Get that weird feeling! Freak-em-Out!

In the past three weeks I’ve been to CA three times,so sorry for the disconnect.. It’s a lot of work producing a film! Check out my last post about DARK FALL.. Alex DePhillipo and I have ben busy getting this thing ready for all of you!! Our last trip had us on the set of FUEL TV’s “The Daily Habit!” All I gotta say is Pat Parnell is the MAN!!! I’ll keep you posted on when the TV show will air, usually takes two weeks.. For now, keep your earballs open for Alex, Zack, and myself on 102.7FM 8:00 Friday morning, it should be a HOOT!!! In the mean time, check out a little Cali web-clip Alex and I put together!!

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The World Premiere has been set! July 16th at the House of Blues, the Showboat, in Atlantic City.. Two years in the making, DARK FALL, the NJ surf documentary film, takes you through a year in the lives of professional surfers from the state. Experience the passionate stories told by Dean Randazzo, Sam Hammer, Zack Humphreys, Clay Pollioni, Chris Kelly, Jamie Moran, and Mike Gleason as they bring you into the line-up in some of the best NJ surf ever captured on film. Narrated by yours truly, the film by Alex DePhillipo also showcases NJ surfers, Matt Keenan, Kevin Richards, Randy Townsed, Al Pollioni, Ian Block, Ben Graeff, and Rob Kelly filmed in High-Speed HD with the RED CAMERA courtesy of Robbie Beach at Beach Video. Check out the trailer, and don’t miss the World Premiere this July, it’s going to be this summer’s biggest event!!!

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Check out the whacky videos and roster for the event here..

Is this really a surf contest?? Wait, what am I getting myself into?

I love newps

Spring is a killer time of year. Life is rekindled everywhere around us in excitement for the upcoming summer season and it’s not limited to the birds, bees, plants, or trees, everything has a new spark. Businesses re-open when the sun warms the earth and our coastal towns come alive.. The surf, in the past, although not at it’s very best, seems to become consistent with long-lasting SE swell, and as we shed layers with the warming water, the winter surfer progresses after the intense “forced resistance training” endured while wearing full cold weather gear. First the hood, then the gloves, and lighter, more flexible, wetsuits allow for a less restraining, high energy surf session that will only leave you in love with the ocean and the sport. You’ll find yourself saying, “I Love Surfing” much like Randazzo’s last post..

So Happy Spring my friends, see you in the sea..

From hood, boots, and gloves.. -mcmullin

..to boots and gloves.. -mcmullin

All Photos By Rich McMullin & Trevor Moran

Conditions were looking pretty dismal first thing in the morning. The small surf wasn’t even showing up on the wave cams before I left my house to make the northernly trek up to Seaside with my teammates, Jamie Moran, Zach Humphreys, and Ian Bloch. It was no different story when we arrived to the beach for registration, but, the event, and it’s coordinators, had an optimistic plan and a little luck because for the three hours they needed to run the tide was incoming and the consistently pulsing 1-2ft ground swell was at it’s most manageable.

There are two rounds in this event. The first is a round of eight teams, two, one hour, heats of four teams. Each team has four surfers, two shop employees and two shop pros, one team member is in the water at a time. Each competitor  can catch a maximum of three waves with only one (the best) wave score counting toward the teams final tally. Before the heats beginning the team designates a “double whammy” surfer. This surfer is picked on his scoring potential for the day and the conditions. The “whammy surfer” is also limited to three waves, but when he thinks he’s scored to the highest of his potential he lets the judges know by throwing his hands up to double the score (a 5 counts for 10, an 8.5 would be 17). Top four totals out of all eight teams make the final where teams start from zero again and battle for the qualifying position.

After edging out runner-up, team 7th Street, 29.31 to 21.59 in the final, this is the third year running that Heritage has taken home the qualifier and earned an expense paid trip to Huntington Beach for the final, September 13th.  The Surf Shop receives free advertisement in Surfer Magazine, and the team reaps benefit to a list of goodies, including wetsuits, surfboards, and an invite to the Surfer Poll Awards.

We have a consistent formula for running under the format that has only been fine tuned after each passing year, and we’re ready to take it out west again. Not to mention, there is a fire under our asses because of the mishap of not making flights in time to compete as a full team last year due to conflicting schedules and success in later rounds of the 2009 Belmar Pro (Zack Humpreys and I couldn’t make the flight scheduled too closely to the end of the comp). We are making sure everything goes as planned and we make it to the finals, team in tact, to meet some stiff competition in hope to take home the title and the $10,000 prize money! Stay tuned!

One of the bigger waves of the day!

You have to run to and from the "team box" to tag up WWF style. The clock never stops ticking..

In the box awaiting scores to drop while Ian was in the line-up.

See you in the Finals..

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Bowled at 5th street - McMullin

Ocean City has been hard to leave when swell comes to town. With sand pumping week after week, there’s no telling what will happen when the surf picks up.. Chances are somewhere new is going to be doing something special, and, by special I mean top to bottom tubes. It’s flat now and the sand is pumping. I’m gonna keep my eyes on the growing beaches so when the surf starts doing the pumping I’ll know where to be..

Can you make out a face in the wave?? - McMullin

I got together with Brian Heritage and designed the Hawk. We talked over what I wanted out of the board, what traits I liked from boards that had proven to work well before, and he put it all together on a block of foam before my eyes. We sent it over to Brian Wynn and had the stick glassed an in the water in under two weeks time.. I’m not gonna tell you to much more now, but check the frame grabs from the upcoming webisode thats in the works for a top secret web page launch coming this spring..

I was out west mid January to compete with the Fox surf team in the Katin Team Challenge. We ended up taking 4th place in surf that was Maxing out the North side of Huntington Pier. I almost killed my self trying to advance out of my first round heat. Out of the three other competitors in the line up, only six waves were caught due to the strong drift into the pier and less than desirable closeouts bombs coming through. I needed a score, and pretty much gave up on trying to find a good wave and turned on the biggest thing that came through. The bomb took me high-speed towards the pier giving me only the opportunity to snap under the lip and come flying out with the explosion, dead set for the most piling congested part of the pier, the “T”. I bailed, turned on my sonic the hedgehog forcefield and hoped for the best. When I came up, I had traveled between the barnacle covered, concrete “life-enders” with out a scratch. I made the heat, but I scared the crap out of myself..

Moment before the bail, and my pinball manuever..

The pics below are from one of the free surf sessions I had on the south side of HB pier during the event with Ryan Carlson, Jesse Evans, and the Turner bros. There was an against the grain left barrel that offered one of the sickest views of the pier I’ve seen, inside lookin out… We traded off catching “the one,” a wave that appeared to be a closeout into the pier that offered a perfect tuberide and exit about ten feet in front of the treacherous pilings. There was no “Huntington hop” going on this session, just perfect drainers and punchy air sections! We had a blast!

The air section was sick!

Last weekend Alex DePhillipo’s New Jersey surf Documentary, “Dark Fall” played a trailer at the largly hyped “pre”-premiere of poor specimens latest production “Modern Collective.” Showing right in the middle of a block of films including “Gum for My Boat” which takes an intimate look into the growth of the Bangladesh surf club, Red Bulls “Mentawais Super Trip” showcasing some of the energy drinks top athletes, the “Dark Fall” teaser boasted some of the loudest reactions in the theater! 

The Theater was packed for two nights straight as the Film Festival logged in yet another successful year. Much thanks goes out to the parties involved with making the event possible and for supporting “Dark Fall”!!

You know the boyz were holding it down at the open bar that offered cold pints of PBR on the house!