It’s been a long season with lots of training that all came to a head a week and a half ago. There will be photos and stories trickling in over the next couple weeks/months, but for now I think that our friends at Soul Surf Media summed up the feel of this year’s Classic really well.
Bark at the Catallina Classic from Soul Surf Media on Vimeo.
Congratulations to the guys that get their names engraved on that trophy for 2011! Dr. Brad Thomas and Brian Rocheleau for UL. Eric Abbott and Bert Charlton for stock.
The race of the day may well have been been for the women’s title with Jo Ambrosi and DJ O’Brien battling across the bay with Jo bringing home another victory. Congrats to them both!
Sacrifice what you must.
Bark Catalina Prep with Anthony Vela from Soul Surf Media on Vimeo.
Best of luck to AV and all of the other BARK team members making the trek from 2 harbors to Manhattan Pier this Sunday. It may not crown the champion of the world, but as far as a lot of us are concerned, the Classic is still the grand daddy of em all.
Here’s a video of what crossing the Kaiwi channel in 5:10 and change looks like first hand! Awesome footage and congratulations again to Mikey Cote and Jack Bark on their win!
Untitled from joelpepper on Vimeo.
Click through to the Vimeo page to see it in a bit larger format.
The boys paddled well, Keoni’s truck did NOT get diesel fuel put into it and Joe hasn’t keeled over from iodine poisoning from the 4 pounds of poke per day that he consumed. All in all, a success!
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The guys at Soul Surf Media keep putting together great videos. Here’s another gem from the Covewater Classic up in Santa Cruz.
http://player.vimeo.com/video/26695110
Well done guys. Thanks!
Since this photo:
28 years.
26914 frames bowled.
67 perfect games.
657 screenings of ‘North Shore’
4387 quotations used from ‘North Shore’
$5,216.98 won playing penny video keno.
$5,217.87 lost playing penny video keno.
6414 burritos.
14792 tacos.
40 pounds.
1000s of boards shaped.
28 years…..
With all that’s come and gone, he’s still just Joe Bark, the guy that answers the phone when you call and the guy that shapes your board.
Chris at Soul Surf Media made this video with footage from BOP Hawaii. It really sums up the BARK vibe about as well as anything could have.
This really captures what the BARK team is all about….. Thanks.
Bark at BOP: It’s a Family from Soul Surf Media on Vimeo.
The summer has officially arrived and the 2011 race season is in full swing. The past few weeks have had a couple big ones and some people are deserving of congratulations. 2 weeks ago, the Rock 2 Rock showed off a new course and some uncharacteristically fun conditions. UL winner Anthony Vela and Stock winner Jack Bark both took advantage of all the help out there and brought home the victories. If you’d like to see how the rest of the team fared, click here. Here’s a video for the rest of us that never get to see the front showing a 1 minute snippet of what it looks like to be racing for the lead: VIDEO LINK (THAT NOW WORKS)
Then last weekend, the BARK team headed north to Santa Cruz for the 10th annual Surftech Jay Moriarity Memorial race. The team put on a great showing up north as well. Craig Waltz brought home the UL victory with Anthony Vela on his heels, Jack Bark won stock, Morgan Hoesterey and Kanesa Seraphin came over from Hawaii to win the 14′ SUP and wahine prone divisions while multi talented Matt Becker (2nd place prone stock R2R) won the 14′ SUP. Whoa… That’s just the Cliffs notes version, but you can click here for the full results. You also might want to check out this site that the guys at Surftech put together as an overview of the event.
Here are a couple shots from the Jay race for you guys to check out. Hope everyone’s training hard and having fun out there! Keep paddling!
Miami Lifeguard and BARK paddler Cynthia Aguilar paddled 103.2 miles from Cuba to Key West last week. 29 hours and 12 minutes on the grind… An amazing feat for certain. CONGRATS.
See her story in the links below:
REFRACTION MAG
DREAM BIG
Add ‘movie star’ to John Becker’s list of accomplishments.
Wow….
StandUp-The Movie Trailer HD from Diana Sinelnikova Harper on Vimeo.
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