Surfing competitions are often won by the lone surfer on the wave who does the gnarliest tricks while riding a board festooned with stickers from the dozens of companies that sponsored him.
So call the surf event this weekend the “anti-competition.”
At the Rincon Invitational on Saturday and Sunday, riders aren’t competing for the biggest wave. Instead of a lone rider on one wave, the idea is to get as many surfers on one wave as possible. And sponsorship is taboo, said the event’s founder, Glenn Hening, because it feeds into the corporate mentality that is taking away from the purity of the sport.
Event participants are invited because they have helped the surfing community through philanthropy.
“The whole idea is to eliminate the ‘me, mine, I,’ ” said Hening, executive director of the Groundswell Society, which is focused on sharing the “stoke” of surfing. “Excitement and generosity and sharing are more important than getting air or getting ‘shacked’ or getting your picture in a magazine.”
via Surfing event just for fun in Ventura County » Ventura County Star.
Updated 3/18/10
Saturday, March 20th
6:30 AM Chumash Welcoming Ceremony
7:00 AM Ventura Surf Club
8:00 AM Oxnard High School Surf Club
9:00 AM Mary Osborne and Friends
10:00 AM Doo Dah Surf
11:00 AM Surfrider Advisory Board
12:00 PM Coast Law Group
1:00 PM Wildcoast
2:00 PM Pacific Beach Surf Shop
3:00 PM SurfClass
3:45 PM Third World Surf Co.
4:30 PM Black Surfers Association
Sunday, March 21st
7:00 AM Blueline Stand Up Surf
8:00 AM Palisades High School
9:00 AM Ventura Cabrillo Middle School Surf Club
10:00 AM Malibu Boardriders
11:00 AM Sunset Cliff SA
12:00 PM Boarding House Mentors
1:00 PM Turf2Surf Youth Program (SB)
2:00 PM Shelter Surf Shop
3:00 PM SB Seals Surf School
4:00 PM Doheny Longboard
Twenty surfing organizations, clubs, and businesses have been invited this year in recognition for the public service they have contributed towards a better future for surfing. Each team will have the main surfing area at Rincon to themselves for an hour. There will be no judging of surfing performance. Rather, the “competition” between teams will be based on total number of waves caught; total number of waves shared; and total number of surfers on shared waves. Full press release after the jump…
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“Walter Munk, who has been a part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography since 1940, has received the 2010 Crafoord Prize in Geosciences.
The announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Thursday said he was honored “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding of ocean circulation, tides and waves, and their role in the Earth’s dynamics.”
Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego scientist Walter Munk, often referred to as the world’s “greatest living oceanographer,” added to a long list of career honors today when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced his receipt of the Crafoord Prize, which is given each spring to researchers who have made major advancements in their branches of science.
The academy recognized Munk “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding of ocean circulation, tides and waves, and their role in the Earth’s dynamics.”
Munk said he found out about the award through a phone call Wednesday evening and described himself as “enormously pleased.”
via SIO’s Walter Munk Wins Crafoord Prize « NCTimes.com Blogs.
The 2010 Rincon Invitational will be held on March 20th and 21st.
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Check back soon for this years list of nominees…
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ATTENTION: SASIC 9 has been pushed back to the Fall of 2010. We still plan on hosting the event at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Stay tuned for this year’s theme. If you have any questions or would like to donate or speak at the conference. Please leave a comment on this post and we’ll be sure to get back you.
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