
Mick Fanning left nothing to chance in the finals of the Nova Schin Championships, blasting to a 9.50 and a 9.27 leaving his Floridian opponent both stupefied and comboed.

Hot Tuna team rider Toby Atkins is looking forward to this weekend and the final of the BPSA UK Tour, the Gul Newquay Open, to be held at Fistral Beach 11th-12th November.

James Lewis (Aus) took out the inaugural Rip Curl “Surf into Summer” at St Clair Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand over the weekend. Lewis the standout performer of the event, showed his class, unleashing his bag of tricks that saw him take victory in the final.

The 3rd annual Freerange Sports Optics (FSO) BPSA UK Surf Awards will take place this Sunday 12th November, after the Gul Newquay Open at the Esplanade Hotel in Newquay.

On the 11th November, surf veteran Steve Mckibben will be opening the brand new McKibben Studios - a gallery dedictaed to surf art.

ASP President Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew and Brazilian surfing legend Flavio Padaratz are pleased to announce that a three-year deal securing the highly anticipated return of the ASP World Masters’ Championship was recently signed in Imbituba, Brazil.

The final event of the BPSA UK Tour, the Gul Newquay Open will take place this weekend, 11–12th November at Fistral Beach, Newquay and will decide this years overall BPSA UK Tour Champions.

The Billabong Girls Spring Classic as part of the Queensland Surf Series took place this weekend at Duranbah Beach, Australia, with local girl Rebecca Oakley taking away the coveted title.

One coveted invitation, an indicator of one's status in the elite club of big-wave riders, sends surfers all over the world charging toward their mailboxes to see where they stand. The 2006/2007 invitees for The Quiksilver, Big Wave Invitational in Memory of Eddie Aikau, have been officially announced. Scheduled to take place at the hallowed grounds of Waimea Bay, on the North Shore of Oahu, between December 1 and February 28. The Quiksilver, a one-day event, requires a minimum of 20-foot surf.

The Kustom-Jetty Surf Surf Pro Junior, presented by Von Zipper and Nixon, will be held at Victoria's Bells Beach from January 8 -14th to kick off the 2007 ASP Australasia Pro Junior Series. The event prize pool of $30,000 makes it the richest event on the pro junior surfing calendar outside of the annual Billabong World Junior Championships.

APT Vice President and Event Sanctioning Director, Rodney Kilborn is officially announcing the 2006/2007 APT World Tour Tow-In Surfing Circuit. The Association of Professional Towsurfers (APT), is dedicated to sanctioning and promoting world class competitions, dissemination of safety, training and technical information to athletes, providing technical direction to event organizers, and educating, certifying and licensing our athletes, while keeping our waters safe.

FCS fin systems have been working in collaboration with the world’s most established surfers and shapers (Stretch Riddle, Tom Carroll and Simon Anderson) to refine and produce an incredibly diverse and dynamic quad/quattro fin system. Offering the most comprehensive range of fins on the market, FCS works with shapers to create fin combinations that complement their new boards.

O’Neill offer their sincere apologies once again, as this weekend's O'Neill British National Surfing Championships, has been postponed until 18th & 19th November 2006 due to an expected lack of waves.

O’Neill Europe is very proud to announce the signing of European surf prodigy Caroline Sarran. As one of the brightest talents of her generation, Caroline joins the O’Neill’s women’s surf team on a multi-year sponsorship deal.

'In A Box Over An Ocean': The Art Of Russ Pope will be showing throughout November at the Beautiful new Flatspot store in Plymouth, as part of an ongoing project featuring Creativity by RVCA and the ANP.