And...we're back! 02/01/2011
Well, it's been about two years since we've updated our website, which makes it two years too long! So after much prompting from friends and family for updates on our tandem adventures, we've decided to once again start posting all the funny, interesting and informative tandem tidbits we are involved with or come across.  So what have you missed out on over the last two years? The breaking up and making up of team Chuckany in 2009, one missed ISA World Title shot, 5 ITSA WTT stops (2 big wins, 4 podium finishes), landing our first ever financial sponsorship (thanks Key Manufacturing!), whirlwind adventures in France even with a concussion, a 4th and 5th place finish at recent ISA World Titles ('10 Lacanau, France & '11 Trestles, CA, respectively), the cover of Hawai'i Magazine's March 2010 issue, several appearances on CBS' hit remake of Hawaii Five-O, Chuck's successful entrance into competitive SUP racing, and a lot of laughter and silly antics along the way. And now with the 2011 ITSA WTT off to an early start in January, congratulations go out to Clement Citran and Dhelia Birou of Biscarosse, France for their record two ISA World Titles in a row. Bravo! :) ITSA lift submission has just closed for the 2011 season and our contributions this year are the Pendulum, Atlas and Space Needle. Can you guess which lift is which from the pics below? We curiously await their rankings on the new lift chart and in the meantime have a renewed focus on training again. Woohoo, Happy New Year! - Tiff    Add Comment 2008 World Champions! - August 23, 2008 08/26/2008
 The 2008 ITSA/ISA World Title of Tandem Surfing opened on Thursday morning with a total of 24 qualifying teams from Hawaii, California, Florida, Costa Rica, and France competing in six Opening Round heats. We comfortably won our 20 minute first heat despite the small (1' - 2') and inconsistent waves that slowly rolled through in between long lulls. On Friday morning, we won both our 20 minute Quarter Final and Semi Final heats in even flatter conditions, which left teams floating for most of our heats and scratching for waves whenever they appeared.  There was a bit of an upset in one of the Quarter Final heats when a relatively new Waikiki team bested 2006's World Champions, Brian Keaulana/Kathy Terada (HAW). This ultimately landed Keaulana and Terada in a stacked Semi Final heat with one of the highly favored teams, Rico Leroy/Sarah Burel (FRA), and 2007's World Champions, Kalani Vierra/Ala Vierra (HAW), who we were runners up to last year. We expected all three of these teams to be in the Final with us and were surprised that one of them would be eliminated earlier than expected.  Teams who advanced to the Final on Saturday afternoon were: Chuck Inman/Tiffany Rabacal (HAW), Rico Leroy/Sarah Burel (FRA), Brian Keaulana/Kathy Terada (HAW), and Clay Huntington/Kristen Huntington (USA). The 30 minute heat was held during high tide and set waves were few and far between. After missing the first three waves we paddled for, we finally got onto a total of four waves and were able to cleanly complete both lift sequences we had planned while getting our surfing maneuvers done. And at the end of the day, our best was good enough to clinch a close victory over the French team...our very first win!!! Revised ITSA Lift Chart Released - 2008 v2 05/12/2008
Another version of the ITSA Lift Chart was released earlier this month and posted online at http://www.itsatandem.com. However, no formal communication was sent out to ITSA members that a change had been made. Changes were instead announced a week before the third stop on the WTT in Seignosse, France (no international teams participated in this event).  New ITSA Lift Chart Released 03/28/2008
The preliminary 2008 ITSA Lift Chart was finally released on March 6, 2008 to competitors in the Noosa Festival of Surfing just one day before competition started. As of today, it still has not been posted on the ITSA website (www.itsatandem.com), but an email distribution was sent out on March 8, 2008 to members of the Tandem Waveriders Organization (www.tandemwaveriders.com) in California and Hawaii.  | Inside Tandem
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