SWELL EVENTS: Mar 28-Apr 12, 2006 Issue

MARCH 29 - APRIL 12, 2006 | highlights, vol 2.1

o Featured Artists: painter Maia Negre | photographer Paul Javier

o Contests: Billabong Surf Rat Series | Billabong Family Fun Fest | WomenOnWaves

o Film: Volcom's Creepy Fingers (view trailer, too) | Surfers Are Addicted
o Events: Coastline Fashion Show | Aqua Fashion Show | Robert Waldemar Bash
o Art + Music: Julie Cox | Andy Davis | Maia Negre | Merijn van den Ende | Paul Javier
o Off the Lip: Surf fashion clips, Brazil, WOW
o Surfing Essentials:: CrossFit with Eva Twardokens

Teahupoo is one of my favorite places to shoot in the lineup due to warm water, perfect visibility, and consistent hollow barrels. On this beautiful, sun-drenched morning, Mick took off on a wave that would have required me to swim hard back to get an in-the-barrel-shot. So, instead, I swam down about 15 feet to the coral, and shot skywards as the wave passed by with Mick flying through the tube. - paul javier

I'll never forget this day...I was on a boat skimming across the deep blue waters off Oahu's West coast, having just swum with spinner dolphins. A huge whale breached about one hundred yards away from our boat. We quickly followed it and stopped within 50 feet to put a microphone in the water. As the whale sang through the ship's speakers, I pulled out my Canon 1D Mark II and snapped a few frames of the ephemeral dark blue ripples created by the whale's rich, resonating narrative. - paul javier

PAUL JAVIER is a freelance photographer who regularly contributes to surfing and kiteboarding publications. An avid surfer, water polo player, and realtor specializing in oceanfront properties, Paul resides in Pacifica with his dog, Snowy, when not traveling abroad. His recent work has covered diverse subjects from Nigerian Touareg nomadic families living in the Sahara to great white sharks breaching off South Africa and the Athens Olympics 2004.

Paul’s greatest passion, though, is shooting surf and water photography. View some of his work at www.pauljavier.com and at the Coastline Spring Fashion Show on Friday April 7 in Santa Cruz.

Note: The Teahupoo photo above right denotes only one thing --survival. The reassuring light and calm that ensues after a pounding set comes through is one of the most beautiful things to see underwater at this Tahitian break. A huge set will typically send surfers and water photographers scrambling to get under the wave. When duckdiving under a stormy foamball, there is often with only a couple of feet between the wave and reef to squeeze through. My camera housing is barely visible in my right hand. This photo was taken 2 years ago by the greatly missed Jon Mozo (who sadly passed away after getting slammed on the reef during a 2005 Pipeline shoot) while we were both photographing surfers at Teahupoo.

FASHION SHOW VIDEO CLIPS
Need some visual entertainment? Check out our short clips from the past fashion shows we produced, featuring local male and female surfers in our past event archives section. As you know, Coastline and Aqua Surf Shop have a few spring shows taking place in April.

WOMEN ON WAVES SURF EXTRAVAGANZA | Update
The 10th Annual Women on Waves contest has filled up its 3 heats per age group division, except for a slot here and there (50 & over; groms). Waitlist spots can be had by calling Paradise Surf Shop at 831-462-3880. The event kicks off at 9am, so come out for some fine surfing, a chance to win 7+ surfboards, prizes galore, entertainment, booths, and top local talent. Pro women longboarders on hand for an exhibition heat include World Champ Kristy Murphy, Mary Bagalso, Julie Cox, Jenny Flanigan, Ashley Lloyd and Kim Hamrock. Check it out at www.surfwomenonwaves.com. Can't make it? Buy raffle tickets ONLINE and one of 7+ boards while supporting WomenCare and other local WoW-supported beneficiaries.

JUNE SURF TRIP | BRAZIL
We're pushing back our 11-day "scouting" trip to the wave-rich spots between Itacare and Rio, since April's such a crazy month and we might be heading to Troncones beforehand. Email us for details if you're interested in joining or have travel tips to share.

See you in the waves,
Monica Lee & the Zuna Surf Crew

2851 Research Park Dr., Unit B
Soquel, CA 95073. Tel: 831-476-2696

How do you stay fit efficiently when it’s hard to get in the water? Interval training. We recently tried out a CrossFit class, one of the fastest growing gym programs, founded by Santa Cruz’s Greg Glassman. The Crossfit program is essentially the same principal strength and conditioning program for police academies, the military, and elite athletes.

