First quarter sales of SPY® brand products were $9.0 million in 2013, an increase of 14% or $1.1 million greater than the first quarter of 2012. Total Company net sales increased by 11% or $0.9 million, to $9.0 million in the first quarter of 2013, compared to $8.1 million in the first quarter of 2012. The difference between our SPY® brand sales and total Company sales in 2012 was due to our discontinued licensed brand products, which will have no sales in the future. Discontinued licensed brand sales were less than $50,000 in the first quarter of 2013, compared with sales of $0.3 million in the first quarter of 2012.

“We are especially happy to have achieved our 8th consecutive quarter of year over year growth of SPY® brand products with our strong SPY® brand sales growth of 14% for the first quarter of 2013 over the first quarter of 2012,” said Michael Marckx, President and CEO. “This is very encouraging for our efforts during the remainder of 2013, as our most important product, the SPY® Happy Lens™, which is the most innovative product SPY® has ever launched, was a significant part of our first quarter success. Moving forward, our Happy Lens Collection is expanding to include a growing list of new styles and will be featured in our Rx and Performance Collections, which will further leverage this innovation in new ways. On top of our successful Happy Lens launch, we are even more enthralled with the combination of things we accomplished this quarter: solid sales growth, improved gross margins, lower operating expenses, positive cash flow from operations and a break even income from operations. We believe this solid first quarter of the year helps to position us well for the balance of 2013.

Income from operations improved by $2.2 million to $29,000 in the first quarter of 2013, compared to a loss from operations of $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2012. The $2.2 million improvement was partially due to the increase in sales combined with a 450 basis point improvement in gross profit as a percent of sales, which generated $0.8 million in additional gross profit contribution. Additionally, total operating expenses in the first quarter of 2013 were lower by $1.4 million, compared to the first quarter of 2012, primarily a result of the restructure actions taken in the third quarter of 2012. Cash flow generated by operating activities was $1.5 million in the first quarter of 2013, compared to negative $0.4 million in the first quarter of 2012, or an improvement of more than $1.9 million.

The net loss improved by $1.9 million to $0.7 million in the first quarter of 2013, compared to a net loss of $2.6 million in the first quarter of 2012, primarily due to the reduction in our loss from operations to become breakeven, partially offset by higher interest expense due to the increased level of indebtedness. Interest expense included in the net losses is primarily “paid in kind” by being added to the outstanding principal balance rather than being paid in cash.

In May 2013, we amended our subordinated long-term debt arrangements, which in aggregate totaled $19.6 million at March 31, 2013. These long-term debt arrangements are due to Costa Brava III, LLP ($18.0 million) and Harlingwood (Alpha) LLC ($1.6 million), entities that as of March 31, 2013 owned approximately 48.3% and 5.4% of our common stock, respectively. The fundamental amendments were: (i) to extend the maturity date of each of these debt arrangements from April 1, 2014 to April 1, 2015, and (ii) the line of credit commitment (excluding paid in kind interest being added to the principal rather than paid in cash) from Costa Brava was reduced from $10.0 million to $9.0 million.

The results of our operations for the quarters ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 are more fully discussed in our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2013

Besides increasing the brand’s awareness internationally, the event also serves as a way to bring the Osiris European sales reps and distributors together to get on the same page, and to simultaneously get them involved in an outside activity that reflects the company’s true passion—skateboarding. In anticipation of this year’s contest, which is set to kick off Saturday, June 15 at Mystic Skatepark on Stvanice Island, we caught up with Global Marketing Director Hans Molenkamp to learn more about The Osiris Experience, and how the brand is leveraging the contest series to increase awareness and drive sales within the international market.

Osiris Global Marketing Director Hans Molenkamp

On a large scale level, what type of planning and development has gone into the Osiris Experience this year?

Our initial goal with the Osiris Experience was to create a fun skate event that moved to different locations while involving key Osiris elements like skateboarding and art. We’ve created a contest format that is one-on-one and bracketed so that each contestant has a chance to win money throughout the rounds. It’s exciting to watch and it moves quickly. We also have live art being produced on site with bands and DJ’s playing at the event. It’s definitely an experience.

This year we started prepping and planning earlier. We reached out to some of our key partners and invited them in as sponsors. Monster Energy, Go Pro, Spy Optic, Zumiez and of course Transworld will be participating in the event. We are also working with the Mystic skatepark in Prague and our distributors (Horsefeathers) are playing a key role. Joe Marckx, our International Sales Manager, lived in Prague for years and has been instrumental in making this happen.

How did you pick this year’s location? What’s different and unique about the skate spots there?

Our goal is to have a new location each year. Honestly, Prague is awesome in the summer, has a great park, and we love our distributors there. It wasn’t that hard to convince the team on this one.

What’s been the time frame on creating this from concept to the actual launch?

We plan a large sales meeting in the summer which has been traditionally held in Europe for the last couple of years. We thought that it would be a good idea and fun experience to incorporate external activities for our reps and distributors to attend. We designed The Experience to encompass the main reason why we exist as a company, which is skateboarding.

Last year we planned a skate contest, brought our riders out to judge, mixed in art and music and it was a done deal. Our CCO Brian Reid has always stressed the importance of blending the elements together and we feel that it’s all accomplished through the Osiris Experience. We also teamed up with Zumiez to take a winner of their “Zumiez 100K” to experience the event.

What will be the look and feel of the event once it hits in June? What will be different about this year’s Experience versus last year’s?

Last year in Amsterdam we chose a more psychedelic look and feel for the branding and the attributes of the contest. It kind of went with the whole Amsterdam vibe. This year we are embracing Prague’s beer culture and infusing it with Osiris flavor to create the imagery for this Experience. The contest format will be run exactly the same and we will be bringing out pro-riders and artists again.

How important is the international market for Osiris? Has that been a growing piece of the business, and if so how much?

Our International business is very important to us. As our world changes on daily basis we are always challenged on how to market and perform better in different countries. We work very close with our agents and distributors to help build their markets for success. It’s continuously growing and a vital element to our company.

How do you measure ROI on an event like the Osiris Experience?

ROI for the experience is based on a couple of different of metrics; first and foremost we gauge how many attendees come to the actual event. We also get feedback from our attendees of our sales event and that combined with what we put viral creates the final results.

What other important and/or new marketing campaigns and initiatives are being released over the rest of 2013 and 2014?

We are working on all kinds of new and exciting stuff. We are focusing heavily on skate and our team. Some of our new initiatives will be launching in Q3.

The 36-year-old elder statesman, Burnquist, whose popularity among Brazilians is astounding to see in person (picture a pregnant woman, a 6-year-old boy and a rifle-toting soldier all begging for autographs at the same time, while 50-60 of their countrymen claw from behind), went so far as to envision a Brazilian sweep of the five skateboarding events. That would have been a stunner, but Brazilian skaters did capture three of the five gold medals — and not surprisingly, the three B’s were responsible: Burnquist in Big Air, Barros in Park and Bufoni in Street. In Vert, two more Brazilians, Sandro Dias and Marcelo Bastos, earned silver and bronze medals.

Leticia Bufoni, who hails from Sao Paulo, brought the Brazilian crowd to its feet when she won gold in Women’s Skatebaord Street on Sunday.
Barros and Burnquist are the world’s most dominant skaters in their respective events — and each entered as the defending X Games champion — so their wins were expected. Bufoni, however, never had won an X Games event in six prior appearances, and she injured her ankle so badly leading up to X Games Foz that she almost withdrew from the biggest contest of her life.
“It was close,” she said Sunday night. “I thought I was not going to compete. I only started skating a week ago and was probably at 70 percent for the competition.”

When asked if this represented the biggest win of her career, which took shape on the streets of Sao Paulo, she said, “Yeah.” Not because it was her first X Games victory after three straight second- and third-place disappointments. “Because it was in Brazil.”
If you don’t live here or spend time here, it’s hard to understand what makes this place so unique. Even Foz, which is as landlocked as you can get for a South American city, evokes a sense of tropical magic. From the horseshoe of 200-foot waterfalls, to the omnipresent banana and papaya and avocado trees, to the wildlife (course workers pulled an 8-foot green snake from the grass this week and dodged hairy spiders falling from trees), you feel like you’re in some sort of mystical adventureland.
The best sporting events are flavored with that kind of international flair and culture and language. This week epitomized why. It had everything to do with the people who descended on Foz from around the globe. Athletes from 24 countries competed, and 16 nations won medals, one shy of the X Games record. Considering the event was broadcast in 184 countries, such diversity on the podium was a fitting sight from start to finish.
Certain themes carry over from one X Games to the next, and one of the old reliables is youth domination. We saw a bit of that this week in teenagers Nyjah Huston and Barros, who continue to rule the street and park skating worlds. But they were the only champions younger than 20. The same number of gold medals were handed out to athletes older than 40, when Bucky Lasek and the incomparable Jamie Bestwick swept the vert events on Saturday. Bestwick’s win also made him the only athlete to win seven straight X Games golds in any sport.

Bob Burnquist kicked off a solid Brazilian homestand with his win in Skateboard Big Air Thursday night.
The breakout star this week had to be Kyle Baldock, a 22-year-old Aussie from the Gold Coast who had never finished better than seventh before doubling up with BMX Park and Dirt gold medals. If life is good for Baldock now, it’s about to be better: he’s getting married in May and is slated to become a father in June.

Of course, despite the feats we saw on the dirt, hardwood and concrete, many athletes’ minds remained elsewhere this week, a reminder that sports have their place in the world and it isn’t always No. 1. A handful of New England-based competitors monitored from afar the Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent manhunt with aching hearts, and four-time BMX Park gold medalist Daniel Dhers, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, was less worried about finishing fifth on Saturday than of the threat of a civil war erupting at home.
Even in stressful times, a simple, unexpected social interaction can bring relief. Saturday night, after a long and sunburned day at the skateboard and BMX vert competitions next to Iguaçu Falls, a foreign reporter remained at the venue until well after dark. Mist from the falls floated down from a sky full of stars that grew brighter by the minute.

The last shuttle had already left for town, but a Foz do Iguaçu local named Henna — who learned broken English by watching subtitled movies as a kid and sold T-shirts here this week — invited the stranger to hop in the back of his truck for a ride down the hill. Elated and grateful, the man sat on cardboard boxes in the windowless cargo hold and gripped a piece of metal.
In a week full of action, the peaceful moments had their place too.

X Games will see a change of scenery for 2014, after more than 10 years of being hosted in Los Angeles, California. ESPN announced today that its considering four cities for the final decision for next year’s X Games location: Chicago, Detroit, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas. Here’s the details from ESPN:

PRESS RELEASE: April 30, 2013—ESPN, the leading action sports content provider and creator of the X Games, has chosen four North American cities – Austin, Texas; Chicago; Detroit; and Charlotte, N.C. – as final candidates to host a summer version of the X Games for a period of three years beginning in 2014.

In October, 2012, ESPN announced that an RFP (Request for Proposal) process had begun to identify interested cities from North America as the existing agreement between Los Angeles partner AEG concludes in 2013. In January, ESPN announced the nine qualified bid cities. From January until April, ESPN engaged in discussions with the various cities as they assembled their proposals. All official proposals from cities interested in hosting an X Games were due on April 2.

“The X Games have grown significantly and has been enjoyed by millions of fans over the past 10 years in Los Angeles,” said Scott Guglielmino, senior vice president, programming and X Games. “Our partners AEG and the city of Los Angeles have been instrumental in our success. As we embark on a year of significant global expansion and transformation for X Games in 2013, we are excited about the potential each of these cities bring, and look forward to identifying our next host city for the X Games.”

ESPN will announce the new host city later this summer. Proposals from qualified cities in North America to host the winter version of the X Games are due in June.

In May of 2012, ESPN announced it would be expanding the X Games to Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil; Munich, Germany and Barcelona, Spain – joining X Games Los Angeles and Aspen to form a six-event schedule in 2013.

For general information, log on to www.xgames.com. Follow the X Games on Twitter at Twitter.com/espnxgames.

Alana Blanchard continues to dominate Surf on the social front while legends like Tony Hawk, Rob Dyrdek and Kelly Slater carry major weight with their mainstream appeal and recognition.

Check out the full list of ranking here by sport and category.

