WSL surfer and Namotu local Brisa Hennessy is hosting her own women’s week 2024 has been a massive year for Brisa Hennessy. After an almost miraculous return to competition following her 2022 brain tumour diagnosis, Brisa spent much of 2024 on top of the WSL leaderboard, eventually finishing in 4th spot. She competed in the
Kai Lenny, Ryan Hipwood, Caleb Pont at Cloudbreak, September 21 2023
The wave pool is out and Cloudbreak is in. It’s been too long since Matt Wilkinson won in 2017 and even longer since Parko missed his heat to go fishing and got a little stranded… They were good times and it wasn’t just the surfing that was an annual highlight in the series.
RipCurl has just dropped a new doco on our very own Brisa Hennessy and her time on Namotu last year. When the 2020 WSL Tour was cancelled, Brisa and her parents, Mike & Katie, went straight to Fiji. They ended up spending nearly a year managing Namotu, acting as caretakers, handling renovations, cleaning up after
Namotu Island welcomes the Men's and Women's Fiji Pro leg of the 2015 World Championship Tour (WCT), part of the 11-stop World Surf League. Surfers brings their boards to master some of the most famous wave breaks in the world.