Julian Schweizer qualified for the 2026 Longboard CT

He returns to the tour after eight years; "I'm happy and motivated, especially to face this challenge a little more mature," he said.


Lía Díaz is the new North American champion and has made it into the CT

He became the first Costa Rican, male or female, to enter the CT longboarding competition.


Dorian Torres and a wave well taken advantage of at home

Hang five to ten, cutbacks and close


Rogelio Esquivel and Sophia Culhane won the Mexi Log Fest 2026

It was the Filipino's second consecutive victory in the prestigious event


Skinner, Ebueza, Hoover and Taoka made it into the 2026 CT longboard

Melendres was eliminated in the semis and Schweizer in the quarters


Lukas Skinner, standout in the junior category and also in longboarding

After a good performance at the junior world championships, the junior stayed for longboarding and started by winning his heat.


It's all or nothing in the Philippines qualifier

Representatives from Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, and Uruguay will compete for the four spots that qualify for the CT of the discipline (and there are more than 110 registered participants)


Prior to the Salvadoran week, Lía Díaz had won her first LQS

In her second appearance at a WSL event, the Costa Rican climbed to the top of the podium and the ranking; Gordo Melendres finished fifth.


Pignataro couldn't handle Stewart and said goodbye to Bells early.

The Uruguayan is putting all his chips on the reclassification in the Abu Dhabi stage, which will take place between October 24 and 26.


Delilah and Tamil won the longboard and SUP competitions at ALAS in Costa Rica.

The longboard and under-14 women's finals were decided; here's a summary of the day's events.


Pignataro appears as the first alternate for the 2025 Longboard CT

And he's the only Spanish speaker on the list; Brazilian Chloe Calmón was given a wildcard; other WSL South America representatives are Luana Soares and Jefson Silva.


Alfonso Suárez won the Galician JQS

Dylan Donegan and Carla Morera de la Vall placed second; Julieta Rodríguez Villamil was third on longboard.


Longboarding will not be part of Los Angeles 2028

The IOC turned down the ISA's request on that and also on the request to increase the number of shortboarder spots.


These are the series of the Uruguay Natural Longboard Festival

Registrations closed with 43 longboarders from eight countries


The Uruguay Longboard Festival was officially presented at a press conference

With very good waves forecast, everything indicates that the event will begin tomorrow, Wednesday, February 19, in Bikini


ISA World Longboard Championships changed date

For Easter it will be from April 25 to May 1; originally it had been scheduled to happen between April 18 and 24


ISA has requested 16 places for longboarders in Los Angeles 2028

32 in total between men and women; they hope in the first instance that they approve the division and in the second that it is that amount; in the best possible scenario there would be 104 surfers in said games


The funny exchange between Joel Tudor and Shane Dorian

“You’re crazy, JT,” Dorian told him, and Tudor replied, “You don’t even have a longboard… Telling me what kind of wave we need is like me telling you when Mavericks is good.”


These are the CT Longboard series in Abu Dhabi

And what is presumed is the format of the new tournament with Kelly Slater technology


Notes on "the youngest surfer in history to win the WSL professional tour"

And, about her being "the first Californian in 40 years"... In short: pertinent clarifications after Simmers' title; Joel Tudor's complaint about Margo Oberg and let no one forget Rachael Tilly


Jensen won two out of two and guaranteed himself a place in the Salvadoran finals

Rachael Tilly won in HB and moved up to second; Mafer placed ninth, Nacho and Alex 17th


The second of the longboard CT starts tomorrow and these are the series

This is how Nacho, Mafer and Alexandre go


Nacho, Mafer and Alexandre said goodbye early to Bells

They are already traveling to Huntington Beach where stage 2 will be held between August 3 and 6.


These are the CT longboard series in Bells

This is how round 1 of stage 1 of the first A of world longboarding begins this Thursday


The WSL released the official list of competitors for the 2024 longboard CT

These will be the 44 who will compete in the three stages plus the grand final that this year will take place in El Sunzal, El Salvador.


