For the second year running, Turtle Bay on the North Shore of Oahu played host to the biggest night in surfing, the 41st annual SURFER Poll Awards. The Top 10 men and Top 5 women--as voted by fans-- were honored.

Kelly Slater took home his 17th SURFER Poll No. 1 in a year he won an unprecedented 11th world title. "The first one I won was in 1992," says Kelly Slater. "I remember the cover shot was me, and it said Curren, Carroll, Potts' names too. That was pretty mind-blowing at the time to win against those guys. Now I'm still inspired by the crew of guys coming up right now--Dane, Julian, Medina, John John."



Dane Reynolds, the man in which Slater urged fans to vote as No.1 came a close second, followed by current world number two Owen Wright. The fans let the surfing world know they have not forgotten fallen surfer Andy Irons, as they voted him the No. 9 surfer along with his brother Bruce 10. Watch the emotional acceptance speach by the Irons family.

Recently crowned ASP World Champ Carissa Moore ousted two-time SURFER Poll No. 1 Stephanie Gilmore to take the top slot continuing her magical year.

"I'm still grasping the situation," said a visibly shocked Carissa Moore, "but it's amazing to win this award. It's a great night in surfing and I'm so thankful for all my fans for voting for me."

After an amazing year that included two Pipeline event wins, World Tour qualification, and most recently, a win at the Vans World Cup at Sunset, Oahu's John John Florence was granted the prestigious Andy Irons Breakthrough Performer Award.

In the highly contested Movie of the Year category is was Globe's film Year Zero directed by Joe Guglielmino taking home the award. The Best Documentary award was won by Splinters directed by Adam Pesce and the Best Cinematography award went to Keith Malloy's Come Hell or High Water.

Everyone's favorite category Worst Wipeout was awarded to Rodrigo Koxa for his gnarly wipeout during Teahupoo's massive swell.

Here's the complete 2011 SURFER Poll Results

Top 10 Men
1. Kelly Slater
2. Dane Reynolds
3. Owen Wright
4. Julian Wilson
5. Taj Burrow
6. Mick Fanning
7. Joel Parkinson
8. Jordy Smith
9. Andy Irons
10. Bruce Irons

Top 5 Women
1. Carissa Moore
2. Coco Ho
3. Stephanie Gilmore
4. Alana Blanchard
5. Sally Fitzgibbons

Andy Irons Breakthrough Performer
John John Florence

Movie of the Year
Year Zero

Best Documentary
Splinters

Best Cinematography
Come Hell or High Water

Best Performance
Josh Kerr, for Kerrazy Kronicles

Heavy Water
Nathan Fletcher, for Teahupoo Uncut, Get-N-Classic, Rumors

Best Barrel
Alex Gray, for Teahupoo Uncut

Worst Wipeout
Rodrigo Koxa, for Teahupoo Uncut

Best Digital Short
Lost Interest

Another full day of competitive surfboarding is in the books today at Sunset Beach. The big wild surf of yesterday gave way to cleaned up yet still large peaks limping from the point through the bowl. With N and NW swells overlapping on the North Shore right now, Sunset was just as confusing as yesterday, albeit a bit less dangerous.

Scores were hard to come by today, as most surfers struggled to amass a double digit heat total in the crossed up conditions. Adrian Troyen won heat 12 with a 9.57 two wave total.

With that in mind, it was hard to say much about standout performances, as the waves didn't allow much more than big-wave groveling.

Carissa Moore lost again. In another wave starved heat. But this time she got a couple impressive turns in and was actually pretty close to making the heat. She still beat poor Alain Riou, who probably had dreadful nightmares last night of this exact moment.

The heat's winner was Triple Crown Baron Sunny Garcia. Uncle Sunny threw a couple patented hammer hacks and that was pretty much that. Mitch Coleborn came within a hair of feeling Uncle Sunny's wrath in a paddle battle to take what would end up being Sunny's winning wave, but luckily for Mitch he let the Hawaiian have it and no voices were raised.

While Ms. Moore didn't advance, she did what she hadn't in Haleiwa last week. She kept busy, she got scores, she surfed a decent heat. And she beat Alain Riou.

