Date of Birth: October 17, 1978
Best Known For: Crackin’ whips
Local Spot: 10th St....ab
My Crew: AK, Big Nasty, Dane Jah and the Jax Beach crew
Board of Choice: Placebo 5’11” x 18.13” x 2.13”
Dream Wave: Macaronis in Florida
| My Top Five: | 1.) Watching my amazing daughter grow up 2.) Being able to travel the world and surf and meet all kinds of different and cool people 3.) Having a great family and friends 4.) Having fun in life and making memories 5.) Being able to work and surf for an amazing team and family with Hurley |
Photo highlights from the two stops in North Carolina. Check out the full-length videos from Onslow and S-Turns.
Hurley's Rip My Shred Stick Tour made their next two stops along the East Coast Monday and Tuesday. Monday's stop landed the Hurley and Phantom teams at the Marine Corps in Onslow Beach, NC. On Tuesday the kids came out in full force to greet the Hurley team at Real Water Sports surf shop in Outer Banks, NC. Stay tuned for updates and pictures from the Rip My Shred Stick Tour as it wraps up these next three days in Virginia Beach and New Jersey.
FINAL THREE STOPS:
July 15 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA COASTAL EDGE AND 17TH STREET
July 17 OCEAN CITY, NJ HERITAGE SURF SHOP
July 18 LAVALETTE, NJ OCEAN HUT
We find a fourth Indo Dream Trip winner at the Rip My Shred Stick/Ron Jon Surf Shop event in Cocoa Beach. Photos and Video: PK
A week before Saturday's Rip My Shred Stick event at Cocoa Beach, Stephan Baker was at Ron Jon Surf Shop, looking to upgrade a pair of his original Phantoms for the Flywire trunks. The store manager was kind enough to tell him about the event and that he was better off waiting for a week. "Best decision I ever made," said the Cocoa Beach surfer.
Because now, he is the fourth surfer to be added to our coveted list of Indo Dream Trip winners. "I can't believe this just happened," he said.
Baker will be bringing his girlfriend along to the late October trip to Kandui Resort and you can bet he'll be ready to split peaks with Rob and the Hurley team. Four down, just one to go for our Indo Dream Trip Sweepstakes. Stay tuned to www.hurley.com/upgrade for updates on the location/date of our final event.
In addition to the Dream Trip giveaway, Hurley held its third Rip My Shred Stick event of the tour in conjunction with Ron Jon Surf Shop. Check the photos. As you can see, smiles were infectious.
Finding a screamer in Nicaragua.
Evan Geislelman, PJ Raia, Jake McGuire, and myself go up o the OBX for the surfing america prime.
This last weekend i flew up to virginia with eg and jake" ze grom" mcguire. We met up with pj raia from new jersey. I was taking our amateur team riders down to buxton, NC to compete in the last surfing america prime event. The waves were pretty small the first couple days but we had a couple fun sessions together. The first day of the contest was about ankle to knee high. Really tough conditions to surf and evan was the only guy to make it through to the last day. By the time the finals came it was overhead and side shore lefts. It was hard to surf but perfect for eg with left air sections everywhere.. He ended up winning with his last wave in the under 18 division to make that seven wins this year already. After they gave out the awards we packed up quickly cause we heard it was head high and offshore up north in town. we ended up finding really fun waves and getting barreled for our last session before we had to head back to virginia to get our flights home.
Check out the expn blog from our last session here. — Asher
The first of our Phantom Sweepstakes winners is announced at ZJ Boarding House. Check the video highlights here. Video: PK. Photos: Michael Lallande
What a weekend for a barbecue. Eighty-degree temps, slack winds, decent little waves...and a healthy Spring Break crowd looking for some fun. A few hundred found it at ZJ Boarding House on Saturday afternoon, as the first of our Phantom True Performance "Upgrade Your Boardshorts" events kicked off in style.
Great day for a barbecue...and some boardshorts. PHOTO: MICHAEL
Peter King kept us entertained on the bullhorn, Timmy Curran, Bob Burnquist, Curren Caples and crew served up gourmet burgers and dogs for free. And, best of all, throngs of people lined up to trade in their old boardshorts (which will all be donated to a local charity), buy a pair of Phantom with Nike Flywires at half price, and be entered for a chance to win a trip to Kandui Resortwith Rob Machado and the Hurley Team.
