In Memory of Cipriano Grut

firefly by Cipriano Grut Night has come and once again I miss the nights while living in the mountains, getting up to shut a window that faces the wilderness. Outside I see it's full of fireflies all over.  Seems like the stars have shaken off the dust of the road, and that that dust of light...

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SLSA Mini Competition October 29 2009 Results

Thursday, October 29, 2009, the Second Life Surfing Association had their second mini competition on pipes at the SLSA sim at Archipelago. Heat 1: Amy Eclipse 10.0 vs Mick Lunasea 9.5 Heat 2: Kantbe Thursday 13.5 vs Angelle Aluveaux 12.0 Final: Amy Eclipse 14.0 vs Kantbe Thursday 1...

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Syx Toshi Wave Report

submitted by Syx Toshi Las Islas Naima Waves - Ocean Huge Creator:  Naima Broome Cost:  6000L Permissions:  No Mod/Copy/No Transfer Specifications: One very large prim, does not change shape, animated texture, prim does not move Two prim sizes, 120 x 120m and 256 x 256m What's in the...

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Sally LaSalle Voted in on SLSA Board

The Second Life Surfing Association announced Sally LaSalle was voted in by 22 eligible voters to fill Robin Mapp's seat on the Board.  Sally has served several previous terms as Director and has been an advisor on the Board.  Three Director seats will open for election on December 1, 2009.  Current directors are Desirae Beaumont, Abel Halderman, Bonheur Chenaux, WickedV Carver and...

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Mari's Mailbag - Loyalty

My first topic I'd like to write about is loyalty among surfers.  A few months back, someone came to me quite hurt.  She had overheard a surfer speaking to others hatefully about a fellow surfer.  It happened to be someone very well known in the surf community.  This was so...

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Pacific Coast Hwy Surfboard Art Contest

Pop over to Pacific Coast Hwy sim and vote for your favorite surfboard art.  The contest is held as part of the Surf Festival being held on Nov. 1, 2009.  See contest rules and entry information at the Visitor Center for details on how to enter.  Judging will take place at noon on Nov....

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Australian Surfing Association Announces Director

Desne Aabye has been selected as the first Director for the newly formed Australian Surfing Association.  With a large contingent of Australian surfers in SL, several people felt the need to form an Australian organization so some competitions and events could be more time compatible with Australian time.  Stay tuned to SurfWatch for more information and details on this organizati...

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Pacific Coast Hwy Fall Surf Festival 2009 - November 1

Fall Surf Festival 2009 Mick Lunasea and his partner, Revlon Benoir, are proud to announce Fall Surf Festival 2009, a celebration of SL surfing at their home sim, Pacific Coast Highway (137, 193, 26), that features surfing, residential and retail. As Mick describes it: "PCH is inspired by the rugged...

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Introducing Mari's Mailbag

Marianna Monentes, owner of Boracay islands, Sunset Dance Pavilion, Fountain Fantasies, competitive surfer, has been a member of the surf community since 2007.  Sharing the philosophy of SurfWatch as a resource for the surf community to ask questions and find answers, Marianna recently agreed to...

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Pumpkin Heads Hit Tsunami!!!

Something very skeeery spotted along the dark sandy shores of Tsunami Beach on a dark Hallow's Eve.....

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Breaking News - SLSA Calls for Election to Fill Director Seat

The SLSA just announced an election to fill a Board Director seat, to be held on October 26.  According to SLSA spokesman and director, Abel Halderman, Robin Mapp has been unable to perform this role for over a month and according to the Constitution, an election has to be held to fill this position.  The SLSA Board greatly regrets having to take this action.  They are putting out an...

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SLSA Round 2 Tsunami Beach Challenge Results

results courtesy SLSA, photos courtesy Colleen Brennan and Bobbi Laval The results of an exciting SLSA Round 2 Tsunami Beach Competition: FINALS: 1st Place:  Desirae Beaumont 15.66667 2nd Place:  Socks Clawtooth 15.50000 3rd Place:  Maldrul Morris 15.33333 SexyBoy Oh 14.66667 Sally...