In our first 45-minute class with trainer Eva Twardokens, a Santa Cruz surfer and Olympic ski veteran, we warmed with rowing on the ergs and dove into rapid-fire, 30-second-Tabatta sets of squats. (Tabatta time clock-style-drills on the bike, noted Eva, helped the ‘96 Olympic speed skating team increase their average V02 max by 20%.) We then went through Olympic weightlifting bar drills and finished off with a circuit of medicine ball toss n’ run laps mixed with lifting exercises. Overall, it was a good workout and fun. What we loved was the variety and how short it was.

According to Eva, “Crossfit is minimalist program, which is reflected by the functionality and basic-ness of its exercises, as well as the simplicity of the equipment compared to most commercial gyms. An Olympic weight set and a place to do pull-ups and dips is all you need to do CrossFit. But we like to add gymnastics rings and parallelette bars, plyometric boxes, a Dynamax medicine ball, dumbbells, kettlebells, climbing rope, Concept II Rower, and a glute-ham developer – gear anyone can add if they want to train CrossFit-style at home.”

The Crossfit regimen is a fitness program suitable for anyone, as the same routines are used for elderly individuals with heart disease to cage fighters. The only difference is that how they scale load and intensity.

“I wish I had the Crossfit knowledge when I was training for Olympic Games,” said Eva. “Instead of 3-hour-a-day endurance workouts, training is fun, efficient, and effective. The variety and intensity makes it never boring. I only spend 4-5 days a week -- no more than an hour per day --, so as a surfer, you have time to go surf or do other things. While you do build stamina, the key is that these short, high intensity circuit workouts seem to induce the body’s production of human growth hormone. For example, we have a 76-year-old female client who couldn’t pick up her granddaughter due to osteoporosis. After some Crossfit training, she had no trouble, and even got a young bone rating.”

So, check out CrossFit (www.crossfit.com) as a way to maintain general physical preparedness, avoid injury and be the best athlete you can be. Gyms are located in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, San Jose and rapidly spring up elsewhere. First class is free and tell then Zuna Surf sent you.

photos courtesy of Gregg Everett and Crossfit Santa Cruz

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Ongoing - art

Art Exhibit: "The Mavericks Series" by Merijn van den Ende

at MavericksSurf Shop, Half Moon Bay

151 Harvard Avenue, HMB. 650.563.9060

Check out "The Mavericks Series" of acrylic on wood paintings at the Mavs shop by this LIberia, West Africa-raised surfer. Now living in his homeland, the Netherlands, van den Ende has other works available for viewing by appointment at the Anja van Ditmarsch Gallery at 1732 Leavenworth Street and Broadway, San Francisco. Tel: 415-359-9352

More: Anja van Ditmarsch Gallery

Ongoing - art

Mollusk Surf Art Exhibit: Andy "Ando" Davis

at Mollusk Surf Shop, San Francisco

4500 Irving Street (at 46th Ave)

Missed the opening bash a few weeks back? You can still catch the drawings and paintings by San Diego's Andy "Ando" Davis, the famed designer of Free, Freebyrd and Byrd clothing brands. Check out more of his artwork in his children's book, "Way of the Byrd," a collaboration with Andrew Kidman, as well as his cool sites, AndyDavisArtStore and TheElectricGrapevine.com

Thur March 30 - bash

Billabong Bash for Robert Waldemar

at Castaways, Santa Cruz

6:30pm at 3623 Portola Drive. Tel 831-465-8200

The Santa Cruz Billabong shop is hosting a raffle, roast and toast for longtime Westside surfer Robert Waldemar, who recently suffered from a heart attack. Store co-owner Adam Repogle and organizers are putting together the fundraiser to assist Waldemar with various medical and other bills. "He's quite the ambassador to the Lane and to our core surf community, and we want to show him a good time," said Repogle in a recent Santa Cruz Sentinel article by Gwen Mickelson.

Thurs March 30 - movie

Surf Movie Nite: Volcom Stone's Creepy Fingers

presented by Aqua Surf Shop & Wavefest

at The Balboa Theater, San Francisco

3630 Balboa St and 38th Avenue

Showings: 7:15 and 9:15 | $8 at the Door.

