SURFTIME MAGAZINE |20.6 | OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2.19 | # 122

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emember yourself at 20 years old? Or if you are not there yet, can you imagine yourself at that age? Either way its a long, long time.

And in our 20th year of publication the 16th Annual Surftime Awards are still going strong. The best ever this year, at a place we have always belonged. Finally, we are back at Single fin, Uluwatu, within reach of the crashing waves below a glowing moon. Hell yes. A chance to honor the best among us both in the water and out. Special recognition was given this year to the people who make up our surf industry here in Indonesia.

Think about it. Without all the stuff from the advertisers that you see in these pages, we wouldn’t be surfers at all. No boards, no wax, no cool clothes, groovy sunglasses, all the elements that mark us as a unique tribe of people on earth. As surfers themselves, these industry insiders provide the spiritual side of our clothes and equipment. Without these people who provide the look and all the equipment we love, we might have no identity at all. Our surfing winners this year were very deserving too. From the perennial classic Dede Suryana, a man who needs no introduction, to Kailani Johnson, female surfer of the year after having surfed against 7 time World Champion Stephanie Gilmore earlier this year. From Bronson Meidy, who won best aerial for the second year running, to Rio Waida, who defeated two time world champion Gabriel Medina at Keramas. From Hardest Charger Mega Semadhi, to the Great Pete Frieden, whom without his fantastic photos in these pages, Surftime magazine may not exist at all. All in all a jubilant evening of brother and sisterhood. Look to our opening feature for all this year’s

winners. Of course that is not all we are bringing you this month. We have the second installment from Josh Symon’s innovative project “Island in Between”. This one featuring Corok and Tonyo’s smash and grab mission to Java. Pepen Hendrik welcomed the boys with open arms and open barrels, proving that the Philosophy of Symon’s concept stays very true. That of finding brotherhood and a better understanding of our Indonesian surfing universe through immersive travel. Next we travel with photographer Pete Frieden to South Africa for a mind blowing pictorial of that legendary wave known simply as J-Bay. We travel again with our next feature when we join Varun Tandjung and Bronson Meidy on their hunt for inner hollows. As only teenagers can dream.

What a life those two are living and at such a tender age. We have a wild portfolio from Padang Padang’s own Gene Kreyd. Including an unknown wilderness wave and a very alone Bruno Santos. That one will run chills down your spine. And in our gallery, we pay special attention to a remarkable photo by Pepe Romo of Usman Trioko committing to a very heavy situation at his beloved Desert point. Word is that Usman, once again, is owning the joint. And so, in our 20th year, we are happy to continue to thrive with all of you. We are all the creators of our future.

And what is coming, is always better than what is gone. Because when it comes to Surftime, we don’t have to explain our dreams to anyone…we just have to keep showing them.

- Editor -

COVER: Marlon Gerber, member of the Surftime Awards Hottest surf team. A frequent flyer at Keramas, fatherhood has not slowed him down. Photography by Pete Frieden

Photography by Nicolas Antipoff

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nder a beautiful Bali night time sky, The Surftime Awards found a new home at Single Fin Uluwatu. Welcomed by a mix of Wednesday night diehard bukit party people and an eclectic mix of industry insiders, the affair, in its 16th annual form, was a welcome change to its past incarnations and a harbinger of times to come.

That the Surftime Awards have always belonged at Single Fin is certainly no secret and the proof was in the pudding as the finest among us gathered to hail this year’s winners to the soundtrack of crashing waves, reggae fusion and roaring applause. Even in its current form, which is under construction, The VIP deck at Single Fin was host to a throng of enthusiastic fans, alluring all-female tables, top performers and CEO’s liberally fueled with sponsors Finsbury Gin and Bir Bintang. The bellowing crowd lining the multi-tiered venue carried on as the night mowed through the announcements. Once again the trophies were a smash hit. Unique in all the world, these authentic Wayang shadow puppets, custom crafted by the masters of Gianyar, added a soulful touch to the proceedings. Just behind the Rip Curl Cup trophy in prestige, this years trophies were the pride of the winners. Depicting Semar, the punokawan, the divine and very wise dhanyang of Java, these trophies were designed to reflect not only the fun of the night, but the honor of receiving one as well. Highlights of the evening included having the Johnson sisters present these trophies, and of course Rahtu Suargita’s free flow rap performance. And the moment when, in a nod to the modernization of surfing in Bali, the announcement for the female surfer of the year was saved for last instead of the male surfer of the year. And it was Rio Waida’s and Kai Johnson’s humble acceptance of the top honors that capped off the boisterous celebration. Keoni “Cheesburger” Nozaki, our very own Semar, was on hand to kick off the late night shenanigans, stoking the party with his buzzing energy as the VIP tables literally rocked with howls of laughter late into the night.

