Ocean Beach Community Clean-up with Ocean Minded!

What better way to kick off your weekend than with some good karma? Join Ocean Beach Surf & Skate and Ocean Minded for our first-ever, Ocean Beach Community Clean-up!

Seeing as OB is small beach town, it's inevitable that any trash in our streets will eventually end up in our ocean and that's why Ocean Beach Surf & Skate has teamed up with Ocean Minded to help keep our beaches AND community clean! Grab a bucket and help clean the streets of OB between 3pm - 5pm this Friday.

You can help out for however long as you'd like and we'll be giving away free swag to all of our participants! We'll also be BBQ'n in the parking lot, playing some fun games with Ocean Minded and the skate ramps will be set-up for those who'd like to get some shredding in!

Ocean Minded will be providing all clean-up gear. Thanks for helping keep our community clean!

Kick-off this Summer at Ocean Beach Surf and Skate for Three Months of Free Gifts!

Summer is just around the corner and to help you get ready, Ocean Beach Surf and Skate is giving away variety of FREE GIFTS with purchase! The Summer Kick-Off event begins, May 1, 2011 through July 31, 2011! Each week, a different shop vendor will give away awesome gifts with any purchase from their company- from hats, socks and t-shirts to head phones, sunglasses and towels, Ocean Beach Surf and Skate's vendors are hooking you up this summer!

Participating vendors include: ERGO apparel; Aerial7 headphones; B*Swim bikinis; Habitat and Alien Workshop skateboards and shoes; Body Glove apparel and wetsuits; Fox apparel and eyewear; L*Space swimwear; Honolua Surf Co apparel; Blind, Enjoi and Almost skateboards and gear; Electric sunglasses; Rusty apparel; Globe skateboards and shoes; Ocean Minded shoes and sandals; and Spy optics.

Point Loma Surf Movie Premiere and Fundraiser of “Calling on Others: Bali, Indonesia”

Ocean Beach Surf and Skate and The Pearl Hotel are joining forces to host a special fundraising event and movie premiere of Calling on Others: Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. The event will be a special feature for the monthly surf movie event, Surf on the Silver Screen, and will kick off at 7 p.m. at The Pearl Hotel.

Calling on Others is a film project headed by San Diego natives, Scott LeDuc and Andrew Matthews that aims to raise money for underprivileged surfers to continue their education. The project and scholarship fund idea was inspired during a six-week trip LeDuc and Matthews took to Bali, Indonesia in 2009. What began as a surfing expedition quickly became much more when they met four, local talented surfers whose aspirations to stay in school seemed a far-fetched dream. Together, LeDuc and Matthews created the short film, Calling on Others: Bali, Indonesia, which follows the lives of these four boys, in hopes to raise money so that their dream to further their education can become a reality.

In addition to the movie premiere and to aid in fundraising efforts, this event will feature a large raffle with extra-special prizes from:

Ocean Beach Surf and Skate, Ocean Experience Surf School, The Pearl Hotel, West Surfing, Dakine, L*Space, Koastal Skateboards, Ocean Minded, Dragon, Dizm Eyewear, Honoula Surf Co., Betty B Jewelry, Stay Covered, ERGO, Aerial7 Headphones, The Vault Yoga and Fitness Center and much more!

Guests will also enjoy exclusive food and drink specials from The Pearl Hotel, a live painting exhibit by artist Bryan Palacios and a blue-carpet press wall where they can get professional photos taken to document this fun-filled night.

Ocean Beach Surf and Skate and The Pearl Hotel invite guests of all ages to this karma-filled adventure on the silver screen to help raise money for those who need it most. Admission is free and open to the public. Blue carpet photos, live painting, pre-premiere cocktails, raffle sales and seating will begin at 7 p.m., with the premiere showing at 8 p.m. and the raffle drawing following immediately after. Seating is limited so please reserve a table or arrive early.

The Pearl Hotel is located at 1410 Rosecrans Street, San Diego, CA 92106. For more information, contact Ocean Beach Surf and Skate at (619) 225-0674. Seating is limited so to reserve a table for the night’s event, call The Pearl Hotel at 619.226.6100.