Maturano goes with Argentina to the Pan American and World Cup

"It's time to live my dream and represent the country that selected me. I hope everyone can understand, respect and support my decision," the longboarder wrote on social media.


Robert "Wingnut" Weaver: “I couldn't believe it was Bruce Brown who was calling me”

Interview with the legendary longboarder about everything that went into the making of one of the most important surfing movies in history: The Endless Summer II


Stages of the WSL longboard tour confirmed in Lobitos and Huanchaco

There will be four stages to decide which men and women will qualify for the World Longboard Championship


The longboard tour seems a bit messy.

The manager herself left her position at the WSL to take one of the five wildcards available globally


Kirra Seale left her position as head of the Longboard tour and took on a wildcard competitor

Will Hayden-Smith is now the new boss of all things long table in the league


The defending champions from France thus travel to the ISA World Cup

It will be the team to beat on the waves of El Sunzal; only one member changed and it is known that there will not be a consecutive world champion in the men's category.


WSL cannot guarantee that longboarding will go into the water in the first days of the Saquarema Surf Festival

“If conditions allow, they can go into the water in the first few days, but it is not guaranteed,” Roberto Perdigao told DUKE.


The WSL longboard world title will be decided in El Salvador

The best eight men and women of the season will crown the champions between October 9 and 13 in El Sunzal in a one-day event


Nacho Pignataro: “The main driving force is to share the love of surfing with others”

The person responsible for the return of WSL surfing competitions to Uruguay after 25 years, in an interview


Uruguayan stage of WSL longboard tour confirmed

After almost 25 years, the professional world circuit returns to Uruguay


Third WSL event in Wavegarden pool to be held in South Korea

Between November 17 and 19 this year, there will be QS 3000 and LQS 1000


What the world's best think about the new longboard tour format

Taylor Jensen, Kaniela Stewart, Kai Sallas, Soleil Errico, Ben Skinner and Chloe Calmon respond


Joel Tudor criticises those who use leashes at the US Open: “They are embarrassing us”

“Stop. In the name of humanity,” the best longboarder in history wrote in his post


WSL lifts Joel Tudor's suspension

He announced that he will be competing in a longboard tour event this weekend


Australian surfing club warned for not paying equally

The winner made $718 and the female $505; Surfing Australia gave them "a first and last warning" for not following the rules


Piccolo Clemente was crowned South American longboard champion for the fifth time

Matias Maturano and Kalea Gervasi won in Saquarema


Members of the Chilean longboard team were injured during training

Rafael Cortez and José Manuel Boza were shot with a pellet gun by another surfer in Punta de Lobos; the injuries "were minor" according to an official statement from the country's federation


Julián Schweizer: “I can’t guarantee a result, what I can guarantee is that I will give my 200%”

Interview with the Uruguayan longboarder who is preparing for the World Cup and Pan American Games on the perfect right of El Sunzal; “I always liked El Salvador, but now I want it to be perfect for me,” he says


Displacing silence, with Lola Mignot

The new video of the talented Mexican and French longboarder


Harrison Roach and Soleil Errico are the new world longboard champions

After two days of smooth and perfect Malibu breaking, the 2022 circuit concluded with an Australian and an American at the top


It is confirmed that there will be an ISA longboard world championship in 2023

It will be a qualifier for Santiago 2023; ISA authorities also assured that there will be no 2022 edition of the event


WSL longboard manager Devon Howard has resigned from his position

He did not give reasons for his resignation.


Uruguay and Mexico are present at the Duct Tape in Sayulita

Pignataro, Sinclair, Meledrez, Barraza, Mignot, Florez, Nuñez and Ventura invited by Joel Tudor to a new edition of the tournament


Mafer Reyes guaranteed in the elite of world longboarding 2022

Lucas Garrido Lecca has been confirmed for stage 1 and is awaiting confirmation for the rest of the tour


WSL announces 2022 longboard tour

Three stages, in Manly, Huntington and Malibu, will determine the world champions; 20 men and 20 women will compete per event; Garrido-Lecca may be guaranteed


After 2028, the ISA plans to request the inclusion of longboard and SUP racing in the Olympic Games

ISA President Fernando Aguerre announced this at the closing ceremony of the South American Youth Championships; he said he hopes that the Paralympics will open the door to surfing.