The Surftime Awards have found a new, fitting home in Single Fin Uluwatu, and after 20 years of publication it really felt right. Said Lost’s Pete Matthews, recipient of the “Best Boards” Award, “The choice is obvious. Surftime Awards and Single fin? A perfect match!”. Man, you got that right.

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2019 AWARDS CATAGORIES 1. Best Barrel

DEDE

SURYANA

2. Best Air

Bronson MEIDY

3. Hardest Charger

MEGA

SEMADHI

4. Maneuver of The Year

Made Winada Adiputra

5. Hottest Industry Performer

Tai

Graham

6. Best Photo Portfolio

Liquid

Barrel

7. Photo of The Year

Pete

Frieden

8. Best Female Surfer

Kailani

Johnson

9. Best Male Surfer

RIO

WAIDA

10. Surftime Hall of Fame

MADE

KASIM

2019 INDUSTRY AWARDS 1. Best Surf School

Rip CurlÂ

School of Surf

2. Surf Shop Of The Year

Volcom Berawa

3. Best Event

Rip Curl Cup

4. Best Ad Campaign

INSIGHT

5. Best Camp

BobBy’s Surf Camp

6. Best Accessory

FCS

7. Best Boardshort

VISSLA

8. Best Sunglasses

DRAGON

9. Best Resto Club

SINGLE FIN

10. Best Boards

LOST

11. Eco Award

QUIKSILVER

12. Hottest Surf Team

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hat is the meaning of a surf trip? Is it a one day or a one hour raid? Just to go to some wave, surf the hell out of it, get a clip and piss off home? Or is it to spend five days at one wave and really get into it and the culture that surrounds it, getting the maximum experience you can from that place on earth?

Or do you spend whatever time you have, a week, a month, whatever, basing yourself at that one wave and then stabbing out from there to find other spots in the vicinity? Or do you go out into the world to find a thousand waves and never come back?

A surf trip can be all those things. Look at surfing’s history up to now. Let’s just start with the Endless Summer movie back in 1966.

From there it inspired all the discoveries that came after. Because of surf trips. Surfers going from the known to the unknown. From Cape St. Francis in ‘66 to Lagundri Bay in the 70’s to Skeleton Bay now. Have you noticed how the WSL tour and all its surfers are looking exactly the same, as if they are doing the same thing on the same waves over and over again? Almost as if we are watching TV re-runs? That is because they are. The Island in between project is not about re-runs, it is about getting out there. Beyond. Getting our local surfers to engage in Indonesia and all it has to offer in culture, brotherhood, adventure and waves. To immerse. To engage. And to then emerge with the proof in hand. Proof that our surfing world here in Bali awaits far beyond our shores. Waits for us in the simple hands of a surf trip. In the hands of our brothers on neighbor islands. Experiences waiting for us like life itself to warm ourselves near campfires not our own.

Because around campfires, everyone becomes a storyteller.

And stories are the only things that let us know we have been here in the first place.

What you are willing to risk during your journey will reveal what you value. Bearing the old scars of past campaigns, Corok and Tonyo take to the field once again.

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ISLAND IN BETWEEN: PART TWO

THE MEANING OF A TIME HONORED SURF TRIP Words & Photography by Josh Symon

Top: The ocean is mad place. With both meanings of the word present. Mad as in crazy and mad as in angry. Your success depends wholly on how you respond. Though quite often, she makes those decision for you.

