Kick Off Party at Dish on August 16, 2006

The Manila Surfers Association kicks off "Reef@Zambapalooza" with a 3-in-1 event on August 16th, 8pm at Dish, ABS-CBN.

Yes, a 3-in-1 event! Parang kape pero mas okay!

Party with bands Flood, Southern Grass and Reefer. Catch a fashion show featuring Reef, Eillim and Brown Belly. Participate in an on-going relief drive for the locals of San Narciso Zambales.

Please bring your donations (food, clothes and medicines) to Dish.

Three sleeps later and its time to head to Pundakit in San Antonio Zambales for "Reef@Zambapalooza", scheduled for August 19-20, 2006. The two-day surf comp and music festival features bands Cosmic Love, Reefer and Brownman Revival with a special fire performace by Planet Zips.

Spread the word. Repost this on your multiply, friendster, myspace, and hi5 accounts. Blog about it. Text your friends. Whatever it takes to get the word out. The more people that we get to come and bring goods, the more help we'll be able to give to San Narciso.

Brought to you by MSA, ZSA, Reef, San Miguel Beer and Victory Liner.

Reef@Zambapalooza Details

Hey all.

Due to the changing weather conditions (what can you do, that's nature for you), MSA & ZSA have made a decision to move the competition proper from San Narciso to Pundakit, San Antonio.

Same dates: August 19 and 20, 2006
Same times: First competitors' briefing is at 7am on Saturday in front of Capones Resort
Same bands: Cosmic Love, Reefer and Brownman Revival
Same good vibes.


For resorts here is a shortlist of resorts and their contact numbers. We will continue to add to this list as information becomes available.

Patio Beach - 0926-851-3356 or 0921-468-4416
Megan's Resort - 0919-480-8520 or 0921-793-6797

Camping is also encouraged. But please bring garbage bags to collect your trash in.

Directions to Zambales taken from http://www.visitzambales.com

By land from Manila, exit or take the North Luzon Expressway (NLE), and exit at San Fernando. Go all the way to the Dinalupihan junction, and turn right at the Crossroads where Soldiers pose he Bataan Death March. Go straight and stay on the left side when you see the Shell Station splitting the road to two. Turn left into the SBMA Bataan gate. Taking this route will save you 30 minutes of travel time to the north of Zambales, and gives you a view of SBMA. Exit through the Subic gate, and turn left. Getting lost should never be a concern because Zambales has only one highway all the way up to the North, crossing all towns. If the feeling of being lost does indeed creep up, you may ask any town municipal usually found in the center plaza of all towns.There are about a handful of new GOVIC Highways newly built almost all towns of Zambales. You may take them if you are trying to cut across town proper as shortcuts.The Subic GOVIC is not yet fully complete. The castillejos GOVIC Highway is great. You turn right into this Highway at the side before the Jesus Magsaysay Highschool and exit past the town center. The San Antonio GOVIC Highway is complete already but still too dark at night. The GOVIC Highway in Iba helps you get faster into the beach area of Iba without having to chase Tricycles off the roads.

By bus, take the Victory Liner (http://www.victoryliner.com) to Iba. Air conditioned and non-air conditioned buses are available. These buses will pass all the towns leading to Iba, take the Iba bus, and change buses in the Olongapo Victory Liner Terminal, and take the bus that leads to Alominos, Pangasinan. This will stop in Sta. Cruz, and other Zambales destinations farther north than Iba. From a town to another, you may take jeepney rides. Fare rates are low.

We will continue to collect relief goods both at the kick off party at Dish on August 16 and on site at Pundakit during the weekend.

Attention Competitors

Just in case you need to know:

There will be an all-ZSA portion of the competition and then the MSA-ZSA Amateur Open consisting of
Men's Shortboard
Men's Longboard
Wahine Shortboard (under 8')
Wahine Longboard

Longboards must be at least 9'0.

All competitors must be either members of MSA or ZSA. So if you havent registered and you'd like to compete, please sign up through nicola.sebastian@yahoo.co.uk or at the kick-off party at Dish on Aug 16.

Mark these dates: August 19 to 20, 2006 for the comp proper. All competitors must be at the briefing on Saturday 7am in front of Capones Resort.