The Jim Beam SurfTag Qualifier #3 took place on October 11 at Oceanside Harbor's North Jetty under overcast skies with a small little south swell pushing in knee to waist high waves. I was invited to join the Blue Collar Team by Chemistry Surfboards' Will Smith, to surf with fellow team mates Jason Bennett, Firewire's Chuy Reyna, and RAEN Optics' Jeremy Heit. The format is super fun, with a tag-team setup involving 5 surfers per team all starting in a box on the beach, with one hour for the sequence of riders to each catch 3 waves, then come in and tag their next teammate back in the box for them to begin their campaign. The second wave for each surfer is scored double, and all of the point totals are added to determine the team's combined score totals. Extra points are awarded for being the first team to have all 5 surfers each with their 3 wave scores all back inside the box, and having all of the surfers from the competing teams together in one area leads to all time heckles and rousting from the battling teams, classic stuff! Team Reef surfed impressively all day and took a convincing win with solid performances from all team riders. With an average effort (excluding the stellar performance by Jason Bennett dropping a 9.5 on his double scoring "Powerwave") our team somehow qualified for the Championships, taking place November 13 & 14 at Huntington Beach Pier, stoked!
Blue Collar Team (minus Chuy Reyna) L to R Jason Bennett, Will Smith, myself, and Jeremy Heit
Team Reef's winning tag, with Pascal Stansfield from previous qualifier champion team "Happy Endings" looking on, and Reef's Heath "Nutty" Walker heckling Benji Weatherley from team "Man Sandwich"
Team Reef Qualifier #3 Champions L to R: Chris Abad, Nick Rosza, Chris Waring, Sean Marceron, and Teddy Navarro
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