The last stop on the world tour this year is Confital, in the Canary Islands. It starts tomorrow, til the 6th of December. The world champ will eventually be crowned there.
Go to www.confitalibatour.com to watch it live, and go to IBAtour.com for more info about the event.
FYI: The Men’s titles race has 4 riders all within striking distance. World champ this year will either be Tamega, Valadao, Benny Player or PLC.
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After the much anticipated ROAM II movie, it’s now THE JOKER II, The BEN PLAYER MOVIE, and THRASH’ turn to come out. We have a really busy end of the year video agenda hey !
For THRASH some premieres are scheduled on the 11th, 12th and 13th of Decembre in Oz (respectively Sunshine coast, Goldcoast and Wollongong. Watch the teaser here on Vimeo. Intl’ distribution of the DVD will probably start soon after those premieres. Film starts at 7PM at all premieres, Doors open at 630PM. Get there early to get a good seat. LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE! Tickets will be available for purchase from the 29th of November. Ticketing Venues Coming Soon . Check http://www.myspace.com/thrashthemovie for more info.
THE JOKER II premieres start tomorrow in Wollongong (Oz). Please watch the teaser for all other premieres dates in Oz. Same as for THRASH we reckon intl’ distribution of the DVD will start soon after. Watch the teaser here (premiere dates included at the end of the teaser).
The BEN PLAYER movie premieres start on the 2nd of Jan. in Oz.
from the waldrons website: ALL TICKETS $30. INCLUDES THE FINAL VERSION OF THE BEN PLAYER PROJECT AND PERSONALLY SIGNED POSTER BY THE 2X WORLD CHAMPION HIMSELF. ALL PREMIERES START AT 7:30 (local time) – TICKETS AVAILABLE ON-LINE BY THE END OF THE WEEK.
Friday – 2nd Jan – Sunshine Coast – Birch Carol & Coyle – Sunshine Plaza – Maroochydore
Saturday – 3rd Jan – Gold Coast – Birch Carol & Coyle – Pac Fair – Broad Beach
Sunday – 4th Jan – Byron Bay – Lounge cinema
Thursday – 8th Jan – Newcastle – Greater Union – King st
Friday – 9th Jan – Central Coast – Hoyts – Erina
Saturday -10th Jan – Sydney – Greater Union – Bondi Junction
Sunday -11th Jan – Wollongong – Greater Union – Wollongong
Wednesday – 14th Jan – Vic – Village Cinemas – Geelong
Friday – 16th Jan – SA – Mercury Cinema – Adelaide
Saturday – 17th Jan – WA – Astor Cinema – Perth
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ROAM II. The latest production from Digital Children (filmed by Bryce Thurston and Liam O’Brien – Edited by Digital Chirldren / Bryce Thurston) delivers once again. ROAM I was great and ROAM II is great as well but it’s got a different taste and feeling. Read the complete review by clicking below.
Here’s a little selection of cool web clips we found on the world wide web… well actually on Vimeo. It’s funny how Vimeo is so much better than Youtube. It looks better, vids are encoded better and it just feels better he he.
- Here is Chad Jackson, introducing his Turbo boards and talking bodyboarding
- Here is Glenn Taylor, introducing the Turbo Surf Designs factory. It’s pretty cool.
- Here is a short Mike Stewart interview by the Panic Button
- Here’s a nice clip by Robert Sherwood
- Here’s another cool (but older) clip from Robert Sherwood
- Here’s french up and coming rider Hugo Lagarde in Indo. It will make you wanna go to Indo for sure.
- Here’s Hugo in the Philippines now, just in case going to Indo wasnt enough, now you’ll wanna go to Philippines too !
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Turbo Surf Designs announced yesterday that Australia’s leading female bodyboarder, Lilly Pollard has signed with Turbo’s global team. Lilly will be working with Turbo to develop a range of women’s bodyboards and accessories.
Lilly is currently in Europe preparing for the final leg of the World Tour and will return to Australia in December to work on Turbo’s global womens bodyboarding initiative.
The pictures here and here show Lilly testing her new Turbo board in the Canary Islands.
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European brand SenNoSen got themselves a new logo for 2009. SenNosen is a bodyboarding clothing label hailing from France actually and starting artists collaborations this year to design their tshirts. They just sent us a preview of the first collaboration tee they have:
Designed by artist “Hate”, the “Heart by Hate” tshirt is the first of a couple collaborations the brand will have with different artists. “Hate” is a versatile artist: street art, drawing, painting, music, bodyboarding, skateboarding, surfing…
Another collaboration with Tahitian artist John “Ton” Poileux will be available soon as well. Christmas 08/09 to be more precise. Distribution must be worldwide this year we reckon. We’ll ask Mat D. at SNS for more info.
In the mean time check the SNS blog here: http://snseurope.blogspot.com
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Check the latest podcast from BOOM! / NMDtv on the Waldron’s site or on iTunes (type BOOM! and find it on the iTunes store) or even here on the xml feed from the Waldron’s podcast.
This episode is Thorpe (12 y.o) and Charlie (14 y.o) ripping in Bali (May 08 trip with VS/NMD team). Those groms are soooooo good.
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DUNES is one of the rare wetsuit companies building suits specifically for bodyboarders. (Their website is not up to date so keep on reading the review and ask your local shop for the latest DUNES products coz you wont find anything on their site). They’re sponsoring a couple talented riders… mmmh like Ben Player for example or Dallas Singer and they even released a Player pro-model which looks pretty good. Anyway, we’re reviewing the DUNES GLADIATOR 4×3 BACKZIP royal blue color today. Click below to read the whole review.
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