Board design contest trawls for new talent

By Ashleigh Dickins.

Reaction co-owner Radical Twang at Boneyard

Reaction recently launched a public board design contest to help promote aspiring Second Life surfboard designers. The winner of the contest could see their design included in the new line of Reaction surfboards using Heather Goodliffe scripts and based on Reaction co-owner's Radical Twang's 'Quad Wing', which SurfWatch reported on during August (New Wing Board Under Wraps). According to Reaction, its Quad Wing boards are now almost ready to hit the water and the competition offers new Second Life designers a chance to get some recognition.

"It's always fun having customers input on things," said Radical. "And Reaction is keen to promote original Second Life design work and this is a way for us to get to know new designers. I know for a fact that I'd be stoked if I was able to design and have a popular board sold by Rip Curl, Lost, or Rusty for example."

However, residents that want to try their hand at designing a new Reaction board have just a couple more days left to get in on the action. Designers must submit a simple visual of their design, with full permissions, to Radical Twang by October 1st. The competition rules are simple: a design visual is all that's required to enter, the visual must be the original design of the individual submitting it, plus designers must agree that by submitting their design they are turning the ownership of the design concept over to Reaction.

In addition to seeing their design on a Reaction 'Quad Wing' surfboard for sale via Reaction's retail sales channels, the winner will receive a L$5,000 Reaction gift card, the next 10 releases free in advance of release and a free surfboard with their own design on it. More information is available at Reaction's flagship store.

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TCH Estates for sale on eBay

"8 SIM ESTATES *FULL TRANSFER* SECOND LIFE" - eBay deadline 28 September

Eight of the ten TCH Estates sims, including the surfing spots of Barbuda, St. Maarten and Mandi Island have been posted for sale by ATown Fall on online auction site eBay under the heading "8 SIM ESTATES *FULL TRANSFER* SECOND LIFE". However, former TCH Surfers Open venue Saba Island is not included in the package. Investors must register their bids by Sunday 28 September and the deal must be concluded by the successful bidder within 12 hours of the auction close.

eBay's listed 'Buy It Now' price for the seven open sims and one full sim is US$3,500. In addition to the cost of bidding for the sims, the new owner of TCH Estates would need to pay Linden Lab $100 per sim to transfer the ownership of the sims and then pay monthly tier fees to Linden Lab of US$75 per month for each of the seven open sims and US$100 per month for the full sim.
TCH Estates could cost the new owner US$6,175

According to our calculations this could mean a total investment of US$6,175 by the year end (should someone pay the 'Buy It Now' asking price), although the eBay listing indicates that the seven of the sims already generate enough revenue to pay their own tier, which may bring this investment down to US$4,600. According to eBay's records ATown Fall has been trading on eBay since March 2008 and he has a 96.4% positive approval rating from other eBay users on his eBay transactions.


Barbuda, one of four surf sims on TCH Estates (May 2008)

ATown's eBay listing also includes a clause protecting current TCH Estates residents from tier free increases stating that "the current tier can be lowered but not raised from the current amount which is $L3.85 per sqm".

Useful links

SurfWatch: TCH headed for a watery grave? (24 Sep 08)
SurfWatch:
Surfline shuts down (28 Jun 08)
SurfWatch:
Estates join forces to create massive watersports development (23 May 08)
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8 sim estates *Full Transfer* Second Life (eBay)
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SLURL:
TCH Enterprises
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TCH headed for a watery grave?

Saturday’s competition cancelled, ATown Fall missing and the prospect of four more surf sims being wiped off the Second Life Grid
Second Life is awash with rumours and speculation about TCH Enterprises, following the recent disappearance of ATown Fall, the founder-owner of TCH.
Friends, employees, business partners and other residents found that ATown’s profile was no longer available in-world soon after he vanished and answers to any questions regarding TCH are thin on the ground. Other efforts to contact ATown outside of Second Life have also apparently been in vain. A popular theory is that TCH is a Second Life economy casualty, but there are other schools of thought that speculate that this being a knock-on effect from Wall Street crashes and some speculate about possible infringements against Second Life’s terms and conditions. ATown himself talked about the likelihood of other surf sims shutting down to SurfWatch in June following the closing of Surfline, but if he did harbour grave concerns about TCH Enterprises, he didn’t let on.
ATown's sometimes hard-nosed business practices were not appreciated by everyone, but he was certainly recognised for his vision and attention to detail in developing TCH Estates.
"Well, I have to take my hat off to him, in terms of sim development," said Dumisani Ah, owner of Bishara Resorts "TCH has the most fantastic diving experiences built into its sims and ATown's vision of joining the sim groups to form a mega-estate was super cool!"
If TCH collapses as a direct result of poor economics, then this would offer little comfort to other sim owners, many of whom are talking openly about a Second Life recession. Designers, retailers and land owners have all seen a general slowdown in sales and many of the most successful are simply struggling to maintain the status quo. Second Life residents are not growing fast and it sort of stands to reason that the current real world economic climate can’t provide much encouragement to residents to spend money in Second Life.

