JEFF HUBBARD TAKES IT ALL HOME TO HAWAII (2010 SCION JENKS PRO AND US CHAMPION IN ONE SWEEP)
Tour: The Body Glove USBA National Bodyboard Tour
Event: The SCION Jenkinson’s Boardwalk Pro
Sponsors: SCION, Jenkinson’s Boardwalk,VERT Water Bottles,Plastic People Clothing, Youriding.com, Skull Candy and 3rd Ave Surf Shop
www.scion.com – www.bodyglove.com

JENKS PRO LIVE ONLINE VIDEO GAME

http://www.youriding.com/bodyboarding

Location: Jenkinson’s Inlet, Point Pleasant, New Jersey
Date: September 1st – 7th

EVENT UPDATES: JENKS PRO MEN’S DIVISION GOES OFF-WAVES AND RIDERS!

To all media and riders:

Jeff Hubbard (Kauai, Hawaii/Current World Champ) swept the SCION Jenks Pro and the US National title for the second year in a row by narrowly beating Oahu, Hawaii’s JB Hillen. They two were followed up by Guilherme Tamega (Brazil/x6 World Champ) and Matt Holtzman (Kauai) who was competing in the Pro division as an Amateur. JB Hillen was the next best thing in the line up next to Jeff Hubbard with huge air roll spins and great barrels. Jeff’s wave knowledge and big moves edged him above the field however. Title contender Guilhereme Tamega had a good chance to take out Jeff but could not get the 8.86 score he needed to win the US title by placing second in the SCION Jenks Pro.

Jeff Hubbard

There was a lot of great rides all of which will be seen in the post video edit coming out late tomorrow if you where not able to view the webcast. We at the USBA are so happy with having another year of great waves that we wish we could wake up and do it all over again.

Guilherme Tamega

A rull heat-by-heat story will be in US Bodyboard trade magazines later in the month so stand by for more media action from the USBA and the USA’s best Bodyboarders.

USBA STAFF

Stay tuned to the below sites for more info and check the gallery link to view today’s action!
WWW.USBATOUR.COM
WWW.SCION.COM
WWW.BODYGLOVE.COM

Jeff Hubbard

The USBA 2010 National Champion, Jeff Hubbard!

JENKS PRO A GO!
Drop Knee Pro Round 1 Goes Down in Great Fashion
Tour: The Body Glove USBA National Bodyboard Tour
Event: The SCION Jenkinson’s Boardwalk Pro
Sponsors: SCION, Jenkinson’s Boardwalk,VERT Water Bottles,Plastic People Clothing, Youriding.com, Skull Candy and 3rd Ave Surf Shop
www.scion.com – www.bodyglove.com

Jeff Hubbard DKing Jenks

JENKS PRO LIVE ONLINE VIDEO GAME

http://www.youriding.com/bodyboarding

Location: Jenkinson’s Inlet, Point Pleasant, New Jersey
Date: September 1st – 7th

EVENT UPDATES: SWELL HITS EARLY FOR DROP KNEE PRO

To all media and riders:

The SCION Jenks Pro kicked off with the Drop Knee Pro division today with epic 4 ft conditions. Sammy Morretino was a clear standout as the 15-year-old Kauaian dominated wave after wave with big snaps and barrels. Drop Knee Champ Brian Stoehr was knocked out by Sammy and Dan Worley narrowly. Jeff Hubbard’s backside attack kept his drop knee roll going as he just arrived from a 2nd place finish at Sintra (IBA World Tour event). Runner up to Jeff was North Carolina’s Ryan Rhodes.

Brian Stoehr

After the Drop Knee Rd1 finished the following division was an expression session in the form of the USBA Team’s Challenge. The Hawaiian team of JB Hillen, Trevor Kam, Mark Balasbas, Jeff Hubbard and David Phillips dominated with two 9’s as their top scores winning the division and bragging rights!

Sammy in the barrel!

