Wet and Wild with Rockin’ Fig:

The H.B. Surf Series organizers ran their third surf event of the season at 9th Street last weekend in some small-scale, but fun, surf. Big action in the Pro Am series, which is heating up, where the top prize, a new Dodge Truck, will be given to the winner of the overall Pro Am series points leader with only one more event to go. Huntington’s Brandon Guilmette found some sets and ripped them apart to take the win, busting some moves. Hot on his heels was Surf City’s Mike Hoisington, eyeing that new truck, who was ripping, too, and finished second but is holding down the No. 1 spot in the overall ratings. Third was another H.B. ripper, Duane Toole, getting some nice rides; and fourth was South Bay transplant to H.B. Gustavo Salazar, who needed another wave but tore lots of heats all the way to the final.

Other winners included Evan Kane winning boys, juniors’ was dominated by Daniel Ward, the Cult’s Mike Ferragano won men’s, while Jason Russo took the master blaster division. Kanoa Igarash made it two wins in a row in the super groms, as Madi Swayne won women’s. And after doing some fancy footwork, Dennis Bourg secured the win in longboards.

Next up, the H.B. Surf Series will head to the Huntington Pier Sept. 23 and 24 for the season-ender.

Over in France, at the A.S.P. six-star Lacanau Pro Surf contest, they’re running in some 2- to 3-foot surf with sunny weather conditions. A couple of the local surfers are doing well, as former Huntington Beach High School team captain and standout Chris Waring has been tearing it up, busting some big scores through the elimination rounds. Also, Federico Pilurzu, the Italian Costa Rican, transplant to H.B. who did really well in the U.S. Open has been ripping lots of heats over there. They’ll be meeting up with the big-seeded guns soon as the contest continues this week.

Next up for the championship tour for the women’s is the “Billabong Girl’s Pro” in Brazil, Aug. 21-28. The gals have been on a layoff for more than a month now, but will head south soon. This is a milestone for the A.S.P. because they haven’t had a big women’s event in South America for quite a few years. Veteran Aussie Melanie Redman Carr has won the last three events in a row and is looking for her first world title this year. Second is another vet Australian, six-time world champ Layne Beachley, who’s had a pretty good start this season and is not ruling out a seventh world title either. The young guns — former world champs Aussie Chelsea Georgeson, last year, and Peru’s Sofia Mulanovich who just won the Open — have had rocky starts this season as well as some of the new, upcoming talents like Rebecca Woods, but there are still plenty of events left this season. All it takes is a good roll, and you’re right back in there.

After weeks and weeks of waves, we finally have had a bit of a break in the action with small surf. The weather still has been nice at the beaches, in the mid- to- upper 70s, although the water has cooled and has been hanging in the mid 60s — not quite like it was a couple weeks ago when it hit an incredible 80 degrees. That had to have been some sort of a record. That’s it. Fig, over and out.