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1976 – 1982

Hawaiian surfers Randy Rarick and Fred Hemmings organize a collection of disparate unaffiliated pro surfing events around the world into the first world championship tour by developing an international ranking system and encouraging the world's best surfers to get involved. Their organization, International Professional Surfers (IPS) becomes the original world governing body of professional surfing. Champions included Peter “PT” Townend (AUS), Shaun Tomson (ZAF), Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew (AUS), Mark “MR” Richards (AUS), Margo Oberg (USA), Lynn Boyer (HAW) and Debbie Beacham (USA).

1983 – 2014

Former World No. 2 surfer Ian "Kanga" Cairns evolves the original IPS concept into the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP), providing a joint ownership and control of the sport for both the event organizers and the surfers on tour. In the mid-1990s, the ASP's focus shifted to the "Dream Tour" concept, encouraging event organizers to transition their venues from well-populated, metropolitan areas to remote locations with high-quality surf. The Dream Tour birthed the company philosophy of, “world's best surfers, world's best waves,” which remains the organization's guiding principle to this day. Notable champions include Tom Carroll (AUS), Tom Curren (USA), Kelly Slater (USA), Andy Irons (HAW), Mick Fanning (AUS) and Gabriel Medina (BRA) as well as Wendy Botha (ZAF), Frieda Zamba (USA), Lisa Andersen (USA), Layne Beachley (AUS), Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) and Carissa Moore (HAW). In addition, this era opened its doors to both embrace the future and acknowledge the past in the creation of the junior and masters tours.

2015 – Present

The World Surf League (WSL) steps in to help evolve the ASP into a more potent centralized body, overseeing the key product areas of the elite men's and women's World Championship Tours, the Qualifying Series (QS), the Big Wave Tour, the Big Wave Awards, the World Longboard Championships and the World Junior Championships. In addition to its headquarters in Santa Monica, California, the WSL has a commercial office in New York City and regional offices in Japan, Australia, France, South Africa, Brazil, Hawaii and Southern California.

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The World Surfing Champion is a title awarded annually to the best competition surfer for the year, today based on points earned for placings at events on the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) ASP World Tour . A qualification system decides who can compete on the tour, for a total of 44 men (the top 44 as they're called) and 16 women.

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History [ ]

The earliest world titles were amateur events decided by a single event, open to all comers, and were held only intermittently. The first was at [[Manly, New South Wales Manly in Sydney in 1964. The second was held in Lima, Peru in 1965.

From 1973 to 1975, there was no amateur championship held. The International Surfing Federation had been unable to establish a format or sponsorship and concurrent with this the new professional era was dawning.

1968 World Champion Fred Hemmings, retired from competition and began his career as an event promoter and ran the Smirnoff Rip Curl World Pro/Am that became the defacto professional World Championship from 1970 through 1975. The winners were; 1970: Nat Young (Australia), 1971: Gavin Rudolph (South Africa), 1972: Paul Neilsen (Australia), 1973: Ian Cairns (Australia), 1974: Reno Abellira (Hawaii) and 1975: Mark Richards (Australia).

In 1976 the International Professional Surfing (IPS) organisation was formed by the 1968 champion, turned promoter, Fred Hemmings . It put together an annual tour of 12 events around the world with a points system for event placings to decide a ratings winner at the end. This is the format used today by the ASP.

Peter Townend and Ian Cairns devised the points scoring system, shamelessly (as PT put it) appropriating the way Formula One motor racing did it. Townend also ended up the winner that first year (1976) with Cairns finishing in second.

In early years the title brought honour but only modest financial rewards in extra sponsorship etc, and not all professional surfers had it as their goal. In 1979 for instance when Mark Richards won he hadn't even attended all the events, reckoning it better to concentrate on his board shaping business than travel for the South African leg.

In 1982, following a less than positive experience with the IPS at the new Op Pro, Ian Cairns formed the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) which crowned its first champion, Tom Carroll , in 1983. The ASP continues as the worldwide sanctioning body for professional surfing.

In 1999, Mark Occhilupo 's win was a remarkable comeback. He'd been on the tour about 10 years earlier but had abandoned it, then returned stronger than ever.

In 2001 the ASP cut the tour short after the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11 , on surfers' fears for their safety at competitions. The ratings leader C. J. Hobgood was declared the championship winner.

Records [ ]

As with almost every any sport there's an element of fortune needed in surfing competitions. The competition format, types of waves and human judging all have an effect, which leaves plenty of room for speculation about excellent surfers who never won a title, or could have won more.

