It was a great surfing day. I think everybody had a lot of fun, which brough back memories of some of the past competitions when surfing and friends were two most important things.

Thank you everybody for participating and making the day special. Thank you all staff officers for your hard work.

FINALISTS
1    Sunrize Mornington    &    Maldrul Morris        16,50
2    oldsurferdude Danitz    &    Desne Aabye        12,33

SEMI FINALISTS
3    FrankiePalmero Actor    &    Jac Mornington        11,83
4    Crusader Arado    &    followingwaves Sirbu        10,67

HEAT 1
FrankiePalmero Actor  &    Jac Mornington    11,67
Cardona Ghostraven    &   Buck Ghostraven    10,17

HEAT 2
Dmilso Olivieri    &   Figger Arun    10,17
Crusader Arado    &   followingwaves Sirbu    11,33

HEAT 3
Nara Rugani    &   Lourinho Nizna    7,67
Sunrize Mornington    &   Maldrul Morris    14,33

HEAT 4
CoolKat Delicioso    &   QUENCH Spotter    13,33
oldsurferdude Danitz    &    Desne Aabye    14,00

For pictures from the competition visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsunami-surf/sets/72157624503106689/.

When: July 31, 2010, 12 noon SLT

Where: Tsunami Beach http://slurl.com/secondlife/TSUNAMI%20BEACH/237/128/22

Spectator Stands: Freeport http://slurl.com/secondlife/FREEPORT/5/176/552

Waves: pipeline

Boards: one surfer surfs a longboard, the other a shortboard. Boards used in the competition have been rezzed on the beach. They will be the only boards allowed in the competition – same boards for all shortboarders, and same boards for all longboarders.

Prizes: 10000 L / surfer for 1st place, 5000 L / surfer for 2nd place, 2500 L / surfer for 3rd place, plus the trophies!

The Tandem competitions are about two surfers simultaneously entering a wave from opposite ends. They surf as a team – they are expected to show some team work on the wave. Each rider is scored for their individual performance by their own judge, and the team is scored for a team performence by another judge or judges, too.

Each team gets 3 waves in a heat.

HEAT 1
FrankiePalmero Actor    &    followingwaves Sirbu (RED)
vs
Cardona Ghostraven    &    Buck Ghostraven (BLUE)

HEAT 2
Dmilso Olivieri    &    Figger Arun (RED)
vs
Crusader Arado    &    Colleen Brennan (BLUE)

HEAT 3
Nara Rugani    &    Lourinho Nizna (RED)
vs
Sunrize Mornington    &    Maldrul Morris (BLUE)

HEAT 4
CoolKat Delicioso    &    QUENCH Spotter (RED)
vs
oldsurferdude Danitz    &    Desne Aabye (BLUE)

Registration is OPEN at: http://www.tsunamisurf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16

Numer of spots in the competition is limited, so make sure you register before it’s too late!

When: July 31, 2010, 12 noon SLT

Where: Tsunami Beach http://slurl.com/secondlife/TSUNAMI%20BEACH/232/49/22

Wave: 3-4 synchronized SSi pipelines (will be rezzed on Wednesday, July 22)

Boards: one surfer surfs a longboard, the other a shortboard. Boards used in the competition ARE rezzed on the beach. They will be the only boards allowed in the competition. Same boards for all shortboarders, and same boards for all longboarders.

Prizes: 10000 L / surfer for 1st place, 5000 L / surfer for 2nd place, 2500 L / surfer for 3rd place, plus the trophies!

Basically the Tandem competitions are about two surfers simultaneously entering a wave from opposite ends. They surf as a team – they are expected to show some team work on the wave. Each rider is scored for their individual performance by their own judge, and the team is scored for a team performence by another judge or judges, too.

Most of the announcements prior to the competition will be sent via the Tsunami Surf group. To join, type secondlife:///app/group/af05d46b-2fa8-6fbb-dc17-feb919b4dc3e/about in inworld chat, hit Enter, then click the highlighted link.

I must say that was one of the best days in SL for me. First of all the Surf for a Cure sessions – a surfari through many surf beaches in SL. Everybody was smiling, surfing and having fun. At 11am the SfC moved to the SLSA sim – Archipelago, and the next door sim for the end of the season ceremony. There were some awesome Tsunami accents in the event. Colleen Brennan won the Angel Award, which is given to a surfer who “did the most for the surf community as a whole, exhibited a friendly surf spirit and did it all without expecting anything in return”. I – Abel – stood on the SLSA podium taking 4th place this season. But what makes me the most happy is our Painless, who not only took silver in the Archipelago competition few weeks ago, and then again silver in the Australian Surfing Association contest, but now he is a winner of the prestigious Rookie of the Season award! Another awesome thing is that Tsunami won bronze as a team this season! Way to go!

