Archive for October, 2012

Tahurai Henry, Toys video clip

Toys welcoming Tahurai Henry. How’s that first wave at Chopes? Yewwwww

Thursday vids dopeness

Jeff Hubbard, ripping at Rocky Point, Hawaii – https://vimeo.com/51534406
DISTRICT 5 Bodyboard Store has a good team of riders – https://vimeo.com/51531406
Jasper Hinchliffe – Winter 2012 – We wish we were surfing prone like this at 14 y.o. – https://vimeo.com/51582445

ID Boards coming with a full length movie: Relocations

From the ID Boards Movie presentation:
It’s an honour to present of our first international film project as a company. Relocations was an idea that was born out of the desire to show Australia to our friends, Magno and Amaury. These great men are a rich part of our bodyboarding family and they each represent a country or people group that make up the sport we love. By sharing our waves, our strengths and our resources together, we can unite our sport and build the future.
This is the start of an ongoing experiment to prove how valuable our international riders are, and how much fun we can have together. We truly live in an amazing place, and it’s even more amazing when shared. ” Get ready to be Relocated ”

Associated with Riptide Magazine
Presented by ID. Boards
A Film By Tyge Landa
Produced by WebbedHands Creative
Starring: Glen Thurston, Magno Passos and Amaury Lavernhe
Guest Riders: Nick Gornal, Jeff Hubbard, Matty Mcarthur

Tuesday vids dopeness

Nick Rubesaame – https://vimeo.com/51423501
Daniel Thompson – https://vimeo.com/51378583
Jacob Romero – Mexico & Chile – https://vimeo.com/51367454
Eric Medcalf – https://vimeo.com/51498672
Jared Houston in the Canaries – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyVbTL3vC0I
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE – Jake Chelman / Taylor Brockman – https://vimeo.com/51263064
and last but not least… Mike Stewart ripping at Pipe – https://vimeo.com/51301292

Friday vids dopeness

Jacob Hein – Flux 2012 – https://vimeo.com/51117729
Lawrence Tierney – South 2012 – https://vimeo.com/50743339
Mexico Trailer by Will Hodgett – https://vimeo.com/50906770
La Gravière by RirawTV – https://vimeo.com/46703106

Have clips killed the (full-length) videos ?

Just wondering if vimeo/Youtube clips have kinda killed the full-length videos? (Not necessarily DVDs because full length videos could be released as .avi or .mp4 or fully donwloadable on Vimeo for example). It seems that very few videographers today choose to release full-length videos, it’s almost just short clips now, sponsored by the riders’ sponsors within the 2-3 min. range and that’s it. Most of 20-30 y.o. bbers grew up watching videos/dvds such as No Friends Vids’, The Waldron Vids, Todd Barnes Vids, The Underground Tapes Vids (Chris Stroh), The ROT vids and the list goes on. It was such an epic time to get to watch those vids (tapes or dvds) and they had more than just riding in them, they had their authors’ blueprint, their editing skills and habits, their filming style and feeling, their friends and crew, the riders they’d like to film with and stuff. Don’t get us wrong, clips are awesome and we need them and love to post them twice a week as a ‘video clip dopeness’ post on Spongercity.com but we miss the full length vids ! Damn yeah we miss these ! We were stoked the other day when Josh Garner released a 10 min. clip from Mexico, as you usually get to watch something longer than 3min. these days and dont get to know the riders better, see them riding in different conditions and see more of the editing style. They are still DVDs released out there for sure but less than before. Not sure if it’s the finances that are killing the videos, or the lack of people willing to do a full length movies or the simple fact that everyone realized there’s no money to make on a video…

Anyways, lately we’ve really digged RING of FIRE III (available now on the spongercity store by the way), and there are a couple DVDs that are going to be released soon as well: TALES OF A DREAM by Rob Sherwood, ROAM FREE (Nomad x Matt Lackey), HOME BREW (Zion Crew) and more… thanks guys for keeping the art of the full length video alive !

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SURGE Magazine Issue 6.0 now online

Surge Media Group | www.SurgeBodyBoarding.com is proud to release Surge Version 6.0. The cover showcases Tahitian David “The Killah” Tuarau taking his “Gainer Flip” to a whole new level at one of his locales at home. The photograph was taken by photographer Luke Shadbolt.

