Great turnout for the Saturday Session, still nice very nice weather and warm water! Here are the shots of this last fun Saturday Session at Tenth Street, by Tex Haines
Author: Nicolas Rottier
Max Bourne’s retrospective on 2014
Max Bourne just stopped by the shop after scoring a solid Team Session at Seal Beach earlier this morning. We were all watching footage of the morning and thought it was a perfect time to sit down and talk to him about his successful year, that ended with Max’s debut into the Professional Division… Here is the discussion we just had with Max.
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VS: Every year seems to have delivered more for you, but 2014 has been an especially incredible year. Skim trips, contests, Skim Camps, and Saturday Sessions kept you pretty busy on top of school, and delivered a ton of quality Media that everybody saw in Magazines, on this website, or on the social Media… But let’s start from the beginning, you started off the year as an Amateur with the Green Eggs and Am Contest, tell us a little bit more about this first 3-stage contest of the year.
MB: The Green Eggs and Am was a great success. I placed 3rd in the first contest at A Street in Newport and…
I placed 1st in the second contest at Aliso Beach in Laguna.
I had the opportunity to take a skurfing trip to Mexico during the third contest, and I could not pass up the incredible offer. I decided to skip the last contest giving up my 1st place spot for the Triple Crown. But it turned out great, I got some crazy Mex slaps on my skim, and my good buddy Jared Green took the win at the third contest at West st.
VS: After the GEAA you went on a trip to Cabo San Lucas for the Cabo Classico and you won the Amateur division! How was the trip, the contest, the conditions, the lifestyle?
MB: O my goodness. Cabo is the cream of the crop. It definitely was my favorite trip of the year. Best waves, people, and partying I got to experience in a while. The trip was awesome, the conditions were perfect, and the lifestyle in Cabo is something I miss a lot.
Taking 1st place in Cabo was just awesome.
I will definitely be there next year.
VS: Up next you roll into the 38th Annual Victoria World Championships coming off a win. Tell us about the contest and why it is a special contest for riders in general and for you.
MB: The Victoria Skimboards Contest is the most premier contest of the whole UST tour. Everyone agrees it is a competition we all look forward to. I made it to the finals and took 2nd place.
I was happy to watch my good buddy and fellow Vic rider, Jack Howie, take 1st place.
VS: You also were involved in the Victoria Skim Camps this summer, teaching skimboarding to the younger generation. How did you learn to skim? Who did you look up to?
MB: I learned to skim from my buddy’s in Laguna when I started at the middle school here. My main inspiration was from one of my best friends, Jared Green. He inspired me and made me appreciate the beauty of the sport. Without him by my side, skimming as groms, I would not be where I am today with my skimming career. Teaching the kids at skim camps the same way I learned is really a gift in itself. It makes me so happy to see these kids fall in love with the sport just like I did 7 years ago.
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VS: Then you were invited to go to the Amateur World Championships, VIP treatment… Tell us more about that
MB: The Dewey Beach, Delaware Amateur Championships was a blast. I was flown out by the man who made the contest happen, Jason Wilson at Alley Oop, and I was so grateful for everything he did. The locals and the support from Jason really made the trip. I got knocked out of the contest, but I was stoked.
VS: You have been to Santa Cruz multiple times, but this year was officially your last contest as an amateur.
MB: Santa Cruz is also one of my favorite contests, and I was so stoked to take another win in the amateur division. Santa Cruz is really chill 😉
VS: Here comes the last contest of the season, and you decide to enter in the Professional division…
MB: I turned Pro at Oktoberfest this year because I knew the conditions were setting up to be something spectacular.
I made it 4 rounds and I was stoked to take 11th place in my first Pro contest. It was a huge success and really felt great to make it that far. I am so ready for this upcoming year of contest. In the meantime I will be skimming in Laguna.
Shoutout to my Sponsors: Victoria Skimboards, Let’s Party Traction and Tortuava.
