Rightly or wrongly, the World Surf League takes some heat for sticking to a singular format for its contests. The same number of surfers surfing to the same criteria. This year, however, the WSL has ...

Should there be more two-fin-only surf contests? William Aliotti has made a convincing case. While this year several invitationals, the J-Bay Classic and Four Seasons Maldives Championships, have a ...

Let’s clear the air: Brett Barley likes thrusters. And quads. And basically anything that goes well in cooking tubes and glory sections. However, he isn’t totally beyond grabbing a good ol’ classic ...

A classic with a sprinkle of the unconventional. Stephanie Gilmore whips her Ryan Burch pickle fork at the inaugural J-Bay Classic.