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BILLABONG PRO TAHITI – WORLD’S HEAVIEST WAVE NEXT STOP ON ASP TOUR

Billabong Pro Tahiti
Stop No 3. of 10 on the 2007 Foster’s ASP World Tour Teahupoo, Taiarapu, Tahiti May 4-14, 2007


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FANNING IN EARLY TO KILL TEAHUPOO HOODOO

TEAHUPOO, Tahiti (Monday, April 23rd, 2007) – Australian surfers Taj Burrow (AUS) and Mick Fanning (AUS) will enter the Billabong Pro Tahiti ranked equal 1st in the world when the Foster’s ASP World Tour heads to Tahiti from May 4-14, 2007.

Fanning and Burrow dominated the Australian leg of the tour claiming events at Snapper Rocks and Bells Beach respectively, but neither has earned ultimate honors at Teahupoo, the third of 10 stops on this year’s tour.Fanning, who has claimed elite tour victories in Australia, Brazil and South Africa, has never won an event in the South Pacific, in fact, he finished dead last in the Billabong Pro Tahiti in 2006.… Read the rest

SURFING’S ELITE GATHER DOWN UNDER TO KICK OFF 2007 WORLD TOURS

ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS (ASP) INTERNATIONAL

Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast
Roxy Pro Gold Coast
Event No. 1 on the Foster’s ASP and ASP Women’s World Tours
Snapper Rocks, Gold Coast, Australia
February 24 – March 12, 2007

COOLANGATTA, Australia (Monday, Feb. 19, 2007) – The 2007 Foster’s ASP World Tour and ASP Women’s World Tour will kick off at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast of Australia with the Quiksilver and Roxy Pros presented by Samsung next week.

In addition to a plethora of dynamic rookies, improved judging technology and an innovative nation versus nation team event, the Foster’s Surf Showdown, will add to the anticipation of the Gold Coast event.

This season’s Foster’s ASP World Tour will match last season’s record 14 new faces set to storm the top ranks.Ten of the new comers include complete rookies such as Australians Luke Munro, Kai Otton, Ben Dunn, Josh Kerr and Dayyan Neve, along with South Africans Ricky Basnett and Royden Bryson, Brazilian Leonardo Neves, American Gabe Kling and Frenchman Jeremy Flores.… Read the rest

OXBOW PRO TO CROWN 2007 ASP WORLD LONGBOARD CHAMPION IN ANGLET

Oxbo Pro World Longboard Championship
ASP World Longboard Championship
Les Cavalliers, Anglet, France
April 30 – May 6, 2007

ANGLET, France (Friday, Apr. 27, 2007) – With the Oxbow World Longboard Championship scheduled to start this Monday, Apr. 30, at Anglet, France, the Basque Coast is set for a huge influx of surfing legends and the world’s hottest longboarders. One such surfer will be crowned the ASP World Longboard Champion by May 6, the last day of the event waiting period.It is believed that surfing was first brought to Europe way back in 1956 by Hollywood screenwriter Peter Viertel when he was in Biarritz filming ‘The Sun also Rises.’ From that, a local surfing community quickly sprung up, led by Biarritz legends George Hennebutte and Joel de Rosnay. Since then the area has been labeled as the cradle of European surfing and is known as its spiritual home.… Read the rest

REEF: DEBUT MOVIE MIXED TAPE

Reef To Release Debut Movie Mixed Tape: Bobby Volume 1

Reef Entertainment, a division of the global action sports brand Reef, is proud to announce the production of their first global surf movie, Mixed Tape: Bobby Volume 1. Starring world ranked #5, Bobby Martinez and featuring the Reef Team, Mixed Tape is being directed by Pete Santa Maria and is set to release June 15, 2007.Mixed Tape is a movie about 2006 ASP Rookie of the Year, Bobby Martinez. The name “Mixed Tape” ties into Bobby’s mix of Latin and American culture, his love for music and the consolidation of countless tapes of footage shot over the years. The end result is an action packed movie of A+ surfing.

The movie features Bobby surfing at home in Santa Barbara, away on the WCT, and at various pumping surf spots across the globe.… Read the rest

TOP $$$ FOR OLD BOARDS

Top $$$ for old boards

By Catherine E. Toth
Advertiser Urban Honolulu Writer

photo: JOAQUIN SIOPACK | The Honolulu Advertiser

As prices for vintage surfboards soar, a growing number of surfers are pulling old boards out of garages and storerooms, hoping they’re now worth thousands of dollars.

A Gerry Lopez Lightning Bolt surfboard, which cost about $150 in the ’70s, is now worth about $10,000. Even the old Pop-Out surfboards that once cost $39 at Longs Drugs back in the ’60s fetch at least $500 today.

“That’s pretty good appreciation,” said longtime surfer John Wade, 52, of Pupukea, who has a collection of classic boards.

This growing value of old surfboards prompted collector Randy Rarick to organize an “Antiques Road Show”-style appraisal of boards open to the public as part of his fourth biennial Quiksilveredition Hawaiian Islands Vintage Surf Auction in July.Top… Read the rest