Brazilian Party celebrates Valentine's Day with style on the Gold Coast - Australia

 

For those who does'nt know, Saint Valentine's Day, often simply Valentine's Day, is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentinus. It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI. It is celebrated in countries around the world, mostly in the West, although it remains a working day in all of them.

Another awesome night at the Billy's Beach House on the Gold Coast with some awesome music!

This week party had the AFROBEAT drummers playing some samba and other Brazilian rhythms, the band BRAZILIAN VIBES, DJ FIRST DIVISION and some other attractions that kept the dancing floor busy the whole time. Not to mention those dudes from Hawaii that were killing with their live performance and their killer beats!

 

Asher Bradshaw and Kiko Francisco are 2 skateboarders that will blow your mind away.

While most 6 and 7 year old kids are happy to learn how to ollie, they take it to the next level and making the old blokes look bad.

Asher Bradshaw is a Venice Beach local and and has been skating for a couple of years. Kiko Francisco started skateboarding when he was 4 and a half and has like 5 sponsors.

The Billy's Beach House hosted the best party of the week on the Gold Coast - Australia!

Celebrating the Day of the Independence of Brazil, the famous Brazilian Tuesday Nights threw a party filled with attraction such as Capoeira, Samba Dancers, Live Brazilian Bands, Drummers, Brazilian Food, Aerial Dancers and all the happy fun beautiful people that went to enjoy the event.

Storm but classic conditions were the kick off of this week's swell.

Last Monday morning (22/08/2011) I woke up and the weather wasn't very nice. Cloudy, raining and windy.

 

Last saturday (13-08-2011) Lennox Heads had some nice 3 to 4 foot waves pumping all day.

After checking the forecast I decided to go down to Lennox Heads (NSW - Australia) to get the South swell that was going to hit the coast. Called a mate (Gustavo Wescher) and we headed down the famous point break. We checked from Byron Bay all the way to Boulders but the best spot was Lennox.

 

Pete Murray played at Surfers Paradise for a massive crowd that took over the Beach at the Surfers Paradise Festival

If you are around the Gold Coast between June 16 and July 9 2011 don't miss out the Surfers Paradise Festival which is a feast of Music, Art, Food and Life Style. In a few words, the event will have 'culture'written all over it.

During this last weekend, Pete Murray played for the crowd 'for free' hitting the crowd with his most famous hits for the delight of all people present at the event.

Finally, 6 months after the death of 3x world champion Andy Irons, the final autopsy report was revealed to the surfing community and the world.

Irons was found dead on November 2, 2010, in a hotel room at the Dallas airport, but the release of the results of the autopsy was postponed twice in recent months. The New York Times got a copy of the official autopsy report, which concluded the 32-year-old died primarily of a heart attack, with the secondary cause listed as "acute mixed drug ingestion".

"This is a very simple case. Irons died of a heart attack due to coronary focus, ie, severe atherosclerosis, hardening of arteries. He had a plaque, producing 70 to 80 percent of its anterior descending coronary artery. This narrowing is very severe. A sign of this severity, located in the anterior descending coronary artery, is commonly associated with sudden death. " said Dr. Vincent Di Maio, a pathologist from San Antonio consulted and hired by the family. He said that "there were no other factors contributing to the death".

But for those who have followed Andy Irons career always had doubt about this report and an the speculation of an article from Outside magazine, who exposed the secret use of drugs. This speculation, it seems, was not unfounded. Chief Examiner of Tarrant County, Nizam Peerwani, MD, lists a second cause of death as "acute intoxication of mixed ingestion."

Irons family has accepted the official report and said Andy Irons had long suffered from mood orders and drug abuse.

 

"Andy was prescribed Xanax and Zolpidem (Ambien) to treat anxiety and occasional insomnia - a result of a bipolar disorder diagnosed by his family doctor at age 18," a statement said. "This is when Andy first began experiencing episodes of manic highs and depressive lows. The family believes Andy was in some denial about the severity of his chemical imbalance and tended to blame his mood swings on himself and his own weaknesses, choosing to self-medicate with recreational drugs."

 

It happened this past weekend (4-5 June 2011) a surfing championship held by invitation only by Back Wash and Lost at Ilha do Mel (Honey Island) in the State of Parana - Brazil.

 

The event was supposed to have four categories, but due to a large swell, which caused the beach breaks to be out of control, with big and messy waves it only had two categories: I'm surfing a lot and I only surf at the weekends.

The party was epic, The Beach House was packed and the good times rolled all through the night!

A massive crowd went to enjoy the best party on the Gold Coast this week. A friendly and fun atmosphere took over the place and people from all over the world (brazilians, australians, japaneses, chineses, americans, europeans, etc etc etc) had the opportunnity to enjoy some awesome music from the resident DJ V.H.S, brazilian live band, Samba Drummers and dancers, capoeira and much more.

The Brazilian Party at the Beach House Tavern is just about to complete 2 years of life!

 

That means 96 wild Tuesdays of a lot of fun, love, friendship, farwells and b'days parties, laugh and great vibes...no fights, no dramas, just a really friendly party, made for the brazilian comunity, but today, hosting people from all over the world! EVERYONE is more than welcome!

To celebrate such amazing date, they willbe doing a MASSIIIIIIIIVVVVVEEEE party, like a CARNAVAL, with BRAZILINA DRUMMERS, CAPOEIRA EXIBITION, REAL SAMBA DANCERS DRESSED UP, BRAZILIAN FOOD AND BRAZILIAN BAND!!!

Also they haven't done a Carnaval Party here this year, so it'll def be a HUGE event...Last years Carnaval Party we had 1000 people!!!

Around 1500 people have gather together to make a human sign to protest against Coal Seam Gas Mining on Sunday 29 May, at the Main Beach in Byron Bay.

 

Noah Lane takes home Au$ 5,000 for his victory on the 10th Anniversary Chiko MP Classic!

 

The Gold Coast is the venue for some thrilling extreme sports competition: The Australian National Wakeboarding Championship.

 

Hosted by the Queensland Association, The Australian National Wakeboarding Championships will be taking place on 16-20 April 2011 at the Gold Coast Marine Stadium on the end of The Spit at Southport. Get to see Australia's top males and females wakeboarders as they race for a spot on the Australian team that will compete in the 2011 World Championships in Italy. The competition commences at 9.00 a.m. each day.

Student surfers from many different nationalities were competing on the Student Surfing Festival 2011 on the Gold Coast - Australia this last weekend.