Archive for January, 2007
January 23, 2007 at 8:38 pm | Spongercity General News
Toys has just recruted 2 more riders: Chuck Guarino and Alex Leon.
I’ll post 3 more DVD reviews soon. I’ve been working on the site design and news enhancements and was lagging on the latest reviews.
Make sure to subscribe to the NEW Spongercity News RSS FEED if you havent already. Read the previous news post to learn more about RSS news feeds.
Last minute update: Crysis Mag issue 5.1 is out ! Check the cover here.
January 19, 2007 at 11:51 pm | Spongercity General News
Important update on spongercity:
- New HOME page design. Refresh your browser several times if needed.
- News entries have been enhanced: you can now leave comments on the news.
- 100% valid XHTML and CSS code for maximum compatibility with all browsers.
WATCHOUT ! If you subscribed to the previous RSS news feed, you have to update the RSS feed adress, it has changed:
- New RSS feed adress for news : RSS 2.0 News Feed
- New RSS feed for comments : RSS 2.0 Comments Feed
How to use RSS feeds on Firefox :
Just click on this logo: 
in your browser’s window (there should be one on the top or bottom of the window). Then save the Feed as a bookmark/favorite and you’ll get all the News in your browser without even doing anything !
Any bugs or browser problems ? Please let me know !
January 14, 2007 at 1:58 am | Spongercity General News
Congrats Jeff ! Jeff is the new world champ this year ! yeeeewwwhhhh
January 13, 2007 at 12:58 pm | Spongercity General News
Watch the Pipeline Hawaii contest live on beachbyte.com, here is the link:
LIVE VIDEO. Some of you might have some trouble watching it live because of some crappy code / plugins on the LIVE page. HERE IS THE HACK TO WATCH THE VIDEO : open Windows Media Player (Mac or PC users, it works for both), then copy and paste this link:
Link Hack 1 or this link
Link Hack 2 directly in your Windows Media player software. (File > Open URL). It works like a charm.
January 12, 2007 at 9:50 am | Spongercity General News
The Jono Bruce Interview is now online, as you can see on the right part of your screen. Check it out:
Jono Last Words Interview.
International latest news: MOREY seem to be back in the game, the brand is distributed again in Oz and has a solid team with Alex Bunting and Harry Dixon riding for them !
Let’s wait and see what’s happening. Morey is coming back with new stuff/products.
January 10, 2007 at 10:04 am | Spongercity General News
The BALI TRAVEL TIPS section is now available ! It’s short but effective i reckon. Check it here:
Bali Travel Tips. Might be useful before going to Bali for those world trippers among you. Bali rocks and it’s a great place to surf & chill.
4PLAY recruted Andrew Lester as well (Damian King being onboard now – see previous news post) so they still have a really solid team despite the leaving of Rawlins and Hardy. They now have a custom head shaper by the name of Reon Fisher.
I forgot to say that i was also working on the Mitch Rawlins DVD review as well as the new Jono Bruce ‘Last Words’ interview which should be online tomorrow ! So stay tuned for more…
Last but not least, former pro sponger Robbie Crawford just finished working on Kainoa Mc Gee’s new website. Some super nice pics of Kai out there on a stick and on a sponge. Visit his site here:
Kainoamcgee.com.
January 7, 2007 at 1:18 pm | Spongercity General News
Stewart wins the Ledges pro (Hawaii). He’s 44 and hads to beat all the best guys out there to win the event . Congrats Stewy ! You rock ! See a complete report on nofriendsclothing.com.au
DVD reviews coming soon on Sponger City: I’m currently reviewing The INSIDE (the DVD version of the Best boogieboard video of all time) and the S.O.L prod DVD called “Double or Nothing”. I’ve only watched the Roach Section so far and all i can say is that Roach is still, by far, the best Dker of all time. I wonder why he wasnt even featured in the latest Riptide Peer Poll 2006 coz he proved he is freakin untouchable. Perfect control on the knew, unmatchable style and speed. A freak of nature.
January 3, 2007 at 9:31 am | Spongercity General News
We just got the press release, the VS label is about to launch the version 3.0 of their project : Ryan Hardy VS. Todd Quigley. (March 07 launch). In case you didnt know version 1.0 was Mitch Rawlins VS. Jarrod Gibson and version 2.0 is Pierre Louis Costes VS. Dan Sivess. The Pierre Louis boards are about to hit the stores as i speak i guess.
The VS label is a Nick Mesritz project (NMD boards). All boards are designed by a specific rider and shaper (for each version: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0) and then produced (duplicated i should say) by Mez with the exact same dimensions and specifications with a quality & craftmanship that can’t be beaten. yewwww. I can’t wait to see the Ryan Hardy board. It’s no secret that Ryan has been working with Todd Quigley for like 8 years on his boards (Todd has been shaping Ryan’s boards for 8 years yeah) and now that Ryan is riding on the same team as Mitch and Pierre under the VS label great things are about to happen.
January 1, 2007 at 1:16 pm | Spongercity General News
Happy new year all. I hope this year will bring us nice waves, trips & good things.
Thanx to all your support and your fidelity. We ended up this year with an all-time record of audience on the site. Watch out for the Jono Bruce “Last Words” Interview soon and more interviews for ‘07.
