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The Rip Curl Stew: 4Play Edition 2010
TOFINO, BC – Attention all Pacific North West Surfers! Built for riding and always searching for the ultimate journey, Rip Curl Canada is proud to present, in it’s fourth year, “The Rip Curl Stew: 4Play Edition 2010″ Saturday, June 5th & Sunday, June 6th 2010, 8:00AM – 6:00PM Cox Bay, Tofino, BC
RIP CURL STEW CONTEST DEETAGE
Now four years strong, The Rip Curl Stew is a two-day, judged surf contest held in the heart of Cox Bay, Tofino, BC. After four successful years, with 90 competitors and 750 visitors last year, and with the fever growing steadily, Rip Curl Canada and a team of eager sponsors are ready to serve up even more stew! Check out the live beach entertainment, surfboard and wetsuit demos, a skateboard ramp on the beach, and activities for kids. The contest will include 7 categories, including open categories for men, women & children, allowing surfers at all levels & ages to showcase their talent! Post-event celebrations will be kickin’ it live into the night, with local DJs Vinyl Ritchie, Small Town DJ, and Mat the Alien, who will be performing his visual DJ set for the first time. With the estimated number of competitors in attendance being close to 100 this year, it is lining up to be an unforgettable weekend! Along with the opportunity for up & coming surfers to showcase their talent, some of the well-known athletes invited to compete include Pete Devries, Leah Oke, Shannon Brown, Noah Cohen, Reid Jackson, Sepp & Raph Bruhwiler. Already we have more cash and prizes money than any other surf contest in Canada or the Pacific Northwest! Along with free admission for spectators, Rip Curl & event sponsors will be giving out tons of great prizes all weekend! For the competitors, there will be $20,000 worth of cash and prizes along with prize packs filled with amazing goods. Oh, and the event theme? “Stew” will be readily available on the beach, by donation to feed the masses, with all proceeds going to non-profit, Surfrider foundation.
With 1st Prize Mens :$5,000 and 1st Prize Womens: $1,500 The competition is open to all ages and includes categories: Men’s Pro -Open Women’s Pro -Open Junior Boys -18 and under Junior Girls -18 and under Long Board – Open Masters – 40 and over Mixed Groms – 14 and under
RIP CURL STEW SPONSORS INCLUDE:Monster Energy, Arbor, SBC Magazine, Dose.ca, Sitka, Long Beach Lodge, Barefoot Wine, Dakine, Spy, Lighthouse Brewery, Surfrider Foundation, Free And Easy.
LOCAL ROOTS BEARING INTERNATIONAL FRUITS Looking into the future Rip Curl feels strongly that this event will bring the surf culture of Vancouver Island’s past, back to life with a realistic goal; to continue to develop homegrown athletes into those who compete at a world-class level.
NEW TO THE STEW! Yes, Rip Curl and O’Neill make the official announcement: The Rip Curl Stew will be the Official Trials for the Upcoming O’Neill Cold Water Classic Canada scheduled for Oct 8-15 in Tofino. DETAILS: “The top 2 finishers in The Stew will receive entry into the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Canada main event with all the remaining surfers being seeded according to their standings at the Rip Curl Stew. If the full field of 142 (144 – 2 top place surfers in The Stew) is not realized by the closing date, those seeded surfers from The Stew will gain entry into the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Canada according to their placing in The Stew.” -Marc Fuller, Adventure Designer, The Deepsnowandsurf Experience
Anyone interested in competing can sign up at one of the following locations:
Live To Surf- Tofino, BC
Long Beach Surf Shop – Tofino, BC
Sitka Surf Shop – Victoria, BC Pacific Boarder – Vancouver, BC
Second Wave – North Vancouver, BC
H.T.O- Victoria, BC
Storm- Tofino, BC
Inner Rhythm Surf Shop- Ucluelet, BC
Alternative Groove- Nanaimo, BC
THE BROTH: Pre-Stew Parties May 20th Vancouver Pre-Stew party at The Met 320 Abbott St. in Gastown, with Beat Down and Vinyl Ritchie hitting the decks. May 21st Victoria Pre-Stew party at the Lucky Bar June 4th Tofino, VIP Art Show Mingler at Long Beach Lodge Lounge. A Silent Auction with proceeds going towards the Surfrider Foundation and major giveaways such as surfboards, wetsuits, art, surf trips and vacation packages. June 5th Tofino, Saturday Night Stew Party Featuring Small Town DJ, Vinyl Ritchie and Mat the Alien.
WHAT THE GOOD FOLKS SAY ABOUT THE RIP CURL STEW: ” The Rip Curl Stew is a great annual Canadian event to bring together the locals and international surfers alike to compete on some of our best home breaks. Tofino is always a great time and my money is on another local winner this year!” Mel Greene -Director of Communications, Sitka “Dose.ca is proud to be involved once again with The Rip Curl Stew event in Tofino. This competition is set to become the premier surfing event in Canada.” Scott Andrews – Product Manager, Dose.ca “The Rip Curl Stew is the most dynamic local event held in Canada! It is a staple event for Local Bragging rights and The Rip Curl Stew is the only time you can surf with ProsÉAnd they’re not allowed to drop in on you!” Bill Fend -Long Beach Surf Shop *A Special Note from Drew Hakshaw, Rip Curl Stew Contest Organizer ” I’m looking forward to the Stew 4 this year. I can’t believe we have been working on this event for already 4 years! I want to especially thank all the sponsors that are involved with the event; without these sponsors this event would never happen. We have to remember why we go through all this effort each year in holding this event maybe some people have different ideas or beliefs why they put so much effort into the event, but I truly do it for the young generation of surfing. To see the young kids all get stoked on the contest and go compete against each other then at the end of the day hold up some trophies. That, to me, is why we do what we do. I would especially like to thank Rip Curl, Monster Energy Canada, The City Of Tofino, The Long Beach Lodge, all sponsors and volunteers that are involved in the Rip Curl Stew 4. Again this year you will see more Stew developments and I’m hoping the surf community of Canada enjoys the contest alongside myself!”
