There's been a passing of the party torch in the South Bay. Smackfest, the 30-year-old beach volleyball tournament, is now King of the Beach Cities when it comes to fun and entertaining events. The once-untouchable Manhattan Beach Surfest and its 6-man tournament is so yesterday, so in the past, like neon volley shorts. We're over it. Time for the "new kid" to shine. And … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Surviving Smackfest Hermosa Beach’s Fun Event
Living In The Moment At This Fun Southern California Beach Party By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger A DJ was blasting music on the sand. People were running around not just in beach attire but in all sorts of crazy costumes in an organized frenzy. Volleyballs were being pounded almost as frequently as the beers. And now it's my head that's … [Read more...]
Smackfest Is Hermosa Beach’s Costume Huge Volleyball Summertime Party
Hermosa Beach heats up for Smackfest.This dress-up team-themed event which uses beach volleyball as an excuse to throw a summertime Halloween party – on the beach, no less – has been going on for nearly 30 years. In 2024, it will take place Saturday, June 29 at the Hermosa Beach Pier. It starts at 9 a.m., and the last teams finish around sunset. By which time people from … [Read more...]
Was 2017 The Best Hermosa Beach Smackfest Ever? PubClub Blog
Smackfest Events Puts On Another Spectacular Costume Beach Volleyball Event By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com South Bay Blogger The team themed costumes were great, the weather was like a dream and the mood was unbeatable. As I sat back and digested the event that was Smackfest 2017, held Saturday June 16 in Hermosa Beach, CA, one thought kept popping into my head: … [Read more...]
Smackfest Hermosa Beach Event Review & Costumes: A Smashing Beach Party
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com South Bay Blogger While the much of the country swelters in a summertime heat wave, the Southern California beach town of Hermosa Beach is hot for another reason. It is because of Smackfest, a dress-up teams-in-costume silly and fun beach volleyball tournament, held one funday Saturday in July (29 in 2023). On a gorgeous … [Read more...]
Los Angeles June 15-18 Weekend Party Report Top Fun LA Events
Smackfest 2017 Hermosa Beach, LA Beer Week, Father's Day, El Segundo Summer Art Walk By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com South Bay Nightlife Blogger Welcome to the PubClub.com Los Angeles and South Bay Party Report for the third weekend in June! What a big weekend of events and happenings it is, too. And don't forget Sunday is Father's Day! THURSDAY - EL SEGUNDO ART … [Read more...]
Smackfest Hermosa Beach 2016 Photos & Event Review
Beach Volleyball Tournament Is A Halloween Party In July There were girls in sexy lingerie, people in grass skirts and Aloha shirts, a polling booth, elves, WWF wrestlers, American Gladiators, a DJ and a parade of silly-dressed people in the bars as if they were intentionally trying to lose a costume contest. It was Halloween in July in Hermosa Beach, CA, otherwise … [Read more...]
South Bay Party Report July 22-24 Weekend: Smackfest
Top Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach & Redondo Beach Events The Party Report is brought to you by Kona Beer; during Smackfest you can get this “liquid Aloha” at The Deck, Waterman’s and American Junkie. By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger & South Bay Resident Welcome to the PubClub.com South Bay Party Report for the weekend of July 22-24. The party scene is … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2016 Teams Sold Out For Hermosa Beach Event
Beach Volleyball Coed Costume Party Is July 23 If you did not sign up to play in Smackfest 2016, then you had better find some buddies with a team because it's sold out for spots. Of course, the event is free and open to spectators. Just a few weeks after being available, there's no more signups for teams. All that remains now is to see what costumes and themes those … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2016 Teams Include The Lingerace Girls
Hotties Enhancing The Hermosa Beach Volleyball Tournament Of all the teams at Smackfest in 2016 – pirates, lifeguards, big bananas, perhaps the Rubik's cube team again – look out for the girls from Lingerace. These eye-popping ladies are going to be wearing sexy outfits, playing in lingerie. Rest assured, the volleyballs won't be the only thing that will be bouncing … [Read more...]
