Saturday, June 22nd, was the 3rd Annual Surf Summit at Zuma Beach. Hosted by Senator Henry Stern, over 90 kids from Boys & Girls clubs across Los Angeles and Ventura counties came together for a beautiful day under the California sun. Here's a few photos from the event.

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More madness from the Relik. Check out this news report below obtained by Innocnts

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One of the surprises of the event, which brought together the best longboarders in the world to the surf mecca Malibu, was the Hawaiian Sally Cohen, who stole the scene. At only 18 years old, the competitor landed a spot in the championship by winning the most votes on Surf Relik's video submission contest. Surfing the board of double world champion Phil Rajzman, she managed to reach 3rd place in her debut event. Sally is the daughter of surf photographer Paul Cohen the "Gordinho", who is one of the legends in the subject on the North Shore. Source / Author: Luciana Figueiredo
The first stage of the Surf Relik Longboard World Tour was First Point on Malibu Beach this weekend (June 22nd and 23th). The winners of the $100,000 prize-giving event were Soleil Errico and Taylor Jensen .

French surfer Edouard Delpero was given 2nd place and bid farewell to the championship by losing to Taylor Jensen. Third was given to Harrison Roach.


Harrison Roach - Photo: Surfing With Ben

In the women's category, Chloe Calmon finished with second place, Soleil Errico taking the top spot.


Soleil Errico - Photo: Brian Asher



Chloe Calmon - Photo: Surfing With Ben

One of the surprises of the event, which brought together the best longboarders in the world to the surf mecca Malibu, was the Hawaiian Sally Cohen, who stole the scene. At only 18 years old, the competitor landed a spot in the championship by winning the most votes on Surf Relik's video submission contest. Surfing the board of double world champion Phil Rajzman, she managed to reach 3rd place in her debut event. Sally is the daughter of surf photographer Paul Cohen the "Gordinho", who is one of the legends in the subject on the North Shore.


Sally Cohen - Photo: Paul Cohen

"Sally surprised me and surfed a lot, she used my board throughout the event and she did very well, I've been with Sally in my trips to Hawaii and I've done some coaching work for her. She will shine brightly. " Phil commented.

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Check out this video form Wes Swartz of the longboarding before and during the Relik contest.

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Here's the complete live stream of the second day of the Relik longboard contest at Malibu.

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Epic day on the water for day 1 of the SM Pier 360. Congrats to our overall winners Candice Appleby and Tyler Bashor for bringing home the extra big bacon. Shoutout to Thomas Nilsen for taking 2nd and Elijah Schoenig for placing 3rd overall. On the ladies side Jadeleilani Howson took 2nd and Abby Baker took 3rd. Phenomenal performance all around! Looking forward to Day2 on Sunday

Here's the complete live stream of the Relik longboard contest at Malibu. Forward to the 18:00 minute mark, that's when the contest stream actually starts.

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According to Surf Relik and the self-pro-claimed "definitive voice of surf", The Inertia, no other surf contest ever did video submissions before.

Never.

Not until 2018 when Surf Relik "pioneered a unique video-submission format", as The Inertia's non-fact checking writer claims.

Another The Inertia writer states, "Finally something different, something that’s never been done before. Relik’s Video Submission Open Qualifier".

This is probably coming straight from Surf Relik themselves though, as Pacific Longer Boarder wrote "Relik’s first-of-its-kind video submission open qualifier".

Appears like Surf Relik's PR Team is just spouting off some BS, And Of Course The Inertia would never question it (not the first time they published lies).

Come on now, not that all surfers would know, but a surfer writing for a surf website, especially one claiming to be the "definite voice of surf", should know video submissions for wildcard spots in surf contests have happened many times before Surf Relik's.

Back in 2013, the Hurley Pro Trestles held a video submission contest for a wildcard spot for the CT event.

In 2018, Gopro held a video submission contest for the OSSC National Championships.

In 2011, there was the Volcom Pipe Pro Wildcard Video Challenge

Oh yeah, the video submission contest to be a Wildcard for the O'Neill Coldwater Classic was held in 2014.

In 2017, INNOCNTS held their 1wv1fn, a longboarding video contest where the winner got an invite to the Vans Duct Tape Invitational.

And there's been others.

So NO, Surf Relik you did not create, pioneer, or do any first-of-its-kind deal with video submissions for a surf contest wildcard spot.

We got a huge batch of surfing photos from the International Surfing Day Paddle Out that WSL Pure and Surfrider LA hosted at Venice Beach. Some pretty fun party waves at the paddle out.

We got about 300 surf photos from Six12 Media, here's just a few of them. The link to the complete photo gallery that has all the shots is down below.




















You can find these and about 300 more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in this gallery:

2019 WSL Pure / ISD Paddle Out Photo Gallery

If you paddled out, there's probably some cool surf shots of you, check them out.

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Another successful International Surfing Day paddle out in Venice, with WSL Pure and Surfrider LA to raise awareness of the threats facing our ocean. We got some good surfing photos from the paddle out coming, but in the meantime, check out the video below from Michael Monak

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On Saturday, June 1, we joined the over 600 volunteers, and two surfing dogs, at tower 28 in Santa Monica to be a part of Life Rolls On's They Will Surf Again event. This Santa Monica event was the first surf stop of Life Rolls On's Get On Board 2019 Tour.

They Will Surf Again is an award-winning series of bi-coastal events that empower paraplegics and quadriplegics to experience the freedom of mobility by riding a wave with the assistance of adaptive equipment and the support of hard working volunteers.
More than a day of recreational activity, They Will Surf Again also serves as an exceptional opportunity for individuals with SCI and their families to network and establish new support networks outside traditional group support settings. Founded by world champion quadriplegic surfer Jesse Billauer, Life Rolls On is dedicated to improving the quality of life for young people affected by spinal cord injury. Believing that adaptive surfing and skating could inspire infinite possibilities beyond paralysis.

Six12 Media has been there every year, getting as many great surfing shots of these athletes as possible, making sure they and their families get some awesome action photos to remember this day.












We got way too many great photos to post here. You can find several 100 more surf photos from this day, all full size and high-resolution, in this gallery:

2019 LRO They Will Surf Again Photo Galleries

If you were out there, there probably is some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!

There are some more photos from other photographers in this gallery:

LIfe Rolls On TWSA 2019 Photo Page