Sponsor Me's own, Six time Triple Crown Winner and 2000 ASP WCT World Champion, Sunny Garcia, has been inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame.

The Billabong Azores Islands Pro presented by Nissan is the 28th qualifying event on this year’s WQS tour. It’s also the 5th out of nine WQS (World Qualifying Series) events with a 6-­star Prime status, given by the ASP only to the top venues, regarding quality of surf available.

Like last year the Swiss surfers come together to qualify not only for the Swiss Surfing Team, but also to participate in international events. But unlike last year there is a new location for the event: Zarautz, in the Basque Country of northern Spain.

The event: This year, the Ferrolterra Movistar Pantín Classic will feature a women’s edition : the Cabreiroá Surfing Girls. Billabong is proud to be a sponsor of this event which did not take place for the last 2 years.

Second to last event on this year’s ASP European Men’s Pro Junior Series, the much expected ASP Grade-2 Islas Canarias Santa Pro Junior is set for action starting tomorrow Wednesday, August 4, and running through Sunday, August 8.

The young Italian surfer and Quiksilver team member Leonardo Fioravanti today emerged victorious in the European Final of the Quiksilver King of the Groms 2010, on the beach in Zarautz, ahead of France's Alexandre Descacq and the two Basques Ethan Eguiguren and Naxto Gonzalez .

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) PRIME US Open of Surfing presented by Hurley and Nike 6.0 is just days away from kicking off its 2010 venue and with 33 ASP Dream Tour competitors in the men’s draw and the event boasting a women’s ASP 6-Star division, the highest level of professional surfing is guaranteed to unfold at South Huntington Beach Pier.

For centuries, sailors have spun yarns about enormous waves, so high that they violate the laws of physics... Just horror stories, one would think... But at least since in February 2000 a British research vessel was trapped in the vortex of such a monster wave, the stories have proven to be true. While scientists struggle to decipher the monster wave phenomenon, surfers regard it as a sporting challenge.

In her book "The Wave", the author Susan Casey tells about colossal waves and the people who are after them...