TBT: Haunted Heats Halloween Surf Contest

ZJ Boarding House's Haunted Heats Surf Contest is this Saturday, so here's a Throwback Thursday post of the video from last years contest.



For photos, check out the blog post from last year:

B4BC's Skate The Coast

Now in it's 8th year, Skate The Coast is 18-mile skateboarding marathon held by Boarding For Breast Cancer to raise money for breast cancer awareness, prevention, and support programs. Participants skate, bike, or rollerskate along the 18-mile course starting at the Santa Monica Pier, and taking the bike path along the beach, passing through such areas as Venice Beach, Marina Del Rey, Manhattan Beach, till they reach the Redondo Beach Pier, where there was an after party at Wahoo's Fish Tacos. Each participant needed to raise at least a minimum of $50 in order to take part, and with so many of these awesome guys and girls each raising way beyond that, the total amount raised ended up to be well over their goal of $25,000.

Welcome and safety meeting before the skate.

Pre-skate yoga.

Click here for a large version.









One of the hydration stations along the course.

rolling through Venice Beach.









Check out Boarding For Breast Cancer for more info on them and their events or if you'd like to donate or volunteer.

There are a ton more photos(almost 300 photos), in the complete gallery. If you participated, or know someone who did, there's a good chance there are a couple photos of them in there, along with the large versions of all the photos on this blog:





Check out photos from last year's event too:

US Open Of Surfing "Lifestyle" Photos

No coverage of the US Open Of Surfing is complete with the "Lifestyle" photos. Due to last year's riots, Vans scaled down the event this year. No more music stage and less vendors than the past year's event. The event focused more on being a surfing contest instead of being a three-ring circus like the previous years.

Smaller, quieter crowd this year, even on the last day.





Fiat water cars putting on a demo.
Thiago Camarao before his heat.









Click here for more US Open Of Surfing "Lifestyle" photos.

Plus there are over 400 photos of the 2014 US Open Of Surfing from various days, check out these galleries: