I had a great time attending the first-ever Call of Duty XP event in LA. There were over 6,000 people in attendance and lines a mile long to play Modern Warfare 3 before it officially released. There were a lot of interactive setups as well, including paint ball, zip-lining and the Jeep experience.

At the end of the Jeep experience, you “secure” a building. It was intense! After being driven through a crazy dirt course, you are rushed out of the Jeep by Navy SEALs while “bad guys” are shooting at you. They are blanks (obviously) but it’s still loud and scary. Then you are given directions by a Navy SEAL to follow him and about 7 others into a dark building. It’s like a super crazy haunted house, at least for me. Bad guys are shooting at you out of every dark corner. I didn’t help much to secure anything, I just grabbed on to one of the SEALs’ vest and screamed the whole time, while they took out the bad guys. It was so loud I couldn’t hear myself scream. Which I guess made it less embarrassing that no one else could hear me either.

The best part about the whole event was around 500 active service members were there. Call of Duty has an endowment for the military. 100% of ticket sales went to the Call of Duty Endowment to help service members integrate back into civilian life after being overseas.

Here’s some photos from the event as well as a video with Nick Swardson!

Much love,
XoxoMarisa

I’m excited to announce my SUP boards officially launched today! They are available at Surftech.com/marisa, REI retailers and local surf shops.

Much love,
XoxoM

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Yesterday, I was in Huntington Beach for the US Open Surfing contest and was one of the judges for Hurley’s Walk the Walk.

Walk the Walk is an awesome project that challenges high schools around the nation to design and interpret a line of Hurley clothing and produce a fashion show/performance of their creations. The winning school gets 25k donated to their Art and Music programs. The top 5 schools competed yesterday from Grossmont High School (California), Peterborough Collegiate & Vocational School (Ontario, Canada), Toms River East (New Jersey), Kellam (Virginia) and Corona del Mar High School (California).

I didn’t really have any idea what I was in for and I was completely blown away as the first school came out to perform. It was on a big stage that had a long cat walk with a huge crowd watching. There was great music compilations, girls doing flips, guys dancing on graffiti painted trash cans and awesome clothing designs. I had goose bumps and almost felt emotional, for some reason, just seeing the amazing energy and creativity of such talented young people! I definitely do not remember having that kind of confidence or grasp of creating something that major in high school so I was really inspired!

I also met two of the best-looking people there, Vanessa Hudgens and pro surfer Rob Machado.

Much love,
XoxoM

I’m very excited to announce the launch of my Stand Up Paddle board line with SurfTech, it’s finally here! I wanted to design a board that fit a woman’s body better than current boards available and that was light enough for women to carry on their own.

The boards officially launch late August, then will be available in major retailers nationwide or you can pre-order now on www.surftech.com/marisamiller

Here’s some photos from this morning at Malibu.

Much love,
xoxoMarisa