While the boys didn't make it as far in the comp as they would have liked, they still put on some impressive performances in one of the most progressive surf contests. Check out this video clip of all the highlights. Also click here for the full photo gallery.
Kerr is Moving on Up
Yeomans and Kerr Advance at Trestles
Day two of the Nike 6.0 Trestles event displayed a perfect South swell with A-frames coming in consistently throughout the day. Some of the world's best surfers have all gathered for this beloved event and the level of competition is through the roof. Every preliminary heat could have been a final based on the talent level. In the early part of the day we saw Nate Yeomans take the win in his heat and the later part of the day Josh Kerr cut loose to advance through to the next round.
Nate takes the cake...
Kerr takes his progressive new school surfing to the contest arena...
William Cardoso...
Jake Halstead...
Photos: Brody
Kerr and Fahrenfort Blow up at Trestles
Recent addition to the Rusty Team, Damien Fahrenfort, surfed a very impressive heat on Friday, meanwhile down the beach Josh Kerr had a fun warm up surf where he threw some mind-boggling airs, preparing himself for his first heat. Featured below are a few images of Josh and Damien flaring up...
Kerr...
Fahrenfort...
Jayke Sharpe
Photos: Brody
Andrew Pastura: 2009 Alliance Wakeskater of the Year!
Alliance Wakeskate just named Rusty's Andrew Pastura Wakeskater of the Year! Pastura was awarded this prestigious title because of his innovative free riding and mind blowing movie parts in Nike 6.0's Aquafrolics and Scene One Production's Fun Boots.
He also managed to rack up a couple wins such as claiming best trick on the fun box at the Trinity River Invitational and his backside 360 kick flip was nominated for Best Trick of the Yeat at the Wake Awards! However, a congratulations is also in order to Reed Hansen as Alliance named him Co-Wakeskater of the Year with Andrew!
Click here for the full article from Alliance Wakeskate.
Click here for an interview with Andrew Pastura from Alliance Wakeskate.
Scroll down for the full version of Aquafrolics, a teaser from Fun Boots, Andrew's backside 360 kick flip, and the latest clip from Water Monsters!
AQUAFROLICS FROM NIKE 6.0
Aquafrolics from Adam Lovejoy on Vimeo.
ALL I AN C E FROM WATER MONSTERS
All i an c e from water monsters on Vimeo.
PASTURA'S SECTION - FUN BOOTS FROM SCENE ONE PRODUCTIONS
A DAY IN LIFE OF ANDREW PASTURA
OAKLEY WAKESKATE MOVE OF THE YEAR NOMINEES
Aquafrolics Available for Download!
Aquafrolics from Adam Lovejoy on Vimeo.
Nike 6.0's just unleashed their new wakeskate film, Aquafrolics, and its available to download for free!
Here's a brief summary about the film from Nike's site:
From the Nike Sweat, stamped passports, and stacked sessions—such were the makings of Nike 6.0’s groundbreaking first wakeskate team movie. Aquafrolics captures the travels, travails, and progression-fueled fun had by the talented 6.0 teamriders over the past year. The crew—Nick Taylor, Ben Horan, Matt Manzari, and Andrew Pastura—joined forces with innovative filmer Matt Staker to push the envelope on both riding and filming techniques. From winching rivers in the Philippines, to countless hours behind the Sea-Doo, and never-before landed tricks at Ben’s homemade backyard pond, not to mention all the impromptu roadtrips and camera-angle experimentation—Aquafrolics is packed with insane action and sheer love of the sport.
Nike 6.0′s Aquafrolics Feat. Andrew Pastura
Nike 6.0 just launched a website for its upcoming wakeskating film, Aquafrolics featuring Rusty team rider Andrew Pastura. Judging from these stills and the trailer, this movie looks killer! It also features segments from Ben Horan, Matt Manzari, and Nick Taylor. Head on over to the site and check out the trailer by clicking here.
Nate Yeomans Takes 3rd at the Nike 6.0 Lower Trestles 6 Star Prime
Rusty Team ride Nate Yeomans placed a 3rd this week at the Nike 6.0's 6-Star Prime held down at Lower Trestles. Nate's path of destruction took down high profile WCT surfers such as Dane Reynolds, Travis Logie, Rob Machado and CJ Hobgood. Yeomans collected $5000 in prize money and now is sitting in 5th place on the WQS. We are super pumped on Nate's performance this week and look forward to more of his accomplishments. Yeahhhhh Nate congrats!!!!!!! Yewww!
Yeomans Upsets Reynolds at the Nike 6.0 Lower Trestles 6-Star Prime
Rusty rider Nate Yeomans started Day 3 of the Nike 6.0 at Lower Trestles strong and finished even stronger, advancing into the final rounds on Saturday. Nate took down Travis Logie and Rob Machado, but he served his biggest upset by taking out ASP World Tour star Dane Reynolds in Round 16. Yeomans has been tearing up WQS events on the U.S. Mainland for years and with Lowers being a 6-Star Prime, the highest weight on the WQS scale, this result will play a significant role in Yeoman's 2009 campaign. Tune in tomorrow for Nate's quarter final heat against CJ Hobgood at 10:50 am.
Local Surfer Nate Yeomans Leads Top Seed In Round 2
Yesterday in day 2 of the 6.0 Lowers Trestle WQS 6 stars prime, Rusty rider Nate Yeomans of San Clemente put his local knowledge of Lower Trestles to good use when he destroyed a long righthand wall with several beyond-vertical blasts to post the day's highest single wave score of a 9.47 out of 10. The talented goofy-footer continued to dominate his heat when he bashed another impressive score and earned the day's highest heat total of 18.24 out of 20.
"I was actually positioning myself for the left because I saw everyone scrambling for the right and I was able to get underneath them," Yeomans said. "I knew it was going to be a nice right, and I was able to get a couple of good turns and it had a nice wall so I was able to ride it all the way through. I knew it was going to be a good score, so when I heard the 9-point-score, I was like, yeah, I like that!"
The San Clemente native is hoping that he can utilize his familiarity of the cobblestone reef to post a top result at the 6.0 Lowers Pro. Yeomans has had a successful competitive history at previous ASP WQS events at the location in past years and is out to capitalize on the contest's ASP 6-Star PRIME status to help his cause towards qualification for the ASP Dream Tour.
"I've yet to make the Final out here and I had a bad event here last year, but I made the Semifinals the two years before that," Yeomans said. "It's always been a good event for me and now that it's a 6-Star PRIME, it really counts for qualification for the World Tour. It's definitely one of everyone's favorite places to surf, so I'm glad that it's a 6-Star PRIME."
