Surfing

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 ...

What’s Next Part 1 of 2 – is a short surfing film featuring James Ribbink, and shot during a stellar 2021 South African winter in Durban. A project worked on by Timothy Hay and James Ribbink.

Vans presents Sonic Souvenirs – a series of portraits that take us on an exploration of art, music, culture and surfing with Mikey February. The second episode, Cotê di’Ivoire, Mikey is joined by LeeAnn Curren and Alex Knost along the Ivory Coast of Africa. Nestled in smaller, niche communities, like the Hibiscus Coast, each region has its own ideas and ...