Yesterday some of the Catch Surf team went down to Salt Creek to have a nice little beach day and test out some of the new 2011 Catch Surf boards that will be out in a couple weeks. Yes, the waves weren’t pumping and 6-8ft as you can see above, but it didn’t matter because our boards are a blast in small summertime surf like this! Below are a couple lifestyle pix our art director Fede took while we were down there and more action photos will be posted in the next couple days!

Super shredster CJ Drummy with the chief head dress and the sick new 2011 Catch Surf Super ONE board which will be out in a couple weeks.

Even the bald eagle showed up to get a sneak peak of the new 2011’s!

Colton Overin and his 2011 Y-Quad, which he claims is the best soft board he’s even ridden and being a shredder from San Clemente, he’s tried them all!

Taylor Page cruised down and ripped it up on the new Beater Original 48″, which is a smaller Beater for groms and blackball areas that have 4′ and under restrictions. The new Beater 48″ is also sick for skimming!

Pro photographer Shelby Craig came down and snapped some water shots of the action.

Click Here to check out Shelby’s photo website, he’s the man!

CJ Drummy gives the thumbs up in the background as horseybatman poses with the Beater Original 48″.

The competitors came to play at this weekend’s first annual Catch Surf Finless Fiesta held in Ocean City Maryland. Check out this picture of event winner in the El Senior’s division (18 & up) Tyler Tremiellen throwing the power hit on his Beater Original 54. So Sick. Pic.Doug Fresh

Tyler shredded it hard all day with clean tail snaps and floaters like above to win the custom stamped Finless Fiesta Beater. Tyler’s a Ocean City local so he knows the wave and how to shred it! Pic.Doug Fresh

In the Los Chicos division (17 & under) it was Noah Conboy taking the big win and in the finals Noah busted a clean 360 take off to shuv-it on the set wave of the day! Noah kills it and being an Ocean City local only helped! Pic. Doug Fresh

Noah Conboy winning the goods and becoming the first winner of the Los Chicos division of the Catch Surf Finless Fiesta. Pic.Doug Fresh

The Maryland rippers showed up to prove their skills finless style! Pic.Doug Fresh

Tyler Tremiellen busting a sick tail slide snap on a nice little Ocean City grinder. Moves like this got Tyler the big win! Pic.Doug Fresh

Check out this sick frontside 360 off the top this competitor is busting. So rad! Pic.Doug Fresh

Check out this grom busting out the backside skills on the ONE! Pic.Doug Fresh

Noah Conboy with the clean Beater style! Pic.Doug Fresh

The Beater Soul Arch for the style points. Pic.Doug Fresh

Big thanks to Ryan Savage (pictured here), Danny Ritz, K-Coast Surfshop and Doug Fresh for making the Finless Fiesta happen! All you bloggers please keep checking the site as there will be many more FREE Catch Surf events in the future!!!

Be there or be square! A good day of Beater fun and it’s FREE!!!!

Catch surf’s own BILL BEAKER BRYAN from ricky miller on Vimeo.

Bill “Beaker” Bryan getting psyched to have some fun in his Battle of the Beater heat!

The groms were stoked to get to hang and surf with a legend like Bill Bryan at the Battle of the Beater. Bill’s shuvit over a grom in the lineup was the single sickest move of the event!

The demand for the Beater is hot and we are making them around the clock to keep summertime shredders stoked! Here’s a nice stack getting ready for the finishing touches. All made in the USA!!

Lot’s of scraps everywhere…

K-Coast on 35th in Ocean City Maryland just got a fresh batch of Beaters (48″ & 54″) just in time for the Catch Surf Finless Fiesta going down on this Sunday at 5:30pm in Ocean City. For more info on the event call K-Coast surfshop or check their website www.kcoast.com

The Rip Curl Surf Station in San Clemente also just got a bunch of the new Beater Original 48’s which are specially made for the groms and smaller riders looking to avoid hassles from the San Clemente lifeguards.

