After hitting a ton of pools in So Cal, the Profile team including Chad DeGroot, Mark Mulville, and Matt Coplon headed up the coast to shred some parks and trails
Salt Creek beach in Dana Point was the site of the BIA National Championship Bodyboard tour season opener with a field of 75 riders turning out competed in the first of 7 Pro/Am Bodyboard competitions this year. $ 1000.00 in cash awarded to the Pro body boarders and an additional $3,000 in prizes and awards to all the finalists as the premier body board tour attracts the Nation’s top amateur and Professionals riders.
Conditions for the event were fantastic and couldn’t have been better as the competitors and spectators alike were blessed with sunny skies and solid 3 – 5’ swell … Details
Noah Beschen has just turned 9 years old and loves his life on the North Shore of Hawaii. Noah takes full advantage of his environment as he tests his skills in the water and on land
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Rowing Across the Atlantic Race – Heavy Weather, Hallucinations, Hostility and Harmonica – AORR
This week finds most, if not all, of the Atlantic Ocean Rowing Race fleet stuck on their sea (para) anchors in the grip of a pretty vicious weather system that is giving them all a fairly solid battering. Quite apart from the frustration of no progress towards Antigua, and in most cases, miles being blown backwards which will have to be rowed all over again – the teams have to cope with probably the most uncomfortable conditions that they will encounter.
The sea anchors work very effectively when deployed from the bow, turning the boats’ noses into the prevailing conditions and helping the rowers to quite literally ride out the storm. Unfortunately …Â Details & Pictures