Team H2O Audio Kite Surfer Grant Hasselbach

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Slater Trout, paddling his way towards a 2nd place finish at the SEA NY event.

It’s another big week for the swimming world!  The Pan Pacific Swim meet starts tomorrow and runs through the weekend.  Both Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin are representing the US and are using this meet and an important step in training for the 2012 Olympics.  Portions of the meet will be televised on Universal Sports if you want to cheer on Natalie and Michael from your living room.

H2O Audio Triathletes, Greg and Laura Bennett kicked off a month of racing in Europe with the ITU Kitzbuehel race this past weekend.  Laura turned in a very strong performance finishing 8th while Greg finished 25th, not bad for his first race post illness.  We’re always so proud of our favorite triathlete couple!

And finally, H2O Audio paddler Slater Trout finished the 28 mile paddle around Manhattan last weekend in 2nd place.  High winds, crazy tides and boat traffic were just a few obstacles in the S.E.A Paddle NYC fund raising race for Autism.  Always the competitor, Slater blames his second place finish on a “tactical error”.  You can read more about the race in his blog.  Over-all more than $260,000 was raised for Autism through this event.

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Slater Trout throwin' a shaka at the H2O Audio Headquarters. He's racing in NYC this weekend.

Team H2O Audio is on the road and competing this weekend!

Starting with Stand Up Paddling, our own Slater Trout will race 28 miles around the island of Manhattan in New York with the SEA Paddle to raise money for Autism.  You can also help with the cause, if you’d like help Slaters fundraising efforts, you can do so here.  And of course, stay tuned for pictures and videos of the race, the New York skyline isn’t your usual SUP backdrop, so we’re looking forward to some amazing images.

H2O Audio Ambassador Triathletes Greg and Laura Bennett have ventured across the pond to Europe where they’ll be competing in various races over the next month.  Kicking the month off this weekend Laura will be racing in the ITU World Championship Series race in Kitzbuhel.

Also in triathlon, 64 athletes from around the world are set to compete in triathlon at the first ever Youth Olympic Games.  This just goes to show that the sport of triathlon is no only growing rapidly amongst adults, but spreading to kids as well.

And lastly for this week, the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach is over with Brett Simpson claiming the 2010 title and Carissa Moore finishing at the top of the field of women.

That’s it for this week!  All the best to our brand ambassadors and everyone on Team H2O Audio who’ll be out there competing this weekend!

Check out this amazing video from Team H2O Audio Stand Up Paddler Chuck Patterson!  In his own words:

“The day before I shot this video, I was SUP surfing with a couple friends and 2 sharks circled us for about 15 minutes.  The next day, I decided to go back out at around the same time and take my GO PRO HD camera mounted on a 10 ft pole and do some exploring.  Sure enough within 5 minutes a 9 ft shark came out of no where and circled twice and slapped his tail on my board before disappearing. Then a minute later a 7 ft young juvenile Great White swam circles around me for 12 minutes.”

Typical of Chuck to speak of this indecent so nonchalantly.   Do ya think he was listening to the Jaws soundtrack on his H2O Audio waterproof headphones when this happened?  Maybe something calming would be a better option…but regardless, we’re glad you’re safe and have all your limbs Chuck!