The votes has been taken and it looks like the yes’ have won according to the Mavericks big wave contest is on for Saturday, February 13, 2010.
Twenty-four surfers are on the scramble to get to NorCal ahead of a monster swell that will be be hitting Mavericks Saturday. Click here to watch it live on uStream or click the link for all the details.
[Link: Mavericks Surf via @surfline]
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ASP World Champion Mick Fanning has offered Barack Obama a surf lesson if The President should visit Tweed Australia, according to a story in the Tweed Daily News.
“I’ve actually seen photos of him on the net standing up on a surfboard so there’s probably some basic knowledge there we could build on,” Fanning told the Tweed Daily News. “If he’s able to get to his feet okay I’d probably try and get him doing a couple of turns, maybe even get him working on an air-reverse or a rodeo flip.”. . . “I’d like to meet the most powerful man in the world, plus he seems like decent bloke,” he said. “It would be really interesting to get an insight into what his life is like now he’s the president. . . “I’d have so many questions for him, so hopefully there would be plenty of time between sets.”
Guess it wouldn’t be the first time an Australian tried to give a Hawai’ian some surf lessons.
[Link: Tweed Daily News]
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Why is Kelly Slater in Monterey this week? It’s not for Ghost Trees. He is playing in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with other celebrities like Tom Brady, Kenny G, and Bill Murray. Not a bad way to spend the week.
[Link: PGA Tour]
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Mona Vale, Australia surfer Paul Welsh, 46, was “having a surf” with his young son at Basin Bay when “a small shark” hit him from below, according to a story on Stuff.co.nz.
He made it out of the water and his wife drove him to Mona Vale Hospital, where he is recovering well, a NSW Health spokesman said. . . “He’ll be out of hospital by the end of the day.” . . “I was pushing my son on to waves and it just belted [me],” the man told the paper. “I grabbed on to the pinnacle of a rock and held on as it tried to drag me out … and I won.” . . .The victim has signed an exclusive deal with Channel Nine, a NSW Health spokeswoman said.
Exclusive deal? Guess if you’re going to be news you might as well get paid for it.
[Link: Stuff.co.nz]
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Tomorrow at noon the votes from the Mavericks Surf Contest invitees will apparently decide whether or not the contest will run this Saturday, February 13, 2010, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.
A poll of voters who have been poring over computer-model data suggests there is little doubt that the seventh big-wave champion will be crowned Saturday on the beach at Pillar Point. Waves measuring 40 feet on the face — considered the threshold for a big Mavericks day — are expected. . . “Ninety-nine percent,” is how longtime contestant Evan Slater described the chances for Saturday, adding, “It’s not going to be picture perfect, but it’s going to be big, real big if the forecast holds.” . . Santa Cruz’s Zach Wormhoudt, another longtime competitor, was just as confident, saying: “Let’s get ready to rumble.”
It appears the organizers’ talks about how important this whole event is to their sponsors are finally paying off. This should be good.
[Link: San Jose Mercury News and Mavericks Surf]
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For actress AnnaSophia Robb to play Bethany Hamilton post shark attack in the new bio-pic Soul Surfer she had to lose her left arm. In the movies they do that with a little cover up, according to a story on Radaronline.com.
Robb wears a green sleeve over her arm that will be digitally erased for the final product to reflect Hamilton’s disability. . . Robb 16, and Lorraine Nicholson, 19, both clad in bikinis, knocked out sets of crunches in between takes.
This movie may turn out better than we thought.
[Link: Radaronline.com]
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ASR Live’s Jim Shubin (the new VP of Sales for True Love and False Idols) and ASR’s Group Vice President Andy Thompkins cruise the isle of the ASR Access Show and offer up a sneak peek. The one question we have (albeit rhetorical) is: where did the ASR Show go?
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According to ActionWatch December 2009 comps in core shops were up over October and November, but closed out the quarter 13 percent down, according to a post on Transworld Business.
This number gives the fourth quarter first prize in lowest sales declines of the year for the shops on the panel, but by a very small margin,” said Cary Allington. “Also, Q4 2009 had the “easiest” comparison of the year since that quarter was so bad in 2008, so we were actually expecting (or at least hoping) for an even smaller comparative sales decline.”
So that means it’s not getting worse, worse. It’s getting better worse. And that’s good.
[Link: ActionWatch via TransWorld Business]
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Jamie O’Brien edged Anthony Walsh, Mark Mathews, and Danny Fuller to win the first Volcom Pipeline Pro. Click the link for the details. . .
[Link: Volcom Pipeline Pro]
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When Australian surfer Ashley Ramage heard his son Damon yell, “Dad!” while the two were out sufing at Archie’s Beach (near Bundaberg, Queensland) he knew something was up, according to a story in the News Mail.
“The way he said it, I just new something was wrong,” Mr Ramage said. . . “I turned around to look at him and saw this big grey shape and a fin come out of the water at me.” . . Mr Ramage said what he believes was a silky shark smashed into the back of his surfboard. . . “I was pretty lucky to get a warning. Damon yelling gave me enough time to lift my feet out of the water,” he said.
Luckily, neither surfer was injured in the attack. One more reminder that it’s always good to have a wingman.
[Link: News Mail]
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