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Monday. Sept. 5, 2005
Labor
Day
This is a lot of
work!
One Up... and One
going Down... @ Mavericks
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I've shot a lot of
contests this year, and have learned a lot about shooting
them. I'm still pretty clueless about who a lot of the women's
competitors are however. This girl was out before the Boost
Mobile started last year, not sure who she is... but needless
to say she was ripping.
Early Morning Slice...
@ Lowers
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HELLO
KITTY BOARDFEST 2005
Grab your coconut sunscreen
and put on you cutest swimsuit, it's time for Hello Kitty
Boardfest! They've added more days, more events and more fun,
so that means it's going to be bigger and better than ever!
Boardfest takes over Huntington
Beach Pier on Labor Day weekend--September 2-5! That means
4 fun-filled days of Women's Professional Surf competitions,
plus amateur competition and surf clinics as well as FREE
attractions, games and live music for the
general public!
Also, this year they've
added the Boardfest Skatezone-an all girl skate event with
clinics taught by pro-women skateboarders! Plus, check out
great acoustic music performances by Shirly Good (Friday 12pm),
Ginger Sling www.gingersling.net (Friday 1pm), Um! featuring
Marnie Ann and Paul Stebner (Saturday 1pm) and Kirsten Proffit
(Sunday 1pm).
Saturday and Sunday at
2pm check out the Boardfest Fashion Show produced by ELLEgirl
Magazine. For more information on this one-of-a kind top rated
professional women's surfing competition and beach event,
including a list of all activities, check out www.boardfest.com.
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How long had it been since
Newport had a fun shaped combo swell, with clear warm water,
sunny blue skies, no wind and a mellow crowd?... It had been
a while!
Jenner Thursday @
5-4.
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An
entire city has been evacuated, tens of thousands are homeless,
it's
one of the deadliest natual disasters in U.S. history,
it's the single largest
American Red Cross relief effort.... Click on the American
Red Cross link and see how you can help the victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
This flood is nothing...
last winter @ 39th
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**Hotshot
Archive**
Newport's
public schools start Tuesday, and NHHS surfers are already
out in the local waters practicing for surf team. And again
it looks like CDMHS won't be competiting in this year's local
surf league. There's quite a few talented surfers at CDMHS,
some of whom have progressed a lot over the last year, and
are keen to compete. For some reason however CDM's school
administration, with their vast amount of resources, can't
seem to get there act together and form a surf team. Word
is CDMHS is considering a surf class later in the school year.
Maybe the instructor that oversees such a class will see the
interest and value in a competitive surfing program, and step
up to the plate and lead it! There are other competitive sports
that kids should have the opportunity to be involved in besides
football, baseball and basketball at the high school level!
CDMHS Surfer Dylan Y....
@ 5-4.
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The surf last Sunday in Newport was unexpected. What was
supposed to be a day of dropping left over southern walls,
ended up being a day of solid combo swell peaks. It was one
of those days where there was swell just about everywhere
in Newport... Lower jetties, 40's, Upper Jetties, River, and
"The Point" had surf in one form or another.
Driving through a
brown hole.... @ Five-O.
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Future
Quiksilver Team Rider...
Present Quiksilver
Team Rider... Saturday @ "The Point"
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Jared here has been
riding this crazy little board now for a while now. The thing
looks like a skimboard with 2 pieces of wood sticking out
of it. Built for cruising down the line, place Jared in a
little bowl section, and you can be sure he's going to throw
it on edge and turn it into a carving machine... @
"The Point"
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Last Thurs. morning in
Newport the sun showed up, clean water showed up, an early
morning offshore breeze showed up, lots of people showed up,
and the swell showed up... well, sort of. See the headhigh
action in an album up late tonight.
Small "Point"
is better than no "Point" at all...
Body
Glove team member Nate T.
boosts regardless... @ "The Point"
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F54 held there second
in a series of 3 surf contests @ 54th St. a few weeks ago.
Charging solid overhead surf, Christian M. took top honors
in the 15 and over division, while Victor D. won the 15 and
under. The next contest of Sept. 8th is being rescheduled,
the new date will be announced sometime next month.
Christain M. taking
another slice out of Newport
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NHHS's Daniel S.
squeezes
in another lip bash before the start of the new school year...
@
5-6.
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This is a pretty cool product. It's
a "hood ornament" for your board. From little red
devils, to skulls, to flags... there's a number of different
types of figures to stick on your board. The product has taken
off with snowboarders, and Tom Viscount the creator is now
introducing it to the surf market. Check out their website
at this link SWICHERZ
for more info.
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Check out some of the action,
and editorial about last week's south swell in Southern California
by clicking this link to Surfline's
Article "Finally"
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During last weeks
swell some went through the barrel, some went around the barrel,
and some went over the barre... @ "The Point"
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Break
out the beer and champagne... It's time to celebrate!
Newport
has surf again!... @ 5-6.
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Love them, Loath them,
Like them or Despise them...They're Back!
Chances are when Newport's Shorescrew.com
throws up a new feature on their website, some are offended,
while others are entertained. Chances are also, that every
so often those that run the site won't pay the website's bills,
and the site will get shut down. And so it has been, after
nearly a month of Shorescrew.com being down for not paying
it's bills, the good people at Transworld
Surf have stepped in and supplied the necessary funds
to fire the scandolus Newport website back up again. That's
right, they're back, again... Shorescrew.com.
Lugo... Shorescrew.com's
director of entertainment...
"Inside
Indo"
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Early August 2003...
Early August 2004
Early August 2005...
in Newport
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Reason #401 of why this
summer sucks!
