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Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as “mana” when he surfed Teahupo'o’s waves on a piece of plywood for the first time. He rushed down a crumbling white surf in front of an untouched volcanic beach. This was several years before the steady streams of surfers started arriving when the village got its first asphalt road over fifty years ago. “It was a secret spot,” the surfer and Tahitian native remembered, as he stood on the pristine beaches of Teahupo’o on the island’s south side, waves crashing off in the distance. “But it was not a secret spot for a long time.” Teahupo'o...
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Cocoa Beach (United States) (AFP) - Santas of all stripes descended on Florida's Cocoa Beach this Christmas Eve -- not to deliver presents, but to ride some waves and raise funds for a good cause. Beginning early Sunday, the beach filled up with thousands of adults and children alike dressed as St Nick, elves or reindeer for the annual "Surfing Santas" celebration. Launched in 2009, the event raises funds for Grind for Life, a charity helping cancer patients travel for treatment, as well as the local surf museum. While dozens of wetsuit-clad surfers headed out into the chilly water -- albeit m...
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Pismo Beach (United States) (AFP) - Under perfect California skies, Liv Stone elegantly flips her board into the hollow of a wave, perfectly executing the kind of move this disabled surfer would love to replicate at the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics. Participating in the four-yearly festival of global sport would be a "dream come true," the 19-year-old says on the sidelines of the World Para Surfing Championship, where this week she is chasing a third title. Born with truncated arms and under-developed hands, Stone says she fell in love with surfing in 2017, and thinks others would get to know ...
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Huntington Beach (United States) (AFP) - Beaches normally thronged with the bronzed torsos of surfers are deserted as California races to clean up a huge oil spill. Up to 131,000 gallons of crude could have leaked into the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of the United States when a pipeline ruptured at the weekend. Authorities are investigating whether a ship's anchor could have ripped open the pipe, dragging it more than 100 feet (30 meters) along the seafloor. A 15-mile (24-kilometer) stretch of coast has been closed to the public -- including some prime surfing spots that are usually packed...
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Manila (AFP) - When big wave surfer Doug Falter lost his board in a wipeout in Hawaii, his best hope was for a local fisherman to pick it up. He never imagined it would be found more than 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles) away in the southern Philippines.More than two years after watching his pale blue custom-shaped board disappear in the huge swell of Waimea Bay, Falter was alerted via social media that it had been found near the remote island of Sarangani.And the new owner -- local primary school teacher and aspiring surfer Giovanne Branzuela -- was happy to give it back to him."When I saw the ...
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