Archive for May, 2010
May 30, 2010 at 10:14 pm | Spongercity America, Contests, International News
Yeah Pierre ! Pierre Louis Costes nails it and finishes first in a french final against Amaury Lavernhe. Congrats guys ! and congrats Pierre !
Don’t miss the video here with the final day of the event and PLC’s monster backflip. The biggest we’ve seen on video and probably the biggest ever completed since Tom Morey started boogieboarding decades ago…
PLC and Amaury are the best watermen France has ever had, that’s for sure, whatever the water/wave sport is. No one freesurfs and competes in France at this level whether it is on a boogieboard, surf, SUP, kite… whatever water/wave sports you mention.
Peru Inka Challenge results are as follows
1st Pierre Louis Costes France 1st 1000 points
2nd Amaury Lavernhe Reunion 2nd 860 points
3rd Jared Houston Sth Africa 3rd 730 points
3rd Jeff Hubbard Hawaii 3rd 730 points
May 27, 2010 at 11:47 am | Spongercity Industry, International News
That’s right, the rumor was in the air for a little while now and it’s official: Mitch starts his own bodyboard brand ! FOUND BOARDS
here’s Mitch talking about it on his own website:
“Its always been a dream of mine to start my own brand. Have team riders, team trips, sponsor local and world tour contest. Dreams of making the sport bigger and better so everyone can see that bodyboarding is actually a great sport right up there with surfing. So as of today I have started my own brand called Found boards. It’s the start of a vision I have been carrying for quite some time now. I am going into Found boards head first with total commitment in making it work. I have taken quite a lot of risk in the water and this is probably the biggest out of the water, it’s a new challenge I’m taking on and one I am looking forward to. My aim is to be uncompromised in the quality of Found boards and its products that’s my promise to you. There is going to a lot of exciting times coming up that I want you all to be apart of so I hope you can join me In my vision to make bodyboarding what it should be”.
Mitch Rawlins
Found boards
No info about the boards yet and where they’re made… we’ll keep you updated !
May 26, 2010 at 7:37 pm | Spongercity America, Contests News
The tour is now in Peru. The PERU INKA CHALLENGE is the 5th stop on the tour and should certainly be an interesting one to watch & follow ! We’ll keep you updated as it goes.
May 24, 2010 at 8:13 pm | Spongercity America, Contests, Moving Pictures News
Winny won the Arica Challenge yesterday in good solid waves and nailed a 9.75 and a 10 in his heat to beat french hell man Amaury Lavernhe. Congrats Winny !
The contest was once again a great one to watch and the level of the riders was unbelievable. Ben Player, Winny, Hubb, Plc, Amaury… everyone shredding the El Gringo reef harder than ever.
You can watch the final day of competition right here: http://vimeo.com/11993514
May 22, 2010 at 7:15 pm | Spongercity America, Contests, Moving Pictures News
Once again the Arica challenge seems to be a total success with super good waves and a crazy bunch of competitors. Check the Day 5 recap on video here: http://vimeo.com/11910872. Hubb is a freak. How massive are those 2 manoeuvers ? Freaking huge. Hubb pushing the limits of the sport once again and probably the limits of the human body. How’s that landing in the flats ? 99% of humans would just break appart after such a massive landing heheh. Yeah Hubb!
We’ll keep you updated with more news as the contest goes. Round 6 was just held and now it’s the quarter finals that are coming, here are the riders in the QF:
QF – Heat 1
Amaury Laverhne REU
Ben Player AUS
QF – Heat 2
Uri Valadao BRA
Cristian Fernandez CHL
QF – Heat 3
Jeff Hubbard HAW
Dave Winchester AUS
QF – Heat 4
Pierre Louis Costes FRA
Jake Stone AUS
May 21, 2010 at 8:59 pm | Spongercity Australia, Industry News
The new Flipmode Winter collection is now available thru the Flipmode website and some of the brand stockists in Oz. Check it out here: http://flipmode.com.au. New tees and hoodies, new graphics and colors.
May 18, 2010 at 9:21 pm | Spongercity International, Links, Magazines News
71 Magazine issue 3 is now online ! Excellent mag with sick sick sick images and videos. DO NOT MISS THE JOE CLARKE VIDEO and the HAWAII VIDEO. Both vids are farrrkinnn good. Joe rips. Hawaii was insane this season. Check Finlay’s wave at pipe in the Hawaii 10 video, as well as Mitch Rawlins massive nugget and much more! We loved it!
