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World’s Best Big Wave Riders Descend On Chile For The 2013 Quiksilver Ceremonial Chile First Stop on the 2013 Big Wave World Tour Kicks Off with a $20,000 Prize Purse PUNTA DE LOBOS, Pichilemu, Chile (April 17, 2013) – The Quiksilver Ceremonial Chile presented by Subaru will commence this Spring with the world’s top big [...]

March 23, 2013 – San Clemente, California, USA – The Big Wave World Tour has successfully completed its fourth season as Greg Long is crowned Big Wave World Champion at the Surfing Heritage Foundation Museum in San Clemente, Ca. When Long arrived in Peru this past summer it was clear by the look in his [...]

  EVENT #3 OF THE BWWT 2012/2013 February 4rd, 2013 Big Wave World Tour Champion 2010/2011, Jamie Sterling, takes top honors at the Nelscott Reef Big Wave Classic in Lincoln City, Oregon this Saturday, February 2nd 2013. Contest organizers started the event with a pre-contest meeting Friday night as John Forse (Contest Director), Gary Linden [...]

Surfer: Kohl Christensen Photo: Bella Hunt Green Light Given for Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 After a slow start this winter in the Northern Hemisphere, three big wave events will run in less than two weeks. Following the Mavericks Invitational (January 20th) earning Peter Mel his maiden Mavericks Title, The BWWT ran it’s first Qualifying Event [...]

GETXO, Basque Country, Spain Natxo Gonzalez, a local from Bizkaia, captures the Arnette Punta Galea Challenge 2012/13, the first ever Big Wave World Tour Qualifying Event. With a victory at hand, the 17-year-old charger obtains a “BWWT Wildcard ” to compete at the next BWWT Southern Hemisphere Event (Chile or Peru) and will become the [...]

A For Immediate Release, January 26th 2013 ARNETTE PUNTA GALEA CHALLENGE IS ON!   BWWT is proud to announce it’s first Qualifying Event, the Arnette Punta Galea Challenge 2012/2013, scheduled next Monday, January 28, 2013 in the challenging surf of Punta Galea (Spain).The updated forecasts shows mild S winds and great conditions with surf in [...]

 HALF MOON BAY, CA (January 22, 2013) – Peter Mel, current Big Wave World Tour Champion, and perennial standout for nearly two decades at the famed Northern California big wave spot, finally captured his first ever Mavericks win. “Mavericks has been a big part of my life.  I am so happy to have been able [...]

Big Wave Surf Contest Scheduled For This Sunday, January 20, 2013 HALF MOON BAY, CA (January 16, 2013) – Contest organizers and officials for the Mavericks Invitational 2012-2013 Presented By GoPro, have confirmed that the world’s premier big wave surf contest will take place this Sunday, January 20, 2013 in Pillar Point, Half Moon Bay, [...]

“Big wave surfing is not limited to the actual size of the waves but rather the philosophy of riding the biggest waves that come on any particular day at any surf spot in the World. Of course some locations have the enormous waves that we view in awe, the photos. It is in these locations [...]

HALF MOON BAY, CA (November 10 2012) – Mavericks Invitational presented by GoPro, the world’s premier big wave surf contest, kicked off the winter season with an inspirational Opening Ceremony and paddle out from the beach at Mavericks. “The opening ceremony and paddle out is more special than any big day of surfing,” said Danilo [...]