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[20 May 2009 | No Comment ]
Bobby Martinez Defeats Taj Burrow In Billabong Pro Tahiti Final

Note: This Is A Press Release by ASP World Tour
TEAHUPOO, Tahiti (Tuesday, May 19, 2009) – Bobby Martinez (USA), 26, has taken out the Billabong Pro Tahiti presented by Air Tahiti Nui, defeating fellow Finalist Taj Burrow (AUS), 30, in clean three-to-five foot (1.5 metre) waves at Teahupoo.
Event No. 3 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, the Billabong Pro Tahiti survived a marathon waiting period, culminating on the second-to-last available day in improving conditions that peaked for a climactic Final.

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[17 May 2009 | One Comment ]
Sunscreens Go Colorful

When you are exploring such a hot country (I mean temperature!) like Australia, there is no way you can pass over the suncream.
When I went wakeboarding with my friends, everybody used a suncream.
However one of my mates had a serious scar on his back. You know well you can’t put it out on deadly sun. He used a zinc sunblock in that particular place.
When you love sun and you properly protect yourself, one day you can be mistaken for a Geisha, when having plain white face. But no worries!

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[17 May 2009 | No Comment ]
A Voyage Long and Strange (…) – fresh book preview

Do you know what actually happened between Columbus’s discovery of America in 14920 and the Pilgrims’ immigration in 1620 on that very continent?
Neither did me or the author, Tony Horwitz, when paying a visit to famous Plymouth Rock. He realized he didn’t have any clue just as any other average American.
So he set off across the continent to rediscover the wild era of Europeans roaming the New World in search for gold, glory, youth, peace and…