X Games Drops Surfers: They’d rather be in J-Bay anyways.

What! No surfing! The agony. Or is it?
For the first time in 5 years, the X Games opted to drop the barrel-riding, wave-filled exhibition from the program.
Hear that? It’s the sound of surf junkies’ hearts breaking around the world.
Why the diss? For one, surfing is the only event in the Games that isn’t live. [...]

Good Start for the “End of the Road”

Top tubehounds say “La Ora Na” to Tahiti.
Teahupoo, the South Pacific’s most famous wave and heaviest left, gave it’s first big swell on Monday, with kavu conditions and solid paddle-in surf.

Big guns like Damien Hobgood, Ian Walsh, Brian Conely and Dean Morrison took advantage of the Polynesian playground. According to Surfline, “Damo [...]