CHUBASCOS BODYSURFING ASSOCIATION

There are so many people and organizations to thank, I will try to list them at the end of this short reprise of the weekend of August 11th & 12 on the Southside of the Huntington Beach Pier.

195 bodysurfers and 51 handplaners made 2018 a banner year for the Chubascos Bodysurfing Association’s 11th annual beach party and head-to-head competition. Starting at 7am Saturday with the Masters Men and finishing with awards by 2pm Sunday, we crowned three new Grand Champions for 2018. All the finalists received plaques plus swag from our new Corporate Sponsor – DMC Fins – headed by our past Grand Champion Don McCredie. Every competitor received a contest tee shirt (for those who needed a size which had run out, Coach Mark is on it). Artwork was by our inimitable Froggy – Bill Schiledge:

Our Grand Champions came from France, Hawaii and California:

Women’s Champ – Makena Magro from Oahu HI

Men’s Champ – Nathan Lehoux from Biarritz RF

Handplaning Champ – Dave Ford  from Ojai CA

Coming from afar meant these Grand Champions have to figure out shipping details for the massive trophies created by HB Tiki guru Bamboo Ben.

Not to be out done, Mrs. Bamboo designed and produced the finalists’ plaques for the top 6 finishers in every age.

All Junior Lifeguards really scored. In addition to the free  tee shirts, donuts and pizza, each junior guard received a free pair of DMC Repellor fins. Other swag came from Slyde Handboards, Tubeshredder Handboards, and DaFin.

Ace photographer Froggy started a rumor that DMC Fins will soon be selling Shark Fin soup, attracting baby Great Whites willing to trade their barely grown fins for the powerful Repellor Fins.

 

Legends Champ Larry Erman negotiated rights to corner the market of shark fin soup on behalf of President Trump in his trade war with China

Aussie McCredie tempted the sharks onto land with the unlimited pizza provided by the Chubascos.

World Peace through Bodysurfing Diplomacy. Ping Pong is so 20th Century.

-Tar Larner

 Infinite thanks to our incredible patron – Don McCredie, DMC Repellor Fins

THANKS:

Ben Lauren as announcer, Carol Kappe and Haley Kinlaw for data entry/ check-in ,  Peter Jung for scoring , and all the judges under the direction of Nick Wasiliew.

 

BODYSURFING FINALS

Kids 12 & Under

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Bobby Wright	34.0	4
Orange	Gaby Kelly	27.0	5
Yellow	Cole Charlier	24.0	6
No Cap	Jack Wright	42.0	1
White	Tyler Bennett	36.0	2
Blue	Gavin Sigmond	34.0	3

Girls 13-19

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Ichigo Zachau	24.0	5
Orange	Hannah Taylor	19.5	6
Yellow	Bridget Angelovic	35.0	3
No Cap	Emily Carter	37.5	2
White	Olivia Lane	29.0	4
Blue	Ella Jensen	42.0	1
Red/White	Kaysha Palacios	11.0	7

 

Women 20 – 39

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Sunny Rickard	0.0
Orange	Hannah Gergen	0.0
Yellow	Makena Magro	45.5	1
No Cap	Dana Willard	31.0	3
White	Morgan Launer	31.5	2
Blue		0.0

Masters Women 40+

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Joanne Zachau	31.0	3
Orange	Gwyneath Rand	30.0	4
Yellow	Meredith Rose	38.5	1
No Cap		0.0
White		0.0
Blue	Nancey Chennell	32.0	2
RW	Casey Ford	22.5	5

Boys 13-15

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Wyatt Wood	50.0	1
Orange	Graham Cope	42.5	3
Yellow	Jacob Bailey	42.0	4
No Cap	Tommy Kelly	42.5	2
White	Travis Ambrose	36.0	5
Blue	Dorian Quimby	29.0	6

Teens 16-19

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Dane Howell	37.0	5
Orange	Joe Nickerson	40.0	3
Yellow	Nathan Lehoux	46.0	1
No Cap	Toby Bumgardener	37.0	4
White	Alexander Reed	35.0	6
Blue	Dylan Montierth	44.0	2

Men 20 – 39

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Kenealli Wilcox	49.5	2
Orange	Taylor Fah	39.5	5
Yellow	Jack Bassham	40.0	3
No Cap	Aiden Weschler	0.0
White	Blake Bassham	42.0	4
Blue	Keali’i Punley	51.0	1