South Bay Party Report: Trump Wine & Beer Tickets & Smackfest
Top June Happenings In Hermosa, Manhattan & Redondo Beach By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com South Bay Blogger Welcome to a special edition of the PubClub.com South Bay Party Report! The Party Report is brought to you by Kona Brewing Company, whose beers PubClub.com was drinking on the deck the past few days – what a beautiful, sunny weekend! It’s a CODE RED Party … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2016 Date & Registration Information
Costume Beach Volleyball Tournament In Hermosa Beach The creative, crazy, fun glad-I'm-single (or I'm-single-this-weekend) event in Hermosa Beach, CA, known as Smackfest is Saturday, July 23. Registration opened June 1, and is for teams of four (at least one girl is required, as if that's a problem). So get your teammates, register before it's sold out (which always … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2016 Date Add To Calendar Event
WHAT: More than 700 people, mainly weekend amateurs, playing in a coed beach volleyball tournament. Teams dress and play in costumes and have themes like vikings, pirates and even bananas. SINGLES SCENE: Outstanding. People in costumes and beach attire, going from the beach to the bars all afternoon. Good ratio of girls to guys. PARTY SCENE: Outstanding, one of the best … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2016 Date Hermosa Beach Volleyball Party Review
Volleyball Meets Halloween In The 23rd Annual Tournament Smackfest is back on the beach, and the date for 2016 is Saturday, July 23. For those who may not know (this would be South Bay newbies or anyone who has their head stuck in the sand while living here), Smackfest is a coed beach volleyball tournament with themed teams that put as much energy into enjoying the party … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2015 Registration In Hermosa Beach Filling Up Fast
Coed Beach Volleyball Tournament Is Saturday, July 18 Registration for Smackfest – the coed beach volleyball tournament in Hermosa Beach that involves teams in costumes in one of the top singles events in Los Angeles – opened on Monday, June 1. And before the day was done, more than half the spots had been filled. So if you want to play in Smackfest, get your team, … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2013 Hermosa Beach A Fun And Calm Party
Costume Beach Volleyball Tournament A South Bay Singles Highlight The 20th annual Smackfest was like all the other ones, and that means one thing: FUN!!! The costume coed beach volleyball tournament, held July 20, filled up the sand south of the pier in Hermosa Beach, CA, and fulfilled people's expectations of a great time. There were players in chicken suits, grass … [Read more...]
Summer Beach Volleyball Dates Set For Hermosa And Manhattan Beach
Hermosa And Manhattan Open, Smackfest, 6-Man And The Gills 2013 It's not summer in Southern California unless there are beach volleyball tournaments and here's the dates for the key pro (and fun) ones in Hermosa and Manhattan Beach. • SMACKFEST: JULY 20 North side of Hermosa Beach Pier to 15th Street What a way to start the South Bay summer of beach volleyball! It's … [Read more...]
Smackfest Hermosa Beach Volleyball Signups Now Open
Top Beach Event's 20th Anniversary Is July 20 Signups are now open for one of the top summertime events in the South Bay. Smackfest, the fun, comical and only occasionally serious dress-up beach volleyball tournament that involves some 800 people in teams dressed in themed costumes, is July 20. This is the 20th consecutive year for Smackfest, put on by and named after … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach City Council Approves Smackfest Beach Volleyball Event
Costume Tournament Passes By A 4-1 Vote Smackfest will be allowed to turn 20. The creative, whacky and harmless fun beach volleyball tournament that has been the summer highlight of the area's weekend amateur players, has been approved by the Hermosa Beach City Council. It was a 4-1 vote and while some restrictions apply – there were fears of it becoming "another 6-man" – … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach City Council Needs To Approve Smackfest
Council Members To Vote On Future Of Popular Beach Volleyball Event Smackfest, the whacky and fun dress-up beach volleyball tournament held each July, is in danger of becoming extinct. The Hermosa Beach City Council is discussing its future in its weekly meeting on Tuesday, March 12. This takes place at the Council's chambers at City Hall on Valley Drive, just south of … [Read more...]
Smackfest Hermosa Beach Volleyball Party 2011 Party Scene Images & Photos
Annual Hermosa Beach Costume Volleyball Tournament is, Once Again, A Smashing Success Looking back on one of the many great years of an annual Southern California beach party. When one hears the words "beach party," this probably does not come immediately to mind. One likely imagines some type of college Spring Break scene or, for those fortunate enough to have … [Read more...]
Smackfest Beach Volleyball Party: The Ultimate Fun in Hermosa Beach
Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach Are Full Of Things Like This Party-First Volleyball Tournament If ever there were a fun place to live, it has to be the South Bay Beach Cities of Hermosa and Manhattan Beach, a pair of party places within Los Angeles. For it is here that the young and social go out to bars, fill places for cultural happenings like the weekly Taco … [Read more...]