Bottom: It seems the sport of surfing in remote reef waves, of which Indonesians are experts, is finally creeping into the conscience of the country itself. Salina, teaching a Jakarta reality TV camera crew the love and skills that goes beyond badminton.

Getting lost is the best way to find yourself. On the latest journey that took Corok and Tonyo beyond the margins of Padma Beach, discovery meant far more than just riding waves.

Sure, the waves are the engines that drive the journey, but it is the cultural aspects on land that become the fuel. Traveling afar, means new sensations, new outlook and new friends.

After Sumbawa, Corok and Tonyo headed north to Java, where they found their old friend Pepen Hendrik holding court at a number of secret spots. Informing the boys that sometimes, sharing can be more powerful than conquering.

Top: Tonyo Dharmaputra, taking a deceptively casual approach to what is soon to become a very hectic situation. Waves like this Java gem are very loud. And you have to listen to what they are saying or they will shut you up.

Bottom: A quiet moment of wonder on Sumbawa.

As with all the sunsets surfers experience, there is always that feeling of enough. A surrender as sure as the disappearing sun. An acceptance that you grabbed all you could from life’s trove.

Funny how they are called natural disasters. As if nature is the executioner and not the victim. Corok, dealing with a natural, and spectacularly beautiful disaster all his own.

You never know who you are going to run into out there.

Or what you might learn from them. Creed McTaggert was found pushing limits at a frontier secret spot. Corok and Tonyo were taking close mental notes. A mind expanded by travel can never be confined by it’s previous dimensions.

SUID AFRIKA: JEFFREY’S BAAI AS HOME Photography by Pete Frieden

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t’s an indescribable sight,” South African pro surfer Marc Price said of Jeffreys Bay in 1982. “Watching from the beach, you start off facing right and end up facing left as the wave travels down the point. This 180-degree perspective is something no photograph can capture.”

And seemingly, surfboards have forgotten how to as well. When high-performance shortboards became thinner and narrower and shorter, the speed and performance levels at J-Bay among pro surfers declined as their boards wouldn’t hold the kind of sustained turns and propulsion that proper J-Bay surfing demands. Even Kelly Slater struggles to find the right lines these days.

And making it through the “Impossibles”

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section”, once the golden ticket of the entire wave, is now almost unheard of.

Exasperation could also be heard in the voice of the once supreme master of the wave, 1977 World Champion Shaun Tomson, as he helped out with a recent WSL broadcast there. At one point, after watching wave after wave pass the best surfers in the world like speeding freight trains, he muttered that he might paddle out on a proper board and show them how it is done. Still, these new performances, which often treat the wave as beach break ramps, chopping it up into short sections than maintaining one long study in elegance, are amusing if nothing else. The all Brazilian final of last year’s WSL event seemed to

illustrate at least some of the squandered potential of the wave. Which raises the question. Is the standardization of today’s pro boards standardizing the performances themselves? Each wave, each ocean, has a different electrical charge within it.

Are today’s pro surfers plugging the same light bulbs into it? Casting a common light, rather than the uncommon, “indescribable” experience that a wave like J-Bay can inspire? We are not facers of reality. We are creators of it. Individuality has always been the hallmark of surfing’s rebel soul. So where do we go from here? Refinement? Or revamping? After all, surfing is not a matter of who you want to watch.

It’s what you want to watch.

Kelly Slater, experiences one of those quiet, elegant moments of joy, style and potential. Knowing what the power of your mind and body will be capable of doing on a wave when an absolutely perfect moment presents itself.

The question is, are today’s tiny surfboards up to it?

Top: Kolohe Andino applying the pressure it takes to deal with being shut down.

Spread: Yago Dora, captured in a moment of balletic grace halfway through the performance. Does the human eye remember these moments or are they overwhelmed with the emotional hope of the surfer successfully completing the maneuver?

Bottom: Felipe Toledo, at least attempting to race at an F1 level. Though today’s boards are nimble, are they capable of nitrous oxide boosts when you really need it?

Conner Coffin, raised on Californian point breaks, has the best relationship going with J-Bay. His speed lines echo a lost era of racing down the line for the very sake of racing down the line.

