1st Annual LOB OFF
HERE YE! HERE YE! Come one and come all for the innagural LOB OFF!!
Start practicing your breath holds because this Sunday, October 23rd URT will be holding the 1st Annual freedive lobster grab competition. The competition will be taking place at Garbage Beach on Sunset Cliffs Blvd in Point Loma, CA. All contestants will get 2 hours to troll the reef and see who can snag any of the incredible prizes given to us by James & Joseph and West Marine. The prizes will be bestowed upon whoever catches the most legal lobster and whoever catches the biggest bug. Show up at 1130 sharp to sign in at the top of the stair case that leads down to the ocean. Sign up online here. 
URT & “The Dempsey”
URT is proud to partner up On October 16th, with WILDCOAST for the 8th annual Dempsey Holder Ocean Festival and Surf Contest in Imperial Beach – it highlights the need to protect our coastal ecosystems and wildlife.
The “Dempsey” features a surf contest for all ages, with a special focus on kids in the community. The folks at WILDCOAST do an incredible job organizing this event and raising awareness in the community. This is more than a surf contest it is an ocean festival.
When you sign up for the surf contest, you get a shirt – flip that hem over and WHAM-0!!! Feast your eyes on our 6 month tide chart. We have worked with WILDCOAST for our BOIL and WOMP – We LOVE the work they do. Come check it out and have some fun.
Register HERE!
Come Hell or High Water Premier
When our flagship store Emerald City asked if we would like to have a couple tickets to go to the west coast premier of “Come Hell or High Water,” we lost it! After being painfully teased with the trailer we couldn’t believe we were actually getting to finally see it. We met up with our good friend and talented photographer Drew McGill who ended up snapping all these event pics for us. 
The premier was held at Encinitas’ La Paloma theater and was packed with human torpedos. The movie was short and sweet. No distinguishable plot or hook, just good ol’ fashioned body WOMPing. The theater was filled with all sorts of hooting and hollering as those in attendance voiced their approval. I’ve never seen so many bodysurfers in one area and was proud to be part of the group. After the movie the film’s director, Keith Malloy, came on stage with the star of the show Mark Cunningham and fielded questions from the audience. Kelly Slater even got a question answered. Also, in attendance was Rob Machado, Taylor Knox, and Jack Johnson, just to name a few. 
I loved the movie and will recommend it to everyone I meet. Unfortunately, I didn’t know how bad I was at body surfing until I saw what true professionals looks like. It was well worth the bubble burst.
End of Summer- But it was a good one on the Silver Strand.
The Silver Strand State Beach is located between Coronado and Imperial Beach… It is a really cool place with lots of RV’s and water activities… Visiting this beach takes you back to simpler times. One of the gems of the Silver Strand is the lifeguard agency there.
Robert Phelps, an URT working for these guards, has been telling us about a pair of dories they have been building. It has been a slow and painstaking process.
The end result is are a pair of beautiful dories, and a really tight knit team of lifeguards.
These types of projects seem like they are not as common place. Back in the day, if a lifeguard wanted a piece of equipment they would most likely have to make it themselves… Now everything is polished and pristine / / it takes a little bit of the humanity out.
It was an absolute pleasure to see these guards keeping the craft alive.
Let’s take this baby out on way too long of a journey!!
WOMP-tastic WOMP!
Thank you to everyone who showed up and made this a really classic good feeling time.
Thank you to Emerald City, T3 Tactical Gear, Damon Bassett (amazing wooden hand planes- 619 212 1048), Clayton’s Coffee Shop, Orange and Park, Coronado Beach Lifeguard Association, Our judges and Mark Brown (announced and Judged in a studly manner). Photographers John McCauley, Drew McGill, and Kelley Casey
WildCoast - It would not have been possible without you guys!
Thank you most of all – sqURTs! You guys pioneered the division this year, and shredded!!!!!!!!
