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Last updated: May 21, 2009
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The Kenny Tooker Memorial Scholarship
10/6 The Kenny Tooker Memorial Classic was held in chest-high conditions in Bay Head. Billed as the first, to be annual, scholarship fundraising contest, the event could not have been better. Waves, sun, excellent vibe Kenny would have approved. Tighe beat out Alex Barlow (right) in the Jrs. Bobby Duerr won the "Old Guys", Carleigh Sion took the womens, Steve Krohr Boys BB, John Mangini-Open BB & Alex Califano-Mens LB. A lot of money was raised and the community came through big and the local businesses were huge with donations. Photos Here
10/6 Dean Randazzo beats Matt Keenan again this time in the SquanPro, Sam Hammer and Kyle Garson followed.
10/3 Dean Randazzo (right) wins his second Garden State Grudge Match today beating Matt Keenan in the man-on-man final in Seaside Hts. Jon Coen full story is HERE. Dean beat out Randy Townend in the semis, while Matt took out Ben Graeff to make to the final. Many of the local favorites dropped early, but there were nice waves behind the heavy fog. Ann Coen photos . Grudge Gallery #2 by Becky Burt click here.
Ireland: Back in August, N'East Mag locked down N'East Editor Jon Coen (left), Brand Manager Tyler Briggs, photographers Nick Lavecchia, Ann Coen, Snapwater and talent, Randy Gaetano, Josh Clements, and Jamie Moran to capture the best the emerald isle has to offer, which, on top of creamy delicious stout, also includes countless reefs with thick reeling barrels. To our surprise and good fortune – we hit it right this time ... a 15 foot + long period groundswell is slamming the coast of Ireland, and it is only getting bigger. Extended forecasts predict the swell to double in size over the coming days ... look for the results of the trip in the Photo Annual on newsstands late February. more
Dec 16 produced some huge faces after the quick moving Nor'Easter moved offshore. Photogs Jack Reynolds (right) on LBI and Chris Zeh (left) slightly north battled the high winds to get you these shots. Above, Desis Weiler sent in this shot of Luke Ditella ... saying it was "somewhere in NJ."
12/16 Chris Zeh
Lav/SSHts. photo gallery
12/16 by Jack Reynolds
Winter waves, holiday Hollows, Seasonal swells, whatever you call it there have been a few. We're putting together a gallery of mixed dates, so if you got them, send them. If you have them posted send the link. Have a great new year! Chris Zeh 12/24 Dan Edelstein back in NJ from MD snapped a few in Sea Girt 12/24. gallery.Recent Swell Links. (send'em if you got'em)
NJ surf legend Dean Randazzo is battling Cancer again. He is in good spirits and confident he will beat this once again! Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. There was a fundraising contest 2/9 at Casino won by Sam Hammer (left), 2nd Rob Kelly. Sam also took the Expression Session followed by Randy Townsend. More coming.
Jess Swenson Photos of the Event are HERE, thanks Jess!
Well wishes at this link.
photo: Jess Swenson
***Grom Grudge Match 2008****
The Smith Optics Grom Grudge went down in solid 3-4' surf at D Street in Seaside Park. Over 50 competitors did battle for the bragging rights as top grom in the NJ and NY region.
Results: 16-20 Jr. Pro Semi #1 Rob Kelly defeated Ben Graef
Semi #2 Balram Stack defeated Ian Bloch
Final Balram Stack defeated Rob Kelly 15.5 to 10.75
Balram pockets $1000 for the win and $250 for the Skull Candy highest wave score of the day, 9.0 frontside alley oop. 15 Under Results 1. PJ Raia- $500 2. Mike Ciramela 3. Pat Schmidt
4. Sean Santiago 5. JD Porter 6. Zack Kreiser
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Sea of Change 8/19 POAC (parents of autistic children) and Sea of Change held free event in Seaside park with 75 volunteers consisting of lifeguards, local surf schools, shop employees and local surfers in general, that gave of their time and a tremendous effort.
POAC and Sea of Change in the "2nd Annual Surf Day" took 120 kids over 3 hours out in the water and it was awesome!