Kanoa Igarashi pulling the trigger on an all board maneuver.

His splayed front toes displaying both the power and delicacy needed to break from the norm.

Any surfer with the guts to make it to J-bay will discover that for surfers, all that glitters is gold.

Jordy Smith, whose blood is mixed with the very saltwater of J-Bay, knows when to shotgun blast the lip. People heard this maneuver on the beach. Extraordinary waves deserve extraordinary moments. The rest is up to you.

The end of waves now are for Hail Mary’s into the flats. The injury list grows. Michael Rodrigues looking for a ten point place to land.

Photography by Pete Frieden

The relationship with a wave you understand and have spent time with can be as intimate as a loving adoption. An extension of the family home. Bronson Meidy, blowing out the stoke, dancing in the living room of his favorite wave.

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Chapter One: If you were just outside of Las Vegas Nevada, at a secret military station in the desert, and you were at the controls of a US spy satellite and you happened to be a surfer, imagine what you could find. If your satellite were soaring over, say, Java and you were curious about a surf spot you had seen in a magazine or online and you had used some simple research to get the coordinates, you might look over your shoulder to see if anyone in the air conditioned shipping container you were working in was looking. And then you might surreptitiously divert the controls to check this surf spot out real quick like. Here is what you would find with your joystick on the high tech screen before you. On a clear day, from your outer space vantage you would see a large green island, a somewhat narrow island, running basically east to west, almost kissing the island of Bali to its southeast. Moving in you would see the gray, mushroom columns of smoke issuing from a few volcanoes to the South West. Closer in and Java would take on a relief. No longer a green carpet, but now a personality of a place.

Still kelly green, but now strangely foreboding with its vast impenetrable jungles. And yet, at this point looking soft enough for a naked human being to land on without injury. Closer, as this jungle became hillocks and contours and copses and rusty bare patches, you would see how untrue that last thought was. Java is now a primal looking place. Elemental. Survival driven. Closer, as you vector over to the coast, the first signs of a thin white border drawn like fringe between the green of land and the cobalt blue of the Indian Ocean. Wave action. Moving closer, you would see what look like settlements more than towns near the island’s bays and you would see the first signs of ocean movement as it continued its eternal chewing away at the land. This chewing making the coastline look rough and tumble, a craggy meandering of sharp pointed headlands and bays and coves and covelets. Still moving in you would start to see small tan frown shapes at the base of some of the coves and bays. Sand. Down turned crescents of it. A series of frowns on the edge of the island, fed by the numerous serpentine rivers and creeks and waterways that you can now see glinting like polished knives in the noon day sun. Closer still and you catch your breath when you recognize actual swell lines and swathes of sweeping whitewater. This is home territory to your mind and you scrutinize the sea for the tell-tale combinations of moving swell and triangles of whitewater. Or moving white bows along the inside of a headland or cove that reached into the sea. Waves. Waves.

You keep moving in on your coordinates and a small world begins to reveal itself. At first the

Varun Tandjung, taking the time to add a bit of interpretation to his modern dance. Proof that there is alot more going on with riding waves than just gravity, fiberglass and fins.

When you trust a reef, you can push it. Varun Tandjung, paying the price of pushing it a little too far. But how the hell else are you gonna know your limits?

size of model train set you spy the grid of small burg hard against a broken toothed bight in the coast. You can even make out a compound with a teal colored spot that marks a swimming pool on top of the hill that faces the bay. Closer, to the water, two large barrier rocks set like raw gems atop a small bay with a fingered headland to the east. Eager, you go closer and see two oblong fields of laced whitewater with a blue swirling rip cutting them in half on its way out to sea. Closer. A set of waves move through, refracting in and around the bay in a chaos that soon makes sense. Then the telltale sign of a wake left behind one of these waves. You stop it right there. Right. There. Surfers. So far away and yet so close. You zoom in to max.

You can make out bodyboarders and surfers scrambling for a set wave. And two surfers, brown as coffee, sauntering down the beach for a go-out with clean, white boards under their arms. You can imagine the sounds of the place, so you put them in your mind and the whole tableau becomes a complete experience.

