santa cruz california : 4 videos

Throughout this series every winner’s trophy has been symbolic of the area and when producing the trophies for the O’Neill Cold Water Classic California and Overall Series Winner it seemed appropriate that the tall redwood trees synonymous with Northern California be the main material in the construction of the trophy. The wood is beautiful and comes in all different colors: black, yellow, white. If it stays on the river, it will also turn purple. All the venues of the event have been pretty...

The ocean has done a lot for the O’Neill family and they wanted to give something back. So Jack O’Neill set up the Sea Odyssey Program. This program connects kids to the ocean, a lot of them have never been on a boat or on the ocean before. It teaches them how essential and important the ocean is. If they don’t understand it, they won’t be motivated to protect it. For example, one of their units is marine science, so the kids gather plankton and learn about the bottom of the food chain. And h...

Jarrad Howse (Australia) was so close to winning last year’s Cold Water Classic Series! He only needed to qualify to the next round to beat fellow Australian Blake Thornton to the prize! This win would have been the pinnacle of Jarrad Howse’s career! But all his dreams were smashed by Puerto Rican surfer Dylan Graves. His score beat Jarrad’s by only two- hundredths of a point! But that was enough to smash the Australian’s dream of becoming the Overall Champion. Who is going to take home the t...

After the most southern surf event in Tasmania, the most northern in Scotland, the wildest in South Africa and the coldest in Canada – the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Series 2010 reaches its big final with the last tour stop and the most classical event of its contest series. After four spectacular and wild surf events spanning four different continents in 7 months, Santa Cruz will host the big final stop of the Cold Water Classic Series 2010. Santa Cruz is the perfect venue for the big show d...