Version 6.0 features two main profiles from opposite sides of the Pacific. The first digs deep into the life of Santa Cruz hellman Sundaran “Shindo” Gillespie with none other than Darren Delmore behind the pen. The second is a split profile between Tahitian legends Nicolas “Niko” Richard and cover boy David “The Killah” Tuarau. Version 6.0 then introduces SurgeBodyboarding.com’s new Fitness and Training Correspondent, Mike Simone, and has readers sit with California legends Dan Taylor, Ron Ziebell, and Mike “Libo” Libudziewski as they share some deep history of bodyboarding and the serious consequences that come with it. Other notable content includes profiles with artist Chae, musical group Inna Vision, Anomaly Bodyboards, and the first ever and longest running online bodyboard shop known as eBodyboarding.com. Lastly, we look into the lens of the maker of Within—Eric Schnitzer. Expect that as well as all of our staple galleries: Style & Power, Empties, Life, and DK Life.

Read it here: www.SurgeBodyBoarding.com

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Tahurai Henry rides for Toys Boards now

This just in: TOYS is proud to announce Tahurai Henry from Tahiti is now on the TOYS team. Official podcast coming soon. Good for Tahurai ! Charging like a mad man on the latest Riptide cover ! Yewww

Jeff HUbbard wins the Zicatela Pro 2012

Zicatela,Thirsday 4th October – Hawaiian Jeff Hubbard has won the IBA TURBO ZICATELA PRO 2012 in flawless 6-8 foot surf at Puerto Escondido today. Hubbard defeated 6x World Champion Guilherme Tamega (BRA) with a high flying air roll and deep barrels in the final to claim his second Zicatela Pro title. Congrats Jeff !

Full image gallery available at http://ibaworldtour.com/2012/09/2012-turbo-zicatela-pro-image-gallery/

From the IBA press release: The 2 x World Champion fell victim in the non-elimination Round 4 of the event, but taking the longer road to the final did not slow down the hungry Hawaiian. Hubbard took down Australian super talent Mitch Rawlins in Round 6 this morning and managed to keep his momentum, topping Magno Passos (BRA) in the quarterfinals and current World Champion Pierre-Louis Costes in the semifinal.

Guilherme Tamega was looking strong thought the event, defeating an inform Mark McCarthy (ZAF) in the quarterfinal and current ratings leader Dave Winchester (AUS) in the semifinal, but could not match Hubbard’s aerial antics in the final. Today Tamega bagged his third 2nd place finish of 2012, making it clear that he is hungry for a seventh world title.

Winchester’s 3rd place finish has helped him improve on his current points, but with the other three semifinalists also drastically improving on their points, the world title race has heated up between the top four seeds and will be decided at the Encanto World Series in Puerto Rico or possibly the final event of 2012, the Fronton Pro scheduled for 7-16th December in the Canary Islands.

The updated GSS rankings after event 6 of 8 (best 5 results)

1- Dave Winchester 8380

2- Guilherme Tamega 7380

3- Pierre Louis Costes 7250

4- Jeff Hubbard 7240

5- Mitch Rawlins 6400

6- Mark McCarthy 6400

7- Ben Player 6020

8- Jared Houston 5740

9- Mike Stewart 5520

10- Andrew Lester 5340

11- Amaury Lavernhe 5240

12- Magno Passos 5140

13- Alex Uranga 4980

14- Uri Valadao 4820

15- Dave Hubbard 4590

16- Sam Bennett 4580

The next IBA GSS event is the Encanto World Series featuring Women, DK and Mens Grand Slams at Middle beach in Puerto Rico from the 2nd-13th of November.

Thursday vids dopeness

20Twelve by MItch Payne – https://vimeo.com/50573521

Damian King Podcast Ep4 – https://vimeo.com/50401802

Drew Innocend for Inverted – https://vimeo.com/50509804

LinkTv – Expected Vacations in the Canarias – https://vimeo.com/50483003

Tiago Ferreira, Holidays in Indo – https://vimeo.com/50483402

Jeremy Arnoux in La Gravière, Wave of The Day by RirawTV – https://vimeo.com/50540453

Visita Mi Vida v6.1 – A Richard Díaz Podcast – https://vimeo.com/50575304

Leigh Huard in the Philippines – https://vimeo.com/50483373

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