Kiteboarding

The third stop on the 2022 World Surf League Challenger Series, the Ballito Pro presented by O’Neill provided epic action from some of the world’s best surfers battling to qualify for the elite Championship Tour. The Men’s Final hit the lineup with Rio Waida taking on Gatien Delahaye in an exciting matchup where both surfers were highly capable of taking the debate to the ...

Vans Surf dropped in on Muizenberg beach, Cape Town for the second stop of this year’s Duct Tape Invitational and Surf Festival event series. Hosted in the hub of Surfer’s Corner, the event brought in crowds from around the city to celebrate innovation, creativity and craftsmanship in longboarding. Removing the barrier between athlete and spectator, the Duct Tape event allowed ...

Hawaii’s Bettylou Sakura Johnson and Brazils’ Ryan Kainalo won the Ballito Pro Junior over the weekend in two-to-three foot surf at Willard Beach. As one of the lead-up events ahead of the Ballito Pro presented by O’Neill Challenger Series, this JQS1,000 competition featured a fantastic international field for the first time since 2019. The Women’s Final saw Bettylou Sakura Johnson and Sophia Medina making their presence ...

The 2022 Vans Duct Tape Invitational and Surf Festival comes to Cape Town this weekend, 1 – 3 July, and celebrates the diverse creativity and talent within the longboard community. Marking its 10-year anniversary, the Vans Duct Tape event series gathers an international community of surfers, artists, and shapers, spotlighting talented longboarders globally with an emphasis on style and originality ...

The Quiksilver x Stranger Things collection takes us back to the raw energy of 1986 in a series of era-inspired releases and “Strange Surfing,” a short film starring Quiksilver riders on a road trip to the Upside Down. What started as an epic road trip to find waves soon takes a strange turn, flipping 5 friends’ lives upside down. This ...