Held in March each year in the warm waters of the wave rich Tweed Coast the Australian Longboard Surfing Open is a multi day celebration of longboard surfing and the surfing lifestyle, located in Kingscliff village on NSW's Tweed Coast.
The Australian Longboard Surfing Open honours the history of longboard surfing. International surfers compete against Australia's best in the blue ribbon World Surf League Longboard Qualifying Series men's & women's divisions.
There are also specialty surfing, amateur divisions, retro boards, indigenous activities, live music, surf vehicle display, a book signing, display of old boards and more.
Live coverage will be available at on their website here.
Bellow is a list of current reigning champions and their titles!
Kingscliff Local - Dean Bevan (AUS)
2 Times World Longboard Champion & ALSO Defending Champion - Harley Ingleby (AUS)
3 Times and Current World Longboard Champion & 4 Times ALSO Champion - Taylor Jensen (USA)
2016 World Longboard Champion - Rachael Tilley (USA)
Current World Champion - Honolua Bloomfield (HAW)
Defending ALSO Champion - Natsumi Taoka (JAPAN)
World #2 & 2016 ALSO Champion - Chloe Calmon (BRA)
