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In all of professional sports, I doubt there are many athletes who travel more for their job than professional surfers. In fact, I doubt there are many people involved in any profession who travel more than professional surfers do on an annual basis.
Unless you are, oh, I don't know, an exploratory oil engineer, a FedEx airline pilot, or some sort of covert operative, there's a real good chance that the world's top wave chargers are circling the globe far more rapidly than you are.
So just what does the schedule of a professional surfer look like?
To begin with, the 36 surfers on the ASP World Tour compete in 11 different events that take them across Australia, Brazil, South Africa, France, Portugal, Tahiti, California, and Hawaii over the course of the year. During the 4-6 weeks between events, many of these surfers are jetting across the globe chasing swells and doing promo shoots in countries that include the expected (Indonesia, Fiji, Costa Rica), the remote (Namibia, Madagascar, Iceland), and the downright dangerous (I've seen articles on surf in Libya, and it actually looks really good).
Considering the constant demands of chasing swells that can pop up in any corner of the world, many pro surfers spend little more than a month or two at "home" in any given year.
To dig deeper into the traveling life of a professional surfer I recently caught up with a team that's been traveling with pro surfer Ian Walsh of Maui, Hawaii.Continue reading Do you travel more than a pro surfer?Do you travel more than a pro surfer? originally appeared on Gadling on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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