Joel Tudor on WSL: “You can do better than this!”

The entity said that the post of the three-time world champion was “inappropriate and misleading”, the longboarder responded


Joel Tudor calls on WSL to pay female longboarders better

And share strong evidence for it to happen


Mafer Reyes won the South American longboard vice-championship

Piccolo Clemente finished third in the event and William Saldaña fifth


"Surfing Sucks" with Iker Treviño

A summer of longboarding at home, Iggy Pop and a creative edit, on video


Julian Schweizer repeats victory in California

It is the second of the year for the Uruguayan on the circuit of the western United States surf association.


10 classic longboarding photos in Malibu

Two days of the best of the discipline in one of the most classic waves in the world, by photographers Thomas Lodin and Mike Ito


Joel Tudor and Honolua Blomfield became three-time world champions

23 years after winning his first, the 45-year-old Californian secured himself another crown; the Hawaiian kept up the pace at Surf Ranch and won her third title in four seasons


ALAS added two longboard stages to its calendar

Both in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Ceará in November and December respectively


Garrido Lecca placed fifth in Lemoore

In the elite of the elite of world longboarding, the young Peruvian achieved an outstanding result


Lucas Garrido Lecca will compete in the return of the world longboard tour

The Peruvian appears on the list of the top 18 who will be at the Surf Ranch and in Malibu


Australian longboarder put gender inequality in awards back on the table

And in one week the payment for that event and all the championships held under the supervision of Surfing Australia changed.


MexiLog Fest confirmed for June 2021

The prestigious world classic longboarding event will take place between the 4th and the 13th of that month in Punta Burros, Nayarit


Decades of protests and good surfing in Rincón and Aguadilla

Three minutes showing surfing at two of the most surfable spots in Puerto Rico


Noosa becomes the world's tenth surfing reserve

She became Australia's third


Peruvian Lucas Garrido Lecca made the podium in Taiwan

After beating a heavy field of longboarders, he placed third and finished the year in ninth position in the world rankings.


Clemente, Schweizer and Reyes are Latin America in the Relik de Trestles

The new longboard tour stage launches tomorrow and the Uruguayan debuts as a guest. "It's an honor to be part of it," he says.


Winds of change in the world longboard circuit generate discontent among "high performers"

Joel Tudor's return to competition marks a turning point for an international circuit that is not exempt from controversy regarding what should be awarded more points, the classic or the modern.


Reyes, Torres and Clemente were among the best in Biarritz

Peru shares first place in the team partial, with all its athletes alive, tied with eight other nations


10 moments from the opening ceremony of the world longboard championship

More than 100 longboarders from 32 countries paraded through the picturesque streets of Biarritz


Firewire has bought the longboard brand Carve Sports

Kelly Slater's company invested in the 9-footers and gained the company of respected CJ Nelson, Harley Ingleby and Ben Skinner among others.


World longboard tour with new format will have an important stage in Galicia

There will now be four dates that will determine the world champion. To carry it out, the WSL brought in Surf Relik boss Devon Howard


The ISA World Longboard Championships will be held in France in May

The waves of Biarritz were chosen for the test


Summer Swells in Florida

With Justin Quintal and some other classic loggers


Jensen, Marshall and Steinreide won the Malibu Relik

Peruvians Reyes and Clemente did not make it past the second round


Piccolo Clemente and Maria Fernanda Reyes prepare for the Surf Relik

Peruvians will compete in the modern division of one of the most prestigious longboard tournaments in the world


Five tips for performing a Hang Five by Julián Schweizer

Pan American bronze medal explains one of the quintessential longboarding maneuvers