Thursday:

11 a.m.-2 p.m. ET: SLS Select Series

X Games Foz Do Iguaçu opens on Thursday with the Street League Skateboarding Select Series, where 10 prequalified skaters and five Brazilians will vie for two spots to join the 20 pros already confirmed for the 2013 SLS World Tour before Friday’s prelims. This is the first year of a new partnership between X Games and Street League Skateboarding, bringing the SLS World Tour format to X Games and adding the new X Games events in Foz Do Iguaçu, Barcelona, Munich and Los Angeles to the expanded seven-stop tour. Pay attention to the Select Series because podium positions could just as easily go to some kid you’ve never heard of. Skateboarding is like that.

7-10 p.m.: Men’s & Women’s Enduro X Final, Skateboard Big Air Final

Maria Forsberg is going for a three-peat after dominating the first two years of Enduro X competition at X Games (andwinning just about everything in women’s enduro in 2012), but Tarah Gieger’s been chasing her down and this year’s field will include Jolene Van Vugt, an all-around rider and Nitro Circus star who is a newcomer to enduro but has racing pedigree and freestyle chops; Van Vugt just might throw a backflip victory celebration if the opportunity presents itself. The locals’ favorite will be Mariana Balbi, from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, but the real wild card will be Laia Sanz, a 13-time trials world champion and FIM Women’s Enduro World Championship competitor. In the men’s field, watch for defending X Games gold medalist Mike Brown, reigning EnduroCross tour champion and 2011 X Games gold medalist Taddy Blazusiak, and Brazilian rider Antonio Balbi to bring both muscle and finesse to the most athletically grueling event at X Games.

Bob Burnquist, the patron saint of Brazilian skateboarding and a steadfast promoter of MegaRamp skateboarding, will be looking to add to a collection of X Games hardware that already includes a total of nine gold medals. But he’ll have to fend off young challengers like Tom Schaar and Mitchie Brusco to win in front of Burnquist’s home crowd. Even his status as the local favorite is on the line with Brazilian skaters Edgard Pereira and Rony Gomez in the mix. Remember when 900s were a big deal last year? Watch for Schaar and others to attempt 1080s or maybe even 1260s this time around. Try not to get dizzy just thinking about it.

Friday: 

7-10 p.m.: Moto X Step Up Final, GoPro BMX Big Air Final

Ronnie Renner smashed the Moto X Step Up record by an astounding 10 feet at X Games Los Angeles 2012, pushing the mark from 37 feet to 47. With previous record holder Mat Buyten out of the mix in Brazil, Renner’s closest competitor will likely be Italian rider Massimo Bianconcini, who has been dominating the event in FIM Freestyle MX World Championship competition on the Night of the Jumps World Tour. Moto X Step Up is reverse motocross limbo: how high can they go?

Australian rider Steve McCann’s going for his third consecutive gold medal entry in the history book of BMX Big Air, but the stacked field also includes X Games gold medalists Chad Kagy and Kevin Robinson, as well as a who’s who of BMX big hitters like Morgan Wade, Zack Warden, Vince Byron, Colton Satterfield and Douglas Leite.

Saturday:

11 a.m.-5 p.m.: BMX Park Final, Skateboard Vert Final, Men’s Street League Skateboarding Final, BMX Vert Final

Four-time BMX Park gold medalist Daniel Dhers failed to medal in 2012 and will be looking for redemption in Brazil, where the Venezuelan rider hopes to put on a show for his South American fans. Look for defending gold medalist Scotty Cranmer to give him a run for it, and watch for veteran riders like Ryan Nyquist, Morgan Wade and Dennis Enarson (back from a femur injury that left him out of competition for most of 2012) to bring the challenge. Also in the mix this year are Australian rider Kyle Baldock, Canadian rider Drew Bezanson and Americans Pat Casey, Daniel Sandoval and Gary Young.

Brazilian skaters could sweep the Skateboard Vert Final on home turf if Sandro Dias, Bob Burnquist and Marcelo Bastos have anything to say about it, but six-time gold medalist Pierre-Luc Gagnon is the man to beat and longtime veterans like Bucky Lasek and Andy Macdonald (last year’s silver and bronze medalists) are always podium favorites. Ready to see the next generation rise up and take them down? Root for teen sensation Tom Schaar, who now throws 900s like they’re no big deal and has been brushing up on his style and bulking up his bag of tricks to match.

