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May 22, 2010 at 7:15 pm | Spongercity America, Contests, Moving Pictures News
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
May 12, 2010 at 6:07 pm | Spongercity America, Contests News
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.
February 27, 2010 at 12:45 pm | Spongercity Contests News
Reunion Island / French hellman Amaury Laverhne won the TURBO Pipeline pro yesterday in epic conditions. Congrats Amaury ! Amaury surfed reall really well throughout the whole event and smoked everyone in the final with a 10 and a 7.5
Final podium:
1. Amaury Lavernhe – Reunion Island / France
2. Diego Cabrera – Canary Islands / Spain
3. Jared Houston – South Africa
4. Damian King – Australia
The Pipe contest was the first of the 2010 IBA tour for the season. Waht an epic start to this news season !
Friday, 26th February, Banzai Pipeline, North Shore; Hawaii, United States of America – The 2010 Turbo Bodyboards Pipeline Pro presented by Body Glove has been won and run, with Pipeline saving the best for last with the competition wrapping up on the final day of the 2 week waiting period.
Conditions were epic, with perfect 8 to 12 feet Pipe and light offshore winds all day, keeping the thousands that lined the shore thoroughly entertained.
Amaury Lavernhe of the Reunion Islands was the one who came up trumps, blitzing through his final heats.
Lavernhe threw down the gauntlet to his combatants in the final with an outstanding combined wave total of 17.50, which included a perfect 10 for a huge pipe barrel to backflip. He then backed his perfect score up with a 7.5 for another huge barrel to roll.
Lavernhe took out Diego Cabrera of the Canary Island with 14.65, Jared Houston of South Africa with 14.20 and Damian King from Australia with 10.75.
“I am so stoked, I can’t believe it” Said Lavernhe
“I have been here for 3 weeks and I have been training for this day.
“I just took this heat by heat and I didn’t want to think too much about the final”.
Diego Cabrera, who has come off the back of a win at the last IBA World Tour event at Confital in December has continued his stellar competitive run.
“This is my dream, I am very very happy as this is the first time that I have ever been in a pipe final and the second time in a Grand Slam final” said Cabrera.
Though Jared Houston missed out on second only by .45 points, he was thrilled with his performance in the competition after spending over 3 months on the North Shore in preparation.
Originally excluded for the event due to surfing in an unsactioned bodyboarding event, Houston was the one who spearheaded the campaign to the IBA riders board to have the ban lifted at the end of 2009.
“I am so stoked, this is everything that I have been working towards this year so I am so happy that it has paid off” said Houston
Terry McKenna, the IBA International General Manager, who was also one of the key drivers behind this event is thrilled with how the comp rolled out in 2010.
“There was not a better way to begin the 2010 IBA World Tour season” Said Terry.
“Winning this event is only second to winning the world title, I am thrilled that Amaury has won this event as he is the deserved winner”.
The 2010 IBA World Tour now moved to New South Wales in Australia for the Soldier Beach Pro International from April 12 to 18.
February 26, 2010 at 11:01 pm | Spongercity Contests News
Watch it live right now! It’s the last day of the contest, finals with be held today!
http://fluidzone.com/pipe
February 25, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Spongercity Contests News
David Hubbard wins the DK event at the Pipeline! Congrats Dub! Hubbard received $1,500, which was fitting since he paid the $5,000 deposit fee out of his own account to secure the contest! Last year, there was no drop knee contest at Pipeline due to a lack of sponsorship money.
He won The Foam Company Drop Knee Pipeline Pro contest yesterday at the Banzai Pipeline and is the three-time defending world champion of the drop knee world tour. Last year, he won all three contests on the tour. Yesterday’s contest was the first stop on the 2010 world tour.
Kim Feast came second yesterday. Ricky Alvarez of the Big Island finished in third place. Bud Miyamoto of Kaua’i was fourth, Sacha Specker of South Africa was fifth, and Jacob Pembrook of Kaua’i was sixth.
Side note:
Mike Stewart of the Big Island won the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic for a record 12th time yesterday. The final was also staged at the Banzai Pipeline. Stewart last won the event in 2008. It was not held last year due to a permit issue. Chris Kalima was second, Mark Cunningham third, Frederic David fourth, Craig Watson fifth and Steve Kapela sixth.
Read the full report on the IBA site.
February 24, 2010 at 8:48 pm | Spongercity Contests News
Watch it live here: http://www.usbamag.com/webcast/
February 21, 2010 at 5:43 pm | Spongercity Contests, Moving Pictures News
Here the official Day 1 video from the Turbo Pipeline Pro 2010:
http://vimeo.com/9604472
Lots of bad comments under the video on the Vimeo site. It’s true that the sand or whatever is in the fore front is annoying after a couple waves. Other than that the footage is good, the quality as well and some of the waves and riders are pretty damn good.
February 19, 2010 at 10:48 pm | Spongercity Contests News
Quick little ALERT in case you’re not watching it already: Turbo Pipemine Pro is ON right now !
Watch it here: http://fluidzone.com/pipe
February 14, 2010 at 11:46 pm | Spongercity Contests News
First event of the year for the 2010 world tour and the most prestigious one for sure ! The event will be held in the best three days of the waiting period (Feb 16-26). This excludes the weekend of Feb 20 & 21 due to an event that was already booked.
There will a half day DK event during the waiting period as well as a 1/2 day Bodysurfing contest so lots of stuff will be happening…
Make sure you go to the IBA site news page for more info and updates as the contest goes on and to watch it LIVE!
December 21, 2009 at 9:33 pm | Spongercity Contests, Industry, Links News
We might have missed a couple cool news lately on the boogie web world but we’ll catch up now with this little recap:
- You need to watch the NAZARE Special Edition 2009 video – Massive waves for the event !
- You need to know that MANTA has a new (and nice) website here.
- You need to visit this blog which is pretty cool with sick pictures although we dont like the stereotype BLOGGER shitty templates and have to say it right now.
- Ewan Danochie and CustomX came up with a podcast here on iTunes (careful the link will open your iTunes App!) (it’s the LIMITED EDITION Podcast) which you can watch here as well on Custom-x.com.au
- Dallas Singer has a website now!
- You should read this, it’s a good blog.
- Brandon Backshall has a blog but it doesnt work for us on Safari at the moment.
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