by The Editors on November 1, 2010
By edging Melanie Bartels in the quarter finals of the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico, Stephanie Gilmore clinched her fourth consecutive ASP Women’s World Title today (November 1, 2010) and becomes the first surfer ever to win a world title for every year on tour. And by edging Carissa Moore in the final Stephie added another win to season.
“I’m really at a loss for words right now,” Gilmore said. “Mel (Bartels) is one of the most dangerous surfers in the world and has had my number on several occasions. Even on that last wave there, I was certain she’d got the score. I was blown away when they called it out and I’m rapt right now.” . . . “I guess I haven’t really been thinking about that,” Gilmore said. “But to hold a record that Layne (Beachley) or even Kelly (Slater) never got is pretty special. I never thought I would even win two, consecutive titles so to win four is a massive achievement for me.”
With the men’s round three heats off for the day, Kelly Slater will have to wait to test his title-grabbing hopes. Follow the jump for the rest of the women’s event details.
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by The Editors on October 31, 2010
For those, like us, who are completely consumed with news of the battle between Kelly Slater and Jordy Smith for the 2010 ASP World Title here’s where we stand after the second day of the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico. Both Kelly and Jordy advanced on Saturday into round three and didn’t have to surf today (October 31, 2010). Tomorrow (if the contest runs) Kelly Slater will face local wildcard ripper Dylan Graves (who took out Ace Buchan today) in what may be one of the most important heats of the year. Following that, Jordy Smith faces Nike 6.0 Trestles champ Gabe Kling. Tough heats. If Jordy loses and Kelly wins it’s pretty much number 10 time.
Here’s how the rest of round three sorts out:
RIP CURL PRO SEARCH PUERTO RICO ROUND 3 MATCH-UPS:
Heat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Dusty Payne (USA)
Heat 2: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Taylor Knox (USA)
Heat 3: Dane Reynolds (USA) vs. Matt Wilkinson (AUS)
Heat 4: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Tiago Pires (PRT)
Heat 5: Jeremy Flores (FRA) vs. Bobby Martinez (USA)
Heat 6: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Dylan Graves (PRI)
Heat 7: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs. Gabe Kling (USA)
Heat 8: Chris Davidson (AUS) vs. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW)
Heat 9: Owen Wright (AUS) vs. Brett Simpson (USA)
Heat 10: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs.
Heat 11: Michel Bourez (PYF) vs. Kieren Perrow (AUS)
Heat 12: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Roy Powers (HAW)
For total coverage from today’s losers round and the women’s competition follow the jump.
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by The Editors on October 29, 2010
According to a story from the Associated Press, videographer Sebastian Carvallo was showing surf videos to other guests at Macaroni Surf Resort when the 7.7 earthquake hit. Two minutes later he heard a distant roar.
The Chilean surfer grabbed his computer and his camera, rounded up the other guests and rushed to the highest spot they could find: the third floor of the thatch-roofed beach resort. . . From that vantage point overlooking the lagoon, Carvallo and the others had a terrifying front-row seat Monday night as three towering waves of a tsunami struck, shaking the building so violently they thought it would collapse.
They are lucky to have survived. So many others did not.
[Link: Associated Press and The Daily Telegraph]
by The Editors on October 29, 2010
ASP world number two Jordy Smith isn’t letting a little ankle injury keep him out of the hunt for his first world title as the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico waiting period opens tomorrow. But he has a pretty big wall to climb to get around Kelly Slater. Here’s the logic Jordy is facing:
For Slater to clinch his historic 10th ASP Crown at the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico, the following scenarios must occur:
– If Slater finishes Equal 3rd or better, he clinches the 2010 ASP World Title.
– If Slater finishes Equal 5th or Equal 9th, Smith must win the event to send the ASP World Title Race to Hawaii.
– If Slater finishes Equal 13th or Equal 25th, Smith must finish Equal 3rd or better to send the ASP World Title Race to Hawaii.
– Essentially, if Smith fails to finish higher than Equal 5th, Slater claims the 2010 ASP World Title.
Jordy Smith (ZAF), 22, current ASP World No. 2, is the only surfer standing in the Floridian’s way, but the prodigious natural-footer is guarded when discussing his aspirations in Puerto Rico.
Talk about head trips and pressure. For the rest of the details and the round one draws follow the jump.
