Nat Young takes 5th at ASP Junior Worlds

Americans Nat Young (Santa Cruz, CA), 18, and Courtney Conlogue (Santa Ana, CA), 17, were the top performers for mainland America amongst the world’s top ASP Pro Junior talents, each securing ASP Pro Junior World No. 5 positions respectively at the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships this past week.

All surfers on the ASP North America Pro Junior Series look to compile their top results throughout the regional season in order to earn a berth into the ASP World Junior Championships. Once qualified, surfers compete to earn the title of ASP World Junior Champion.

Young, who is the reigning ASP North America Pro Junior Series Champion, was is top form throughout the elite event’s opening rounds, topping an international field of up-and-coming talent including Chris Friend (AUS), Keanu Asing (HAW), 16, and Takumi Nakamura (JPN), but was eliminated by eventual 2009 ASP World Junior Champion Maxime Huscenot (REU), 17, in a tough Quarterfinals matchup.
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Billabong ASP World Junior Championships – Sydney

The world’s best junior surfers are descending upon the Sydney suburb of North Narrabeen to hunt down the most prestigious crown in junior surfing, the ASP World Junior Title, as the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships prepare to run at the famed beachbreak from January 9 – 17, 2010.

Contesting in their respective regional ASP Pro Junior Series throughout the 2009 season, qualifiers for the prestigious Billabong ASP World Junior Championships include 48 men and 18 women from the seven ASP regions: Africa, Australasia, Europe, Japan, North America and South America.
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America’s Finest Head Down Under

America’s finest up-and-coming competitive standouts are gearing up to head to North Narrabeen, Australia to battle the world’s top ASP Pro Junior competitors at the prestigious ASP World Junior Championships which takes place from January 9 through 17, 2009.

American representatives including 2009 ASP North America Pro Junior Series Champion Nat Young (Santa Cruz, CA), 18, Dillon Perillo (Malibu, CA), 19, Luke Davis (Capistrano Beach, CA), 16, 2008 ASP North America Pro Junior Series Champion Cory Arrambide (Ventura, CA), 20, and Brent Reilly (Carlsbad, CA), 19, will travel alongside Courtney Conlogue (Santa Ana, CA), 17, and Sage Erickson (Ventura, CA), 19, to tackle international talents such as 2010 ASP World Tour rookie Owen Wright (AUS), 19, defending ASP World Junior Champion Kai Barger (HAW), 20, and defending ASP Women’s Pro Junior Champion Pauline Ado (FRA), 18 at this year’s elite level of ASP Pro Junior competition.
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Stop Unfair Surboard Fees

What do Qantas, Air New Zealand, Singapore Airlines, South African Airlines, Air Tahiti Nui, Royal Air Maroc, Sri Lankan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Emirates and Virgin Atlantic airlines have in common? They like surfers and they don’t charge us those ridiculous board bag fees like some of the other airlines. Who’s the worst offender? Well at the time of this post it’s Delta airlines. Even worse is that after paying the extra “handling” charge your board still shows up dinged. It’s time to let our voices be heard by signing this petition and for now please try to fly the airlines that aren’t kooks!

Our friends over at Surfline have put together a comprehensive list that breaks down this madness by the different airlines.

So why are these fees so high and what do they cover?  If you know we would love to hear about because we have no clue.

Santa Cruz has teamed up with Gigjunkie

Kick start your summer with the ultimate Beach Break Live festival experience! GigJunkie is giving away this fantastic prize worth over £2,000 to raise money and awareness for War Child.

This year’s festival is at a secret location on the beautiful North Cornwall coast. So it’s sun and surf by day and at night you will be treated to the sounds of Dizzee Rascal, The Zutons, Mystery Jets, Friendly Fires, Hadouken! Noisettes, LadyHawke, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip and many more great bands!

To win 6 festival passes inc. transport, camping gear from Go Outdoors, booze from Red Stripe, Santa Cruz surf gear, gear4 outdoor sounds and more all you need to do is text GIG and your email address to 88010 e.g. GIG joe.bloggs@hotmail.com. Texts cost 25p plus 1 std msg, ALL profits go to War Child.

For more information and to enter for free visit gigjunkie.net/bbl. Gigjunkie is a social network dedicated to fans, gigs, and the promotion of live music. It searches the web for gigs to create the UK’s definitive and independent gig listing.

Gigjunkie is supporting War Child through the organization of a student competition from March to May 2009 to win Beach Break Live festival experiences. Each time a student sends a text to enter the competition, 10p goes to War Child.

Parkinson Leads ASP Top 45 into Billabong Pro Tahiti

The 2009 Billabong Pro Tahiti presented by Air Tahiti Nui is days away from commencing with the world’s best surfers descending upon the tiny town of Teahupoo at ‘the end of the road’ for Stop No. 3 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, running from May 9 – 20, 2009.

This year’s event will run the new format, seeding all competitors directly into man-on-man elimination heats, with the Top 16 seeded directly into Round 2 while the remaining surfers battle it out in Round 1.

Joel Parkinson (AUS), 27, current ASP World No. 1, has been in devastating form this season, collecting two wins in two events with an eye on an inaugural ASP World Title. The phenomenal natural-footer has demonstrated incredible focus thus far and is the frontrunner heading into Tahiti.

