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The 1st Annual Victoria Skimboards Singles Table Tennis Tournament is almost complete. A few scratches and some bruised egos have all of the players on edge as the end is near. Early favorite Tyler Palmer has been eliminated and Dark Horse Kyle McClure made it to the semi-finals before being eliminated by hard hitting Trigg Garner.

French participant Matthieu Thibaud is eagerly awaiting his chance in the semi-finals to play the winner of Matthew Bokor and Nick Aleandro as their quarter-final game has yet to be played.

What is at stake besides Table Tennis pride and bragging rights? How about a 30 rack of beer and at least $30? It is easy to see how the competition is heating up. With the finals scheduled for the week of September 1st the electricity in the air. Good luck to all remaining participants.

Victoria Skimboards is proud to be a part of Hennessey’s Tavern “Cause for the Cure.” Local restaurant, Hennessey’s Tavern is raising money for the American Cancer Society by raffling off two Morgan Just Pro Models on August 22, 2008 at their Laguna Beach location. Click here for a link to the flyer and we hope to see you there.

“All work and no play” makes a Victoria Skimboards employee BORING. What did the heads at Victoria come up with to combat the corporate norm? A ping pong tournament. Let’s see who has the skills to pay the bills. Tournament schedule is listed below and stay tuned for results as they are available. Who is your favorite?????

Our fearless leader, Tex Haines showing some style.

Bill Bryan airing it out.

The finals line up: Brandon Rothe (1), Bredan Stevens (4), Brandon Sears (3), Bill Bryan (2)

Brandon Rothe dialing in the wave.

The set up at the beach early morning.

A plug for the sponsors.

For complete results and a small wrap up, click the link below:

Victoria Skimboards Results & Wrap Up

Thanks again for joining us at the contest and after party. We had a great time!

The top results of the Professional division are in………

1) Brandon Rothe
2) Bill Bryan
3) Brandon Sears
4) Brendan Stevens

Last night at the “Out the Back Awards” party was a wild one so stay tuned for pictures, video, and more results.

Congratulations to all people that helped make the event possible, to all of the competitors, and to everyone who viewed the event. Victoria Skimboards appreciates it all.

Huntington Beach, California
July 18-27, 2008

Last Friday marked the opening ceremonies for the ’08 U.S. Open of Surfing. The event itself is the largest action sports, music and lifestyle festival in North America. Comprised of professional surfing, BMX, skateboarding, freestyle motocross demos, live music & fashion. It also serves as a World Qualifying Series-event for men and women surfers hoping to make it onto the dream tour. Victoria Skimboards team rider and professional surfer Tyler Stanaland (USA) was one of the contestants in the festival. Luckily for the event a south swell rolled in just in time bringing solid surf for the first few days of competition. Tyler took advantage of the conditions and charged hard throughout the weekend making it out of the trials and qualifying for the main event. Unfortunately, Tyler was put out of the main event on Monday, but managed to beat out Shea Lopez (USA) and John John Florence (HAW) in heats along the way. Congratulations Tyler on the strong showing. Watch out for Tyler as he competes at this weekend’s Victoria World Championships of Skimboarding held in Laguna Beach.

Pictured above: Tyler and his quiver of boards

The contest is but two days away. Are you ready? Swell predictions (provided by WetSand.com) are 3-5 feet. Let’s hope that the swell sticks and the trough does not poke its ugly little head. Good luck to all of the competitors this weekend.

Another note, did you all know that the Awards Ceremony/After Event Festivities will not be held at the beach this year? That is correct, Victoria Skimboards has decided to step it up a touch and hold all after event activities at 7 Degrees in Laguna Canyon. The schedule is as follows:

7pm – 8pm Live Music and video montage
8pm – 9pm Victoria Skimboards WCS Awards Ceremony – Champion Crowned
9pm – 10pm Premiere of Cloud Ten (working title), the new 10th St. Bros video and a Victoria Skimboards slide show
10pm – 11pm Video montage

The whole event is free to everyone so come on down. We will also have two cash bars for those of you that want a beer to wind down after the contest. Have a great evening and we will see you there.

April 1st – 3rd marked the beginning and end of the JEC 2008, the world’s biggest (462,848 square feet) composites exhibition in Paris. Thanks to AGY, Victoria Skimboards was able to display a Plane Wrap built with S-Glass. This showcased “fiberglass construction” to the 27,000 professional and 1053 Companies from 96 different countries in attendance.

Victoria Skimboards is proud to have been invited to participate in the world’s largest composites show. Special thanks go out to AGY for making it all posible.

As promised, here’s a small sample from the 1800 pics taken over the weekend…check out some of the other money shots at 360 To Nowhere Productions. Give me a couple days to get them up…

shaun white, bucky lasek & sandro dias flyin’ high

pro snowboarder danny kass, money maloof & the dingo

jereme rogers

andrew reynolds

terry kennedy

jereme rogers inspecting the marble ledge

eric koston

sheckler

sheckler

darrell stanton

nyjah huston

terry kennedy

paul rodriguez

nyjah huston

andrew reynolds