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Hurley Pro formerly know as "BOOST MOBILE PRO" CONTEST
INFORMATION:
TIME DIFFERENCE: GMT - 7
COORDINATES: 33°38’ N, 117°59’ W
BAGGAGE CLAIM: John Wayne Airport, Orange County (SNA) or Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles (LAX)
TRANSPORTATION: Rental car. Enjoy the sights and sounds of the 405 freeway as you make the trek down to San Clemente. Once in San Clemente, you’ll want to drive down to the event site, but taxis are more than available when sampling the downtown nightlife.
ATTITUDE: Generally laid back, though the locals have yet to embrace that whole "sharing is caring" mentality – but who can blame them? If the best break in mainland USA was in your backyard, you’d probably get a little possessive too!
THE WAVE: This high-performance pointbreak peels across a rocky coastline and can pump up to 150 metres down the point when a south or southwest swell shows up. The left is a quicker, hollower, punchier wave, while the right is a longer, more even-paced beauty ready to be released upon with aggressive and unforgiving gusto. Both boast the ability to make even an average surfer appear gifted.
PERKS: This wave is consistent – Trestles has been known to break when the rest of SoCal is dead flat. And lest we forget, this little stretch of sand that spans the North County and Orange County border is likely to be the only place within a 200 kilometre radius where it’ll take you more than 10-minutes to walk to a Starbucks or Vietnamese nail salon - which means you’re more likely to get attacked by a bobcat than an over-caffeinated chick with long fingernails.
PERILS: It’s best to grow to love the 20-to-30 minute trek – you have to undertake between parking and paddling out – as the plans to install a 1.5 kilometre walking carpet from the Carl’s Jr. parking lot to the surf aren’t looking promising. Oh, and terrorists steer clear, the US Marines have you surrounded. Trestles sits smack in the middle of Camp Pendleton – one of the Yank’s largest military bases.
APRES SURF: Pick your poison; you’re mere miles away from San Clemente, home of the fabled San Clemente Crawl: aka a Bermuda Triangle of dive bars, and smack between Mexico and Hollywood. Orange County splays north and there’s always San Diego to the south – translation, if you strike out at one bar, there’s approximately 11,964 others at your disposal.
ASP WORLD TOUR HISTORY: Trestles, the only men’s ASP World Tour event on mainland USA, made its debut in 2000 as the Billabong Pro won by Andy Irons. Boost Mobile came on board in 2002, and has sponsored the mid-season men’s event ever since. The 2006 BMP of Surf will be the cell phone company’s fifth foray as headlining sponsor… Hurley is the presenting sponsor of the Boost Mobile Pro at Trestles.
NOTABLE: Kelly Slater shattered Tom Curren’s record 33 career event wins in 2007 with his victory at the Boost Mobile Pro, netting the eight-time ASP World Champ 34 career victories.
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HURLEY PRO TRESTLES 2009 