The finals of the Drop Knee Pro will run Saturday with the men’s pro main rounds. Surf conditions are forecasted to be epic. Tomorrow will be round 1 of men’s pro with an 8am EST start time. Live webcast http://www.usbatour.com/live.html

Tentative schedule can be viewed below

Wednesday Sept 1st- Day 1 Drop Knee Pro Completed.

Thursday Sept 2nd- Day 2 Men’s Pro Round 1, 8am-11:30 AM

Friday Sept 3rd- Day 3 Possibility of competition all Pro riders on call 100% of running probability.

Saturday Sept 4th- Day 4 of possible competition all Pro riders on call 100% possibility of running competition (Amateur and Womens Divisions)
Meet and Greet with Jeff Hubbard, Jason Bitzer, Guilherme Tamega, Brian Stoehr, Spencer Skipper, and Kurt Pellegrino of the UFC.

SCION Jenks Pro Party at the Jenks Club Starting at 8pm all 21 and over welcome. VIP for Jenks Pro staff and riders (No cover).

Sunday Sept 5th- Jenks Pro Closing ceremony and awards at the scaffolding at Jenkinson’s Inlet Beach

Jeff with a snap.

The current title situation is below and it will provide a entertaining

Jeff Hubbard is currently in the lead with 1720
Guilherme Tamega and Jacob Romero have both 1610
Spencer Skipper and Dave Hubbard both have both 1130

That means:
-If Guilherme or Jacob wins there is no chance for Jeff Hubbard to win the title
-if Jeff looses in the semi finals, TAMEGA or ROMERO need at least a 3rd
-if Jeff gets a 4th, GT or ROMERO need at least a 2nd
-if Jeff gets a 3rd, GT or ROMERO need to win
-if Jeff or GT go to semi there is no chance for SKIPPER

For the Women’s Pro,Karla Costa Taylor has secured her first event USBA National Title.

Trevor Kam has also secured his first ever Open Amateur National title.

The 13-18 Amateur divisions is being dominated by JB Hilen, however there is still room for Shabaz Soaia to over take him if JB goes down in the first round at Jenks.

Amazing things are in store for this year’s event. Some of the helpful features that have been added to help traveling pros include transportation for all riders, hospitality and VIP lounges and sports massage and chiropractic throughout the event. We’re thrilled to host the flagship event that started the entire USBA tour: The SCION Jenk’s Pro.

Eunate Aguirre, 2nd Place & Karla Costa Taylor, 1st Place

DAVE HUBBARD SWEEPS IT AND TAKES BOTH DIVISIONS AND KARLA COSTA TAYLOR SCORES A PERFECT 10 IN THE FINAL WITH A MASSIVE ARS AND TAKES IT HOME.

PUERTO ESCONDIDO, OAXACA – (August 4^th, 2010) – The last day of competition was the most exciting day of all. The morning started with the DK semis with Dave Hubbard and Kim Feast, taking DUB the best out of it moving to the final. In semi 2 Micah McMullin faced current world champ Cesar Bauer. McMullin had a strong start, unfortunately his board delaminated and had to go in and get a different board. Meanwhile Bauer took advantage and score a couple of good rides taking the heat and moving to the DK final vs. Dave Hubbard.

Cesar Bauer

David Hubbard

The female semis were nothing but pure adrenaline. Eunate Aguirre was up against Maira Viana. Maira and her powerful style was taking off on the big ones trying to roll on the most critical sections, unfortunately did not landed her moves leaving the door open for Eunate who was patiently waiting for the perfect ones and finding a clean barrel to roll to take the heat. Then next semi was between Karla Costa and Ruth Parra from Venezuela. Parra was unable to find a good rhythm with the ocean and couldn’t get a good score. On the other hand Karla was hitting the lip with massive rollos and taking the heat with a comfortable lead.

David Hubbard launching high off the lip!

David Hubbard flying!

