Longboard Champ
Shane Stedman, a native of East Hampton, recently won the 30-to-39-year-old longboard surfing championship at Duke’s OceanFest in Waikiki, an event that his brother, Will, described as “the Olympics of surfing.”
As for Will, he, for the third time, is among the 20 qualifiers from the Hawaiian Islands who have been invited to the Ironman competition in October.
Red Devil Swims
The East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue Squad is to benefit from Red Devil ocean swims for competitors 7 and over at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach Saturday afternoon, beginning with a one-mile swim at 5 p.m., followed at 5:20 by a half-miler, and, at 5:45, by a quarter-mile race. Registration will be at the beach from 4 p.m.
Karate Kids
Jack Petscheitis, 14, of Springs, an East Hampton High School freshman, and Valentin Gavilanes, 7, a second grader at the Ross School’s Tennis Academy, recently won trophies — in musical weapons, extreme weapons, and traditional forms in Petscheitis’s case, and in extreme weapons, extreme forms, and fighting in Gavilanes’s — at the U.S. Capitol Classics international martial arts tournament in Washington, D.C.
The two are students of Sensei Michelle Del Giorno’s at the Epic Martial Arts studio in Sag Harbor. They also train with Sensei Caio DaSilva, a national champion, in Hicksville, and Gavilanes trains as well with Team Next Level in the Bronx.