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Shark attack in Southern California, Solana Beach
April 27, 2008 – 11:36 pm
SOLANA BEACH, Calif.— A great white shark killed a 66-year-old swimmer with a single, giant bite across both legs that severed both main arteries Friday as the man trained with a group of triathletes.
Dave Martin, a retired veterinarian from Solana Beach, was attacked early in the morning at 7am while him and 8 others swam from Fletchers Cove to Tabeltops. Martin was taken to a lifeguard station for emergency treatment but was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a statement on the Solana Beach city Web site. His injuries crossed both thighs, San Diego County sheriff’s Sgt. Randy Webb said in a news release.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography shark expert Richard Rosenblatt says the shark was probably a great white between 12 and 17 feet long. The bite marks on the victim legs were 22 inches in diameter.
Team Rider Eric McHenry Winner of 2nd Stage of Ultimate Boarder
April 27, 2008 – 11:25 pm
Team Rider Eric McHenry Wins the 2nd Stage of Ultimate Boarder Compeition held in Ventura, CA this past weekend. Big congrats to Eric. For more information please check out www.ultimateboarder.com
Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards Season Finishes Next Week
March 14, 2008 – 10:44 am
There’s just a week left in the annual event period for the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Monster Energy and less than a month before the world’s surfing elite gather in Anaheim, California for the XXL Awards party. XXL Ride of the Year and Biggest Wave awards get most attention, however the core surfing community continues to support the traditional category of Paddle-In surfing.This year there is a vast array of potential contenders from all around the world, ranging from Ben Andrews and Nic Lamb at Maverick’s in Northern California to Greg Long, Mark Healey and Jamie MItchell at Todos Santos, Mexico to Kalani Chapman at Waimea Bay, Hawaii to wildcards like Felipe Barnales at Pico Alto, Peru or Reinaldo Ibarra at Punta Lobos, Chile.
“If you want respect you have to dig deep and prove that you can paddle into a big one on your own when it’s heavy,” said Ken “Skindog” Collins, last year’s XXL Ride of the Year champion and a master of all big wave mojo.
“Getting towed into a big wave when you don’t have the skills to paddle into one is cheating plain and simple,” said Collins. “It’s fraud. None of the top guys want to see it. You need to paddle in when it’s gnarly, take your lumps, THEN go tow into a few. Simple as that.”
Nominees will be announced March 21 in the Monster Paddle category and all other divisions including Billabong XXL Ride of the Year, Billabong XXL Biggest Wave powered by Honda, Monster Tube, Surfline Best performance and Billabong Girls Best Performance. Over $130,000 in cash and prizes will be at stake. The Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards ceremony will take place on April 11 at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California, and while seating is limited to 2000 invitation-only VIPs, the entire show will be webcast on both BillabongXXL.com and EXPN.com. The event will also be presented as an hour-long TV special on ESPN2 airing on Thursday, May 29 at 9:30 P.M. on the West Coast (12:30 A.M. late-night in the East).
Legend Rabbit Bartholomew Fights To Restore Kirra
March 14, 2008 – 10:29 am
Surfing legend Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew wants governments to fork up funds to restore the famous Kirra Point break to its former glory.
“Governments make parks, raceways and stadiums like Skilled Park, they make all these public amenities for sports but not for surfing,” said Mr Bartholomew. “We have 50,000 to 70,000 recreational surfers living on the Gold Coast and the industry pumps hundreds of millions of dollars into the economy every year. The Government needs to look at that and finally recognize that surfing is a recreational amenity and Kirra Point needs to be upgraded.”
Legend surfer Mr Bartholomew sits on the Kirra Point Committee and has been fighting to restore the Kirra point break for more than 10 years.
Bartholomew agrues that by dredging and pumping of the groyne has caused tremendous sand build up and rarely shows it’s face.
At a cost of $150,000, geo-textile bags would extend the end of the Kirra groyne to its pre-1996 length, but the city council says more details are needed on adverse affects.
Other ideas to bring back Kirra include a $4 million additional outlet farther to the west for pumped sand, said Mr Bartholomew.
The council has approached the Environmental Protection Authority and is now awaiting a response from the State Government about the outlet.
