Date of Birth: June 9, 1989

Best Known For: Shootin Dice

Local Spot: Ocean Isle Beach

My Crew: DeShaun, Michael, Jim, C^2, Kron, Butler, Rupp, BP, Knox

Board of Choice: 5'9" Green SBZ Sharpeye

Dream Wave: A wave with a higher quality than Ocean Isle Beach

My Top Five:

1.) "Return of the Mack" 2.) "This is How We Do It" 3.) "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" 4.) "Moving on Up" 5.) "Like to Party"

Finally got a Firewire I've been wanting.

I have been going through boards faster than Courtney Love goes through prescription Vicodin. It seemed like every time a paddled out I would end up with some kind of fracture or crease on my board from surfing like an idiot. To end this massacre of my little sticks, I got a Firewire that is exceptionally more durable than your traditional poll-urethane surfboard being it has a "triple density EPS core with parabolic edges, lined with high-density aerospace composite material." Firewire Surfboards All Rights Reserved. Wow, is that really a surfboard? It sounds like the description foreign compact car manufacturers, like Tata®, give their new cars although their products buckle at the fulcrum if they go in excess of 25 miles per hour unlike the Firewire Surfboard because they are so cheap and poorly manufactured.

With all this extra support I pray that this board will last me longer than three months or I am going to be fired up. So far so good and all she has experienced from my lead foot surfing is one pressure ding and a small crack in the tail. Say your prayers for me...or maybe just my board. -BP

Volcom stop one of the Cooterfish series.

The Crustaceous Tour makes their stop in southern North Carolina, Wrightsville Beach. The contest was comprised of stomach high, sloppy waves and antics of the young ones trying to get a free pair of socks or an xxxs t-shirt. Aside from all the competition on the shore, there was also plenty of action out in the water all day. Because I was so generously awarded an alternate slot due to too many competitors, I was forced to sit on the beach, waiting to be inserted into one of the Pro-am heats in hopes to be $500 richer by the end of the day. I got pretty lucky considering I actually got in the contest, but going into the finals my luck had dwindled down to next to nothing, considering I didn't win the 5 Benjamins.

Anywho, here are the results and a couple photos. BP

Pro/Am

1. Nick Bland - $500

2. Ben Powell

3. Slater Powell

4. Ross Stevens

5. Mark Hunt

6. Travis Ajay

Ben Powell gets some nuggets in North Carolina

As Hurricane Bill forged up the eastern coast of the U.S., surfers from the Caribbean to Nova Scotia experienced above average surf for a couple days. Although he did not live up to all the hype, with news-hounds claiming it would be "the biggest swell in a DECADE", Bill threw some fun, consistent surf to us East-coasters that was highly enjoyable. After passing north of Florida, Bill was forecasted to swing back out into the Atlantic and not make landfall. Many people where seduced into traveling up north, passed the Mason Dixon line, to hunt for waves. I think some were kind of disappointed at what they found but still had a fun time.

I got some photos from Wrightsville during the short window we had for waves. Enjoy!-BP

A short jaunt up to Ocracoke, NC with family...

The family oriented getaway for the year took my immediate family and I to the quaint village of Ocracoke, NC, located just south of Cape Hatteras. The trip was characterized by attempting to surf, eating at most, if not all the restaurants on the island, drinking as much wine as possible(for the moms), and shopping until the credit card companies called to question the extreme charges on the cards. Fortunately, for my brother and I, there was a pretty descent swell striking the Outer Banks the day we arrived. This time of year I get fired up over anything that is above waist high. The excitement increased my dopamine levels to a high and I wanted to go chug one of my moms Franzia® wine boxes and go surf for the rest of the day, but I didnt, I just went surfing. Any who, the first day of surf was fun but it died after the second, and the third had just deteriorated into nothing but a shallow willed wind chop that was tough to even stand up on. Other than surfing, the family had an entertaining weekend and I would sum up it with an A-, just because the chicks there are rebels, and not in a good way. B?P

Trip to the heart of the Real Carolina

I made my way up to Chapel Hill, NC for the day in order to take a seat with one of the 3 million doctors that are in the area. While I was up there I had a few hours of spare time so I decided to share my wealth of Hurley stickers and plastered them up around UNC's basketball coliseum, the Dean Dome. During a regular season game, if the Dome is sold out, there will be a mere 22,000 people attending. Now these greek life enthusiasts of the academic hotspot of UNC will stop wearing their little pastel colored Polos with plaid slacks and put on something with a little more appeal to it.