there were waves but it was raining, little windy, and cold... hey, there were waves! so it's on!!
i never went in the water to shoot because the condition and lighting were bad for shooting. i'm sure glad i brought my water housing tho. i just put my camera in the housing so my camera was safe while shooting some lifestyle shots!so stoked we had 2 tents from BayVI and a tarp. they kept us dry all day!
everyone took turn judging. judges' tent!
it's kindda hard to see but you see nick (mita) wearing the in4mation g-shock? he was the first one to have that watch when it came out. i used to want to steal that watch from him... ha ha nick is a JPSA (japan professional surfing association) and one of his sponsors is g-shock. it's ok tho, i got a sponsor name michael kawada who found the watch for me! ha ha thanks michael!
rob from Redbull hooked us up with cases of redbulls for the contest! we only had one trophy for the winner so we got creative and made another one for 2nd place using redbull. came out pretty sick!
so 1st place gets a trophy and a case of redbull, 2nd place gets a redbull trophy! thanks rob and redbull!!
since it was raining we were all chilling in the tents but every heat someone had to walk out in the rain to blow the horn. so we just kept sending kids out to get wet. ha ha
kaito (kino) doing his job. he was getting so good at it, i think he's ready for wct as a horn blowing guy. ha ha
so what do you do when you got a bbq grill, hotdogs but no plates to put the dogs? serve them on a surfboard!! thanks goose for being in charge of the bbq and keeping us fed all day!
at the end of the day, it all came down to greg and gopal (butler) battling for the trophy and a case of redbull. and the winner is...
gopal!
gopal was surfing solid all day. he was busting some airs, shove it, fins out turns and moves i don't even know how to explain.
awesome day! thanks greg for puttin this contest together!
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