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| The BOP Young Guns |
I just wanted to thank KIALOA for your great support at the BOP. It was an awesome Challenging first day with the 2.5 lap trials where they cut half the field and then the final Elite race. It was the most competitive gathering of the Worlds best racers in a single race I have seen yet. If you didn't get the hole shot in the beginning; you were forced to battle it out with any where from 10-30 guys at every buoy turn. It made for some very punishing turns and some luck to get the set wave to separate you from the pack. Congrats to Connor Baxter and Candice Applebee for the BOP win and to our Naish team for doing so well.
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| Battle at the Buoy! |
The 2nd day, we paddled the 10 mile distance race with well over 200+ racers on the starting line. It was a battle to fend off the drafting trains that followed and some times it was so hard to make a clean pass, you were stuck in the drafting train until someone made a mistake and you could take the lead. Jimmy Terrell and I battled the last half of the race side by side, both of us followed by a 10-15 person drafting train. At the end I managed to escape the pack to the finish where I placed 2nd in the 14' class behind Naish team mate Jerry Bess. Great race. The BOP finished off with the always exciting team relay races with 2 laps thru the surf around 2 buoys and a beach run. Naish put together 2 relay teams; The young guns and the Legends. LOL The young guns team finished 2nd overall and our legends team finished 5th overall.
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| The Naish Relay Legends! |
It was an awesome weekend showcasing the future of the sport and the power of the youth brigade. Thank you all again for your great support in helping me push myself and the sport of SUP.
Best,
Chuck Patterson
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