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ANOTHER year bites the dust and we ask the question -- is it worth the struggle on the QS to get on the ASP World Tour? |
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EURO success at the Billabong Pipeline Masters as Jeremy Flores captures a maiden win for himself and Europe. |
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KELLY Slater grabbed a 10, Dusty Payne a spot on tour and the Triple Crown title still up for grabs at perfect Backdoor. |
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RIGHT now it all looks a bit iffy on the North Shore with only a few bumps to crack the flat gloom... and the Coffin brothers... |
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WITH a storm rapidly approaching Thursday morning threw up fun Backdoor to a backdrop of stormy purple skies. |
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KICK-OFF for the Billabong Pipeline Masters in Memory of Andy Irons skunked by a north swell as locals fell to pros. |
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EVERYONE was down on the beach at first light to greet the meat of the swell and at Rockpiles it was pumping. |
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FORERUNNERS of the new swell hit the North Shore on Tues, building all day it made for an eye-popping sunset sesh. |
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FOLLOWING six days of torturous calm, a small lethargy-relieving north-eastery swell pushed into the North Shore. |
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SURPRISE double winners Raoni Monteiro and Tyler Wright blow up on the final day of the O'Neill World Cup. |
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CREATIVE heat management in poor surf allowed a bumper number of waves to go down at the O'Neill World Cup of Surfing. |
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LOOKING at the pancake North Shore you wouldn't know the Pacific could do this -- Nov 2nd -- never forgotten. |
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NEW swell pulse boots the North Shore back into life with Pipeline, Backdoor and Sunset all kicking into gear. |
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KICK-OFF for the O'Neill World Cup of Surfing sees overhead swells and tricky strong offshores filling the local sails |
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SWELL number three lights-up North Shore from Sunset on down and those not partaking in the Reef Pro got involved. |
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BACK to business -- Joel Parkinson wins the Reef Pro at Haleiwa and takes Vans Triple Crown lead -- again. |
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DOWN at Haleiwa we've seen Parko's on song return, Steph Gilmore winning another title and Mick being a bit good. |
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NEIL Armstrong reports on the Hawaiian return of the World Longboard Tour, last held in 1997, also in Makaha. |
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NORTH Shore flagship stood tall, took a bow and threw throaty tubes all day, here in full colour with moving images. |
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SHORT day for the men down at the Reef Hawaiian Pro -- the girls kicked-off and the legends went toe-toe-toe. |
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OH yes it did -- Pipeline woke up on Sunday afternoon, throwing shapes in the sunset for the watching throng. |
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A LEGEND day kicked off the Vans Triple Crown in chunky swell at Haleiwa for the Reef Hawaiian Pro. |
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THOUSANDS gather at Hanalei Bay on Kauai to celebrate the life of three-time world surfing champ Andy Irons. |
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ER, apologies to all feminists, here's the Miss Reef 2010 pictorial. For anyone who 'reads the words' there are none. |
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