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Owen Wright And Laura Enever Win Billabong Pro Junior Taranaki In New Zealand
March 8, 2008 – 3:28 pm
Results:
Men’s Final
Owen Wright (NSW) 13.85; Stuart Kennedy (NSW) 13.60
Men’s Semi Finals
SF 1: Stuart Kennedy (NSW) 18.10; Madison Williams (NSW) 4.85
SF 2 Owen Wright (NSW) 16.40; Richard Christie (NZ) 9.35
Men’s Quarter Finals
QF 1: Stuart Kennedy (NSW) 16.10; Dean Iezzi (QLD) 12.05
QF 2: Madison Williams (NSW) 14.50; Jayke Sharp (NSW) 14.00
QF 3: Richard Christie (NZ) 14.75; Chris Salisbury (NSW) 13.00
QF 4: Owen Wright (NSW) 12.50; Tamaroa McComb (PYF) 8.40
Men Round Of 12
Heat 1: Stuart Kennedy (NSW) 14.40; Jayke Sharp (NSW) 14.35; Tim O’Connor (NZ) 12.75
Heat 2: Madison Williams (NSW) 11.20; Dean Iezzi (QLD) 10.55; Teale Vanner (SA) 10.25;
Heat 3: Chris Salisbury (NSW) 14.05; Owen Wright (NSW) 13.25; Lincoln Taylor (QLD) 13.05
Heat 4: Tamaroa McComb (PYF) 13.15; Richard Christie (NZ) 12.90; Christopher Friend (QLD) 10.45
Womens Final
Laura Enever (NSW) 11.75; Airini Mason (NZL) 8.75
Women’s Semi Finals
SF1: Airni Mason (NZL) 11.35; Kirsti Jones (NSW) 10.35
SF2: Laura Enever (NSW) 14.65; Paige Hareb (NZL) 14.50
Women’s Quarter Finals
QF1: Airini Mason (NZL) 15.25; Kirstie Jones (NSW) 12.25; Dimitry Stoyle (QLD) 9.50; Kirby Wright (NSW) 9.10
QF2: Laura Enever (NSW) 12.75; Paige Hareb (NZL) 12.30; Nikita Robb (ZAF) 12.00; Wini Paul (NZL) 7.55
Heather Clark Wins Title at Roxy Invitational Mozambique in New Zealand
March 8, 2008 – 3:26 pm
The Roxy Invitational Mozambique is an invite-only surfing event that takes place at Ponto Do Oro in Mozambique, presented by Saltwater Girl Magazine. The event has an 8-day waiting period to ensure the competing girls get to surf the best waves. Heather Clark wins the first prize of $10,000.Mozambique in New Zealand is a perfect right-hander located at Ponto Do Oro in Southern Mozambique. The wave proved to hold true and pumped off clean three to four-foot surf, with a light offshore wind adding to the good conditions. These elements made for some exceptional surf and the point was going off producing some 200 meter long rides.
Congrats to Hearther Clark.
Final results:
Final
1. Heather Clark 19
2. Sarah Baum 16.5
3. Chantelle Rautenbach 15
4. Bianca Buitendag 13.5
Semi one
1. Heather Clark 16.5
2. Chantelle Rautenbach 14.5
3. Sarah Maritz 12.7
4. Nicole Annels 8.5
Semi two
1. Sarah Baum 14
2. Bianca Buitendag 13.5
3. Kirsty Delport 13.3
4. Alice McGregor 13
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New Product…Surf Expo in September! See you There…
March 7, 2008 – 5:04 am
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Congrats! We Saved Trestles and SD/OC from polictical bullshit! Cheers!
March 7, 2008 – 4:46 am
Contributors, such as, Surfrider and SIMA environmental fund helped pave the way for the annual Waterman’s Ball fundraiser, which contributed to the special purpose of keeping our mother nature in primary focus and raising over $25,000 alone. Let this be an inspriation…anything is possible!
“The industry drew a line in the sand,” McClain said. “Trestles is one of the most premiere breaks. … and it’s in the industry’s backyard. ‘If we can’t rally to save the wave in our own backyard, what does this say about us as an industry and about our ability to save other breaks around the world.”
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Volcom expands distribution in all channels
March 5, 2008 – 10:20 pm
New distribution
* Currently, Volcom is in 106 Macy’s West and Northwest stores with mens, boys and shoes. Volcom Girls opened at 80 Macy’s stores at holiday.
* Volcom boys is at 53 Dillard stores and the company is building the mens and girls business with them.
*Volcom sees growth opportunity with this new distribution, including geographic expansion within the chains and selling more categories of Volcom goods within the stores.
* Volcom opened 19 Sport Chalet doors in Southern California in the fourth quarter across all categories.
Volcom retail
* Volcom opened three stores in 2007 to bring its total to 6 locations in the U.S.
* The company will open four new stores in 2008 including in New York, Boulder and Waikiki. Volcom will also open a company-owned store in Europe.
* New international locations include Tokyo and Thailand stores to be opened by a distributor; and licensees will open stores in Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa.
International
* After two full quarters under Volcom’s control, Volcom Europe has exceeded expectations.
* The company plans to improve penetration in existing accounts by working with its distributor to add concept stores, racks and displays and increase marketing efforts.
* Volcom believes the Europe business can be as large as the U.S. business.
* The company may eventually bring Australia and Japan in-house.
* The company is also investing in Asia and parts of South America.
Acquisitions
* Volcom sees opportunity in certain areas of action sports that may not make sense for the Volcom brand but would make sense for the company as a whole.
* With its recent Electric Visual acquisition, the company sees potential to expand into soft goods and accessories and that Electric can cross over into motocross and Nascar.
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