Monday, August 30, 2004
New surf reports from this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Surfer Mag has a new clip up from "State of S" which features some local footage as well as interviews with Greenough. Looks like the film will be shown at the SB Maritime Museum on Friday, September 24th at 7:00 with live peformances by the soundtrack artists.
Pope turned on some anti-spam functionality in his email client a month or so ago which may be the reason he hasn't been getting his email. That's been turned off now, so if you've written an email lately that received no response, go ahead and re-send it.
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Thursday, August 26, 2004
This just in: UCSB voted as #1 "surf and ski" college in America by Newsweek. I guess those Newsweek fact checkers neglected to look into our wave conditions for the last 3 months.
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It's late August and the North Pacific just lazily opened up one eye and brewed a tiny storm sending the first NW swell, albeit tiny in size, that headed to California. Pope headed out to see if it would show in Santa Barbara, and came back with mixed results in this, the first surf report of August.
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Monday, August 23, 2004
Not sure if this is real or not, but check out the wavepillow. If you think the lineup is already crowded from online forecasts and cameras, wait until every surfer within 30 miles of the ocean is being woken up by their pillows when the surf is pumping.
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Friday, August 06, 2004
Pope is on vacation until August 22nd so no updates until then.
The SB independent annual readers poll ballots are out and due August 20th. Some surf related categories are Best Surf Spot and Best Surf Shop. I'm not sure how many years in a row Rincon has won but it would be nice if there was a coup and surfers whimsically entered "In's and Out's".
A reader sends in this article about El Nino this winter, bring on the El Nino hype. The NOAA article, which is difficult to interpret the severity out of.
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
NPR has a story today on Oil Tanker Surfing as highlighted in Step Into Liquid. You can also check out James Fulbrights surf park idea as mentioned in the story at Surf City Texas. You have got to check out the scale surfer pulling a floater in the test pool.
Another opportunity to be involved in a surf film:
"Ocean Beach to Ocean Beach" (OB2OB) is the first of four surfing and snowboarding expeditions for feature length documentaries. It is a 28 Day Road Trip from Ocean Beach San Francisco to Ocean Beach San Diego. The film will be geared for theatrical release, home video distribution, and a premier tour. We are holding surfing auditions and a brief camera interview for the film. Looking for 4 Surfers: Male 22-28 years old, Good personality, Surf well.
Benefits:
Product Endorsement, Possible Sponsorship, Financed Trip.
Those selected will be paid $1000.
Must be available from September 15th 2004 to October 28th 2004
Audition Location: El Porto Street, Manhattan Beach
August 8th & August 9th 8AM -12PM.
For Further questions email OB2OBsurfing@yahoo.com or call 323-663-0719
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Monday, August 02, 2004
Another weekend in search of waves not found. 
Saturday's report is here.
Hey check out Steve's sweet landcruiser that is for sale here in the classifieds.
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Santa Barbara Surfing. Created by Tim Maddux. Continued by Pope.