Of course, there wasn't just one winner. Everyone who attended had a chance to customize t-shirts and boardshorts at our Phantom truck or try their luck at our Phantom Fortune machine. But those who purchased Flywires hung around ’til the very end to find out their fate with the Indo Dream Trip. Keep in mind this trip — which will take place in late October and will host five winners plus one friend each — is no Publisher's Clearing House odds. In this case, it was about 1:150, which would beat a trip to Vegas any day. Just ask Marina Del Ray resident Chris Hardt, who went to Sin City last weekend and had a shocker. "It wasn't a good trip for me," he said.
A few good men: the ZJ crew and the Hurley Team. PHOTO: LALLANDE
But he attended our "Upgrade Your Boardshorts" event, had a burger, then bought a pair of Phantoms with Nike Flywire. When the evening wrapped up, Tim Curran stuck his hand in a plastic bin, pulled out a stub and announced the winner. "Chris Hardt!" he said.
Hardt was in disbelief. His buddy, standing right next to him, is also going on the trip, and they immediately started texting their bros. "This is real, right?" he said. And then, when he was assured he wasn't about to be Punk'd, he said. "This is the best 100 bucks I've ever spent."
(Special thanks to ZJ Boarding House for making it all happen. Keep track of our Phantom Truck, coming to a beach near you.)
i just had a great trip down in puerto rico and guadeloupe!!
<b>This winter has been abnormally cold and flat.</b> i think i surfed three times from january till around the sixth of February. it was kind of nice because i got too hang with my daughter everyday and catch up on work and home-life. but eventually i got the surfing itch back and had too get out of jacksonville.
I saw a clean swell going down to puerto rico with good conditions so i hopped on a plane down there. The first week we got great waves and a heavy left that was a memorable session. After that i hopped on another plane and met some friends farther south on the island guadeloupe for a surfing magazine trip. This was the first time too this island so it was all new territory too explore. We surfed some fun waves and had a funny awesome time.
After that it was back to puerto rico for the rincon corona contest. The surf was really fun but i got knocked out in the third round. I couldn't find a wave in that heat. The heat before i only stood up on one wave but luckily it was a nine. For some reason the ocean kept on going flat when i was in position. it was still a great contest and i got too see some young puerto rican rippers so hopefully we will work on having a awesome Hurley puerto rico team in the near future.
It was a great three weeks in the Caribbean. Now I'm back in florida and its cold and flat. Hopefully this pattern will change soon or i might head back down too the good life.
Asher
A fun weekend down in jupiter for the fall classic. Team riders cheyne cottrell, oliver kurtz , mikey detemple , and myself attended the contest. The first day was about as bad as it could be. knee high waves breaking right on the beach with rocks everywhere. All of us somehow got through the first round. The next day was at least ridable with waist high mushy windswell. Cheyne surfed really well for it being small and barely got knocked out in the semi-finals. mikey got 3rd in the longboard finals and i got last in the mens final. i just couldn't find a wave in the 25 minute finale. It was a great turnout for the event, with bands, a bikini contest, hot girls everywhere, and a awesome beer tent going on at all times.
ASHER
The East Coast is usually supposed to be good during the fall. So far we have only really had three tropical swells and they were fun but nothing amazing. Florida only got two of those swells and after being home for over two weeks and only surfing once I was getting the itch. The forecast reports started claiming that there was going to be a good size north swell with possible good winds in the outer banks of north carolina. I decided to charge up there and see if i could get lucky and get some fun solid waves. Oliver Kurtz was in cali and i told him that i was heading up there. He hasn't ever experienced a good swell there before so he got a ticket and met me there. We ended getting great waves for five days straight. From big thick barrels to super clean fun barrels. It was definitely hard to get them cause of the crazy drift but when you got one it was amazing. After five days of nonstop paddling and running up the beach my body is pretty beat up but it's a good feeling knowing that I surfed my brains out.
— Asher Check out more Matt Lusk pics at http://www.mattluskphotography.com
Check out the Surfline article at: http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/east-coast-nor-easter_31478/1/