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NJ's Brittany Gomulka and Rachel Nessuno score big in the East Coast Wahines
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Chip Miller Memorial Surf Fest in OC Small waves big stoke.
PHOTOS (by Gina) of the Chip Miller Memorial
Bethany Hamilton and Dean Randazzo picked up the beach where the waves fell short. More info to come. The results are: Brittany Hickey of Ventnor won the Womens Division. In the Groms,
Micheal Ciaramella won the Juniors. was Jack Dennis of Cape May Courthouse. Pat Schmidt made his trip from Manasquan worthwhile by winning the Boys. Ocean City standout, Rob Kelly, took the Mens. The Masters went to Justin Casey, of Ventnor Heights and the Longboard to Rob Kulisek, of North Wildwood. This year’s Parent/Child Division, a Chip Miller classic, went to Bob and Shane Mathews, of Northfield. ///// full Jon Coen story in the Press of AC.
The Annual No Flat Earth Free girls surf contest
No Flat Earth Boys Contest
10-under push-in: 1. Nick Farrell 2.Cory Englehardt 3. Chris Castilglia
10- run/paddle/run: 1. Timmy Grable 2. Nik Tartas 3. Shawn Mayer
11-12-run/paddle/run 1. Bobby Reilly 2. Troy wolf 3. Mike McClemans
13-14 run/paddle/run 1. Liam Reilly 2. JD Porter 3. Kavin O'Connor
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Zimzala at the Headliner, "Art, Music and Humanity"
... a one of a kind music and art charity event at from the Jersey Shore, in support of Surfaid International.
Our mission is to help raise funds and awareness for SurfAid on the East Coast, with support from around the country while representing all the great artists, businesses and culture this area has to offer. It's part of our goal to help put the beaches of New Jersey on the map as a major player in the global surfing community. EVENT PHOTO GALLERY ZIMZALA was founded and presented by OKOTO Apparel, Jay Alders Fine art & Photography and Sun Dreams Productions. MySpace with Full Info.
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OC Team makes the Semi in the Red Bull Riders Cup National Shoot-Out
Sunday news: Jon Coen's Sunday update (with photos) in the Press of AC is HERE Coen reports "Ocean City put up a valient effort, crushing Jupiter High School yesterday (Saturday), but they got beat today (sunday) by San Clemente in the semis."
Friday news: The National champs will be decided this weekend and NJ's Ocean City team (Rob Kelly, Chris Kelly, Brian Liess, Pat Westman) have a decent shot at it. They'll go up against Juipter FL, 10:30 on Sat. Jon Coen is on the road fo the Press of AC (Coen story) and we'll try for updates along the way. The Red Bull site has some info. HERE
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ESA NE Regionasl saw some Jersey in high places: RESULTS HERE
The ESA Northeast Regional Surfing Championships went down a couple of weekends ago and major props to: Mike Ciaramella (Boys/Iron Man); Chris Kelly (Junior Men); Chris Mansor (Men); Chris Lisanti (Masters/Open Shortboard); Chuck Barend (Senior Men); Mike DeWald (Grandmasters); Ed Fawess (Legends); Kitty Pechet (Grand Legends); Brittney Hickey (Girls/Women’s Longboard); Nora Vasconcellos (Junior Women); Nohea Nichols (Women); Ana Barend (Ladies/Ladies Longboard/Hot Wave); Zach Tomlinson (Menehune Longboard); Teddy Lyons (Junior Longboard); Rob Kulisek (Men’s Longboard); Joe Grottola (Masters Longboard); Tom Leonik (Legends Longboard); Matt Fineran (Menehune Bodyboard); John Heyman (Open Bodyboard);
Jill Kepich (Iron Woman).
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www.nynjsurf.com would like to thank ALL of the competitors, photographers, and contributors for the time, effort, generosity, well wishes and prayers - your actions were tremendous!! They raised between $4000-5000 for the foundation. The "Doin' it for Dean" photo contest results are:
New Jersey's Paul Smith, as photographed by Bob Paxson!!
