Gold Coast, Australia (Wednesday, March 11, 2009), Quiksilver, the world’s leading boardsports inspired apparel brand, started the 2009 surfing season with the largest international surf contest: The Quiksilver Pro and the ROXY Pro. The pristine waves surrounding the many beaches of the Gold Coast saw surfing fans coming in droves to witness the world’s best surfers battle it out for prize money and ASP (Association of Professional Surfers) World Tour contest points. Today the ASP crowned Australian pro Joel Parkinson (27) as the winner of the Quiksilver Pro, who scored a perfect 10 point wave score during the final minutes of competition. For the Roxy Pro, local Australian Stephanie Gilmore (21) took home the gold and is set out to win her third ASP World Title.

Quiksilver is celebrating the world’s most renowned surf contest, The Quiksilver Pro, with a brand new promotion set to hit stores on March 19th, 2009. Spend $300 net in any Quiksilver store (excluding outlets and airport stores), to enter for your chance to win a free 3 night 4 day trip for 2 to surfers paradise, Gold Coast in Queensland Australia! All you need to do is email or send through a hard copy of your own photo relating the theme “TAKE A BREAK”, and include one sentence expressing the theme. Don’t miss your chance to “TAKE A BREAK” and travel with Quiksilver! While visiting a Quiksilver store, also take advantage of a “Buy 2 get 15% Off Buy 3 get 20% Off” limited time only promotion. Act fast to get new spring gear from Quiksilver and Roxy, and also enter for your chance to hit the beaches of the Gold Coast!

The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast marks the beginning of the ASP World Tour, which is a contest circuit of 10 world class events sponsored by different brands throughout the year. At the end of the circuit, one male surfer and one female surfer will be crowned with the coveted ASP World Title, and take home over $340,000 USD in prize money. The ASP World Tour combines the best surfers from around the world and pits them against one another in waves of different size and difficulty. Surfers who are apart of the ASP World Tour have the opportunity to take part in contests in exotic wave locations such as Tahiti, France, Hawaii, Japan, etc. The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast brings the surfing community together for a two week surf festival, complete with daily competitions from both the Quiksilver Pro and ROXY Pro, as well as night time concerts, rider parties, experiential zones from sponsors, and surf training camps for inspired beginners.

During the Quiksilver Pro, the Quiksilver Surf Team composed of Kelly Slater (USA), Dane Reynolds (USA), Julian Wilson (AUS), Jeremy Flores (FRA) and Freddy Pattachia (HAW) were in fine contest form. The 9 time ASP World Title winner Kelly Slater (35) was looking to begin the ASP contest season right and work towards his 10th World Title, but unfortunately young gun and team mate Julian Wilson surprisingly took out Slater during third round heats. ASP Rookie of the Year for 2008 Dane Reynolds scored a perfect 10 wave during 3rd round heats, but also was narrowly taken out in the quarter final round. At the end of the day, Gold Coast local Joel Parkinson took the podium as the crowned king of the Gold Coast, and his home town crowd stood behind him with joyous fervor.

Though the Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Pro events have come to a close, the ASP World Tour has just begun. The Quiksilver surf team, including World Champion Kelly Slater, young gun Julian Wilson and ASP Rookie of the year Dane Reynolds will be heading on to Tahiti, Fiji and South Africa through the Spring season, and in December the final ASP World Tour event will take place in Hawaii. Surfing fans around the world will be on the edge of their seats as they watch 35 year old Kelly Salter attempt to claim an unprecedented 10th World Title.

Quiksilver Surf Team

Beach Crowd and Surf Fan

The Winner of the Quiksilver Pro, Joel Parkinson

The winner of the Roxy Pro, Stephanie Gilmore

Quiksilver Pro Surfer and the 9 time ASP World Champion, Kelly Slater

Quiksilver Pro Surfer and 2008 ASP Rookie of the Year, Dane Reynolds

For more information on the Quiksilver Pro log onto:
http://www.quiksilverpro.com.au.

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http://www.roxypro.com.au.

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TORAH BRIGHT - 2008 X-Games Superpipe Gold Medalist Dominates the Pipe at the Last Stop of the Dew Tour

Huntington Beach, Calif. victorious snowboarding season, Torah Bright takes home the gold in the final stop of the Alliance of Action Sports (ALLI) Dew Tour Toyota Championship. Torah’ssecond Superpipe run was the best run of the day, earning her an event-high score of 95.5, and beating out Olympians Kelly Clark and Hannah Teter. It was Torah’s innovative run, consisting of a flawless air to fakie, a Cab 720, Crippler, backside 360, and switch backside 720, that secured her the top spot.

This gold medal is not the first for Torah this season. Torah took home the X-Games gold medal last month while breaking the record for the highest Superpipe score for women in Winter X. Torah will now set her sights on placing first at the Roxy Chicken Jam in March before gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The Toyota Championship win was a great addition to Torah’s strong 2008/2009
season. Although the persistent rain threatened the day, Torah remained upbeat, “I still managed to land the run I had planned, so I couldn’t be
happier.“

Quiksilver’s Xfox wins the Pirate Nightrail Session in an absolutely EPIC night!

As the rail-ninjas of China converged on the Quiksilver Nanshan Mellow Park on the last day of February for the Pirate Nightrail Session, one thing was for sure – these local riders can shred. With the weather warming up, Spring has definitely arrived in Beijing, but thanks to lower temperatures after the sun sinks beneath the horizon, the park’s snow and setup couldn’t have been in better condition for Saturday Night’s session.

The Nightrail Session has an infamous reputation amongst China’s snowboard community. In it’s fourth year now, not only is the event one of the few opportunities local riders get to shred during the night-time, but it is also associated with one of the year’s ‘rowdier’ after-parties – but we will save that story for another time. The night is also one of the best snowboard spectator events in the country – a cranking soundtrack provided by DJ Steve, and free beer for the crowd. No, you didn’t read that wrong – free beer for the crowd!

Saturday’s Pirate Nightrail Session was no different from the others – an absolutely epic shred session on yet another creative park setup from the Mellow Parks crew. This year the crew introduced a 9m down rail, a double picnic table setup, and a long high-mount black propane tank – with a nickname I can’t post here – along with a snow bank combo that allows for an almost unlimited number of different combos. You could tell the guys were enjoying the new setup, as the tricks got more and more technical and creative.

Taking away top honors this year was Quiksilver rider Xfox, pulling impressive moves on almost all the features. His trick of the day, however, was his you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it BS180 switch 50-50, BS180 off on the downrail – so steezy! On the individual objects, local hero and Burton rider Wanglei took best trick on the downrail, with a super smooth BS lipslide, as well as ripping it up on the other objects. Huwei was a definite crowd pleaser, winning the wallride with a sweet 540. Quiksilver rider Zhangwei totally owned the picnic tables and also threw a huge FS270 on, 270 off on the big black barrel to win that particular feature. The twin picnic tables were also showing some of the more impressive tricks. Quiksilver rider Fanlei stepped it up with a 50-50 to frontflip off, however it was Russian rider Alexey who would secure his place on the winner’s board with a huge 360-gap on, 50-50, 180 off – and achieving the biggest gasp from the local crowd!