The Billabong Pro Tahiti (held at Teahupoo) is set to start Monday, August 22nd. You can watch all the action live at the Billabong Pro Tahiti Website. After this contest, the rest of the season comes fast and furious with the World Tour Gang at Trestles just a week and a half or so after this contest ends.

Pay close attention to "the Dharma", the strange mini-simmons / fish hybrid Chris is showing off in the middle of the video. We've been riding one that Bing sent us a couple of weeks ago, and can testify that it rips. So, of course, we have a bunch being shaped right now, that should be in the shop soon.

Besides Taylor Steele's latest flick we now have in some late summer / fall gear from Patagonia, O'Neill, Quiksilver, Rusty and others, plus more to come in the next week from RVCA and Obey.

The Billabong Pro J-Bay has already seen 2 good days of surf, and chances are you haven't seen much of it live, as the contest has been starting around 2AM our time. You can head to http://billabongpro.com/ and check out the all the highlights, or the heat by heat matches.