What’s better then one surfing dog? 40 surfing dogs! Our furry surfing friends got together at the eighth annual Loews Coronado Bay Surf Dog Competition sponsored by Unleashed by Petco. For the second year in a row the event will benefit the ASPCA. We met up with some of the fierce competitors and their owners about the competition, surfing, and giving back.
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What would you do if you had two months off?
Pure cliff diving directly off the cliff face, the reigning champion on top of the rankings and the youngest athlete on the podium — the circular-shaped Vila Franca do Campo islet offshore from São Miguel in the Azores archipelago made the perfect backdrop for the third stop of the current World Series season. Despite rough conditions throughout the entire week, the previous seasons’ dominant figurehead from the British Islands took over the reigns from Russia’s Artem Silchenko in Portugal to top the overall standings with a well fought win. Hunt won ahead of a reinvigorated Orlando Duque from Colombia, and the 23-year-old rookie Jonathan Paredes of Mexico took his first podium in front of 1,300 spectators.
In a seven-day period the divers will have to deal with a modern opera house in Denmark’s historic capital and return to the impressive volcanic rocks of the Azores archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic. Without any time to recover, the athletes will face one of their biggest challenges of the whole season: in the first all-natural competition of the current season an imposing monolith and the outside crater walls of the circular-shaped Vila Franca do Campo islet offshore from São Miguel are the perfect spots to explore this pure sport and dive straight from the cliffs again in 2013.