Masters Men 40-59

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	David Ford	37.5	6
Orange	Mark Drewelow	41.5	4
Yellow	Thorsten Hegberg	48.0	2
No Cap	Vern Rogers	49.5	1
White	Donald Davis	39.0	5
Blue	Richard Loughridge	44.0	3

Legends Men 60+

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Larry Erman	43.0	1
Orange	Donald J. Cheetham	41.5	4
Yellow	Doug Prichard	42.0	3
No Cap	Brad Miller	42.5	2
White	Mark Thon	40.0	5
Blue	Kevin Bryne	35.5	6

Grand Mariner 70+

Cap	Name	Score	Place
No Cap	Ernie Ford	23.0	1
No Cap	John Tipre	17.0	2
Yellow	Humphrey Sumner	5.0	3

 

HANDPLANING

JUNIORS 19 & Under

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Tommy Kelly	55.5	1
Orange	Caden Cunningham	52.0	3
Yellow	Nathan Lehoux	50.0	4
No Cap	Dorian Quinby	53.5	2
White	Wyatt Yee	48.5	5
Blue	Ethan Misiak	38.0	6

SENIORS 20+

Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Don McCredie	47.5	4
Orange	Richard Loughridge	41.0	6
Yellow	Kanilili Punley	53.0	2
No Cap	David Ford	54.0	1
White	Jack Bassham	47.0	5
Blue	Kenealli Wilcox	50.0	3

GRAND CHAMPIONS

Men’s Bodysurfing – Nathan Lehoux (France)

Handplaning – David Ford (Ojai)

Women’s Bodysurfing – Makena Magro (Hawaii)

 

Full results of all heats have been posted.

 

Sunday Results

Women’s 20 & Over Final    

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Sunny Rickard	42.0	1
Orange	Dawn Wood	21.0	4
Yellow	Meredith Rose	28.0	3
Black	Dana Willard	11.0	5
White	Erin Rands	0.0
Blue	Zoey Chang	30.0	2

Girls 19 & Under Final  

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Bridget Angelovic	17.0	5
Orange	Emily Carter	38.0	3
Yellow	Sophia Cendero	45.0	2
No Cap	Ella Jensen	54.0	1
White	Olivia Lane	35.0	4
Blue	Katlee Loughtry	0.0
Red/White	Ichigo Zachau	11.0	6

Groms 12 & Under Semi-Finals & Final     

SEMI 1
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Tyler Dodge	30.0	2
Orange	Ryan Hansen	28.0	3
Yellow	Tommy Sullivan	9.0	7
No Cap	Keegan O’Rork	15.0	6
White	Wade Sherlock	31.0	1
Blue	Gavin Sigmond	19.0	5
Striped	Rex Hickman	27.0	4

SEMI 2
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Micheal Doti	32.0	1
Orange	Trevor Savage	23.0	3
Yellow	Tommy “Turbo” Kelly	31.0	2
No Cap	Leinani Mench	11.0	6
White	Wes Hansen	21.0	4
Blue	Brady Siok	19.0	5

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Wade Sherlock	35.0	3
Orange	Tyler Dodge	36.0	1
Yellow	Ryan Hansen	27.0	6
No Cap	Micheal Doti	32.0	5
White	Tommy “Turbo” Kelly	36.0	2
Blue	Trevor Savage	32.0	4

Boys 13-15 Final        

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Dane Howell	53.0	2
Orange	Wyatt Wood	59.0	1
Yellow	Owen Gurich	50.0	3
No Cap	Pierce Rands	29.0	5
White	Toby Bumgardner	40.0	4
Blue	Caden Cunningham	0.0

Teens 16-19 Final    

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Blake Bassham	45.0	3
Orange	Tucker Massura	34.0	5
Yellow	Riley Bumgardner	46.0	2
No Cap	Tyler Pinon	27.0	6
White	Dylan Montierth	49.0	1
Blue	Cole Pelkofer	35.0	4

Men 20-39 Final 

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Kealii Punley	49.0	2
Orange	Jack Bassham	37.0	4
Yellow	Bryce Baumstark	42.0	3
No Cap	KanealiiWilcox	51.0	1
White	Dylan Scott Trumbull	33.0	5
Blue	Jeremy Wittman	33.0	5

