Donkey Patrol | Surfing Travel | Surf Resort | Kandui Mentawai Islands Indonesia | San Diego

The 2011 DP contest was held in Carlsbad California with 14 or so competitors. The surf was chest to head high and clean in the morning with a few tubes. A little too much water to be epic. The wind came on it as the day went on. We crowned Robert Wells OD Donkey Patrol contest winner after many grueling heats battling great competitors. Here’s to Robert and his second DP win.

Aimrite spearguns: carbon fiber and kevlar weave railguns made by Rick Bettua are now again avilable in the united states via thier official U.S. distributor for spearfishing gear and equipment www.aimriteflorida.com

Ken Jones of Deathstick Spearguns is the owner of aimrite florida and wanted to provide a different product offering to the freediving market here in the states. Rick and his wife Angela relocated to Australia and took his Hawaiian born speargun and spearfishing accessories business with him. Once Rick left the states it created a vacuum in the market here and Aimrite Florida was a perfect fit to fill that void.

Go to http://www.aimriteflorida.com/ to buy aimrite spearguns and accessories

Me my Shark and I from Chuck Patterson on Vimeo.

I’m not a competitive parent trying to prove that my kid is smarter than yours, but does your kid say WHISTLE HAW!!!!!

Well, The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach completed last week and not without a fair bit of drama. The surfers competed at FOUR different locations throughout the comp and it’s fair to say the waves were less than desirable. The waves were so bad I am actually surprised that Neco did not do better than he did. I would liken it to Bede’s win at the Pipeline Masters, it wasn’t exactly pipe, and this certainly was not Bells Beach but Kelly with a broken foot, took down an inform Dusty Payne and proceeded to slice and dice all the way to the winners podium.

As I predicted, A.I. seems to have found his footing, his confidence and some of his drive. I really hope he can get his eye of the tiger, F*ck the world self back. I think it would be a great story to see him back on top again.

Fantasy Surfer continues to shit the bed this year with their new website, it lost all saved teams for the entire league and everyone is in an uproar about it. I think its funny that all of their advertisements seem to be working just fine, while the core of their site is rotten. That is actually a good ad revenue strategy, get thousands of fanatic users with a core following, rebuild what you got them to love and make sure it does not work, then plaster the site with Google and sponsor ads. Then your thousands of fanatic users will check the site several times per day throughout the contest period to see if the site is fixed.I wish I would have ponied up and paid to do FASL this year as my teams for both events would have done very well.

Rip Curl also announced the location for the Search Event and it is going to be in Puerto Rico this year. The waiting period is October 30th to November 10th, and I am going to do my best to visit Stefan Summer and Sydney during this period as the contest will surely be near their casa. Hopefully the wife will let me go after the new baby arrives in Aug/Sept.

Rip Curl Pro 2010 – Kelly Slater Wins Bells

The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach is getting ready to kick off this week, and in fact the women’s event is underway as I type. The cast of characters is very interesting this year and while the forecast is not looking epic, I am betting the performance is going to be all time. I am predicting an Andy Irons comeback. Set your fantasy surfer teams now. Watch it live

And a quick video request for the Smythe:

Old new school vs. New new school. Yoda vs. Skywalker. Taj v.s Jordy

In yesterdays action, much like this hit YOU TUBE VIDEO, age and wisdom prevails over youth. Will this be Taj’s year?

Well with only a few hours to go until round 1, and trading still not open on the fantasy surfer website, I now feel confident that ASG is not going to make it happen for the first contest of the season. They need to hire data back, and get him to regulate.

Well, with a few days until snapper the verdict is still out on if Action Sports Group will complete the much needed revamp of the fantasy surfer website (fantasysurfer.com) prior to the first round of competition. I became skeptical when they missed their own deadline two weeks ago.  They later updated their site to allow for pre-registration, and to preview surfer values which is basically just a bs way of trying to buy time. Will they make the deadline, or will this failure help bolster more support for Fantasy Actions Sports League (fantasyactionsportsleague.com/surf). The cool part about FASL is that you can actually win money, the downside is it is fairly expensive. Only Time will tell. I am looking forward to the quiksilver pro 2010 at snapper rocks, and kicking off the new season.