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Bobby Martinez Kicks Off 2009 Sponsorless

Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Quiksilver Pro trials kicked off today in Australia, marking the start of the 2009 WCT season. Local hero Bobby Martinez has been down in Australia for 3 weeks preparing and talking about his breakup with Reef. In this ESPN article, Alyssa Roenigk interviews Bobby about him leaving Reef with two years left on his contract. Questioned about why he was unhappy at Reef, Bobby responded

"I was not happy at Reef for a couple years now," Martinez wrote. "From [Reef] not caring about my video Mixtape, to not being able to get product from the company, all the way to my boss wondering if he gave me a raise, would I just not want to do contests, just sit and collect the money?

"It's kinda hard to be with a company when they have no faith in me surfing contests and trying to win a world title. He questioned me about that a few times, and I felt like I never did anything for him to question me. Because he thought of me like that, I didn't really see a future at Reef. I supported Reef 100 percent when I was with them, but I felt like I wasn't being supported 100 percent by Reef. So I left."

Big thanks to ESPN for putting someone on the scene and asking questions about Santa Barbara's WCT warrior. Surfline also interviewed Bobby. This leaves Martinez with a big sponsorship shakeup two years in a row, having left CI the year before for DHD. We'll try to keep tabs on when and with whom Bobby signs with next.

If the waves hold for Friday, we should see Bobby hitting the water in Heat #2 around 2:30pm Pacific time.
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One Track Mind

Friday, February 20, 2009

Don't forget about tomorrows film 'One Track Mind' at UCSB to benefit Vista Las Cruces School. More info in a previous post here.
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Ryan Lovelace Profile

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

This week over on Edhat, we offer a Shaper's Profile on Ryan Lovelace, a young local shaper with a keen interest in the experimental. Ryan was an amped up guy to get to known and would be a great shaper to work with for those looking to try a different shape. Photo: Morgan Maassen (another talented young artist known locally).

A slew of links to get out, some kind of old.

Goleta Surfing
Storm Window chronicles the waves of February 7-8 in and around Goleta. We surfed Sands and Deveraux on both days that weekend and can attest to Saturday being much better than Sunday. Also a bit older, but Better Late Than Never tracks down the waves we had in late January. Tom also points us to SupRight.com, for all of your SUP etiquette.

Goleta Surf
The not as often updated GoletaSurf.com has some photos up from February waves at Campus.

Rincon Surf Blog
Jon covers the tough go at getting clean sessions in at Rincon as well as highlighting local charger Parker Coffin in his recent post. Previous to that he covers the multiple good Saturdays we have had.

Independent
Whale Count at Coal Oil Pont
Naples Update
Bacara Expansion Plans
Sad story on local surfer's Nicholas Cavaliers brain injury after being attacked. We hope there is good news to follow this.

Random
Short Deveraux movie, and Lake Superior Surfing.
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Lakey Peterson and Conner Coffin To ISA World Juniors

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

It was recently announced that Santa Barbara surfers Conner Coffin and Lakey Peterson made the cut to travel to Ecuador and represent the U.S. at the ISA World Juniors. The 30 surfer roster was honed down to 16 after a week of training and competition. Congratulations to both who will be competing March 28th to April 5th. Check out the press release or the full roster below.

BOYS UNDER 18
Nat Young
Evan Thompson
Fisher Heverly
Chase Wilson
Alternate: Balaram Stack

BOYS UNDER 16
Kolohe Andino
Conner Coffin
Evan Geiselman
Ian Crane
Alternate: Jacob Halstead and Colin Moran

GIRLS UNDER 18
Courtney Conlogue
Lakey Peterson
Kaleigh Gilchrist
Lani Doherty
Alternate: Taylor Pitz
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One Track Mind

Chris Malloy's new film 'One Track Mind' will be screened this Saturday February 21st at 7pm at Campbell Hall on the UCSB campus. This will be a fundraiser for Vista de las Cruces School. $10 for general, $7 for students and $25 if you feel like a patron. If you aren't familiar with Vista de las Cruces, it is a Santa Barbara County Public school serving the Gaviota area and is located where the 101 and 1 meet. You can check out the trailer here or read below for the summary:

One Track Mind is the latest 16mm movie from the creative collaborative Woodshed Films. Directed by Chris Malloy, One Track Mind explores the common thread that drives the most influential surfers from three generations to push wave riding to new dimensions. Experience the unique opportunity to sit up close and personal with the most prolific surfers of our time as they share the secrets that gave them inspirational and technical elements to be the best the world has ever seen.

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Rincon Mat Surfer

Thursday, February 12, 2009

David Powdrell took some pictures at Rincon last Sunday of a mat rider. Some great shots of an alternative approach to surfing Rincon that isn't annoying.








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Movie: The Future Of The Gaviota Coast

Saturday, February 07, 2009

The film 'The Future of the Gaviota Coast' premiered at the SB International Film festival and will be shown for free on Tuesday February 11th at 7pm in the Faulkner Gallery at the SB Public Library. The film is sponsored by the Naples Coalition and the Surfrider Foundation. Put together by local filmmakers Shaw Leonard and Marc Mirable, the documentary is all about the challenges that face the Gaviota Coast. More info on the Surfrider site.
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Waveriders Film Review

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Our edhat this week is reviewing our experience at the opening of Waveriders during the SB Film Festival. In summary, a good film, but not enough new stuff brought to the table to get too amped up about.

Besides the solid swell that took place during and after the Rincon Classic, there was another fun swell the weekend after. Almost identical in nature, fun and clean shoulder high waves on Saturday and a bit of a blown out mess on Sunday. Waves haven't been the same since then. Into February and still no macker swell has shown up.
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