Mick Fanning has won the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach besting Adriano de Souza in the closest Final in Championship Tour history.

Autumn is really kicking into gear around Australia with both the east and west coasts due to be hit by large swells over the coming week.

Cyrus Sutton and Kepa Acero score perfectly-shaped Chicama on the first south swell of the season. The waves aren't big but the sandbars were good and the waves looooong.

After watching the world's best surfers struggle in small, low tide waves at Bells blindboy was moved to consider the neglected issue of surfing style.

Ripped off logos, swapping boards for pizza, and a Brewer that should never have been bought. Welcome to the March Board Bazaar.

Overnight the WSL issued a press release announcing the dates for a revamped Big Wave Tour with two new contests added to the schedule.

It breaks twenty metres off the sand and a 'long' wave is one that lasts more than two seconds. Still, who wouldn't want to surf the Wedge?

It was a day of shock upsets at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach as the men's and women's Quarterfinalists were decided in challenging conditions.