Archive for December, 2009
December 11, 2009 at 9:05 pm | Spongercity Industry News
The latest FLIPMODE range is now available in Oz as we write this. It’s a wider & more diverse clothes/accessories range than the winter 09 range with sick new designs. We got a little package from our good friends at FLIPMODE earlier this year and we can truely say that FLIPMODE is positioning themselves as one of the strong 100% bodyboard clothing brand on the market in the likes of UNITE, GRAND FLAVOUR, I AM NONE, PLASTIC PEOPLE, VU, NO FRIENDS etc.
We spotted some of the new range pieces here online at BSC.
December 8, 2009 at 11:24 pm | Spongercity Podcasts News
The Dave Winchester Mini Series – Episode 4 – Now available ! Sick shit once again ! Thanks Chad and Winny for such a good series of Podcasts. Check it out here on Vimeo and/or download the podcast from iTunes. Go to Boompodcast.com for further details about the podcast and the Waldrons.
December 8, 2009 at 11:00 pm | Spongercity Magazines News
Movement issue 31 is out! Check the cover here. And read the excerpt here:
IT BURNS MY EYES
We’re all just slaves to style.
“What everyone seems to be overlooking is that bodyboarding has about six manoeuvres in total. So obviously style is going to play a huge role in efficient and aesthetic bodyboarding.”
- Reader post on www.movementmag.com
Mike Stewart calls Kavan Okumura the creator of mod style. A native Hawaiian with dark skin and Asiatic eyes, Kavan envisioned rail speed and tweaked air when there were hand-drags and floaters. His name should be hotlinked on bodyboarding’s wiki page along with fellow revolutionaries Tom Morey, Jack Lindholm and the scientists behind webbed gloves.
But Kavan’s fate was turned by excess. Drugs his undoing. His craving all consuming, first taking away the ocean, his family and then his freedom. Living rough on the streets to captive of a correctional facility in the Arizona desert, where Rick Bannister conducted the first interviews for this story as Kavan neared release after ten years. Like most inmates and terminally ill he’s found God and now works hard for redemption, with family and his old spot lifeguarding on the North Shore.
Kavan progressed the style that Stewart patented for future generations. Exported globally it evolved according to, amongst other things, the existence of waves, so we are now like the peacock and the fighting cock – one family joined only by DNA. But style must be paramount. Like world titles, board sales and Facebook friends, being the barometer of style is one of the purest aims of professional bodyboarding.
A Question Of Style is a feature first for this or any magazine. Through our website we lit the fuse on a debate about global style – who, where, what is it – and watched a great firestorm erupt. The best of those well thrown Molotovs are reprinted. It’s a new day of international discourse, postmarked with nationalist fervour, but signalling a new future. One where all the pretty children shall again live as one.
Unless they read The Roast, a petri dish of parochial and partisan ideology (BTW: that’s a defo compliment). Its abrasive satire is funny and intelligent. The photos are original and their own. Along with The Collective – a fab photo warehouse – they are our study of the new socialist media, radicals existing outside the stone gates of commerciality, producing world-class content online for free. The future or folly?
- Movement
Cover note: D. Singer shot by Ian Osterloh’s new hyper pole cam. He calls it The Seagull and that’s the view you’ve got. Five page feature inside.
Other than that the Movement Mag Photo Annual is also available now and it’s definitely a must have! Sick shots, awesome layouts and glossy paper = eye candy! Check the front cover and back cover.
Also out this month is Riptide Mag issue 173 with its free DVD! Check the cover here and here with the DVD. The DVD is “THIS IS AFRICA”. If you’re not a subscriber make sure you get the Mag coz it’s gonna be sick! Winny on the cover by the way. Winny is the 2009 Riptide Peer Poll winner. To see who’s in the peer poll top 10 you’ll ave to open the mag or go to the Riptide website and watch the exclusive video they have to know who’s in that top 10!
December 5, 2009 at 4:08 pm | Spongercity Contests News
Congrats Hubb ! New 2009 world champ ! Yewwwww. More news and details after the break. The Confital contest isn’t over yet as we write this. Winny and Mike were close but lost a little too early to really have a chance to beat Hubb from what we’ve understand and seen on the contest results sheet.
December 3, 2009 at 11:21 am | Spongercity Industry News
The fin we have Grown to love, in the words on Sam Sparrow “Black and Gold, Black and Gold” ebb and stealth have come together to produce a limited exclusive Stealth fin colour way for ebb.
Ebb Stealth’s 1’s = Black super soft foot pocket and stiff Gold blades. The fins are only available at ebb Scarborough and ebb Dunsborough stores and www.ebb.net.au. The first 30 pairs sold will come with a free pair of ebb fin ties so be quick.
Check the fins here.
December 2, 2009 at 11:55 pm | Spongercity General News
Read this, don’t puke, then leave your comments if you still have enough will to do so. Disgusting.
http://www.driftsurfing.eu/index.php/archives/3351
We read this article on the great website DRIFT Surfing while doing our daily little “web tour” of what’s going on in the surfing/bodyboarding/ocean world today… Sad stuff. It’s not in our habits to post things that are not 100% related to bodyboarding but this time it’s directly related to us, it’s related to any person enjoying time in the ocean. What the fuck is going wrong seriously with people being able to slaughter peaceful animals like that ?
December 2, 2009 at 11:29 pm | Spongercity Contests News
Alright, we’re late on this one but it’s not too bad, only one day passed by so far since the beginning of the contest. Confital in the canary islands is the last stop this year on tour and the new world champ will be crowned there so make sure you don’t miss the show, it’s here online: http://www.confitalibatour.com/. It’s gonna go live again as soon as the waves are pumping. We’ll keep you updated! Can’t wait to see who’s gonna be the next world champ!
Watch the recap of the 1st day here: http://vimeo.com/7924120
December 2, 2009 at 11:06 pm | Spongercity Podcasts News
The Dave Winchester Mini Series Episode 3 is now online! Watch it here on Vimeo and/or download it straight to your iTunes using the Waldron Bros. Podcast which you’ll find here on their website: Boompodcast.com. Sick episode in SA. Our favorite episode so far.
The Dave Winchester Mini Series Episode 3
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