Saba Island, the venue of the TCH Surfers Open


Although ATown reputedly had invested in between 90 and 117 sims on the Grid, TCH Estates itself currently accounts for 10 islands in a mixed-use estate which has residential properties, night clubs, live music venues, shopping and other recreational activities including facilities for a variety of sports including surfing. TCH Estates is home to the four surf sims of Saba Island, Barbuda, St. Maarten and Mandi Isle, plus Bonaire, Guanaja, Lex Estate, Nervis, St. Kitts and the group’s headquarters TCH Enterprises.

Residents that have invested in property on the TCH Estates (priced $3.85 per square meter for residential locations) have no answers and little recourse to address their potential loss of land should the estate be closed and taken off the Grid by Linden Lab.

Broadwater Antilles
SurfWatch reported on plans to create a massive water sports continent in May, linking up TCH Estates, Hedonism Estates and Wilder Estates. The new mega-estate was to consist of 26 sims in the first two phases of its development, with plans to add at least 12 more sims in phase three. This project now almost certainly cannot continue in its current form, although Hedonism and Wilder Estate owners were quick to confirm that their estates remained committed to the concept.

"I am sad that it looks like Broadwater will not happen they way that it was originally planned," said Hedonism Estates owner Phelan James. "I hope that we can salvage something and still have a private island land mass. We have talked with Wilder Estates and both Hedonism and Wilder remain committed to the concept of creating a mega-estate. Unfortunately TCH was in between us, so we have to make a span, but we are optimistic about it."

Hedonism and Wilder Estates have already gone through the lengthy process of moving their sim groups closer together on the Grid, but these are now straddled either side of TCH Estates. Wilder Spirit, Wilder West, Wilder Mills Lagoon, Wild Dagger, Wild Tizzy, Wilder Keys and Wilder Shores are now located to the Southwest of TCH Estates and Hedonism, Hedonism I, Hedonism II, Hedonism Beach II, Lil Hedonism, Lost Hedonism, Mai Tai Cove, Sensual Hedonism and Rum Bay are now located to the East of TCH.

Surfers Open: closed
Meanwhile, surfers that were looking forward to this weekend’s TCH Surfers Open this Saturday will be disappointed. Locksley Blitzstein, until recently TCH Estates events manager, was unable to shed much light on the status of TCH Estates or the TCH Surfers Open surfing competition planned for this weekend. "I am no longer associated with TCH, however, I suspect it is cancelled because ATown has been missing for three weeks now."

The third event in the series, it was due to take place at 12.15pm on Saturday 26 September 2008 at Saba Island and 11 surfers had already registered for the 16-man competition. However, with the outlook for all TCH Estates’ surfing sims being so bleak, the cancellation of a single weekend's surfing event is perhaps of minor concern.

SurfWatch's advice to surfers: get your surfing in on TCH Estates surf sims whilst you can! At this point, noone can tell you how long they will remain active for!

Useful links
SurfWatch: Surfline shuts down (28 Jun 08)
SurfWatch: Estates join forces to create massive watersports development (23 May 08)
SLURL: Barbuda
SLURL: Mandi Island
SLURL: Saba Island
SLURL: St. Maarten
SLURL: TCH Enterprises

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LIVE RESULTS -- Morant Cays

12.40pm SLT 20 September 2008 -- SurfWatch is reporting live from SLSA JJ Lanes Shortboard Epic Surfing Competition at Morant Cays. The competition started at 11am SLT

SEE LIVE RESULTS NOW

SurfWatch Results is also available on the mobile (cellular) Internet via SurfWatch Mobile

Updated with final results 4.30pm SLT 20 September 2008
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Heats drawn for Morant Cays

The Second Life Surfing Association (SLSA) drew the heat line-ups Friday for the SLSA JJ Lanes Lanes Shortboard Epic surfing competition at Morant Cays, which takes place at 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT) Saturday 20 September 2008.

