Victoria Feige, centre, celebrates after winning gold in the women's kneel division for her fourth straight world title at...
“We’re all going to face incredibly difficult situations in life. There is so much we can’t control, but we do get to choose how we respond. I think surfing makes you inherently resilient and adaptable — you’re literally adapting to what’s changing beneath you. There’s also...
