Maui surfer Ian Gentil who is currently staying in Leucadia has extended his stay from competing at the Vans Pro Junior in Huntington Beach where he made it to the quarter finals. This past friday marketing director for Fire Wire surfboards Chuy Reyna and Ian had a surf together at Seaside parking lot.
Archive for 2011
April 3rd, 2011
Ian Gentil Vs. Chuy Reyna
April 2nd, 2011
Nixon And The Rob Machado Seaside Pro Junior Billboard
A surfing billboard is nothing new to the San Diego area, but this one by the good folks of Nixon sure is cool. The billboard is located about ¼ mile north on PCH of the surfing spot Swamis in Encinitas, California and is advertising the Rob Machado Seaside Pro Junior April 22-23 2011.
The other billboards we have seen would be by Coors Light and Hurley. Coors Light did one of Andy Irons which had him doing a back side snap with his initials A.I. and one of Donavon Frankenreiter doing a front side carve and Hurley’s billboard was their H logo with a shot of a girl modeling.
So be sure to come down and check out all the surfing action at Seaside where you can meet Rob Machado and witness the best surfers of the next generation.
April 1st, 2011
Kelly Slater Signs Lifetime Photo Licensing Agreement With Surf Images
AF Press announced today that 10-time surfing world champion Kelly Slater signed an exclusive lifetime photo licensing agreement with Surf Images. Surf Images being the largest surfing photo stock agency in the world. Licensing images to magazines from ESPN, Men’s Journal, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Mens’s Health, Surfing, Surfer, Transworld Surf, Surfers’ Journal, as well as hundreds of magazines from around the world. The list of companies is huge as well, but some of the bigger names include Nike 6.0, Red Bull, Monster Energy, Billabong, Quiksilver, Boost Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Hurley, Volcom, Target, and so forth.
“I am happy to join forces with Surf Images, as it only made sense. Jack and I are good friends and he is an amazing photographer. I am happy to have this photo outlet source available for my sponsors, media, magazines and television.” Surf Images which was created by surfing photographer Jack English began as a hobby and has not grown into a full time business.
“We are really thrilled to have signed this with Kelly. He is a legend in the surfing world” states office manager Emily Beckett. “From here on out we are going to continue what we do best and that is produce and license images for surfing greats like Kelly as well as Rob Machado, Tom Curren, Bruce Irons, Lisa Anderson, Donavon Frankenreiter, Joel Tudor, Mick Fanning, Taj Burrow, Dane Reynolds, to the new kids coming up such as Kolohe Andino. Besides are surfing action photos we also have a very strong library of location stock photography from around the world from waves, surfing, landscapes, scenic, people, food, lifestyle, portraits and more”. With a smile on her face she states, “as you can see were here for the long haul and things are just starting to heat up”.
April 1st, 2011
Rip Curl Search Is Going To Ocean Beach, San Francisco
Good morning. We have just got word that this years Rip Curl Search WCT event will be held at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. We are very excited to hear this news and with the dates November 1-11 2011 they are for surely going to get some great surf. No Donavon Frankenreiter will not be in the event, but here is a shot of him surfing OB.
March 31st, 2011
How Do You Spot A Tourist At 7 In The Morning
7am this morning in Oceanside surfers were making their way out to the surf. Full suits, gloves, hoods, and booties on. Then all of a sudden these two kids walk up with smiles on their faces like they just entered Disneyland. Boogie Boards in hand they go straight in. No testing the water to see how cold it is, just charging it as if it was bath water.
March 30th, 2011
Body Glove Gives You A High Five
Going to surf contests can be a lot of fun besides watching the surfing. Here are friends at Body Glove were one of the many vendors at this past weekends surf contest The Vans Pro in Huntington Beach. They were giving out these blow up large hands. Give me a high five!!
March 28th, 2011
Taylor Knox Falls Off The Horse
Shooting photos isn’t an easy task for the photographer nor the surfer especially when you are shooting water photos. For every good water shot you see their are most likely 10 throw-aways (meaning no good; go ahead and hit the delete button). Here you have Taylor Knox who has shot with pretty much every surf photographer in the world go up to hit the lip and all of a sudden, BOOM he slips and his surfboard goes flying right towards the photographer and his camera. What does Taylor do, get’s right back up and pulls into this nice little tube and get’s a good looking photo! So as you can see it’s not all fun and games for these guys when they are working for that perfect shot.
March 28th, 2011
Kolohe Andino Sheds Tears In HB
What a day for San Clemente surfer Kolohe Andino. Today at the Vans Pier Classic Kolohe made history for himself as he made it to two finals, the junior pro and the 4* pro. Taking out surfing veterans Taylor Knox, Adriano De Souza, and Damien Hobgood in the final as well as everyone else. As he was being carried out of the water he placed his hand over his face to cover the tears, but knew there was no holding them back and went in like a champion with arms raised high, tears and all.
March 26th, 2011
Elvis Presley Joins Kolohe
Today we ran into Mr. Kolohe Andino as he was making his way towards his car and he was nice enough to let us take his picture. I am sure there have been many musicians painted on surfers surfboards, but the one that comes to our mind right now is the one Rob Machado had of Jimmy Hendrix on the top of his surfboard. This was specifically done for a photo shoot in Isla Natividad with photographer Mike Balzer which ended up on the cover of Surfing Mag. Here Kolohe shows us Elvis Presley painted on the bottom of his board. We should of asked him who painted it and why he chose Elvis. Next time we run into him, we will ask.
March 25th, 2011
Jack English Promo Card
We have just received a promo card from photographer Jack English. He had the card made at Modern Postcard and highly suggests using them.