Masters Men 40-59 Semi-Finals & Final

SEMI 1
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Don McCredie	39.0	1
Orange	George Bertless	29.0	3
Yellow	Rob Kinder	21.0	5
No Cap	Richard Loughridge	31.0	2
White	David Martinez	3.0	6
Blue	Rick Hornbuckly	24.0	4
SEMI 2
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Lance Albright	43.0	1
Orange	Bill Hinchliff	27.0	4
Yellow	Eric Garwick	28.0	3
No Cap	Michael McCafferty	26.0	5
White	Xavier Vallarta	26.0	5
Blue	Steve Wavehunter	34.0	2

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Don McCredie	54.0	1
Orange	Lance Albright	47.0	2
Yellow	Richard Loughridge	42.0	5
No Cap	Steve Wavehunter	40.0	6
White	George Bertless	42.0	4
Blue	Eric Garwick	43.0	3

Legends 60 +         

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Larry Erman	45.0	2
Orange	Mark Cunningham	57.0	1
Yellow	Hal Handley	44.0	3
No Cap	Humphrey Sumner	38.0	6
White	Mike Larson	41.0	4
Blue	John Pickard	38.0	5

Handplaning 19 &Under Final    

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Dominic Coffey	56.0	1
Orange	Caden Cunningham	0.0
Yellow	Sean Angelovic	50.0	3
No Cap	Riley Bumgardner	44.0	5
White	Cameron Castro	51.0	2
Blue	Tommy “Turbo” Kelly	46.0	4
Red/White	Bryce Davis	43	6

Handplaning 20 & Over Semi-Finals & Final

SEMI 1
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Don McCredie	30.0	4
Orange	Kealii Punley	30.0	3
Yellow	Donald J. Cheetham	33.0	2
No Cap	Steve Wavehunter	29.0	5
White	Dylan Scott Trumbull	39.0	1
Blue	James Vigeant	0.0
SEMI 2
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	James Moe	31.0	4
Orange	Kanealii Wilcox	42.0	1
Yellow	Bill Hinchliff	25.0	6
No Cap	Mark Cunningham	33.0	3
White	Richard Loughridge	31.0	4
Blue	Jack Bassham	37.0	2

FINAL
Cap	Name	Score	Place
Lime	Dylan Scott Trumbull	37.0	6
Orange	Kanealii Wilcox	66.0	1
Yellow	Donald J. Cheetham	43.0	5
No Cap	Jack Bassham	62.0	2
White	Kealii Punley	47.0	4
Blue	Mark Cunningham	51.0	3

2017 Grand Champions – Judges’ Consensus

Men – Mark Cunningham

Women – Ella Jensen

Handplaning – Kanealii Wilcox

Thanks to the volunteer staff for their great work

Kids 12 & Under

1. Max Lambert              32.5
2. Caden Cunningham  30.5
3. Michael Doti               30.5
4. Ryan Hansen              28.5

Girls 19 & Under

1. Ella Jensen                      47.0
2. Anneliese Rogers           29.5
3. Lauren Schlick               28.5
4. Rachel Nickerson          28.5
5. Ichigo Zachau                27.0
6. Emilee Carter                 23.5

Boys 13-15

1. Joe Nickerson             39.0
2. Blaze Roche                38.5
3. Sean Angelovic          36.0
4. Miles Maricich           33.5
5. Quinn Ortiz                 33.0
6. Augie Cunningham   32.5

Teens 16-19

1. Tom Marr                  46.5
2. Chapin Page              44.0
3. Dylan Biggerstaff     43.5
4. Aidan Weschler        39.0
5. Dylan Montrieth       32.0
6. Alex Reed                   31.0

Women 20 & Older

1. Sunny Rickard              36.5
2. Briguitte Linn               35.5
3. Meredith Rose              34.0
4. Tish Denevan               29.5
5. Joanne Zachau             27.0
6. Lisa Hall                        26.0

Men 20-39

1. Chris Kalima                  49.5
2. Ben Laurin                     44.5
3. Jeff Robbins                    43.0
4. Peter Kemp                     32.0
5. Matt Soloman                 32.0
6. Dylan Trumbull             30.5

Senior Men 40-59

1. Don McCredie                      45.5
2. Doug Pritchard                    41.0
3. Vincent Trotter                    36.5
4. Lance Albright                     36.0
5. Paul Page                               34.5
6. Jae Marr                                22.0

Legends 60 & Older

1. Bruce Robbins                  31.0
2. Ray Sullivan Sr                 26.0
3. Humphrey Sumner         22.0
4. John Tipre                         15.0
5. John Endelman
6. Don Cheetham