Mag is here: http://71mag.com/
May 13, 2010 at 8:47 pm | Spongercity Australia, Moving Pictures News
Movement Mag releases its second DVD ! Movement TV #2
Issue #1 was really cool and there’s no sign of issue #2 not being cool either, just watch the great teaser they just released and froth: http://vimeo.com/11678077.
Teaser post by Liam O’Brien who is – if we remember well – one of the main No Friends videographer during the last few NF videos. Movement TV #2 should be sickkkkk !
May 13, 2010 at 8:32 pm | Spongercity Industry, International, Links, Moving Pictures News
We lagged a little bit lately so we had to do a little recap of what’s going on lately:
- Guilherme Tamega has a new website! Not sure if talked about it yet, but if we haven’t… shame on us, here the site: http://www.gtamega.com.br
- Nomad Bodyboards is proud to announce the signing of rising star Alex Halsey – here the release that went with the news: Nomad co-founder Shane Britten said of the signing, “Alex really represents the next wave of young riders who are combining power to their tech riding. Ever since seeing his section in Pastiche he has been someone we have been interested in working with, and I think his age and style will add a different dynamic and perspective to the FSD”. Halsey will join Chris James, Matt lackey, Sacha Specker, and Ernesto Evana as part of the Nomad FSD, a team initiative designed to provide their expertise on product design and development, but to also provide a program to launch projects of their own creation. To date these projects have included the ROAM series, T.I.A. (This Is Africa), and 40 Days around the world.
- Science Customs Announces the “Science Customs Design Challenge” – What’s that ? Well, here you go: Mike Stewart, Inc. company, is excited to announce the Science Customs Design Challenge. The Design Challenge is an open call for artists of all levels to create a custom design and share it with the bodyboarding community. The Challenge will run from May 1, 2010 until June 30, 2010 with a Grand Prize to be selected by Mike Stewart and Alistair Taylor on July 12th, 2010. Additional prizes will be awarded via community voting. Prizes: GRAND PRIZE (Selected by Mike and Al): Science Custom Board with the winning design, Science boardbag and Gyroll leash. FIRST PLACE (User votes): Science Custom Board with the winning design, Science boardbag and Gyroll leash. SECOND PLACE (User votes): $75 Gift Certificate to Science Customs. THIRD PLACE (User votes): $50 Gift Certificate to Science Customs
The Challenge is designed to showcase a breakthrough in board design technology allowing Science Customs to apply any custom artwork to your board. All art is permanently applied, will not scratch or fade and unlike other board graphics, the artwork is created specifically for your custom board.
For complete details and rules visit http://vote.sciencecustoms.com
- Bonus link: Check out the clip of 4Plays super grom 17 year old Todd Mcrorie ripping on his home turf. Ripping ! http://www.vimeo.com/11348012. Music is heavy, a good change from all the catchy-pop-shitty songs we hear all the time in some of the vids ! Yewwwww.
May 13, 2010 at 8:11 pm | Spongercity International, Moving Pictures News
French hellman Amaury Lavernhe is releasing his own movie as we speak. The movie is called OSMOZ (Amaury’s nickname is “Moz”) and you’ve got the trailer here: http://www.vimeo.com/11289346. It’s a great autobiographic film based on the life of Amaury.
Check some pictures here from Amaury: Pic 01, Pic 02, Pic 03, Pic 04.
An adventure that started on the strong Indian Ocean followed by images taken all over the world featuring extreme bodyboarding sessions, genuine interviews, last 3 years surfing sessions and some awesome landscapes images and places combined with dreamy perfect waves.
Amaury shows us his hometown Reunion Island surfing his favorite’s spots and talking about his lifestyle, charges huge sessions at Teahupoo, discovers the greatness of Canary Islands or shows us how he reached the respect of all the bodyboard community into challenging Pipeline conditions.
A real story of a real bodyboarder that follows his dream.
This project has been produced by Sniper bodyboards and developed together with Amaury Lavernhe and edited by focus prod (www.focusbodyboarding.com)
To see where you can get the dvd join the Sniper bodyboard facebook and check the list of our core shops that will receive it, of course you’ll have it FOR FREE!
You will also be able to get a copy of it via our official internet partner’s sites:
www.sniperbodyboards.com
www.spongercity.com
www.vert-mag.com
www.secondmag.es
Check back soon for updates as we’ll have DVDs to giveaway right here on Spongercity.com !
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