35 surfers are registered to take part in Saturday's competition.


The full list of heat draws for Morant Cays is posted on SurfWatch Results

Useful links

SurfWatch Results: HEAT DRAW -- Morant Cays (19 Sep 08)
SurfWatch: Wilfrid DeCuir tops new table (18 Aug 08)
SurfWatch: Surfing Calendar September-October 2008
URL: SLSA Website
URL: SLSA Forum
SLURL: Morant Cays
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SLSA rules on new board scripts

Responding to Second Life Surfing Association member Abel Halderman's post in the SLSA Forum, the Association today informed that SSI beta surfboard scripts will not be permissable in the JJ Lanes Shortboard Epic at Morant Cays this coming Saturday.

According to the SLSA, the board of directors voted on the matter and ruled that SSI Surfboard 5.6 and 5.8 board scripts are not available for general access and therefore cannot be used at the Morant Cays competition. The 5.6 and 5.8 scripts include new features being tested by SSI making it easier to execute some tricks (like rolls, for example) and the beta boards behave differently to those with the commonly available
5.1 and 5.2 board scripts.

Meanwhile, just 28 surfers have registered for Saturday's event, which has a total of 40 competition places. The JJ Lanes Shortboard Epic is the second event in the SLSA's 2008 Season II and takes place at Morant Cays 1100hrs SLT on Saturday 20 September 2008.

Useful links
SurfWatch: Wilfrid DeCuir tops new table (18 Aug 08)
SurfWatch: Surfing Calendar September-October 2008
URL: SLSA Website
URL: SLSA Forum
SLURL: Morant Cays
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Three surf events, three winners

Last weekend proved to be nothing less than action-packed with three surfing contests taking place over Saturday and Sunday. The Vibrations Surfing Alliance Surf Jam 7 on Saturday, the Surf City Open on Sunday morning and the ABSSL's third full event of the year starting later on Sunday afternoon.

Colleen Brennan (see pic right) walked away from the weekend's first surfing competition on Saturday with her second VSA Surf Jam win in a row. Colleen won her first Surf Jam in August on Majini Island and also took first place at the TCH Surfers Open earlier last month. Colleen was followed by Wilfrid DeCuir who came in second, Kim Henig who came in third and this year's other two-time Surf Jam winner Buffy Munro.

Crusader Arado (see pic left) won the top spot on the podium at the Surf City Open on Surf City South Beach on Sunday.

"The Surf City folks did a great job putting the event together. And that the support for the riders always amazes me," said Crusader. "Second Life surfers are a great family that I'm proud to be a part of. It was a great day and, as always, I have Team Tsunami to thank for helping me get the job done."

Cursader was successful in fending off stiff competition in the form of QUENCH Spotter who scored highest in the event's semi-finals and finally came second overall. VW Sands and WickedV Carver were close behind and took third and fourth place respectively.

Meanwhile, Vana Loire took the honours in the third leg of the ABSSL (Associação Brasileira de Surf no Second Life) Brazilian Surf Circuit held at Crab Island on Sunday. Mya Yalin came in second, Danyllinho Aker third and Guiloan Graves fourth. Pauinho Stoop and Ammie Graves fell in in fifth and sixth place, however they retained their first and second place in the Surf Circuit season's table.

With so much competition at August and September's events so far, its impossible to predict who will manage to shred their way onto the winners' podium at next weekend's SLSA Shortboard Competition at Morant Cays. Registrations opened yesterday for the Morant Cays event and so far 24 surfers have already signed up.

Useful links
SurfWatch Results: VSA Surf Jam 13 Sep 08 -- FINAL HEAT RESULTS
SurfWatch Results: Surf City Open 14 Sep 08 -- FINAL RESULTS
SurfWatch Results: Brazilian Circuit 14 Sep 08 - Qualifying Results
SurfWatch: SURF REPORT -- Majini Island
SLURL: Majini Island
SLURL: Surf City South
SLURL: Crab Island
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All this weekend's surfing results!

SurfWatch is posting all the competition results weekend's surfing contests!

Check out SurfWatch Results for all the results on:


VSA Surf Jam 7
- See the final results
Saturday 13 September 2008, 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT), Majini Island


Surf City Open - See the final results
Sunday 14 September 2008, 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT), Surf City South

ABSSL Surf Circuit
- See competition results now
Sunday 14 September 2008, 1500 hours SLT (1700 hrs BRT), Crab Island
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Weekend competition heat draws

SurfWatch is posting all the heat draws for this weekend's competitions as they come in.

