Writer, adventurer, director Charlie Smith and Super Action Agent Circe Wallace were married this weekend (Saturday, November 20, 2010) in Las Vegas in front of family, friends, and business associates. Smith dropped his writerly veneer and went straight for the heart with his last tweet on Friday:
Life. Is. Perfect. . . Or saturday night it will be.
Circe followed that up on Sunday evening with the following:
The first day of the rest of my life was beyond perfect. So much love and the most beautiful friends and family..thank you @chasdoesntsurf!. . . Everyone who attended thank you for making the room glow with Love. Here’s to doing next level shit.
We’re still wondering who is going to be on the top end of Circe’s usual 15/85 percent split, while at the same time figuring they’re both giving 100 percent. Congrats. . .
It seems rather obvious, but the best way to win a Vans Triple Crown of Surfing title is to start off with a win at Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa. After sitting out all season recovering from a heel slice it’s nice that Joel Parkinson could drop in with a win. Questions of how Parko recovery have back were answered with authority as the ASP Tour surfer decimated most of his opponents this weekt.
“It has been a pretty up and down year emotionally,” said Parkinson. “I cut my foot and I was out of action for six months, I didn’t surf for three months and I didn’t compete for six months. Then I had a baby son so we had some joy, and then Andy (Irons) passed. It’s been one of those years with one good thing then one bad thing. The year is almost over, we’ll get through it and I’m trying to make amends with all good things that can happen from here to December. . . “Riding a wave is always one of those things that, no matter what happens in or around your life, you can still ride a wave and forget everything. . . “Considering that the last few years I didn’t make a final here, to actually get a win and go to Sunset, which is one of my strengths and Pipe, where I’ve done well, it’s definitely a good start to the Triple Crown.”
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Swell.com surf gear reviewer Bill Laity apparently spent the better part of his weekend trying to set the Guinness World Record for the longest surf session at the Huntington Beach Pier in California, according to a story in the OC Register.
At 12:25 a.m. Sunday, after nearly 14 hours in heavy rain, biting wind and all-around miserable conditions, he was “going strong,” according to Michael Figueroa of Swell, a surf-gear maker and Laity’s employer. . . “He’s a waterlogged prune of a man at this point, surfed out and sunburned,” Figueroa said.
Laity reportedly gets to take a five minute break every hour. Our question: how many waves did he have to catch between breaks? For all the answers check out the OC Register’s updated story from November 24, 2010.
Artist Drew Brophy has been paint-penning up surfboards for over 20 years and lately we’ve been seeing his work showing up everywhere. His latest design is for the January Surf Expo Show. Here’s what they had to say about him:
A show T-shirt has been part of the Surf Expo experience for years, and many of our longtime retailers proudly show off some pretty ancient specimens. That’s cool. This year we tapped artist Drew Brophy. Seemed like the perfect fit. Drew does a ton of work for a variety of exhibitors at Surf Expo — both in the surf section and also in our resort and souvenir areas. Plus, hailing from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Drew has been a longtime attendee and vocal fan of Surf Expo.
The Drew Brophy designed shirt (which has not been finalized yet) will be on sale at the info booth on the floor of the show January 6-8. 2010.
Anyone seen a perfectly good yacht that’s missing a few very important pieces? Capt. Burrow needs to find it, apparently. Is this what happens when surfers put fashion first.
The surf, snow, skate Ultimate Boarder Championship is moving to San Diego and Mammoth for its fourth run. The week long event will be held April 2-9, 2011 with surfing at Seaside Reef in Cardiff, California; snowboarding at Mammoth Mountain, and skateboarding in the San Diego Sports Arena.
“We are looking for the one athlete in the world that can conquer all three board sports and truly rise above the rest,” said Ultimate Boarder® founder and CEO Tim Hoover. “The physical and mental discipline it takes to be good at even one of these sports is incredible, and to be competitive in all three is especially amazing. I’m excited about our new partnerships with Mammoth Mountain and the San Diego Sports Arena, as well as to be returning to Seaside Reef. We’re bringing the athletes to premiere locations, and we look forward to another year of celebrating the impact, skill and beauty defined by these board sports.”
A shockingly well-done version of the cover of Sports Illustrated has been making the rounds today. It features Kelly Slater winning his Perfect 10 in Puerto Rico with the words “The World’s Most Dominant Surfer and The Amazing Story of Why it Took So Long To Feature Him On Our Cover.”
And there is more: the issue also reportedly features a story on Andy Irons titled “Farewell To A Legend,” a piece on the History of Surfing “from Duke to Kalohe,” and a story on the women of surfing and “why they rock.”
At first glance, through surf jaded eyes, it almost looks real—especially for those who still read print. But with a closer look it becomes obvious that even Sports Illustrated would never run an “Ultimate Surfing Issue” because the truth is, the jocks just don’t care.
According to our logs several Boardistan.com visitors each day use Apple’s magical and revolutionary iPad device. And to reward them we have created the “Our iBallz Your iPad” contest. iBallz are an ingeniously simple way to protect an iPad (or other tablet device) from damage due to drops, spills, and/or the hazards of daily digital life. They also work great as a stand to prop an iPad up at the perfect angle for doing work.
While we may have been the first action sports company to announce content compatibility with the new device, we still don’t have iPads incorporated into our current Boardistan workflow. That’s why we created a contest especially for those techno trailblazers who do. The rules are simple. Send us a photo of an iPad with the Boardistan.com site up and on screen and if we choose it as the winner we’ll send you a set of iBallz.
The photos can be compelling, ridiculous, outrageous, shocking, silly, or stupid, the only requirements are that the photo features an iPad with Boardistan.com up on the screen. The rest is up to you. Simply click here to email the photo. [click to continue…]
An Australian woman who was on a surf trip with three Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development volunteers was raped after the four were carjacked at gunpoint on Madang Province’s North Coast Road in Papua New Guinea November 13. 2010, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The four were carjacked, robbed of all possessions and taken to a secluded spot where they were bound to trees and the young woman, the girlfriend of one of the volunteers, was raped, PNG’s National newspaper reported.
According to a story in the PNG’s National newspaper three suspects were apprehended in the attack.
Geologist Tom Palastanga, a 29-year-old surfer from New Zealand, is lucky to be alive and have his eyesight after stabbing himself in the face with his board while surfing Maori Bay. While ducking a wave Palastanga felt another surfer’s board smack his face. But when he reached up to see if his nose was broken he got another surprise, according to a story in the New Zealand Herald.
“I felt my face because I thought my nose might be a bit out of shape and then I felt this thing sticking out of my face – it was a good 20cm out of my face. . . “I realised then it was a bit of his board that had snapped off and was sticking out of my cheek … it was pretty surreal, it was a horrible situation.” . . The board smashed through his left cheek, fractured the floor of his left eye-socket and went through the sinus and Nasal cavity into the pharynx at the back of the throat.
After making it back to the beach with the nose of his board still protruding from his face, Palastanga was taken to the hospital where doctors reportedly spent four hours removing the board from his face. Amazingly, it appears that all he’ll have from the ordeal is a scar from the 14 stitches he received.
Writer, adventurer, director Charlie Smith and Super Action Agent Circe Wallace were married this weekend (Saturday, November 20, 2010) in Las Vegas in front of family, friends, and business associates. Smith dropped his writerly veneer and went straight for the heart with his last tweet on Friday:
