 Dodo Espejon warms up at the beach break. |
 Al-al Comandante does the same. |
 Bilmar eyes a potential barrel. |
 More Dodo. |
 Marlon, Valdez, Peps ... and chess. |
 Bisaya Girls Reunited in LU |
 Stephan and Zen! |
 I think we were talking about the Point and the Wahine heat. |
 Kagey and the LU groms |
 Luli and Lemon |
 Dodo lines one up at the Point. |
 Trust Dodo to score a barrel in the first heat of the comp. |
 Unidentified charger finds another barrel. |
 Osot Alcala |
 Peps Gordo. |
 Mickey Boy: super tired |
 Django Mendoza |
 Django Mendoza: everybody's Kuya. |
 Django Mendoza |
 Anthony Valdez |
 Poks Esquivel lines one up |
 Poks Esquivel's spray |
 Jomar Gloria |
 Baler's Allen (the grom) and Jeff (the junior) discuss the beach break. Or is it Paquito?! |
 Tanjung Fietas |
 My kapatid, Ian Saguan, joins the judges |
 Siargao grom Pete Pete visits La Union |
 Dodo decides to hit the beach break |
 Arkipo Figuron |
 The technical staff at the tower. |
 I thought this was Luke... but those are Kao Kao's boardshorts. |
 The hardworking ground crew at "ground zero" |
 In Mhay's words "Ang magkapatid" |
 Our lovely tower for Rimat Ti Amianan |
 The i.d. says it all ;) |
 Archie. (That later became Rock Star/Judge). |
 The contest director hard at work on the 'fliptop.' And so ends my photos of Day 1 of the comp. |
 Carolers/Dancers |
 Day two of the comp and Mickey Boy is chaaaargin' |
 Guess who. Or squint and read the watermark. |
 That wave makes Kao Kao look small. |
 Anthony "Kao Kao" Leuben implements the slash-and-burn technique of rail planting. |
 Zaldy and Alex bonding |
 Rua does a little bottle dance. |
 The birang-bira boys from Baler represent. |
 Chris Par and yoga for surfers. |
 I *think* this is Basyong. |
 Run Joel run! |
 Tanjung Fietas |
 Good morning Mister Landrigan! |
 Osot Alcala |
 Peekaboo! Osot finds a barrel. |
 The Black Panther gets ready to shred. |
 It's easy to find him in the white water. |
 but it's nicer to watch him on a proper wave. |
 Pretty. I know, it's not a macho word. But hey... that spray is pretty. |
 Dodo Espejon, post-heat. |
 Rua's traded the bottles for a big-ass gun. |
 Bad Boy's board gets a once-over from the Baler Boys. |
 Sequence: Alex Comandante... one |
 ... two... |
 and... three. |
 Bad Boy ... such a bad-ass surfer. |
 See? |
 Bad Boy mini-sequence coming up... lining it up... |
 comin' around... |
 ... round house cutback (thanks Malloy) |
 One more courtesy of Bad Boy. |
 Lining it up. |
 Getting it done. |
 Osotski and Kuya Django |
 Badok Antipasado sequence |
 ...two |
 and three. |
 Badok kind of owned this heat. |
 See what I mean? |
 Baler Boys: Bad Boy and Jeff |
 Sandito Alciso |
 Angel, Archie, Mako and Floyd judge. |
 Taking a quick break with Amanda. |
 Awww... Am and Alex. |
 The Hibla Board |
 The Baler Boyz with Olin Malloy Duaso |
 Yiheee... sila na. Hahaha. Joel Faraon and Osot Alcala. |
 Saguan... sa-judging. |
 Kali Boy |
 Anthony Valdez tries to hang on. |
 Sneak peek at Nirad |
 Zaldy Coldura |
 Zaldy Coldura |
 Anthony Valdez |
 Unidentified Charger chasing a barrel. |
 I think this is Arkipo Figuron. |
 And we're all sure this is "Criz Poloo" |
 Unidentified Junior shows off. |
 The Wahine Heat: Nildie Blancada smiles cos she loves that backside. |
 Daisy Valdez |
 Daisy Valdez |
 Nildie Blancada |
 Nildie Blancada |
 Mickey Galang |
 The Wahines: Nildie, Daisy, Joy, Menchie and Mickey |
 Ayus ba Kap? Ian's hair channels Rob Machado. |
 Roger is such a cutie. |
 Zaldy and me... pre-heat bonding. |
 The Junior Finalists: Allan Derecho of Baler |
 Zaldy Coldura of Siargao |
 Jeff dela Torre of Baler |
 And Badok "Tiny Dancer" Antipasado of Siargao. |
 Allan Derecho |
 Badok Antipasado |
 Badok Antipasado |
 Baler assualts Siargao... but in a friendly way. |
 Bad Boy and Arkipo |
 Badok and Jeff.: the celebration begins. |
 Bad Boy shows us where he's been... |
 ... and where he's going. |
 Arkipo Figuron gets camera shy and hides his face. |
 Arkipo finds a barrel to hide in. |
 Bad Boy digs in deep. |
 Alex Comandante, mini sequence... one |
 and two. |
 Longer sequence: lining it up... |
 ... bam! |
 And then a round house cutback |
 ... here it comes... |
 ... the end. Nicely done. |
 The Airshow... but not really. |
 Kao Kao grabs air... and loses his board. |
 The closest thing we got to an aerial. |
 Awwww... Stephan and Nildie. |
 Birang-bira... Nildie rocks the mic. |
 The Champions: Siargao's Nildie Blancada and Al-al Comandante |
 Contest Director Olin Malloy and Stephan |
 I have no idea what Eding is doing to Paquits. |
 Prince Eric, me and The Tuason Boys |
 Zaldy and Badok representing Team Ocean 101. |
 Together now: awwwww. |
 Zeny, Floyd, Mhay and me. |
 Finding Bjorn "I Kill Kittens" Velasco and Paolo "My Hair Is Natural" Soler. |
 Amalam! With Lemon and Mickey Boy. |
 Floyd, Olin, Nod and Zen. |
 Zeny and Lemon |
 The morning after. |
 Haaaay Olin! |
 Chris and his favorite hobby: texting. |
 Cable! Cable! |
 Mhay and her new best friend Dondi. |
 Wapak! |
 Bisdak! Wassup Allan?! |
 Mhay checks out the raw photos. |
 Inihaw... and tinola. Yummmmy!!! |
 Kain na! |
 Salamat sa lunch. |
 Styled and lookin' good. Haha. |