A bodyboard picture was awarded with the 3rd place in the action sports category in the prestigious world press photo. It’s a pic of the Sumol Nazaré Special Edition (portuguese contest with freakin huge waves), it was taken by portuguese photographer Miguel Barreira. Unreal picture !

The Pipe contest in Hawaii is about to start, and it looks like the conditions are gonna be big and clean from what the forecast says. What a cool way to start the 2008 IBA tour ! Peep the IBA Site for more news and full forecast report.

Industry / Sponsor change news: Ryan Mattick is now riding for 4PLAY boards and will soon have a pro-model. Yewwww.

Spongercity news: our server was pretty slow today, sorry for the inconvenience, it’s getting better though and should be fine tomorrow. We’re on a mission with DVD reviews this week and should finish reviewing DRAW, THERE IS NO I, INSERT NAME HERE and HOW TO between now and this week-end. All reviews we’ve done are archived here by the way, in case you never clicked on the REVIEWS button in the nav bar. Doh.