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Here are a couple links to the Ventura Contest trailers… enjoy

Highlights of the competitors: http://www.vimeo.com/1174267

Friends of the event who dropped by: http://www.vimeo.com/1058696 

check it out at: www.spongewars.com

Come join us at our 11th Annual Bodyboard Expo this Sunday, June 22nd in the parking lot of Alternative Surf’s Dana Point shop. 34085 PCH. (888) SPONGE1.

New products scheduled to be released @ Expo are Toobs 20th Anniversary “Marquee” board, No.6 “Blitzkrieg”, “Idol”, and “Brawler” boards and “Vice” leash, New Mike Stewart springsuits and rashguards, New Crysis Bodyboard Mag, New No Friends and TOS tees.
Check out the new Madrid lineup already fully stocked.

Also, our biggest sale of the year on everything in stock. ALL boards, fins, leashes, dvds, boardbags, clothes, - everything!

Free board raffles throughout the day, free BBQ, drinks, games, prizes and live music.
Meet the pros and get autographed posters, photos and board stamping!

Participants scheduled so far include… Toobs, Madrid, Mike Stewart Science, Custom X, No. 6, Cartel,
Wave Rebel, BZ, Vortex, JL Designs, LMNOP, Ghetto Boyz, No Friends, TOS, Embrace, Viper Fins,
Pod Fins, V- Duck Fins, Bullys, XM and more.

Come kick off the Summer with the ONLY shop that’s 100% dedicated to you, 13 years running!!

For more info go to www.bodyboardexpo.com and shop online @ www.alternativesurf.com

See ya there!

If you’re in the Central Coast area check out long time A-frame contributor, and all around good guy Chris Burkard’s photo exhibit “Unearth” 

We just gave birth to 470 page A-Frame, we call her #5.  Take a looksy:

http://www.a-framemag.com/mags/05/ 

We’ve got interviews with world champ Ben Player, east coast schredder Chris Schlegel, underground Santa Cruz ripper Sammy Garcia, and a profile of the photographer formerly known as Lil’ Todd Glaser.  Meanwhile on the travel side of  things, we’ve got an epic trip to Central America, a big honkin’ Mexico fiesta, and a voyage to the bottom of the South Pacific.  But once again, the main attraction are the 3 epic galleries filled with 200 pages of photographic love. Be there now.

I told you guys I don’t follow contests too well. If I’m out I’m going
to go surf. Most guys who surf these events stick around to watch but I
just want to get barrelled all day. The whole purpose of doing a
contest is to get as many good waves as possible and to surf them as
best you can. Then you get the reward of being in the next heat. That’s
the biggest reward you can get when surfing the pipe event due to the
crowds out here. Sand bars are epic. Pipe is firing and town is about
to start acting up huge here along with the south shore which means
that there is going to be some big crosss up swells coming to
california and here as well. Everyone should brace for a huge fucking
bowling pit. Everyone’s going to get barrels in the next few weeks from
So Cal to Hawaii. Guaranteed cuz I’m putting it out there. Now let’s
all intend to make it happen or I’ll just take all of them for my
greedy ass self.

Weird journal entry huh? TrIpPpErrrr!!!!

Taloa

10:23am feb. 21 and the final day of the event. If it isn’t it goes to show how much I don’t follow this kind of shit. The only thing I want to see is deep hollow barrels and aerials out the bowl with spinners in the air and on the section or in the hole. So far I’ve seen Tamega smoke a few waves, Kainoa do his thing, Andre be a freak and pull off shit on such a small board I don’t know how he does it and Andrew lester with real tight surfing. But taking the cake was Ben Player’s backdoor usage of the hole. He treated Backdoor like a dirty alley slut looking for a hit of crack. He just waved it in front of the crack head and then stepped on it and obliterated it before she could smoke it. Real good surfing. On one wave he barely snuck out from the cover before the closeout and really made himself look good in the process.

Onward. Now I’m bored talking here. Laters…

Taloa