Check out this hilarious video of Occy on the Australian Dancing with the Stars show. Doesn’t the dancer in the video remind you of the little Occy in the movie, North Shore?? Haha, he’s just as bad on Dancing with the Stars as Rick Kane was in the Arizona wave pool! Don’t shred so bad brah, you break your stick. Really, props to the movie North Shore. That was and still is a classic surf movie. It’s a “must have” in your surf movie vault.
Highwater, the new Dana Brown surf documentary, will be having it’s world premiere at the Lido in Newport Beach on Friday July 24, 2009.
Highwater: Set against the picturesque backdrop of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, HIGHWATER, takes you to the truth of the North Shore’s heart-stopping action, tragedy, and triumph during the unparalleled events of the Vans Triple Crown of surfing.
Chris Ward, Kelly Slater and Pipeline Master Gerry Lopez
Kelly Slater has Mastered the Banzai Pipeline once again.
Nine-time ASP World Champion, Kelly Slater, just won the 2008 Billabong Pro Pipeline Masters a record sixth time. This victory was Slater’s sixth tour event win of the 11 event 2008 ASP world tour. What a great accomplishment for Slater!
The 2008 ASP World Tour has been a dream season for Kelly Slater. Not only did he set another surfing record this year with his 9th ASP World Title, but he also won 6 out of the 11 ASP Tour events. Slater clinched the 2008 ASP World Surfing Title back in October at the Billabong Pro Mundaka. He could have opted out of the Billabong Pro Pipeline Masters event and ended his tour back in Spain. However, I do not think Slater wanted to end his dream tour without taking a crack at the Pipeline event he has won 5 times and did not want to disappoint his fans.
Slater has made the Pipeline Masters final 10 out of his last 17 times he entered it. He won the event in 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 and again in 2008. Ironically enough, Slater’s 9th win comes 9 years after his last Pipeline win. Plus, this year Slater won his 9th ASP World Title. I guess Slater’s lucky number in 2008 was the number 9.
A new Pipeline Master will be crowned after the final today, as well as, a Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Champion. The champion should be crowned around 2pm, local Hawaiian time. The race for the Triple Crown is between three Australians: Joel Parkinson, Tom Whitaker and 2007 Triple Crown Champ Bede Durbidge.
Look for Kelly Slater to make it into the finals! He is killing it right now in the quarter finals against North Shore local, Jamie O’Brien.
The ASP has their new 2009 global surfing schedule. Find out where your favorite surfers will be surfing in 2009!
There have been some changes to the 2009 ASP surfing format and some location changes. The 2009 ASP Surfing Tour will start in Australia on February 28 and the season will end on Hawaii’s North Shore around the middle of December. One notable event stop not on the 2009 ASP contest lineup is the Tavarua, Fiji Globe Pro. The nine time ASP winner, Kelly Slater, has owned this contest and if he decides to surf the 2009 season, he will definitely miss Fiji. Fijians, ASP surfers and ASP followers will bypass the famous surf breaks of Fiji. The most famous spots like Restaurants and Cloudbreak will surely be missed. Read more……
