Sorry, kids, As usual this one is 21 and over.
[Link: Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub]
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Surfing
Carlsbad High surfer Gabe Garcia lead his team to a victory at San Onofre over San Clemente to win the Red Bull Riders Cup National Championship on Sunday, according to a story in the Orange County Register. He also grabbed the title of MVP for the high school surfing event.
But Carlsbad’s Gabe Garcia came through with key rides in the first and second periods and a critical 7.5 in the third on a clean solid right-hander to lift his team to victory. “We put everything we had into it,” Garcia said. “It was a hard game. It was close. And that’s what made it interesting.”
Congrats Gabe, and the rest of the Carlsbad High School surf team for showing the OC what’s up.
[Link: OC Register]
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The action sports industry invaded Carlsbadistan tonight as Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub & Grill, Brixton and UNIV hosted the North County premiere of the surf film Tales From The Black Van. But they were also here to rock out with The Embalmers, The Drowning Men, and Japanese Motors. Follow the jump for a couple more photos and a teaser for the film.
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Earlier this month Carlsbad High School sophomore Christian Abrallo, 16, took the Western Coast Championships in Men’s and Boy’s Shortboard at the Western Surfing Association Championships at Church’s, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
But Arballo’s victories are remarkable for the fact that the local surfer is excelling despite major heart defects that threatened his life and have prompted two surgeries to repair valves. . . . To hear him tell it, though, it’s no big deal. . . . “I don’t think about it at all,” Arballo said. “It doesn’t stop me from surfing or doing anything I want to do.”
Congrats, Chris.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Titans of the surf industry will be in Carlsbadistan tonight May 8, 2008 from 5 PM to 10 PM to help raise money for the California Surf Museum.
The inaugural Paddle Out Fundraiser at the Ocean House Restaurant is raising money for a new permanent home for the museum.
“We’re sold out and there is a waiting list,” said Jody Schmauss of the California Surf Museum. “It’s going to be an amazing evening.”
Music with SuperWave will fill the air, a fabulous Hawaiian-style buffet, and a live and silent auction with MC, Chris Cote (TransWorld Surf Editor-in-Chief and Surfing’s Robin Hood), will make for a memorable night. Pioneers and legends of surfing will be attending, to drop a few names…Reno Abellira, Schuyler McFerran (2007 Women’s World Longboard Champion), Bobby “Challenger” Thomas, Peter “PT”Townend, Shaun Tomson (1975 Pipeline Master and 1977 World Champion), SIMA President Dick Baker, Gidget, Carl and Jack “Woody” Ekstrom, Auguere brothers (Founders of Reef), LJ Richards (Oceanside surfing pioneer and US Men’s Surfing Champion), Linda Benson (Women’s World Champion), Julie Cox (Women’s World Longboard Professional surfer and Roxy team rider) and too many more to list!
Makes us kind of glad we have a top-secret media pass.
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Carlsbad’s Ben Bourgeois slipped past the field of APS World Qualifying Tour surfers to snag the Nike 6.0 at Trestles yesterday.
“I was able to squeak by in the quarters and semis, but everything was coming my way and I was in good rhythm in the final,” he said afterward, in a calm tone you’d expect from a veteran who’d spent years on the Assn. of Surfing Professionals’ qualifying circuit.
Congrats, Benny.
[Link: LA Times]
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As southern California surfers we’ve all been able to rationalize our safety in the water by the fact that no surfer has ever been killed by a shark south of Santa Barbara (click here for a list of California attacks for the last five years). But today’s news about swimmer Dave Martin, 66, of Solana Beach, California being killed by a 12 to 17 foot great white shark while training with a group of triathletes 150 yards off shore in Fletcher’s Cove sent a chill through the entire beach community.
Sadly, this isn’t the first white shark spotted in San Diego County lately. Scott Bass, the host of surf talk radio show Down The Line spoke about finding a baby Great White at Cardiff Reef on April 11 during his April 13, 2008 podcast.
Two days ago in the morning I was surfing Cardiff Reef,” Bass said. “Not only did I see a great white shark, but I picked it up by the tail. It was a baby great white. It was probably three feet long. It swam right up to my board and at first I was obviously freaked out. Tough guy me had my arms and legs in the air screaming for my mom. And I pushed it away and it was just such a facinating creature that I found myself paddling up to it. . . . It went way into the shallows where the river was running out and it looked like it was trying to beach itself. So I literally got off my board picked the shark up by its tail and held it up. There were people walking by taking pictures.”
Down The Line co-host Marty Thomas joked at the time about where the baby shark’s Mom and Dad were. Guess we all know now.
So far no Carlsbadistan beaches have been closed, however, recommendations (like the one shown above) have been posted at South Carlsbad State Beach. State beach patrolman we spoke to in the Tamarack Beach parking lot said they had no plans to issue any more closures.
While there were three surfers out at Tamarack, talk in the parking lot was obviously all about the shark, the attack, and how people feel about it. One Carlsbad local seemed to think that the shark was no longer in the vicinity. “That thing is all the way to Guadalupe Island by now,” he said. Another surfer agreed. “Those things can swim 8 miles like nothing.”
Hopefully, that is the case because as well all know, those offshore winds are going to blow this weekend and a lot of people are going to want to be in the water.
[Links: San Diego Union-Tribune, Associated Press, LA Times, and Surfer Magazine]
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While we may not be so sure about “The Triathlon of a New Generation” a.k.a. the Ultimate Boarder 2008, (contest in which athletes compete in snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding with combined scoring), we are absolutely sure that the right guy won.
Carlsbadistan’s Aaron Astorga (you may have seen him driving around town in the Hurley sprinter van) edged out pro snowboarder and ESPN commentator Todd Richards and rolled away with a check for $30,000.
It was an amazing event and everyone had a great time” said Ultimate Boarder champion, Aaron Astorga. “The contest organizers did an unbelievable job of bringing all of the surfers, skaters and snowboarders together and I know a lot of us are already looking forward to next year’s contest.”
Aaron, thanks for showing the world that Carlsbadistan remains action sports central. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Follow the jump for all the details.
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San Diego Union-Tribune writer Michael Burge gets on the Tamarack Surf Beach parking fee story that we wrote about yesterday with a few additional details.
Technically, a parking fee isn’t new at Tamarack. From 1994 to 2000, the state had permits to charge users, but drivers didn’t know it. The city paid the state about $36,000 a year to cover the fees and maintain the free parking, Jantz said. . . . The City Council hasn’t yet taken up the proposed parking issue, but the delay will give it time to address it, he said. . . . Ketterer said the Tamarack lot can generate $200,000 annually in fees. Part of that revenue will go the state’s general fund, and part to the parks upkeep budget.
The California Coastal Commission’s hearing on the fee request has been tentatively postponed until May 7-9, 2008 when the group will meet in Marina del Rey at the Marina del Rey Hotel. “The State Parks and the City of Carlsbad have requested a postponement on the issue so when it’s really up to them to decide when it gets presented to the Coastal Commission,” said Toni Ross, a coastal planner with the San Diego office of the California Coastal Commission.
When we spoke to Rob Houston with the Carlsbad City Manager’s office he implied that people from the City of Carlsbad are planning attend the hearing and speak out against the proposed parking fees. “We’re checking from the City side,” he said. “But citizens should be heard as well.”
As the Commission members prefer to get comments via the US Postal Service, click here for their addresses and be heard.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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