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by The Editors on October 28, 2010
The guys at Stab ran Bevo (above in a Tom Carey photo) through their “Joy of Sex” interview and as everyone knows Claire is not scared. For her thoughts on talking dirty, click the link.
[Link: Stab Magazine]
by The Editors on October 28, 2010
On Tuesday night (October 26, 2010) a group of surfers in the lineup at San Clemente, California’s Riviera Beach saw a small great white shark jump out of the water just outside the line up, according to a story in the Orange County Register.
About half of the 10 or so surfers in the lineup left the water, said Dave Schulte, a veteran surfer and former pro surf-contest judge who had just finished surfing at Riviera Beach when the shark, maybe 6 feet long, was sighted at about 6 p.m. Tuesday. . . Schulte was heading for his car when a young surfer came up to say a shark had just breeched. Schulte said he watched the water for 15 minutes “and all of a sudden it jumped again. We’re talking maybe 75 yards off the beach.”
We liked it better when the great whites stayed way, way off shore and kept their heads down.
[Link: Orange County Register]
by The Editors on October 28, 2010
According to a report released by the Magazine Publishers of America magazine advertising pages during the third quarter (July to September 2010) were up 3.6 percent over the same period last year. The biggest gains were in the retail category where pages were up 7.2 percent and revenue was up 13.1 percent.
As we do most quarters we’ve checked in with the only action sports magazines followed in the Publisher Information Bureau (Bonnier Corporation’s Transworld Media) and see that things are mostly looking up. In fact Q3 looked great for all the titles aside from Skateboarding and Wakeboarding:
2010 2009 % Change
TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING 221.34 173.67 27.45
TRANSWORLD MOTOCROSS 256.26 220.08 16.44
TRANSWORLD SURF 278.42 244.34 13.95
RIDE BMX 152.59 148.36 2.85
TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARDING 296.04 337.05 -12.17
WAKEBOARDING 93.67 116.83 -19.82
Maybe those iPad magazine apps were just digital overkill. To see how the rest of the magazine world stacked up click here.
[Link: Magazine Publisher of America]
by The Editors on October 28, 2010
Billabong is rallying most their brands in support of their 10th annual retro-surfing contest at Dana Point, California’s Salt Creek (how did Nixon get out of this one?) held October 30 – 31, 2010.
Cosmic Creek features a surfing contest with all manner of strange categories including Space Cadets, Groove Masters, Rocket Men, and Rolling Stones and a Saturday night performance by Billabong’s spooky troubador Donavon Frankensteiner at Laguna’s hip club Seven Degrees. They’re encouraging everyone to dress appropriately for the night-before-Halloween bash.
Oh, wait. Our mistake. It’s actually Donavon Frankenreiter who will be performing. Sorry for the confusion.
For more information click the link directly below this or follow the jump to view Donavon’s latest music video Glow made up entirely of still photos shot by master lensman Brian Bielmann.
[Link: Cosmic Creek]
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by The Editors on October 28, 2010
If surfing ever makes it in the Olympics it will look a lot like the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games held in Punta Hermosa, Peru. The games ended yesterday, October 27, 2010, with the host country Peru taking gold followed by Australia, South Africa, and Brazil.
It was a fairytale ending to an event steeped in a mix of camaraderie and cutthroat competition as Team Peru gave every ounce of effort to take the overall gold medal today from Team Australia in solid 5-foot Senoritas lefts at Punta Hermosa, near Lima, Peru. It was the first time that the Peruvians have won an overall ISA Title since Felipe Pomar’s individual win in the 1965 World Championships more than four decades ago when the Titles were only individual, not national teams.
For the rest of the official story follow the jump.
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by The Editors on October 27, 2010
Gold Coast surfer Robert Marino (pictured right) describes how he survived the burning wreck of the MV Midas after the tsunami rammed another surf charter boat into it by wriggling out a port hole, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Mr Marino had squirmed his way through a tiny porthole, barely large enough for a man’s head to peek through, but surely not wide enough to accommodate Mr Marino’s wide frame. . . ”I had opened it first, but realised there was no way to get through it, so I went through the door,” Mr Finucan said. ”How he did it, I don’t know.”
Definitely a miracle. Hopefully, we’ll hear about more miracles from the Mentawis in the next few days.
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
