Breaking Ice

A quick update from our good friends Andrew Hunter & The Gatherers. Face from the bands debut album Victory at Sea has been added to the East Coast Countdown. That means that with your help AH&G could crack the top ten. If you haven’t heard the track visit myspace.com/andrewhuntermusic.

Go to eastcoastcountdown.com and vote for Face before Sunday. Vote as many times as you can before your fingers become blistered and bloody from pecking away at your keyboard. Listen in on Sunday to see if they make it and if you hear Face contact the band, and let them know it was your vote that put them over the top. Demand a t-shirt for your troubles and tell them you read this here. Grab me a t-shirt while you’re at it!

Cheers

Mike

[Owen Wright : photo Kirstin Wilson]

Owen Wright (Culburra, NSW) is surfing’s undisputed high-flyer after taking down the greatest-ever line-up of aerialists at the Boost Mobile Surf Sho presented by Nokia at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast today, walking away with his largest pay day ever. The eighteen year old Aussie put the contest out of reach with a near perfect aerial, scoring a 9.93 out of ten.

“With a couple of minutes remaining the perfect ramp popped up and I sealed the deal. When I landed it I hoped no one landed anything bigger cause all the guys were capable of pulling a big move off. It feels great to win it.”

To read more on the days events visit Global Surf News

[Photo courtesy FFF]

March 29th marked the 3rd annual Nor-Easter Surf Classic at White Point Lodge presented by Billabong and SANS. Who better to give us a quick wrap up than our man from FistFullaFives Steve Smith. Here’s what he had to say:

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photo courtesy www.ttrworldtour.com

Fistfullafives team member and all around snowboard rock star Sarah Conrad continues to blaze on the international competition level. Another top five finish at the Roxy Chicken Jam at Mammoth Mountain in California helped to cement her legacy as one of the top female snowboarders in the game today. The comp was the final leg of the Swatch Ticket to Ride Tour. Conrad finished 20th in the multi-event season long competition.

Her next, Cypress Mountain in West Van for the national championships. Congrats Sarah

I was fast asleep after a night of partying with Lionel Richie and Natalie Cole when the call came in from SANS president John Fluke.

A group of sixty or so determined surfers had made the voyage to White Point Lodge on the south shore of Nova Scotia for the third annual Billabong Nor’Easter Surf Classic. Although there was nothing too staggering about the results of this frozen water surf contest, the spin offs were very important especially for the ISA junior boys Canadian contingent.

Now, here are your results:

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The snow is still falling, the roads are icy and unsafe and the elderly are in the throws of terrible fits of arthritis. The beginning of spring has come and graced the Maritimes with it’s sunny disposition. But the blustery conditions may hold for a decent swell at White Point tomorrow for the Billabong Nor’Easter Surf Classic. That’s right. It’s a go. Obvious by the green traffic light cutout glowing proudly on the SANS website.

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Dale Staples : photo Steve Robertson
Many of the worlds greatest 16 and under surfers competed in 1m clean surf today to decide the Rip Curl GromSearch Champion for 2008 at Bells Beach in Australia. The results are in. Thousands of spectators were on hand and Dale Staples (St Francis Bay/Sth Africa/16 years) didn’t disappoint becoming the second South African surfer to make the Rip Curl GromSearch international 16 Boys and under final. The other was Jordy Smith who placed second in the event three years ago, but this time Staples claimed top prize.

 

 

“It’s my biggest win ever and I can’t believe I’ve won. To do one better than Jordy is unbelievable and I only hope I can do what Jordy’s doing now and eventually make ASP World Tour – He’s an amazing surfer!”

 

For other contest results check out Surfers Village

 

 

 

 

Checked in on the action at Bells Beach and it looks like ground breaking surfer Dane Reynolds is making his presence felt. The 22 year old World Tour rookie from California led the pack in the second round nailing the highest wave score (9.73 out of 10) and a best heat total of 18.73 out of twenty.

“That (9.73) was just a perfect clean face,” Reynolds said. “I would have had to really blow it to not get a score. I basically connected the dots, I didn’t do anything too ridiculous, but that is all it took.

For more info on the Rip Curl Pro presented by Snickers check it out at Surfers Village

Stephanie Gilmore [Photo: Robertson/ASP Covered Images]

I caught the results for rounds one and two at the Rip Curl Women’s Pro presented by Ford Fiesta at Bell’s Beach.

No surprise that reigning ASP Women’s World Champion and defending event champion Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) netted the day’s highest heat total of a 17.40 out of a possible 20.

“It takes a fair bit of hard work (defending your title),” Gilmore said. “Everyone is surfing so well this season and everyone’s hungry for the win. It’s definitely going to be a bit harder than last year. However, I’m just taking it heat by heat. I was focusing on that last heat, and now I’m just looking ahead and focusing on my Round 3 heat.”

For a look at the standings after the first two rounds check out

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[Photo: Mike Rossi]

The end of winter, and the beginning of spring usually means only two things to surfers in Nova Scotia. Terrible wave conditions and the NorEaster Surf Classic. And this year the lineup for the annual will be stacked with talented locals looking for spots on the ISA world games teams.

Click on the link below to see a rundown of this years contestants, last years winners and a few people to look out for. Our thanks to SANS for publishing the list!

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