And it’s official the ASP North America has announced its top 6 junior who qualified to surf in the World Pro Junior Championships. Evan Thompson qualified by placing 4th in the top 4 spots in the ASP North American Junior ratings. There are 2 championship events the 1st being in Bali this Oct and the final event is in Jan of next year in Australia.
Today was a day for the women. Round 1-3 happened today. Alana Blanchard starting at round 2 advanced into round 4 which happens tomorrow Tues Aug 3. Check back for the Spy athlete update.
Alana being interviewed after her 3 round victory.
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.
Must be that webisode release time because Wade has also released his 3rd video on his website Creative Destruction. Wade is doing the craziest airs ever check it out! Enjoy…..
Transworld Surf has been putting the final touches on their latest movie release, High Five, and will be premiering it along the entire East Coast through the month of July. Wade Goodall has one of the 5 starring roles in the film and it is sure to be a banger. Here are the remaining dates left for the East Coast premieres July 23rd NY, July 24th Newport, RI, July 25th Hampton, NH,July 26th Cape Cod, MA. Wade will be there for those dates. Tell him that we sent you! Stay tuned for the West Coast premiere tour coming next month.
Paker and his old brother Conner have a bolg site named “Young Wise Tails“. Surfer magazine is running an online contest right now called Battle of the Blogs. In the 1st round they were voter higher than the Hobgood’s bolg site called “The Goods” Not bad for a 14 and 16 year old groms form Santa Barbara. Don’t forget to vote for them.
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.
Well, June was a hectic month for the the groms 22 days of contest surfing. The NSSA National Championships was 14 days of the 22. Parker Coffin, Nich Rupp and Tristan Thompson were the Spy surfers that participated in the NSSA National Championship. Went it was all said and done it was Parker Coffin and Nick Rupp who rose to the occasion. Nick Rupp placed 2nd in Explorer Men’s division and Parker Coffin placed 3rd in the Open Men’s division and 1st in the Explorer Juniors division.
Open Men's Final Parker in the red jersey 3rd place
Parker thanking his support group. 1st palce in the Explorer Juniors final
Far left, Nick Rupp, placing 2nd in the Explorer Mens final
The NSSA Nationals Set Up
Torrey Meister came to support the spy groms
The prizes
The Coffin's filmer Ryan Perry and Torrey Meister rapping
Rich Parker's father cherishing his success
Krista Parker's mom expressing her joy as the rest of the family stands near
All the dreams that came true (winners). Parker is in the back center in the grey shirt.