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Births and Adoptions

PORTILO-SILVANSKY Adoption Date:  October 9, 2009 Born:  8/23/2009 Age: 4 years old Gender:  Female On October 9, 2009, Emma Portilo and Maxwell Silvansky became proud parents adopting 4 year old Tasya Portilo.  Tasya was adopted thru an adoption service for child avatars that...

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MUST Surf Fest 09

submitted by Clarke Torok, photos courtesy Tilly Theas Surf Fest 09 is scheduled to take place Tuesday, October 27th and Wednesday, October 28th.  A Live Band will play Friday, October 30th, 7-9 PM SLT Location:  Surf the Pacific Coast Highway.  The quiet surfing...

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Team Profile - TaiChi

Team Name: TaiChi  Year founded: 2009 Founder(s): Kimmy Jigsaw, Wilfrid DeCuir, Sally LaSalle Current owner captains: Kimmy Jigsaw, Wilfrid DeCuir, Sally LaSalle Pro Surfers: Wil DeCuir Kimmy Jigsaw Sally LaSalle MarkFoo Waverider SweetCajan Voom Lacy Rossini Velvetori Twine Rick...

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Emi's Birthday Bash

submitted by Chaos99 Braveheart Discovering the Rose Theater was one of Emi's favorite sims, I immediately booked her birthday party there.  I knew I wanted a live musician, but didn't know who. One day Emi took me to see Digby Smalls perform live in concert and had mentioned, "I'm...

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Syx Toshi Wave Report

Read the latest wave review by Syx Toshi, owner of the Monkey Cove sims, as he looks at the Sunset wave, one of Leogarto Burt's designs.  Simply scroll down the right side of your screen to the sponsor logos and click on Surf Shop 6 to read all about the Sunset wa...

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A Sassy Surprise!

Braata Beach was the party spot for Thursday's, October 15, suprise party for Sassy1 Fizzle.  Church Drascol set the stage and the surfers had the place hopping! Sassy had a special message for her friends after the party: Wow!  Where do I start?  I am surrounded by the best of the...

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Heat Draws SLSA Round 2 Tsunami Beach Challenge Saturday, Oct 17

The SLSA has assigned heat draws for Saturday's Round 2 Tsunami Beach Challenge: Heat 1 Wilfrid DeCuir (RED) Colleen Brennan (BLUE) Bonheur Chenaux (GREEN) Yendor Destiny (ORANGE) Sassy1 Fizzle (PURPLE) Sven Homewood (BLACK) Heat 2 Desirae Beaumont (RED) Kimmy Jigsaw (BLUE) Jac Mornington (GREEN) MarkFoo Waverider (ORANGE) Brenden Quan (PURPLE) Robbin Ember (BLACK) Heat 3 SexyBoy Oh (RED) Bobbi...

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Team Profile - VSA

Submitted by VW Sands Team Name: Vibrations Year founded: 2007 Founder(s): VW Sands Team Capt.: Buffy Munro Co-Capt: Quench Spotter Pro Rider: WickedV Carver, Kim Henig, Triston Mayo, VW Sands Current team standing: 4th Where did the team name come from: "Vibrations" from our group...

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Brophy Boards Reach Beaches

SSi Brophy board display at Peahi SSi's line of Brophy surfboards has hit the sand running!  Carrying Drew Brophy RL designs authorized by the Brophy's for use in SL, SSi will be providing new board designs as the Brophy's provide new artwork, so check back frequently for the...

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Montego Lecture Circuit - Bobbi Laval

Check out the amazing Bobbi Laval's recent lecture for the Montego Lecture Circuit, available now at http://surfslsa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=750.  Kohana Schimmer introduces guest speaker, Bobbi Laval And stay tuned for Montego Lecture Circuit speakers every month.  Sebastian...

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Syx Toshi Wave Report

Interested in reading more detail about SL surfing waves?  Syx Toshi, owner of Monkey Cove surfing sims, can tell you all about them, including the latest SSi Epic in the works.  Syx has a keen interest and understanding of wave design and technology and explains his view in terms we can all understand.  Simply scroll down the right hand side of your SurfWatch page to SurfWatch Sponsors...

