After six long years, the Riptide Experiment is back. What is it you gonna ask? Well if you’re very young you might not know but if you’re a bit older you’ll remember well. There was a time when Riptide Mag used to put 7 riders on a boat and send them somewhere on a boat trip, took pics, filmed and then release a DVD and a Mag with all that. It was – needless to say – for us at Spongercity the highlight of the year magazine-wise since only Riptide Magazine was providing such quality stuff. To this day we still remember Roach backside pig-dogging some Mentawaii nugget like no other man could, proving the world he’s also shredding backside for all those who wondered. Oh well anyways, it’s not the point today, the point is… The Riptide Experiment is back! And we’re stoked about this! Frothing!

Here’s the deal:

2013 will see the return of the Experiment trip, a project our longtime readers will remember as the bringing together of the world’s best bodyboarders, travelling to an exotic location and letting them loose. Hot on the heels of the inaugural Riptide Bodyboarder of the Year we’re bringing you our second big announcement in a few months, and it ain’t going to be the last. We’re staying tight-lipped on the ‘when’ and ‘where’ for now, but we will give you the list of the ‘who’, and it’s a doozy. Feast your eyes on the 2013 Riptide Experiment #7 lineup:

- 2012 Riptide Bodyboarder of the Year Dave Winchester
- 2011 World Champion Pierre Louis Costes
- 2 x World Champion Ben Player
- 2 x Women’s World Champion Isabela Sousa
- 2012 Dropknee World Champion Sacha Specker
- South African superstar Jared Houston
- Freesurfing extraordinaire Jase Finlay
- 2012 Riptide Grom of the Year Lewy Finnegan

Can’t wait to see this! Stay tuned!