Go211.com to Be the Exclusive Behind The Scenes Portal for the 2007 Honda US Open of Surfing

Go211.com to Be the Exclusive Behind The Scenes Portal for the 2007 Honda US Open of Surfing

Site to Provide Lifestyle Coverage as well as Live Webcast of the Event

BOSTON, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Go211.com (http://www.go211.com/), the premier action sports social networking and online video share site, announced today that it has been named the "Exclusive Behind The Scenes Portal" and the live Webcast of the event will be "Presented by Go211.com" for the 2007 Honda US Open of Surfing. Go211.com will be on location July 20-29th at Huntington Beach, CA to bring all the action of the event to Go211.com's community.

The US Open of Surfing (USOS) is the largest lifestyle sports and music event in North America. The Event brings together top surfers from around the world, a mix of action sports superstars of skate, BMX and freestyle motocross, as well as top musical talent - all combined in a festival atmosphere for a week-long youth cultural experience that will thrill and excite hundreds of thousands of spectators in beautiful Huntington Beach.

   Highlights of Go211's extended coverage include:      -  Go211.com will have exclusive rights to capture behind the scenes        footage during the entire 10-day event.     -  Go211 Pro Team surfers Holly Beck and Mary Osborne will be on hand to        report on all the surfing competitions and festivities, as the        world's top surfers vie for a piece of the $125,000 prize purse.     -  Go211 Pro Team skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi will be covering        the "Honda Soul Bowl", in which today's top action sports super stars        in skateboarding and freestyle BMX will showcase their skills in the        68' by 46' one-of-a kind "Soul Bowl".  Hosoi will be interviewing        legends of the sport, as well as tomorrow's up and comers.     -  Go211 Pro Team snowboarder and Olympian Tricia Byrnes will be        providing insights on all the action.     -  Go211.com will be the presenting sponsor of the live Webcast.     -  Go211 will have a lounge in the Festival Village where there will be        giveaways, as well as meet & greets with many Go211 Pro Athletes.   

"We're happy and excited to have Go211 be a key part of this year's Honda US Open of Surfing," said Jennifer Lau, Event Director at IMG Action Sports, "Their unique approach to lifestyle coverage of events like this gives an inside look to those who cannot attend in person."

"We're excited to be partnering with the USOS in bringing one of the preeminent surfing events in the world to the Go211.com community," said Sean M. Aruda, CEO of Go211.com, "This event continues Go211's commitment to providing our users with intimate behind the scenes action sports lifestyle coverage which they cannot find anywhere else online."

   For more information, please visit http://www.go211.com/.    About Go211.com  

Go211.com is the leading community and video site for lifestyle sports created by and for action sports athletes and enthusiasts. It's the place to hang with the Pros and friends to get behind-the-scenes video, blogs, photos and podcasts from featured contributors along with other action sports fans. Go211.com offers a broad range of exclusive content submitted directly from the athletes. The current athlete roster includes professional surfers Mike Losness, Holly Beck, Mary Osborne, Julian Wilson, Clay Marzo, Megan Abubo, Ian Walsh, Gabriel Villaran, Cheyne Magnusson and Nate Yeomans, along with fellow action sports professionals Danny Kass, Jamie Bestwick, Christian Hosoi, Jeremy Jones, Ross Powers, Seth Wescott and Kelly Clark, among others.

About The U.S. Open of Surfing

The Honda U.S. Open of Surfing Presented by O'Neill is the world's largest professional surfing competition and anchors California's quintessential action sport, music and lifestyle festival. More than 600 world-class surfing, skateboarding, FMX and BMX athletes compete amid America's largest ocean-front exposition. Against the backdrop of 12 acres of action-packed activities for all ages, an estimated 400,000 spectators will be in attendance while millions more watch televised specials on Versus networks' Fusion TV. All of the action is accessible live online from July 20 to 29 at http://www.usopenofsurfing.com/

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CONTACT: Chip Rives of TRP Sports for Go211.com, +1-617-348-2899 x204,
crives@trpmarketing.com, or Mike Kingsbury, +1-714-375-2188, mike@teammkm.com,
or Cherie Whyte, +1-714-375-2188, cherie@teammkm.com, both of MKM for the
Honda U.S. Open of Surfing

Web site: http://www.go211.com/
http://www.usopenofsurfing.com/

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