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Masters Division Action a Highlight on Day Two of the Quiksilver Open West Java 2012

15 June 2012, Cimaja-West Java: The Master’s Division (over 35 years of age) competitors saw action today on Day Two of the Quiksilver Open West Java at Cimaja Beach today, as the expected swell increase had 4-5 foot sets exploding onto the cobblestone break, giving the senior surfers plenty of great waves to tear into.

The first round of four heats got started at just after 8:00 am, with 16 surfers from Indonesia, Thailand, and the USA battling it out in the glassy and near perfect righthanders.  Bali’s Ketut Juliarta and local brothers Sujari and Edin (Dede Suryana’s older brothers) were standouts, and when the afternoon’s semifinal sessions were completed, they along with Uluwatu legend Made Lapur filled the four finalist positions.  The Master’s finals will be run along with all the finals on Sunday the 17^th of June.

Round Two of the Men’s Open competition was also completed today, with some expectations being fulfilled and some surprising upsets as well.

Heat One saw 2011 Coca-Cola ISC champ Marlon Gerber getting a slow start in the heat, going a bit too hard and uncharacteristically falling on his fist few waves, but about mid midway through the heat under pressure from Angga Mardiana, he found his rhythm and scored a 7 point wave to jump into the lead and maintain it to win the heat.  “I hadn’t surfed a 2^nd round heat in well over a year,” said Gerber,  “So it maybe I did feel a bit of pressure I guess.  The waves were really fun though, and I’m stoked I made it through that one because I want to keep surfing!”

Angga Mardiana and fellow Lembongan surfer Agus Frimanto put on great displays of competitive surfing today in their heats, living up to the expectations that Judge Sachan voiced yesterday. Mardiana finished his heat just less than one point away from Gerber’s total, 10.65 to 11.60, and Frimanto bested Cimaja locals Andre Julian and Suparman, as well as Ketut Juliarta to rack up the day’s highest combined heat score of 13.25 out of a possible 20 points.

They will go on to try their luck against the top seeded surfers tomorrow in Round 3, with Ardiana in Heat 1 against two time Coca-Cola ISC champion Lee Wilson, Soma Warsoma, and Agus Setiawan, and Frimanto taking on Darmaputra Tonyo, Putu Anggara, and Dedi Santoso.

A few of the local Cimaja surfers fared well today including Dede Suryana’s young protégé Deden Sutendi, along with Asep Pahruroji, Sujari, and Ruslandi.  They will get their chance against Asia’s best surfers tomorrow, and we wish them lots of luck.

The competition will resume tomorrow morning at 7:00 am with Round 3 and Round 4 of the Open Division.

As part of the “Keepin’ It Green” program of the Coca-Cola ISC Tour, Quiksilver along with the ROLE Foundation, GUS, and the Cimaja locals have created a beach cleanup program where Quiksilver’s Tony Sruntul and ROLE’s Curtis Lowe are instructing local groups of school children each day on environmental issues such as collecting and separating trash, and then giving away prizes to encourage them to continue.

Yesterday was the first day of the program and the kids were first divided into teams of two and given two separate bags, one for organic waste and the other for plastic.  At the end of the 1-hour collection period, the kids had amassed a trash pile weighing in at 125 kilograms!

Today it was some kids from the Madrassa Secondary School who showed up at the beach and collected 70 kilograms.  Each day it will get harder and harder to find the trash so the numbers will go down, and at the end of the Quiksilver Open West Java Cimaja Beach will be spotless!

“These school kids were so stoked to be coming here and after their efforts seeing a clean beach,” said Curtis Lowe.  “I know that Quiksilver and Coca-Cola have been coming here for a few years now and doing cleanups each time, and from what I can see the kids are really getting it now, so those past efforts are clearly having a positive impact.”

Along with prizes given for the biggest bags of trash, all the kids received an instructional cartoon booklet especially designed by the Bali-based GUS Foundation to teach kids about their health and the environment.

It promises to be another epic day action as the top surfers in Asia compete in Rounds 3 and 4 tomorrow, so please follow along with us here at the Quiksilver Open West Java 2012 on-line at www.isctour.com/events/quikwestjava and on Facebook at both ISC and Quiksilver Indonesia, and there will be all the up-to-the-minute heat scores and results during the day, then press releases, photos, and video highlights after the day’s competition has ended.

The Quiksilver Open West Java 2012 is sponsored by Quiksilver Indonesia and the Government of West Java, supported by Jim Beam, BII, Planet Surf, Augusta Hotel, Desa Resort, Rolling Stone Café, and Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia, with media support from Juice, Trax, FHM, Fitness For Men, Surfersvillage.com, Alam TV Bali, SurfTime, Magic Wave, Baliwaves.com, Balibelly.tv, Lines, RVM, and the Outdoor Channel, and assisted in the Coca-Cola ISC “Go Green” program by GUS, the ROLE Foundation, and Climate Wave.