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During the U.S. Open I was shooting in front of eventual
winner Julia Christain's family and friends. They were an
enthusiastic and friendly bunch, and the farther she advanced
towards the final, the more excited they got. Prior to her
final I walked over and asked them if they'd throw Julia up
on their shoulders for my camera if she won. They were game
to do it.
Julia's crew is from San Diego, where it's legal to drink
alcohol on the beach... and they brought some beers and champagne
to pop open if she won. As the end of the final neared, and
it became obvious Julia was the winner, they popped a few
celebratory beers. When the final horn blew I started over
to their towels, arriving just as the HBPD was walking up.
The police had seen the alcohol come out, and were intent
on taking action for open liquor containers on the beach.
Everyone frantically explained that their friend was now
paddling in from winning the Women's U. S. Open of Surfing...
The police however seemed pretty serious about the infraction,
and things were a little tense as they called their superiors
to see how they should handle the situation. Luckily a huge
scene was overted, and the alcohol, with the exception of
the champagne, was confiscated... and her friends and family
went on to meet her at the waters edge
Julia Jamming... @ H.B.
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Andy Irons... Winner of
the 2005 U.S. Open of Surfing
For a link
to editorial and photos click here Irons
Wins.
(Photo by Matt P.)
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Julia Christain won
the U.S. Open Womens' Championships yesterday in H.B.
For editorial and a few
photos of the event... Click here
ShutOut
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Ever wonder why we're
already into mid July and we've had no epic jetties days,
no large "Point" sessions, and only one lumpy "Wedge"
swell? Plus why is that "June Gloom" just won't
seem to go away??? Click below and find out what the leading
surf forecasters, over at Surfline, have to say about it
HERE
COMES SUMMERTIME?
Clear water, Solid Surf
and Great Shape.
Definitely not a photo
from this South Swell season.... Archy
@ "The Point"
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Surfing
America Championships
For editorial and more
photos of the event click here... The
Comback Kids
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Recently
Quiksilver had a gathering at the Newport Harbor Nautical
Museum. In attendace were Tom Carroll, and Quik excutive Bruce
Raymond to name a few. Highlights of the evening were boardings
of the Indies Trader, and "Orange Peel", Quiksilver's
sponsored museum exhibit related to the history of Orange
County surfing. Click her for a line to editorial and photos
of the event...
New Discovery. The surfing exhibit remeains on display
until Sept... check it out if you get a chance.
This is one of Quiksilver's
first lines of clothing, And the board is Quik's Danny Kwock's,
which saw a lot of action around Newport in it day...
(Photo by Kiefer S.)
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For a link to editorial
and photos of the NSSA Nationals click below... And check
NewportSurfShots.com's album of the event.
NSSA
Nationals
At the NSSA Nationals Clay
Marzo from Maui won the Governor's Cup, a new car, and an
NSSA National Championship at Trestles. How can anyone be
sure he won, when the announcement of the results, and awards
banquet isn't until tonight? Because he scored 2 perfect 10's
in his final... unheard of
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We were in the middle of the Indian Ocean
heading towards the southern tip of Sumatra, hours away from
other surf charter vessels, and a good 14 hours from Padang.
A mayday call came over our ship's radio that a surf charter
to the north had a passenger on board who had sustained a
traumatic eye injury. We immediately changed coarse and headed
to meet the charter. Our ship consisted of members of the
Surfer's Medical Association, and we had a naval eye surgeon
onboard that we were hopeful could help the victim.
Late at night, in the middle of the dark
Indian Ocean, the two ships pulled along one another, and
the injured passenger was skiffed to our ship. We'd gathered
a stack of flash lights, and had cleared and padded the dining
room table, turning it into an examining table for the physician.
The injured victim had been securing his board bags with a
bungee cord earlier in the day, when one of the cords sprung
loose, snapped back, and hit him in his sunglasses. The sunglasses
shattered and imbedded numerous pieces of glass deep into
his eye.
Unfortunately there was nothing the ophthalmologist
could do for him except wash the severely injured eye out.
If she had tried to remove the glass, bleeding of the eye
might have occurred, which might have resulted in hemmorhage.
The captain of his charter was told to get him back to Padang
and on a plane to Singapore as quick as possible. As their
ship motored off, the physician shook her head. Infection
and traumatic swelling of the eye would surely ensue by the
time he got to Singapore, and the eye was sure to be a loss...
I have no idea whatever happened to the guy... (see photo
of victim above).
I'm sure a lot of you are planning surf
trips out of the country this summer. For as little as the
cost of a beer a day you can get international health insurance
that will cover you in a foreign country, and more importantly
evacuate you if adequate medical facilities are unavailable..
Check with your surf travel agent about obtaining medical
travel insurance, or click below for more info... because
shit happens.
Read
about the importance of Surfers Medical Insurance
International
Medical Insurance Policies
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The Volcom Rodeo
A
link to editorial and fotos of the event can be found by clicking
here... Wild,
Wild, West
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"What
are you vermits looking at?...."
The Volcom
Possey @ 5-4.
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During the BodyGlove contest Tim Curran told his wife
that he was going to throw the biggest air he could on his
first wave... and he did. He tossed his body and board a couple
feet over a head high wave, and landed it in the flat... at
least a 6ft freefall... A score of a perfect 10! The crowd
was in awe that he didn't break his board... or a leg. And
then in the semifinal....
Tim Curran, Semi Final, Interference
called on him, Little chance of advancing, Needs a couple
giant scores, So he starts busting airs like these... and
landing some of them!
For a great write up on
the BodyGlove SurfBout, as well as a few NewportSurfShots.com
photos from the contest, check Surfline at this link.. PEAK
TIME
Special thanks to Keifer
for helping me cover of the contest.
