Azores Islands Pro – Miguel Ximenez in action

After the last 6 stars in Lacanau, the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) caravan is on its way for the first ever ASP sanctioned event to run in the Azores archipelago, three hours off the Portuguese coast in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, on Sao Miguel Island. A beautiful island completely surrounded by unexplored green fields.
This ASP WQS 6-Star rated event is starting today and running till Sunday, August 30, 2009. The show brings also some of the WCT stars like Tiago Pires or Aritz Aranburu.
Being the seventh of eleven events counting for this year's ASP WQS European Series, the Azores Islands Pro will host an international field of competitors, with 144 athletes answering the call for the premiere. As the year keeps going and the international ratings' race is heating up, the ASP WQS Top 15 will be looking for valuable points counting for their ASP World Tour qualifying campaign.
Miguel Ximenez, our Portuguese team rider, will be running the round of 144 in the heat#20 and he’ll face Erice Rebiere (Fra), Nat Young (USA) and Robertson Gonçalves (Prt).
Current regional No. 1 and international No. 10 Joan Duru (Ondres, FRA), will be much awaited for his start in the event that could give the 19-year-old surfer another precious result for his ASP Top 45 dream to come tru. Duru, who has had an excellent year, leads the European contingent on the international stage at this stage and is in good position to join fellow European stars on next year's ASP Dream Tour.

Stay tuned at http://www.aspeurope.com/live/azores09

Miguel Ximenez on Relentless Boardmasters

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 5-Star Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans will kick-off today at Newquay in England, one of the United Kingdom’s most renowned surf cities, for another edition of the prestigious contest that has seen some of the world’s best surfers raise its coveted trophy for over twenty years now.

Scheduled at the start of the month of August and opening a series of five consecutive events that will run through mid-september, the Relentless Boardmasters promises to showcase surfing’s finest World Qualifying Series (WQS) athletes with current ASP WQS ratings’ leader Daniel Ross (AUS) leading the assault.

Our team rider Miguel Ximenez from Portugal will start in the heat 17 of the first round (round of 96). In his heat, it’s only confirmed till now João Guedes (PRT).

Check out http://www.relentlessboardmasters.com/ to watch it live and see all the news, photos and videos.

Miguel Ximenez and Alexandre Ferreira run Cordoama Pro WQS

Between 9 and 12 July, the 18th WQS event (4th European) will take place in Cordoama beach in Algarve, Portugal.
Miguel Ximenez and Alexandre Ferreira are the team riders in charge to carry Lightning Bolt to a good result.
We hope that they can show their real surf level and can improve their last results.

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Miguel Ximenez goes to O’Neill Coldwater Classic in Scotland

With the first stop on the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Series successfully concluded in a remote corner of Tasmania, it’s now up to the other end of the earth for the Cold Water Classic Scotland.
Staying true to its ethos of scouring the globe for the remote locations holding world-class waves, the Cold Water Classic Series is hosting the northernmost event in professional surfing in a choice of barreling fast reef breaks and powerful beachbreaks.
The second CWC event, a 6-star World Qualifying Series (WQS), will start 29-April till 6-May.
The Lightning Bolt team rider Miguel Ximenez is ready to surf with his kilt to go through some tough heats.
Miguel please don’t take your scotch bottle to the heats. We know it’s very tempting, but you can always wait for the night parties.
God Bless the moustache surf man.
Swell charts indicate an awesome start to the Cold Water Classic in Scotland.
Stay tunned at the official event website

Lightning Bolt team riders go to Vendée Surf Pro

The Protest Vendée Pro, an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 4-Star Men's event, will start April 6 at La Sauzaie on the West coast of France kicking off the 2009 ASP European Tour. La Sauzaie, one of the best reefs of France renowned to deliver some consistent and hollow waves when the surf reaches the three to four foot (1 to 1.2 meter) range, will welcome some of the world’s best surfers competing for the valuable 1500 ratings' points and US$ 85 000 prizepurse on offer.

Lightning Bolt Team Riders, both portuguese Alexandre Ferreira and Miguel Ximenez will try to improve their last season’s result. Stay tunned at http://www.aspeurope.com/