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From Alistarpaine.info:

“Alister & Paine: Do you consider yourself an entrepreneur or inventor?

Jeff Kelley: They call me ‘the Fiddler’ because I’m always messing around with stuff. Trying to take my ideas and turn them into cash.”

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Last week took Carmen Vicari and I to California to catch one of the many Kick Ass swells from one of the many cold fronts California has endured this winter… This was the second trip for my latest video project documenting the Winter Cold Fronts. My goal was to fly out and capture how Timmy Reyes forecasts these storms and….

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Hi! I am Rod Livingston, one of the cooks for R&R BBQ Team.  Last year was our first year to compete and we did pretty well.  We finished in the top ten overall in several contests with several top-four finishes in the brisket and ribs individual categories.

Of course, BBQ competitions are not the same; but, I use to compete in surfing in the mid 70′s in California.  I was the U.S. Boys Surfing Champion in 1974 and the Huntington Beach Open Mens and Super Heat winner in the late 70′s.  I moved to Utah in 1989 (long story) and still get some great surf trips in to places like Costa Rica, Panama and California.

Barbecue contests are a lot of fun and you get to meet some pretty interesting people.  Besides, who doesn’t love great BBQ?  On February 26th, Lake Havasu City hosted one of the first Kansas City Barbeque Society competitions of the year.  Over seventy teams participated in the contest including local BBQ teams, nationally-ranked teams, and several of the famous BBQ Pitmasters (a show on the Learning Channel). Each team competes in four categories – - chicken, pork ribs, brisket and pork butt.  All categories are scored on presentation, taste, and texture.  The challenging part of a contest is to not only serve up great food but to also have it ready at the right times.

In the Lake Havasu contest, I finished fourth in ribs, eleventh in chicken, and nineteenth overall.  My brisket didn’t do as well even though it is usually one of my best meats.  If the brisket had been in the top twenty in this contest, I would have finished in the top ten overall; you know that “I just needed one more wave and I would have won the heat” thing.  If you get a chance to come