Nyjah Huston dominated Street League Skateboarding in 2012 and has four X Games medals — including X Games Los Angeles 2011 gold — to show for himself, but was unseated by Paul “P-Rod” Rodriguez and bumped down to bronze medal position by Ryan Sheckler in 2012. That trio would be podium favorites in any street skateboarding showdown, but don’t sleep on Luan Oliveira: The 2011 silver medalist from Porto Alegre, Brazil, will have the teeming masses behind him in Foz do Iguaçu, has won in the Street League format before and came out on top last month at the Tampa Pro. Another favorite could be Columbian skater David Gonzalez, Thrasher Magazine’s 2012 Skater of the Year. Also watch out for whoever wins the two wild cards from Thursday’s SLS Select series, the biggest chance unknown underdogs have ever had to fight their way into the big show at X Games: Brazil has more unknown underdog skaters per capita than anywhere else on Earth.

One name will be on everybody’s mind as the BMX Vert Finals get underway: After winning his sixth consecutive gold medal at X Games Los Angeles in 2012, Jamie Bestwick is the undisputed champion. Simon Tabron, another British rider, is likely his closest competitor, and Chilean rider Coco Zurita ought to have the South American fans most riled up. Also in the mix are Chad Kagy (who last won vert gold in 2006), BMX legend Dennis McCoy (46 and now entering the 28th year of his pro career), Australians Vince Byron and Steve McCann and Americans Austin Coleman, Mykel Larrin and Zack Warden.

7-9 p.m.: Moto X Speed & Style Final, BMX Dirt Final

Americans Lance Coury and Ronnie Renner are likely favorites in Speed & Style, but they’ll be up against FIM Freestyle World Championship competitors Massimo Bianconcini (Italy) and Libor Podmbol (Czech Republic), as well as a diverse international field that includes Mat Rebeaud (Switzerland), Edgar Torronteras (Spain) and Andre Villa (Norway). This one ought to be the week’s best opportunity to fully appreciate the roar of a Brazilian action sports crowd, speed and style being two of Brazil’s national pastimes.

BMX Dirt returns to X Games after a seven-year absence, but the biggest name in the game remains the same: Ryan Nyquist will still be the man to beat. Other riders to watch include Americans Brandon Dosch, TJ Ellis, Dennis Enarson and Mike “Hucker” Clark, New Zealand’s Luke Parslow, Australian Kyle Baldock and British rider Ben Wallace. But the real star of the show just might be the gnarly course for the competition, designed by BMX trails specialist Dave King.

April 21:

11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Women’s Skateboard Street Final, Ford RallyCross Final, Men’s Skateboard Park Final, Moto X Freestyle Final

Nobody wants to win in Brazil more than Leticia Bufoni, the 20 year-old from São Paulo who has made the podium in her past three X Games attempts — two silvers and a bronze — but has never been on top, despite dominating the World Cup skateboarding circuit since 2010. To get there she’ll need to topple defending gold medalist Alexis Sablone and fend off three-time gold medalist Marisa Dal Santo, as well as 2012 bronze medalist Rachel Reinhard, fellow Brazilians Jessica Florencio and Eliana Sosco, Argentinian skater Eugenio Ginepro and Belgian skater Evelien Bouilliart, among others.

Travis Pastrana’s sitting out the Moto X events to avoid risking injury for his new NASCAR career, but he’ll still be getting dirty at X Games Foz do Iguaçu and looking to get back on top in RallyCross. With X Games Los Angeles 2012 gold medalist Sebastien Loeb out of the mix, Pastrana’ biggest competition will be X Games podium regulars Brian Deegan, Tanner Foust and Ken Block, and international rallycross stalwarts like Liam Doran, Toomas Heikkinen, Anton Marklun and Steve Arpin. A trio of Brazilian drivers — Nelson Piquet Jr., Eduardo Marques Jr. and Mauricio Neves — will give them all a run for it.

Defending Skateboard Park gold medalist Pedro Barros of Florianaoplis, Brazil, might be the local with the best chance to win big in Foz do Iguaçu, with American skater Ben Hatchell and Danish skater Rune Glifberg (a two-time gold medalist) as his biggest competition: The trio all made the podium in 2012. The rest of the field are all Americans, with Taylor Bingaman, Aaron Homoki, Kevin Kowalski, Ben Raybourn, Grant Taylor, Raven Tershy and Macdonald in the mix.

