UCF SURF TEAM will be holding their 2nd tryouts for the upcoming 2010-2011 NSSA COLLEGIATE season. This is a great opportunity to be apart of a nation wide competitive team. Competitions occur regularly once a month against other college teams throughout the EAST coast region, and then followed up with NATIONAL’S in CALIFORNIA. We are looking for any age, male/female ucf students that are fully enrolled in the upcoming school year. We need LONGBOARDERS as well as SHORT-BOARDERS, and especially LADIES.

BEACH SIGN UP ONLY AND NO KNOCK OUT HEATS!

You will be judged on your individual performance.

You must also join the surfUCF club to tryout.

2nd Tryout
When: SEPTEMBER 12th
Time: 8:30 am
Location: Bethune park, New Smyrna Beach FL

This will be ran just like the 1st tryouts. Plan on coming out for the full day as there well be two rounds of heats where everyone will be surfing twice. We will also have MONSTER ENERGY drinks for you.

>>>> MAKE SURE YOU BRING YOUR DUES THIS TIME!!!!!! <<<<<

If you didn’t bring your $50 club dues to the first tryout they need to be brought to this one, if not paid at the club meeting before coming to tryout.

***Remember competition surfing is different than free surfing. You usually have 15 min to show what you’ve got. You will be judged on your most critical maneuvers, in the most critical part of the waves, with the best flow and power. ***

For any questions or additional information please contact:

Amy Nicholl
Amy@surfucf.com

Travis Eubanks
Eubanks1212@gmail.com

This board is super fun to ride. Adam, our resident ding guy and owner of Surfboard Medic, took advantage of the demo and took the board out for the Hurricane Colin swell and raved about it so much, he ended up taking one home a few days later. “Super easy to paddle, the board just felt really lively with a lot of spring. Fast with tons of drive, it was easy to boost over sections or slide the tail around.”

The Spitfire combines a diamond tail and step-down tail rail, giving the Spitfire the tail bite of a much thinner board, without losing the Dominator’s speed and flotation. The Spitfire offers the same 5/4/3 fin options and a low entry rocker for easy paddling.

With plenty of waves inbound, come in the shop and grab it before someone else does!

* Demo cost can be put towards purchase of the board

This past weekend, shop riders Jonny,Kenan, and I braved the 100 degree weather and drove out to Jacksonville to try and get some content for the team page we’re in the process of building. We left in the morning to try and beat the rain, and made it there with plenty of time to skate.

As all Floridians know, you have to drive North to get to the South making Jacksonville a pretty Southern city compared to Orlando. Seeing that it was a Sunday that we visited Jax, everything in the city closes around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. If you ever are looking for a time to skate Jacksonville, try Sunday evening. The whole city is pretty much free game.

With some last minute directions we stopped at a secret Jacksonville spot that not too many out-of-towners know about. It was a long car ride with two teenagers.

This spot has almost no coverage probably because of how gnarly it is. The bank is so steep that the nose of your board will just run into it like a vertical wall and send you flying forward. Kenan made the mistake of not lifting up his nose and the spot smashed his board. Not too often you get to skate a perfect natural bank though. The spot was definitely pretty fruitful.

Jax has a really sick city. All the buildings are very aesthetically pleasing. ..Until you get to the outskirts of downtown at least.

Insert typical Main Street Bridge photo above.

Another Jacksonville gem is the War Memorial ledges. It’s like a skateboarder’s paradise complete with 6 perfect granite ledges, a wallie to manual, and a huge marble wall with a bank up to it perfect for wallriding. Of course it has people’s names who’ve given their lives in the wars over the past 100 years, but the ledges don’t have anyone dead on them! That’s free game right? After years of skateboarding going on here without causing as much as a scratch to the ledges (the stone is so hard it honestly doesn’t scratch), they finally got knobbed. Weak.

It was raining anyways, cute umbrella DW

We managed to get a bit more skating done after the rain. I’ve been going to Jacksonville to skate for the past 5 years, and I still find new stuff to skate there. It’s no wonder, Jacksonville is the largest city in the United States, no lie, look it up. We found this thing right under our noses. Jonny gap to 5-0.

We got there so early the troops were tired before we could even night skate. We decided to get out of Jax when characters like this started roaming the streets. Till next time Jacksonville. Check out some footage from the trip rycheaaaa.