Round of 96 - Day 2 Vans World Cup of Surfing Heat 1: Vincent Duvignac (FRA) 12.53pts ; Junior Faria (BRA) 10.33pts ; Romain Cloitre (AUS) 5.27pts ; Perth Standlick (FRA) 3.70pts

Heat 2 : Evan Valiere (HAW) 13.34pts ; Heath Joske (AUS) 13.13pts ; Marcus Hickman (HAW) 11.34 ; Cory Lopez (USA) 8.77pts

Heat 3 : Brent Dorrington (AUS) 13.17pts ; Jesse Mendes (BRA) 9.60pts ; Billy Kemper (HAW) 7.37pts ; Nathan Florence (HAW) 5.67pts

Heat 4 : Wiggolly Dantas (BRA) 12.84pts ; Jamie O'Brien (HAW) 9.73pts ; Leonardo Neves (BRA) 9.00pts ; Chris Foster (HAW) 6.90pts

Heat 5 : Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 14.67pts ; Evan Gelselman (USA) 11.66pts ; Brian Toth (PRI) 8.43pts ; Mitch Crews (AUS) 7.06pts

Heat 6 : Daniel Ross (AUS) 14.16pts ; Torrey Meister (HAW) 12.27pts ; Kai Barger (HAW) 11.54pts ; Gavin Gillette (HAW) 10.10pts

Heat 7 : Pancho Sullivan (HAW) 12.90pts ; Olamana Eleogram (HAW) 12.37pts ; Nic Muscroft (AUS) 11.93pts ; Dion Atkinson (AUS) 9.47pts

Heat 8 : Davey Cathels (AUS) 12.93pts ; Nat Young (USA) 9.67pts ; Aritz Aranburu (EUK) 8.86pts ; Tim Reyes (USA) 5.93pts

Heat 9 : Dale Staples (ZAF) 12.27pts ; Joel Centelo (HAW) 8.24pts ; Nathan Yeomans (USA) 7.66pts ; Dylan Graves (PRI) 7.46pts ;

Heat 10 : Ian Walsh (HAW) 13.50pts ; Tonino Benson (HAW) 8.83pts ; Tom Whitaker (AUS) 7.76pts ; Adam Robertson (AUS) 7.00pts

Heat 11 : Lincoln Taylor (AUS) 11.87pts ; Keanu Asing (HAW) 10.10pts ; Sean Moody (HAW) 6.03pts ; Richard Christie (NZL) 3.73pts

Heat 12 : Adrien Toyon (REU) 9.57pts ; Gabe King (USA) 9.03pts ; Austin Ware (USA) 8.47pts ; Royden Bryson (ZAF) 7.90pts

Heat 13 : Glenn Hall (IRL) 13.83pts ; Shaun Joubert (ZAF) 10.47pts ; Makuakai Rothman (HAW) 8.43pts ; Tanner Hendrickson (HAW) 3.64pts

Heat 14 : Sunny Garcia (HAW) 13.93pts ; Mitchel Coleborn (AUS) 10.00pts ; Carissa Moore (HAW) 7.83pts ; Alain Riou (PYF) 5.60pts

Heat 15 : Ian Gentil (HAW) 10.47pts ; Dane Reynolds (USA) 9.06pts ; Marc Lacomare (FRA) 8.14pts ; Myles Padaca (HAW) 7.83pts

Heat 16 : Tomas Hermes (BRA) 10.14pts; Mason Ho (HAW) 10.07pts; Ricardo Dos Santos (BRA) 8.37pts ; Granger Larsen (HAW) 6.43pts

National Geographic's annual Adventurers of the Year nominees are in and it's time to vote for the next Adventurer(s) to win the prestigious award. For the past seven years, Nat Geo has searched the globe to find Adventurers selected for his or her extraordinary achievement in exploration, conservation, and adventure sports.

Among the 2012 nominees are action sports superstars Travis Rice, Carissa Moore, and Danny MacAskill.