The Finless Fiesta is on this weekend in Ocean City Maryland after bad weather forced us to cancel the last one a couple weeks ago. The Finless Fiesta will be on August 8th at 5:30pm and competitors are to check-in at K-Coast surfshop on 35th. There will some sweet prizes up for grabs and entry is FREE so make sure to check it out and get your finless on!!

Check out the Transworld Surf website for more pictures and coverage of the Battle of the Beater!

Click Here to check out the The Battle of the Beater on the Transworld Surf website

During the Battle of the Beater, riders were doing all kinds of new moves and one of them that was quite popular was the “Sex Change” which is a move made popular by Bill “Beaker” Bryan. A Sex Change is when you ollie and at the same time you twist your body 180 degrees and switch your stance before you land. Here Morgan Just demostrates one during his heat in the Battle of the Beater. Notice that Morgan is riding goofy foot before he does the trick.

Here in shot 2, you see Morgan doing an ollie and twisting his body 180 degrees in mid-air.

Here in shot 3, you see Morgan landing and now in the regular foot stance and ready to do his next trick switch-stance. All photos by Mokitom.com

Shea Porter was shredding on his Original 48 Beater all day long and ended up taking 4th place in the event. Shea throwing a little tail slide turn on a nice one. Pic.Mokitom.com

Pro skimboarder Blair Conklin ripped it and here’s a picture of him hitting the floater on one of the bigger set waves of the day. Pic.Mokitom.com

Blair did manage to win the skim portion of the event with Shea Porter. Blair busted a kickflip and made the crowd go crazy, here is a pic of one of his many attempts. Talk about POP!!! Pic.Mokitom.com

Pretty much all the competitors were skimming their Beaters when not surfing in heats and here Rocket Klein demostrates an air 360 grab powered by the mullet. Pic.Mokitom.com

Bill “Beaker” Bryan showing the groms how to throw massive chunks skimming the Beater with hacks like this doozie! Pic.Mokitom.com

Bill again, this time with a mini rock’n'roll floater on the inside during his heat. Pic.Mokitom.com

Jamie Lucarelli of Capistrano Beach was one of the bigger riders in the event, so he was able to do some hard rail turns like this one. Jamie surfed consistent all day long and ended up taking 6th place in the stacked finals. Pic. Mokitom.com

Colin De La Pena was shredding it! Pic.Mokitom.com

Colin De La Pena on a clean one! Pic.Moktiom.com

Event winner Steve Maccarone busting out the backside on a clean one. Unfortunately we didn’t get a lot of pictures of Steve, but trust us, he was RIPPING all day long! Pic.Mokitom.com

Shea Porter again, this time with a backside floater on the inside during one of his heats. Pic.Mokitom.com

Skim madness at the Battle of the Beater. Pic.Mokitom.com

San Clemente grom Jonathan Ross on a clean looking set wave. Pic.Mokitom.com

Ned Waterbury of Dana Point was another dark horse in the event and he made it all the way to the semis before going down. Ned busted some sick shuv-its and carving 360’s. Pic.Mokitom.com

CJ Drummy took a little break from judging to go get wet and throw some big hacks on his Super ONE. Pic.Mokitom.com

He also threw out a few airs too! CJ always shreds the gnar!!!! Pic.Mokitom.com

How’s this mini grom, he’s probably like 6 years old and he’s already going for the skim kickflip on the Original 48 Beater! Pic.Mokitom.com

Justin White of Seal Beach shredded his way to 2nd place and busted lots of clean grab-rail 360’s like this one. Pic.Mokitom.com

Shea Porter again with this time with the pop shuv-it. Shea did lots of sick pop shuv-its during the contest. Pic.Mokitom.com

This weekend the Catch Surf Battle of the Beater went down at Buccaneer Beach in Oceanside and 50 competitors from all over Southern California showed up and ripped their Beaters! The contest was greeted with clean 2-4 surf and clear sunny skies by 11am! Here is a group shot of some of the Beater warriors that came to do business!