Worldwide Winner - Ed DeLamarter of Hawaii
Ladies Division Winner - Katherine Moriwicki of NY
Little Nasty Silver Platter Award for Most Dollars Raised (in the lead
to date!); Steff Zellinger of NY
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Golden Glove results are in, contest was held 3/1 in small conditions on the Manasquan Inlet Beach: 15 & Under, 1st Michael Ciaramella - NJ, 2nd Christian Porter, 3rd PJ Raia, 4th Dave Terranova, 5th Nick Rutkowski, 6th Michael Agnew
16 & Up 1st Rob Kelly - NJ, 2nd Chris Eaves, 3rd Balaram Stack, 4th Chris Manson, 5th Dalton Johnson, 6th Brendan Buckley
Open Women, 1st Rachel Harrill - DE, 2nd Carroline Duerr, 3rd Kim Kepich, 4th Jill Kepich, 5th Beth Grant, 6th Joanne Dannecker
Open Longboard, 1st Joe Gillen – Va Beach, 2nd Alex Barlow, 3rd Chris Makibbin, 4th Michael Ciarmella, 5th Bill Willem, 6th Paul Aspenberg PHOTO GALLERY by Jesse Pomeroy.
Foster's Belmar Pro 2008
$25,000 purse.
1. Kyle Garson - FL
2. Jeremy Johnston - FL
3. Matt Keenan - NJ
4. Trvis Beckman - FL
Kenny Tooker Memorial Surf Event, Bay Head 10/11
Gallery links below...
Alex Rivera Photos:
After the long flat summer, the Jersey fall is once again coming through with some decent swell. Couple of tropicals and some random fun. 17 year old photog Alex Rivera scored three days worth of photos last weekend. Jordan Beverly (above left) only a couple of short months away from the mats gets as much water as he can. Tommy Ihnken (top center) is back for a while tosses the pier and heavy Squan. A MIXED GALLERY IS HERE.
150 Alex Rivera photos ....
View and/or buy from the online gallery
Go to www.collages.net
Name: Tooker08
Password: 18279
Photog Doug Salvatoriello has some Tooker photos HERE.
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Sam Hammer wins the GS Grudge Match.
Sam Hammer beat Mike Gleason in the man on man winner take all $3500 final in Seaside Hts Monday in another classic NJ event. Sam took out Chris Eaves in the Semis and Gleason beat Jamie Moran to set up the final showdown. Big slow waves after an overnight and morning clean up provided yet another epic GSGM and Rob Cloupe made a good call watching the swells.
Qtrs-Moran d. Noonan///Hammer d. Keenan/// Gleason d.Townsend///Eaves d. Richards
Semi Gleason d. Moran///Hammer d. Eaves
Final: Hammer d. Gleason
Coverage by Jon Coen for the Press of AC
Photo: Jesse Pomeroy
Jon and Ann Coen (of LBI) escaped the NJ cold and hit the HI warmth to cover the Pipe Masters won by Slater (above) and the Triple crown. Jon's blog on EXPN can be found here: http://expn.go.com/expn/blog/surf
Ann's Gallery is HERE, there is more to come.
"LBI's Pine Surf Shop/Art Gallery Burns"
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by Tim Goldstein
There is a story on the APP.com site Check it.
APP staff photograper Shawn Huber and good friend of LS posted a GALLERY of the damage. Stay tuned.
Photo: Coen
Localswell updates on FaceBook: If you are a Facebook user and many of you already are, "request a friend" of Localswell Nj and you'll get one of their quick alerts giving you a heads up that there's a new gallery, news update, story, etc.
An update would read "New Photo Gallery from Bay Head" that's it, no long thing, just a quick note to go to LS.