Mark Richards ' record of 4 titles above and below 1979 to 1983 stood until 1997 when Kelly Slater took his 5th. It was joked that it'd taken so long Richards was scarcely remembered by young fans and was known to them only as "that guy whose record Kelly beat". Slater's 7th win in 2005 made him both the youngest and oldest champion.

Frieda Zamba , Wendy Botha and Lisa Anderson all took 4 women's titles. Anderson was followed by dominance and 6 titles by Layne Beachley .

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Champions [ ], most world championships [ ], longboard world tour [ ], women's world tour [ ], see also [ ].

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References [ ]

• Surfa.com.au
• Mark Richards: A Surfing Legend , authorised biography by David Knox, 1992, ISBN 0-207-17489-X .
• Sean Doherty , MP: The Life of Michael Peterson , Harper Collins, 2004, ISBN 0-7322-7609-8 .
• http://www.aspworldtour.com/2007/stats_champions.asp?rView=w
• http://www.isasurf.org/ev_d_wc.php

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Surfing Championships & Competition

Surfing competitions have a big hand in both the progression and popularization of the sport. Here’s a look at the history of the modern surf competition and some of the past surfing champs, as well as the future of surf competition with its debut in the Olympics in 2020.

History of Modern Surf Competition

Surf competition took a little while to find its groove – changing hands between organizations in the early years beginning in 1964.

• 1964 to 1972 : The International Surfing Federation (ISF), which later became the International Surfing Association (ISA) held the World Surfing Championships, which consisted of single events each year.
• 1973 to 1975 : The Smirnoff Word Pro-Am Surfing Championships took over for crowning the world surfing champs at another single event competition format.
• 1976 to 1982 : The International Professional Surfers (IPS) established the first world tour format to determine the world champion. It held man-to-man heat events in Hawaii, Australia, South Africa, and California.
• 1983 to 2014 : The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) broke off from the IPS to establish and refine what has become known as the world tour today – elite surfers competing in some of the best waves around the world. The ASP World Tour really helped bring surfing to the mainstream.
• 2015 to Present : The ASP was bought in 2013 and renamed in 2015 to the World Surf League (WSL).

How Do WSL Surfing Competitions Work?

The WSL has 2 tiers of ranking systems for its surf competitions – the Qualifying Series (QS) and the Championship Tour (CT).

Results from the QS are used to qualify surfers into the Championship Tour in the following year.

The WSL Championship Tour events work by taking the top 34 ranked men and top 17 ranked women and having them compete in different locations throughout the year (11 events for men, 10 for women).

Since 2019 events follow a 3-surfer and head-to-head heat format. With winners of first round heats advancing directly to Round 3.

Surfers are scored on the total of their 2 best waves (formerly 3) of their heat.

How is Surfing Scored?

Waves are scored on a 0-10 scale by a panel of 5 judges. The highest and lowest judge scores are thrown out and the remaining 3 scores are averaged to give the final score for a wave.

Waves are judged on:

• Level of difficulty.
• Progression.
• Combination and variety of maneuvers.
• Speed, power, and flow.

The judging criteria is as follows:

• 0.0 — 1.9: Poor
• 2.0 — 3.9: Fair
• 4.0 — 5.9: Average
• 6.0 — 7.9: Good
• 8.0 — 10.0: Excellent

ISA surfing competitions follow a similar format as WSL competition.

Surfing in the Olympics

The ISA was officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1997.

During the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics, the IOC announced surfing would be included as an Olympic sport.

The 2020 Olympics will include 40 total surfers, a maximum of 2 men and 2 women from each National Olympic Committee.

The hierarchy of qualifications for national teams are as follows:

• First 10 men and first 8 women from the 2019 WSL Championship Tour.
• First 3 men and first 6 women from the 2020 ISA World Surfing Games.
• First 4 men and first 4 women from the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games.
• First man and first women from the 2019 Pan American Games.
• At least one slot for a man and women from the host nation is guaranteed.

The 2020 Olympic surfing event will be held at Shidashita Beach, located about 40 miles outside of Tokyo. The even will have a 16-day waiting period.

The event will take a 4-surfer heat format, with the top two surfers from each round advancing with the total of their top two waves. Scoring criteria will follow a similar format to that of WSL and ISA competitions.

Surfing Competitions

WSL Surfing Competitions include:

• WSL Championship Tour (CT)
• WSL Qualifying Series (QS)
• WSL Longboarding Championships
• WSL Junior Championships
• WSL Big Wave Tour

ISA Surfing Competitions include:

• ISA World Surfing Games
• ISA World Junior Surfing Championships
• ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championships
• ISA World Adaptive Surfing Championships
• ISA World Longboard Championships
• ISA World Bodyboard Championships
• ISA World Masters Surfing Championship
• ISA World Kneeboard Championship

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