Amaury just won the Sintra Contest in Portugal and is now the new World Champ for 2010. Amaury is crowned before the end the 2010 tour, his rating being so high that he’s now untouchable in the world title race! Congrats Amaury! What a great year with a Pipeline victory, a sintra victory and now a world title. Yewwwwww. Massive congrats Monsieur Lavernhe!
Guilherme Tamega wins Sopelana. Super small conditions unfortunately for the first stop of the European leg of the world tour (there are 3 stops in Europe). GT beats Yaray Martinez, Pierre-Louis Costes and Dave Hubbard. Congrats GT ! Tow more contests to go in Europe now… let’s hope the swell delivers more!
1. Guilherme Tamega
2. Yaray Martinez
3. Pierre-Louis Costes
4. Dave Hubbard
All detailed info and news about the Sopelana event can be found here on the IBA website: http://www.ibaworldtour.com/news/450-sopelana-bbk-pro-tamega-wins
Ryan Hardy wins the Shark Island Challenge ! Congrats Ryan ! Yewwww
1st Ryan Hardy
2nd Ben Player
3rd Damien King
4th Shaun Pyne
DKS Sundowner Tiona 2010 – presented by Turbo and Bluntcut Fins
Recap from the TIONA Comp from the cool cats at DKS:
Newcastles Rob Richards has emerged out of nowhere to take out the 2010 DKS Sundowner Tiona contest infront of Central Coast’s Grant Molony. South Boomerang Beach was the venue with some classy 3ft waves all day which seen some of the world’s best DK riders battle it out.
“We decided to try a different format this year running the 2 first rounds as 4 man heats and then it was man-on-man format from there on in right to the final” organiser Clayton Pickworth said. “It gave the riders more of an opportunity in the water to prove what they can do and showcase their skills” he said. “Rob surfed consistantly all day after a shakey first round heat but he cut loose with some awesome tail snaps and big floaters which impressed the crowd”. Grant Molony was left without a solid wave in the final which Richards had control of from the first 10 minutes with some great moves off the right handers.
In the 3rd and 4th place surf off, Central Coast’s Mat Klimowicz was victorious over Victorian rider Justin Welsh who rounded out the top 4 places. Organiser Clayton Pickworth couldn’t have been more happy with how the contest went, “Mate i’m stoked that we get the best riders here every year regardless of what else is going on around the world and it showed this weekend with another new name becoming a winner here at DKS”. “These contests are doing what it set out to and that’s creating opportunity for exposure for any DK rider from any region and Rob has certainly stepped up to the plate and beat some of the best on his way”.
This weekend will see the second DKS event take place in Port Macquarie at the best break on the day. You can catch all the action on the DKS website www.dksessions.com and follow the links.
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Thanks to our event sponsors
Sundowner Holidays
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LWe’re a little late on this one, the Trials just finished and here are the Trials resuslts:
Brett young Memorial Trials – 1. Daniel Worsely 2. Sam Strachan 3. Shaun Petersen 4. Tom Smith (More details here on FLUIDZONE)
The main event is now about to start as soon as the waves hit the Shark Island break in Cronulla, NSW Australia. Here’s the heat draw already:
Heat 1
Adam Smith
John Showell
Ryan Hardy
Andrew Lester
Heat 2
Jason Finlay
Dave Winchester
Jared Houston
Damian King
Heat 3
Sam Strachen
Shaun Pyne
Nick Ormerod
Brenden Newton
Heat 4
Glen Sullivan
Daniel Worsely
Ben Player
Thomas Robinson
Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated of all major happenings and in the main time you can read/watch/learn more about the event on FLUIDZONE.com
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
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.
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
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
Quick update on this year’s world tour…
First of all congrats PLC for his first win on a world tour event in Buzios ! Well done Pierre and well deserved ! Congrats Isabella Sousa too for your win ! Read more about the event here.
Now all eyes on the Chile Grand Slam Arica contest which starts on the 14th of May… As usual, check the IBA Tour website for more info.
