Yes, stay in THE A Christmas Story House from THE movie, “A Christmas Story”. I found this once in a lifetime auction on Ebay and figured any surfer or anyone else who has seen the classic movie will definitely bid on this auction.
This is my favorite movie of all time! I can’t wait for the TNT 24-hour tv marathon! Don’t shoot your eye out if you win the auction!
The auction is only good for 10 days and starts today (11/17/08 ). Get your bids in now!!!
Now is your chance to stay in the A Christmas Story house located in Cleveland, OH. Sleep where Ralphie and the Parkers used to sleep!! Get a VIP experience for 4 people, airfare, hotel, and your meals included. You may even get to turn on THE A Christmas Story House’s leg lamp.
I just got this new pedometer for my personal exercise use and I love it! I know you are probably wondering….why talk about a pedometer on a surfing website? We all know a pedometer is pretty much worthless while surfing, but this little toy is perfect for your own fitness knowledge. If you like walking, running, getting in shape or exercising, this Omron Pedometer is great! Use it on your next surf hike, wear it at work, or on your next surfing vacation.
Pros: Accurate, Easy To Use, Simple Controls, Lightweight, Compact Design
Best Uses: All Day Use, Running, Walking
Describe Yourself: Conditioning Exerciser
I use this product to see how far I walk each day. It is amazing to see the miles add up everyday. Easy to use and so compact to fit in your pocket. Easy to use buttons and sleek design. Highly recommend.
Some fellow surfing buddies started a band, Weazul Meat, back in our high school days and decided to get the band back together. The members of Weazul Meat sent me their best rendition of Cheech and Chong’s - Battle of the Bands song “Earache My Eye.” I think the lead singer sounds just like Alice Bowie (Cheech Marin’s character in the band). Wow, check out the drummer! Is that a double kick bass I hear??
Check it out and let me know what you think. If there are any music producers out there that think they have a shot, then email me!
Congrats to the Aussie, Bede Durbidge, for winning the 2008 Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro in Brazil. This was Bede’s 3rd career ASP event win and moves into 2nd place in the 2008 ASP World Tour standings.
There is only one more stop on the 2008 ASP World Tour. The next and last stop this year will conclude at the world famous Banzai Pipeline, Oahu-Hawaii. The Billabong Pipeline Masters will go down December 8-20, 2008. Bede Durbidge will be rolling into the North Shore with tons of confidence. Not only did he just win at the 2008 Hang Loose Pro, but he will be defending his 2007 Billabong Pipeline Masters victory at this years final tour stop. Look for Bede to lock up his ASP second place finish this year by winning at Pipe.
Top 10 2008 ASP World Tour Surfers After The Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro:
1. Kelly Slater (USA) 8042
2. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 6780
3. Taj Burrow (AUS) 6324
4. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 6180
5. C.J. Hobgood (USA) 5860
6. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 5748
7. Adrian Buchan (AUS) 5370
8. Mick Fanning (AUS) 5310
9. Bobby Martinez (USA) 5282
10. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 5214
The 2008 Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro starts October 28. The event is jam packed with local Brazilian surfers and only some of the top 45 ASP pro surfers. Some top names have opted out of this years Santa Catarina Pro. Some missing notables include 9-time world champion Kelly Slater, World #3 Joel Parkinson, 3-time world champion Andy Irons, his brother Bruce Irons, 2-time defending Santa Catarina Pro winner Mick Fanning, Bobby Martinez, and Luke Munro.
The ASP World Tour #2, Taj Burrow, has been very consistent in Brazil. He won 3 of his ASP World Tour career events in Brazil and looks to add a fourth one. With so many top ASP surfers out of this years competition, Taj Burrow will surf against the best Brazilian talent.
Do not miss the O’Neill Cold Water Classic in Santa Cruz, CA. The event takes place October 21-26, 2008.
The O’Neill Cold Water Classic is an ASP 4-Star event and is event #40 on the ASP WQS Men’s Tour. Catch the action at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, California.
Round 5 was completed Saturday, October 25 and will start up again Sunday, October 26. A couple of local Santa Cruz surfers look to keep this years title in Santa Cruz.
The swell predictors are forecasting great swell for October 22-25, depending on your location. Southern California surfers should look for the new swell to peak during October 24-25. Shoulder-head high+ surf should be the story for Southern California, while Southern Baja and Central America receiving solid, overhead surf.
Research the globe, Reserve your surf spot, and Submit your favorite surf spot. Simple enough, right? Start up your Internet and go searching.
