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MEN’SVANS TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING:
Ree Hawaiian Pro
Haleiwa Ali’i Beach ParkNovember 12-22, 2007 A 6-star World Qualiying Series EventPrize Purse: $125,000
O’Neill World Cup o Surng
Sunset BeachNovember 24 to December 6, 2007 A 6-star World Qualiying Series EventPrize Purse: $125,000
Billabong Pipeline Masters
Banzai PipelineDecember 8-20, 2007Elite World Championship Tour eventPrize Purse: $300,000
WOMEN’SVANS TRIPLE CROWN OF SURF-ING:
Ree Hawaiian Pro
Haleiwa Ali’i Beach ParkNovember 12-22, 2007 A 6-star World Qualiying Series EventPrize Purse: $30,000
Roxy Pro
Sunset BeachNovember 24 to December 6, 2007Elite World Championship Tour EventPrize Purse: $80,000
 Billabong Pro
Honolua Bay, Maui (the only outer-island event)December 8-20, 2007Elite World Championship Tour Event
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WELCOME! TO THE 25
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ANNIVERSARY VANS TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING 
The Vans Triple Crown o Suring is a unique combination o sport, culture, history, liestyle and travel in the birthplaceo suring: Hawaii. Revered around the world as the premier proessional suring Series, the Vans Triple Crown is stagedannually in the giant winter waves o Oahu’s North Shore, rom November 12 through December 20.Once a year, suring’s top-ranked men and women arrive in Hawaii to take on the world’s most challenging waves in theinal battle or world titles, prestigious Vans Triple Crown o Suring titles, $760,000 in prize-money, and all-importantseeding or the ollowing season. The Triple Crown o Suring is considered to proessional suring what Wimbledon is totennis, the Masters to gol, and the Indianapolis 500 to auto racing.Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, the Triple Crown is the inal stop on the Association o Suring Proessionalsworld tour and oers a series o three back-to-back men’s and women’s events. For the men: the Ree Hawaiian Pro atHaleiwa, the O’Neill World Cup o Suring at Sunset Beach, and the Billabong Pipeline Masters at the Banzai Pipeline.For the ladies: the Ree Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa, the Roxy Pro at Sunset Beach, and the Billabong Pro at Honolua Bay,Maui – the only outer-island event o the series.Each event has an extended holding period o more than 10 days, allowing competitors and organizers to pick and choosethe biggest and best days within the allotted time. Each competition will run a total o our days within its speciied holdingperiod, with heats scheduled rom 8 am to 4 pm on days o competition.Daily updates can be ound on these ocial websites:
www.triplecrownosurng.comwww.aspworldtour.comwww.surfine.com
Or on the local telephone hotline:
Sur News Network - (808) 596-SURF (596-7873)
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25 YEARS OF THE TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING
Just as the sport o suring grew rom humble roots in Hawaii to become a global industry, so too the Vans Triple Crowno Suring has evolved rom a series o local events to become the holy grail o proessional suring. What started o asa local Hawaiian-based championship has transormed into the most prestigious title-within-a-title that suring has to oer.The irst international suring contest in Hawaii, the Makaha International Suring Championship, was held on the westside o Oahu in the early ‘50’s. While Makaha introduced the competitive suring world to Hawaii, the major recognition oOahu’s potential came when events began on the North Shore. In 1971, the irst Pipeline Masters event was staged by ormer world champion surer and eventual ounder o the o theTriple Crown o Suring Series Fred Hemmings. This year, the Billabong Pipeline Masters celebrates 37 years.In 1983, Hemmings decided to create a title that would better showcase the three existing Hawaiian events - the PipelineMasters, World Cup o Suring and the Hawaiian Pro. With their world recognition already secure he linked the threecontests into a series collectively known as ‘The Triple Crown o Suring.’“The concept was to ocus attention on three o the world’s most prominent suring competitions held in unquestionably themost competitive and awesome suring venue anywhere,” Hemmings said. “The whole idea behind the Triple Crown Serieswas to have a champion emerge rom the three major sur sites on Oahu’s North Shore. Catching an eight– to–ten–ootwave at the Pipeline certainly demands dierent skills than riding a 15-oot wave at Sunset.”“It grew out o a need to have something to acknowledge the results o the Hawaiian events,” explains Randy Rarick,Executive Director o the Vans Triple Crown o Suring.“Rather than just have rated events that were part o a world tour, the Triple Crown title was ormed to recognize the bestmale surer in the big waves o the North Shore – a location that has come to be known as the proving ground o everysurer. In 1997, we added the women’s Triple Crown to equally eature the women.”Rarick summarizes the enduring natureand important place in suring’s historywhich the Triple Crown holds: “Suringgreats have come and gone, surboarddesigns have undergone radicalchanges and the bearing on the worldtitle has ebbed and lowed, but onething has remained constant: the VansTriple Crown o Suring and the questor the Triple Crown title have generatedsome o the most spectacular momentsin pro suring history.”
