Rob Machado’s had an interesting year. We won’t go into personal details because there’s no need to get all TMZ here, but we’ll just say it’s been an obvious time of growth and transition for him. Throughout the last year Rob’s been working on “The Drifter”, the much anticipated, soon to be released movie that chronicles a year of his travels primarily through Indo. Last week it won best film at the Ombak Bali 2009 film festival, but this seems to just be the beginning of the winning circuit for this Taylor Steele/Machado endeavor. We caught up with Rob when he was on some downtime in Cardiff.
FUEL.TV: You haven’t really surfed contests in the last few years but recently you popped up at the US Open in Huntington Beach. How did that go?
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[Photo credit: Aquashot/aspeurope.com by Bonnarme] Marc Lacomare (Capbreton, FRA), 18, is the nw ASP European Junior Champion and is guaranteed a spot into this year’s ASP World Junior Championships (WJC) at Narabeen
TENERIFE, Canary Islands (Friday, September 4, 2009) – Marc Lacomare (Capbreton, FRA), 18, was crowned the 2009 ASP European Junior champion today after closest title contender Jatyr Berasaluce (Sopelana, EUK), 20, was eliminated from the ASP Grade-3 Santa Surf Pro Junior in the Canarian island of Tenerife. Leading the regional ratings since his recent win in the Rip Curl Pro Junior at Hossegor a couple of weeks ago, Lacomare sealed the deal today closing a great year of performance to claim his maiden regional title and get his ticket for this year’s ASP World Junior Championships (WJC) taking place at Narabeen in Australia next January.
“The title wasn’t done for me even if I was in the lead before Tenerife,” Lacomare said. “I was really focused on my heats and did not think about the title until it would be confirmed and I am just over the moon right now. I’ve had a long year competing on both ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) and Pro Junior events. I had an injury in June and July and I got back to competition to focus on the junior series, and it finishes perfectly with that title.”
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