I made a highlight reel of last week's U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach. Not sure if any of you guys are surfers or like watching surfing. Probably one of the best competitions of the year this year though, very action packed. Lots of good waves on this video too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pmSgh1SoFE

Let me know what you think...on the forum or video. 

Yeah I'm not surprised that Slater is a jerk in person. I listened to Machado a few times on the stream when he would be there, he seems really chill and cool. Would've been great to see Andy Irons here...he'll be missed for sure...but some of the young guns really showed off there talent like my favorites (John John Florence and Lakey Peterson) also Kolohe Andino and Conner Coffin were ripping it up out there. Same with the brazilians, Filipe took jr pro.

The competition started out with smaller waves, didn't see much aerial moves but then as the weekend got there the waves got huge! On friday they brought out the jetski's to help the guys. I was down in Huntington this year right around the time of NSSA Championships but had Jr. Olympic hockey tournament so no luck with being able to watch the competition ...

Good to know we have a surf fan on the forums though 

gtirob01 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2011 at 10:31pm:

Awh nice. I've been thinking if I pick a college by the beach next year that im defiantly gunna start surfing more. The only surf close to me is San Fransisco so its REALLY cold.  But I do bodyboard alot. Easier too  but not as many tricks. I've only been surfing in Hawaii.

But the tournament was only for inline hockey. It was like Jr. Ducks rink I believe. Lot's of teams and international teams too...I play ice in San Jose, which is an hour from me but don't play travel ice because of the $$$ and my golf career... but still managed to play inline travel. Pretty fun actually, just alot of people say go play real hockey. Although I play ice and inline, inline is more of playing the game of hockey, there's alot of ice teams I play that dont even play the SPORT hockey they play go hit as many people as I can regardless of clean or dirty and score no goals  ...scary games 

I know what you mean 'truck. I'm not new to surfing by any means. But there has been several times out... Mostly at Blacks Beach in La Jolla where I feared for my life! No joke. Theres also been times where I said, "Oh heck no Im not going out in that!"

tcco, I know what you mean about playing ice. But when I played, it was well organized and well officiated so it never got out of hand. And I remember one tourney we played up there at the rink San Jose State plays in. We won that tourney! Was a fun flight home! haha

Yep, I'm going to try to make it to Mavericks this year in Half Moon Bay, I'll just be sure to keep a safe distance and bring a zoom lense after what happened last year 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV7KhSdUQPU&feature=fvwrel