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Sally Fitzgibbons Confident Of Overcoming Injury Ahead Of Roxy Pro Presented By Land Rover.
Published January 24, 2012 | 
COOLANGATTA/QLD (24th January, 2012):
World No.2 Sally Fitzgibbons remains confident she will be fully fit by the start of the Roxy Pro presented by Land Rover at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast on 25th February despite carrying several injuries.
Fitzgibbons was on the Gold Coast this week hosting her own junior camp at the Surfing Australia High Performance Centre nursing a fractured wrist and strapping along her left leg.
The 21-year-old Australian from Gerroa in NSW fell awkwardly on the reef while surfing Cloudbreak in Fiji before Christmas, and knee and foot injuries were sustained during training.
“I guess leading into the new season I do look a little battered and bruised, it’s unfortunate but injuries are part of the game,” said Fitzgibbons, who finished third at last year’s Roxy Pro.
“There isn’t much time left but I’m very confident of recovering in the next week or so and I will have a good few weeks lead-up into the first event.
“I just fell on the reef surfing at Cloudbreak and fractured my wrist and the knee is basically sustained injuries form training. It was just through finding that balance of how hard to push it in the pre-season as you want to build that great base and unfortunately I tipped over the edge but I’m still learning.
“It was unfortunately just before Christmas when I fell on the reef so I’ve had a whole summer of sweating and training out of the water, but I suppose it is good to be relaxed and resting and then have a good few hard weeks to build back up.”
Fitzgibbons’ off-season wasn’t all about setbacks, however, taking the chance to experience several new activities including plunging to new depths.
“I learnt how to snowboard and Red Bull took us on a free diving course over in Hawaii,” she said. “It was a surf survival specific program that elite free divers formulated with big-wave riders.
“We had a go and it is amazing the things you can do when you learn about the physiology of holding your breath and been in those panic situations. To be able to hold your breath for about four minutes 40 seconds was amazing and going to the depths we did.”
After two runners-up finishes in the past two years, Fitzgibbons feels ready to break through for her maiden World Title, but is preparing for a massive challenge not only from the established front-runners but a bunch of determined rookies.
“I feel like I’m gaining more strength and becoming more comfortable on tour and hopefully it’s onwards and upwards as I have so much I want to improve on this year,” she said.
“Obviously Carissa (Moore) being the reigning World Champion and Steph (Gilmore) as four-time World Champion will always be there, but I think this year there’ll be a major push from the new rookies.
“I love starting the new year at the Roxy Pro at Snapper. It is one of those events that I’ve always wanted to win. There is something about the vibe… it has a great atmosphere with the people on the rock, it feels like a little amphitheatre and what better wave to start the year off than Snapper.”
Fitzgibbons is also happy to embrace the Association of Surfing Professional’s new Anti-Doping Policy, which will be activated for the first time this year.
“The new doping laws are great for surfing to be recognised alongside other mainstream sports,” she said. “I’ve been part of anti-doping programs from an early age of about 15 or 16 through athletics and other sports so anything to keep the sport clean and fair is a positive and to show the public that it’s a clean and healthy sport.”
Both the Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Pro events will be webcast live on QuiksilverPro.com.au, RoxyPro.com.au, Youtube, Facebook and the Quiksilver iPhone app as well as exclusively telecast on Fuel TV.
The 2012 Quiksilver and Roxy Pro presented by Land Rover is supported by Events Queensland, Corona, Telstra, Schick Hydro, Peters Drumstick, Red Bull, Olympus Cameras, Vegemite SurfGroms, Lipton Ice Tea, Sharpie, Surfing World magazine, Coastalwatch, Gold Coast Airport, Gold Coast City Council, Connecting Southern Gold Coast, World Safaris and Fuel TV.
Important Details:
2012 Quiksilver and Roxy Pro presented by Land Rover is scheduled for 25th February – 7th March and will be webcast live on quiksilverpro.com.au, roxypro.com.au, Youtube, Facebook and the Quiksilver iPhone app as well as exclusively telecast on Fuel TV
The Moskova Trials will be held on Friday, 24th February with the winner to join surfing’s elite in the main event
The waiting period for the contest starts on 25th February. A decision on whether or not to run the contest is made on the day after assessing the conditions. The same goes for each day in the waiting period. Surfing action normally gets underway by 8am
Get more info at quiksilverpro.com.au or roxypro.com.au
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Roxy Team Rider and Canadian freeskier Sarah Burke dies from injuries
Published January 20, 2012 | SALT LAKE CITY — Canadian freeskier Sarah Burke died Thursday, nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah.
Burke, who lived near Whistler in British Columbia, was 29. She was injured Jan. 10 while training at a personal sponsor event at the Park City Mountain resort.