Witness the antics of Volcom team riders Bruce Irons, Ozzie Wright, Dean Morrison, Gavin Beschen, Nate Tyler, Jay Quinn, Super-Grom Andrew Doheny and more. Watch as Creepy Fingers winds its way through a cinematic foray of beauty, silliness, seriousness and the general debris of human existence. Also features Volcom Entertainment bands: Single Frame, Valient Thorr, The Goons of Doom, ASG, Sounder and more.

Click here to view the VIDEO TRAILER and/or download to your iPod.

Thurs March 30 - speaker

Surfrider San Mateo's EVENING WITH STEVE HAWK

at Pedro Point Firehouse, Pacifica

7:30pm at 1227 Danmann Ave. Directions

Steve Hawk, former editor of Surfer Magazine, will present a slide show featuring images from his new book, Waves, a collection of photos of empty waves taken by some of the world’s best-known surf photographers: Art Brewer, Tom Servais, Jeff Divine, Rob Gilley, Sean Davey, Andrew Kidman, and others. As he wrote in the book’s intro, it’s designed “to illustrate the many shapes, textures, impacts, and hues — the visual drama — of ocean waves as they interact with shore.”

As freelance editorial director of Surfer and Surfing magazines, Steve has an insider's view of the surf media and is happy to field your questions. Info: www.surfridersmc.org

Sat April 1- cleanup

Tue April 10 - meeting

Surfrider SANTA CRUZ Chapter
info: www.surfridersantacruz.org

Beach Cleanup, 11am - 1pm Natural Bridges State Beach

All cleanups are the first Saturday of the month.

April 10: General Meeting, 7-9 p.m., Chapter office, 2222 East Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz (the O'Neill Building). Guest speaker: Tracey Weiss, Program Director, Camp Sea Lab presenting their programs and goals. Camp SEA Lab is a marine science camp adventure for youth ages 8-13.

Sun April 2 - cleanup

Surfrider - SAN FRANCISCO Chapter
info: www.sfsurfrider.org

Beach Cleanup, 10am - 12pm, Sloat Boulevard

Fri April 7 - art & fashion

Spring Benefit Fashion Show | movie premiere + Paul Javier art

at Coastline Brewery, Downtown Santa Cruz

8pm-12am at 120 Union St

ALL AGES event. $2 Raffle, $10 door. The night kicks off with an 8pm Movie Premiere, "Surfers Are Addicted" by Jessie Lopez, Swilly Vision and Anthony Ruffo. A 9pm Fashion Show follows, featuring Puropedo, 831 Clothing, Jane Henry, BluEmursion and World Wide Westside.

There's also a Silent Art Auction for 2 surf & ocean life photos by Paul Javier and dance party fun with DJ LOPITO . Raffle sponsors: SurfTech, Volcom and show designers. All proceeds benefit the Santa Cruz County high school surf leagues. Info or call 831-459-9876.

Sat April 8 - board fest

10th Annual WOMEN ON WAVES Longboard Surf Fest

at Capitola Main Peak, Capitola

all day from 7am on

This women's surfing celebration is a full day of fun and benefits local Santa Cruz charities. Watch novices to the best women longboarders in Northern California compete. Win 7+ boards from local shapers; bid on 4 Surftech boards up for auction; enjoy 4 bands; meet Women's World Champ Kristy Murphy plus pros like Julie Cox, Ashley Lloyd, and Kim Hamrock. And more! Awards dinner ceremony follows. Entry forms & info: www.surfwomenonwaves.com

Thurs Apr 20- fashion

Aqua Surf Shop's Fashion Show: Playa Aqua II

at 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco.

Aqua is holding its second Spring /Summer fashion show, Playa Aqua II, slated for April 20. Check out the hot swimwear and accessories in last year's slideshow by Marlin Lum. More details TBA

Sat April 22 - cleanup

Surfrider Marin Beach Cleanup + Stinson Beach

Earthday Celebration
info: www.surfrider.org/marin

Beach Clean Up at a Stinson. Then, celebrate Earth Day by joining professional artists, community members and passers by in an art-in nature event on the edge of the Pacific. Using sand, rocks, and found objects off the beach, we will have fun collaboratively creating a vast, temporary site-specific sculpture.

Sculpture/beach fun: Sat April 22, 11 AM - 3 PM, south end of Stinson Beach.

Bring a picnic! More on the Earth Day gathering.

Sat April 22 - art

Art Show Opening: JULIE COX

at Coastline Brewery, Downtown Santa Cruz

evening TBD. 120 Union St

The pro longboarder has been traveling around the world and is ready to unveil a new series of photos as a followup to her last exhibit at Paradise Surf Shop. More details soon.