Surf City Open Heat Draw (Posted 11 Sept 08)
Sunday 14 September 2008, 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT), Surf City South


VSA Surf Jam 7 Heat Draw (Posted 12 Sep 08)
Saturday 13 September 2008, 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT), Majini Island


ABSSL Surf Circuit Heat Draw
(Posted 13 Sep 08)

Sunday 14 September 2008, 1500 hours SLT (1700 hrs BRT), Crab Island


As of 1230 hrs SLT, 13September 2008

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Get ready for a three-event surfing weekend!

Never has Second Life had so many major surfing competitions on the same weekend! This Saturday and Sunday will see three surfing competition events take place: VSA Surf Jam 7 on Saturday, the Surf City Open on Sunday and the third state of the Brazilian Surf Circuit over Saturday and Sunday!

Surf Jam 7

The monthly Vibrations Surf Alliance (VSA) Surf Jam 7 takes place 11am SLT Saturday 13 September 2008 on Majini Island, in the Bishara Resorts group of sims. Past Jams have been won by ONeil Auer, Pova Rustamova, Colleen Brennan and twice by Buffy Monro. Last month's Surf Jam saw Colleen Brennan take first place, followed closely by trhe Tsunami Surf Team's Crusader Arado and Reef Rider new-comer Bonheur Chanaux. This Saturday's event is really wide open, with a strong line-up of surfers expected to take part.

Surf City Open
Surf City hosts its second major surfing contest of the year this weekend at Surf City South beach on Sunday 14 September 2008 starting at 11am. The competition takes place on a double pipleline break and board-choice is wide open. Surf City local rockytheskaterboy Dreadlow won the Surf City Classic at Surf City in July, with Mick Lunasea coming in second and Bobbi Laval in third. SurfWatch also hears that there are plans to hold the Surf City Open quarterly. Organisers have already announced the heat draws for this weekend's event.

ABSSL Surf Circuit

The Brazilian Second Life Surfing Association (ABSSL) will hold the third event in its 2008 surfing event circuit on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September at Crab Island. This will also be the first surfing competition to ever take place on HP Surfs new Sunset wave, the Teahuppoo wave's larger successor. July's event was won by Ammie Graves, with Paulinho Stoop and Guiloan Graves falling into second and third place respectively. However,
Paulinho leads the Brazilian Surf Circuit table and will be looking to consolidate his lead, whilst second ranked Ammie will be hoping to knock him out of the top-spot.

Be sure to check out SurfWatch Results over the next few days for details of competition heat draws and competition results.

Updated 0830 hrs, 11 September 2008

Useful links
SurfWatch: Colleen clinches Surf Jam 6 (31 Aug 08)
SurfWatch: Surf City to test longboard skills (22 Jul 08)
SurfWatch: Brazilian surf circuit comes to Praia da Paz (5 Jul 08)
SurfWatch: SurfWatch Results
SLURL: Majini Island (spectator stand on Bishara Island)
SLURL: Crab Island
SLURL: Surf City South
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Surfing calendar September-October 2008

Surfing competitions

VSA Surf Jam 7

Saturday 13 September 2008, 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT)


Vibrations Surf Alliance (VSA) Surf Jam 7 takes place 11am SLT Saturday 13 September 2008 on Majini Island, Bishara Resorts. Open to VSA members only.


Surfers contact: VW Sands


SLURL: Majini Island



ABSSL Surf Circuit (3rd stage)
Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September 2008 1000 hours SLT (1400 hrs BRT)


The Associação Brasileira de Surf no Second Life (Brazilian Second Life Surfing Association) or ABSSL will hold the third event in its 2008 surfing event circuit on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th September at Crab Island.


Surfers contact: leogarto Burt


SLURL Crab Island



Surf City Open
Sunday 14 September 2008, 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT)


Surf City hosts the Surf City Open at Surf City South beach on Sunday 14 September 2008 starting at 11am. The competition will take place on Surf City South's double pipleline break and board-choice is wide open. The competition will also be judged by a panel of three real life surfers.


Surfers contact: monq Pinklady


SLURL: Surf City South



SLSA Shortboard Competition at Morant Cays
Saturday 20 September 2008 1100 hrs SLT (18 00 hrs GMT)


September's Second Life Surfing Association's (SLSA's) surfing competition for shortboards on the Epic wave at Morant Cays. This competition takes place at 11am SLT Saturday 20 September 2008. Only SLSA surfers may compete. Open for all spectators.