Tests revealed Burke suffered “irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest,” according to a statement released by Burke’s publicist, Nicole Wool.
A six-time Winter X Games champion, Burke crashed on the same halfpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce suffered a traumatic brain injury during a training accident Dec. 31, 2009.
As a result of her fall, Burke’s vertebral artery was torn, which led to severe bleeding on the brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest. CPR was performed on the scene, according to the statement.
Burke’s organs and tissues were donated, as she had requested before the accident, Wool said.
“The family expresses their heartfelt gratitude for the international outpouring of support they have received from all the people Sarah touched,” the statement said.
Burke will be remembered for the legacy she left for women in superpipe skiing, a sister sport to the more popular snowboarding brand that has turned Shaun White, Hannah Teter and others into stars.
Aware of the big role the Olympics played in pushing the Whites of the world from the fringes into the mainstream, Burke lobbied to add superpipe skiing to the Winter Games program, noting that no new infrastructure would be needed.
Her arguments won over Olympic officials, and the discipline will debut at the Sochi Games in 2014, where she likely would have been the gold-medal favorite.
“Sarah, in many ways, defines the sport,” Canadian Freestyle CEO Peter Judge said before her death. “She’s been involved since the very, very early days as one of the first people to bring skis into the pipe. She’s also been very dedicated in trying to define her sport but not define herself by winning. For her, it’s been about making herself the best she can be rather than comparing herself to other people.”
She was, Judge said, as committed to the grass roots of the sport — holding clinics for youngsters and working with up-and-coming competitors — as performing at the top levels.
“She was a great, positive person for the whole team, the whole sport,” said David Mirota, the Canadian team’s high performance director. “She enlightens the room, and she’s great.”
Check out Rosy Hodge in the latest Roxy Ad in CLEO Magazine
Published November 25, 2011 | 
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Roxy Hemingways staff get behind Breast Cancer Month
Published October 17, 2011 | Roxy Hemingways staff get behind Breast Cancer Month by purchasing their “Check Yourself” T-shirts. Get to your nearest store to buy yours!
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ROXY says ‘Check Yourself’ and gets behind CANSA and Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Published October 12, 2011 | 
Leading all-girls surf brand ROXY have lent their support to Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October by launching the ‘Check Yourself’ T-shirt. As well as promoting the potentially lifesaving message of self-examination on the garments, ROXY will also be donating 90% of the proceeds of the T-shirt sales to CANSA (Cancer Association of South Africa).
The ‘Check Yourself’ T-shirt is set to hit the shelves in ROXY and Quiksilver Boardriders stores across the country on Friday 14th October, and will retail for R99.95. By sporting the ‘Check Yourself’ designs and messages, as well as having a swing tag attached to each T-shirt showing how to do self examinations and how to detect the early warning signs, ROXY hope to contribute towards Breast Cancer Awareness Month and CANSA’s messages of early detection as a means of prevention.
Tamara Pedlar (ROXY Marketing Manager) said that “with October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as an all-girls brand, ROXY decided to help in the fight to beat this disease. The messages on our T-shirts will contribute to CANSA’s early detection awareness campaign, whilst the majority of the profits from the sale of the T-shirts will go towards CANSA’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month fundraising initiative”.
“Contributions from partners such as Roxy ensure that we are able to continue the fight against cancer. Our message during Breast Cancer Awareness Month is that early detection saves lives – be proactive in the fight against cancer, invest in your health and ‘check yourself”, says Yachal de Kock, Corporate Relations Manager for CANSA.
Also contributing to the ROXY ‘Check Yourself’ campaign and supporting the CANSA initiative have been Toxic Ink, who sponsored the printing of the T-shirts; Aqualib, who sponsored the printing of the information swing tags; and Olivia Jones Communications, who sponsored the public relations services.
For more information about CANSA, call their toll-free call centre on 0800 22 66 22 or visit their website at www.cansa.org.za
Sarah in Sri Lanka 2011
Published October 11, 2011 | Checkout this video of one of our team riders in Sri Lanks.
You can see more about Sarah on our website aswell.
Sri Lanka 2011
Published September 16, 2011 | Hi Guys,
Well what a place! Sri Lanka is amaizing . Beautiful, raw and unspoilt. People were saying that it is a lot like Bali 20 years ago. I can say that it was definitely one of the better places to hold a 6 star WQS event. So the trip started with a routing through Mumbai and then a short hop to Columbia, Sri Lanka. As soon as you reach Colombo you know that you are in a different time zone altogether. The contest was taking place in Aurgam Bay on the East coast of the Island. This time there was a gang of us traveling to the contest together, Faye, Tarryn and her boyfriend Cameron and my Dad, and after a few missions in the airport – changing currency, getting sim cards and the like we all bailed into the van for the 327 Km ride to the opposite side of the island. I had heard that the road trip takes 8 or 9 hours and hell, thats no joke! 9 hours of kamikaze Tuk Tuk drivers, bicycles, dogs, goats, elephants, cows, mountain passes, broken bridges and some breathtaking scenery, we finally arrived in Arugam Bay. A typical fishing village with boats on the beach, straw bungalows, road side eateries, and tons of palm trees.
