Archive for December, 2011
December 8, 2011 at 6:37 pm | Spongercity General, Industry, International News
STEALTH Boards has just announced that they’ve recruited Nick Gornall and Stealth Fins has recruited Ryan Hardy. Nice colors for the new Hardy model: Blue and Yellow. This leaves MOREY with just Dub as a pro rider if we’re correct (since Finlay moved to NMD and Gornall to Stealth Boards) and this leaves Churchill with just Hubb and Amaury Lavernhe pretty much. World champs they are, but small team for Churchill compared to the massive team Stealth Fins has gathered, taking the industry by storm within a just few weeks. In our opinion it’s a weird move though for Stealth to have designed Stealth Boards (made by Mez) when the brand was just fins and accessories. Confusion in the minds of many kids and people in general… how can the same brand sponsor riders for only fins and other for boards and others for both ? Some kids have even asked if now BP and Winny where riding Stealth boards now that Stealth was making boards…
Marketing… Decisions.. Distributors… Competition… Money…
Oh well…
The Stealth Fins website is new and looks good by the way: http://stealthfins.com.au
December 8, 2011 at 5:50 pm | Spongercity Europe, General, International, Magazines News
Portuguese magazine VERT MAG (best mag in Europe by far) Issue 107 is available now. Check it out if you’re in Portugal. If you read/speak Portuguese but can’t find it just go on the iTunes store and get their iPhone/iPad version if you can.
Excerpt from the VERT webssite: Vert107 brings you a lot of trips and plenty of action. Reunion Island, The Azores and even Mexico with the Los Calaveras Rolantes.
Also included in this issue, the Winter Wetsuit Guide and Faces of Bodyboarding World with Damian King, Mason Rose, Rodrigo Rijo, Ardiel Jiménez, Mike Stewart, Mark McCarthy, Fred Temorere, Sérgio Alonzo, Manny Vargas and Josh Garner.
Check: http://www.vert-mag.com/ for more info.
December 8, 2011 at 12:50 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
More vid to be watched this week:
- Beasts and pieces by Mitch Payne – http://vimeo.com/33138206
- Kalani Lattanzi profile 2011 – Mind-blowing up and coming rider – http://vimeo.com/33135052
- Moments Eleven – Reunion Island shredders – http://vimeo.com/33231411
December 8, 2011 at 12:30 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
Chris White & Jake Stone’s next full length movie will be called: THROWDOWN
Hardcore music, massive moves, stunts: Throwdown – http://vimeo.com/33266365
December 5, 2011 at 11:19 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, Industry, International, Videos News
That’s right, Jason Finlay jsut signed with NMD! Check out the clip NMD put together: http://vimeo.com/33166456
December 5, 2011 at 6:30 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, Videos News
A couple vids for today:
- Antonio Cardoso in Australia – Super good edit by Greg Marguerie – http://vimeo.com/33072588
- Amaury & PLC by Riraw.tv – Action! http://vimeo.com/26684381
- Wade Masters – Aussie Pipe – http://vimeo.com/32953959
- Ivan Pulic – http://vimeo.com/33134829
December 5, 2011 at 1:53 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
Freezing conditions, beautiful sceneries, bears, waves, Greg Vorster, Canada: http://vimeo.com/32708967 – A must watch !
December 1, 2011 at 7:38 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
Stoke Machine HQ vid – Worth watching ! http://vimeo.com/32876934
It was a simple idea. Whip a couple blokes around near the stoke machine and hope to capture some juxtaposed gold. Ivan Pulic and Issue 1 cover boy Jason ‘Ace’ Finlay jumping around at their teats content. Filmed by Jack Dobinson, Tom Coburn – Music Extracted from the good oil @deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com
December 1, 2011 at 7:34 pm | Spongercity General, International, Magazines News
Riptide Mag Issue 185 is here
2011 Peer Poll
Amaury Lavernhe
Tahiti
Secret Spot isnt dead
An much more…
Check the Riptide Mag site for more info and watch the teaser: Riptide Mag
December 1, 2011 at 7:06 pm | Spongercity Contests, General, International News
For many reasons we have not been covering the ISA world bodyboard championships on Spongercity.com – sorry about this. We have received some PR stuff but it’s all in Spanish and we only speak a little spanish, not enough to really be able to translate it.
Other than that we never understood how someone could be crowned “world champ” in one comp. A comp is a comp, a winner is a winner, it’s awesome to win a comp but how can you say you’re a “world champ” if you won one comp where 50% of the world top pros haven’t even showed up ?
Other than that the ISA is mostly managed by stand ups (we stand up surf too and love surfing as much as bodyboarding). We like things to be separated for many reasons. We believe each sport should have its independency. In most countries bodyboarding is part of the surfing federations or associations or whatever you call it. That sucks. To each sport its federation or association. Bodyboarders have been looked down on since ever, they’ve coped with stupid nicknames and clichés since ever and now they should be happy to be part of another sport federation ? Nah. Sorry but we believe in independency and we reckon bbers should drive their own destiny and make it happen for themselves even if it’s harder this way. Once again this has nothing to do with surfing, we love surfing as much as bodyboarding but we just think it’s normal for each sport to have their own structures. Same as wakeboarding is not associated with kayaking.
Other than that we’ve looked for a website and a live webcast for the ISA but couldnt find antyhing on Google and then when someone pointed us to a website that might be able to give us answers it seemed that we needed to login to watch a live event. We don’t login anywhere to watch a live event, sorry.
So, yes we might be stubborn idiots but we’re sure there are tons of other stubborn idiots like us out there supporting core bodyboarding and independent bodyboarding such as the IBA World Tour and other bodyboarders-owned-and-operated events.
Sorry for being so “extreme” or stupidly “hardcore” and we must confess this whole article doesn’t have much to do with the ISA event but it’s just some stuff we wanted to say and we just did now. Thanks for reading.
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