Maui ripper, Kevin Sullivan delivers with a fresh batch of clips and a bit of insight on his future surfing goals. At a glance you would swear you were watching a younger Pancho Sullivan surf and this is no coincidence: Kevin is Pancho's cousin and he has been training with him to improve his competitive surfing. The two Sullivans share similar styles and both exhibit raw power when putting the board on a rail!
Keep your eyes peeled for rising star, Kevin Sullivan! Have a look:
"The Traveling Rose Show" is a new show being filmed for the Discovery Channel that features the adventures of the Rose Family. Jason Rose, with his wife and kids in tow, navigates his way through the action sports industry and their experiences are filled with valuable life lessons. The show showcases various family friendly activities each city has to offer. When the Rose Family found themselves in California it was a no brainer to cross paths with the most prestigious surf company in the Industry, Rusty Surfboards. The family spent a few days at the Surfboard Factory learning how to shape a board from foam to finish before we sent them on their way for a private surf lesson! The next day the Rose family spent the afternoon at the Rusty Apparel Headquarters, where the guys got to learn how to make our new EcoStretch boardshorts and the ladies fashioned their very own dresses!
Photo: Brody
Photo: Brody
Photo: Romero
Photo: Romero
Photo: Romero
Australia’s and many of the world’s best young 16 and under surfers were greeted to large 2m surf along with cold offshore winds for day one of the Rusty Gromfest at Lennox Head.
The solid waves brought out some big performances and powerful moves were aplenty as the 16 and 14 year and under Boy and Girl divisions completed their round one heats.
Coming from the famous Margaret River region, West Australia’s Creed McTaggart is no stranger to powerful surf and he relished today’s conditions posting one of the day’s most impressive wins.
“It was tough paddling through the close out sets and just holding position out the back, but the waves are good when you pick up the right one, the clean wave faces allow plenty of scoring opportunities” said Creed after his win. “I definitely prefer larger conditions as to small and apparently it’s going to stay solid throughout the event so that’s good!”
Other impressive performances were from Jake Sylvester (Newcastle), Matt Banting (Port Macquarie), Dylan Cummings (Central Coast NSW) and Nick Edgerton (Wurtulla/Qld) who all won their opening round heats easily. Matt Banting, with a heat tally on his top two scoring rides of 16.05 along with a top wave score of 8.9 (out of a possible 10) was the day’s highest scoring winner.
In the 14 Boys, local surfer Michael Wright charged the larger set waves to easily win his heat and later his high profile sister Tyler, who is current Australian and World Junior surfing champion as well as a multiple Rusty Gromfest champion, easily won her opening round 16 Girls heat. Other impressive winners in the girls division included Sarah Mason (Coolangatta), Kirstin Ogden (Byron Bay), Nikki Van Dijk (Phillip Island Victoria) and Cody Klien (Kingscliff/NSW).
While the day was unusually cold for Northern NSW, the waves remained good all day and tomorrow forecasts indicate even larger surf with offshore winds, great conditions and more winter sun!
Organizers will make a call on conditions early tomorrow morning at Lennox Head.
Daily press releases will be forwarded from Rusty Gromfest around 3pm each day.
Results, news and press releases will be constantly updated on www.surfingaustralia.com
About The Rusty Gromfest:
Rusty Gromfest is the original and most esteemed grommet event in Australia.
In its 14th year this event has enormous history in revealing great young surfers – Past winners include now great surfers like Mick Fanning, Stephanie Gilmore, Bede Durbidge, Julian Wilson and these are just a small sample. Rusty Gromfest brings together Australia and many of the world’s best young surfers. Internationals surfing this year have come from Tahiti, South Africa, Hawaii, New Zealand, USA, Ireland, England, Indonesia and Japan. Rusty Gromfest is made possible thanks to the support of Rusty, FCS, Otis, Waves Magazine, Bandit FM, NBN and The Northern Star.
Whether it's nutso tubes at Pipeline, tail-free turns at Keramas, or curbs in Kuta Jamie O'Brien gets reckless...Click here to check out a slide show featured on Surfline.com!
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Event #4: Saturday August 22, 2009 @ Ocean Beach Pier - Heat Times
Here's a few images from a point in Southern Chile. I have GoPro video footage, but that will be sent out later. This wave was so fun. It's in a little old world town. Super pretty place! I'm amping for the 20ft+ swell about to hit the Chile coast on Sunday!
I'll be in touch after the swell episode. My plan is to tow surf with Ramon Navarro on Sunday and then trek it to Santiago, catch a red eye up to Arica Northern Chile and surf the same swell up there. Stoked.
Thank you all for the support!
- Jamie Sterling
Orlando, Fla. – Wakeskating’s premier contest series concluded today at the OWC in Orlando, Florida, as 25 of the world’s best riders battled it out for the Rockstar Cable Jam and the coveted Toe Jam overall season title.
Toe Jam fans packed the shoreline while celebrating the Fourth of July to watch the historic events as they unfolded. All the riders were pumped to be riding under sunny skies on glassy water and the Toe Jam vibe was in full swing.
Top moves of the day were a switch mute 180 glide off the kicker by Dieter Humpsch, Bret Little’s 270 shove onto the box shove off, John Ruark’s varial flip on/shove off the box and a 360 flip from Reed Hansen and Matt Manzari during their head-to-head battle.
The final two riders battling in the final were Stu Shinn and Bret Little. Shinn laid down a solid run with a boardslide big spin, backside big spin, 360 shove, kickflip, backside flip and backside 360 off the kicker.
Little, the Texas native who rides for Byerly Boards and Rockstar Energy Drink, is a local at the TSR cable and looked as comfortable as ever during his finals run. Highlights were his 270 shove to back lip shove, kickflip, back lip/boardslide shove, slob 360 and switch backside 360 off the kicker. The difficulty of his run, combined with the variety of moves utilizing the whole course earned him the Rockstar Cable Jam title.
The road to victory wasn’t easy, “It was pretty wild and really intense,” Little said. “Everybody came out firing and it’s awesome to see everyone riding so well on the cable. The Toe Jam is the best series in the sport right now, and we need it really bad. Next year’s gonna be amazing.”
Tension was in the air as the coveted season title was on the line as well. Reed Hansen advanced further than Brian Grubb today, earning him the overall title, with Brandon Thomas taking third. Hansen definitely earned it, while stomping a quarterfinals run including four flip tricks and solid rail hits. “It’s an awesome feeling to ride consistent all year” said Hansen. “I can’t wait to get out and hit some spots with my new Grinch winch I won for the overall.”
Every month Rusty Surfboards crowns a winner for the prestigious title of "Punt of the Month" on Surfline.com. This month's winner is Dane Reynolds for his impressive frontside assault! Click here for a peek at the clip!
Jamie Sterling Photo: Cuddy
Jamie Sterling returned from Tahiti after only a few short weeks, where he scored massive tubes before the WCT event began, and once again- he is off the charts chasing perfect waves.
A few clues to his whereabouts have trickled out through Tyler Cuddy's blog and it appears he may be in Chile for the time being; although you can never be too sure...
Cuddy is the photographer who is traveling with Sterling; the two traveled together in Tahiti and came back with some amazing images! Keep your eyes peeled for more of Tyler Cuddy's photography and I am sure we will be seeing some more GoPro Camera images provided by Sterling himself!
Santiago, Chile Photo: Cuddy
