Pushing 10s as the comp heats up

Surf: 4- to 5-feet and glassy-almost enough to make a grown man cry.

Rounds Held: Explorer Quarter Finals, Explorer Junior Round 2, Explorer Menehune, Explorer Men Quarter Finals, Explorer Boys Round 2, Explorer Junior Quarter Finals, Explorer Girls Semi-Finals, Explorer Mens Semi-Finals.

Nature's Call: Great News! Last week's séance when the directors of the NSSA sacrificed a cellular phone, a bodyboard, and a live newt, was a success: the waves and weather have remained classic…water's still a bit nippy though. Maybe they should try burning another bodyboard.

Predicted: Come tomorrow's Explorer Junior Semi-Finals, high blood-pressure levels await. Lay off some of the bacon in the morning and you should be fine.

Heat of the Day: It's a tough call. While the fourth heat of the Explorer Mens Quarter-Finals had one of the day’s toughest competition line-ups--with Dusty Payne, Chris Waring, Casey Brown, Ryland McCart, Zack Arreda, and Jeremy Johnston all scratching for a way to make their heat--the second Heat of the Explorer Juniors Quarter-Finals had some of the day’s best waves. The highest scoring heat of the contest so far, the second heat of the Explorer Juniors Quarter-Finals was unpredictable up until the last few minutes. The competitors--Eric Geiselman, Thomas Bursian, Cory Arrambide, Mason Ho, Marty Weinstein, and Chris Waring--traded off waves, cut-for-cut and air-for-air, with an impressive display of skill and style. With only a minute and a half remaining, Geiselman trailed the heat in fifth place when a thumping set rolled through from the outside. Spliting the peak with Cory Arrambide going left, looked like mirror images as they both ripped the wave with the same front-side combo. Scoring an 8.25 on his ride over Cory‘s 7.0, Geiselman looked as though he might win it until Mason Ho dropped in on a wave behind him, raced up to the lip, pulled a huge floater around the section, and then capped off his run with a few incredibly stylized turns. That was it, a 9.5. With Ho suddenly in first and Geiselman in second, Chris Waring, who was sitting pretty for most of the heat, was pushed into fourth. Upsets: Orange County’s Chris Waring was surfing strong for the entire day, but was pushed out in heat two of the Explorer Juniors Quarter-Finals, when Eric Geiselman, Mason Ho, and Cory Arrambide managed to pluck the better waves off a godsend set that rolled through near the heat’s end.

Performer of the Day: Maui’s Dusty Pane scored the only 10 of the day in the fourth heat of the Explorer Mens Quarter-Finals. Needing a 6 to win his heat, and with only several minutes remaining, Dusty came through with a perfect score--a feat which didn’t surprise too many people. “That’s not too much of a surprise,” commented one spectator after hearing the score, “He’s been ripping it all day.”

Other standouts included Casey Brown who, despite his injured foot, put on a solid performance up until he lost in the Semi-Finals of the Explorer Mens.

Caution Ladies: Already carrying two first place heat wins under belt, Carissa Moore doesn’t look as if she’s ready to give up any of her three titles just yet.

Kodak Quotes:

“It's not a burn. It'll turn into a tan.” -said the man who looked like a lobster.

“That was a heavy heat. It was like a final.” -Casey Brown after the Quarter-Finals of the Explorer Mens.

“Wax on, wax off.” -Come on, you know people were thinking it when they heard the Karate Kid was at the Oakley booth.

First Placers

Explorer Mens:

Round 1
Heat 1: Nick Rozsa
Heat 2: Dusty Payne
Heat 3: Torrey Meister
Heat 4: Brady McKenzie
Heat 5: Kekoa Cazimero
Heat 6: Jesse Heilman
Heat 7: Jeremy Johnston
Heat 8: David Pena

Quarters
Quarter 1: Nick Rozsa
Quarter 2: Eric Geiselman
Quarter 3: Jesse Heilman
Quarter 4: Dusty Payne

Semi-Finals
Semi 1: Dusty Payne
Semi 2: Jeremy Johnston

Explorer Juniors:

Round 2
Heat 1: Tonino Benson
Heat 2: Andrew Benett
Heat 3: Casey Brown
Heat 4: Cory Arrambide
Heat 5: Blake Jones
Heat 6: Nick Rozsa
Heat 7: Tanner Gudauskas
Heat 8: Ben Graeff

Quarter Finals
Quarter 1: Torey Meister
Quarter 2: Eric Geiselman
Quarter 3: Casey Brown
Quarter 4: Andrew Bennett

Explorer Boys:

Round 2
Heat 1: Granger Larson
Heat 2: Alex Smith
Heat 3: Bear Bailey
Heat 4: Dillon Perillo
Heat 5: Brad Hagglund
Heat 6: Levi Gonzales

Explorer Menehune

Round 1
Heat 1: Ezekiel Lau
Heat 2: Andrew Doheny
Heat 3: Luke Davis
Heat 4: Kolohe Andino
Heat 5: Evan Geiselman
Heat 6: Tanner Hendrickson

Explorer Girls

Quarter Finals
Quarter 1: Carissa Moore
Quarter 2: Monyca Byrne-Wickey
Quarter 3: Any Nicholl
Quarter 4: Sage Erickson

Semi-Finals
Semi 1: Carissa Moore
Semi 2: Coco Ho

2005 NSSA Nationals @ Lower Trestles Day 1 Upsets and triumphs abound in the opening Explorer Rounds		NSSA Nationals Day One Photo Gallery Photos from Surfing Magazine's one-of-a-kind, "On The Beach Darkroom". All photos from June 21st: Day 1 of the 2005 NSSA Nationals being held at Lower Trestles, CA. Special thanks go out to Surfing senior photographers Pat Stacy and Kenny Hurtado for all of their hard work and effort.		Camp Hobgood 2005 Premier Photo Gallery Photos from the world premier of the 2005 edition of Camp Hobgood. Held at the SURFING offices the night of June 22nd.

 

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