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ESA-CNJ 2008 Rankings:
Mene: Andrew Rooney, T Forkin, S Bridgens
Boys: Pat Schmidt, JD Porter, KO'Connor
Jr. Mens: Conor Willem, C Porter, S Hertzberg
Mens: Garrett Servis, C D'Antuono, J Eagan
Masters: Chris Lisanti, C Kretzer, L Abbott
Sr. Mens: Pat Emery, G Matthews, J Pinkin
Legends: Bill Willem
Gmasters: Rich Killeen, B Machotka, S Goodwin
Girls: Jess Kwiecinski, C Duerr, C Kwiecinski
Jr. Womens: Jill Kepich, C Rooney, E Duerr
Womens: Kim Kepich, S Dodds, B Wishbow
Ladies: Joannie Sapienza, J Daneker
Open SB: Chris Lisanti, P Emery, D Johnson
CNJ Longboard & Bodyboard
LS got a quick note today from
Jack Meyer's family remembering him on the second anniversay of his passing. Yes, NJ and the world lost a good man. If you knew Jack take a moment to remember. PHOTOS
ESA-SNJ 2008 Rankings:
Mene: Chris Lanza, J Denis, W Hubert
Boys: Ryan Santiago, J Kreiser, Z Greaser
Jr. Mens:Sean Santiago, M Ciaramella, S Matthews
Mens: Bo Hickey, M Mansor, K Abel
Masters: David mansor, B Kane, B Willams
Sr. Mens: Jay Smiyk
Legends: Tom Leonik, Tom Graber
Gmasters: Joe Grottola, T O'Brien, M DeWald
GLengends: Tom McClaren, F Rob't Gillinder IV
Girls: Cassidy McClain, B Patrick, V Grosse
Jr. Womens: Kaylee Groff, F Fourney, B Hickey
Womens: Victoria Allen, K Borzillo, K Dilks
Sr. Women: Jenn Grottola, D Vittorelli, L Roselli
Open SB: Chris Kelly, Z Krieser, N Rutdowski
CNJ Longboard & Bodyboard
Chaz Loskarn's new video project "PATIENCE" (Watch the Trailer here) is the highly anticipated surf film by Creative Society Media. The film stars the best waves and surfers in the world. Starring: Luke Ditella, Lucas Rogers, Jesse Hines, Noah Snyder, Rob Kelly, Brendan Petticrew, Vince Boulanger, Raven Lundy, Jarrah Tutton, Mike Gleason, Wesley DeSouza, Jeff MyersKelly Slater, Jeremy Flores, Patrick Beven, CJ Hobgood, Tommy Bursian, Corey Lopez, Chris Ward, Rhys Bombaci, Philip Gould, Michel Bourez, Billy Hume, Brendon Buckley and FRIENDS. PATIENCE was filmed on location in New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Florida, California, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, France, Australia and more....
PATIENCE world premiere is slated for summer 2009!! WATCH IT
Golden Glove 2009: 4th Annual Golden Glove winter surf contest is to be held on Saturday, Febuary 28th in Ocean City, NJ. (no surf March 7th)
Click Here to SIGN UP! To Sign up for the 2009 Golden Glove winter contest download, print and mail in this form (click link) Golden Glove pre-reg form
About the Golden Glove winter surf contest…This event is for the core surfers of New Jersey and North East… It is held in the middle of winter to see who can out shred and last in the winter elements.
Divisions are; Shortboard - 15 & Under , 16 & UP, Womens all ages and Open Long board division…
Entrée Fee…. $20 if pre-reg $25 day of event per division.
There will be heated tents on the beach to keep you warm, hot drinks, and more on the beach. An award ceremony will follow the event in town location TBA at contest… The Award Ceremony will have a hot dinner, live music, lots of prizes from our sponsors and much more… This is a great event and our 4th year running. Make sure to sign up today…
info call Denis @ 609-827-2224 or email Pray4waves2@aol.com
Hosted By: Christian Surfing Federation of Ocean City, NJEvent sponsors; Christian Surfing Federation, 21-13 Surfboards, West wetsuits, ERGO, OSIRIS, Creatures of Leisure, Hoven, Transworld Surf, Surfer Magazine Clothing, Garden State Surf, Harry Bean Coffee, Movement, Sector 9, Vintage Wave, OC Surf Cafe and others…
Edmond (13), the youngest photog to get the RRip with this shot of Alex DeLaura. Stay tuned on this kid . Gallery
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Jess Swenson in HI
Last Chance Calendar. Local Surfers, Local Waves, Local PhotographersJersey Surf is a 16 month tide chart calendar available through our secure website or at your favorite surf shop. Click on the calendar preview tab to see a preview of the spread and back cover, then click on the buy now button to order your copy. Thanks for stopping by and email us with any questions, shorepromotions@comcast.net.
