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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (Sunday, November 16, 2008) – Taylor Jensen (Oceanside, CA), 24, claimed a victory at the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Longboard Qualifying Series (LQS) 1-Star Costa Del Mar Pro Championships today over fellow finalists Harley Ingleby (Coffs Harbour, AUS), 25, Kekoa Uemura (Kaimuki, HAW), 26, and Tony Silvagni (Kure, NC), 21, in [...]
PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Oaxaca (Saturday, November 15, 2008) -The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 3-Star PXM International Vans Pro completed another action packed day of competition at Puerto Escondido today and saw two of the top ASP North America Pro Junior Series surfers take advantage of the three-to-five foot (1 metre) surf [...]
PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Oaxaca (Friday, November 14, 2008) – The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 3-Star PXM International Vans Pro continued to filter pumping six foot (2 metre) surf to the famed Puerto Escondido beachbreak today, allowing two perfect 10-point rides along with several other near-flawless scores.
The PXM International Vans Pro is [...]
COOLANGATTA, Australia (Thursday, November 13, 2008) – The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) International today released its 2009 events calendar. Dates and locations for the ASP World Tour, ASP Women’s World Tour, ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS), ASP Pro Junior and ASP World Longboard events are now posted on www.aspworldtour.com.
Notable changes to the ASP’s premier [...]
Davos, Switzerland, 11 November 2008.
The O’Neill Evolution is living up to
its name more than ever for 2009, with the 6-star TTR event evolving to push
the boundaries of freestyle snowboarding in a way never seen before.
Inspired by the heights to which the riders fly in the world-class quarterpipe
at The O’Neill Evolution every year, the idea [...]
SAN CLEMENTE, California (Saturday, November 8, 2008) – The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Longboard Tour (WLT) crowned Bonga Perkins (HAW), 36, the 2008 ASP World Longboard Champion at the Oxbow World Longboard Tour event at San Onofre State Beach over fellow finalist Antoine Delpero (FRA), 23. This year’s title is Perkins’ second ASP [...]
Huntington Beach, California, November 3, 2008 — Quiksilver is pleased to announce the 2008/2009 Invitees and Alternates for The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau and the official launch of the event website at Quiksilver.com/eddie.
Scheduled to take place at the hallowed grounds of Waimea Bay, on the North Shore of Oahu, between December 1, 2008, [...]
- - Costa Mesa — Just one week after claiming a 4-star WQS victory in his hometown of Santa Cruz, Nat Young kept the momentum rolling at the 2008 Rip Curl GromSearch National Final presented by Boost Mobile, held in pumping conditions at Salt Creek, CA November 2.
In one of the most high-performance Boys 16/under [...]
IMBITUBA, Brazil (Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008) –Bede Durbidge (AUS), 25, claimed his third ASP World Tour career win with a victory at the Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro in Imbituba, Brazil, today. Durbidge beat France’s Jeremy Flores 17.76 to 9.86.
“I was totally in rhythm with the waves and Jeremy was on the other side of [...]
COOLANGATTA, Australia (Monday, October 27, 2008) – Following one of the most historic board meetings to date, the ASP has introduced the option for a new competition format to be implemented in ASP World Tour events in 2009.
While the traditional 48-man format will still be available, events can elect to implement an altered 48-man format [...]
SANTA CRUZ, California (Sunday, October 26, 2008) – Nat Young (Santa Cruz, CA) won the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 4-Star O’Neill Cold Water Classic in great four-to-six foot (2 metre) surf in front of his home crowd at Steamer Lane. Young defeated fellow finalists Chris Waring (Seal Beach, CA), 21, [...]
MANLY BEACH, Australia (Friday, October 10, 2008) – Layne Beachley (AUS), 36, former seven-time ASP Women’s World Champion and current No. 3 on the 2008 ASP Women’s World Tour ratings, has officially announced her retirement from full-time competition, effective at the end of the year.
“I feel like now is a really good time, even though [...]
IPATH will present the premiere of “Walk Like a Warrior: The Apache Skateboards Story” at ASR San Diego booth #3227 on September 4-6.
Shown for the first time in public, the film tells the story of the creation of Apache, a Native skateboard company created on the Apache Reservation.
