Aussie surfing Co Rip Curl to partake at WCT event
01 Sep '05
4 min read
The Rip Curl Footwear Trials will also be staged as a one-day prelude to the main event on Friday September 30, with 16 invitees competing in a round robin format to select one lucky wildcard who will gain automatic entry into the main event. Gilmore, Christian, Hamilton, Dyer and Blanchard will be among the contestants in the Trials, side by side with other amateur Rip Curl team riders and Surfing America WQS contenders.
"Following overwhelming success last year as the first stand alone women's WCT event on the American mainland, this year's event promises to be a titanic battle between the best women surfers in the world," said ASP International's (Association of Surfing Professionals) President Wayne Rabbit Bartholomew.
"The Rip Curl Malibu Pro continues Rip Curlís unquestionable support of world professional surfing, sitting beside the women's SPC Fruit Pro, Bells Beach and Venus Festival in Hossegor, France."
The Rip Curl Malibu Pro will use Malibu as its headquarters and the main event base, but will also remain mobile with access to the hidden right point of Leo Carillo some 15 minutes north, and further north again into Ventura County to the infamous right hand lines of C-Street.
Intertwined with the Women's WCT will be the Rip Curl Celebrity Surf Bout that will take place on Saturday, October 1st at Malibu's Surfrider Beach. The stage is set for celebrity actors and musicians to battle it out in a tag team surf event that will proclaim Hollywood's hottest celebrity surfers.
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