The prone division was next. Magno Oliveira vs. Dave Hubbard. Oliveira had been in fine form during the whole comp but didn’t find the rhythm to get the huge scores. Dave was patiently waiting for the rights and got a spin to barrel to ars combo taking the first spot in the final. Cesar Bauer vs. Hermano Castro was the 2^nd semi.  Bauer, also a DK finalist, had to be smart about using his energy and played safe waiting for the clean sets. A good right came his way and he busted a big invert. Hermano, waited and found the best waves of the whole heat, a sick left deep barrel coming out and hitting the last section with a roll to take the heat and move to the final.

Hermano Pereira

The first final of the day was the DK final. Cesar Bauer came in, switched boards and went back out to face the wonder kid Dave Hubbard. It was as intense as we all expected. Bauer started strong finding a great rhythm in the firsts 10 minutes of the heat but Hubbard answered back with a nine pointer with a snap to barrel to floater. Bauer immediately found a perfect right pulling in the tube and coming out of it, but was unable to finish his last move, a dk air reverse, getting an 8.5. It was really tight, but DUB took the win with a backside barrel to take hit first Puerto final.

Dubb Dking Zicatela

Karla Costa Taylor, all smiles!

The female final was next and all spectators could not get their eyes of the water. Every wave was so intense and cheered by the crowd as good as the world cup. Eunate Aguirre vs. Karla Costa Taylor. Eunate and her smooth riding style was leading the heat with a nice barrel to roll combo, but Karla answered back with a couple fo massive rollos. Costa started to gain confidence and in the last few minutes, she was able to launch a massive ARS and getting the highest scoring wave of the whole competition, a perfect 10, and taking the big bucks back home.

Karla Costa Taylor ripping it up.

The last and most exciting heat of the day was between Hermano Castro and Dave Hubbard. It was all about Dave since the beginning of the heat finding every wave and performing at his finest. With a couple of 9.6s’, a massive invert and an incredible barrel ride, Dave swept the Zicatela Pro winning both divisions, DK and Men’s Pro.

Congratulations to both Zicatela Pro 2010 Champions!  Dave Hubbard and Karla Costa Taylor!!

Zicatela Pro Results:

Prone
1st Dave Hubbard, Hawaii
2nd Hermano Pereira, Brazil
3rd Magno Oliviera, Brazil
3rd Cesar Bauer, Peru

Womens
1st Karla Costa, Hawaii
2nd Eunate Aguirre, Spain
3rd Maira Viana, Brazil
3rd Ruth Parra, Venzuela

Dropknee
1st Dave Hubbard, Hawaii
2nd Cesar Bauer, Peru
3rd Kim Feast, Australia
3rd Micah McMullin, Hawaii

For more information visit the Zicatela Pro website.

Judges Tower

DAY 3:

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE FROM MAGNO OLIVEIRA TAKING BOTH, THE HIGHEST WAVE SCORE 9.8 AND A TOTAL HEAT SCORE OF 19.20 POINTS.

PUERTO ESCONDIDO, OAXACA – (July 31st, 2010) – Zicatela Beach and all the spectators saw a lot of action from the men’s prone division. The second round was completed. All Mexican competitors advanced to the third round. Chuy Silva, Cesar Petroni, Gerardo Martinez, Jose Ramirez, Edwin Morales, Alexander Alvarez and Ulises Rodriguez.

The most exciting heat of the day had seeded number one Magno Oliveira, local Jesus Silva and Eduardo Carpinello from Chile. Magno took an early lead with a massive el Rollo and went back out straight into a perfect lefthander that would give him a 9.4 in the first five minutes. Illuminated by the gods, Magno was able to find a better score riding a double barrel wave ending with a smooth invert taking the highest score of the competition so far; a 9.8 and a total heat score of 19.20 to seal the deal. Local Jesus was in third place until the last few minutes where he found a little corner launching a clean ARS to take second place and move to the fourth round.

Bigger Waves Roll In

Waves are still picking up and it should be a great show for tomorrow morning. All round 3 will be running and all competitors are hungry for some big surf.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s action!!

Babby Quiñones

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DAY 4:

SOLID LONG PERIOD SWELL (6-8 feet) ALLOWED ALL COMPETITORS A GREAT CHANCE TO SCORE EITHER A SICK BARREL OR A HUGE RAMP TO LAUNCH TO THE SKY.

