Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Might Marvel Power Chart:

How Spider-Man atacks up against Marvel's most powerful superheroes.

Daredevil:
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 200 lbs
Strength Level: Can lift 300 lbs

Captain America:
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 350 lbs
Strength Level: 800 lbs

Luke Cage:
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 325 lbs
Strength Level: 3 tons

Spider-Man:
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 165 lbs
Strength Level: 10 tons

The Vision:
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 500 lbs
Strength Level: 50 tons

The Thing:
Height: 6'8"
Weight: 1,500 lbs
Strength Level: 85 tons

The Hulk:
Height: 8"
Weight: 2,000 lbs
Strength Level: Limits Unknown

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Picos:

HAWAII:

Hanalai Bay, Kauai
Pipeline, North Shore
Sunset Beach, North Shore
Backdoor, North Shore
Ala Moama, North Shore
Rock Point
Rock Pier
Waymea Bay
Honolulu Bay, Maui
Jaws, Maui
Off The Wall, Oahu

CALIFORNIA:

Huntington Beach
Mavericks

AUSTRALIA:

Kirra Point, Gold Coast
Margareth River, West Australia
Bells Beach, Victoria

INDONESIA:

Desert Point, Lombok
Padang Padang, Bali
Uluwatu, Bali
Canggu, Bali
Money Trees, Mentawai
Scarr Reef, Sunbawa
Nias, Langundi Bay, Sumatra

COSTA RICA:

Polonei
Isla Uvita, Limón

MEXICO:

Puerto Escondido
Isla de Todos Los Santos

BARBADOS:

Tropicana Reef

EASTER ISLAND:

Vanapu

PERU:

La Isla, Punta Hermosa
Herradera, Lima
Pico Alto

FIJI:

Cloudbreak

PANAMA:

Boca del Toro

TAHITI:

Teahupoo

SPAIN:

Mundaka
Mundaka, Euskadi
El Paluar, Cadiz

CHILE:

El Gringo, Iquique

MALDIVAS:

Pasta Point


MAURICIUS ISLAND:

Tamarin Bay

SOUTH AFRICA:

Seal Point
Durban

PORTUGUESE ISLAND:

Jardim do Mar, Madeira

FRANCE:

Grande Plage, Biarritz
Hessegor,
Biarritz,

BRAZIL:

RIO DE JANEIRO:

Piranhas
Alfabarra
Praia de Itaúna, Saquarema
Reserva

SAO PAULO:

Prapoucos, Ubatuba
Praia do Félix, Ubatuba
Pitangueiras, Guarujá
Maresias

SANTA CATARINA:

Praia Mole, Florianópolis
Praia do Campeche

BAHIA:

Praia dos Corais, Itacaré

ESPIRITO SANTO:

Barrado Say

FERNANDO DE NORONHA:

Cacimba do Padre

PARÁ:

Pororóca

RIO GRANDE DO NORTE:

Praia do Pipa



ONBONGO PRO SURFING
HOT BUTTERED
BILLABONG
WAGON
STANLEY
MISS SIRENA
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A Shark's Tale:

Northern California Man Takes Keeps Quiet After Shark Attack:

Most shark attack survivors spend the first hour after they're hit doing one of two things: Fighting for their life as they're swen back together, or standing in front of a camera, wearing a shell-shockerd grin, recounting their nerar miss for the local news.
43-year-old Northern California standout Royce Fraley, however, did neither.
After being attacked, and escaping with no serious injuries in December , during a session at the ominously titled "Shark Pit", Fraley slipped away before the media could pin him down for a quote. "He was very quiet", said Nick Marlow, a friend who witnessed the attack, while speaking with the local press. "He didn't look scared.
He just looked like he had gone through something very serious and was talking it in". For Fraley, the incident began as simply another covert session above the San Francisco Bay. But without warning, an estimated 15-foot great white surged from the depths and dragged him and his board--which was luckly wedged between his body and the shark's thousand-and-something teeth --15 feet below the surface.
Heid underwater and rag-dolled, the shark eventually released Fraley and he was able to escape. Whit a massive 18-inch bite mark on his board but nary a scratch on his body, Fraley was, as Marin County Sheriff responding officer Deputy Stephen Debrunner explained to local press, "Very Lucky".
"He was shaken up, but the wound wasn't even enough to bandage", continued Deputy Debrunner. "It broken the skin and made red marks, like the marks from a dog bite". As it turned out, Fraley's reluctance to speak after his near-death experience stemmed from his own personal fears, not of sharks, but of his mother. "He's had other encounter out there", said Santa Rosa's Keith Stephens.
"And he told his mom that he'd quit srfing because of them.
He kept this quiet because he didn't want her to find out that he was still surfing.
Fraley's mother, Sylvia, speaking to the press, explained.
"It was just by the grace of God that this shark didn't bite down that hard.
It got part of this hip and upper torso, but they were all superficial wounds.
How lucky is that ?".
As of press time, Fraley still hadn't returned to the water.
But since he's been attacked before, and continued to paddle out, it remains to be seen wheter he keeps his word. Whick begs the question: Which is worse:the prospect of being attacked yet again, or growh man hiding his surfing habit from his mom ?