I flew back from France to San Francisco last Thursday, for the next UST event, in Santa Cruz, Northern California. I got to visit San Francisco, and drove on the famous 1 along the coast. It was amazing. Tex Haines, owner of Victoria Skimboards who drove up for the contest, let me borrow the canon 7D so I can shoot some pictures. Below is one I took of the Golden Gate Bridge, it s really cliche but I had a lot of fun! Long exposure, low ISO and there you go! In Santa Cruz, there wasn't too many contestants, both in Pros and Ams, maybe due to the fact that the 3 last contests were really close (France, Santa Cruz and Newport). Anyway, conditions were fun at higher tide, it was glassy, not too much slope but still some fun ones reachable, really glassy, so that's good. As the tide was getting lower the waves became more weak and lot further out. Teddy Vlasis once again skimmed really well, congratulations to Blair Conklin for winning the event, awesome style, and very consistent. I flew back to Orange County, this week end will be the last UST contest (#8) of the season in Newport Beach, by the Balboa Pier. Full result of Professional division below.
PS: Welcome to Noa Dugoua born last week, and congratulations to his parents, my friends Remy and Caroline <3
1. Blair Conklin
2. Sam Stinnett
3. Teddy Vlasis
4. Bill Bryan
5. Morgan Just
6. Brandon Sears
7. Austin Keen
8. Brad Domke
9. Perry Wells
10. Travis Samson
11. Jake Stinnett
12. Dave Scott
13. Matthieu Thibaud
14. John Akerman
15. Tim Fulton
16. Ryan Parola
17. Aaron Fujimoto
18. Steve Taylor
19. Alejandro Lopez
20. Jaime Lovett
