Author: Nicolas Rottier

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Zero Trash

This Saturday the ZeroTrashLaguna group set up a tent on the street in front of the Victoria Laguna Canyon shop and proceeded to collect trash from up and down the Canyon Road. The Red Shirted zealots mantra is zero trash on the beach or the streets leading to the beach. Here in lies the genius of the concept. Beach cleanups are quickly over, the beach is over cleaned by too many volunteers, and then they all go home strangers. Yeah! Good, but momentum is lacking in these endeavors.

Equally clever is to have the cleanups EVERY first Saturday of the month. What’s so impressive about this plan is that it unites neighbors on each street Now we have the forming of a critical mass. It grows. I have met several families and kids on Oak St. who are into picking up trash. In a world where neighbors usually never meet, this is a really cool thing.
Visitors to the neighborhood see the red shirts, the bags and the camaraderie and want to do their own street.
Now they are adding Laguna Canyon Road to the already long list of adopted beaches and streets in Laguna. 60,000 people a day move on that road. The exposure for this simple, brilliant, movement is huge. It grows. Get a Can Catcher from Pikes Peak Industries Inc. Just google it. I like it for it’s durable metal and wood pick up fingers. You can pick up a dime, and it makes picking up trash fun.
Contact Chip McDermott at Zero Trash to start a group in your hood this fall. There are others like us out there. Mark your calendar. First Sat. each month. Rendevous at Cress St. Just pick it up! It grows.
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Labor Day is gone…..

With the Labor Day in the bank and the kids back at school it means summer is winding down. The end of summer does not signify the end of production for Victoria Skimboards. We are busily producing boards for our distributors and gearing up the team for the final two contests of the UST season.

Check the website for updates and go to the Victoria Skimboards Online Store for some last minute deals.

Enjoy!!!!!

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Lunch time.

Had a few minutes to burn before the In N Out arrived so I was able to get a few pics shot down at Aliso. We have been on a run of steady South’s for a while now and the beach has paid the price. Not the best set up any more but still good for the ocasional wave. If you head down watch out for some new exposed rocks, concrete slabs and rebar!

Muchu at work.

Teddy checking out some of the new features on the beach.

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10th Street sessions

Over the last weekend the beginnings of some swell broke through in Laguna Beach. Locals ran to 10th Street in hopes of picking up the side wash and were greated with some nicely formed waves.

Kyle Wiley at 10th St.

Victoria Skimboards team rider Matthieu Thibaud injured his foot on Friday but still pulled his weight by taking some pictures and helping with Video footage.

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Howell takes Dewey

Jon Howell laid it all on the beach and put together an impressive performance to win 1st place at Dewey Beach over the last weekend. Congratulations to Jon!

Also to be noted, Siobhan McAuliffe took 1st place in the Women’s division.

More results as they become available to us. Congratulations Victoria Skimboards riders on a great performance!