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Local Surf News May 7, 2008

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Some Mostly Local Surf News Bits

• Some sad news in the death of surfer John Wagner at Santa Cruz Island (gallery)
  
• Gerry Lopez speaks at UCSB
  
• Greg Huglin quoted in Miramar story
• Frank Curren places in NSSA SW Open contest
• Daily Nexus column on enjoying each session
• Rincon sewer issue still in the news with voter fraud alleged
  
• Lake Tahoe was surfable
• California Surfing website
  

4th Annual Brandon Yates Memorial Contest

Its time again to honor our friend Brandon with the 4th Annual Brandon Yates Memorial Surf Benefit. This years format will feature a regular contest format with divisions for Groms, Juniors, Mens, a Pro-Am and a team event. The Pro-Am is 4 man heats and the purse has been kick started by Surf One with First Place purse guaranteed with at least $500.00. Other individual events are 6 man heats and the team event is limited to 6, 6 person teams. Team event scores are based on surfing abilities as well as fun for all tasks. The 4th annual Brandon Yates Memorial. Sunday, June 4th at Emma Wood State Beach. Entry forms will be hitting your local surf shops by this weekend.

Local Results From Lowers Contest

SB County surfers could not make it past Round 5 in the 6 Star Lowers Pro but it seemed like a good showing overall. The final results of locals:

Cory Arrambide knocked out in Round 5
Tyler Anderson knocked out in Round 5

Colin Schildhauer knocked out in Round 3
Bobby Morris knocked out in Round 3
Peter Mussio knocked out in Round 3

Adam Lambert knocked out in Rd 2
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Tyler Anderson: Last Local Standing at Lowers

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Goleta Surfing
Tom keeps up the heat with some photos of April Windswell. Good to see that the scrappy can still get some action if they are diligent.

Locals at Lowers Pro
Round 3 was tough on Santa Barbara County surfers, with Peter Mussio of Lompoc, Bobby Morris of Goleta, and Colin Schildhauer of Goleta all getting knocked out. In Round 4 we had only Goleta surfer Tyler Anderson and Ventura surfer Cory Arrambide, who both advanced. However Cory lost in Round 4 and Tyler was due to surf on Friday.

Round 3 Heats
Cory Arrambide placed 1st to advance
Colin Schildhauer placed 4th and knocked out
Bobby Morris placed 3rd and knocked out
Peter Mussio placed 3rd and knocked out

Round 4 Heats
Cory Arrambide placed 2nd to advance
Tyler Anderson placed 1st to advance

Round 5 Heats
Cory Arrambide placed 3rd and knocked out
Tyler Anderson due to surf

Previous surfers knocked out:
Adam Lambert knocked out in Rd 2


Gerry Lopez at UCSB May 6th
Gerry Lopez will be speaking at UCSB with an intro by Patagonian Yvon Choinard. This all takes place Tuesday, May 6 at UCSB Campbell Hall at 8 pm. Tickets are $10 general admission & $8 for UCSB students/youth 18 & under. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office (893-3535) or Order Online.

Entire books could be written about Gerry Lopez. Suffice it to say Gerry made his surfing reputation at Pipeline, riding it like nobody else before him, or since. He was among a crew of Indonesian adventure pioneers who first surfed Garajagan, or “G-Land”, long considered one of the best lefts in the world. Lopez starred as himself in the surf-cult classic film “Big Wednesday”, and was noted as “shaper of the year” in Surfing Magazine’s annual surfboard design issue, 2003. Gerry Lopez is as charismatic, intelligent and intuitive on land as he is in the waves. He’ll be talking about and presenting images from his just released book “Surf Is Where You Find It”. Don’t miss this extraordinary special event. Introduction by Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia’s distinguished founder.

Grover Anderson at Albertsons May 3rd
Isla Vista musician Grover Anderson will be playing in the Albertson's parking lot (sort of like U2) in Goleta on May 3rd. It is a battle of the bands called "Will Play For Food" featuring Grover, The VelTexans, and Hero & the Victor. The event takes place from 2-5pm so you have plenty of time to pick up some groceries in between sets.
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