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2014 Amateur World Championships Video
The official video was released yesterday. You can see Johnny Atoe, Max Bourne, Jared Green and Jack Howie on a warm up session in Dewey Beach, DE before the Amateur World Championships… Nice video, also starring East Coast talents as well…
2014 oktoberfest
We are more than proud, happy and thankful for how well our Team riders represented us this weekend at the 2014 Oktoberfest in Newport Beach, CA. All of their performances were outstanding, but to pick one, especially, Max Bourne competed for the first time ever in the professional division. We know that the transition is extremely hard, but at the 2014 Oktoberfest, Max showed everybody some solid skills, and that everybody should from now on, count on his presence in the professional division! Congratulations to ALL! Here are some pictures Tex took, and Craig Brashier. We will be adding more as they come.
Gallery by Tex Haines
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Gallery by Craig Brashier
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Saturday Session 9-27-14 Oak Street
Oak street delivered some fun liners for the saturday session!
Welcome Beryl Besseau
We would like to welcome Beryl Besseau in the family today! He has been performing more than well in the contests in France, and Europe! From the Saint-Nazaire area, he is a “La Courrance” local, and surfs very well too!
Visit his profile here: http://ocean.victoriaskimboards.com/beryl-besseau/
Stay tuned for more action shots of him very soon!
2014 Santa Cruz Skim Blast
The Victoria Team represented very well up in Santa Cruz, CA for the annual Skim Blast! We rented a house for the Team, right next to the contest site. Ams and Pros hang out together along with Lynn and Tex Haines, and everybody had a great time! Overcast, but decent waves the riders made the most out of the conditions once again!
Santa Cruz Pictures by Fabiana Badie @Lagunasocal
Santa Cruz Pictures by Tex Haines @victoriaskimboards
Skim Stories of Torg Torgsen
Tim Fisken is the frontside turn master from the 80’s. We just called him Torg Torgsen, which was his pen name for the Skimboard Magazine series of stories on a wide ranging subjects back in the day when Victoria published a magazine.
-Tex Haines
Here is an email recently received from Torg Torgsen
This is a board Tex made for me 15 years ago. 3″ fins, deep conclaves, a really unique vehicle. It was a duplicate of a Frankenstein experimental I lost to Reno Abellira. Tex had given me a twin fin of his around 97′. I had been having a blast riding it but the fins kept popping out and the tail was getting trashed. I cut over a foot off the tail and re glassed the bottom a few times due to delamination problems. I set up small fins on the rail as a quad and the board went really good. Reno had been living in Ensenada and a friend if mine had been surfing San Miguel and Todos with him. After I had Tex make this duplicate for me I sent the original model down to San Miguel for Reno to ride. He tripped out on the board, riding it several times, making new eliptical fins and re laminating the bottom for the 3rd time. Unfortunately someone he owed something to stole it along with several of his other boards. It’s whereabouts now is unknown.
There is truly a nexus of connections that bring all this small fin/ no fin/ flat bottom engineering together. I credit Tex for a lot of inspiration and knowledge in this area that many of these shapers think they are just now discovering.
Great to see that Quam has maintained his love for alternative equipment.
That’s Tyler holding the X-15 as well as some recent yellow fin off of the Coronados.
Thank you for that thread Dirk, ….really good stuff.– Tim Frisken aka Torg Torgsen
Here is an example of articles that Torg Torgsen used to write in the Skimboard Magazine March/April 1988
Saturday Session 9-6-14 Treasure Island
Another big swell hit Southern California this weekend! We have been spoiled! The sand has been moving so much, the usual spots are a little bit messed up, so we decided to move the Saturday Session to the right of Aliso, Treasure Island! Big long slope and heavy shorebreak for Johnny and Mark Atoe, Sean Malek, Derek Ledesma, Matthieu Thibaud and Tex Haines. Joe Bailey captured some nice ones of Johnny and paid the price on a big set, that threw him to the sand and dragged him. Luckily he only had scratches on the elbow and a sore shoulder.
Saturday Session 8-23-14 Aliso
Very nice South Swell hit Southern California this weekend, giving us a great edition of Saturday Session. Ryan Ward, Jared Green, Kyle McClure, Matthieu Thibaud, Johnny Atoe, Jack Howie and many more gave a great show! More swell is on the way so stay tuned for more pictures soon!
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