Saturday, August 29, 2009

One Love, performed by the Wailers



The Wailers were awesome last night at Joey Harrison's Surf Club in Ortley Beach!

Friday, August 28, 2009

The Wailers at The Surf Club, NJ



http://www.thesurfclubnj.com/backend/viewimagepop.php?id=8716

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Women's Street Skate XGames 2009





http://www.zexsports.com/photos/WomensStreetSkateXGames2009

47th Annual East Coast Surfing Championships



http://www.surfecsc.com/events.html

East Coast Surfing Championships is North America's Oldest Running Surfing Competition and the second oldest continuously-run surfing contest in the world. More than 100 of the world's top professional surfers, male and female, and an estimated 300 amateur surfers will travel to Virginia Beach to "ride the curl" at the Oceanfront and compete for combined cash prizes of $15,000. Held annually in Virginia Beach, Virginia since 1963, East Coast Surfing Championships is more than just surfing. Dozens of people also take part in other competitions including skimboarding, volleyball, an oceanfront 5K run, a swimsuit competition and the extreme sport of skateboarding. Live bands perform for free on an oceanfront stage throughout the weekend. A cost is involved to participate in competitions, but all activities are free and open to the public.

Saturday August 29, 2009:

7:00 am - 6:00 pm Amateur and Professional Surfing at 2nd Street

7:00 am - 10:00 pm T Shirt Sales Tents Open at 2nd and 5th Streets

8:00 am - 9:30 am ECSC 5K Run. Finish Line and Awards Ceremony at 5th Street

8:00 am - 6:00 pm Skimboard Competition 4th Street

8:00 am - 6:00 pm Beach Volleyball Tournament 7th - 9th Streets

8:30 am - 8:00 pm World Sand Soccer Association Tournament 6th - 7th Streets

8:00 am - 6:00 pm U.S. Beach Flag Football Championships 5th - 6th Streets

8:30 am - 8:00 pm World Sand Soccer Association Tournament 6th - 7th Streets

11:00 am - 10:30 pm Food Vendors and Beverage Tents open 3rd - 4th Streets

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Beach Cornhole Tournament 3rd - 4th Street

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Coastal Edge Band of the Day Bruno Jackson

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Live Music - Borderline Crazy

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Miss ECSC Swimsuit Pageant 4th Street Main Stage

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Live Music - Butter

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Coastal Edge Band of the Day Valient Thorr sponsored by Volcom

8:30 pm - 10:30 pm 96X presents National Recording

National Finals Rodeo


Extreme Sports Festival Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA

The Last Rodeo

by © Diana Rowe Martinez 2009

Although rodeo has been around almost as long as dirt, the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) has a more recent history. The first National Finals Rodeo was held at the Dallas State Fair Grounds in 1959, and since then, has undergone some interesting changes.

The NFR is said to have been the brainchild of South Dakota's legendary Casey Tibbs. The idea behind the first NFR was to bring together the world's greatest rodeo athletes and the toughest and rankest livestock. Famous cowboy heroes competing at that rodeo were Tibbs, Jim Shoulders, Jack Buschbom, Jim Bynum and Dean Oliver.

Since this was the first world championship held, no one knew what to expect but hoped for the best. The cowboys entered to claim the first NFR purse of $50,000 and do some rodeo-ing. And this first NFR set the high paced, fast pitched, rocking rodeos that we see today.

Shoulders, still considered the most successful cowboy with 16 world titles, placed in six bull riding rounds in '59, whisking away the NFR winnings and world championships. In 1979, he was honored as part of the inaugural class of the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Placing sixth, Tibbs rode in his final saddle bronc riding world championship in that first NFR. Most memorable is he was the first cowboy to capture the attention of the media, and his attendance at the NFR beget national coverage of the event. He, too, was inducted into the Hall of Fame, with the added honor of the museum's signature statue -- a 20-footer of Tibbs riding the bronc Necktie.

The first round of the 1959 NFR's bareback riding went to Buschbom, who went on to claim the NFR average crown and the world title. Twenty years later, he laid claim to an induction into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame.

For many years, NFR flourished, spending a few years in L.A. and then 20 in Oklahoma City. Cowboys still worked toward the Last Rodeo, but the media and purses didn't hit pay dirt (or should we say blackjack) until 1985 when NFR moved to Las Vegas. The NFR always had a sense of appeal to those cowboy athletes, a culmination of their year of hard work, wrapped up into one neat little rodeo. With the move to Vegas, the appeal doubled -- in the form of prize money to $1.8 million.

Perhaps the most unpredictably exciting event in that first Vegas rodeo was the performance of rookie calf roper Joe Beaver. Few knew of him before that week, but once the week was up with a roll of Vegas luck, Beaver claimed the world-championship to become one of the most well known cowboys in rodeo.

In Vegas that same 1985 NFR, roughstock sensation Lewis Field of Elk Ridge, Utah, handily won the world bareback riding title and his first of three world all-around championships.

In 1998 NFR counted Ty Murray as a champion when he won an unprecedented seventh world all-around title. The same year Dan Mortenson claimed his fifth world saddle bronc riding title, short one of Tibbs record.

Many rodeos have come and gone since then. Titles have been won and lost in less time than the 8-second buzzer. The excitement never dims at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas, and the lights never go down even when the cowboys go home.

Mark your calendars for 2001 National Finals Rodeo Dec. 7 through 16 in Las Vegas. This is a not-to-miss rodeo event of the year. Rodeo cowboys and cowgirls enter with their dreams of winning a world title, and spectator cowboys and cowgirls watch and wait to see the next winner ride off with the title and an even bigger purse than the last year.

by Diana Rowe Martinez

http://www.2camels.com/national-finals-rodeo.php

Surfers' Environmental Alliance





















The Surfer's Environmental Alliance had a black themed party on Thursday night and a white themed party Saturday. The Saturday event was the big celebration leading up to the annual NYC Sea Paddle that upcoming Monday. The money raised is being donated to five charities for Autism. Don't you just love surfers! Here are some pictures from the events.

http://seapaddlenyc.org/
http://seasurfer.org/

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Extreme Zorbing now in Massachussets and Pennsylvania!!!

OGO, a.k.a. Outdoor Gravity Orb

Amesbury, Massachussets
Ski Roundtop in Pennsylvania

http://www.skiroundtop.com/

http://www.theogo.com/

http://www.wickedlocal.com/amesbury/news/business/x222994201/Amesbury-Sports-Park-rolls-out-OGO

http://www.xtremesport4u.com/other-extreme-threads/extreme-zorbing-coming-to-the-massachussets/

Even though it's not officially called Zorbing, it's the same thing. For those on the eastern seaboard, PA and MA are the next best thing after Tennessee Zorbing.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009


http://freefalladventures.com/

My preference for skydiving in the northeast. The instructors are friendly and professional and make the skydiving experience a safe and memorable one.

www.contiki.com

This is a tour company that I have personally experienced. I have taken two different vacations with them and both were fabulous!

An awesome travel site for adventures...


www.iexplore.com

This site provides adventure travelers with amazing opportunities to take trips of a lifetime!