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Surf Survival
Maya Gabeira and Sally Fitzgibbons take part in a surf survival course that trains them in breath holding techniques that can be applied to surfing.
Maya Gabeira wins the prize for biggest wave of the season
For the fourth time in a row Maya Gabeira won last saturday the Billabong XXL award.
Billabong Big Wave Awards Girls Nominees
The Billabong XXL Awards will be held on April 23rd. The Girls nominees are Maya Gabeira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Keala Kennelly (Honolulu, Hawaii), Mercedes Maidana (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Savannah Shaughnessey (Santa Cruz, California) and Jamilah Star (Santa Cruz, California). The big prize will be won by the surfer who puts on the greatest number of outstanding performances at the most diverse number of venues over the course of the entire year.
Maya Gabeira scores one of biggest wave ever by a woman for the Billabong XXL Awards
A mad dash from their homes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Cape Town, South Africa paid off for Maya Gabeira and tow surfing partner Carlos Burle as they rode the biggest waves of the season at the notorious Dungeons break this week. Photos of the South American pair in action are now among the [...]
Making waves. The story of Maya Gabeira.
A Brazilian is emerging as one of the world’s top big wave surfers – and she’s a woman. Maya Gabeira has journeyed to tackle the most terrifying swells, becoming ‘one of the boys’ with the handful of men who share her passion… She first took to a surfboard as an escape from her own spiralling [...]
ESPYS: Maya Gabeira claims the title
Maya Gabeira has won the best female action sports athlete award! Congratulations Maya and keep on the great work!
Highlights from the Billabong XXL Awards 2009
Regarded as the Oscars of big wave surfing, the Billabong XXL Awards recognize the biggest and ugliest waves ridden over the past twelve months as judged by a global panel of 250 surf industry, former pros and big wave specialists. Over 2000 people packed the Grove Theatre in Anaheim to witness mind-blowing rides from Chile, [...]
Maya Gabeira claims victory on Billabong XXL
Maya Gabeira 21 year old Brazilian big wave rider has won the Girls Performance Award at this year’s Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. It is the second time she claims the title (first back in 2007)
