{"id":44125,"date":"2013-11-12T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44125"},"modified":"2013-11-12T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:33:07","slug":"triple-crown-of-surfing-starts-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44125","title":{"rendered":"Triple Crown of Surfing Starts Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Triplecrown_logo\"<\/a>The first jewel of the 2013 Triple Crown of Surfing<\/strong><\/a>, the Reef Hawaiian Pro<\/strong><\/a> will most likely kick off tomorrow (Wednesday, November 13, 2013) thanks a strong swell building on the North Shore of Oahu.<\/p>\n

The REEF Hawaiian Pro will feature 128 of the world’s best surfers, competing for critical ASP Prime points and a share of $250,000. The winner of this event will take home $40,000 and an early lead on the 2013 Vans Triple Crown series ratings. . . Also hitting the waves this week will be four absolute legends of the Vans Triple Crown: Michael Ho<\/strong> (HI); Sunny Garcia<\/strong> (HI); Kaipo Jaquias<\/strong> (HI); and Brad Gerlach<\/strong> (USA). They will battle in their own best-of-three showdown in the REEF Clash of the Legends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the official word from the Triple Crown of Surfing, follow the jump.
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\nHIGH SURF ADVISORY BODES WELL FOR
\nREEF HAWAIIAN PRO TO START WEDNESDAY<\/p>\n

Event #1 of the 31st Annual VANS TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING
\nNovember 12-23, Haleiwa Ali’i Beach, North Shore, Oahu<\/p>\n

HONOLULU – (Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013) — The competition period of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing hydrated by vitaminwater\u00ae officially began this-morning, but organizers have opted to wait for the onset of a major swell overnight to start jewel #1: the REEF Hawaiian Pro, tomorrow morning. A high surf warning will go into effect at 6pm tonight with wave face heights along Oahu’s North Shore expected to reach 20-30 feet.<\/p>\n

The REEF Hawaiian Pro will feature 128 of the world’s best surfers, competing for critical ASP Prime points and a share of $250,000. The winner of this event will take home $40,000 and an early lead on the 2013 Vans Triple Crown series ratings.<\/p>\n

Also hitting the waves this week will be four absolute legends of the Vans Triple Crown: Michael Ho (HI); Sunny Garcia (HI); Kaipo Jaquias (HI); and Brad Gerlach (USA). They will battle in their own best-of-three showdown in the REEF Clash of the Legends.<\/p>\n

Garcia & Gerlach were at Haleiwa early this-morning, featured in a Live morning newscast from the beach.<\/p>\n

“Are you kidding me? Any opportunity to surf Haleiwa and paddle out with these guys is an honor I’m not going to miss,” said Gerlach – former ASP world #2. “Sunny’s a machine, Kaipo’s one of the most under-rated power surfers of all time in my opinion, and Michael… well Michael’s just the Wizard. It’s going to be all-time.”<\/p>\n

Featured surfers of the opening round of the REEF Hawaiian Pro include: Bruce Irons (HI), Ezekiel Lau (HI), Garrett Parkes (AUS), Evan Geiselman (USA), and Heitor Alves (BRA).<\/p>\n

The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing hydrated by vitaminwater\u00ae is the world’s premier series of professional surfing events that will culminate with a 2-man battle between Kelly Slater (USA) and Mick Fanning (AUS) for the 2013 men’s ASP World Title. From November 12 through December 20, on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, $960,000 in prize money and a number of highly coveted titles will be offered across three ASP sanctioned events, including the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing series champion.<\/p>\n

Each of the three events of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing has a two-week holding period within which to run, requiring 4 days of excellent surf to be completed. To find out when the event is running, log on to: www.VansTripleCrownOfSurfing.com .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first jewel of the 2013 Triple Crown of Surfing, the Reef Hawaiian Pro will most likely kick off tomorrow (Wednesday, November 13, 2013) thanks a strong swell building on the North Shore of Oahu. The REEF Hawaiian Pro will feature 128 of the world’s best surfers, competing for critical ASP Prime points and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44127,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125\/revisions\/44127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}