Handplaning 19 & Younger

1. Augie Cunningham           44.0
2. Tom Marr                            43.5
3. Joe Nickerson                     38.5
4. Chapin Page                        37.5
5. Jake Keville                         37.5
6. Bryce Davis                         32.5

Handplaning 20 & Older

1. Sal Castro                           47.0
2. James Vigeant                   29.5
3. Richard Loughridge        28.5
4. Jack Bassham                   28.5
5. Vincent Trotter                27.0
6. Matt Soloman                  23.5

Men’s Grand Champion

Don McCredie

Women’s Grand CHampion

Ella Jensen

Handplaning Grand Champion

Augie Cunningham

Heat 1

Team Castro – 15.5

Raffle Winners Supreme – 33 

Mermaid Legends – 13

Team Body Board – 27

Australian’s Kooknado – 39  

Basking Robbins  

Alex & Michael

 

Heat 2

Sox – 36

Team Repellor – 16

Whompanators – 35

Jesus Lizzards – 20.5

Schligers – 20

Rippers – 9

Schneidwinder – 30

Team Sullivan  

 

  

 

 

   

We are a team and anyone can compete at bodysurfing contests as a Chubasco. Our home break is Huntington Beach but membership is open to anyone anywhere. If you want to join a more selective crew, try the Gillis Beach Club – they vote in new members. Just like we share the lineup, we don’t discriminate. Just take a wave and show off. Don’t bodysurf? We welcome anyone who shares our love of the beach. Check out the team’s facebook page to find out what’s going on in the world of bodysurfing: www.facebook.com/chubascos

There are no dues or uniform. We do provide competition tee shirts to all competitors and volunteers at the August HB Bodysurfing Classic. If your style is no style, we totally love it. We have never solicited members; all you needed to do was  embrace the aloha spirit and hit the beach. We use the emails of past competitors to get the word out about the annual contest and other activities.

As we continue to grow, we need your email to stay in touch. So, fill out the contact form. Let us know about your home break in the comment section, plus anything you want us to know.

If anyone asks if you’re a Chubasco, the answer is, “Hell, yeah.”

Mahalo

Mascots –

the Chicken  

the Skrud

Deities –

Neptune  

Pele

Gone but not Forgotten – Dr 360,  Doc Mason, John O’Neill, Ian Smith

Bands –           The Killers  

                                    The Doors

TSOL

Cartoons –

Bam Bam          

Ally Oop 

 

Team Moms – Carol Kappe

          Vicki BasshamCat Laurin  

Team Ladies-

Melinda Morey,

Tish Denevan

Alice Latuf

              Annie Phung & Connie Woo

 

Team Families –             the Biggerstaffs, the Nickersons, the Basshams

Grand Champions –

2016 Don McCredie

2015 Tom Marr

2014 Chris Kalima

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2013 Mark Thon

2012 Matt Henry

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2011 Richard Loughridge

2010 Noah Prohaska

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2009 Eric Ackerman

2008 Michael Kim

Team Teens –  2016

Joe Nickerson

Natalie  Doumanian

                Ariel Burns   ,

Colby Livingston

Team Teens – 2019

Caden Cunningham

Ella Jenson

Michael Doti

Ella Edmonds

 

Team Handplanes –

Daniel Strudnick & the Slyde boys

Team Slyde – Pete & Angela

Steve ‘Wave’ Hunter & Jack ‘Bam Bam’ Bassham 

World Champions –

Tim Castinelli (H)

Grant Leone (H)

Chris Lafferty (H)

Sister Clubs – Gilles Beach, Santa Cruz,

Del Mar

Point Panic, South Jetty, Hossegar (FR), Caloundra (AU)

Favorite Foreign Break – Puerto Escondido, OA, Mexico

2014 Chubascos Bodysurfer of the Year

Dylan Biggerstaff

2nd Place, World Bodysurfing Championship (12-14)

 

2014 Wave of the Year

Jack Bassham

 

2015 Bodysurfer of the Year

Ben Benihana Lauren

2015 Wave of the Year

Kaito Ham

2015/16 Handplaner of the Year

 Augie Cunningham

2016 Female Bodysurfer of the Year

 

Alice Latuf

2016 Wave of the Year

Meredith Rose

2019 Male Bodysurfer of the Year

Caden Cunningham

2019 Female Bodysurfer of the Year

Joanne Zachau