With the support of IPATH, “Walk Like A [...]
Silverton, CO – August 28, 2008 – This winter, one lucky shutter bug will win a brand new Venture Snowboard. Will it be you?
Venture Snowboards is sponsoring a season-long series of photo competitions with the theme “The Mountain Life.”
Anything goes - lifestyle, action, scenic, humor… as long as it reflects life in the mountains. So [...]
Mountain Dew to Sponsor Ultimate NYC Skate Trip Sweepstakes In Support of Film
Los Angeles, (August 29, 2008) – Following the widely acclaimed May screening of “Deathbowl to Downtown” in Manhattan, filmmakers Coan “Buddy” Nichols and Rick Charnoski are set to take the movie on the road. With minor adjustments in place, Buddy and Rick will [...]
$5,000 to be granted to the winning photographer
SAN CLEMENTE, CA- For the third year in a row, the Follow the Light Foundation (FTLF) will award $5000 to a deserving photographer in honor of the late Larry “Flame” Moore. The FTLF was founded after Moore’s passing in the attempt to continue his legacy of assisting up [...]
TAHARA, Japan (Friday, August 1, 2008) - Day 4 of 2008 ASP WQS 6-Star Yumeya Billabong Pro Tahara was held today once again at Akabane Long Beach with beautiful waves breaking at the event main venue.
The early morning action was held in glassy, light wind conditions and the correct ion for the right waves became [...]
SOMEWHERE, Indonesia (Friday, August 1, 2008) – The remaining six heats of Round 2 of the Rip Curl Pro Search were completed this afternoon in speedy, low-tide four-foot (1.5 metre) waves at the primary venue “somewhere” in Indonesia.
Stop No. 6 of 11 on the 2008 ASP World Tour, the Rip Curl Pro Search went on [...]
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (Sunday, July 27, 2008) - Nathaniel Curran (Oxnard, CA) has claimed the Honda U.S. Open of Surfing presented by O’Neill and the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) ratings lead. The win marks Curran’s first major event victory and his first time atop the ASP WQS ratings.
Curran beat France’s Tim Boal (Hossegor, FRA) [...]
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (Saturday, July 26, 2008) - Malia Manuel (Wailua, HI), 14, has claimed the GO211 LIVE featuring the Women’s Honda U.S. Open of Surfing presented by O’Neill over fellow finalist Coco Ho (North Shore, HI), 17 both young Hawaiians making ASP history as the youngest finalists in a U.S. Open event,in two-to-three [...]
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (Thursday, July 24, 2008) – The GO211 LIVE featuring the Honda U.S. Open of Surfing presented by O’Neill enjoyed glassy two-to-three foot (1 metre) conditions today as the highest-seeded surfers of the event hit the water for the first time for the Round of 96.
Round 3 of the [...]
Coca-Cola Bottling Indonesia has pledged monetary support in the amount of $5000 USD and 100 cases of Powerade drinks to be used in the effort to limit the amount of damage the wrecked fishing boat can to do to the reefs and beach at Padang-Padang. Yesterday, a second day of focused labor continued on the wrecked Taiwanese fishing boat that was abandoned and ran aground on the South Bali reef more than a week ago.
As most of you probably know, the Trestles hearing for July 25th, 2008 has been postponed due to limited occupancy at the Bren Center in UC Irvine. The support is so great that around 10,000 supporters of San Onofre were expected at the hearing when the Bren Center only holds around 5,000 people. However, the [...]
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DALE LOVELOCK:: +::+||
Dale Lovelock is one of the top up-and-coming surfers out of the Gold Coast, Australia. The DVLP Family recently connected with this young surfer and found that we had very similar values and goals. With DVLP’s new push to expand into Australia, it only made sense to bring a young ambitious surfer into [...]
BIARRITZ, France (Wednesday, July 16, 2008) – Joy Monahan (Oahu,HAW), 22, became the 2008 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Women’s World Longboard Champion today after winning the Roxy Jam event at La Cote des Basques in Biarritz. Monahan, who defeated runner-up Chelsea Williams (Gold Coast, AUS) in an exciting 30-minute final, posted a solid 14.10 [...]