PUERTO ESCONDIDO, OAXACA – (August 1st, 2010) – Nothing better than a long period swell for the best rounds of the contest. All third round was an amazing spectacle for everyone who witnessed the heats. Heavy barrels, epic ramps and beautiful weather.

The third round continued with Dave Hubbard and James Murdock advancing, leaving Spaniard Elosua in third. In heat 4 we saw a slow start but a strong finish from local kid Cesar Petroni taking the heat with a solid invert. Ardiel was able to find some corners and Giovanni Greco was unable to find a good score.

Cesar Petroni

Gregory Wonters and Cesar Bauer eliminated local big wave charger, Jose Ramirez in a tough heat. Jorge Colomer in heat 6, was feeling comfortable finding good barrels and air sections. In heat seven seeded #2 Hermano Pereira, was almost eliminated having a hard time finding the right wave. Barely made it in second moving to the next round with local Edwin Morales. Felipe Mendez and Jeremy Loebstock were the last to move into 4th round.

Forth round of action was the most anticipated moment of the day. With men on men heat format, the second heat had local Jesus Silva and argentine Emiliano Tabare. Conditions were changing and it was hard to find a good wave, but the local kid found a perfect and deep left barrel that would give him the victory to move into quarterfinals. Magno with a solid win over Puerto Rican Babby Quiñones will face local Jesus Silva in the most thrilling heat of the comp for all Mexican crowd!!

Stand by for more results.

James Murdock

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Day 5:

ZICATELA PRO 2010 SAW THE MOST THRILLING DAY OF THE CONTEST. ALL QUARTERFINALS WERE AS HOT AS THE WEATHER AND WE HAVE THE SEMIFINALS READY TO GO. SF1 MAGNO OLIVEIRA VS DAVE HUBBARD AND SF2 CESAR BAUER VS HERMANO CASTRO.
PUERTO ESCONDIDO, OAXACA – (August 2nd, 2010) – Zicatela had hell of a show this morning with the end of the fourth round. The first heat of the day started with local Edwin Morales and Jeremy Loefstok. Conditions were tough, but Morales was able to find a couple of scores to take the heat. The last heat of round 4 was between Brazilians Hermano Castro and Felipe Mendez. Mendez started strong, but Castro waited for the bigger set and got the scores to take a spot in the quarterfinals.
QF1 had local talent Jesus Silva and the wave magnet, Magno “Magneto” Oliveira. Oliveira took an early lead finding the bigger waves and going for massive Rollos. Silva was not able to find a good score during the whole heat, giving Magno the first spot in the semis. In qf2, good friends Hubbard and Murdock were having a good time in the water. Hubbard found a great hollow left, were he busted a huge invert. Murdock had a couple of scores but nothing impressive for the judges. Hubbard sealed the deal with another big invert on a clean Puerto right to take the heat.
The second half of the round saw a soft onshore breeze, but the conditions were fully contestable. QF3 was between Aruba’s standout Gregory Wonters and Peruvian Cesar Bauer. It was an intense heat and Bauer was able to find the good scores to take a place in SF2. The last heat of the day had the last Mexican in the contest, Edwin Morales vs. Hermano Castro from Brazil. Morales took an early lead with a couple of Rollos, but Castro’s strategy came to play in the last 4 minutes of the heat, finding the best wave of the heat, an 8.5 barrel to invert, taking the last spot in the semis.
SF1 Magno “Magneto” Oliveira vs. Dave Hubbard SF2 Cesar Bauer vs. Hermano Castro.
DK and women’s QF and SF will run tomorrow, leaving the men’s semis and all finals for Wednesday with a decent south swell.

Photo: Michelle Rozzen

Called the “Boy Wonder” by Movement magazine, and the dominant winner of the Riptide Readers “Best Grom”, Tom’s on a rapid ascent in the world of bodyboarding. “For his age he is perhaps the most sophisticated rider, [both on land and in the water] that I have known. Tom is already among the very elite in the sport of BodyBoarding and is surely destined for great things,” Said 9 time world champion Mike Stewart, from Science headquarters in Hawaii.

