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Breaking news: Andy Irons passes away

Very sad news today, 3X World Champion Andy Irons has passed away.

Sources Within the family say that he passed away from Dengue fever on the flight from Puerto Rico to his home in Hawaii. But this remains unconfirmed.

our sincere condolences go out to the Irons family and friends in this sad time.

Well the Kustom Airshow is back on everyone's lips once again this year, and in the minds of every pro surfer. Surfers can win $50,000 cash with the biggest most innovative aerial thanks to Kustom footwear.. Here is a clip of the best entries so far. Enjoy

Well it turns out that the swell of the century in QLD was once again a talked up hoax, with some swell forecasting sites calling 20 feet at 14 seconds, it had half of Queensland dusting the cobwebs of the rhino chasers and waxing up for the sessions of a lifetime.

Im no Weather forecaster by any means but i do check the swell maps for Sunshine Coast/Gold Coast area about once a week to see whats going to happen with the waves.. This week i knew there was going to be quite a large swell due to the cyclone Ului off the Great Barrier Reef, but i definitely didn't expect to see it as big as its showing.. Its probably the biggest swell i've ever seen for this area on the maps, so i cant wait to see if it delivers.

Well done Taj Burrow taking out the Breaka Burleigh Pro on sunday in shoulder height, fun rights on Sunday arvy at the famed point, I'm sure the beer flowed and the cas got a going over Sunday night!

TWS's own Leigh Sedley was in the contest, as well as most of the crew, Micheal Spencer, Luke Cheadle, Mitch Coleborn, the usual suspects, and the only good thing to come of the boys not doing well, was the fact that the stars aligned for a heap of fun Saturday night, A big part of why i wasn't at the final Sunday and opted to watch it from the comfort of Baz's Air con unit in Cooly!

With all the amazing breaks Queensland has to offer, why has it taken so long to have more than one pro event on home turf? Well not anymore.. Starting next week Breaka Milk will host a 4 star World Qualifying Series event (WQS) event at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast, and with US$85,000 Up for grabs, the event has attracted some of the biggest names in surfing, including current world champ Mick Fanning and previous world champs Andy Irons and Occy.

Well the thats the rumer floating around the surfing world today. Personally i hope its not true. I have surfed in a hell of alot of events and it has always seemed Perry was the best man for the job. Here is Phil Macca's thoughts on the situation.

The Insider’s Perspective – Phil Macca
Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Ahhh how good it feels to be an Aussie! Im in California right now and im sitting here listening to the triple j hottest 100 drinking tooheys new that i found in some creepy bottlo over here and im eating a few snags in bread.. I miss hanging with the boys on a day like this but im still gonna make the most of it, and jsut be proud that i belong to the best country in the world!! So on behalf of TWS, go mad today because its really worth celebrating what we have!!
Aussie aussie aussie!

Joel Parkinson has lost his round three heat to local wildcard Gavin Gillette in epic 6-10 foot conditions at the acclaimed Banzaii Pipeline, leaving Mick Fanning to take his second world title. With Joel Parkinson and Mick Fanning being the only two people that could win the title, Joel had to finish higher than Fanning to have any chance of any taking it out.. For winning the ASP World Title, Fanning has also received an extra $50,000 for winning the Vans world title bonus package.

Steph Gilmore has taken the first of the World titles for the Australians this year yesterday at Sunset beach. This is Stephs 3rd world title and was totally shocked when the announcement was made that she had won after her semi final in the Gidget pro at sunset beach. The event was eventually won by Hawaiian Carissa Moore taking out Sally Fitzgibben, Steph and Alana Blanchard in that order. I got to witness the event first hand being in hawaii, and not normally being a fan of womans surfing, i was shocked to see how amazing all the girls were surfing.

In solid 6-8 foot conditions Joel Centeio has hacked and tube riden his way to victory in the Reef Hawaiian Pro taking out last years winner of the Sunset World cup CJ Hobgood, Jay "Bottle" Thompson and Alain Riou. Joel Dominated the great but challenging conditions throughout the whole event and kept the momentum going through the entire final posting a 9.5 ride with a stand up barrel across Haleiwa's infamous Toilet bowl. Joel now leads the Vans Triple Crown standings leading into the next event at sunset beach

here are the Dates for the premiers of Modern Collective! get amongst it!!

check out emerys latest creation for Absolut Vodka, its the perfect Marketing tool for them this summer in the pubs and clubs..

Adriano DeSouza took out Chris "Davo" Davidson to claim his maiden WCT victory in Mundaka Spain, Leaving him in 4th place overall on the ratings with two events remaining.. Held in pretty average conditions the final consisted of 24 heats in a marathon day of competition, after the event was held off for seven days straight due to lack of quality waves. It's normally the case though for the Mundaka Event. This was also Davo's first appearance in a final of a WCT and has boosted him into 20th position, well inside the qualification cutoff for 2010

Here we are, after months of preparation our new website is finally up and running, it was a mad scramble to, with word that we were getting a little mention in the Sunny Coast surf mag, we were stretched to the limit to get things live, so with the deadline Sunday night, we made a mad dash all day Sunday, to get everything to a level at which we could flick the switch, so to speak!