SDDS at San Onofre “SanO”

On 2/17/08, Deaf and ASL signer surfers met at San Onofre from Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. I learned that people knew about coming to SanO by through the website: USDSA, CALDeaf, and SDDS without any emails involved! All of us were stoked by surfing all morning until we returned to the sand by noon-ish. We were inspired by sharing good surfing stories. Also, we were interested about USDSA that Marina shared the information with us.

John and I decided to go back to surf more and the waves were smaller than earlier. So, I brought something with me while surfing that I would like to share it to you on the vlog!

See you at water or sand next time!

JON

P.S. Thanks to John for making this happened!

San Diego Deaf Surfriders (SDDS) & Orange County Deaf Surfriders (OCDS). Both clubs agreed to meet at San Onofre, CA on Feb. 17, 2008. Come and join us to surf or hang out at the beach! We probably will be learning about Marina's experience that she went to Japan for World Deaf Surfing Championship 2007. Now, World Deaf Surfing Championship 2009 will be at Hawaii!

San Diego Deaf Surfriders and Orange County Deaf Surfriders met at San Onofre, CA on Dec. 29, 2007. We had a good time on a small day (surf) and the water was freezing cold (55 degree)! Then we hung out at the beach all morning. We shared our ideas for the year of 2008 through blogs and it's possibly for us to do the announcements of surf reports and events.

More friends arrived later in the morning.

Cheers,
JON

Thanks to califcoastalviews.blogspot.com for the award on this video clip! Many deaf surfers that are in videos are gaining a lot of visibility now. People are starting to notice them. Kudos to all deaf surfers!

Cheers,
JON



Best of Class (Surfing Movies) Award Winner

Greetings!

Well, the waiting is over. Congratulations!! Your video, "Deaf Surf Lesson at La Jolla Shores" has received the Best of Class (Surfing Movies) Award.

You'll see the Festival Awards are currently posted on the blogsite (http://califcoastalviews.blogspot.com). The announcement will remain on the blogsite for the next year.

Over the next year, as our organization conducts "Signing Ceremonies" to place hundreds of the newly-unveiled signpost signs on the California Coastal Trail, we will also be directing attendees to the website and the video award winners (see http://www.coastwalk.org/CCT/cct.htm). Your video may also receive increased viewings during the year, as the news of our award begins to circulate.

Again, congratulations on being selected. You may want to review the films which won their categories and divisions. All producers are invited to enter the competition next year. Films produced which feature views of the California coast after March 31, 2007 are eligible.

Gregory Fearon
Festival Director
Coastwalk

(Transcript)

Hello..

I want to share with you about Terrie Berdy and her family who came down to Oceanside from Riverside for surf lessons. Terrie contacted me last 3 week after we met at KODAWest event in Huntington Beach that her kids (Sean and Tyler) plus other youths and adults want to learn how to surf. We have been communicating through emails. They were learning how to surf while Terrie's husband, Scott were shooting video for SDDS.

I'm very pleased that Scott willing to shoot video for me while friends and I were giving lessons to the students. We helped the students by pushing them while they were on the soft surfboard so they could ride with the waves. I'm impressed with them that they were emulating from my help to their independent while waves were roughed.

Now, I will let you to view the rest of the video clip.




(Transcript)

Hello..

I want to introduce James Queen and he is deaf, surfing for long time, and photographer for us! He shoot lot of pictures and I selected few pictures to put on slide show. Also, you can view on MORE pictures after you see on the slide show . Any pictures that you might interested to purchase a picture to hang on the wall. here, his website is shaka Photography to check out his biography and gallery.

Now, I will let you to view the rest of the video clip.

Cheers,
JON