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Results from SLSA Round 1 Tsunami Beach Challenge, Saturday, October 10, 2009

Scores provided courtesy SLSA, photo courtesy Colleen Brennan Robbin Ember tearing up the wave The results of the SLSA Round 1 Tsunami Beach Challenge are: Heat 1: Harbor Piers 14.00 Lacy Rossini 11.83 Sunshine Zhangsun 12.00 Kohana Schimmer 12.50 Sparkey Corleon 11.83 Kantbe Thursday 13.66 Heat...

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SLSA Heat Draws Round 1 Tsunami Beach Challenge

Round 1 of the SLSA Tsunami Beach Challenge will start at 11 AM SLT and check-in is at 10:45 AM SLT.  Each heat is 3 waves each, and the best 2 riders from each heat will advance to Round 2 on October 17. Heat 1: Red - Harbor Piers Blue - Lacy Rossini Green - Sunshine Zhangsun Orange - Kohana Schimmer Purple - Sparkey Corleone Black - Kantbe Thursday Heat 2: Red - Kim Henig Blue - Sven Homewood Green...

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Surf Party!

SL surfers are invited to a pre-competition barbeque and beach dance party! Where:  Freeport, New April Island, Freeport (6, 106, 21) When:  Friday Oct 9 Time:  2 PM SLT til the cows come home DJ:  Desirae Beaumont starts at 4 PM SLT Sponsored by Tsunami Beach, proud home of the SLSA Tsunami Beach Longboard Challenge and Jasmines Cantina Resort Come relax and have a good time...

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Team Profile - Boracay

submitted by Harbor Piers JamesB Allen, co-founder Team Name:  Team Boracay Year Founded:  2009 Founder(s):  JamesB Allen/Marianna Monentes Current owners:  Owner/Captain Harbor Piers Current Team Standing:  with no shoes Where did the team name come from: Originated...

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Associacao Brasileira de Surf no SL

Sunset...Jaws...Leogarto Burt's waves.  Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZajkUjAhZ3U to see them in action.  Leo's waves are available for: SUNSET WAVES 10m x 10m x 40m - 3,000L 10m x 10m x 60m - 4,000L 10m x 10m x 100m - 6,000L 10m x 10m x 200m - 8,000L Sunset waves make waves with shapes sculpted using mega prims and comes in four different sizes.  The main factor to take...

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SLSA Celebrates at SLSA Sim Dedication Event

Saturday, October 3, marked the Grand Opening ceremony for the Second Life Surfing Association's new sim at Archipelago.  The event opened with a live music line up of Obeloinkment Wrigglesworth, Zorch Boomhauer and Tauri Tigerpaw.  All donations went to to the SLSA to help defray the cost...

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Kayak Derby II

Kayak Derby II, the second SL Whitewater Kayaking competition, will be held on Saturday, October 24th, at 11 AM SLT at the Tidewater Canyon River in Wilder Keys.  Thrilling whitewater action as paddlers run three heats each, challenging the gates of this difficult river course, competing for the...

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Wax On In-Depth

Submitted by Colleen Brennan, Special Correspondent I recently had the pleasure of meeting up with Sassy1 Fizzle and GiavannaMarie Melody and interviewed them for SurfWatch's on-going “surfer-on-the-beach” series called “Wax On.” SurfWatch randomly chooses a beach and interviews the surfers...

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MUST Competition Results

submitted by Syx Toshi The second MUST surf event of the season at Monkey Cove resulted in a surf-off between Followingwaves Sirbu and Rayzza Rubble.  Followingwaves was the victor with a score of 4.6 to Rayzza's 3.9.  Both competitors gave the spectators a great sho...

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One Cool Cat Celebrates his Birthday!

The coolest surfing cat, Zenon Parnall, celebrated his birthday on Sunday, September 27, kicking up the sand in a specially designated litterbox on the beach at Mori Pwani.  His love and partner, Nadja Revnik, threw him a surprize beach bash and debuted the specially created issue of "Playcat,...

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Team Profile - Montego

completed by Kohana Schimmer Team Name:  Montego Surf Team Year Founded:  2009 February Founder(s): Kohana Schimmer, Robbin Ember and Candywhite Compton (Candywhite is no longer active) Owner/Captain:  Kohana Schimmer Co-Captains:  Robbin Ember and Sunrize Mornington Mentors: ...

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