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Toby Player designed a new logo for his online store BOOGERKING. Check it out here with a studio shoot with Max, Toby and Benny and check the store here for your gear & clothes. Latest news is that Toby is now the sole retailer for Agent Eighteens new wetsuit range.
We just got the news and this picture from Matt ! We never heard about the suits before but this is good news and now that the news is official we’ll ask Matt about his new sponsor and his projects for 2010.
Attica Wetsuits welcomes Matt Lackey as our 1st official rider to sign with the label. Attica is a culmination of 2 ½ years of testing cuts and materials before its release May 2010. Attica’s vision is a dark edge combined with bold logos, solid colours, epic cuts and durable quality materials. This is what will set us apart and add strength to our product.
More information will be released shortly.
In the meantime, keep your eyes on www.atticawetsuits.com
Really good video of the finals heats from the TURBO Pipeline Pro 2010 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6hXxa-8BM. Sick footage!
Finally an application (App) to view your favourite issues of VERT magazine. This application allows you to purchase, download and store each issue of VERT Magazine locally on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Once downloaded, you may view your favourite magazine anytime and everywhere in the globe.
Purchasing the App automatically includes the latest issue of the magazine for free then, you will be notified of any new issues, which can be purchased from within the App, as well as your favourite back issues.
With interactive page flipping where pages follow your fingers and a zoom feature, which overcomes the inherent problem of reading magazines on mobile devices.
A unique fun sharing feature allows you to share magazines with your friends just like you would in the real world! You will have access to bookmarks, a contents page, and a great search tool, which allows you to not only search the magazine you are reading but all of your back issues too.
Now VERT can be read anywhere regardless of internet connection, essential for reading on the move on planes, trains, etc…
More info here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vert-magazine/id357724149?mt=8
Chad Waldron just released Michael Novy’s episode on Boom! Sick episode indeed! You can watch it here on Vimeo or you can check Boompodcast.com to subscribe to the podcast and make sure don’t miss any future episode!
Reunion Island / French hellman Amaury Laverhne won the TURBO Pipeline pro yesterday in epic conditions. Congrats Amaury ! Amaury surfed reall really well throughout the whole event and smoked everyone in the final with a 10 and a 7.5
Final podium:
1. Amaury Lavernhe – Reunion Island / France
2. Diego Cabrera – Canary Islands / Spain
3. Jared Houston – South Africa
4. Damian King – Australia
The Pipe contest was the first of the 2010 IBA tour for the season. Waht an epic start to this news season !
Friday, 26th February, Banzai Pipeline, North Shore; Hawaii, United States of America – The 2010 Turbo Bodyboards Pipeline Pro presented by Body Glove has been won and run, with Pipeline saving the best for last with the competition wrapping up on the final day of the 2 week waiting period.
Conditions were epic, with perfect 8 to 12 feet Pipe and light offshore winds all day, keeping the thousands that lined the shore thoroughly entertained.
Amaury Lavernhe of the Reunion Islands was the one who came up trumps, blitzing through his final heats.
Lavernhe threw down the gauntlet to his combatants in the final with an outstanding combined wave total of 17.50, which included a perfect 10 for a huge pipe barrel to backflip. He then backed his perfect score up with a 7.5 for another huge barrel to roll.
Lavernhe took out Diego Cabrera of the Canary Island with 14.65, Jared Houston of South Africa with 14.20 and Damian King from Australia with 10.75.
“I am so stoked, I can’t believe it” Said Lavernhe
“I have been here for 3 weeks and I have been training for this day.
“I just took this heat by heat and I didn’t want to think too much about the final”.
Diego Cabrera, who has come off the back of a win at the last IBA World Tour event at Confital in December has continued his stellar competitive run.
“This is my dream, I am very very happy as this is the first time that I have ever been in a pipe final and the second time in a Grand Slam final” said Cabrera.
Though Jared Houston missed out on second only by .45 points, he was thrilled with his performance in the competition after spending over 3 months on the North Shore in preparation.
Originally excluded for the event due to surfing in an unsactioned bodyboarding event, Houston was the one who spearheaded the campaign to the IBA riders board to have the ban lifted at the end of 2009.
“I am so stoked, this is everything that I have been working towards this year so I am so happy that it has paid off” said Houston
Terry McKenna, the IBA International General Manager, who was also one of the key drivers behind this event is thrilled with how the comp rolled out in 2010.
“There was not a better way to begin the 2010 IBA World Tour season” Said Terry.
“Winning this event is only second to winning the world title, I am thrilled that Amaury has won this event as he is the deserved winner”.
The 2010 IBA World Tour now moved to New South Wales in Australia for the Soldier Beach Pro International from April 12 to 18.
Watch it live right now! It’s the last day of the contest, finals with be held today!
Absolutely brilliant. Amazing footage, camera angles, quality and editing. This is the second video that Mitch and his partners in crime James Wise and Tom Hannam post from this season on the rock: http://mitchrawlins.com/movies/hawaii-2010-vol-ii/.
Watch it over and over again. How is that side angle where you can see Mitch and then Ben Player get shacked like crazy before launching huge reverses ? Whaaaaaaat. Sick shit! This is bodyboarding. Thanks Mitch, James & Tom for those edits.
HOLD which talked about a while ago is having a premiere in Oz on the 22nd of March (check the poster here for more details). HOLD is a soon to be released DVD by Lucas Vazquez and Tyson Peisly with sessions from Tassie, East Coast, West Oz, Vicco, South Pacific and more… featuring all the best riders, sick footage and good editing. Check the HOLD blog here and watch the HOLD teaser here. Check the pictures on the blog, heaps of amazing shots!
David Hubbard wins the DK event at the Pipeline! Congrats Dub! Hubbard received $1,500, which was fitting since he paid the $5,000 deposit fee out of his own account to secure the contest! Last year, there was no drop knee contest at Pipeline due to a lack of sponsorship money.
He won The Foam Company Drop Knee Pipeline Pro contest yesterday at the Banzai Pipeline and is the three-time defending world champion of the drop knee world tour. Last year, he won all three contests on the tour. Yesterday’s contest was the first stop on the 2010 world tour.
Kim Feast came second yesterday. Ricky Alvarez of the Big Island finished in third place. Bud Miyamoto of Kaua’i was fourth, Sacha Specker of South Africa was fifth, and Jacob Pembrook of Kaua’i was sixth.
Side note:
Mike Stewart of the Big Island won the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic for a record 12th time yesterday. The final was also staged at the Banzai Pipeline. Stewart last won the event in 2008. It was not held last year due to a permit issue. Chris Kalima was second, Mark Cunningham third, Frederic David fourth, Craig Watson fifth and Steve Kapela sixth.
