http://surfelemenohpee.com/ team rider “Da Hapz” aka Happy Zurowski busted out the goods. Just minutes ago we received the email from Hapz with some amazing shots from the USBA Sandy Beach Pro yesterday. Check out the shots by clicking here!
Happy hard at work for Spunjah Chronic
Jeff Hubbard the 2009 USBA Sandy Beach Pro champ!
The Spunjah Chronic crew is all sandy beached out after this weekend. Two days straight of non stop action from sun up to sun down at Sandys. After the contest we headed to Dave & Busters to check out the award ceremony and find out who brought home the paper. Here are the first place winners from each division:
Amateur’s 13-18 years old
1st place – Alex Brown (Kauai)
Alex Brown sealing his victory in the Open Amateur Division
Open Amateur Men’s
1st place – Keahi Parker (Big Island)
Open Amateur Women’s
1st place – Christina Delima (Maui)
Standup
1st place – Kekoa Cazimero (Oahu)
Kekoa shows some versatility on the bodyboard!
Drop Knee Pro
1st place – David Hubbard (Kauai)
Dubb with the floater to take the DK crown!
Open Pro Women’s
1st place – Karla Taylor (South Africa)
The ladies pulled out all the stops...Karla Taylor, wife of madman Alistair Taylor shows us some innovation.
Open Pro Men’s
1st place – Jeff Hubbard (Kauai)
One of the many moves Jeff used to win this year at Sandys!
All the final heats were exciting and down to the wire. Jeff Hubbard barely edged out aerial guru Jacob Romero in the final minutes of the heat as did David Hubbard over Bud Miyamoto in the drop knee finals. Also if there were awards for stamina in the competition we’d have to give it to Elemnohpee team rider Willy Petrovic for surfing numerous back to back heats and making both the Open Pro final and the Drop Knee Pro final. Solid Willy P! It has also been a while since some representatives of the Hawaiian women pro bodyboarders have made finals at the Sandy Beach Pro. Props go out to Kelly Gordon of Maui and Jade Robles of Oahu who placed 3rd & 4th in the Women’s pro final. Mahalo to all those who came down to support especially those who traveled a little further than the outer islands to get here.
USBA Sandy Beach Pro sponsors: Vitamin Water, Tropical Rush yogurt, Lanikai Juice, Wahoos Fish Tacos, Dave & Busters, Custom X, Town & Country Surf, (sorry to anyone we forgot!)
Jacob Pembrook says “these are some of the best waves I’ve ever gotten on the south shore of Oahu!”. We got the call from the heights at 4:30am that the crew was on it’s way to Ala Moana Bowls after hearing Jacob hype the day before. With usual low expectations for the waves in Honolulu the Heightsproductions crew was quite surprised when they rolled up seeing Jacob out at bowls with only 10 other surfers and more than enough waves spitting in the 2-4 foot range. The crowdless conditions remained until about 10:30am when hordes of bodies showed up to get in on the action. By then Jacob was surfed out and is now looking forward to the next south swell. Take a look at some of the action provided to us by Heights Productions.
Jacob’s sponsors include Mike Stewart Science bodyboards as well as Viper & MS Viper fins. He’s riding the Science DK5 board and the MS Viper fins. Notice in the last wave Jacob gets barreled and comes out with only one fin! Looks like he’s gonna have to get another new MS Viper fin. If your in need of a pair of these high performance fins check out your local shop or theboardstoreandmore.com. Also check out www.mikestewart.com for specs on the full line of Science bodyboards.
ALOHA,
SPUNJAH CHRONIC
The view from the Spunjah Chronic hq yesterday evening…Aloha!
Aloha to all viewers and welcome to the very first element of the Spunjah Chronic video magazine
Spunjah Chronic cofounder David Hubbard was right here in Oahu for the last 3 days! We were stoked that we had time to catch up with our fellow brethren. Dubb was in Honolulu for the Point Panic RedWing Cleaver World Bodysurfing Championships. Dubb and a number of other hybrid bodyboarders entered the competition and concluded with excellent results. We’ll have video footage of that later on!
Enjoy some of the action at Sandy Beach Dubb and friends displayed. They put on quite a show for the Heights Productions video cameras. Many of those featured in this edition are top contenders in the USBA Sandy Beach Pro going down this 4th of July weekend at Sandy Beach. There is a south swell lining up just in time for the contest so it’s one not to miss. Get down to sandy beach because fireworks are going to go off this weekend!
ALOHA,
SPUNJAH CHORNIC
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