Sandy Beach delivered the goods for the Dave and Buster’s Pro, part of the USBA Body Glove Tour today. Surf was in the 3-6 foot face range with epic high tide half point (surf break) rights and lefts. Gulilherme Tamega, 37 from Brazil, took top honors in the highly contested Pro Men’s division.
“It’s really good to be at Sandy Beach,” exclaimed Tamega. “It was a hard final, I knew I had to get the best waves and I could hear the crowd cheer for the Hawaiians, so I had to get through that.” It was a close match. Current World Champion, Kauai’s Jeff Hubbard, snagged waves right at the horn and had the crowd screaming at the get go. The final was a high performance battle as the lead changed several times during the 25-minute heat … Details
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Straight from the Sh-tter, I mean Twitter, Mike V tweated, or twit, or whatever were calling it that he has left Element to start his own “independent” skateboard company, By The Sword Skateboards. This comes just weeks after he announced he is going to try out professional hockey, so I guess he’s also going to try out the business world as well. This guy has his hands in everything; he’s in a band, he’s a professional skateboarder, a professional hockey player, a motivational speaker, and by the way I went to one of his spoken words things when I was like 12. Does anyone remember those? He used to talk of … Details
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The wind began to pick up in strength fairly early this morning, making it possible for an 11:30am start. The double eliminations resumed with women’s heat #15, Jalou Langeree (Naish, NED) against Ania Grzelinska (North, POL).
Grzelinska did not continue onto the following heat against Johara Sykes-Davies (Flexifoil, GRB) due to an injury she obtained in her previous heat. Sykes-Davies moves on to compete against Asia Litwin (Nobile, POL) but loses in a 3-0-judge decision. Litwin goes on to face Jo Wilson (Naish, GRB) in the semi final  … Details
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