"DAVO" GROMS FAVORITE

Chris "Davo" Davidson had an army of frothin' groms in his corner at this years Rip Curl Pro.

Davo, himself still a frothin' grom at 34 was ripping. On his way to the quarters he took out Kieren Perrow, Michel Bourez and Julian Wilson twice eventually falling to Jordy Smith. In stark contrast to the big money being paid to a handful of surfers, Davo, currently ranked 13th on the ASP World Title ranking is sponsor-less.

At a time when WCT surfers tend wear their game faces 24/7. It's great to see a personality like Davo on the tour.

Groms banner of support at Bird Rock.

Pumped for action on the final day.

Davo made it onto 2 Rip Curl Pro posters over the years.

(The feet belong to fiancee Carly)

JUNE SWELL LINES

New swell lines has been uploaded to You Tube.

Click on link below to take you direct to June Swell Lines.

>TAKE ME TO JUNE SWELL LINES NOW.

SURF COAST SIZZLE GOES GLOBAL

Surf Coast Sizzle is pleased to announce the blog is now getting hits from around the globe.
Australia, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, United Kingdom and USA to name a few. Just a small step towards world domination. You knows it!!

MAY SURFCOAST SWELL LINES SHORT MOVIE

Surfcoast Sizzle has uploaded a movie footage of swell last week.

To play movie:click here!!

http://surfcoastsizzle.blogspot.com/

GROUNDHOG DAY ON THE SURFCOAST

Another great day of surfing on the Surfcoast. Sunshine, light offshore. Not as big as the other day but still a lot of fun to be had.

MORE ON THE CHILLED OUT ELEPHANT

At SurfCoast Fizzle, err! Sizzle we continue to bring you all the hard hitting stories. It turns out that the elephant featured in our blog on the 20th Jan this year is a 50 year old female, and a one of it's kind. No other Circus in Oz has elephants. The chilled out elephant was featured on A Current Affair last night as part of a animal rights protest.

SURF COAST LOCAL SPOTTED ON HAWAII'S NORTH SHORE

Local Surf Coaster Cahill Bell-Warren spotted at Rocky Point on Hawaii's North Shore.

No matter where you are, Surf Coast Sizzle will find you.

Photo by legendary Aussie surf/waterman photographer, now living in Hawaii - Sean Davey.

Check out his fantastic work on

http://seandavey.com/wordpress/

TERRORISTS HIT TOWN!

To check out contest vert ramp see August 09 "WARD'S WORLD" blog

TAKE ME TO WARD'S WORLD

RANDOM PORTUGAL

Mushy on Portugal:

I rate the area really high for waves. There's always somewhere with swell, and heaps of the angles to the coast for good winds.

Comparisons..pretty good variety of waves here, so some are similar to home. The left from round 1 was similar to the one in the Canaries that I won last year. The water is pretty nice, a lot warmer than usual. Sweet in a short arm or steamer.

I'd definitely come back to get supertubes on, coz that place looks so good.

I've been staying with all the Quiksilver guys and I've just been hanging and surfing with them. Belly has hooked us up with a pretty nice house.

Food.. we have had a chef with us at the Quik pad so haven't eaten out much. It's usually really hard to find meals with veggies here so its amazing to have a dude cooking for us.

Can never go wrong with a Sunset. No matter where you are.

A pot of gold up for grabs.

Mushy and the Anchor Man stare down.

Photographer, Dan Warbrick, no matter what gear he uses, takes a great photo.

Wes Schaftenaar "International Man of Mystery" with giant killer Owen Wright. Can win this event!

Scotty Hargraves and a private conversation.

The brains trust, chowin' down. L-R Gary Dunne, Neil Ridgway, Arna Campbell & Claw, restraining himself from his trademark jump and hand rubbing.

Turn left at the tree that looks like a dog, then right at the dog that looks like a tree. Got it guys?

Thinking, thinking.

Former WCT surfer, now jetski driver, Phillip Island's Glyndon "Ringa" Ringrose

JT hard at work, Hmm, looks like he's just had a surf to me.

B1 at the entrance of crazy town.

Photos: Wes Schaftenaar

MUSHY'S JOURNEY TO THE WCT

Victorian surfers qualifying for the ASP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR, are few a far between, so when Jan Juc local, Nic “Mushy” Muscroft qualified for the 2009 tour there were a few celebrations in town.

"Mushy's" surfing journey started when he was 8 years old, when dad, Denis would take older brother, Nigel, surfing. Nic would tag along, but at the time, was more interested in building sand castles rather than surfing.

Born in Geelong and living in Bambra, the Muscroft boys went to “Deans Marsh Primary School”.

The closest waves to Bambra were at Fairhaven. It was along this stretch of coast that Mushy learnt to surf.

He joined the “Otway Boardriders Club” along with his dad and brother, and it wasn't long before he was winning the Cadet and Junior divisions.

In the late eighties the family made the move to Jan Juc.

The weekends in the Muscroft family were typical of an Aussie surfing family. Away competing in State rounds, or the newly adopted “Torquay Boardriders Club” contests.

Mushy continued to win. Finished year twelve at Oberon High School and then focused on his surfing.

After finishing in the top 10 of the Pro Junior Series, he jumped on the WQS merry-go-round.

In Hawaii 2006, after six years slugging it out, he came agonizingly close to qualifying for the WCT, but fell one place short.

2007 Mushy was first alternative for the WCT tour.

Hawaii 2008 was his big break-through and he qualified for the 2009 WCT.

The 2009 season so far, hasn't gone as well as he would have liked. Injury setbacks and just plain old bad luck, have slowed his ratings progress, but there have been positives along the way that justify his position in the top 45.

Nic has the Hawaiian leg of the WQS and WCT tour to look forward to in November and December.

Having tasted success in Hawaii before, it's a golden opportunity for him to take advantage of Hawaii's big powerful waves to climb up the ratings and re-qualify.

We wish him the best of luck and will be cheering him on from the Surf Coast.

Bustin' fins on his first new surfboard.

Oberon High School state champions team member.

Hawaiian poster boy!!