Wooden board exhibition: alaias, olos, hot curls, hollows...
Big Stick Surfing Association is a non-profit organization and the funds raised from the gigantic raffle go right back to the local Santa Cruz community by funding the Student Scholarship Program, Ride-A-Wave, Santa Cruz Surfrider Foundation, and the Junior Lifeguards program. If you are interested in being a sponsor, please take a look at our PROSPECTUS, and contact us
Entry form available now for all surf clubs interested in participating!
Team captains please send to me any competitor updates (adds, deletes and changes), bring your entry fees, and feel free to ask any question on the rules, format and heat sheets. I will post heatsheets to this website on Friday afternoon at the latest. Heats start at 7am at Jacks on Saturday going until 4pm and then on Sunday at First Peak, Pleasure Point from 8am to 2pm.
Nothing has changed this year on the basic Logjam format: old boards, no cords. Saturday is Aloha day - everyone surfs twice in mixed heats 15 minutes long. At the end of the day, we divide everyone into divisions based on age and gender and place the top surfers (based on your combined scores in Saturday's two heats) in Semi and Final heats on Sunday.
On Saturday, we will also hold the semis of the paddle race around 1pm (individual race on an old board with each team allowed to field two paddlers) and a practice heat of the Aloha Team competition around 1pm (two surfers on two old boards riding the same wave together in the best way).
On Sunday around 1pm, we will have the finals for the paddle race and Aloha Team competition and we'll also have the Wood Boards exhibition (alaias, olos, hot curls, etc). Please encourage folks to bring up their old wood boards for display and/or the surfing exhibition
Thanks to all the volunteers that make this wonderful contest possible and congratulations to all the contestants for continuing to ride those old boards!
Sunday's Results are now available!
Day 1 Results - everyone advances
Saturday's Aloha Heat Results with the top scores from Day 1.
Sunday's Final Logjam 2010 results are ready.
Thanks to all the volunteers that make this wonderful contest possible and congratulations to all the contestants for continuing to ride those old boards!
Check out last year's pictures from Nick
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Check out this video from the 2009 event below:
Thank you to all the surfers, volunteers, PRIMO and all of our sponsors for making Logjam 2009, the best we've ever had!
Late April has proven over and over to provide fun waves and good weather for the event and this year was no exception!
Please take a look at some great pictures from Phil Matthews plus video courtesy of lp (http://surfvid.com) and more pics from Boots. Here's the Logjam 2009 Results.
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From Sally Saenger:
I want to thank you, and the BSSA in general, for putting on another
fantastic LogJam event. We were blessed with beautiful weather and fun surf,
weren't we?
Allow me to remind you of some of the reasons why your event is such a pleasure
to be a part of:
- the format: aloha heats first day, peer competition second day
- "two surfs" guarantee
- flexibility with age groupings so one age group is not overloaded
- good balance between friendly competition and having fun
- it's a benefit/fundraiser but the bottom line is NOT about making money (or
at least you don't overemphasize that part of it)
- the judging is generally fair and consistent
- it is very "female friendly" and "good for the geezers"
- the pervading Aloha Spirit
There are probably more things I could say to compliment your achievements but
I'm exhausted from a long weekend of fun at Pleasure Point where I got good
surf and shared time with friends, old and new.
On behalf of the Oxnard Waveriders, thanks again for inviting us.
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This year's event will benefit and is being held in honor of the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum.
Big Stick Surfing Association is a non-profit organization and the funds raised from the gigantic raffle go right back to the local Santa Cruz community by funding the Student Scholarship Program, Ride-A-Wave, Santa Cruz Surfrider Foundation, and the Junior Lifeguards program. If you are interested in being a sponsor, please take a look at our PROSPECTUS, and contact us
Last year we raised thousands of dollars through our fundraising efforts. We raffled off 5 beautiful surf boards from Ward Coffey Shapes, Surftech, Pearson Arrow, Vernor, Michel Junod, Freeline and GLS. We also gave away prizes including gorgeous photographs and artwork, restaurant gift certificates, board bags, shoes and clothing.
For coalition surf clubs that want to surf in this event, you can find more information, directions and rules in the club packet
Click here for more pictures from Phil Matthews and click here for pictures from Scott Gould
We had a gorgeous Saturday of surfing! The temperature was perfect and everyone had a great time!
And Sunday was even better as the wind stayed away all day and the waves picked up. We had a bunch of whale spottings outside the kelp bed today. Here are the Logjam Final results.
April 28-29th, Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz
Another great contest this year with sunny skies and great waves. THANKS!
This year's contest is dedicated to Mike Locatelli, astrong community supporter who passed away in February. Raffle tickets are on sale at the O'Neill's surf shop on 41st Avenue. All proceeds from in store sales go to the Locatelli Family Fund. To read more about Mike, please read the Santa Cruz Sentinel article.
Come on by and watch the contest for free at Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz. There will be many old boards to look at, great surfers in the water and lots of raffle prizes, including six surf boards from shapers Bob Pearson of Arrow, Ward Coffey, John Mel of Freeline, GLS, Michel Junod, Vernor Surfboards, and Surftech.
And right after the last final, there will be a spectacular tandem competition, which is always a treat to watch.
all photos by Phil Matthews, mailto:riptidesns@sbcglobal.net
Big Stick Surfing Association takes top team honors again! Congratulations to Anthony Daddario winner of the Paddle Race, Men's division and the Jay Moriarity watermen award. Woody Robinson took top honors in the Junior Men's division and EJ took the Senior Men's division!!!
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