Taylor Clark, from Encinitas, took the premier Open Men’s final at the 2013 NSSA National Championships, held in Huntington Beach, California. He had already stolen the Surfing America USA Championships.
The classic event held by the National Scholastic Surfing Association in Surf City USA presented the future of surfing, now.
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The unlikely story behind ZoSea’s ASP World Tours
t’s day one of what’s promising to be a strange old year. The pro surfing tour has just changed hands for the first time in three decades, been signed away for a song, and while the outgoing owners haven’t yet cleaned out their desks, the new owners haven’t moved in either. The whole show’s in limbo, and at this historic juncture everything and nothing is happening simultaneously. It’s been termed a “bridging year,” but a bridge to where exactly, no one is sure.
The press conference for the first event of the season—the Quiksilver Pro—is being held on the beachfront at Snapper Rocks. The humidity is so sharp it’s like breathing fish hooks. A stifling room full of leaky newspaper hacks and TV network girls melting like wax dummies stare at an empty chair with the nameplate “Kelly Slater” in front of it. His no-show is for “personal reasons,” … More
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The twins—surfers and models—dish on the healthy habits that shaped their careers and bodies.
It’d be almost too easy to compare 24-year-old twins Sierra and Hailey Partridge to another famous sibling duo: Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. After all, both sets of twins are strikingly blonde and beautiful, accomplished, and driven. But we won’t even bother, because the Patridges are on their own path to stardom, thanks to a solid career in both surfing and modeling (Sierra was even cast as actress Brooklyn Decker’s surfing body double in the 2010 film “Just Go With It”), careers that demand both talent and, obviously, an incredible physique. Here, the Ocean Minded ambassadors who currently reside in Ventura, California, spill the not-so-secret secrets to their buff bods:
You’ve both lived in California for your whole lives. What’s one thing that … Pictures and more
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