SM Pier Paddle Registraion Open

The Tommy Bahama Paddleboard Race & Ocean Festival at the Santa Monica Pier on June 6th, 2015 is an annual all-day, family friendly celebration of decades of surf, paddleboard and lifeguard history.

The event benefits Heal the Bay, the 
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium and 
its public marine education facility. Heal the Bay will receive a portion of net proceeds from the event. Partake in the kids beach, ocean, waterway stewardship and trivia contests. Help raise money for Heal the Bay!

Tracing it’s roots back to the 1930’s Santa Monica Pier paddleboard races – some of the first in the world – this year’s event offers epic competition. Courses start and finish on the sand immediately south of the Pier.

Events
SUP & Paddleboard Long Course
Elite Long Course
2-Mile Fun Paddle
Paddlecross
One-Mile Ocean Swim
Youth 250M Swim
Lifeguard Dory Race

To sign up for this years races, visit the event's registration page:
Santa Monica Pier Paddle Race & Ocean Festival Registration
For photo and video coverage of last years races, click here.

Wednesday Wipeouts

Previous Wipeout photo sets:
February Wipeouts
Some January Wipeouts
December Wipeouts
November Wipeouts
Halloween Wipeouts
Santa Monica Wipeouts
Venice Beach Wipeouts
Venice and Huntington Beach Pier Wipeouts
Santa Monica Paddle Board Race Wipeouts
First Wednesday Wipeouts Set

Cami And Jax

Camille Brady

Sisters Camille and Jackie Brady, the founders of the the CAMI AND JAX swimwear line, hit up the Venice Breakwater for a surf session. It wasn't one of the best mornings for waves, but the girls were still out there ripping.

sisters Camille & Jackie Brady

Venice Beach Weekend Surf Report.

North side of the Breakwater

Saturday's surf forecast called for 8 foot waves, and while they did reach that and higher, most were closeouts. Over at Venice Beach, both sides of the Breakwater saw the occasional good sets. With the south side going off at the crack of dawn, then dying down as the north side took over mid-morning.

Norman Antonio






Josh “Bagel” Klassman

Seven Adams







Norman Antonio




More shots in the Photo Gallery:
Venice 1-24-2015

Agenda Long Beach

Agenda is a series of creative lifestyle fashion trade shows, where buyers for all the retail shops and web sites go to check out the newest lines from all surf and skate companies. Taking place this past Monday and Tuesday at the Long Beach Convention Center, the Agenda Long Beach show is the flagship show for the Agenda Brand with over 750 branded collections showing. There was also 8 hours worth of workshops by industry insiders on related topics such as branding, e-commerce, and creative marketing.


Powell-Peralta re-issuing their classic designs.

New retro boards from H-street. If you remember these, they had that "hell concave".

The Billabong booth, which was quite the design contrast to...
The skate company booths, this one recreated a skaters room, complete with a Nintendo64 and VHS player, not to mention porn posters on the wall.

Skate legend Dave Hackett at the Enjoi booth.


Another legendary skateboarder, Christian Hosoi, signing a book featuring his pro board.

Skate rugs!

Jim & Mike Muir at the Dogtown booth.


The Haze x Hurley display.

The van, created by NY graffiti artist Eric Haze, was a tribute to Craig Stecyk with a photo lab inside.


Behind the van was the Hurley Craig Stecyk pop-up printing press, that was printing of collector's t-shirts.

Riley Hawk’s Scion xB


Lost

LED wheels from Sunset Skateboards



Outside the convention center.




To see more from photos from inside and outside of Agenda Long Beach, click here.

Video from outside:
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