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS! 
HISTORY: Hawaii is the birthplace o the original Core/Extreme/Action Sport. 
Suring, the original extreme sport, was born centuries ago in the Hawaiian Islands. Long beore landlocked surers createdskateboarding in the ‘60’s, snowboarding in the ‘80’s and more recently wakeboarding, ancient Hawaiian men and womensured on boards crated rom wood o the wiliwili tree or o koa. Known as the sport o kings, suring thrived until the early1800s when New England missionaries arrived and preached against the pastime. Virtually abandoned until the beginning othe 20th century, the sport was revitalized by a young Hawaiian – and uture Olympic swimming champion – Duke PaoaKahanamoku. Suring is today recognized as the oicial sport o Hawaii.
LIFESTYLE: Born in Caliornia on the Feet o Duke Kahanamoku. 
 Vans shoe company was born in Orange, Caliornia, and given light on the eet o Hawaiian legend Duke Kahanamoku. It wasduring the Duke Invitational at Huntington Beach Pier in 1965, that Mr. Paul Van Doren boasted to Kahanamoku that he couldmake him a pair o shoes out o any abric he liked and have them on his eet by morning. The Duke looked around andinstructed riend Fred Hemmings (who later went on to ound the Triple Crown o Suring) to take o his Hawaiian print shirt.The rest is history. Vans is now a public company and spans three generations o Van Dorens since Duke irst wore histraditional print shoes.
TOURISM & BUSINESS: North Shore is one o Oahu’s Top Visitor Destinations. Sur IndustryBrings in $9 Million in 2006.
It used to be that the sleepy North Shore o Oahu only came to lie during the winter months o November through January. Aectionately known as “the country” or it’s minimal development, vast expanses o crop ields and lengthy stretch owhite-sand beaches, it was suring – speciically big-wave riding and the Vans Triple Crown o Suring series – that put theNorth Shore on the map. But today, this country sur town is on the must-see list o visitors to Hawaii 365 days a year.Thankully, it hasn’t lost any o its charm, largely due to strong local eorts to “keep the country, country”. Known as theouter-island experience that you don’t need to travel outer-island or, the North Shore is a true experience – particularlyduring winter sur season. Home to around 15,000 residents, suring is the lieblood o this country-living community, directlyinjecting more than $9million into the economy during Triple Crown sur season (November and December) alone.
 BUSINESS: Southern Caliornia Sur Industry Makes Pilgrimage to Sport’s Mecca. 
Considered the worldwide headquarters to the sport and liestyle industry, the booming Southern Caliornia sur industrytraces its roots to Hawaii. Many companies pay homeage to the sport’s Mecca with an annual winter pilgrimage to the VansTriple Crown o Suring. Vans (Santa Fe Springs), Quiksilver/Roxy (Huntington Beach), O’Neill (Irvine), Ree (San Diego),and Billabong (Irvine) – among others – rent oceanront homes and shuttle company executives, team riders and photographersto the competition. The Series’ oicial sur report and orecaster, Surfine.com, is based in Huntington Beach and the industry’smajor magazines – Suring (San Clemente), Surer (San Juan Capistrano) and TransWorld Sur (Oceanside) – set up shop onthe North Shore and produce entire issues devoted to the Vans Triple Crown o Suring.
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