The Honda U.S. Open of Surfing presented by O’Neill continued today in Huntington Beach California with the remaining 144 surfers going at it. Although the event takes place on U.S. soil, it was the international talent who received the highest point total today. The best showing of the day was a head to head heat betwen Jadson Andre from Natal, Brazil, and Torrey Meister of Kona Hawaii who both presented the crown with nearly perfect rides. But it was the Brazilian who really impressed by scoring a 9.23 in his round 2 heat and then followed it up with a perfect 10 out of 10 ride, which included an incredible high front side air.
“I felt really good today,” Andre said. “My waves at home are like this and I felt so relaxed. I’ve been here many times now and I love Huntington.”
Andre, current No. 73 on the ASP WQS, expressed his excitement about topping Meister’s impressive performance.
“I think this is the best heat of my life,” Andre said. “I’m so happy right now. All of the guys in my heat surf so good. I just want to do my best in the rest of the contest.”
Have you ever seen that movie “The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants”? I saw it one Saturday morning on HBO after a long night of partying so I barely had the energy to change the channel. But I know if you’ve seen it you probably cried; don’t lie. It’s about four girls who go there seperate ways for summer break and promise to keep a pair of good luck pants within their group of friends. It’s almost like when you and your friends shared those Star Wars figures but this story deals with the ups and downs of teenage life and female bonding.
Well without having to read this article, I already know that this trip is something like the Traveling Pants movie. A few months ago, put together a contest for three lucky girls to win a trip to Iceland along with a week long of awesome snowboarding. Just look at the photos. They look like they are having a great time, there’s is some valuable girl time bonding, and I’m sure they all learned a lot about themselves. I think most of us can learn something from this. Check it!
Next week, Tuesday July 29th, Ryan Sheckler will be broadening his horizons in two ways. One, giving back to the community and two, by holding a golf tournament to do so. While most teenagers (he is a teen right?) are worrying about what dress to wear to the prom, or how to be a top friend on the popular kids’ Myspace page, Ryan has felt it necessary to make the rest of you look bad, by giving back to the community. The same community that at one time gave so much to him.
“I’ve always had a desire to help the kids who support me in my career and may not have had the same opportunities that I did,” said the X Games multi-gold medalist, Ryan Sheckler. “I have reached a point where I have the ability to give back, and I’m honored to have such a great response for this tournament from my professional colleagues and friends.”
I’m not exactly sure who will be part of the golf tourney except for one person who also happens to be one of my favorite rappers. Kevin Federline, or K-Fed. If you don’t believe me about how great a lyricist he is, then watch this. Hope you enjoyed that. Hopefully one day Ryan will put together a video part and K-Fed will rap over it. That’d be so sick. Anyway, read this press release for more info.
Remember the first time you saw the A-Team? I forgot exactly but I think that skate team consisted of Rodney Mullen, Gershon Mosley, Marc Johnson, and Chett Thomas. Something like that. But I remember when that skate team was somehow concocted, I believe that they raised the bar on exclusivity. Like you had to be super dope to belong there. You can even look at other sports teams to see that kind of superpower. Look at the ‘04 Lakers with Malone and Payton, the present New York Yankees, or even the cast of the Jerry Bruckheimer film Armegeddon. There’s no way this could fail.
Now we’re not talking about earmuff here. Neff Headwear has put together a new skate team to represent their brand of hats and they look like they mean business too. This isn’t a team you want to mess around with. With Eric Koston, Brian Szafranski, Guy Mariano, and Terry Kennedy rolling with Neff gear, this looks to be a pretty exclusive team. Despite the fact that their snowboard team has nearly 100 riders. This is the first time i’ve ever seen the brand and just by looking at the riders alone, i think i’m sold. Just how I was sold on the movie Armegeddon because it had such a star studded cast. There’s no way Neff could fail. Go check out the Neff Website and start buying. It looks like streetwear is still alive and strong… I hope.
LRG Hosting A Best Trick Contest In Sacremento All of you in the not so Bay Area. Sacramento to be exact. You think you have what it takes to win a Best Trick contest? Because the LRG crew will be in your home town on Saturday July 26th at 6PM at the B-Street Hangar Skatepark. There will be a $400 cash prize given to the best Cow Town Ripper. Not to mention, there will be a great After Party at the Golden Bear Bar to get your drink on (if you’re of age of course). So check out the flyer below for all the details and make sure you take time out of your busy cow tipping schedules to practice for this big event.
Just in case you didn’t know and you haven’t had your fix on Barcelona skating for a while, then check out Etnies’ new footage taking place in the beautiful city. And just in case you didn’t know, Barcelona is actually pronounced “Barthelona” by the local Spanish. You have to make sure you stress your lisp when you say “Barthelona”.
So the next time you tell your homies that you want to skate Barcelona, you have to say, “Yo brrah! We’ve gotta take a major vacay and skate Barthelona for our next skate tour. Barthelona will totally be sick! Barthelona here we come!”
Now that you know a little more about “Barthelona”, check out this video over on the Etnies site and improve your cultural literacy that much more.
Those of you that are really into art probably already know this but Artip’s issue #47 will be a special one. This will be the first time in the magazine’s history where they will feature one single artist for the entire month’s issue. Now, it must take a very important, and inspiring artist for the magazine to focus all its energy and attention on a single person. So let’s examine who this one lucky person can be.
My initial thought was that it must be someone dead because most artists aren’t very important until they are deceased. And one of my favorite artists who has passed away relatively recent, is Bob Ross. If you’re unaware of the name, I’m sure you know his face, or at least his fro. Bob Norman Ross is widely known for his (fro and) television show titled “The Joy Of Painting” on PBS.
But then my friend informed me that the artist featured is still alive. So my next guess was someone who was alive and important. But also obscure enough to deserve of the Arktip exposure. So my next guess was the amazing performance artist Dan Dunn. With his kind of mystique, it’s hard to believe that he’s not featured in the magazine.
So finally I went and got my issue and to my surprise, it was actually a skater! Tommy Guerrero is one of the most influential people in skateboarding today and not only his art, but his music as well is included in the special edition. Check out the Arktip site for more info and get your hands on this issue.
The Honda U.S. Open presented by O’Neill continued its action yesterday in Huntington Beach, California in the Round of 192 with three to five foot waves. Charlie Brown of Sao Paulo Brazil lead after the competition by scoring the highest single wave score of 9.67 and followed that up with a second wave score of 7.00 giving him a total of 16.67 out of a possible 20. With those two runs, Brown was able to eliminate the current No. 2 surfer on the ASP North America Pro Junior series Travis Beckmann, of Vero Beach Florida, and Nat Young from Santa Cruz, California.
“I think the conditions are pretty good,” Brown said. “This is my first time in the United States and I’m so happy to get two big scores right away and advance into the next round.”
The Mellowparks crew took over the Shanghai snowboard park for the Fourth Annual Qixing Summer Jam. The park features a down rail, two kickers, an A-Box, a funny box, and a mini quarter pipe at the end. Check out the day’s festivities in the Mellowparks photo gallery.
When it seems like most skate companies can never get past their “Coming Soon” page on their websites, leave it up to the Adidas Skate site to update their look almost every season it seems like. Go over to their site right now to check out some videos from their Mexico City trip, coverage of their Berlin Skate Tour, A Day with Nestor in San Francisco, and a feature on their Canadian skaters.
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