In the long run this may be a war, but today the aerialists won the battle in Santa Cruz.

Due to a lagging South Swell, delays and lulls attempted to sour an otherwise great day of competition at the O'neill Cold Water Classic. Heats 1-12 of the first round were run at the fabled point at Steamer Lane.

The list of heat winners reads more like the Modern Collective cast plus the entire ...Lost/Mayhem team than a typical WQS heat sheet. Mason Ho, Ratboy, Cory Lopez, Kolohe Andino, Nate Yeomans, Davo, Luke Davis, Dusty Payne, Evan Geiselman, Julian WIlson, Wilko, Miguel Pupo. All moving on to Round Two after solid performances in head high rights at the Lane. Innovative surfing: rewarded.

A peaking South Swell should see competition resume tomorrow morning. Watch it here.

O'NEILL COLD WATER CLASSIC ROUND 1 RESULTS:
Heat 1: Mason Ho (HAW) 12.53, Jason Collins (USA) 12.10, Aritz Aranburu (EUK) 11.87, Alejo Muniz (BRA) 10.03
Heat 2: Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 12.37, Cory Lopez (USA) 9.20, Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 7.24, Brent Dorrington (AUS) 4.83
Heat 3: Kolohe Andino (USA) 16.63, Richard Christie (NZL) 13.90, Michael Dunphy (USA) 9.93, Rudy Palmboom (ZAF) 9.06
Heat 4: Nathan Yeomans (USA) 14.90, Miguel Pupo (BRA) 13.23, Adam Robertson (AUS) 12.07, Sunny Garcia (AUS) 11.87
Heat 5: Shaun Joubert (ZAF) 13.10, Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 11.77, Gavin Gillette (HAW) 10.86, Jonathan Gonzalez (CNY) 9.37
Heat 6: Chris Davidson (AUS) 13.94, Hizunome Bettero (BRA) 12.50, Austin Ware (USA) 11.33, Tim Reyes (USA) 10.90
Heat 7: Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 15.34, Willian Cardoso (BRA) 9.80, Brian Toth (PRI) 7.17, Roy Powers (HAW) 7.16
Heat 8: Luke Davis (USA) 15.37, Joel Centeio (HAW) 10.60, Alain Riou (PYF) 8.03, Nicholas Squires (AUS) 7.40
Heat 9: Nat Young (USA) 15.27, Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 13.30, Heath Joske (AUS) 12.24, Kevin Sullivan (HAW) 7.17
Heat 10: Dusty Payne (HAW) 15.67, Dion Atkinson (AUS) 13.84, Joan Duru (FRA) 11.73, Dale Staples (ZAF) 8.47
Heat 11: Evan Geiselman (USA) 11.50, Thiago Camarao (BRA) 11.07, Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 10.77, Jeronimo Vargas (BRA) 6.66
Heat 12: Julian Wilson (AUS) 15.47, Lincoln Taylor (AUS) 13.10, Mitch Crews (AUS) 12.86, Matt Myers (USA) 9.90

Let me start by apologizing for missing last week's Surf Porn Thursday, I was in jail. I won't bore you with the details, but suffice to say I won't be going to Chuck-E-Cheese anytime soon.. Anyway, I thought it would be appropriate to dedicate this week's action to all the little boys out there. Is this surf porn or kiddie porn? I'll let you decide for yourself.

Quiksilver is all about little boys! Here's one of their favs, Jack Robinson, not to be confused with the African american fellow that broke down the race barrier in sports a while back..



And here's another little boy video from Quiksilver, if Gabe here can get the braces off his teeth and winning contests, he'll soon be a man. Actually, he'll be THE man.



Not to be outdone, Oakley has dedicated an entire series of events for little boys only!



And finally, we have Evan Geizusyournameishardtospell frolicking in some playful surf in San Clemente. This little boy has all the little girls in Bieber mode right now..



Evan Geiselman & Rivie from Duncan Henville on Vimeo.

Modern Collective composer Kai Neville has just dropped the first trailer for his latest full-length creation LOST ATLAS. The film was put together in under a year with the original MC cast, like Dusty, Dane, Jordy, Mitch, Yadin, supplemented with hot young boys Kolohe Andino, Craig Anderson, Julian Wilson, Evan Geiselman, etc etc. The cast for this film is a pretty good snapshot of progression in surfing at this moment in time. Cannot wait to see her in all her glory...



LOST ATLAS - TRAILER from Kai Neville Studio on Vimeo.

Florida's Evan Geiselman has a lanky frame that looks a lot like Rob Machado's, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that he was dismantling Cardiff's Seaside reef, the same break where Machado cut his teeth and earned victories that helped propel him onto the global stage.

On Saturday Geiselman won the 4-Star Rob Machado Seaside Reef Pro Jr. by narrowly defeating his good friend Kolohe Andino in the final. Geiselman took full advantage of his forehand approach in the wedgy lefts that supplied him a target rich environment.

"I felt comfortable out here the whole time," Geiselman said from the winner's podium after nabbing his $4000 check. It certainly showed. The Floridian, who's spending much of his time in San Clemente these days, seemed to assimilate to the tricky Seaside conditions that change dramatically with the tides.

