January 2007

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And the Winners are?

Well to tell you the truth apart from the actual Heat and Competition winners, everyone was a winner. The whole competition was a resounding success and a credit to Puerto Rico and the ISA.
The last day saw a huge swell hit, and the waves were in my opinion “The size of houses coming at you […]

Written by Kevin on January 30th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Penultimate Day

Well the second last day of the competition, and a nice relaxed start to the day, taking team photos chilling and chatting to the surfers. Typical, I could only manage to arrange 2 teams to pose for the cameras, The French and Puerto Ricans
Hopefully I can get all the other teams tomorrow? Once that is […]

Written by Kevin on January 27th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Still Chilling in Puerto Rico

I dont know if anyone is reading this anymore?
But if you are, we had a good evening last night the French guys brought a whole
load of food, more than we could all eat. The drink flowed and old friends got to know each
other again. Many of the team members are old adversaries.
Today we just totally […]

Written by Kevin on January 27th, 2007 with 7 comments.
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Hello from Puerto Rico

Well things have calmed down, and I found out today thet Lee called or wanted to call for interference on his last heat. Grishka was under the weather for his final heat, aparently he was real ill from eating dodgy food, I did notice he wasn’t on top form. I will find out the full […]

Written by Kevin on January 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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Don’t PANIC, we lost 2 today!

Sadly Roger and Gary were eliminated from their heats today ☹
But we are all proud of what they have done, this is the WORLD masters. Not just some tin pot competition, but the Best in the WORLD. Roger is ranked 6th in the world (don’t hold me to this as I have had […]

Written by Kevin on January 24th, 2007 with 10 comments.
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Sad day, but NOT the END, by any means

Competition Day 2
the day started bright and sunny at Domes, he location of the World Masters Championship. with all our lads through from the previous day we looked set to continue the splendid form they had shown yesterday. But alas this was not to be their day. It started fine with Lee Bartlett clinching second […]

Written by Kevin on January 23rd, 2007 with 11 comments.
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It has started! The World Masters Surfing Competition

Competition Day One! The Brits Blast Through
Well folks this is it! The BIG day, the start of the World Masters Surfing Competition. Tension was in the air, nerves were frayed, cat’s slept with dog’s and the moon turned red! Well not really, but you can get the picture. It is always hard to start the […]

Written by Kevin on January 22nd, 2007 with 6 comments.
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The Opening Ceremony

Well our most enthusiastic readers! Today was the opening ceremony of the World Masters Surfing Competition. And boy! what an event it was!
The day started at a leisurely pace with an early morning (YES for ONCE the team were awake and raring to go! The BAT JUICE is now on a side burner as they […]

Written by Kevin on January 21st, 2007 with 4 comments.
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Day 4 The swell hits Puerto Rico

WOW!
At last after all the hanging around sitting on our elbows (some of us dont know our ar5es from our elbows) doing nothing but sipping Bacardi and lounging around the beach it has arrived. We left at 6:30 expecting the usual wind swell. As we neared Domes where the comp is to be held we […]

Written by Kevin on January 20th, 2007 with 6 comments.
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Relaxing Day 3 Puerto Rico

Another quiet day in the surf, flat as you like, not much at all happened. So I got the camera out and left the video behind.
So it was a relaxing day of sitting around, sunning ourselves on the beach, snorkelling eating and of course rounding off the day with drinking and a fine bar-b-que. Which […]

Written by Kevin on January 19th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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