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ASP (Association Of Surfing Professionals)
The ASP is the Association of Surfing Professionals. It is the foremost governing body in professional surfing. It boasts the sanctioning of six professional surfing circuits including: the ASP Men's WCT World Tour and ASP WCT Women's World Tour, the ASP Men's WQS World Qualifying Series and ASP Women's WQS World Qualifying Series , the ASP World Longboard Tour (WLT), the ASP Pro Junior Series, the World Masters Championship, and Specialty Events. The organization is divided into seven different regions: Africa, Japan, Australasia, Europe, Hawaii, North America, and South America. The ASP has been dedicated to showcasing the world's best surfing talent in a variety of progressive formats and challenging locations since 1983, taking over for the International Professional Surfers (IPS) organization which ran things from 1976 to 1982. |
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ASP World Tour
The ASP World Tour is the embodiment of the top tier of the ASP's two-tier system. The World has both Men's and Women's Divisions. The Men's Division is comprised of the top 45 competitive surfers in the world, and the women's division is made up of the top 17. Surfers qualify for both the Men's WQS and Women's WQA ASP World Tours via the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS). The only way to qualify for the ASP World Tour is through the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS). By accumulating point totals throughout the season, ASP WQS surfers are then rated giving them a chance at qualifying for the ASP World Tour. The point total is garnered from a competitor's best 7 results. The top 15 surfers from the men's ASP WQS are awarded seeds onto the Men's ASP World Tour*. The top 6 surfers from the women's ASP WQS are awarded seeds onto the Women's ASP World Tour.
*At least the top 15 male ASP WQS surfers are awarded ASP World Tour seeds. In situations of retirement of ASP World Tour surfers who have requalified through the ASP World Tour, the next highest rated World Tour surfers will take their places. If the retiring surfer has qualified via the ASP WQS, then the next highest rated ASP WQS surfer will take his qualifying spot on the ASP World Tour.
Every season, World Tour surfers compete with one another for prize money and the highly coveted ASP World Title. ASP World Tour events are held in exotic locations around the world with the support of the event licensees. Enjoying ten events per season for the men and seven for the women, prime locales and attractive prize purses, the ASP World Tour is the most sought after professional circuit in competitive surfing.
ASP WCT Men's World Tour 2008
ASP WCT Women's World Tour 2008 |
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ASP WQS World Qualifying series
The ASP WQS is the World Qualifying Series (also affectionately known as "The Grind"). It is the second (or open-entry) tier in the ASP's two-tier system. The WQS has both Men's and Women's Divisions, and the series of events determines which surfers qualify for the ASP World Tour. On average, there are approximately 45 WQS events per season. The events are rated on a star system with ratings from 1 to 6 stars. The star rating coincides with the prize money offered and also determines the amount of ratings points offered to surfers. More prize money will get you a higher star rating which will give the competitors more ratings points. ASP WQS surfers compete for both prize money and valuable ratings points in an attempt to qualify for the ASP World Tour.
There are thousands of ASP WQS surfers the world over. Because the ASP WQS is an open-entry competitive circuit, anyone who pays the ASP membership fees (men's $200 and women's $130) and the competition fees ($175 for 1-4 Star Events and $200 for 5-6 Star Events) can compete in ASP WQS events. Although anyone can enter a WQS event, if there are too many entries, the higher-rated surfers will get preference in the make up of the seed list. ASP WQS five and six star rated events have restricted fields of 192 competitors with Super Series events only allotting the restricted field of 144. The remaining ASP WQS events are open entry with the highest rated surfers receiving preference.
The ASP WQS Super Series is part of the European leg that offers more money and ratings points (3000 points per win) than other ASP WQS event. The Super Series can only be staged in approved prime venues. It has a restricted field of 144 competitors (Approximately the top 100 ASP WQS competitors, ASP World Tour surfers, regional surfers and wildcards). Rip Curl staged the world's first Super Series event at Hossegor.
ASP Men's WQS World Qualifying Series 2008 Schedule
ASP Women's WQS World Qualifying Series 2008 |
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ASP Junior 2008
ASP 2008 Pro Junior Schedule |
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ASP Longboard World Tour
ASP Longboard World Tour 2008 |
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ASP Longboard WQS World Qualifying Series
ASP Longboard WQS World Qualifying Series 2008 |
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ASP Speicialty Events 2008
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