Matt Meola's crazy rodeo flip on Surfline.com

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http://www.surfline.com/surflinetv/sixty-seconds/matt-meolas-rodeo_28876

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MATT MEOLA SET PACE AT DAY ONE OF ARNETTE PRO JUNIOR

San Juan Capistrano, California (June 6, 2009) – The Arnette All Day Antics Pro Junior presented by Jack’s Surfboards kicked off the third of 10 stops on the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) North America Pro Junior regional series today with explosive early round action. Matt Meola (Kuau, HI), 19, led the competition when he issued the event’s first perfect 10-point-ride while advancing through his tough heats.

The ASP North America Pro Junior Series acts as a qualifier for the ASP World Junior Championships, with the series’ top three finishers at year’s end earning a berth onto the coveted event held in Narrabeen, Australia in an attempt to claim the title of ASP World Junior Champion.

Meola earned his perfect score with only one maneuver. The high-flying Hawaiian punted a critical air reverse on a Newport Beach wedge to earn the score and tacked the amazing performance onto his previous high scoring ride to claim the top heat total of the day as well, a near perfect 18.25 out of 20.

“Lately, I’ve just been trying to go big,” Meola said. “I think it’s boring to see a bunch of small turns, so I try and do what I like to watch.”

The variety of surf available to the Maui native allows him to prepare for anything the ocean offers him and his ability to capitalize on today’s fast beachbreak conditions paid off.

“I live on Maui and there are so many different types of waves,” Meola said. “I go out to Hana and there are beachbreaks over there and where I live is mostly reefbreak. There is a ton of different terrain to surf, so I’m kind of used to it.”

Meola is also hoping that a good showing here at the Arnette All Day Antics Pro Junior will help his cause towards qualification for the ASP World Junior Championships. Now that Hawaiian surfers earn points towards qualification for the prestigious event while competing in mainland America, the ASP Grade-3 status of the Arnette Pro Junior will play an equally significant role in the Hawaiian’s qualification hopes as mainland American competitors.

“I’m super psyched, because in the past we have only had about two contests,” Meola said. “That made it really hard to qualify for worlds, which was really frustrating. Now that we can earn points towards our Hawaii rating over here, it’s so sick.”

Matt Meola crushes the competition at the Arnette Pro Junior in California

Check his footage http://www.arnetteprojunior.com/photo/matt-meolas-perfect-10/

Matt Meola crushes the competition at the Arnette Pro Junior in California. Matt posted an 8.5 and perfect 10 to easily advance out of his 2nd round heat. Matt is riding his new Cali Milkman models, 5'9 1/2" x 18' x 2.125" We designed these several weeks ago specially for this competition and it looks like we got them perfect. Matt said " I couldn't have done it without my magic board"

Matt Meola's California Milkman boards all painted up.

Matt Meola gave his new contest boards his special custom paint job.

Tanner Hendrickson and Matt Meola at the Kazuma factory

Tanner and Matt are back on Maui after killing it at the Volcom Newport contest. Tanner won $7000.00 and Matt won $1000.00 for their dominating performances. We spent a few hours today working on the new summer board designs. Our new California Groveler Milkman models already have the Volcom contest victory to validate the designs potential. Check the blog from yesterday and see the air that Matt did. Absolutely crazy...........

Matt Kinoshita

Great day for Kazuma at the 2009 Volcom Hillbilly Stomp Contest at Newport Beach

Here is a great shot of Matt Meola and Tanner Hendrickson.
Matt was 4th in the Airshow and Tanner won Juniors.
Matt also won $1,000 for Best maneuver in the contest, Tanner $7000 !
They call it the Electric Bolt Thrower Move.

Haiku, secret spot. Matt Meola

Hi guys, i found this secret wave in deep Haiku. Super fun, but it was a bit sketchy. It breaks right next to a cliff. Matt

Matt Meola, the Point

Matt Looks really small inside, strong current and a lot of white water

Matt Meola, Hookipa.

Bad weather and short rides, but it looks like we can make good vids with the camera. It's still working after some good aerials and crashes !
We carry the gopro cameras at the shop, come check them out.

Matt Meola

Matt Meola Promo vid. from marlon lewis on Vimeo.

Matt Meola pics

Patrick Devault pic...Epes Sargent pics...

Time now for Matt Meola. the Point, Hookipa.

Matt Meola advances to round 3 Vans El Ponto Loco WQS 2 star

9-3-08 wqs 2 star qualifier Vans El Ponto Loco, in Carlsbad California.

Matt Meola advances into round 3. In his 1st round heat, Matt had one of the top 5 total heat scores of the round.

Matt surfs again Thursday 9-4-08.

Matt Meola - Bliss Magazine and the Free Surf pages

Matt Meola pulls another one at Lowers. Sponsor Oneill and Kazuma

Matt Meola - Billabong Freewave Challenge

Matt Meola makes NSSA airshow final!

Matt Meola advances to the finals in the Nssa Nationals Airshow division. Matt had some of the highest scores of the competition.

Kazuma with Matt Meola, 1 on 1 coaching session at the Nationals

One thing for sure, Matt is the surfer to watch. He actually pulled this turn, Matt and Kai were the most impressive surfers we watched over the last 3 days. Matt looked right at home from his very 1st wave. Matt Kinoshita and Matt Meola are pictured below going over some positioning strategies and were doing some last minute video coaching to fine tune his performance. Matt is Ready to win.

Matt Meola video, Hookipa Maui North Shore

Really cool video from flying Matt Meola !

Matt Meola is one of the most under-rated surfers in the world. It is only a matter of time before Matt starts winning major contests.

Matt reminds me of a young fred Pattachia. WQS look out. Matt is my number one pick to win the NSSA natinals this year.


Watch this video and you will agree, Matt is the real deal.

By the way, Matt's board is 5'8.25" x 17.25" x 2.125" and is a custom Milkman model that I designed just for him.

Check the NSSA blog for updates, pictures and video's of Matt in action.