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The 2010 East Coast Surfing Championships (ECSC) was Huge this year!

We got to the contest site Wednesday morning for our early morning heats. At that point, a hand full of tents were setup. There was plenty of room to setup your chair and watch the surfing that was going on. By the time I was out of my last heat around 12 noon, the event had grown by 4 streets! 30 tents, stages and skate board ramps had been erected in just a few hours.  The event had more workers and heavy equipment than spectators. Of course that changes once the weekend approached.

So many surfers entered, that the extras had to duke it out just to make it to the 1st round of Pro Heats. Surfers are came in from all over the world. My friend Gatey from Jamaica, stayed here with us all week. After 16 heats and 8 rounds of surfing, JEREMY JOHNSTON went home with a $10,000 check!

This year the ECSC proved to impress any surfer, spectator or walker by.

Saturday August 21st 2010, was the 3rd Virginia Beach Surfer's Healing Surf Camp for kids and adults with autism.

It was a great success and put hundreds of smiles on the faces of kids, families, volunteers and spectators! The day was beautiful and the surf conditions perfect.

We would personally like to thank Scott Cohen and his wife Ginny for letting us be a part of the event. For the 3rd year, we have been able to get in the water to help the older kids and adults surf on their own! It is awesome to see!

We will have more to say about the event soon, along with photos and video that we captured. Check back soon! Please click here to visit the Virginia Beach Surfer's Healing website.

APOCALYPSE NOW — OR JUST ANOTHER SEASON?

Weakening El Niño, Oil In The Gulf, Rapidly Rising Sea Surface Temperatures Turn 2010 Atlantic
Hurricane Season Into A Volatile Wild Card
By Nick McGregor

The 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season kicked off on June 1st with a frightening set of signifiers: millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico thanks to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Sea surface temperatures across the tropical Atlantic Ocean up to a record four degrees above average. Weak wind shear predictions thanks to an evaporating El Niño pattern over the eastern Pacific. And a recent hurricane history that’s scary to consider — eight of the last 15 seasons rank in the top ten for named storms, with the destructive and historic 2005 year holding 1st-place with 28 named storms.

That makes the Atlantic Hurricane Season Extended-Range Forecast released each spring by Colorado State University’s The Tropical Meteorology Project researchers Philip J. Koltzbach and William M. Gray all the more ominous, since both suggest 2010’s tropical activity could be on par with 2005’s. Gray and Koltzbach predict a “very active hurricane season in 2010… with a well above-average probability of United States and Caribbean major hurricane landfall.” If you want numbers, Gray and Koltzbach expect 18 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and five major hurricanes with winds of at least 111 mph.

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VIRGINIA IS FOR ESA LOVERS

ESA Mid-Atlantic Regionals Find Small But Fun Surf At First Street Jetty
By Allison Arteaga; Photos by Nancy Hussey

Despite unimpressive waves and temperatures that dipped into the chilly mid-60s, the 2010 ESA Mid-Atlantic Regional Surfing Championships went off from May 13th-16th and brought all their usual competitive energy and state rivalries to a new location at First Street Jetty in Virginia Beach, VA.

The championships pitted 450 of the region’s most talented amateur surfers against each other in a fight for coveted invitations to the 2010 ESA Easterns, the traditional proving grounds for the best-of-the-best in Right Coast amateur surfing.

This year, the winner’s circle represented a more geographically diverse collection of homebreaks than in past years, and while some of the faces were unexpected ones, others were reigning regional forces. But across each division, there was plenty of top-notch competition on hand. 

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