At Drinknird we like all things drinking related. We also like our sports. So that is why we feel obligated to let you in on a local secret and tell you about one of the biggest parties of the year that includes both alcohol, volleyball and of course fun. The event is technically a surf festival, but as you can tell from the photo below, it doesn’t look like many people are looking at the water.
Once a year in the first weekend of August, teams of 6 go head-to-head in a very unique volleyball tournament. Teams compete all day in a round robin format until the brackets are slowly reduced to the best competitors. On Sunday, the best teams move on to the finals beginning again at 9 am. You will see World-class volleyball players, top college athletes and retired AVP pros dress up in costumes as if it were Halloween. Among the teams are the “Lakers” in Afro wigs, Magnum P.I., nurses, Matrix (girls in all leather), Boy Scouts, Abraham Lincolns, the Mullets and the Sex Kittens. Every year teams seem to out do each other with their costumes.
The rest of the thousands of people come to watch, get some sun and drink under the corporate sponsored tents. Alcohol is not legal on the beach or in public in Manhattan Beach, California, but used with discretion and you typically do not get in trouble.
The 6-Man tournament and Surf Festival should be on the top of you and your single buddies list of things to do every summer if you can make it out there.
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September 19th,2009 at 5:29 PM
6-man is the most fun weekend of the year in LA.
If you’ve never been book a flight if you have to for the first weekend in August next year.
August 5th,2010 at 8:47 AM
I am glad that i found your blog, there are a couple of cool posts