Camp Hobgood #3 – Australia

Although the most recent ASP World Championship Tour event ended in Australia in early April, C.J. and Damien Hobgood only last week returned to their stateside homes following the completion of their third annual Camp Hobgood. The elite weeklong Camp was held in the Bluey’s Beach area near Forster, New South Wales, Australia. 

CJ Hobgood wins the Billabong Pro Mundaka 2008>  

Camp Hobgood is the most exclusive, invite-only, pro-surfing Camp available to only the best emerging amateur surfers in the world. The Camp immerses these up-and-comers in the pro surfing lifestyle with individual and team competitions, free surfing critiques, and personal mentoring by the Hobgood brothers.

Dusty Payne of Maui, Hawaii, Jeremy Johnston of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., Dane Gudauskas of San Clemente, Ca., Chris Waring of Seal Beach, Ca., Nick Rozsa of Oxnard, Ca., and Dion Agius of Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. “It was a great week, said 2001 world champion C.J. “These kids are doing things that we never dreamed of at the same age and at an amazingly high rate of consistency…One thing Damien and I learned is that we can’t take our foot off the accelerator because these guys are right behind us.