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While we’re not for killing birds with stones, doing two things at once is pretty darn awe-thumb. That’s exactly what Sanuk teamrider, Phillip Soven did last week in winning second stop of the 2011 MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour in Fort Worth, TX on his birthday- of all days!

Soven squeezed out Australia’s Harley Clifford by a mere half a point to win the Fort Worth Pro Tour stop two years in a row. The win lands Phil in the top spot of the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour season standings. Watch the winning run:

Happy Belated Phil!

Hide the candy, lock the door, and runs for the hills… the groms are on the loose!

This last weekend, a handful of Sanuk’s little monsters went on a competition rampage in a few of the local surf series here in Southern California.

At the WSA West Coast Championships in San Clemente, Ryland Rubens, took home the 12U – first place trophy! Word on the beach says Ry was so relaxed the whole event, he didn’t even take his PJs off. The big victory qualifies Ryland for a coveted spot in the USA Championships in July. Here he stands with another addition to the hardware collection.

At the same event, our little lady shredders, Ashley Beeson and Malia Faramarzi, made the finals in their division and locked down 2nd and 4th place respectively!

Over at the NSSA Explorer our pal, Zach McCormick, won the Super Grom Conference title! Don’t let his miniature stature fool you, because the win seats him in first place in the rankings going into regionals.

Dagan Stagg hoisting the goods at the WSA Championships with Ian Carnes.

Best of luck to all as they continue to kick major patooty!

Meet Sanuk’s world-travelling surf, contest machine and scholastic dominator, miss Amy Nicholl.

Hailing from New Smyrna Beach, Flordia Amy is the real deal. In recent years, she has amassed a long list of surfing achievements including an ESA Eastern Championship, three ESA Southeast Regional titles, three ESA Scholastic Championships, an NSSA East Coast Girl’s title and an Explorer Women title. At just 16, Amy became the Surfing America under 16 Girl’s Champion and a Rip Curl National Grom Search Champion. Phew!

And according to Amy, now 20 years of age, the biggest highlight of her amateur career was “having been a 3 year member of the ESA All Star Team and a 3 year member of the USA Surf Team”. Needless to say, Amy has pretty much perfected this maneuver:

We like to call it, the “Check Please!”

When Amy isn’t in the water kickin’ major bootay in her contest heats, she can be found in the undergraduate program at the University of Central Florida studying marketing and captain-ing the UCF Surf Team.

When the waves go flat in Florida, Amy can be found behind the boat enjoying her new hobby- wake surfing.

…Proving sometimes you’ve got to spin it to win it!

Click the image to see Peter Mel & a slew of groms enjoying themselves “down under”.

More more of “the Condor” visit his nest on Facebook.

Last weekend, an incredible climbing competition took place in the picaresque setting of Bilbao, Spain. The Master Series Psicobloc event was held on a 50ft high wall above the water of the Bilbao Estuary. Nearly 5,000 people gathered to watch history in the making as climbers. As it turns out, our very own spiderman, Chris Sharma, put on quite a show (massive understatement).

As a poster-child for the climbing world, Chris continues to set the standard and blaze a trail few can keep up with. Chris is known for completing mind-blowing climbs including regional favorite: Es Pontas of Mallorca, Spain.

In the event, Chris was the only competitor able to conquer the double dyno (meaning two ridiculously difficult maneuvers) and top the feature. Needless to say, first place was all his!

Climbing and outdoor juggernaut, prAna, was able to catch up with Chris shortly after his monumental win. We’ve (politely) borrowed a few words from the spiderman himself as quoted on prAna‘s blog:

“It was such an awesome event, unbelievable actually” said Chris. He continued to explain, “climbing high over the water, with no rope, changed my perception of what was possible in climbing.  It is without doubt for me the purest form of climbing, as well being very spectacular.”

Right now, the sport of climbing is growing faster than the mane atop Chris’ head… All eyes seem to be on the sport as its ambassadors a bringing things to new heights- quite literally.

Chris went on to say, “The high adrenaline and big falls make it a super spectacular spectator sport, more so than any other climbing competition format…

…Looking back on the years when climbing was in the X Games but just couldn’t translate to the mainstream audience because if its slow subtle nature, this new form of competition will surely blow the minds of any non climber and I believe will be a key element in climbing becoming a more mainstream sport.”

Chris smilin’ big on the podium. Wait a minute, are those mad scientists??

Check out just how gnarly Chris’s performance is… And you thought climbing the social ladder was tough…

For more information on the competition visit: http://bit.ly/aqntZo