It really is that simple. Go research a “secret surf spot” somewhere on Google Earth and mark it as the next “Teahupoo”. I highly suggest participating in this awesome contest. Take some time this week or next month, or even in December to cast your vote.
Kelly Slater has already won the 2008 ASP World Surfing Tour Title, but there are still 2 surfing events left on the surfing world tour. The race for the top 10 ASP World Tour rankings is still up for grabs. There are 6 Australians in top 10 contention. Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson, and Bede Durbidge are battling it out for the top 3 spots after 2008 title holder, Kelly Slater. There is only 1 Brazilian (Adriano de Souza) in the top 10 rankings and look for him to step up his sufing in the next contest. Adriano will be surfing in his “backyard.”
The next ASP Tour surf stop takes place at the Hang Loose Pro in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Adriano de Souza’s home turf is Brazil and he is from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sao Paulo is two states above Santa Catarina and both states offer a long coastline of surf spots. Adriano is “Brazil’s Favorite Son” and he has gained significant recognition on this years ASP World Tour. He has already earned $101,000 on the 2008 ASP tour, compared to Kelly Slater’s tour earnings of $185,100. One of Adriano’s fellow Brazilians, Bruno Santos, won the 2008 Billabong Pro Teahupoo, Tahiti. Bruno Santos won the event as a wildcard and had to surf his way through the Von Zipper Trials. He eventually made it into the main draw of the 2008 Billabong Pro Tahiti and defeated local Tahitian, Manoa Drollet.
I have not been to Brazil yet, but if anybody has surfed this area or visited this area, please comment on this blog and talk about your experiences. Thanks!
Look for Adriano de Souza to make some surfing noise on the ASP World Tour stop #10.
CJ Hobgood beat fellow surfer Joel Parkinson at the 2008 Billabong Pro Mundaka, Spain. This was stop number 9 on the 11 event ASP Tour. Who will make it to the top 10? Second place? Third place?
There are 3 Australian surfers battling it out for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place in the overall ASP Tour standings. The next 2 events will be fun ones to watch. Next up is the Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro in Santa-Catarina, Brazil. Then the whole 2008 ASP season concludes at the Billabong Pipeline Masters and the Banzai Pipeline, Oahu-Hawaii. Pipeline is where second and third place could be decided.
Billabong Pro Mundaka Final Results: Final: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 18.50 def. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 15.83
Billabong Pro Mundaka Semifinal Heat Results: Heat 1: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 17.80 def. Adrian Buchan (AUS) 14.50
Heat 2: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 14.66 def. Luke Stedman (AUS) 6.70
ASP World Tour Top 10 after Stop No. 9 of 11 – Billabong Pro Mundaka
Kelly Slater (USA) 8042 points
Taj Burrow (AUS) 6324 points
Joel Parkinson (AUS) 6180 points
Bede Durbidge (AUS) 5990 points
Adriano de Souza (BRA) 5748 points
C.J. Hobgood (USA) 5760 points
Adrian Buchan (AUS) 5730 points
Mick Fanning (AUS) 5310 points
Bobby Martinez (USA) 5282 points
Luke Stedman (AUS) 4696 points
Slater only needed a ninth place finish to wrap up the 2008 ASP surfing season. Kelly Slater has done it again. Or should I say, he has done it 9 times again. Slater won his 9th ASP World Surfing Title at the Billabong Pro Mundaka, Spain. That is better than Lance Armstrong. He only needed to advance past round 3 of competition and that he did. He ended up beating local Basque surfer Eneko Acero with a combined score of 14.96 vs. 10.00. Then Tom Whitaker (AUS) knocked Kelly Slater (USA) out of the Billabong Pro Mundaka contest with a perfect 10 and an 8.00 during Heat #4 of Round 4. In 2006, Slater won his 8th world title at this same surf spot. There are only 2 ASP surfing events left in the 2008 season. Who will come in second? Third?
The event could finish Saturday with the quarterfinals already decided.
