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AUSTRALIAN TRAVIS GRANT &SAN DIEGO’S GILLIAN GIBREE WIN SURVIVOR SUP AT QUIKSILVER WATERMAN COLLECTION WAIKIKI PADDLE FESTIVAL
Duke Kahanamoku Beach, Fort DeRussy, Waikiki
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HONOLULU – (May 5, 2012)– Australian Travis Grant mastered a brand new stand-up paddle race format today to win the elite “Survivor SUP” race of the Quiksilver Waterman Collection Waikiki Paddle Festival. Grant finished ahead of Danny Ching (Redondo Beach, California), and the designer of today’s course, Jamie Mitchell (Australia), who were second and third respectively. Grant won $2,000 for the result. The women’s division was a clear upset with a win by California’s Gillian Gibree (San Diego) over Hawaii pair Jenny Kalmbach and Candice Appleby respectively. Gibree won $1,500.
The 2012 Standup World Tour consists of six contests held in six different locations around the world. The first stop has already been held in Sunset Beach,Oahu, Hawaii. The next stop is coming up soon in France. There is a stop in Tahiti, in California, and in Brazil plus this year there is a surprise final stop which for now is known only as location x. I wonder where it will be? Last years final was on the big island of Hawaii.
Here is the dates and locations of the tour events for 2012:
La Torche Pro France April 28th – May 6th, 2012
Sapinus Pro Tahiti May 26th- June 3rd
Huntington beach Pro California September 12th – September 19th
Maresias Pro Brazil October 20th – October 28th
Location x (date and location TBA)
Jamie Mitchell’s “Decade of Dominance”
Film Premiere Next Week
Newport Beach, CA (April 18, 2012) – Every year the world’s best paddle boarders gather in Hawaii to contest the Molokai-2-Oahu World Championship of Paddle boarding. To claim the world title, the winner must cross one of the world’s most treacherous bodies of water, the 32 mile Ka’iwi channel, aptly named the ‘channel of bones’. Since 2002, Jamie Mitchell has achieved the M2O world title an incredible nine times. One more victory would cap off perfect decade of dominance in one of the world’s toughest events. Read More→
Here’s a great instructional video on how to do a pivot turn on yout paddle board. This video is from StandUpPaddlingtv.
Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilight vampire series was spotted paddle boarding in Malibu, California recently.
