Archive for January, 2010
January 31, 2010 at 8:56 pm | Spongercity General, Spongercity Store News
We’re Back in Black ! Yep, we just launched another Limited Edition of the Spongercity Biceps Leashes ! Back in Black! The new Limited Edition is 100% black: The strap, the neoprene, the urethane coil, the platic ends on it… absolutely black! Only the famous Spongercity woven label stays red and the threads are red too. Classy!
Check this new Limited Edition here on the Spongercity Store: http://store.spongercity.com/product/spongercity-black-ltd-bicep-leash
The previous semi-black Limited Edition (all black with a white strap) is now sold out! So we took it off the online store. The all-white Limited Edition is still available but we’ve got very few left. Check this White LTD leash here if you never checked it before: http://store.spongercity.com/product/spongercity-ltd-bicep-leash
All black or all white ? You decide. Oh yeah if you digg colors we always carry the Reds, Greys and Blue ones of course. Those are permament products on our store.
January 28, 2010 at 4:41 am | Spongercity General, Magazines News
The Riptide Readers Poll 2010 is now open, so vote online now! It’s your time to vote for your favorite riders in 2009. Mens, Girls, DK and a few other votes like favorite vids etc.
VOTE HERE
Our Spongercity vote includes the likes of Ryan Hardy, Winny, Benny P, PLC, Jason Finlay, Joe Clarke, Hubb, Stewart, Jake Stone, Amaury L. (in no particular order here – we dont want to influence you). For Girls we voted for Neymera, Lilly & Kira. For DK we voted for Roach, Lacky, Lyman, D Lee, D Hubb (in no particular order either).
Other votes from us include:
- The Turbo Pipe Pro as best contest
- Sam Bennett as best grommet (impressive section in FLUX)
- The BEN PLAYER PROJECT as best 2009 DVD
- Mitch Rawlins for craziest wave ridden in 2009 (WA massive left pit, backdooring attempt)
- Brad Hughes for waves over 15ft in 2009
- Largest section hit: Eddie Solomon at the Wedge this summer (watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpIX-vtJSs – that roll is M A S S I V E)
What are you gonna choose ? Did we make good choices ? You tell us ! (leave messages if you wish hey !)
January 28, 2010 at 1:23 am | Spongercity Moving Pictures News
Cool video clip of James Nemeyer (19 y.o. from Newcastle – NSW, Australia). Not sure why but this clip of James by Rob Sherwood didnt make it to our news stories before. Shame on us. We’re fixing the mistake now:
Watch it here: http://vimeo.com/6941685
January 22, 2010 at 8:38 am | Spongercity Moving Pictures News
Cool little video from Drew Innocend with a good The Shins soundtrack we reckon: http://vimeo.com/8878041
January 18, 2010 at 1:02 am | Spongercity Moving Pictures News
Premieres dates for the new FEVER DREAM dvd are now available here on the FEVER DREAM blog. First premiere is Sydney this Thursday and we’ll be there! Check all the other dates on this poster or on their blog.
January 18, 2010 at 12:57 am | Spongercity Industry News
Mitch Rawlins just launched his website the other day. That’s what Matt Lackey told us when we saw him sipping his morning Tropical Treat Juice in Coolangatta the other day, so we checked Mitchrawlins.com and yep ! We confirm: the new site is cool, classy, easy to navigate and well designed by the guys at Invert Design. oh and there’s cool stuff to see / watch / read on his site! Well done Mitch!
a href=”http://mitchrawlins.com” target=”_blank”>Mitchrawlins.com
January 10, 2010 at 7:31 pm | Spongercity Moving Pictures News
3 clips worth watching this Sunday on Vimeo (or Monday morning at work with your 10am coffee maybe ?)Vimeo:
1- Time to Go in the SEA! by Allan Wilson. Amazing footage, colors and light. HD is the shit. oh yeah.
2- Ben Player by Rob Sherwood. Maybe we posted this one before? It’s good to watch anyway!
3- 3:40hrs of separation//Mitch Woodland by Mitch Woodland. Edited by Mitch himself. Cool little clip. Mitch edits and posts quite regularly on his blog and it’s pretty cool. (PS: Click the DESINTERLACE option when you compress your edited footage Mitch, it will get rid of the horizontal lines on the footage once compressed)
Have you noticed how Vimeo is now the way to go when bodyboarders post vids online ? It was high time! Youtube sucks big time when it comes to video compression, web design & ergonomy and the loading time is a nightmare on Youtube. Thanx Vimeo!
January 10, 2010 at 7:19 pm | Spongercity Magazines News
That’s right, LeBoogie Magazine just launched a cool iPhone/iPod Touch app to buy & flick thru the magazine pages for each issue. Good stuff! Issue 1 is free to download. Issue 2 which was just released a few days ago (paper edition) is a just a couple dollars to download in its digital version. We tested it and it works like a charm!
Read more about the App here on the LeBoogie website.
January 6, 2010 at 9:13 pm | Spongercity Industry News
Spencer Skipper joins MANTA ! The rumor was actually true. The LMNOP boat wasn’t floating too good appearently (see Spencer Interview on Movementmag.com a couple weeks ago) and Spencer needed a new sponsor. Good for him, the folks at MANTA are now supporting Spencer. Such a stylish and talented rider couldn’t be left out there with no sponsors. Spencer is seriously one of the most stylish rider ever. Give the guy some $$$ and send him on trips, we wanna see some good riding and stylish moves from Spencer ASAP !!!
Pictures of Skipper from the MANTA HQ: Picture 1, Picture 2 and Picture 3 !
Here’s the official release about the sponsorship by the way:
Spencer Skipper Joins the Manta Pro Team
Manta is happy to announce their latest signing of Hawaiian Spencer Skipper. Skipper has been long regarded as one most stylish riders in the business and seemed pretty stoked about the new deal. “I’m stoked on the new deal. It gives me the chance to travel and do what I love doing best. I’ll be hanging on the North Shore for the Hawaiian winter and plan on surfing Pipe as much as possible. Then heading down to Oz for there winter to do some team trips with the boys.”
Reon Fisher Manta’s team manager commented. “It’s cool; Skip has always been one of my favorite riders. He has that really unique style of riding that I don’t think anyone else can really mimic. I’m looking forward to getting some good shots of him from the Hawaiian season and getting him out here for the Aussie winter.”
Keep an eye out for the Manta Skipper pro model out in 2010.
www.manta.com.au
January 1, 2010 at 11:39 pm | Spongercity General News
Spongercity wishes you a happy new year! Let’s hope 2010 delivers good waves, cool trips, old & new friendships, health and fun!
Thanks for reading this website and supporting us thru all those years since we started. You’re now about 10 000 unique visitors to log on this blog every month from all over the world and it pushes us to keep on sharing some boogie news, reviews, interviews and stuff with you guys and hopefully improve the design & content on Spongercity as much as we can.
Sorry for not being able to deliver more languages than just English & French at the moment. Keep in mind that we dont care where you are and where we are, all we wanna do is just share good news from all over the boogie world as long as it’s relevant. So keep on sending releases, vids, reports and news our way, we’ll gather it all and put it up here on the site.
Cheers!
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