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HMB defeats Aptos 72 to 55

Kalea Johnson takes 6th in Girls Shortboard & 5th in Girls Longboard
Kelby Kramer takes 1st in BodyBoard!

We had some very contestable waves with 2-3' waves, sunny and light offshore conditions.

In the Team on Team event ... we were defeated by Mission Hills 77 - 49. Though we had a good day and every one got in the water. We had three alternates seeded into the event and saw Marius Kulda with his first short board debut and Kacie Sorfleet stepping into take a spot in the young womens short board event.

In the Individuals we saw two of our surfers making it thru to the Finals:

Kalea Johnson took 2nd - Womens Long Board

Kelby Kramer took 3rd - Co-ed Body Board

Congratulations and to everyone for coming down and enjoying a beautiful day at the Hook!

The Coaches!

Pillar Point Girl from konrad Wallace on Vimeo.

Results:

Kalea Johnson took 1st in Girls Longboard
Nicky Sorfleet took 6th in Girls Longboard (First time in the finals!)

Kalea Johnson took 4st in Girls Shortboard

HMB fell to New Brighton 71 to 55

Conditions were sublimely groomed in the morning, with light offshores and waist to shoulder high peeling mostly left-breaking waves at high tide and rights as the tide drained towards low. Towards the end of the day onshore winds picked up.

***Most of the Midde School Surfers received their SC SSL T-Shirts. Rocky will have them available for the rest of the team at the next couple of practices.

Fantastic job HMB!
The Coaches

...and just for good measure some video shot by the guys at www.boardwarrior.com on this beautiful day!

Consider giving the gift of a Half Moon Bay Surf Club Sweatshirt or T-Shirt.

We have

• The worlds warmest HMB Surf Club SweatShirts/Hoodies are $50
• Girls HMB Surf Club Hoodies are $45
• HMB Surf Club Boys & Girls T-shirts are $20 each

Contact Rocky Raynor at RRaynor@ultraflexinc.com and arrange to pick up your Christmas Gift.

Merry Christmas

HMB Surf TEAM Practice will be in Santa Cruz on Sunday 9:15 a.m. (Nov 4th) - Team/Comp Practice will be a "Free Surf Practice" split between the Hook to Pleasure Point depending on the surfers ability and conditions.

We will first meet up at Starbuck's in HMB at 7:45 am on Sunday morning to depart for SC for a tune-up at our next competition venue at the Hook. Then we will make our way to The Hook parking lot at the end of 41st St by 9:15 a.m. The purpose is to gain familiarity with the break. If anyone needs a ride, please show up promptly. After Practice we will head over to Steamer Lane to watch the WCT - O'Neill Cold Water Classic - to witness some high performance contest techniques in person.

Surf "Club members" are encouraged to get in the water at the Jetty in HMB at 9 a.m. Though there will be fewer coaches, we should have the trailer available and some support. If you want to see some truly outstanding surfing after practice, you should try to make it down to Santa Cruz to see the top 32 surfers on the ASP World tour compete at the Lane. This is also a good opportunity for the groms to hound the Pros for autographs... just sayin.

The Coaches

Congratulations HMB Cunha Surf Team on Dual meet win over Santa Cruz Mountain:

HMB 82 vs Santa Cruz Mountain 41

Great team performance for the second victory of the season Sunday  at our home break Kelly Avenue in contestable conditions. Great sweep by bodyboard team (Kelby, Grayson, Carlos) as well as the Boys ShortBoard & LongBoard and the Girls Short and Long Board sqauds!

A number of surfers also persevered through multiple heats and made it to the individual finals:

Body Board 
Kelby Kramer 3rd
Grayson Capers 5th
 
Men’s Long Board
Tanner Islander 5th
 
Woman’s Long Board
Kalea Johnson 2nd
Hanna Pintarelli 3rd
 
Woman’s Short Board
Kalea  Johnson 5th
Hanna  Pintarelli 4th
 

Nice job by everyone and thanks to all that came out and supported our surfers at their home break!

Come check out the Surf Spot in Pacifica and listen to the Califuegos... They'll be playing from 5pm till 8pm this coming Friday Sept 7th. They Support us at our Events and play some great tunes... stop by The Surf Spot and enjoy their music and have a bite to eat or a drink at this relatively new addition to the Coastside!

The surfers from the High School  & Middle School Surf Teams took some of the kids from the SF / Sunnyside Boys & Girls Club for a day in the Surf. Smiles were to be had all around!