USBA and July 4th WEEKEND

The USBA event at Sandy Beach was a big time fun this weekend. Fun waves, exciting action, huge crowds and solid organization as it was  one of the best USBA contests to date. The sponsors Ocean Current, Dave and Busters and  came through and hooked up a solid 6K prize purse for the event.

Some big names were in attendance in the judging booth making for  good calls all day Ben Severson, Hauoli Reeves  and Keith Sasaki made sure the judging was  top notch.

The amateurs were surfing really good this event Alex Brown, Trevor Kam and  Keahi Parker were ripping every heat every day.  Alex won  the 18 and under while Keahi won the  open am and Trevor made the finals in both those divisions. The women killed it too, locals Jade Robles,  held her own against former world champ and winner Karla Costa Taylor.

Drop knee was on serious display all weekend with Bud Miyamoto putting on a clinic, Dave Hubbard stepped it up when it counted and  blitzed the final heat to take home the DK victory with Bud in 2nd..

The men’s pro was all action from the first buzzer on day one till the final horn  sounded on Sunday at 7 pm .

As all the 48 men were going big and  killing it hard.   The island chain was in effect  riders  from Oahu. Maui, Big Island and Kauai  were battling hard in every  heat. Kainoa Lum, Kona K,  Josh Wills, Jonah  Romero, Jacob Romero,  David hubbard, Spencer Skipper, Willy Petrovic, Eugene Texteria the list goes on  and on it was  very exciting to see the riders push each other so hard in these conditions  So many wavea at half point have never been surfed so well  all day long.

In the end the final results were

1st  Jeff Hubabrd

2nd Jacob Romero

3rd Willy Petrovic

4th David Hubbard

Heres some photos of  the behind the scenes action from start to finish over my 4th of july weekend.

5 Responses to “USBA and July 4th WEEKEND”

1. John Uilani says:

   July 6, 2009 at 11:40 am

   Brah the contest was sick but holy shit Jonah Romero was robbed in his heat!

   JU808
2. Keahi Parker says:

   July 6, 2009 at 5:52 pm

   yeah Keahi Tucker the newscaster taking the open am! haha
3. admin says:

   July 7, 2009 at 10:39 am

   ha ha sorry the announcers had that it imprinted in my brain so when I woke up a bit hanging still i just typed it in…
4. Keahi Parker says:

   July 7, 2009 at 1:10 pm

   yup those vodka soda tonics + shots on dub’s card will get to ya, haha good times jeff
5. kona k says:

   July 9, 2009 at 1:40 pm

   omg how waz that night..jeff was optimus primeing(literally), rex getting carried out at 9…and it started at 8!!! haha congrats all the finalists!!