There’s a good video edit from all the heats leading to the finals of the Arica Challenge here on the IBA website. Worth watching, good waves and big moves. Hard conditions to surf.

The World tour is now heading to Europe with Sopelana, Sintra and Ferrol. Let’s hope that the waves are gonna be good.

So far the ratings on the tour after the Arica Challenge are:

1. Uri Valadao – 4695
2. Guilherme Tamega – 4150
3. Pierre Louis Costes – 4096
4. Ben Player – 3778

It seems that this year’s tour has a better media coverage and everyone’s more interested into following it (we’re talking both about riders and spectators) which is pretty cool.