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May 2006 Issue
Toes to the Nose
Cole Robbins
By Branden Aroyan
Photo: Aroyan
Age: 15
Sponsors: Quiksilver, Sex Wax, Infinity, A Frame Surf Shop
Home: Santa Barbara
Fun other than surfing: Hanging out with friends and listening to music.
Inspirations: Kelley Slater good music and Dad
Cole Robbins probably has an ancient Hawaiian surfer stirring in his soul anxiously eager to revisit the surf on a deeper level than most. Every session he surfs, it’s the set waves that you’ll find him on, connecting all the way through to the inside. And each barrel he’s in somehow lets him out into the next section. Each cutback, he expedites with patience and grace, powerfully placed back into the source of the wave. He takes nose ridding to another level by hanging heels and running back to the tail with a giddy smile on his face like he just had dessert before dinner. Brett and Cole, both fifteen years old are open minded and motivated. Their quiver of boards, Infinity and Wayne Rich, range from a 5’10” short boards to 9’1” long boards squash tails, diamond tails, flat concave and lots of concave single and tri fins.
Larry Ugale
By Branden Aroyan
Photo: Pu'u
Age: 18
Sponsors: Rebel Surfboards
Fun other than surfing: Playing guitar electric and acoustic, jamming with friends.
Favorite Surfers: Bonga Perkins for his fluid and powerful style and Shane Elder riding a fish.
Quiver: A 5’6” fish, a 6’0, a 7’0 gun, two 9’0 high performance 2’s, and one longboard with lots of concave.
Larry Ugale, a solid easy-going charger started surfing at age 4. His future plans include traveling to Costa Rica for the Rabbit Kakai Nose riding contest, competing in the US Open and enrolling in classes at Ventura College. He’s also interested in a possible move to the North Shore of Oahu to lifeguard with his cousin-- “To save people from the pumping surf.” After receiving phone call after phone call about the North Shore and how it was ‘going off’ over there, he’s enticed to get involved. His inspirations are riding waves and getting barreled in the deepest pits, his dad for being a great surfer and teaching him how to ride the nose and his cousin Pat for his Hawaiian power surfing.
Travels have taken him to Hawaii, Mexico and all over California.
Posted May 2006 Blue Edge Magazine. All rights reserved.