Quiksilver Media Contact

Rossi Chesarah

Media Relations

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Email: Rossi.chesarah@quiksilver.co.id

Coca-Cola ISC and ASC Media Contact

Tim Hain

Media and Communications

Mob: +628123606674

Email: tim@isctour.com

About Quiksilver:

Quiksilver, Inc. (NYSE:ZQK) is the world’s leading outdoor sports lifestyle company, which designs, produces and distributes a diversified mix of branded apparel, footwear, accessories, snowboards and related products. The company’s apparel and footwear brands represent a casual lifestyle for young-minded people that connect with its boardriding culture and heritage.

The reputation of Quiksilver’s brands is based on outdoor action sports. The company’s Quiksilver, Roxy, DC, Lib Tech and Hawk brands are synonymous with the heritage and culture of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding.

The company’s products are sold in over 90 countries in a wide range of distribution, including surf shops, skate shops, snow shops, its proprietary Boardriders Club shops and Quiksilver, other company-owned retail stores, other specialty stores and select department stores. Quiksilver’s corporate and Americas’ headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, while its European headquarters are in St. Jean de Luz, France, and its Asia/Pacific headquarters are in Torquay, Australia.

About the Coca-Coca Cola Indonesian Surfing Championships

The Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championships is the sanctioning body for professional surfing in Indonesia.  The ISC was established in 2004 to provide surfing athletes with a consistent, legitimate, and respected forum where they can compete and measure themselves against their peers, a stepping-stone towards their ultimate goal of becoming a professional surfer at the international level

With the support of Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia, through organized surfing competitions, the Coca-Cola ISC seeks to grow the awareness of the sport of surfing in Indonesia and throughout the Asian region for the benefit of the surfers, their community, their environment, their nation and the surfing industry.  Find out more at www.istour.com

About the ASC

The Asian Surfing Championships began in 2011 with the mission of growing the sport of surfing in South East Asia from the grassroots level by assisting each country in organizing professional surfing events that will develop the skills of their surfers in healthy competition as well as to draw attention to their area for the progression of surfing locally, nationally, and throughout the SEA area.

Organized surfing competitions have historically been the best medium for the development of surfers and for the sport of surfing, where learning how to compete fairly and to being disciplined in training and competition are key skills needed not only for surfing but also for life.

The ASC works with the local, national and multinational event sponsors and organizers to maximize the results of these competitive surfing events towards accomplishing the goals of sharing the sport of surfing and bringing positive economic, social, and environmental benefits to the people in these South East Asian countries.  See more at http://www.asiansurfingtour.com

 

Aksi dari Divisi Master menjadi sorotan utama di hari kedua Quiksilver Open West Java 2012.

15 Juni 2012, Cimaja-Jawa Barat: Para peserta Divisi Master (di atas 35 tahun) menunjukan aksinya hari ini di hari kedua Quiksilver Open West Java di pantai Cimaja hari ini, dan seperti yang diharapkan sebelumnya, peningkatan gelombang hari ini mencapai 4-5 kaki  nyaris mencapai garis bebatuan, hal ini memberikan para peselancar ombak yang hebat untuk dijajal.

Round 1 dari total 4 heat dimulai pada pukul 8:00 pagi , dengan total peselancar 16 peserta yang berasal dari Indonesia, Thailand, dan USA berkompetisi dengan cara yang memukau bahkan nyaris mendekati sempurna. Ketut Juliarta yang berasal dari Bali, Sujari yang merupakan lokal Cimaja, dan Edis (kakak laki-laki Dede Suryana) menunjukan aksi yang sangat memukau, dan saat babak semifinal di sore harinya  telah selesai, mereka menempati posisi 4 finalis bersama dengan Made Lapur yang merupakan legenda dari Uluwatu (Bali). Putaran final untuk Divisi Master akan dilaksanakan hari Minggu tanggal 17 Juni nanti.

Round 2 dari Divisi Pria Terbuka juga telah selesai hari ini, diisi dengan hal-hal yang sesuai dengan ekspektasi juga beberapa kejutan lainnya.

Di Heat 1 diisi oleh juara Coca-Cola ISC 2011 - Marlon Gerber, yang mengawali dengan lambat, berlanjut agak terlalu keras dan tidak seperti biasanya jatuh di beberapa ombak-ombak pertamanya, tetapi menjelang di tengah kompetisi setelah mendapatkan tekanan dari Angga Mardiana, dia kembali menemukan iramanya dan berhasil mendapatkan skor 7  dimana posisinya langsung memimpin di heat-nya. “Dalam 1 tahun ini saya tidak pernah berhasil sampai ke Round 2 ” ucap Gerber, “Jadi, mungkin saya merasa adanya sedikit tekanan. Ombaknya sendiri sangat menyenangkan, dan saya berusaha untuk dapat melewatinya, karena saya tetap ingin berselancar!”