Surfers contact: Ashleigh Dickins


SLURL: Morant Cays



TCH Surfers Open 3

Saturday 27 September 2008 1215 hrs SLT (1915 hrs GMT)


The third TCH Surfers Open competition will take place at 12.15pm SLT on Saturday 27 September 2008 at Saba Island, TCH Estates.Competition open to all entries on a first-come-first-served basis.


Surfers contact: Locksley Blitzstein


SLURL: TCH Estates



VSA Surf Jam 8

Saturday 11 October 2008, 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT)


Vibrations Surf Alliance (VSA) Surf Jam 8 takes place 11am SLT Saturday 11 October 2008 on Majini Island, Bishara Resorts. Open to VSA members only.


Surfers contact: VW Sands


SLURL: Majini Island



SLSA Shortboard Surfing Competition at Chi Island

Saturday 18 October 2008, 1100 hrs SLT (1800 hrs GMT)


October's Second Life Surfing Association's (SLSA's) surfing competition takes surfers back to where it all started: Chi Island, which hosted Second Life's first ever surfing competition in March 2007. This competition takes place on Saturday 18 October at 11am SLT on Chi's main pipeline surfing break. Only SLSA surfers may compete. Open for all spectators.


Surfers contact: Ashleigh Dickins


SLURL: Chi Island


TCH Surfers Open 4

Saturday 25 October 2008 1215 hrs SLT (1915 hrs GMT)


The fourth TCH Surfers Open competition will take place at 12.15pm SLT on Saturday 25 October 2008 at Saba Island, TCH Estates.Competition open to all entries on a first-come-first-served basis.


Surfers contact: Locksley Blitzstein


SLURL: TCH Estates



Surfing lessons


Bishara Surf School (weekly)

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 1000-1300 hrs SLT (1700-2000 hrs GMT)


Established two years ago now, Bishara Surf School (on the East side of Majini Island) offers open surfing classes with a maximum of two students per instructor. One-on-one coaching can be arranged by appointment. Instructors include long-time SL surfing instructor Slave Lacey, Bishara Estates Manager VW Sands, Vibrations surf team captain Buffy Munro or Vibrations co-captain QUENCH Spotter. Lessons are free, donations to the sim appreciated.


Surfers contact: Slave Lacey, VW Sands, Buffy Munro or QUENCH Spotter

SLURL: Majini Island


TCH Surf Classes (weekly)

Saturdays 1500 hrs SLT (2200 hrs GMT)


TCH Surf Classes have been designed to allow people new to Second Life surfing a chance to work with an experienced surfer to learn the basics of surfing. These classes cover general surfing skills, plus a few surfing tricks to help new surfers on their way to becoming competition surfers.


Surfers contact: Locksley Blitzstein


SLURL: TCH Estates
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Did Imelda Marcos surf?

By Socks Clawtooth, Senior Furry Correspondent.

I was over at Hedonism, just to get away from the crowds more than anything else. They have a bunch of custom boards for sale there, and some nice designs. I like to try to support surf sims by buying stuff at the vendors. It's weird logic, but it works for me. If I can't find a donation box, I donate indirectly. It works.

And as I was debating between two styles, it suddenly hit me. How many surfboards do I really need? I know, it's Second Life. Part of the fun here is buying stuff. I'm partially convinced a lot of people are here to play a high-tech version of 'dress up dolls' and wear clothing they either could never afford or never would dare to wear in real life. But that brings me back to the surfboards. How many does one
really, honestly, need?

The most correct answer is none, as most surf beaches have loaners there. But, that's no fun. If you ride SLSA, you only really need two. A long board, a short board, you're set for all seasons. But, ya know... It's never that simple. Never.

First night in Second Life, I was surfing on a loaner from The Weather Channel. It took a few weeks to find my next surf beach, which I think was Chi. And much to my horror, my
The Weather Channel surfboard destructed at Chi. But they had loaners, but I wanted my own. It took a few weeks of searching, camping, begging and pleading, but I scraped up enough to by my first board. Now the question was 'what to get?' I rode loaners after loaners, then spent three days tracking down a place tom buy the exact board I wanted: a Reaction 'Paint Spill'. And believe me, it was not easy at the time.