I would like to congratulate Tai Chi (gold) and Vibrations (silver). Both teams worked hard and well deserved the success. Well done brothers and sisters!

Another very nice accent was the SLSA Hall of Fame induction. Each season 4 surfers get into the HoF. Season champion and runner-up get in there automatically. The season champion this year was the awesome Yendor Destiny. The runner up was Desirae Beaumont. The other two people getting into the HoF were voted in by the SLSA directors and current HoF members. All the nominees well deserved to be inducted for their contribution for SL surfing. The honor  was recieved by Ashleigh Dickins and Mick Lunasea. Congrats!

Another thing that made me very happy was that Sebastian Saramago won the Best Wave award for his last creation – the Cortes wave. Indeed it rocks! My fav wave!

Our own Painless finished 2nd in the yesterdays ASA competition. WTG!! That was his second silver in a row! Just to remind he also finished second in the last season SLSA competition.
A great surprise to me was Crusader Arado, who after a while away from competitions finished 4th in the final!! WTG bro. Good to see you on the waves!

TSUNAMI WARNING!

Australian Surfing Association Tai Results:

Final

Arjuna Bombastic – 15.83
Painless Skytower – 15.16
oldsurferdude Danitz – 14.50
Crusader Arado – 14.16
CoolKat Delicioso – 14.16
Yendor Destiny – 13.66
Desne Aabye – 13.00
followingwaves Sirbu – 11.66

HEAT 1

oldsurferdude Danitz – 14.66
CoolKat Delicio – 15.00
Gorka Urriah – 14.00
Mick Lunasea – 12.83

HEAT 2

Rayzza Rubble – 15.16
Painless Skytower – 15.66
Quench Spotter – 14.83
Arjuna Bombastic – 16.16

HEAT 3

Crusader Arado – 14.50
Figger Arun – 13.66
Yendor Destiny – 15.16
Velvetori Twine – 14.00

HEAT 4

Desne Aabye – 13.16
followingwaves Sirbu – 13.83
Willy Sabretooth – 12.66

Hello all three of you and thanks for commin out today. I promised someone I would try not to make this the same old boarding lecture so I got completely wasted before hand. Just kidding… Thalia would kill me for sure. Love ya hun. I apologize ahead of time for any tyops. I did not have time for Thalia to proof read it!

So, todays topic is (deep echoing voice) “The FUTURE of SURFING TECHNOLOGY” Or some such. What does that really mean to us in Second Life. Its means a few things to me.

The first and probably most talked about is using the latest techniques and tools to develop the best surfboards and waves possible in Second Life. That is a tall order and one we always keep in mind when planing the next phase of development. On our part, the importance will be in committing the time and resources to achieve this. We have taken steps in the last few weeks to free up the bottlenecks and start updated and production flowing again. Its all about team work.

The Second thing I would like to focus on is the future of the community in SL surfing. This is not talking about enough as I see it. Bring in new people to the fun of surfing is not only a good time had in the afternoon, meeting new friends, but its also vital to bringing the money into the sims that host the waves we love to surf. I have some ideas on how to do this. They might seem a little corny but I think it will be fun. I will share one as an example.

Myself or a volunteer or paid surfer to stand in areas like welcome area, concerts and other events they attend and promote surfing. They way they would do this is a bit cheesy, but might be effective. The ave will have a surfboard attached in a pose like holding the board upright kinda leaning on it. They need to be dressed in surf gear and look hot. lol. no noob aves. The board texture will be a sign that says something like “Want to try surfing waves? IM me for a free surfboard!”

Then when they click the surfboard they receive a note card with this message. “Get your first lesson today at one of the many beaches. Join a community of down to earth people who just love music waves and having a great time!”

There are people who volunteer to teach surfing now, so perhaps some would like to take shifts teaching people to surf. Thalia and I will be testing this out in the next week.

We will have a kit that can be handed out to volunteers or surf instructors that will be used to market to new surfers. included will be a set of surfboards to be given to new surfers.

Third is what I already mentioned briefly. Support of the sims that host the wave we love to surf on. Really, without them we dont ride. When we started Surf Systems Inc in 2005 we knew that there would be an issue with people who could give up enough land to dedicate to water. This is no easy choice for a sim owner who wants to decorate or bring in profit. People who love the water as we do and desire a surf beach do so at a sacrifice of usable space for commerce. To offset this our plan was to work out a system to give back sales to the owners. The first phase was the spit in profit, then the subsequent increase in profit to the surfboards sellers. We have plans in the new feture to take this a step further by allowing to community to share in more products soon to be released by SSi with far greater profits to the resales.

I really appreciate the opportunity to let me get up here and blab away again. I really do love this a lot and its only you who enable my habit. Thanks for that. Mahalo.