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Moving on.

The end of October………things are quiet at the shop. Summer rush is over and Christmas is still a ways off. It has been a rough year. We had to loose some good employees and cut expenses to adjust. The team didn’t travel as much as years past. But I just wanted to say a huge THANKS to all our customers who visited our shop in Laguna Canyon and to those of you who shopped our online store. In spite of the severe recession our sales have been holding steady.
However most of our business is with the surf shops. Many have been hit hard with this recession. But surf shops are great assets to our towns. They sponsor and donate prizes to skim contests, sponsor skimmers, fund little league baseball teams and all sorts of good things. So send a little support to our local surf shop and do some Christmas shopping there. Get your Dad a new t-shirt and your Mom a new straw hat. You’ll be glad you did.
Lynn Haines
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Unofficial UST Results

We have run through the UST calculations and per our figures, Bill Bryan will take the title again for a second straight year.

Of course this is not posted by the UST and we may be missing something but it seems correct.

Congratulations to all UST participants on another great year.

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In the Water

Water in town is super clear which is a good enough reason for us to jump in during break.


Tex hitting it frontside.


Muchu through the spray.


Practice time for Oktoberfest if it ends up being small.

Waiting for the weekend when the swell will hopefully fill in.

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Orange County government supports contest

After 33 years of basically just being happy to have permission from the county to have the contest, I am thrilled to announce that the Orange County government has decided to create a support network for community events and the Vic contest at Aliso Beach is at the top of their list. Tom Starnes, Communications Manager, and Leslie Ray of OC Parks said they wanted to help us with the event any way they could. This will probably include promoting the contest on the community events calendar, linking the county web page to the Victoria web page and the Aliso camera web site. This major sea-change in our relationship will allow us to go after more dollars from the contest co-sponsors as viewership of the contest and the camera website should increase substantially. This is the most positive development possible in the long history of the contest. It should allow us to increase the size of the Pro purse by a significant margin. The contest is now recognized as a major community event, the sport is being honored as a real asset to the county and as a genuine tourism attraction that brings visitors and revenue to the local businesses. Thank you, thank you, thank you to whoever decided to make this happen. The sport of skimboarding will certainly take a giant slide forward in the near future. Tex Haines, Co-Founder and President, Victoria Skimboards. Always a few moves ahead.

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Meeting with the County of Orange

This morning, Tex and Trigg met up with officials for the County of Orange at Aliso Beach to discuss the future of the Victoria Skimboards WCS. The future of the contest was of major concern for everyone in the office after developments over the last few years but today that was laid to rest.

County officials have said that from the top down, they all want the Victoria Skimboards WCS on Aliso Beach. After further discussion we are pleased to announce that we will be working with the county very closely to make sure that the event is a success for everyone involved.

Get ready for the Victoria Skimboards WCS 2010 on June 19th & 20th.