Angga Mardiana dan Agus Frimanto yang berasal dari Lembongan (Bali) menunjukkan hasil kompetisi yang luar biasa di heat mereka hari ini, melebihi ekspektasi yang diucapkan kemarin oleh Sachan, salah satu juri. Mardiana menyelesaikan heat-nya hanya selisih 1 poin dibawah dari total yang didapat oleh Gerber, yaitu 10.65 melawan  11.60, Frimanto berhasil mengalahkan Andre Julian dan Suparman yang merupakan peselancar lokal Cimaja, juga Ketut Juliarta yang berhasil memperoleh skor tertinggi 13.25 (dari 20)

Mereka akan mencoba keberuntungan mereka besok bertanding melawan peselancar-peselancar unggulan di Round 3, dengan Ardiana di heat 1 melawan juara dua kali Coca-Cola ISC Lee Wilson, Soma Warsoma, dan Agus Setiawan, dan Frimanto berhadapan dengan Darmaputra Tonyo, Putu Anggara , dan Dedi Santoso.

Beberapa peselancar lokal Cimaja bernasib baik hari ini , diantaranya anak didik Dede Suryana yaitu Deden Sutendi, bersama-sama dengan Asep Pahruroji, Sujari, dan Ruslandi. Besok mereka akan mendapatkan kesempatan untuk melawan peselancar terbaik Asia, semoga mereka berhasil.

Sebagai bagian dari program "'Keepin’ It Green" dari Coca-Cola ISC Tour, Quiksilver bersama-sama dengan ROLE Foundation, GUS, dan penduduk lokal Cimaja telah membuat program pembersihan pantai dimana Tony Sruntul dari Quiksilver dan Curtis Lowe dari ROLE Foundation setiap harinya memimpin kelompok anak-anak sekolah dan memberikan pengarahan soal isu-isu lingkungan seperti mengumpulkan dan memisahkan sampah, dan kemudian memberikan hadiah untuk mendorong mereka untuk melanjutkan kegiatan ini.

Program ini telah dimulai sejak kemarin dan anak-anak dibagi menjadi dua tim dan diberi dua tas terpisah, satu untuk sampah organik dan yang lainnya untuk plastik. Pada akhir periode pengumpulan selama 1-jam, anak-anak telah mengumpulkan tumpukan sampah seberat 125 kilogram!

Hari ini beberapa anak dari Sekolah Madrasah berpartisipasi di pantai dan mengumpulkan sampah seberat 70 kilogram. Semakin hari akan semakin sulit untuk menemukan sampah sehingga berat sampah yang terkumpul akan berkurang, dan pada akhir dari Quiksilver Open West Java, Pantai Cimaja akan menjadi bersih!

"Anak-anak sekolah ini begitu bersemangat untuk datang ke sini dan setelah melihat pantai yang bersih," kata Curtis Lowe. "Saya tahu bahwa Quiksilver dan Coca-Cola datang ke sini selama beberapa tahun belakangan ini dan melakukan kegiatan bersih-bersih, dan dari apa yang saya lihat dari antusias  anak-anak itu sekarang, upaya-upaya sebelumnya jelas memiliki dampak positif."

Bersama dengan hadiah yang diberikan untuk peserta dengan kantong terberat pengumpulan sampah, semua anak menerima buklet kartun instruksi yang spesial dirancang oleh Yayasan GUS yang berada di Bali untuk mengajar anak-anak tentang kesehatan mereka dan lingkungan.

Esok hari menjanjikan untuk terjadi aksi epik kembali karena peselancar terbaik di Asia bersaing di putaran 3 dan 4, lihat terus aksi secara online di www.isctour.com/events/quikwestjava dan di Facebook ISC dan Quiksilver Indonesia, bisa dilihat skor terkini dan hasil kompetisi , press release, foto, dan video highlights setelah kompetisi hari itu berakhir.

Quiksilver Open West Java 2012 is disponsori oleh Quiksilver Indonesia dan pemerintah Jawa Barat, didukung oleh  Jim Beam, Planet Surf, BII, Augusta Hotel, Desa Resort, Rolling Stone Café, and Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia, dengan media partner : Juice, Trax, FHM, Fitness For Men, Surfersvillage.com, Alam TV Bali, SurfTime, Magic Wave, Baliwaves.com, Balibelly.tv, Lines, RVM, and the Outdoor Channel, and assisted in the Coca-Cola ISC “Go Green” program by GUS, the ROLE Foundation, and Climate Wave.

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Tim Hain
Media and Communications
Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship Tour - Asian Surfing Championship Tour

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