The ASP has introduced it's Anti-Doping Policy, but some surfers might be shocked to hear that they could face the Disciplinary Committee for over-indulging on beers during a WT contest.
Most of the tour surfers were already at home for the break but ASL was there as a pre-Christmas pulse hit the North Shore ... and Pipeline was perfect.
Did you ever wonder why a famous freesurfer with his own Red Bull-sponsored biopic would enter a clip in Innersection? $100,000 is a pretty big carrot to dangle, no matter how big a surf star you are.
Eric Arakawa is a legendary North Shore shaper who hand crafted many of Andy Irons' boards. More than 12 months after AI's passing a quiver of his unfinished boards still sit in Eric's shaping room as a reminder of the great man.
All the entries are in, and the votes have been tabled. So ... who will be judged the biggest and best at this year's Surfing Life's Oakley Big Wave Awards?