2011 Loews Dog Surfing “Best of” dogs surfing video clips showcasing canine surfers hitting the waves to raise money for local charities. See more dog surfing videos from this event and other California dog surfing contests at the SoCal Beaches Magazine website at www.socalbeachmag.net
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BILLABONG XXL BIG WAVE EVENT HONORS GREATEST RIDES OF YEAR AT FRIDAY NIGHT’S AWARD PARTY IN ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA;
ELEVENTH ANNUAL CEREMONY FEATURES GIANT SURF, $130,000 IN PRIZES AND A TELEVISION SHOW FROM FUEL
NEWPORT BEACH, CA — (April 27, 2011) — In just 24 hours over 2,200 surf industry VIPs will begin arriving for Friday night’s Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. It’s an Oscars-style ceremony at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California paying tribute to the greatest big wave accomplishments during the past year. The invitation-only event brings the elite of the surfing world to a red carpet gala with a star-studded array of nominees and presenters.
With entries from far flung places as Tasmania, Ireland, and Fiji this year’s crop of nominees has some of the biggest tubes and worst wipeouts of recent memory. Fuel TV will broadcast the event on Sunday at 9PM Eastern Time and 6PM Pacific Time as a two-day tape delay.
Tuesday night the XXL judging panel gathered at the Billabong Headquarters in Irvine to make the final selection of the winners in each category. XXL mastermind Bill Sharp, headed up a panel of highly respected analysts from a cross section of surf magazines and perennial experts of Big Wave performance surfing. The esteemed judging panel scrutinized hours of footage and dozens of photographs to measure the maximum face heights of the year for the Monster Paddle and XXL Biggest Wave Award.
The other subjective categories — including the $50,000 Ride of the Year — were voted on by the 400-plus members of the “big wave academy” made up of all the surfers and photographers to have competed in the event along with select journalists who cover the sport.
Additional categories include the Monster Tube and Surfline Overall Performance Awards. The top female surfers of the year will contend for the Billabong Girls Performance crown and the greatest disasters will be celebrated with the crowd-pleasing Verizon Wipeout of the Year Award.
A slow start to the big wave riding season eventually gained a healthy head of steam, and once again huge waves and amazing rides were captured in stills and video around the world, often at new spots by upcoming surfers. When distilled down to the top five nominees in each of the XXL’s seven divisions, nearly every category is filled with all-time moments, truly worthy of the being named an XXL champion and a share of the $130,000 in prize money at stake.
The Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards are fueled by Monster Energy. Verizon is the official communications provider and Toyota is the official vehicle of the event. Surfline.com is the exclusive surf forecast of the XXL. The event is sponsored by Surfing Magazine, Air Tahiti Nui and Contour.
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Visit www.palmtreesurfvideos.com to order the full length DVD (29 minutes). Filmed in Hawai’i during the big winter of 2010, Aloha Style features footage of the 2010 Eddie Aikau and Pipeline Masters, with huge Waimea Bay, perfect Pipeline and Backdoor, surfed by the world’s top pros: Kelly, Bruce, Andy, Shane, the Hobgoods, and many more. Aloha Style also features a bonus chapter with footage of some of the best reef and point breaks on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Soundtrack by: Baldread, G.A.G, Jacuzzi Fuzz, Leslie, Dread Daze, David Christian, Bob Holston, Big Sweeps, and Los Dubies.
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Visit www.palmtreesurfvideos.com to order the full length DVD (27 minutes). Tradewinds features rare surf footage filmed at ten of the best breaks on Hawaii’s Big Island. The Big Island has some of the heaviest reefs, beach breaks, river mouths, and point breaks in Hawaii and Tradewinds takes you there, with a map showing the location of each spot. Watch high performance surfing at a secret left point, crystal clear tubes at Honl’s, and double-overhead Honoli’i river mouth. The movie presents footage of ten different surf spots located around the island (Tombstones, Honoli’i, Honl’s, A-Bay, Banyans, Poho’iki, Magic Sands, Lymans, Old Airport, and Waipio Valley). A bonus chapter features footage of the 2010 Eddie Aikau, held in massive 40 ft Waimea, and the 2010 Pipeline Masters with clean double overhead Pipe and Backdoor, all surfed by the world’s top pros. A DVD menu with a map of the Big Island makes it easy to go to your favorite spot. Soundtrack by: The Waffle Stompers, TRM, Jacuzzi Fuzz, Robot Monster, Brian Ball, David Christian, Skeausha, and The Skank Agents.
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Surfers at Rocky Point. For some reason the original of this clip got all glitchy and does not play back smoothly anymore, so I am re-posting this freesurf session at Rockies.
Video by Paul Topp
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Video of surfers riding the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. Surfers include Kalani Chapman, Aamion Goodwin, Flynn Novak and many more…
Video by Paul Topp
www.paultopp.com
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A 25-foot wave drags a group of California surfers underwater. For more, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/news
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I collected clips from a couple videos of pro surfers and put them all together to make this music video.
Song – Closer to the Sun by Slightly Stoopid
All credit goes to Slightly Stoopid and Stoopid Records
I posted this video on Slightly Stoopid’s wall and they like it! (Pic below)
http://i56.tinypic.com/spyjr9.jpg
Thanks for watching!
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Ocean Dome Madd Wave pool in japan (actually barrels)
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2009 Nelscott Reef Surf Contest in Lincoln City Oregon.
Watch Pro’s from around the world test their skills on 30+ Foot Faces!
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