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packing. going to Santa Cruz for the coldwater Classic Nov 1, 2009
team USA takes down the eco challange (Sun, 24 Aug 2008 Posted at 10:00:00 AM)
Well although I did badly in the contest here in Hossagor it ended up being a really fun contest. Yesterday which was the last day of the contest they had a specialty event called the eco challenge. It was a tag team contest with each country having a team. It was made up of our team, USA ( Me, Pat, Tanner, and Dane Gudauskas), Team Brazil, South Africa, Australia, and Europe. They have boards that are all made from recycled and non-toxic materials that you have to ride. You don’t get to choose which one you want to ride they just give 2 boards to each team. They give you 40 minutes and each guy on the team can ride up to 3 waves and they keep your one top-scoring ride. All 4 guys on the team have to be back in the dugout before the 40 minutes are up or you team gets deducted points off their total.
I was the first one to go out for our team. I ran out and as soon as I hit the water I realized that the board I was riding felt way to thick. I got a pretty good ride out the back all the way to the shore and got a 6.0. Of coarse when you’re out there all the teams are talking crap on the other teams. Next was Big Dane dawg. He ended up getting a 7.3. At this point we where a little behind to some of the other teams. But that was all going to change soon. Pat aka MOB, paddled out straight into a bomb right that looked like a perfect wave at lowers. He ended up crushing the thing all the way through. He also never rode the board before this wave but you would have never thought that by how he surfed it. Our team went wild on the beach. He was also the double whammy, so whatever wave he got was going to get doubled. “ Here comes the scores from the last wave for team USA, and they are going to like it. It’s a 9.8”’the announcer says. I think after that came through no one on our team had a voice left from screaming so loud. The last surfer for our team was the man child. Tanner didn’t have much time left so he caught a smaller wave on the inside. They never did announce his score but, because of his good tactics we where the only team to have all our guys in the box before the time ran out. We ended up actually smashing the other teams, and of coarse had bragging rights for the rest of the day.
We got to go up on stage with the finalist from the normal contest. Which was Chris Davidson, the winner and Jihad Kohdr who placed second. The beach was packed when we took the winner’s podium. We are in France in the middle of summer so clothing is optional and they take full advantage of that option. Which isn’t always a good thing especially if they’re over 60 and wiegh 300 pounds or more. Before we came up they started the theme song from Rocky Balboa. We got sprayed down from beer and awarded $2000 bucks from booger man. Who was dress in all green Spandex with this crazy helmet on. He had about the biggest bulge I think I have ever scene. To say the least he was very well hung. Dane dawg graced us all with a sick speech about absolutely nothing but it didn’t matter because no there understood it anyways. The after party was at the contest and we proceeded to tear the place down and do the US of A proud…… yewwwwwwww
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