Live. Happening. You watch it all, drinking it in, watching it to the limits of the spy satellite’s capability, until the satellite you are controlling can no longer stay on the coordinates. Until the satellite sets over the blue horizon like a tiny aluminum sun. You take your headset off.

Squeeze the bridge of your nose between your thumb and forefinger for long seconds. You breathe deeply. Once, twice. Once more. You get back to work, distracted, envious mostly of those dissipating snake-like wakes that you saw following closely behind the moving waves.

You are back to doing your duty but envious of those beings on the sea.

Wondering what drove you so far from home.

Chapter Two: Varun Tandjung and Bronson Meidy, fresh from cooling off in the swimming pool of their family villa on top of the hill, saunter down the Javan beach with their boards under their arms. Pasir Putih. The white sand of the beach making them squint and sweat. The alpha males of the line-up, they can afford to take their time. Living atop the hill in luxury. The quivers of shiny new boards, the stickers, their lives preordained for surfing. Purpose built since birth. They huff to each other about how many body boarders are out, but no worry, everybody gets along. The wave off the rock looks like it’s handling the tide well and the rip is going to make the paddle out easy. They both make their way to water’s edge fetlock deep in the sand.

And another wave rears up on the reef against the offshore winds.

And the sky above has nothing to do with it at all.

With the savage, raw beauty of Java breathing down his neck, Bronson Meidy is not afraid to temp fate. Airs like this would have been thought impossible at this place five years ago.

Sometimes you just cannot believe your luck. Right in the middle of a session, with no thoughts of going in yet, you start to surf with the grace and a confidence of an ocean creature. Part Sea Eagle, part Dolphin, all human, you feel as if you cannot miss. Bronson Meidy, all alone and on target in Java.

Centered in the eye of the cyclone.

In the center of all. Stillness in motion. Observing this dream with love.

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MEDITATIONS, ART AND PHOTOS FROM THE MIND OF GENE KREYD

Loud Gamelan. A trance. Incense fills the air. Flashing colors. Costumes.

Ceremony. People. The dancers adjusting their head pieces. Looking at me looking at them. We are all connected. Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. We are all dancers in this mysticism. Lets dance then.

Morning. Rode a bomb. Satisfied. Tide is filling in. Speedies is on. From the channel I see surfers paddling out. Offshore winds. Perfect day. Colors. Hair dries between sets. A surfer spins and takes off.

A feeling of deep gratitude. Natural high. Same frequency as the wave. Watching me watching it. Satisfaction simultaneously.

Can a wave hear my breath? My anxiety? My heartbeat? My hope? A sea of joy for me. Me. Let’s go and let go.

Bruno Santos. Very far away from home.

Civilization. No one around. Heavy waves. Serious damage awaits. Mean. Bruno walking alone. To surf alone. The desire. Natural. It’s on.

Middle of nowhere surfing. Man with the sea.

Alone. Below a painted sky. Where the clouds are hung for the poets eye. Man. Wave. Nothing else. The jungle listens. And that’s it.

G A L L E R Y LEGACY. ANTICIPATION. ENVY. 20 YEARS.

Agus Setiawan slamming the lip in a stalling move to set up a perfect line for the upcoming medium tide racetrack section of his homebreak. A Uluwatu locals like Agus have an obvious metaphysical connection with their waters. As if the wave already knows their souls and it is their bodies that are new.

Photography by Technicksurfphoto

LEGACY. ANTICIPATION. ENVY. 20 YEARS. Usman Trioko screams into a loaded barrel at low tide Desert point. No one this year has surfed the place with more verve and confidence than Usman.

After years of living within sight of this very section, Usman’s barrel riding is the envy of anyone that shows up at the end of his road. Surftime predicts a Rip Curl Cup title is in his future.

Photography by Pepe Romo Photography

LEGACY. ANTICIPATION. ENVY. 20 YEARS. Tall athletes seem to get injured far more than their lilliputian adversaries. And so it is with John John Florence. But at least another Surftime prediction has come true. John John Florence is actually going to take off in his sailboat and leave the world behind for awhile.