THE LEGACY LIVES ON…. For 40 years, Rip Curl has played a leading role in the surf industry and continues to move forward in Canada by gaining the rights, four years straight, to hold the only surf contest this summer in Tofino, BC, and one of the only Surf Contests in Canada. Yes, Rip Curl will continue to stick to the grass roots that helped make us the market leader in surfing, but we’ll also charge on into the future and push riding to a new level.
RIP CURL plans on dishing out more stew this year in Tofino and we hope to have your support. For Further Information, Please Contact: Rip Curl Canada Becky Ellis Event Coordinator bellis@ripcurl.com 604.731.9000
U.S. magazine ranks Tofino top surf town in North America
Tofino, B.C., has been ranked the best surf town in North America by an influential U.S. magazine.
Outside magazine handed the Vancouver Island locale the top honour as part of its inaugural Editor’s Choice Awards for 2010.
Peter Devries, Canada’s number one surfer and winner of the 2009 O’Neill Cold Water Classic Canada, says Tofino is a great place to ride the waves.
Outsider has previously named Tofino’s Chesterman Beach, specifically the area around Frank Island, as one of the best on the continent for beginner surfers.
Tofino was chosen from among 20 beginner surf spots the magazine named across North America. (Westcoaster.ca)
The Best North American Beginner Surf Spots
Outside Magazine rates North Chesterman, Tofino, one of North America’s best beginner surf spots!
Frank Island—Tofino, British Columbia
Surf Report: On the south end of Chesterman Beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island is one of the best beginner breaks in North America. Cold in the winter, cold in the summer (this is Canada, after all so pack your wetsuit).
Scene: Tofino is the Surf City of Canada, a shockingly beautiful hamlet that gets 118 inches of rain per year, so it’s craggy like Ireland, quaint like New England, and as green as Hanalei, Hawaii. Beach fires and family BBQ’s line these sandy beaches, the smell of fresh cooked salmon wafting into the line-up most summer evenings. Tofino is a mellow scene that some say is similar to that of California in the 60s. It’s an out of the way place very popular with Canadians and tourists from all over. Snow covered glaciers and 1,000-year-old cedar trees form the backdrop. Don’t forget to look ahead for black bears when walking down the beach trail. This part of the world gets huge surf half the year, but Frank Island knocks down all that fury allowing beginners to splash away like baby ducks on either side of the tombolo (spit of land) that connects the island to Vancouver Island.
Bonus: Great stream, lake, and ocean fishing; kayaking by river, fjord, and open sea; and sight-seeing that is a little bit New England, a little bit Viking, a little bit Paul Bunyan. A place most people don’t even know exists, but is one of the best, most unique beginner spots north or south of the border because of that weird little tombolo.
Wax Run: Surf Sister, 1-877-724-SURF, www.surfsister.com Live to Surf, 250-725-4464, www.livetosurf.ca
(Outside Magazine Online)
How to repair a ripped or cut Wetsuit
Wetsuit tears are inevitable but most tears are easy to repair if you use the right glue and technique.
Large Rips or Tears
Materials: Wetsuit cement (glue), brush, waxed dental floss or good nylon thread.
If you have large rips or tears or a tear that’s along a seam or stress point, you should stitch up the cut first using
1. Clean and dry the suit.
*You can put a plastic bag behind the tear to prevent the glue from sticking to the wrong part of the suit.
2. Using your brush or the one provided in the can of wetsuit cement, coat both sides of the newly sewn rip with neoprene cement to make it watertight.
3. Hold the two sides apart and allow the glue to dry for 24 hours. (Don’t stick together yet)
4. Apply a second coat of glue and let it dry for a few minutes.
5. Squeeze the two sides together and let it set for 24 hours before using.
*Be careful to line both side up as accurately as possible.
Small Cuts
Just clean the suit and glue like above without stitching the suit first.
Randy French talks UltraFLX
Randy French talks new technology and the history of Surftech
The Cove Movie: Save the Dolphins
The Secret is Out. Spread the Word.
The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in Taiji, Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening as the Taiji cove is blocked off from the public. The focus of the Social Action Campaign for The Cove is to create worldwide awareness of this annual practice as well as the dangers of eating seafood contaminated with mercury and to pressure those in power to put an end to the slaughter.
Taj Burrow riding Firewire Surfboard at J Bay
Surfer, Taj Burrow tears it up on a Firewire Surfboard at J Bay. Firewire takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. These boards can be purchased in our shop. Please call (250) 725-4464 for more info.
Rusty talks about Double D TL2 Surftech boards
Shaper, Rusty Preisendorfer talks about the new “Double D” TL2 surfboards from Rusty and Surftech.
These boards can be purchased in our shop. Please call (250) 725-4464 for more info.
How to get Through Waves – Duck Dive & Turtle Roll
There are several ways to get through the waves out to the lineup. This video will explain some of the different methods used depending on the size of the surf and the size of the waves.
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