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PineappleLuv: Mattson Family Art Benefit – June 26 Hey folks, just a quick reminder that the Mattson Family Art Benefit is tonight! Please go and support a good cause! A ton of awesometacular people are going to be there and it’s the perfect opportunity to get away from the tv on a nice summer night. Hop a train, car pool, ride your bike, paddle, standup paddle, fly your ultra-light, grab on to the back of your friendly neighborhood yeti, but please use any mode of transportation possible to

It seems ever beach you go to these days you can find someone in the lineup riding a stand up paddle board. Due to the fast growth of the sport, a select group of professional waterman have been chosen to compete on a Worldwide SUP Tour. Just recently the Association of Stand Up Paddle Professionals announced the “Stand Up World Tour”. The competitive circuit has three events with the first stop at Teahupoo in Tahiti this September. The second event happens at San Francisco’s Ocea

by Matt Schweitzer Its the old problem in the water, sharing the waves and getting along. Typically in the surfing world, the shortboarders don’t like surfing with long boarders, windsurfers don’t like surfing with kitesurfers, and these days it seems that no one likes the SUP guys And its always for the same reasons. WAVE HOGS! But we can figure it out and all get along on the water. After 35 years of shortboarding and windsurfing in Hawaii with some of the best surfers in the world (and

Today it seams like everyone is a wave hog! Weather your a short boarder, long boarder, wind surfer, or kite surfer, no one likes to share waves in the water... And certainly not with the stand up paddle guys!

The Hard Rock Café Hawaii State Surfing Championships Ala Moana Bowls, Oahu June 4,5,6 2009Above: Micah Moniz en-route to Junior Men’s title. Photo: Bernie Baker.HONOLULU (June 6, 2009) — The 2009 champions of the Hard Rock Cafe State Surfing Championships, presented by Surftech, were crowned today, wrapping up three days of intense competition at Ala Moana Bowls. Waves persisted in the two- to three-foot range for the final stage.More than 200 competitors from around the state gathered at Ala M