Arugam Bay was hit by the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2006 and the rubble and ruins of the houses devistated in the catastrophe were still very much a feature of the town. Many locals that we chatted to lost loved ones and homes and possessions, however they all greeted us with smiles and open arms.
Sri Lankan airlines were the main sponsors of the Women’s WQS event along with a mens WCT Longboarding event and boy did they put on a great event. We were treated to some traditional dancing at the opening ceremony which was fantastic. So for 6 days, Arugam Bay delivered some great waves only topped by the laid back island vibe about the place. The trade winds blow strong sideshore around 11am each day so the contest organizers set about early starts with the idea of having the day’s heats over by the time the trade winds were up. I reckon we had the best waves this year out of all of the WQS events. The break is a right hand point break which is a bit like New Pier and J-Bay Point combined depending on the direction of the surf. It was a great event for me finishing up =5th scooping another stash of valuable points, pushing me to =6th on the WQS ratings. With 2 events left on the calendar, I am still trying my best not too get too hung up about points and ratings and things and just focus on surfing one heat at a time.
After the event we had a few days to explore the rest of the breaks in and around Arugam Bay, and there are stacks of classy breaks to choose from. So each morning, we would jump into a Tuk Tuk and dart off north or south looking for waves, passing herds of water buffalo, wild peacocks, tons of birds and even herds of elephants! All of the surrounding breaks are right hand point breaks breaking on a sand/reef bottom. The water was like 28oC each day with the temperature hitting +30oC at 7am!
Aurgam Bay is surrounded by a nature park and herds of elephants roam about the place. One day we surfed until it got really dark and our Tuk Tuk driver was stressing to get home because he said that the elephants chase the Tuk Tuks. Gee, I think that the Tuk Tuk would come off second best to a giant elephant!
We all travelled to a 2500 year old Buddist temple which was great. There are tons of old temples in Sri Lanka and these are really cool. On the way back to the hotel our mad Tuk Tuk driver spotted s heard of elephants in a field drinking water and the next thing we knew there were half a dozen Tuk Tuks burning through the jungle on a safari checking out the elephants and monkeys.
A civil war raged in Sri Lanka for 28 years which ended 2 years ago, so what we saw was very underdeveloped and unchanged for the last 30 years or so. Arugam Bay has no chain hotels or car hire outlets but we were devastated to hear rumors that the beachfront had been bought up by Chinese investors and there were plans to build high rise hotels where the fishermen traded their catches each morning. I was stoked to at least experience a little of Sri Lankan beauty before it becomes yet another heaven for the global tourist.
Another 9 hour hell ride back to the airport, passing waterfalls, rubber tree plantations, tea farms, coca and coffee trees and some more scenery to blow you away, we stared the long trek back via Mumbai home. Stoked to have be a part of the Sri Lankan Airways Pro 2011.
with just enough time to unpack my boardbag, grab a clean set of clothes before repacking for Spain and the Azores next week.
See ja!
Sarah
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- Fun Waves everywhere!
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- Fun waves for the contest too!
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- Fun waves for the contest too!
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- Jungle Roads
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- Me and Faye in the Tuk Tuk
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- Me and Faye in the Tuk Tuk
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- road side attractions
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- Sarah
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- Tuk Tuk Safari!
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- with Faye and Philzie checking out the Buddhist ruins
Lisa Andersen Gives a ROXY History Lesson! (Video)
Published September 6, 2011 | 
“Daring, confident, naturally beautiful, fun, alive: Roxy”. Those words are what we – the ROXY girls – inspire us and embody the true Roxy girl. The history of Roxy is even more inspiring for us. Since the beginning of our brand in 1989, our roots have always been in surf. Today, Roxy is so much more. We celebrate fashion, art, music and active lifestyles. You now can get all things ROXY for beach, school, events, snow trips, working out and just about anywhere you need.
We honored this heritage and evolution in our very own Roxy History Wall at the ROXY Beach House in Long Beach, NY. Come see it while we are at the Quiksilver Pro, NY 2011. Who better to walk us through than ORIGINAL ROXY girl Lisa Andersen? And if she’s all smiles, it’s because she’s a New York girl, that’s just happy to visit her old stomping grounds.
Some fun facts you may learn in the video:
• Roxy made the logo by mirroring the Quiksilver logo and putting it on its side
• Roxy was the first boardshort brand for women
• Lisa Andersen was the first member of our surf team and was the world champion 4 years in a row starting in 1994