Photo by Ryan Jones (Ryanjonesphotograhy.com.au Ryanjones_89@hotmail.com)

“I’ve been riding for Science for the past 3 years, and in that time, with strong support from Mike, Lisa and the whole Science team I’ve gained a lot of experience and knowledge which has been a big part of my development as a bodyboarder. Mike’s a great teacher and his technical knowledge, creativity and passion is really inspiring.

In saying this, I’m stoked to announce that I have signed for another 3 years with Science! I’m super amped for these next three years…working with Mike on new products and boards is exciting, and it’s great to be using the top bodyboard equipment in the world as I pursue the Australian and World tour, and try to keep pushing my riding to higher levels.” Said Tom Rigby from his home on the gold coast of Australia.

Tom on skype with Mike

Behind the scene we have been dialing in his new “RIG” board series. As both Tom’s stature and ability have grown, his custom board template has been modified to assist with Tom’s progression and help him take his riding to the next level. Keeping true to the principles of RTI (Real Time Innovation), the changes to Tom’s custom boards will be applied to Tom’s new “RIG” signature board line that will be available this spring. Besides Boards we are also collaborating on a number of other new projects that will be released in the months to come.

Science is owned and operated by Mike Stewart a 9 time world champion and current top 16 bodyboarder.

Following the successful trials event yesterday the crowd moved onto Emerald Surf City in the Cronulla mall for a huge promo. The crowd of was treated to a meet and greet with some of the sports best with loads of giveaways and prizes.
After over an hour of excited mayhem the crowd was shuffled next door to the 2230 Bar Cronulla for the exciting live heat draw where NRL superstar Eric Grothe Jr was on hand to draw out each competitors name heat by heat.
Former Contest Director Mark Fordham officially handed over the reins to new head honcho Alex Leon. This year the contest is reshaped into a one-day progression heats challenge, were by at the end of the days competition there will be a new champion crowned.
Due to a recent injury Michael Novy unable to compete in this years challenge and has been replaced by fellow Unite team rider Nick Ormerod. Also unable to make last nights briefing was Damian King due to the birth of his first child our congratulations go out to him and his wife.

Heat 1
Adam Smith
John Showell
Ryan Hardy
Andrew Lester

Heat 2
Jason Finlay
Dave Winchester
Jared Houston
Damian King

Heat 3
Sam Strachen
Shaun Pyne
Nick Ormerod
Brenden Newton

Heat 4
Glen Sullivan
Daniel Worsely
Ben Player
Thomas Robinson

For all your event info stay tuned to fluidzone.com

This Sunday the 13th we invite you to come down to Cronulla and firstly watch the Brett Young Shark Island Trials at Cronulla Point. This event will start at 8am and the forecast is predicting some great waves. With two positions on offer for the Fluidzone Shark Island Challenge, the top two place getters will receive automatic entry into the 14th annual event vying for over $10,000 prize money.

At 3pm Emerald Surf City will host a promotional signing / meet the pro’s afternoon. Emerald is the longest running bodyboarding specialist store in Australia and has a rich history with the Shark Island Challenge. Come down and grab a photo or get a signature from the likes of World Champions Ben Player and Damian King or meet your heros like Dave Winchester, Ryan Hardy, Jason Finlay, Brenden Newton, Thomas Robison and John Showell.

When 4pm comes around the competitors will move next door to the 2230 Bar Cronulla for the official contest briefing and heat draw. See the heats drawn live and get all the official schedule for this years challenge whilst enjoying food and drinks at the 2230 Bar.

Also there is still a few positions left in the Brett Young Shark Island Trials so if you thought you were to late ring the contest director ASAP on PH : 0414330145.

Emerald Surf City and 2230 Cronulla Bar are located opposite the Cronulla train station at the southern end of the Cronulla Mall.

photo: Mike Sertic

Michael Creed is one of the best riders to come from America since the days of Ross McBride. He will be one of the stars in the new American bodyboarding flick ‘Ring of Fire’, which is already creating much hype and anticipation among bodyboarder’s around the globe.

