It’s that time again for the US Open of Surfing. The US’s biggest surf event. Huntington Beach is sunny and the crowds are here.
Spy surfer’s in the junior pro division are John Florence, Alana Blanchard, Evan Thompson, Tyler Newton and Nick Rupp. In the WQS event are Dean Morrison, Alana Blanchard, Ben Bourgeois, Mike Losness, John Florence, Clay Marzo and Torrey Meister.
The juniors has started the first 2 days and after some hard heats the remaining surfers are John Florence and Evan Thompson into the quarter finals.
The men WQS trials has finished and Mike Losness advanced into the main event.
There are going to be some exciting times during the next week so check back for the updates and some great pics!
Enjoy!
Benny B displaying the perfect turn.
This is why the US Open of surfing is the US's biggest surfing event.
If your not familiar with surfing, Taylor Steele is the godfather of making surf movies. He’s help build many careers in the past since the beginning of 1990. Well, Taylor has a new project called Innersection, http://innersection.tv/ This is a web based contest where surfers submit a max 3 min surf video that showcases their surfing ability and the online viewers vote for their favorite video. There are 2 stages for voting. The 1st stage is making it into the top 10 selections. The 2nd stage of voting is making it into the top 5 selections. The top 5 videos will be put into the Innersection DVD for sale. There are 4 submission times. July 1 was the 3rd one and Sept 1 is the final time.
We have 4 surfers, Dean Morrison, Clay Marzo, John Florence and Torrey Meister in this round. We need your support and votes to help get them through into the top 5 selection of this round.
To vote for our surfers you need to join and you can really help by rating them. Once you log in there will be stars on the right side of their section. Don’t be scared to rate them at 10 stars and throw out a positive comment. You can help make the difference for our surfer so please take the time and vote for them.
Here are the links to the Spy surfers so you can see how hard they rip.
This is Clay Marzo on August issue of Surfing Magazine. Get the mag and check out the story beind the cover in the Kustom Airstrike trip. Clay surfing’s is out of this world! Check back later and I will have the article on this blog too.
Vote for SPY surfers Clay Marzo and Dean Morrison for the WPS Top 10 All-Stars at the US Open of Surfing. Sign-up. Login. Vote. Voting closes June 21st. Get on it!
Landscape Altered 4 is the final video from the Kustom Airstrike Suring Mag trip. Clay surfing is mind-blowing. If you don’t know surfing Clay Marzo is in the blue-green-yellow-orange fade trunks. Check it!
Most of us that grew up surfing had dreamed about one or more of these things; getting a picture in the surf mags, having a cool sponsor, getting paid to surf, going on rad trip or even having a part in a surf movie. Most people would be forever happy by making the Surfer Magazine Hot 100 #2 spot, like Clay recently did but Clay Marzo has taken it to another level.
Clay just got an 8 page story in the April issue of Rolling Stone. Yup Rolling Stone magazine! Now if that isn’t frickin cool you must be from Mars. I am calling out “rock star” status here for Clay.
I really am not a big believer in too much text on blogs. I think most of us like pictures and videos. Visual stimulation seems to have the biggest impact but since this is so rad I am going to put the whole article on this, so if you like to read here it is for free.
Clay you’re the man and thanks for being on the team!
Congrats to all our Spy surfers that made the cut and a special thanks to the ones that finished in the top 10. It takes a lot of dedication, sacrifices and hard work to grab the attention of the surf media. We are stoked to have you on the Spy team!
Mens under 20 Spy team riders: Clay Marzo #2, John Florence #4
Womens under 20 Spy team riders: Alana Blancahard #5
Groms under 16 Spy team riders: Parker Coffin #3
Other notiables:
Men’s: Tyler Newton #35, Evan Thompson #36, Cory Arrambide #39, Cody Thompson #42, Nick Rupp #56
