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Tom Higson

Joining the ranks of the Surf Europe team as tea boy back in 2006, Txomin Higson new little on how to make a good cuppa and even less about riding waves. However, over the course of the last 8 years, the beachbreaks of Anglet in SW France have done wonders to his duckdive and subsequently earned the proud Swiss fence-sitter a hard-fought promotion to online editorial assistant.

Recent Articles By Tom

Interviews

Catching up with new Volcom Europe team ripper Joan Duru and Team Coach Didier Piter

Archi finds shelter from the strong onshore winds in Hossegor in a cosy little café to talk about the Tour, Joan’s change of sponsor and...

Catching up with new Volcom Europe team ripper Joan Duru and Team Coach Didier Piter
News

Les vacances with Mimi, Sancho and Rebrix in Las Canarias

Curious to know what top European wave rippers Jéremy Flores, Benjamin Sanchis, and Eric Rebiere have been up to over the Christmas period? Back from...

Les vacances with Mimi, Sancho and Rebrix in Las Canarias
News

The Volcom Pipeline Pro Waiting Period begins this weekend!

Pipeline is the Mecca of the surfing world, and it is at this legendary location that Volcom are proud to announce their first ever ASP...

The Volcom Pipeline Pro Waiting Period begins this weekend!
News

Maxime Huscenot Crowned 2009 ASP World Junior Champion in Australia

Maxime Huscenot (REU), 17, has won the ASP World Junior title at Narabeen in Australia last night becoming the first French and European male surfer...

Maxime Huscenot Crowned 2009 ASP World Junior Champion in Australia
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Alana Blanchard joins the Reef tribe

Reef is excited to announce the addition of the lovely, Alana Blanchard, to the Reef surf team. The 19 year old from Hanalei, Kauai will...

Alana Blanchard joins the Reef tribe
News

Gabriel Medina Shocks at Billabong ASP World Junior Championships

NORTH NARRABEEN, New South Wales/Australia (Thursday, January 14, 2010) – Improved three-to-four foot (1 – 1.5 metre) surf graced the sandbanks at North Narrabeen today,...

Gabriel Medina Shocks at Billabong ASP World Junior Championships
News

World’s Best Juniors Descend on Sydney for Billabong ASP World Junior Championships

The world’s best junior surfers are descending upon the Sydney suburb of North Narrabeen to hunt down the most prestigious crown in junior surfing, the...

World’s Best Juniors Descend on Sydney for Billabong ASP World Junior Championships
Magazine

Surf Europe 71 on sale. Buy it today!

The SE Photobook returns with the choicest cuts of surfing imagery from the year that was. From shocking travel scores on safari to headline swells...

Surf Europe 71 on sale. Buy it today!
News

AUWE! Billabong Pro Mundaka No Longer

Billabong International has today announced that after discussions with the Association Of Surfing Professionals (ASP) and surfer representatives from the World Professional Surfers (WPS) it...

AUWE! Billabong Pro Mundaka No Longer
News

Qualifiers Set for 2010 ASP World Tour

COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Wednesday, December 16, 2009) – With the culmination of the 2009 ASP World Tour and ASP Women’s World Tour in Hawaii, the qualifiers...

Qualifiers Set for 2010 ASP World Tour
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Title Contender Parkinson Brings Out Best in Aspiring Gudauskas at Haleiwa

Taking on world title contender Joel Parkinson (Australia) was all the incentive Southern California’s Tanner Gudauskas (San Clemente) needed to take his surfing to the...

Title Contender Parkinson Brings Out Best in Aspiring Gudauskas at Haleiwa
News

INTRODUCING LIVES OF THE ARTISTS

While there is a strong culture of film-making in action sports it’s rare that one film can reach across genres. Inspired by the work of...

INTRODUCING LIVES OF THE ARTISTS
News

ASP Europe President David Mailman Speaks on 2010 ASP Changes

CAPBRETON, France (Friday, November 13, 2009) – David Mailman, in his third year as President of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Europe, just got...

ASP Europe President David Mailman Speaks on 2010 ASP Changes
News

Yeomans wins Cold Water Classic California. Thornton US$50,000.

Santa Cruz, California, November 8, 2009 – Californian surfer Nathan Yeomans won the OʼNeill Cold Water Classic California on a perfect final day of competition...

Yeomans wins Cold Water Classic California. Thornton US$50,000.
News

Joan Duru Claims Maiden ASP European WQS Title after Final event in Lanzarote

SAN JUAN, Lanzarote (Friday, November 6, 2009) – Joan Duru (Ondres, FRA), 20, has won the 2009 ASP European WQS title at Lanzarote after closest...

Joan Duru Claims Maiden ASP European WQS Title after Final event in Lanzarote
News

Drew Courtney wins Santa Pro

LA SANTA LEFTHANDERS, Lanzarote (Saturday, November 7, 2009) – Drew Courtney (New South Wales, AUS), 31, has won the ASP WQS 6-Star Prime Islas Canarias...

Drew Courtney wins Santa Pro
News

Modern Collective US Premiere Schedule

If you’ve bailed Europe for winter and happen to be trippin’ through Cali or Hawaii at some point in the next 10 days or so...

Modern Collective US Premiere Schedule
News

RASTA’S ANTI-WHALING CAMPAIGN TO CULMINATE AT BONDI

Following an epic 700km ocean odyssey tracing the trail of migrating humpback whales from Byron Bay, the group of anti-whaling environmental campaigners led by Dave...

RASTA’S ANTI-WHALING CAMPAIGN TO CULMINATE AT BONDI
News

COMPETITION INTENSIFIES AT THE OʼNEILL COLD WATER CLASSIC CALIFORNIA

Santa Cruz, California, November 3, 2009 – The swell might have dropped slightly, but the competition definitely stepped up on this second day of the...

COMPETITION INTENSIFIES AT THE OʼNEILL COLD WATER CLASSIC CALIFORNIA
News

Neves Leads WQS Assault as Islas Canarias Santa Pro Kicks Off in Lanzarote

LA SANTA, Lanzarote (Tuesday, November 3, 2009) – After a couple of days off due to small surf and unfavorable winds, the ASP WQS 6-Star...

Neves Leads WQS Assault as Islas Canarias Santa Pro Kicks Off in Lanzarote
News

Santander's 4th Annual Surf Film Festival, 11th-15th November

The fourth edition of the Surf Film Festival of Santander, in Spain, will take place in the Los Angeles movie theater from the 11th to...

Santander's 4th Annual Surf Film Festival, 11th-15th November
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Maui's Hank Gaskell Wins 2009 Xcel Pro Presented by Honolua

The North Shore’s winter season has got underway with the 2009 Xcel Pro Presented By Honolua returning to Sunset Beach in challenging 15’+ waves. In...

Maui's Hank Gaskell Wins 2009 Xcel Pro Presented by Honolua
News

Dion Agius on the Slug in France

Dion’s latest video installment from the land of jambon and fromage is now up on the Globe website, documenting a late afternoon sunset fish session...

Dion Agius on the Slug in France
News

LOCAL WILDCARD PETER DEVRIES WINS INAUGURAL OʼNEILL COLD WATER CLASSIC CANADA

Local Canadian wildcard Peter Devries won the OʼNeill Cold Water Classic Canada in an energy fuelled final – both in the water and out –...

LOCAL WILDCARD PETER DEVRIES WINS INAUGURAL OʼNEILL COLD WATER CLASSIC CANADA
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