Kolohe Andino nearly stole the lead in the waning moments of the final. He needed only a 5.61 to claim his second straight Pro Jr. With two minutes left to go he unl inverted backhand blast on the outside. But the wave went flat for most of the middle section, and while he completed the ride with a strong closeout reentry, it wasn't enough to catch his buddy Evan.

Evan was in 5th place on the North American Pro Junior rankings heading into Seaside. The win will lift him right up underneath Andino, who's still in command with his second place finish after winning at the first stop in Huntington Beach.

Chase Wilson and Dane Zaun were also within striking distance for much of the final. The two goofyfooters surfed strong all day with some explosive surfing, but came unglued one too many on the end section in the final.

The entire event saw some incredible surfing from stars we'll be hearing from a lot in the near future. Other standouts included Keanu Asing, Fisher Heverly and Andrew Doheny. The big upset was Connor Coffin going down early on Saturday.

After their one-two finish, Geiselman and Andino are looking solid heading into the Oakley Pro Jr. at Lower Trestles, where they're hoping to nail down results good enough clinch seeds in the Oakley Global Challenge in Bali, the dream tour stop of the entire ASP Pro Junior tour.

Before storming the Lowers lineup the two friends will be heading to Mexico for another quick-strike mission. Just before the Seaside Pro Jr. they were in Tahiti together on a mission Geiselman called the "best trip of his life."

All in all, it's been a nice couple of weeks for the boys.

On the ladies side Lakey Peterson finished with another strong victory over Hawaiian Nage Melamed, while young Taylor Pitz finished in third in front of Leila Hurst. Peterson, who's from Santa Barbara, made it clear she loves every opportunity to go left.

Final results of the Rob Machado Seaside Pro Jr.
1. Evan Geiselman
2. Kolohe Andino
3. Chase Wilson
4. Dane Zaun

Women
1. Lakey Peterson
2. Nage Melamed
3. Taylor Pitz
4. Leila Hurst

The NSSA National Championships may have moved to a lets just say, "less than ideal," location, but it didn't affect the drama. Southside Huntington Beach Pier is no Lower Trestles, but the coveted Governor's Cup trophies were still up for grabs in the Open Men's and Open Women's divisions respectively. Thus, as the contest reached the later rounds things began to heat up.

Let's start with the Men. Names like: Slater, Knox, Irons and Jaquias all graced the 2010 contest's awning because they have all won an Open title. Notice I listed the name Jaquias, as in the Hawaiian surf forced of the 90s, Kaipo Jaquias. Now, he ripped and everything (and still does), and spent a few years on the WCT tour, but he never really was in the same category as a guy like Kelly Slater or Andy Irons. The reason for the Kaipo Jaquias reference is his son Kaimana Jaquias won the Open Men's final this year.

The waves for the final were typical late afternoon Huntington mush, making for a wave catching competition. The three surfers surfing against Jaquias for Schwarzenegger's cup were Boys 18 and under champion, Evan Geisleman, and a double serving of Coffin, as in Conner and Parker Coffin. Conner Coffin had impressed me all contest, the powerful regularfoot was regularly throwing down man turns that looked more like WQS or WCT hacks than NSSA turns. His brother Parker was surfing great all contest too. If Conners's the ying, Parker's the yang. Unlike his brother he's a goofyfoot, unlike his brother he's more of a light footed surfer, and tends to like to let his fins breath more than his brother.

Than there's Evan Geiselman, who was coming off a big win last weekend at Lowers, and had been surfing great all contest long. He's got a Cory Lopez thing going in his surfing. Maybe it's because he's from Florida, whatever the reason his surfing style reminds me of another big Floridian export. Anyway, the kid can go huge, ands that's what he attempted to do in the final, which may have hurt him a little. There weren't many quality waves coming through, and since the waves weren't offering much Geisleman seemed like he was trying to win with one move. The Open Men's final looked like an Air Show with Air Geisleman flying all over the place, but never really sticking a big one.

With the lack of surf, and the lack of a landed full rotation reverse from the Florida camp, Jaquias was able to put together a few good scoring waves, and in the process win an Open Men's title and the Governor's Cup that goes with it. His play it safe strategy was able to edge out the Gieselman blitzkrieg of airs, and now there's two Open Championships in the Jaquias family.

Now, on to the Open Women's division. Defending champion, Lakey Peterson, made the final along with Nage Melamed, Catherine Clark and Alex Frantz. Melamed got off to good start and was able to hang on to the lead for most of the heat. With only a minute or so left, Peterson needed a 5 to win back-to-back Open Championships. The horizon spelled no sign of a 5 point wave in the near future, and it looked like Hawaii was going pull a full sweep of the Open Finals, whith Kauai's Melamed about to bring it home. That's when it happened, for no apparent reason Melamed dropped-in on Clark, and was given an interference, which bumped Peterson into first. It seemed like maybe a Nike (Peterson's head-to-toe sponsor) scuba diver popped up in the lineup and offered Melamed a kick back to take a fall. That's how random it was, she had the contest won.

That's it for the 2010 NSSA season. The first championships at Huntington pier in a decade, on the 4th of July no less, was pretty much dominated by Hawaii, had its moments. There was victory and heartbreak surrounded by Surf City holiday weekend