It’s getting nice outside and summer is definitely on its way… so it might be a good time to start thinking about where you’ll get some hot action! One event you can blindfoldly mark down is the Rip Curl Boardmasters, from August 6 to 12, at Fristral Beach, Newquai, UK.

Surf, skate, music and … bikinis what could you want more than that!

You’ll find all the information you need concerning the line up, the tickets and much more on the website.

See you there!

RipCurl has always been engaged to fight against environment threat. Today, the surf brand continues in this way by presenting 4 commitments gathered in the RipCurl Planet programm. It inclues partnerships with WWF and Surfrider Fondation but moreover, the company is also seeking to reduce its own impact on the environment by improving its operation and by developing more ecological products. A good exemple of this engagement, is that you will never see any plastic bag in a RipCurl store.

More details here in french and also here in English.

The Rip Curl Himalaya crew has been in Nepal for a few weeks now facing all sorts of new experiences that they would have never imagine before the beginning of their trip.

Andy Finch, Chris Booth, Per Loken and Baptiste Collomb-Patton are making us live on daily basis their trip thanks to their blog. Videos, images and stories depict a quite extraordinay adventure !

I feel so freezed when I see these pictures which have been taken in the artic circle. This is amazing and beautiful.

The video footage of this cold surfing session can be seen here.

It has been organised to test and get commentaries from surfers about the new Ripcurl Wetsuit, the “H-Bomb”.

Rip Curl New Zealand are proud to announce the 2007 Rip Curl ‘Clean & Clear’ Women’s Pro.
The event was formely known as the Women’s National, and is getting a lot of attention since it will be the only women’s pro national event of the year. It is scheduled on the 24th - 25th of February 2007 at Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, where it has been traditionnaly held.

Moreover, a part of the contest earnings will be donated to New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.

The Rip Curl Clean & Clear Women’s Pro event has six divisions: Rip Curl Open, Rip Curl Under 18s, Clean and Clear Under 16s, Under 14s, Under 12s, Seniors Over 28, thus opening the competition to women of all ages and levels.

Additionally Clean & Clear will be giving away $500 cash to the winner of the Expression Session, a specialty event giving competitors a chance to lay down their best moves in a free surfing extravaganza.

Rip Curl has launch a myspace. It’s a good page to find other surfers spaces from all over the world : )

Bethany Hamilton has been attacked by a shark. In this podcast she explained how her passion to surfing lead her to not give up. Three weeks after the attack, she was surfintg again.

Last 4th of September Chelsea Georgeson Wins Rip Curl Pro Mademoiselle. All the pictures of this event can be check here

For the ones who’ve never managed to see him “live”…

Great victory of Mick Campbell !!