Round 4 Billabong Pro Mundaka Results: Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 17.27 def. Mick Campbell (AUS) 16.43
Heat 2: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 16.00 def. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 13.73
Heat 3: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 14.50 def. Tiago Pires (PRT) 5.83
Heat 4: Tom Whitaker (AUS) 18.00 def. Kelly Slater (USA) 12.43
Heat 5: Taj Burrow (AUS) 13.84 def. Taylor Knox (USA) 11.17
Heat 6: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 15.50 def. Mikael Picon (FRA) 9.50
Heat 7: Bede Durbidge (AUS) 14.94 def. Kieren Perrow (AUS) 8.80
Heat 8: Luke Stedman (AUS) 15.00 def. Bobby Martinez (USA) 8.63
Upcoming Billabong Pro Mundaka Quarterfinal Heat Match-Ups: Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Joel Parkinson (AUS)
Heat 2: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs. Tom Whitaker (AUS)
Heat 3: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. C.J. Hobgood (USA)
Heat 4: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Luke Stedman (AUS)
Kelly Slater will surf against Basque wildcard Eneko Acero in Heat 8. The contest officials will likely start the contest at 8:30am (local Mundaka time) tomorrow morning. If Slater wins he will clinch his 9th ASP World Titl. Contest officials also expect to run overlapping heats again. With only a certian amount of surfable waves during the contest waiting period, the officials need to complete as many heats as possible. Thursday had the most heats ever surfed in one day of an ASP surfing event. Slater and Acero will paddle out an hour and 20-minutes after competition starts Friday.
The 2008 Billabong Pro Mundaka, Spain has started. The first contest rounds were surfed this morning in 2 foot A-frame peaks. Not the normal firing left-handed barrels that Mundaka spits out on a solid swell. Too bad the surfers had to wake up to such fickle waves. Hopefully, the forecasted swell fills in Thursday and pumps out some better scoring waves. Watching 3 and 4 point scores on waves aren’t as fun as watching 8’s or 9’s!
Watch out for the 4 Euskadi (Basque for the Basque region of Spain) surfers in this years event. There are a total of 8 non-tour surfers competing because 5 full-time ASP World Tour surfers could not make the event. The 8 non-tour surfers are comprised of 5 replacement surfers and 3 event wildcards.
September 30 is another lay day for the surf contest. The surf event directors say there is some nice swell on tap for Thursday/ Friday. Right now the swell is too small for competition.
Kelly Slater was only 7.31 points away from clinching his 9th ASP World Title. Adrian Buchan spoiled Slater’s title by beating him in the Quiksilver Pro France final and extending the ASP champion race to Mundaka, Spain.
The 2008 Billabong Pro Mundaka waiting period starts Monday, September 29. Kelly Slater won his last ASP World Title at Mundaka and Slater only needs to secure a 9th place finish at the Billabong Pro Mundaka to clinch title number 9. All Slater has to do is advance past Round 3, but if he does not and reigning ASP World Champ Mick Fanning or ASP number 2 Taj Burrow win the event, the title race will move onto Brazil. Watch the video of Mundaka working it.
Look out for: Santa Barbara local, Bobby Martinez, has won the Mundaka event the past 2 years. His 5ht place finish at the 2008 Quiksilver Pro France has moved him into 7th place in the ASP world rankings.
The Billabong Pro Mundaka waiting period runs from Monday, September 29 - Sunday, October 12. All the surfing news, reporters, and bloggers will be at the event to capture the potential history. Sorry, but I won’t be ale to make it this year. Maybe sometime in the future when all the world is reading The Surf Blog Spot.
Adrian Buchan (AUS) has defeated 8-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), at the 2008 Quiksilver Pro France. The ASP World Tour title race will have to move onto the next ASP stop, the Billabong Pro Mundaka, Spain. Slater could have sealed the ASP Tour season with a win, but he will have to wait for his 9th ASP World Title. This is Adrian Buchan’s first world tour event win. Adrian beat Kelly Slater 15.73 to 15.16. What a close finish. You never know what you are going to get when the world’s best surfers hit the water.
Final Quiksilver Pro France Results: Final: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 15.74 def. Kelly Slater (USA) 15.16
Semifinal Quiksilver Pro France Results:
Heat 1: Kelly Slater (USA) 14.90 def. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 13.97
Heat 2: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 15.17 def. Damien Hobgood (USA) 8.83
Top 10 ASP World Tour Ratings After The Quiksilver Pro France: 1. Kelly Slater (USA) - 7852 points
2. Taj Burrow (AUS) - 6002 points
3. Bede Durbidge (AUS) – 5668 points
4. Adriano De Souza (BRA) – 5426 points
5. Joel Parkinson (AUS) - 5373 points
6. Mick Fanning (AUS) - 5310 points
7. Bobby Martinez (USA) - 5092 points
8. CJ Hobgood (USA) - 4880 points
9. Adrian Buchan (AUS) - 4719 points
10. Jeremy Flores (FRA) - 4407 points
