As yet another high surf advisory is issued for Oahu’s North Shore, the $845,000 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink, is revving up for next week’s Thursday start. Wave face heights reached 25 feet over the weekend and provided surfers with the ultimate warm-up session.
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The North Shore’s winter season is likely to get underway within the next few days, as the 2009 Xcel Pro Presented By Honolua returns to Sunset Beach with competition-worthy conditions forecast for Friday, the event’s first holding period day.
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The new fangled Red Bull Rivals competition is going to pit Oahu’s best surfers against one another (North Shore vs. South Shore) this Saturday, September 5. Check out who gets to represent their shore.
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Since Dane has been eliminated in the very first round of the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, we won’t be seeing him surf until the beginning of May when the Tour implants itself on the tranquil island of Tahiti for the Billabong Pro at Teahupoo. Seeing as how Dane is undeniably one of the most exciting surfers to watch, you could say there’s a lot of people bummed out about not seeing him push through to later rounds at Bells. But that’s that, the new format is what it is. He lost a heat and he got eliminated, the contest goes on.
That being said, here’s some of the most recent Dane footage out there to tide you (and us) over till Tahiti.
Dane’s GO Moment At Pipe
Hawaii Feb ‘08
Self-shaped ‘Otter Pop’
Let’s be honest, Kelly Slater shaping his own boards has gotten more banter and buzz than Alana Blanchard’s bikinis. Well, maybe not that much, but it seems like people are making a pretty big deal about it. And rightfully so, to a certain extent.
In this day and age of the shaping machine, most young pros have never even touched a planer or a sanding block. So, to see the world’s greatest surfer doing things for himself is a bit shocking, I can undestand that. But self-shaping-pros have always been the ones who made the drastic changes in board design: Mark Richards, Simon Anderson, et. al. Hopefully self-shaping won’t become a hollow, insincere fad for self-promotion, but serve the rightful purpose of pros being able to put their theories and needs of a board into reality. Spot on ya Dane for ripping that ugly thing apart.
In episode 5 of The Volcom House Show, Gavin “The Alien” Beschen talks aloha spirit and shows how to charge on the North Shore.
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The Vans Surf team has been busy this winter (yes, only two more weeks left of official winter). Check out what Nathan Fletcher, the Gudauskas brothers, Dylan Graves, Josh Mullcoy, and Joel Tudor have all been up to on their worldly travels.
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The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau holding period officially draws to a close tomorrow, February 28, 2009. Since the event’s inception in the winter of 1984/85, it has only been held seven times, due to the event’s uncompromising wave requirement of minimum 20-foot surf Hawaiian-scale (40 foot faces).
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Charger Rob Brown taking a rough one at Pipe this winter. Everyone falls sometime. Glad Rob’s ok
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O’Brien took some seriously big sets (as expected) and did well to hold his rail in and drive through some big tubes only to be pinched on the end sections. In the end O’Brien finished a credible third, but was unable to qualify for the next round of competition.
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Tim “The Doctor” Jones takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Hawaiian Islands as we take off from the North Shore of Oahu and cruise over to the Big Island and back. Featuring Shane Dorian, Torrey Meister, TJ Barron, CJ Kanuha, Tonino Benson, Casey Brown and more bruddas.
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