Australians one and two in JBay

After surfing a tremendous final, in outstanding waves, Mick Fanning (Aus) has defeated Taj Burrow (Aus) to win the 2006 Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay.

Both finalists had agregate scores of 8.0 but with four minutes to go, Fanning scored an 8.73 to take the lead.

With six events on the tour down, Taj Burrow's second place puts him second behind Kelly Slater in the world rankings, with Andy Irons third. The next event is the Boost Mobile Pro in California on September 12, 2006.

J Bay knocks ASP contenders

Well, Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay is underway but in a shock start some big names will not be taking part in the third round heats!

Andy and Bruce Irons (Haw) are both out. Bobby Martinez (USA) is out. C J Hobgood is also out and his twin brother has scratched from the competition due to his wife giving birth to their first child. Fred Patacchia (Haw) also failed to get into round three, following a crazy round one which saw the top five seeds on the Men's ASP World Tour relegated to fight it out in round two.

Bobby Martinez lost out to cunning tacticts from Jarrod Howse (Aus), who had his friends posted up on the hill to signal when good sets were coming in.

The defeats should put Kelly Slater (USA) in a commanding position to hold on to his world championship crown.

McFerran wins Women's World Longboarding Title

Californian, Schuyler McFerran (Encinitas, California, USA) has won the Roxy ASP Women’s World Longboarding Championship, in fine style, after surfing from the first round and winning every one of the eight heats she contested. McFerran, 19, defeated fellow Californian Jennifer Smith (Pacific Beach) in the final which was held in clean, three foot (one metre waves) at Cote des Basques, Biarritz, France.

This is the first year that the event has been held in Europe and the first time that it has received ASP recognition.