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Kelly Slater interview

An interview with Kelly Slater after he went down to Owen Wright in round two of the Rip Curl Pro Search

Sightseeing with the Wildcards…

Portuguese surfer David Luis takes fellow wildcard Owen Wright touring around Peniche to scope out the various Rip Curl Pro Search event sites and pack in a cheeky freesurf.

Owen Wright

Congratulations to Owen Wright on qualifying for the 2010 ASP World Tour!

Seal the deal on climate change.

Internationally, the Surfrider Foundation is urging the entire surf community to act now to help protect the oceans and the coastlines where we live and surf from the devastating effects of global warming.

The Best & The Worst...

Pro surfers live a pretty good life. Paid to surf all day, enjoy the good times & travel around the world... But surely not everything tastes like honey? What do they love about globetrotting our glorious planet? What do they hate? What's the worst injury they've had? Here are the answers...

Rip Curl Pro Search event update with Gerard Davezac

Rip Curl Europe Event Manager Gerard Davezac gives us a quick update about the plans and final preparations before we all head to Portugal this month...

Mick Fanning wins in France

Mick dominated the Quik Pro in France this September, smashing his way to a second Hossegor title and back-to-back ASP World Tour event wins after taking down the Hurley Pro in the USA a week earlier... Here's our congrats clip! Good on ya Mick.

Rip Curl Europe throws a BBQ for Mick & the team

The Rip Curl Europe head office is in Hossegor, so when our boys are in town for the Quik Pro we try to get all the Rippy crew involved. When Mick won the event on tuesday, we thought the best course of action was a BBQ for him and the rest of the team. Good times...

Rip Curl's Gabriel Medina wins "King of Groms" in France

The Brazilian supergrom impressed the surfing world this week, with an amazing display of futuristic surfing at the King of Groms contest in Hossegor. Gabriel's efforts in the contest were unheard of, headlined by two perfect 10 scoring rides in the final (20 points out of 20) to win the title. Here's our congratulations clip. You'll be seeing plenty more of this kid, so stay tuned...

This year's Event Teaser Campaign

The Rip Curl Pro Search is a unique event on the ASP World Tour, so promotion is key in the lead up. Click here to view our four Teaser videos, the first of which was released before we had even locked in Peniche, Portugal as this year's location...

How the Rip Curl Pro Search Webcast Works

Testing, testing 1, 2, 3... This video was part of a TV Show we made during the 2008 Rip Curl Pro Search in Bali. We're continually tested during the Search Pro & this gives you a behind the scenes look at how we put these remote webcast productions together...
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EVENT STATUS

  • Event is
    • 7:30AM Call
  • Webcasting
    • OFF
  • Scores
    • OFF
  • Day
    • 01

CONDITIONS / SCHEDULE

  • Waves:
    • 2-3ft at Pico da Mota.
  • Weather:
    • Hot and sunny
  • Schedule:
    • Mick Fanning & Coco Ho crowned 2009 Rip Curl Pro Search Champions
  • Updated:
    • Thur Oct 29, 2009 at 16:42 AM
  • Local Time:

SURFLINE OFFICIAL SWELL FORECASTER

Ola, Dennis Portugal Peniche Thursday afternoon W swell slowly rose on Thursday with N/NNW winds. Outlook: W swell increases on Friday before slowly fading into the beginning of next week. Winds are a factor. Monday evening at 8 PM Thursday 09/02FAIR TO GOOD4-5 ft. - shoulder to head highnonefair to goodLong period W swell moves in; plus sets likely during the second half of the day Friday 09/03GOOD6-8 ft. - head high + to 3 ft. overhead10 ft.goodSolid WNW swell on the rise; seek out the spots that can handle N winds

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I thought he was going to jump off the cliff - I was pretty scared!

- Coco Ho.