With the release of the highly anticipated film Art of Flight Rice's willingness and ability to push the limits of backcountry snowboarding is on display for all. Big Mountain Snowboarding has gained a lot of attention in the past several months with Rice leading the way. Rice has developed into one of the best all-around snowboarders in the world: He is equally capable of showing up at X Games to win slope style gold as he is in pioneering a first descent in the remote Darwin Range on the tip of South America.
Check out his Adventure of the Year Interview


In only her second year on tour the 19-year-old Hawaiian Carissa Moore became the youngest person ever to win the world title of Surfing stopping Steph Gilmore's consecutive title streak. Later this month Moore will be the first woman in the modern era to compete in the Men's Triple Crown of Surfing in Hawaii.
Check out her Adventure of the Year Interview


Danny MacAskill brought the sport of urban trail riding to the mainstream in the way of a viral video which was viewed over 27 million times. This year MacAskill released the short film Industrial Revolutions--which featured him riding through Scotland's abandoned factories, leaping between train cars, and riding across two-inch beams suspended 15 feet above concrete. The short was a hit once again bringing urban trail riding to the mainstream making MacAskill a household name.
Check out his Adventure of the Year Interview


The complete list of nominees includes seasoned world wanderer Alastair Humphreys, Climber Cory Richards, Hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis, Kayakers Jon Turk and Erik Boomer, Mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Skier Nick Waggoner, and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu Sunuwar.

The list is staked with deserving adventures so head over to Nat Geo, do you homework and vote for this years Adventure of the Year.

Carissa Moore lost to Stephanie Gilmore in the final of the Roxy Pro Biarritz on Friday in France, but not before clinching enough points to be crowned the youngest-ever ASP world surfing champion.

Moore, 18, was presented with the title after the semifinals. After she defeated French surfer Pauline Ado in the first semifinal, in three-foot surf, her closest rival, Sally Fitzgibbons, needed to win the event to carry the race to the seventh and final ASP Women's World Tour contest.

Fitzgibbons lost to Gilmore in the other semifinal.

"It's been a great event and I was just smiling during the whole final," said Hawaii's Moore, who finished third last year in her rookie season. "I have been thinking about this for a long time since I was a little girl. Just to be here right now and being world champ is pretty crazy."

The legendary Kelly Slater, a 10-time world champion on the men's tour, won his first title when he was 20, and had been the youngest.


Carissa Moore 2011 ASP Women's World Champion from Nike 6.0 on Vimeo.

Moore ended the four-year reign of Gilmore, a 23-year-old Australian who had won titles each year since her 2007 rookie season. Moore also becomes the first female surfer from Hawaii to win a women's title since Margo Oberg in 1981. (The late Andy Irons claimed consecutive men's titles from 2002-04.)

Gilmore's victory in the Roxy Pro final was her first this season.

"Her turns out there were really strong and I thought she was surfing better than me but I got a little head dip and it was the excitement of everything," said Gilmore, who beat Moore by a score of 17.27 to 15.50in the best-two-waves format. "She is definitely the strongest of everyone this whole year and she has been in every single final and that is a new record. To beat the freshly-crowned champ is pretty cool."

Moore,an 11-time national amateur champion, had for years been labeled a future superstar. She made her first statement when she was 10 and placed third at the 2003 National Championships in a boys' Mini Grom final.

"The first time I saw Carissa competing at the Nationals, I could tell she had this special talent," said Janice Aragon, executive director of the National Scholastic Surfing Assn."Every year, she would blow my mind with phenomenal surfing and technical skills that massively improved with each year. She became unstoppable. No one yet has come close to her competitive dominance at the national level."

Moore is known for her humble, almost shy nature out of the water, and her cunning ability to catch the best waves and execute flawless turns and cutbacks.

"I dreamed of surfing at this level my whole life since I was a little kid and I don't think you can ever expect or anticipate the feeling," she said.

-- Images of Carissa Moore in action and during her world title celebration are courtesy of ÃÃé ASP/ Aquashot

Temperatures are rising all over as the seasons change from spring to summer. It's time to put those jackets away, store your sweaters, and bust out your beach bodies in celebration of spring and summer 2011.

Perhaps you've been hiding under winter layers for the past few months, but luckily for you, Nike 6.0 has recently released their women's lookbook filled with cute fashions just in time for the new seasons. The book is bursting with comfortable styles that can be dressed up or down and are perfect for any active female.

Take a peak at some of the hottest new trends modeled by Nike 6.0 athletes in the following video. Featuring Ellery Hollingsworth, Carissa Moore, Lakey Peterson, and Monyca Byrne-Wickey.

Head over to Nike 6.0 to scope Lookbook here.



Nike 6.0 SP/SU11 Lookbook Behind the Scenes Montage from Nike 6.0 on Vimeo.