Then slowly, surely, I bought more boards. A Namiko, a Surfline longboard, an Analog. A few others that I regret now, but hey I thought they were bargains! Then around the time Havok-4 came about I was more involved in the competition side of things. Thanks to the SLSA I got my first shortboard, which was Havok4 friendly. And like anything else, you just pick up boards from here and there. You get some cash, you buy a cool new board. Placed high in a competition, get a board. I'm bored, get a board.

So now I've got boards that are graphics retro, have flames, have cool graphics and plain graphics, some that are just cool by their base look, woodies, foamies, fishes and guns, longboards, shortboards, really long boards... At my count I have about 24 now. And that's not counting unusable boards or copy boards that I rez to the water and not really out of my inventory. I save those for privateer rides, but that's another story. Not to mention the fun accessories, like the 'surfboard wax'.


But really, how many do I need? I mean easily 15 of those boards are dusty now, a few I never updated to Havok4, a few I just don't use because I like the newer shapes more. I'm not quite at the 'Imelda Marcos stage' (Google it, I dare ya!) but it's getting there. Do I need 24 surfboards? Well, yeah! It's kind of nice to invite a friend to try surfing anywhere on the grid, and be able to toss down a nice board for them to use. It's even handier to be able to convert it to 'beginner' mode for people who can't walk and chew gun at the same time. And even more importantly, it's nice to be able to paddle in to the beach and pull out a different board if your current one doesn't feel right while your riding.

But choices make for problems sometimes. In real life, I only own one snowboard for this reason. I grab it and go riding. If I had three, I'd spend way too long figuring out which one to take to the hill. Thankfully, in Second Life, I can take all by boards with me everywhere so there's no transport problem. But sometimes, I look at my inventory and try to figure out what I want to use, and I end up using one of a few I always love to.

That being said, I bought a new board at Hedonism. A woodie, I like a good woodie. Very retro and I'm into that. It was a toss up between the turtle and the shark. After finding out that Kamohoali'i taught man how to surf, I figured that was good enough reason to get the shark style! Hey, gotta give thanks in whatever way I can, ya know?
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SLSA elects new directors

Tauri Tigerpaw and VW Sands join SLSA board

Second Life Surfing Association (SLSA) members voted in two new board directors this week. Tauri Tigerpaw and VW Sands will now join Ashleigh Dickins, Colleen Brennan and Sally LaSalle on the SLSA board, replacing outgoing directors Milo Voss and Radical Twang who have both now served their full terms.

"I really want to thank Rad and Milo on behalf of the membership for sticking with it and keeping the SLSA going though some difficult times," said Sally LaSalle, SLSA director. "Those boys have done a lot of work behind the scenes, a lot of which goes unnoticed."

Rad and Milo were voted on to the SLSA board in March 2008 and helped steer the SLSA through the Havok4 code change in April/May, which proved to be a major upset for Second Life surfing, and through the SLSA's constitutional crisis in May, not to mention adjusting to the unexpected disappearance of Ritch Goalpost in March soon after he was elected.
Rad and Milo will be now be designated as 'SLSA Advisors'.

According to the SLSA, 39 eligible SLSA voters cast their vote this week. VW Sands received 38 votes, Tauri Tigerpaw received 30 votes and Rianne McCullough received 10 votes.

"I would like to thank the SLSA members for allowing me the chance to serve the surfing community as a director in the SLSA," said VW, who is also Bishara Estate Manager and Vibrations Surf Team Owner. "I´m looking forward to the challenges and I hope I can be as efficient as the directors that served before me. Thanks again!"

"Through working on interviews and articles for SurfWatch, I've gotten a front row seat from the players involved in the start up and continued growth of Second Life surfing," said Tauri (see pic right). "Charting the history of where it came from and looking forward with excitement to wherever it could be headed, I'm thrilled to be a part of it and honoured to be a part of the SLSA."

"I am really looking forward to working with VW and Tauri, both of whom are already great contributors to the sport, I'm sure they will bring some fresh ideas and enthusiam and it should be a really fun team to work with," added Sally. "Finally thanks to Rianne who missed out this time, but she is already doing a great job as an SLSA judge."

Updated 21.00hrs SLT, 3 September 2008

Useful links

SurfWatch: Tauri Tigerpaw (Blogger Profile)
SurfWatch: New SLSA constitution voted in (9 Aug 08)
SurfWatch: SLSA overhauls its constitution (29 Jul 08)
SurfWatch: INTERVIEW -- VW Sands (7 May 08)
URL: SLSA website
URL: SLSA Forum

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