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Winning And Losing With World Number 4 Alexis Owen

Taira BlakelySeptember 12, 2024

by Taira BlakelySeptember 12, 20240

It’s an average Tuesday in Dunedin, New Zealand. The after school rush is in full force as I navigate traffic on the way to the St Kilda Surf Lifesaving HQ. The sky is blue and the air is almost warm – remarkably mild for a winter’s day in Dunedin. The......

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Watch: The Impossible Wave

Taira BlakelyJuly 19, 2024July 25, 2024

by Taira BlakelyJuly 19, 2024July 25, 20240

Thirty years ago, ISA president Fernando Aguerre dreamed that surfing might one day be included in the Olympic Games. No one could have predicted how challenging that pursuit would be. The Impossible Wave follows Fernando Aguerre’s improbable mission to push surfing into the Olympic spotlight. After 27 years and 12,000 hours......

New Appointments To IOC Weave Surfing Into Olympic Future

Derek MorrisonOctober 9, 2022November 29, 2022

by Derek MorrisonOctober 9, 2022November 29, 20220

International Surfing Association President, Fernando Aguerre, and former world number one surfer, Sally Fitzgibbons, have been appointed to International Olympic Committee Commissions for 2022. The inclusion of two leading surfing figures in the latest IOC Commissions highlights the positive and growing role of surfing within the Olympic Movement. Within the......

Leap Of Faith: Billy Stairmand

Derek MorrisonDecember 26, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonDecember 26, 2021July 25, 20240

The journey of Billy Stairmand in 2021 is astounding. From fundraising just to get to the Australian qualification series, to the highs and lows of the inaugural surfing event at the Olympics to a frantic run through the Challenger Series – and all while never knowing when, or if, he......

Five Minutes With: Olympian Billy Stairmand

Derek MorrisonJuly 29, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 29, 2021July 25, 20240

Billy Stairmand may not have made it past Round 3 at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but the way he took on Italo Ferreira in his man-on-man match was inspired. Stairmand never gave up and went hunting for that magic ramp that would bring him into line with the Brazilian world......

New Zealand Olympians Into Round Of 16 In Tokyo

Derek MorrisonJuly 25, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 25, 2021July 25, 20240

Both of New Zealand’s Olympic surfers, Billy Stairmand and Ella Williams, survived Day 1 of competition at Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach, Tokyo, today, advancing to the Round of 16. Raglan’s Billy Stairmand was first up in a morning clash that saw him battling in average 1-2 foot waves at Tsurigasaki against......

Behind The Scenes In El Salvador With Team New Zealand

Derek MorrisonJuly 13, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 13, 2021July 25, 20240

Team New Zealand hits the ISA World Games with just two athletes: Paige Hareb and Saffi Vette. In this visual diary, Saffi Vette takes us behind the scenes as Team New Zealand hunts down an Olympic qualification spot. What they didn’t expect was countless swabs up the nose or a......

Paige Hareb Narrowly Misses Olympic Qualification

Derek MorrisonJune 8, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJune 8, 2021July 25, 20240

It was an agonising conclusion to the 2021 ISA World Surfing Games for Paige Hareb when the Taranaki star missed Olympic qualification by the narrowest of margins in El Salvador. New Zealand’s hopes of a third surfer at this year’s Olympics rested on Paige Hareb in the early hours of......

Paige Shines At ISA Worlds, Olympic Qualification One Step Away

Derek MorrisonJune 4, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJune 4, 2021July 25, 20240

A huge turn that saw Paige Hareb free fall out of the lip on a huge left at La Bocana, El Salvador, was enough to catapult her into the Final 8 in the main group at the ISA World Surfing Games. She is now just one heat shy of Olympic......

Saffi Vette’s Olympic Campaign Comes To An End

Derek MorrisonJune 4, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJune 4, 2021July 25, 20240

Nineteen-year-old Gisborne surf star, Saffi Vette, has ended her run to the Tokyo Olympics this morning, falling in solid, challenging conditions in El Salvador. Surfing in the 4th heat of Repechage 5, Saffi and fellow WQS campaigner Ellie Turner, from Great Britain, were bettered by Carolina Mendes, of Portugal, and......