Name: Michael Creed

Age: 24

Where are you from: San Diego, California

Sponsors: Morey and Churchill

Years on the foam: 9 years

California can get some decent swells during winter. How was the last winter?

For California standards the waves were amazing.  Every weekend we had overhead swell and offshore winds.  My friend Tomic from the Goldy was staying with me during this time, and even though the waves were pumping California standards, he thought they were just average.  But it was nice to get waves at least once a week, sometimes in Cali we can go a month without waves.  Leif and Tom Wilson actually lucked into some waves at Seal Beach in Los Angeles that will be featured in the new flick Ring of Fire.

Where are the best breaks to surf?
In my opinion the best break in California is “Base” which is featured in the old No Friends vids. It reminds me of blackrock, but on sand. You can only surf it if you are either in the Military or have parents in the military.  All the local boogs up there try to get a pass by getting jobs on the base.  Nick Osky, who’s over in Aus right now staying with the Thurston’s worked as a baseball umpire for the summer to get the golden ticket.  And Matty Meyer, one of the best riders in Cali has pretty much a lifetime pass from his family.  It’s fun going up there to surf with those guys, always some friendly competition in the water.

The new American bodyboarding flick titled Ring of Fire looks incredible. Tell us a bit about that?

It’s a project that Rob Isambert has been working on now for a couple years.  The sections include Cook Islands, Wedge, California, Bali, 2 Hawaii Seasons in one section, me/Charles Marabella split section, Matt Meyer, Pacific Northwest (wave in Le Boogie 3), Mike Lepiere, Puerto, and ending it with John Porzucezek. There is a lot of variety.  Can’t wait for the premiere, we haven’t had anticipation for a premiere in California like this since the old No Friends vids.  All these guys will all be coming out to Aus in June to film the next video.
Plenty of the best young Australian bodyboarders have flown to Los Angeles to party with you. Do you have any cool stories about the mischief you guys have got up to?

Some of the guys that have stayed in LA with me are now married or have girlfriends so the funniest stories are going to have to remain silent.  Small things that have happened over the past 5 years are:

• Sorority parties in Arizona (Number 1 party school rated by playboy)
• Halloween at Santa Barbara
• Limo’s to the best Hollywood clubs
• Floatopia Spring Break
• Coachella and the open bar after parties
• Held up at gunpoint in Vegas
• $200,000 birthday party in Vegas
• Rob & Big’s House Party
• Sneaking into the Academy Awards

There is nothing better than going to college in the US.  We only have to be in class about 15 hours a week and they don’t take attendance.  There are parties 4 times a week, and in LA my friend runs a limo service and promotes the best clubs in Hollywood.  These nights are always fun, however the unexpected nights are always that much better.

Last October, the night of the Emmy’s Award Show, me, Harry Dixon, and Sam Gray went out to Hollywood to try to find a couple after parties. It seemed impossible to get anywhere since all the streets were closed down and security was everywhere.

Instead of leaving, we decided to sneak in.  The valets working the event were young, so we walked past them and jumped a fence that was outside of the nightclub.  In order to sneak in we had to jump three fences, 1 being about 20 feet high, hide underneath an RV, and not get caught by security.  Once we finally made it in, we were backstage while MGMT was playing live.  The security then spotted us, however they thought we were the next band playing.

Everyone at the event was either a celebrity or an agent and they were all wearing Versace and Gucci suits.  We walked up to the bar, wearing regular clothes, and asked, “How much for a jack and coke?”  The bar tender responded, “everything is free sir, there is an open sushi bar on the second floor, and another restaurant on the third floor.”

Harry was hanging with Jon Voight (dad of Angelina Jolie) the whole night, Sam was backstage w/ MGMT getting their leftover groupies and I was with off getting sushi with the guys from Entourage and their girlfriends.

The night ended with all of us walking down the red carpet blacked out drunk and waking up in random hotel rooms.  The next day I couldn’t find Sam or Harry until around 5 pm.