Sun April 23 - fest

Billabong santa cruz's * FREE* Family Fun Fest

at Cowells Beach, Santa Cruz

Come out for Billabong's FREE Family Fun Fest on April 23. The Cowells event will be a family surfing event, with only Softops or soft boards. There will be a push-in event for kids, as well as a few other unusual divisions. Attendees should just show up and enter the event at the beach. There will be plenty of soft boards available for those who don't have one. More info: 831-476-7873.

Every Monday - chillin'

BEERS, BROS & SKATE VIDEOS

at Thee Parkside, San Francisco, Mondays at 8pm

1600 17th St at Wisconsin

A weekly Monday event loosely based around just that: drinking beer and watching live music and skate videos (old and new). It kicks off at 8pm with no cover at the door. All the bands that play are skate-related in one way or another. All Night Specials: $3 Grolsch Pints, $3 Mystery Shot.

	SURF CONTEST CALENDAR A listing of upcoming contests in Northern California and other select areas. Plan your surf sessions accordingly.
APRIL
April 6-10	2006 Robert August Surf N' Turf Charity Contest - Tamarindo, Costa Rica Join surf legends Robert August and Robert “Wingnut” Weaver for four days of surf & golf competition,and partying in Costa Rica, all to benefit local Costa Rica charities. $200 per person, $800 per team. Need a team? They'll assign you to one. Info & video clips: www.endlessfun.com
Sat April 8 Sun April 9	Billabong's 2006 Surfrat Series - Huntington & Manhattan Beach April 8 - Goldenwest, Huntington Beach, Ca April 9 - 42nd St, Manhattan Beach, Ca FREE ENTRY. Divisions: 14 – 16; 13 and under. A series of 11 free contests held around the U.S. for kids 16 and under. All contestants receive a T-shirt and all finalists win a backpack filled with Prizes. There is all kinds of free things for everyone, from stickers, to magazines, to Monster Energy drinks. The winner of each division qualifies for the Surfrat Superfinal held in California during the Summer. The winner of each division of the Surfrat Superfinal wins an all expense paid trip to Tavarua, Fiji! Sign up is on the beach. Contests are limited to 64 entries and it is first come first serve, so show up early! Info: www.billabong.com
Sat April 8	10th Annual Women on Waves Longboard Surf Fest- Capitola Peak Slots still available. Longest running women's surf festival with entertainment, pros surfers and huge board raffle. Get forms at Paradise Surf Shop, other surf shops, and www.surfwomenonwaves.com.
Sun April 9	WSA Hobie Championship Tour - Contest #10 -Steamer Lane, Santa Cruz Shortboard & Longboard Series. Men, Women, Jrs, & Open divisions. Earn points to compete for regional titles and to compete in the 2006 Surfing America USA Championships/Team Trials. Enter at www.westernsurfingassociation.org
Sat April 15	NSSA Gold Coast Explorer Series - California St. (Pipes), Ventura National Scholastic Surfing Association series for NorCal/Central Cal. Info: www.nssa.org
Sat-Sun, April 22-23	Big Stick Logjam - Pleasure Pt, Santa Cruz Coalition no-leash, vintage longboard event. Host: Big Stick Surfing Association. Enter via your local Coalition Surf Club.
MAY
Sun May 7	Billabong's 2006 Surfrat Series - Pleasure Pt, Santa Cruz FREE ENTRY. Divisions: 14 – 16; 13 and under. See description above. Sign up is on the beach. Contests are limited to 64 entries and it is first come first serve, so show up early! Info: www.billabong.com
May 12-14	Volcom's VQS World Championships - 54th St, Newport Beach US Regional & International qualifiers from the Volcom Totally Crustaceous Tour compete in shortboard divisions: Open Girls (All Ages), Groms 14&Under, Juniors 15-17, and Mens Pro-Am. Info: www.volcom.com/crusty
May 13-14	WSA West Coast Championships - Church Beach, San Onofre Hoppy Swarts Memorial Event. Shortboard & Longboard Series. Men, Women, Jrs, & Open divisions. Enter at www.westernsurfingassociation.org
May 18-21	NSSA 2006 West Coast Championships - Huntington Beach Southside Pier Info: www.nssa.org
May 27-28	21st Annual Memorial Day Contest - Steamer Lane, Santa Cruz Coalition LB event. Host: Santa Cruz Longboard Union. Enter via your local Coalition Surf Club.

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