Photography by Jenya Ivkov

LEGACY. ANTICIPATION. ENVY. 20 YEARS. Rio Waida, Surftime’s male surfer of the year, showing why. And this maneuver is after a cutback.

If this man keeps training, he will take us onto the winners podium of the international stage. Rio, in the magic light of Simeulue, banking on his own future.

Photography by Liquid Barrel

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HALFWAY KUTA BOARDRIDERS RULE THEIR WORLD!

“Halfway Kuta Boardriders event #3 was a success. Our third comp was presented by Made’s Warung to celebrate their 50th Gold Anniversary.

The conditions changed dramatically during the comp as the tide moved in. Waves pulsing and pushing from the ocean was good.

The Divisions that we ran were Open Mens & Women’s, Pro juniors, Grom, and Novice.

We are so happy to see the kids rapid progress on their skills of surfing. Let alone on Competition surfing Knowledge and strategies.

Our partner, Made’s Warung, understands that surfing also has an impact on their business. For the past fifty years they have learned that surfing is that one sport that has become a new lifestyle in Bali. And that is is surfing that has created the entire tourist

economy here.Kuta has been a starting point for Bali surfers before they go anywhere else...so Kuta is the Center of surfing in South East Asia and certainly one of the best places in the world to be. Keeping our surfing the roots alive and well will only happen if you acknowledge and understood the connection within all our souls…”

By Rahtu Suargita.

President, Halfway Kuta Boardriders club.

OZZIE WRIGHT HOISTS THE ULUWATU SINGLE FIN CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY

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n a magnificent climax to the 2nd annual Uluwatu Single Fin Classic yesterday at Bali’s iconic Uluwatu, Australia’s Ozzie Wright had the honor of hoisting the perpetual Championship Trophy from atop a stage set up at the Single Fin Bar. Joining him in the finals were an amazing crew of surfers, which culminated in a cliff-shaking and boisterous 40 minute finale.

“It’s just nice to have this as a celebration of life and how much I love Uluwatu,” said Ozzie. “This is my favorite place in the whole world…

“I really didn’t care about winning, just being out there with all the guys, good kinship, and being able to express myselfis what it’s all about really.” And that’s what it’s all about at the Uluwatu single fin classic.

Uluwatu Single Fin Classic Open Division Results 1. Ozzie Wright (AUS) – 18.0 points 2. Chippa Wilson (AUS) – 17.03 points 3. Agus “Blacky” Setiawan (IDN) – 15.63 points 4. Bruno Santos (BRA) – 15.33 points 5. Dex Scoot (IDN) 10.27 points 6. Arpad LeClere (BEL) – 8.0 points

Junior Division Results 1. Bede Moyle (AUS) – 10.65 points 2. Macok (IDN) – 10.33 points 3. Cinta Hansel (IDN) – 7.67 points 4. Dwi Putrawan (IDN – 6.30 points 5. Agus Juliandika (IDN) – 5.07 points 6. Eka Surabawa (IDN) – 4.50 points

The 2nd Annual Uluwatu Single Fin Classic was sponsored by Single Fin and Billabong, and supported by the Uluwatu Boardriders, the PSOI, and the ASC.

BALI ADAPTIVE PRO PRESENTED BY BURTON AUTOMOTIVE CROWNS CHAMPIONS!

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wenty three of the world’s most courageous adaptive surfers took on the heaving 4-5 foot Indian Ocean swell that was bombarding Old Man’s recently. Israel’s Adi Klang in the Standing Lower Limb Division was the first champion crowned, “I want to say thank you for accepting me. I will definitely come back next year to do this event again!” Event co-creator/organizer and adaptive competitor Jade “Red” Wheatley said, “ We’ve achieved what we set out to do, for sure.”

Results Standing Upper Limb: 1. Mike Richard 2. Robson Gasperi 3. Harry Chris Marzan 4. Ant Smyth Prone: 1. Michael Pingatore 2. Daniel Nel 3. Elias Valencia 4. Ann Yoshida

Standing Lower Limb: 1. Adi Klang 2. Dale Taylor 3. Wayne Figliomeni 3. Bruce William Campbell

Kneel: 1. Lewellyn Williams 2. Jade Wheatley 3. Sobarudin 4. Mark Mono Stewart

Visually Impaired: 1. Jack Jackson 2. Matt Formston

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PADANG PADANG BOARDRIDERS CHALLENGE SCORES!

