Andy Criere – Border Semester

Looks like France has had some nice waves in the lead up to summer. Check out Andy Crieres cool edit from down south.

Flores suspended until after Tahiti

ASP release!

ASP Top 34 surfer, Jeremy Flores, has been suspended from competition until August 27, 2014, resulting from an incident which occurred following his Round 2 heat at the J-Bay Open in South Africa on July 12, 2014.

The incident involved the athlete confronting ASP officials and event staff in an unsportsmanlike manner and resulted in the Rules and Disciplinary Committee, after completing its investigation, fining the surfer US$6,000 and suspending him from ASP competitions until August 27, 2014. As a result, Flores is ineligible to compete in both the Vans US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach (an ASP Prime QS event) and the Billabong Pro Tahiti (an ASP WCT event).

Flores has apologized, both in writing and in-person, to the ASP officials involved and will be eligible to return to competition at the completion of his suspension and in time for the Hurley Pro at Trestles from September 9 – 20, 2014. Flores has told ASP officials that he accepts full responsibility for his actions and that he will not be contesting the suspension or fine.

The J-Bay Open, Stop No. 6 of 11 on the 2014 Samsung Galaxy ASP World Championship Tour, is down to its final 12 competitors and a projected swell in the coming days could see the event recommence as early as tomorrow.

Beth Hamilton in Bali

Beth Hamilton duck dives and paddles into Indo waves, deals with Ulu’s cave one armed. I’m impressed! That takes some skills! She has also a pretty sharp forehand hack and rips with the locals.

Huge swell heading for J Bay

Pumping waves with sets int 15ft range are going to hit the ASP J Bay comp tomorrow!

“With a new swell filling in at Supertubes, a lay day has been called for the J-Bay Open in anticipation of peak weekend sets. The next call is at 7:30 AM local time Saturday; until then get ready with the updated Surfline forecast, predicting waves up to 15 feet.’ Said the ASP

Surfline forecaster Kevin Wallis said ”
“The bulk of this swell, however, will build in through Saturday and produce pumping surf all day. We expect to see solid double overhead+ waves on Saturday (10-12’++ faces), with the better sets in the 15’+ range on the face. Sunday will see easing, albeit still strong, surf in the overhead to double overhead range in the morning.”

Should be epic. Comp may kick off at 6.30am GB time, 7.30 local time.

All the action will be live here. Updates and highlights are alread posted. Enjoy!

Meet the Mandiri Beach Boys

One of my favourite stories in this months Carve (on sale now) is how three friends from Exeter, (Devon, UK) decided to build a surf camp on what could be one of the best six miles of beach break in the world. It is in Sumatra, so it was never going to be an easy job. But when you watch this video you can see why they did it. Meet the Mandiri Beach Boys in issue 153 out now on UK newsstands, and digital through Apple or here http://pocketmags.com/viewmagazine.aspx?titleid=172&title=Carve