Every year Rusty spends time on Tavarua Island in Fiji, home of the infamous waves Cloud Break and Restaurants. Rusty will be spending five weeks on the island surfing, stand up paddling, fishing, and conducting some research and development on a few new board shapes…
This years trip is off to an interesting start; the day Rusty showed up, Restaurants started filtering in a few sets and he wasted no time tackling the long left hander on his SUP.
A few days into the trip Rusty put an end to the meager fishing season by reeling in a 200+ lbs. Black Marlin. After the initial ice breaking catch the ocean has come to life, providing yellow fin tuna and dorado daily.
However, it has not been all waves and fish… The island of Tavarua underwent an emergency evacuation due to a tsunami warning issued after an 8.8 earthquake hit Chile. Everyone on the island was rushed onto boats and sped over to the mainland where they headed for the hills. Rusty, the rest of the island guests, and the Fijians all hung out on top of a small mountain in an old World War II bunker hoping for minimal impact, but preparing for the worst. The tsunami was scheduled to strike Fiji at 10:04 am, but luckily the tidal wave never came…
Tavarua Island is full of surprises; keep your eyes on the Rusty Blog to see what the next couple of weeks has in store for Rusty…
The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast is the perfect ASP “Dream Tour” location. Warm water and white sand, sunshine and sun tans, people and parties, all combined with some of the best sand-bottom pointbreaks in the world, makes the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast the most eagerly anticipated of all events among both professional surfers and fans alike. This also marks team rider Nate Yeomans’ first ever event on the WCT - Good Luck Nate!
Going for a free surf on the Superbank can cause an average surfer quite a bit of frustration just trying to nab a wave, but Josh Kerr is no average surfer. Kerrzy gets his….
Josh Kerr is one of the most progressive free surfers on the planet, logging more flight time than a pilot in training… However, his talent is not strictly confined to the free surfing realm. Kerrzy is a force to be reckoned with in competition format as he posts huge scores in any wave conditions.
Below we see Kerr snag one of the highest scoring waves of the event, an 8.63, in the recent Kirra Teams Challenge where he was representing the Snapper Rocks Surf Club. The event was actually moved down to D’bah where it was a solid and messy six foot plus - a lot of duck diving and close out sections.
Kerr had a different approach than the rest of the competitors: he was the only one who was scaling the jetty rocks, hoping in on the harbor side, and then paddling out around the end of the jetty. He managed to sneak into one of the only barrels of the event and finished it off with a huge smash to free fall on the end section.
Burleigh Heads will host a four star WQS event from February 16th-21st.
The Breaka Burleigh Surf Pro is the first standalone professional surfing event to be staged at the iconic Burleigh Heads in almost 10 years.
You can expect to see many of the world’s best surfers competing in the event, from top Pro Juniors and WQS seeds to ASP Dream Tour superstars.
“Not since the early 2000’s of the Quiksilver Pro, and before that the days of ‘Rabbit’ [Wayne Bartholomew] and Mark Richards doing battle on the point has there been so much excitement surrounding a surfing contest based firmly at Burleigh Heads,” said Surfing Queensland Chief Executive Officer, Craig Harland.
A who’s who of Australian surfing identities have carved their careers through the ASP World Qualifying Series and with the nation boasting a huge talent pool of current and future world surfing stars, the Breaka Burleigh Surf Pro is expected to be a highlight of the Australian surfing calendar.
Josh Kerr and Jayke Sharpe will be surfing in the Kirra Teams Challenge starting tomorrow and going through the weekend. The Rhythm Kirra Teams Challenge, to be held over the 5th, 6th and 7th of February will see 36 clubs from across Australia compete for the prestigious title of Australia’s best board riders club.
2010 will see the iconic event run for its 26th consecutive year and is again scheduled to coincide with the east coast’s best swell window…
