Archive for September, 2012
September 29, 2012 at 2:05 pm | Spongercity Contests, General, International News
South African bodyboarder Sacha Specker is the new 2012 Dropknee world champ! He captured his maiden world title in Playa Paguita, Isla De Margarita, Venezuela a few days ago.
Specker was in a 5 way tussle with several of the planets top exponents including Dave Hubbard (Hawaii) Ardiel Jimenez (canary Isl) Pancho Galdos & Cesar Bauer (Peru) but the cards fell perfectly in order as the contenders fell one by one leaving one man standing.
On the Womens’ side the new world champ is Brazilian bodyboarder Isabela Sousa who captured her second IBA World title in Isla De Margarita, Venezuela as well.
Sousa was competing in the Bodyboard Pro Festival at Playa Praguito, Nueva Esparta, and only had to touch the water to secure enough points to claim the title.
Massive congrats to both of you! Sorry for dropping this news post so late on Spongercity.com we were busy with work and stuff last week and havent had much time to post and congratulate you guys!
Now let’s wait and see what happens in the Mens Prone division for 2012 ! All eyes on Playa Zicatela for the IBA Pro Zicatela ! Check the IBA site for more, the main event is gonna start and the Trials have already taken place with French/Reunion Island ripper Yoan Florantin winning the trials ! Yeah Yoan, way to go!
September 27, 2012 at 12:44 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
To be watched today, now, right-click links, open them in new tabs or sfari, chrome, firefox or wherever you want but watch them! Yewwwww
Manuel Centeno, Hugo Pinheiro, Bernardo Machado and Francisco Bessone in Indo – Fun waves! – https://vimeo.com/50092500
Jacob, Sam and Elliot in Bali – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWhIDysK3Mk
Chad Barba at the wedge this month – Pure style! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yPDWVTofDM
Pros and local frenchies scoring LaGraviere, France – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-rw6rpblMg
George Humphreys x Flipmode – https://vimeo.com/50001268
September 25, 2012 at 6:35 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
A 20 minutes Puerto Podcast, made our day!
Featuring Josh Garner, Seabass Perez, Paul Blaz, Jeff Hubbard, and Dave Hubbard.
Mexico Podcast from reid southall on Vimeo.
September 24, 2012 at 6:18 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
Vids you gotta watch to start the week:
Paulo Barcelos, 7D Cam – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HjKOdrumP0
Kevin Orihuela, Sumatra 2012 – https://vimeo.com/49604284
Jared Houston, Mexico, Aug 2012 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxIbKd5Aj5A
Cade Sharp, Funkshen 2012 – https://vimeo.com/50000273
Miguel Macias, “Eclectic Summer” – https://vimeo.com/49988105
September 21, 2012 at 7:04 pm | Spongercity General, International, Moving Pictures, Videos News
Good news, Nomad is going to release another DVD and it’s Matt Lackey who’s gonna be directing it. Sounds good to us! We’ve nicely copied/pasted the press release we got from Nomad in our email box a couple days ago. It goes like this:
Nomad Bodyboards is proud to announce the production of its new film “ROAM FREE”.
ROAM FREE is an epic project that will follow the lives of the world’s best free surfing bodyboarders as they experience the highs, lows, and adventure of surf exploration.
The film will follow the lifestyle of riders who dedicate their lives to researching surf locations, forecasting swells and then travel beyond the borders of their home town, state, and country in their quest to surf perfect waves. Some of the amazing riders involved in ROAM FREE include Chris James, Damien Martin, Cade Sharp, Matt Lackey, Chase O’Leary, Ewan Donnachie, Alex Halsey, Dylan Lee, Matt Young, and Chris Wilson, along with many others.
ROAM FREE will be directed by Matt Lackey. Lackey, a well respected free surfer himself, has taken on the project as his follow-up to his extremely well received first film, “The Lackey Project”. Assembling a fantastic group of filmers in their own right, including Michael Jennings, Luke Bickley, Ryan Jones, and Nic Barclay, ROAM FREZ will follow riders on location through Japan, Hawaii, Samoa, Indonesia, as well as all corners of Australia including unexplored waves that have previously remained unridden.
We invite you to join the journey. For daily updates of images, news and info on trailers, premieres and release dates, join us on Facebook at:
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September 17, 2012 at 10:39 pm | Spongercity General News
Looks like Chad Jackson, Tom Smith and Thom Robinson are all gonna have some signature series soon with FOUND Boards. That’s good news hey!
Update, read more here: http://foundboards.com/2012/welcome-to-the-team-thomas-robinson/
September 17, 2012 at 12:56 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, Videos News
It’s Monday, it’s the Monday vids dopeness:
- HB & James Kates teamed up and release the new James Kates EPIC Signature Series: https://vimeo.com/48176301
- Julien Miremont released his Podcast Ep.2 – https://vimeo.com/48928775
- Josh Garner killing it in Chile with his Viva La Chile podcast – https://vimeo.com/49299097
- Jacob Romero in OZ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDeDDBkt3Go
September 13, 2012 at 12:28 am | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
Best video clip we’ve watched recently & probly one of the most stylish bodyboarders today. Josh Garner doing his thing in Mexico:
September 11, 2012 at 6:37 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
Hubb absolutely tearing Puerto appart
September 7, 2012 at 1:20 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
A selection of vids from this week and the past week:
- Flux Team, Gold Coast: https://vimeo.com/48921287
- WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE – Chase O’Leary: https://vimeo.com/48571855
- A journey to the Fantasy Island of… https://vimeo.com/48407602
- Winter by Jordan Jaffrey: https://vimeo.com/48431232
- Weekends down South: https://vimeo.com/48922342
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