Once again a huge mahalos for all your support. It’s always a pleasure to meet up with great bruddahs like the Waterman crew. I’m stoked to be able to represent such a classy company. Beyond the racing I also surf a 6′5 standup board made by a company I started called Ku Hoe Hawaii, LLC. We specialize in small performance standups. Taking our sport and passion to the next level is what I’m all about and it shines through in all that I pursue. If there is anything you need from me just let me know…
San Francisco was well worth the drive. Once again, Tim Ritter pulled off an amazing event in the typical Hennessey’s fashion. Aquatic Park lies in the heart of the city’s waterfront, towering buildings and paved streets literally running straight to the sand. The venue, located between the Marina and Russian hill, imparted the race with both the playfulness of a street fair and the seriousness of the bustling city around it. The clever jail-striped Alcatraz race jersies only inflated the bi-polar atmosphere, serving as a comical reminder of the notoriously harsh currents that played their part in the un-escapable reputation of the Island. Sponsor’s Pop Tents lined the street leading up to the staging point on the beach and paddlers from Australia, Hawaii, and all over the United States busily prepped their boards, consulted on the course and nervously eyed the dense fogbank sitting in the mouth of the harbor. However the fog would stay at bay, the sun would shine, and 135 of the worlds best SUP and Paddleboard racers would participate in an event that played out like a jailbreak movie, riddled with upsets, unknown adversaries and break-out performances. Here is how it all went down… (more…)
This Saturday, September 26th, the worlds best SUP and Paddleboarder racers will converge on Aquatic Park to face off in the 2009 Hennessey’s International Championships. With large contingencies already arriving from Hawaii, Australia, and everywhere in between this will be an event to remember for anyone that follows the growing sport of paddleboard racing. Here are a few of the match ups that guarantee this will be one heck of a race. (more…)
Long Beach's Tyler Anderson won the men's title in a time of 1 hour, 44 minutes, 29 seconds, finishing ahead of Ryan Addison of Malibu. (Scott Varley, Staff Photographer)
More than 200 paddleboarders converged Saturday morning at Avenue I in Redondo Beach, a mecca for paddleboarding, to compete in the 14 th Annual Hennessey’s U.S. Paddleboard Championships.
With a new, triangle, spectator-friendly 10-mile course, the championships featured the top competitors from across the country with another record turnout of paddlers for this year’s open-ocean race.
The race featured 12 paddleboard divisions and seven stand-up divisions. The paddleboarders were required to do three laps around the course, whereas the stand-up paddlers had to do two. (more…)