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e could have guessed it. In this, the best year of waves in a decade. Especially at Padang Padang, that has seemed to be pumping non-stop since May. And we could have guessed that the Padang Padang Boardriders club would run a contest as great as this one was. A decidedly local affair with dreamy conditions, the thing came off more as a one day tube festival than anything else.

And we could have guessed that the contest

would have a very popular winner in Putu Arya “Corok” Gunata and a strong second place showing from the great Rahtu Suargita.

A respectful, blessed event run by the very people who have Padang Padang’s best interests at heart. A contest that would be the envy of any in the world at the planet’s most beautiful wave. It just doesn’t get any better than this. Congratulations, boys. And thank you.

Results Open men’s 1st Putu Arya “Corok” Gunata 2nd Rahtu Suargita 3rd Mustofa jeksen 4th Made Raditya Rondi

LIVINGWELL IS THE WAY TO BE! Organic Garden Cafe &Center Shop Restaurant & Lifestyle livingwellbali #livingwellbali

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ivingwell was created as a place for everyone to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. This restaurant has great food, great vibes and great entertainment. With a menu designed for unforgettable taste, they offer vegan, vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes.Their philosophy is let thy food be thy medicine & let medicine be thy food. For the best benefit of your health, they avoid all processed food, preservative refined sugar, artificial flavors and MSG. They also offer a healthy catering menu for special events such as birthdays, anniversaries and weddings. They even catered the 2019 Rip Curl Cup. They offer special packages for detox programs, special diet needs, health retreats and cooking classes.

They will even come to your villa and cook breakfast, lunch or dinner for you. You can also enjoy their fresh veggie basket delivered to your doorstep. Feel free to contact them for your special needs. Livingwell is just what the Bukit surf community needs. Get there and see for yourself. It’s a good move.

Uluwatu St No.9-7, Ungasan, South Kuta, Badung Regency, Bali 80361 | Phone : 0812-3682-0011 | Instagram: livingwellbali EVENT REVIEW

ANOTHER SOLID OMBAK BALI SURF FILM FESTIVAL AT CANGGU’S THE LAWN

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he 11th edition dove straight into board-riding cultures around the world, exploring personal stories, final frontiers and epic waves with those who share a love for all things wet and salty.

The OmbakBali crew searched far and wide to find the most incredible, awe-inspiring films of the genre, films that go beyond the waves and show how surfing can inspire, and drive change - whether it be personal, social or environmental. With climate change and plastic pollution on everyone’s minds, this year’s line-up had a special focus on the environment and saving our precious oceans with films like ‘Rumah Kita’ with Sumbawan prosurfer Dedi Gun. Other headliners were ‘Trouble, the Lisa Anderson Story’ and ‘White Rhino’.

Eleven years since staging the 1st festival, OmbakBali is still chasing that magical feeling. Out in the water we choose our waves as we skirt along the edges of our limits, hesitating a little less, committing a little more. This year’s films remind us that, for many, surfing is so much more than a sport - it’s a journey, a connection, a devotion. Whatever surfing means to you, we hope that our film selections bring you a little closer to the magic.

See you at the 12th edition, September 2020. ombakbalifestival.com

FREE HURLEY GIVEAWAY! Dear Surftime, That photo of Puanani Jahnson in the last issue was so inspring. And the caption said it all. And that feature

by Kailani Johnson? Wow. I am so glad that Surftime is supporting female surfing.

Thank you, Julia Summerville, Canggu Julie, Surftime has always been a proud supporter of Female surfing. Get out there and work with the photographers so that we can get more great photos. We will always be here for you. And come pick up your Hurley prize package for your letter of the month.

Ed.

CLOSE OU T FALL SEVEN TIMES… STAND UP EIGHT.

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he proverb goes “I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes…until I saw a man with no feet”.

Fabrizio Passetti, proving that a brave soul can mend any disaster.

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