Taka Higashino will be in Brazil to defend his X Games Los Angeles 2012 Moto X Freestyle gold, with 2012 Moto X Best Trick gold medalist Jackson Strong also in the mix. They’ll be the favorites, but watch out for X Games rookies Wes Agee and Bryce Hudson and a deep international field including Australian rider Rob Adelberg, Czech rider Libor Podmol, Swiss rider Mat Rebeaud and Norwegian rider Andre Villa. Now that X Games has dropped Best Trick competition, look for the top riders to bring the innovation and progression game straight into their Freestyle runs.

X Games Foz begins Thursday on ESPN/ESPN3. Tune-in schedule is here.

In contention for the famed XXL Wipeout of the Year honors are five surfers at four notorious big wave breaks sprinkled around the world. Heading up the candidates for 2013 are the only two Australians to garner nominations this year: Brett Burcher of Ulladulla, New South Wales and Chris Shanahan of Denmark, Western Australia. Both suffered horrendous missteps at a viciously shallow break in West Oz known simply as “The Right” and both were captured by videographer Darren McCagh. Also being acknowledged among “the best of the worst” are: Joao De Macedo, who launched into space at Maverick’s in Northern California; Tom Dosland for skimming on his back down the face of a huge wave at Jaws, Hawaii; and Axi Muniain for an aquatic reverse-somersault at Nazaré, Portugal.

Joao De Macedo, dropping his vote into the ballot box at Mavericks. photo: Curt Myers

For the first time ever, the surfing public will be able to have their opinion count in the selection of the winning wipeout by voting on Surfline.com. One third of the tally to determine the most spectacular unsuccessful ride of the year will be derived from the Surfline poll over the next three weeks, with the balance of scoring coming from the elite academy of surfing experts ala the Oscar voting process. To review the nominees and cast your vote on Surfline, click HERE. The nominees are also available by visiting the Wipeouts page of the XXL event website.

Click to view Surfline Best Overall Performance Award Nominees

The winners of all the categories of this year’s event will be announced at the invitation-only Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards party at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California on May 3, 2013. The show will be webcast that night on BillabongXXL.com and will be broadcast as a one-hour program on ESPN2 on Sunday, June 9 at 12 P.M. PT. This year’s event marks the 13th-annual edition of the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards, an event open to every qualified surfer at every break on every day of the year, so long as the action is captured by a video or still camera and submitted for judging by the XXL’s voting academy of expert surfers and lensmen. Over 1,000 images were entered into the event before being filtered down to the definitive images of each nominated ride.

The final nominees for 2013, in alphabetical order:

FIVE XXL WIPEOUT OF THE YEAR AWARD NOMINEES

     (Surfer prize $2,000 – Video prize $1,000)

Brett Burcher (Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia) at The Right, Western Australia.

(Video by Darren McCagh.)

Joao de Macedo (San Francisco, California, USA) at Maverick;s, California.

(Video by Curt Myers.)

Tom Dosland (Haiku, Hawaii, USA) at Jaws, Maui, Hawaii.

(Video by Elliot Leboe.)

Axi Muniain (Zarautz, Basque Country, Spain) at Nazaré, Portugal.

(Video by Ingo Quintana.)

Chris Shanahan (Denmark, Western Australia) at The Right, Western Australia.

(Video by Darren McCagh.)

FIVE SURFLINE BEST PERFORMANCE AWARD NOMINEES

     (Surfer prize $5,000)

Grant Baker (Durban, South Africa)

Kohl Christensen (Haleiwa, Hawaii, USA)

Shane Dorian (Kona, Hawaii, USA)

Mark Healey (Haleiwa, Hawaii, USA)

Greg Long (San Clemente, California, USA)

THREE BILLABONG GIRLS BEST PERFORMANCE AWARD NOMINEES

     (Surfer prize $5,000)

Paige Alms (Haiku, Hawaii, USA)

Anastasia Ashley (San Clemente, California, USA)

Keala Kennelly (Haleiwa, Hawaii, USA)

The Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards are presented by Pacifico Beer. Pelican Products is the official provider of waterproof cases. Surfline.com is the exclusive surf forecast of the XXL. The event is sponsored by Surfing Magazine and Air Tahiti Nui airlines.