Rip Curl Pro Search

ASP World Tour event #9
Peniche Portugal
19 – 28 October 2009

Peniche, Portugal — Rip Curl International has today officially announced that the coastal town of Peniche, Portugal, will host this year’s Rip Curl Pro Search, Stop No. 9 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour – to be held October 19 to 28.

The location has been a mystery to most all season, but today’s official press launch in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon unveiled the secret to media and the surfing industry.

“We’re excited about today’s announcement and even more excited to see the industry’s reaction to our decision to hold this year’s Rip Curl Pro Search in the beautiful country of Portugal,” said Scott Hargreaves, Rip Curl Event Manager. “The country has a lot of great waves and we’ve decided to lock in Peniche’s ’Supertubos’ as our event spot. It’s a five-star wave and one of the best beachbreak tubes in the world!”

Supertubos is a powerful A-frame barrel that feeds off deep Atlantic Ocean swells and handles waves up to the 12-15ft (4-5m). Many surfers have nicknamed it the “European Pipeline” due to its similarities to Hawaii’s infamous Banzai Pipeline.

“The wave breaks all year, but the North Atlantic Ocean swells peak in the later part of Europe’s summer,” continued Mr. Hargreaves. “This is why we’ve created the event window in October, instead of the June-July period we’ve had for the past four years.”
The change of schedule will also make this year’s Rip Curl Pro Search the second-to-last event on the ASP Men’s World Tour calendar, meaning for the first time it could be the event where this year’s ASP World Champion is crowned.

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IRVINE, CA (June 24, 2009) – The highly anticipated Nathan Fletcher film, “Lavase Las Manos”, will be unleashed to the world at 8:30 P.M. on Wednesday, July 8th at Lido Theatre in Newport Beach, CA. The premiere is open to the public, and free tickets will be available at the door.

The idea behind “Lavase Las Manos” is to give a little insight into Nathan’s irregular world. The movie will have never before seen footage of Nathan surfing the best breaks in the world, along with commentary from some of his dearest friends.

Lavese Las Manos Trailer from analog clothing on Vimeo.

“The movie is heavily influenced by Nathan’s personality and sense of humor, which is always entertaining. It definitely is not like all other surf movies”, says AG Surf Team Manager Geoff Moysa.

Nathan Fletcher is a strange and extraordinary person, and shows this in his direction of the film. Nathan was given complete creative direction for “Lavase Las Manos”, and had a tight editing team including Pete Santa Maria and Regan Ritchie.

If you don’t have a chance to make it to the “Lavase Las Manos” premiere at the Lido, starting July 23rd, you can download the movie FREE from the Analog Clothing website, www.analogclothing.com.

Surfing America, the National Governing Body (NGB) for Surfing in the United States, announced today that Ian Cairns has been appointed as Head Coach of the PacSun USA Surf Team.

Cairns appointment comes after the resignation of former Coach Joey Buran who held the position for the past two years. Buran left the position in good standing to pursue a worldwide tour and ministry for his new documentary film Beyond the Dream: the Joey Buran Story.

“Ian Cairns is a powerhouse coach and Surfing America is extremely fortunate to have someone of his caliber step into the role,” said Mike Gerard, Surfing America’s executive director. “Not only does Ian bring a wealth of experience to the position, but he also has some incredible new ideas and concepts that will surely help lift the USA Team program to new heights. I expect we’ll see some tremendous developments in the very near future.”

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