The finals of the first annual was made up of some of the baddest Beater ripper shredders from California! Here’s how the finals ended up:

1st place: Steve Maccarone (San Clemente) won $200 cash, 2011 Catch Surf Y-Quad & skate deck ($410), Freestyle Shark watch ($65), AMBSN Clothes ($120), Jens Sunglasses ($90)

2nd place: Justin White (Seal Beach) won $100 cash, Custom stamped Beater & skate deck ($200), Freestyle Shark watch ($65), AMBSN Clothes ($100), Jens Sunglasses ($90)

3rd place: Bill Bryan (Laguna Beach) won $50 cash, Beater & skate deck ($200), Freestyle Shark watch ($65), AMBSN Clothes ($100), Jens Sunglasses ($90)

4th place: Shea Porter (San Clemente) won Catch Surf skate deck ($50), Freestyle Shark watch ($65), AMBSN Clothes ($60)

5th place: Rocket Klein (San Clemente) won Catch Surf skate deck ($50), Freestyle Shark watch ($65), AMBSN Clothes ($60)

6th place: James Luccarelli (Capistrano Beach) won Catch Surf skate deck ($50), Freestyle Shark watch ($65), AMBSN Clothes ($60)

The shredders of the day walked away with some nice prizes and to think that entry was FREE!!

The finalists right before they paddle out to do battle!

Two of the top competitors of the day, Bill Bryan and Justin White chilling before one of their heats. Justin White was the darkhorse of the event, he showed up out of nowhere and ripped his Beater all day long, busting big snaps and even a new move where he would do a fronside 270 spin and reverse to a 360 all at once!!! Justin is part of a crew of Beater rippers out of Seal Beach and they all represent and work at Inflight surfshop, so if your in Seal Beach make sure to go to Inflight to pick up a new Beater!

There was a solid crowd on the beach to watch the finalists do battle at the end of the day.

The judging panel was on it all day long and the scores were consistent and perfect everytime! Big thanks to CJ Drummy, Johnny Redmond, Joel Manalastas and Brian Peterson for all their help judging. In this photo is also Catch Surf founder George Arzente and Bill “Beaker” Bryan rapping out while the judges do work.

The goods up for grabs.

We ran the Battle of the Beater a little later than most contests so the competitors could get a tad more sleep before the big day. This picture was taken probably around 8:30am when all the riders started to show up.

Competitors posing for a photo before their heat. Unlike other contests, the Battle of the Beater was all about fun and it showed, everyone was having a good time. When guys lost, they didn’t get mad, they went and skimmed their Beaters!

Junior Pro skimboarder Blair Conklin ripped all day and came up just short from making the finals. Blair didn’t go home empty handed though, him and Shea Porter both won the mini skim jam we held and both took home new Catch Surf skateboards.

15-Time World Champion skimboarder Bill “Beaker” Bryan shredded all day and managed to pull down the highest scoring wave of the day when he pulled a pop shuv-it over a kid that was in his way on the inside. It was SICK!!!!

We put signs all over the beach so people knew it was a Beater contest….

Junior competitor Rocket Klein used the power of his mullet to guide him to the finals.

More competitors preparing to battle on the Buccaneer beach grinders!

This is Vinny De La Pena, the proud father of three mini Beater shredders.

Best announcer ever, Ricky Miller all the way from Virginia Beach.

Grom competitor and his custom stamped Beater looking sick.

The Beater ‘O’ Dart game.

Grom ripper Jonathan Ross checking what heat he’s in.

Spectators watching some of the early round action in the morning.

Morgan Just ripped his way to the semis and even pulled off a kickflip in front of everyone while skimming on his Beater.

Two Beater rippers, Heston Gale and Roy Callahan.

Check back tomorrow on the blog for more pictures and videos from the Battle of the Beater.