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The 2009 Rip Curl ST3W

Attention all Pacific North West Surfers! Rip Curl Canada is proud to present “The Rip Curl ST3W” a two day surf competition open to all ages and held in the heart of Cox Bay, Tofino – May 23 rd -24 th 2009. Show on map

For 40 years, Rip Curl has played a leading role in the surf industry and continues to move forward in Canada. For its third year in a row, Rip Curl holds the only surf contest this summer in Tofino, BC, and one of the only Surf Contests in Canada. Looking into the future, Rip Curl feels strongly that this event will bring the surf culture of Vancouver Island’s past, back to life with a realistic goal – to continue to develop home-grown athletes to compete at a world-class level.

“We are excited on the 3 rd edition of the ST3W; we will be bringing some new elements to the beach as well the best surfers in the Pacific Northwest will be in attendance. We have a few surprises up our sleeves that all the kids on the beach are really going to enjoy. The contest will feature 7 categories – including open categories for men, women, and children, allowing surfers at all levels & ages to showcase their talent!”- Rip Curl Brand Manager, Drew Hawkshaw

With the estimated number of ST3W competitors in attendance being close to one hundred, it is lining up to be an unforgettable weekend. It is an opportunity for up and coming surfers to showcase their talent. Some well known athletes invited to compete include Christian Moutinho, Leah Oke, the Bruhwiler brothers, Reid Jackson, Mike Stupak, Bastien Lanusse, Noah Cohen, Shannon Brown, all your local Tofino hot shots, and of course Peter Devries who took last years St3w contest. We also had some athletes come from as far as Mexico last year and we hope these kids will come again.

With the help of Monster Energy Drink this year, Monster is determined to make this the best contest in the Pacific Northwest. Already we have more prize money than any other surf contest in Canada or the Pacific Northwest. First prize will be awarded $5000.00 dollars this year; this is a $3000.00 step up from last years ST3W!

Along with free admission for spectators, Rip Curl & event sponsors will be giving out tons of great prizes all weekend. For the competitors, there will be $20,000 worth of cash prizes along with prize packs filled with amazing goods. To feed the masses, a stew will be served and available by donation matching the “ST3W” theme. All proceeds from the stew go to the Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit organization.

Rip Curl will be presenting Tom Curren from the USA. Tom Curren is the 1985, 86, and 1990 ASP World Champion. Curren along with US team manager Nick Greeninger will be attending an H-bomb shop tour in Vancouver and Victoria days before the contest. Tom Curren is also a world famous music artist who joins the likes of Jack Johnson, Daniel Wesley and Donavan Frankenreiter. Tom Curren will be rockin’ the beats for the ST3W. Private parties have been planned and a possible live performance on the beach could happen if the weather holds out.

New additions this year will include: a mini ramp at the beach provided by Monster, so everyone can participate in a mid-afternoon session. Plus Sitka will also be setting up a surf demo on the beach, allowing anyone interested to test out their new boards. Rip Curl has also signed a deal with Zed skimboards and they will also be doing a demo on the beach.

If you haven’t heard, Rip Curl is the first wetsuit company to bring to the market a power heated wetsuit appropriately called the “H-Bomb”. This Wetsuit is available in 3 shops in Vancouver and on the Island…, Pacific Boarder, HTO, and Longbeach Surfshop. Rip Curl will be doing shop visits with Tom Curren at these locations to hopefully play some music and get the kids stoked on the event.

For any further information please contact Becky Ellis at bellis@ripcurl.com

Fred Patacchia Wins 6.0 Lowers Pro

SAN CLEMENTE, California (Saturday, May 3, 2009) – Fred Patacchia (North Shore, HI), 27, won mainland America’s first Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 6-Star PRIME event, the 6.0 Lowers Pro, when he defeated defending event champion Ben Bourgeois (Wrightsville Beach, NC), 30, by a score of 16.84 to 14.10 in two-to-four foot (1 metre) surf at the famed cobblestone reef of Lower Trestles in San Clemente, California. Today’s action also saw defending ASP World Junior Champion Kai Barger (Haiku, HI), 19, claim the ASP Grade-2 Oakley Pro Junior, which ran in conjunction with the 6.0 Lowers Pro.

Fred Patacchia Wins 6.0 Lowers Pro

Adam Melling Wins Rip Curl MP Classic at Coolangatta

Sunday February 1st 2009: For Immediate Release: Adam Melling (Lennox Head/NSW) signalled his intentions loud and clear for the 2009 season by taking a huge win at the Rip Curl MP Classic held in excellent 1.5m (5ft) barrelling high performance surf at Coolangatta Beach today.
Melling was rated 35 on the ASP World Series last year and was always in contention to qualify for the elite ASP World Tour but didn’t quite finish the season off in Hawaii. This year he wants to erase the disappointments of last year and today’s winning start to his competitive year indicates he’ll be a serious contender.

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Owen Wright Wins The Hurley Burleigh Pro Junior

Australian surfer Owen Wright (Lennox Head, NSW) has began the 2009 ASP Australasian Pro Junior Series in perfect style, taking out the season-opening ASP Grade-4 Hurley Burleigh Pro Junior in tricky two-to-three foot (0.5-0.8 metre) pointbreak waves on the Gold Coast today.

On a day when Australians celebrate our great country, Wright made certain an Aussie lifted the prestigious junior crown, recording a two-wave combined total of 18.50 (out of a possible 20) to outclass Brazilian Miguel Pupo in an exciting, man-on-man final.
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