by The Editors on September 28, 2009
Fifty-mile-an-hour winds are pushing waves up to 18 feet on Lake Michigan thanks to the area’s first fall storm, according to a story on Michigan Radio.
In Grand Haven, the high winds brought out massive waves, and that caught the attention of 25-year-old Dustin Mason, a surfer. . . . “This is definitely one of the bigger days that I’ve ever seen out here,” he says. “We were looking online and saw that the waves were supposed to be like 14 to 18 feet, we were kinda freaking out.”
In the Midwest, surfers take it when it comes.
[Link: Michigan Radio]
by The Editors on September 27, 2009
Few have done more with less than Mick Fanning as he destroyed small, mixed up surf early in his final heat against a combo’d Bede Durbidge in the Quiksilver Pro France in Seignosse.
“I was really fortunate to get those couple of good ones at the start because I really ran out of gas there at the end,” Fanning said. “It’s two back-to-back events where I have had to surf four heats on the final day to get the win and it takes a lot out of you. The conditions were deteriorating and I was fortunate to get those scores on the board early on.”
For the rest of the ASP press release and all the results follow the jump.
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by The Editors on September 24, 2009
Heitor Alves, Roy Powers, and Ben Dunn advanced out of their round 2 heats in the Quiksilver Pro France and then officials called it for the day after running only three heats competition.
Ben Dunn (AUS), 23, current ASP World No. 26, surfed one of the strangest heats of the Quiksilver Pro France thus far. His opponent, Chris Ward (USA), 30, who had already missed his Round 1 heat due to scheduling confusion, overslept this morning and failed to show up until 15 minutes into the 30 minute heat. . . “Well, it definitely plays with your head,” Dunn said. “Wardo missed his Round 1 heat and I thought he was going to show up for today’s heat because I saw him yesterday, but he said he overslept or something. It was still pretty even when he arrived though as I couldn’t get any waves.”
Follow the jump for the rest of the story and complete round 3 match ups.
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by The Editors on September 23, 2009
Three-and-half days after cramping up so badly that he needed IV fluids Dane Reynolds marched over to the Quiksilver Pro in Seignosse, France and put Nathaniel Curran and Jay Thompson away in round one. Seems like he’s taking to this world travel thing pretty well.
“I knew that wave was going to offer up a score for me and all I had to do was surf it as best I can,” Reynolds said. “It had a good wall on it and I was able to do a few turns. It’s too bad for Nathaniel (Curran) as he was surfing really, really well, but I’m sure he’ll do well in his Round 2 heat.”
For the rest of the results and full ASP press release follow the jump.
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by The Editors on September 22, 2009
Last night at around 10:30 PM PST CJ Hobgood sent out the following message on Twitter. “HOLY EFFIN CRAP! all my boards were stolen last night, reward name your price? 5 CGD,1 tokoro,1 TL2 AND 2 MERRICKS.magics yellow blue rails.”
Stab Magazine immediately jumped in and got the entire story:.
CJ arrived in the beachside suburb of Seignosse at 4.30pm yesterday. He retired to bed around midnight, waking at 4.30am to find his boards stolen. The thieves had entered through the back sliding door, which had been left open by someone in his travelling party. While he, his brother and trainer Chris Gallagher had slept, the crims lifted all nine of the Floridian’s boards for the European leg. Amazingly, none the sleds were in a board bag, meaning the thieves – assuming there was less than four of them – would have had to make more than one trip through the house. Not to mention a conspicuous get away with CJ’s beaming neon-railed sleds under their arms.
CJ is offering a reward for the boards “$1,500 Euros for their return no questions asked. Anyone with information should email jed@rollingyouthcom and he’ll pass on the info.
[Link: @hobgoods and Stabmag.com]
by The Editors on September 21, 2009
The New York Times Lens section has a nice profile on OG surf photographer Brian Bielmann.
“The macho photographers who shoot fisheye, they’re all impressed by the heaviest situation,” Mr. Bielmann said. “But I don’t see it that way. I don’t look for how hard a photo was to get, I just look at the end result.”
No, Brian doesn’t need to prove anything these days.
[Link: New York Times]
by The Editors on September 21, 2009
ESPN/Action’s West Coast Editor Micah Abrams has jumped in on the unexploded “Slater Tour” grenade with more thoughts on a story that keeps getting written regardless of the complete dearth of facts, quotes, or any new angles whatsoever.
How nice must it be for Terry Hardy, the main instigator of the hypothetical tour, to get so much media play for not saying anything to anyone. At this rate his “Champions Tour” could surpass the world cup in hype without anyone having to release one bit of concrete information.
Abrams, however, has thought deeply about the new tour and what it could mean and lays it down much more concisely than most, even though his employer (Disney/ESPN) has potentially more to gain from a new surf tour than anyone.
Someday this will all sort out, and we can look back and laugh. . . hopefully.
[Link: ESPN/Action]
by The Editors on September 19, 2009
by The Editors on September 19, 2009
The 2009 Hurley Pro is finishing up today (September 19, 2009) at Trestles. Watch it live in HD on Fuel TV beginning at 8 AM PST. Click here.
Here are the match-ups for Round 4 (our heat winning guesses are in bold).
Heat 1: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Kai Otton {AUS)
Heat 2: Josh Kerr (AUS) vs. Adriano de Souza (BRA)
Heat 3: Taylor Knox (USA) vs. Roy Powers (HAW)
Heat 4: Dane Reynolds (USA) vs. Rob Machado (USA)
Heat 5: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Kekoa Bacalso (HAW)
Heat 6: Damien Hobgood (USA) vs. Heitor Alves (BRA)
Heat 7: CJ Hobgood (USA) vs. Michel Bourez (PYF)
Heat 8: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Kieren Perrow (AUS)
[Link: Fuel TV]
by The Editors on September 18, 2009
The New York Times action scribe Matt Higgins has dropped in on the “Slater tour” story with a round up of whatever everyone else is saying (and we’ve all heard) spiced up with some quotes from ESPN’s Chris Stiepock and Vans’ Doug Palidini.
“There’s little doubt in most surfers’ minds that Kelly Slater is the best surfer who’s ever lived,” said Doug Palladini, vice president of marketing for Vans and president of the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association, an industry trade group. “So there’s no doubt he brings massive credibility to anything he wants to be a part of. The fact that he’s allowed his name and his agent to be associated with this has for sure made people sit up and listen more.”
For his part Champions Surf Tour’s Terry Hardy is keeping his lips zipped. In other words, no news here.
[Link: The New York Times via Shop-eat-surf]
Fifty-mile-an-hour winds are pushing waves up to 18 feet on Lake Michigan thanks to the area’s first fall storm, according to a story on Michigan Radio.
