Garut Widiarta

Rip Curl Cup Trials - Padang Padang 2022

The Asian Surf Cooperative is a professional surfing organization with 16 years of experience in organizing, managing and supporting surfing events around the Asian region, from local boardriders club competitions to WSL World Championship Tour events.

Big Barrels and Wipeouts - Best 2021 Padang Padang starring Indonesia's Bests Surfers!

2021 has been another quiet year for Bali as not many tourists were able to join the dry season wave fest. Indonesians locals were more than happy to enjoy another swell season with their favorite wave to themselves: Padang Padang, the gem of Bali.
Filmed by Made Ropik / Liquid Barrel / Made Budi

Garut Widiarta’s Surf Guide to Uluwatu, Bali

Uluwatu is one of those places that is so steeped in history and beauty that it smacks you in the face as soon as you lay eyes on it. The huge, towering cliffs, the tiny winding roads surrounded by jungle on both sides, and above all, the lines of lefthanders rolling through the entire coastline as far as the eye can see. It’s truly astounding.

Garut Widiarta is a local surfing legend of the Bukit Peninsula, and a man much respected around Uluwatu. Here, he takes you on your own personal guide of Uluwatu, from point to point and down the cliff. Enjoy.

Garut & Pepen Get Tubed | Made For Waves | Boardshorts by Rip Curl

Garut Widiarta is about to face the biggest test of his year – the Rip Curl Cup Padang Padang. Show up unprepared against the world’s best barrel hunters at the Balinese Pipeline, and you’re guaranteed to fail.

But Garut is no slacker. He’s the 2014 Rip Curl Cup Champion, with a near perfect attendance record at Padang when the place is going off.

Problem is, Padang doesn’t break nearly as often as we’d all like. So where can a guy like Garut find the right training ground for an event like this?

Lucky enough, he happens to live in the most wave-rich archipelago in the world, so it’s not really about finding a place – it’s about picking a place.

So before the start of the waiting period got too close, Garut grabbed longtime Bali pro Pepen Hendrick and trekked from Nias to Sumba and everywhere in between.
Pepen has mastered every Indonesian reefbreak under the sun, and even with minimal swell, the veteran knew where he and Garut could go for a knife-sharpening practice run.

What do you think… was the Search worth it? And, could it translate into a second Rip Curl Cup for Garut Widiarta?

Tempat Boyum Ini | #TheSearch by Rip Curl

World #1, Matt Wilkinson and World #3, Gabriel Medina along with Indonesian god, Garut Widiarta dusted off the spirit of #TheSearch and boarded a boat with no plan beyond getting tubed, laying some rail, playing some pong, and unwinding at night with a few beers and plenty of laughs in the 12th episode of #TheSearch - Tempat Boyum Ini.

Bali’s Garut Widiarta explains what it took to win the Rip Curl Cup Padang Padang in 2014, and what it will take to defend his title in 2016 against the most lethal lineup of surfers in event history.