Roach Youtubed on Nofriends.com

March 30, 2008 at 4:30 pm | Spongercity General News

There’s a cool Roach interview on Youtube and Nofriends.com. Looks like the interview is in 2 parts but part 2 is not available yet. Watch it here.

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What to bring when you go on a trip ?

March 13, 2008 at 11:42 pm | Spongercity General News

This is our latest addition to our TRAVEL TIPS series. What to bring when you go on a trip ? The question is often asked and although the answer depends on where you’re heading, there’s heaps of things we always need when we leave home, and there’s heaps of things we always forget.

Remember that time when you couldn’t plug your camera charger because the local plugs were “1 hole different” from the ones you use at home ? Remember last time you lost a fin in the middle of nowhere and couldnt find one to buy ? Remember when you lost your malaria pills on the boat ?

Yes you do. And we do as well. So here’s a list you can use as a reminder before you go, we tried to think of everything, but we surely forgot some important things so dont hesitate to add more stuff in the comments, and we’ll add them in the “official” list right away.

Go to the list.

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Say hello to Version 3.0 …

February 24, 2008 at 6:55 pm | Spongercity General News

…and goodbye to 800×600 screens resolutions.

After hundreds of hours spent coding it and dozens of sleepless nights, we’re eventually releasing our Version 3.0 of Spongercity.com

We’re glad we did this with our own two hands, coded this new template and designed everything by ourselves, with our passion and your support.

No big changes aesthetically, just cleaner designs and wider presentation, easier navigation and a couple new fonctionnalities that should save us (and you) quite some time. People with large screens should appreciate the change, people with 800×600 screens should start hating us for doing this but hey, maybe it’s time to get a new 24 ich flat screen mate ! yewwwww

Anyway, there might still be a few bugs here and there, report them in the comments if you can and we’ll take care of them ASAP. We’re not completely done with our Version 3.0 modifications and we’ll keep on improving it next week and stop lagging on DVD reviews and interviews, we promise !

We’re now working on a couple new web projects as well… so stay tuned.

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Viva la toobs !

February 9, 2008 at 9:59 pm | Spongercity General News

Seen this week during the Monster Energy Billabong contest at Pipeline – Hawaii : Stand Up Pro Surfer Fred Patacchia paddle out on a nice pink Toobs board (Chris Taloa’s board we reckon) during his heat after being comboed by Pancho Sullivan, 10 minutes before the end of his heat. Fred took 2nd place of the contest. Paddling out on a boogieboard during his heat was all about a bet but it was still pretty fun to see a nice pink Toobs board at the monster energy pro contest ! Check Freddy P.’s picture with his sweet ride here.

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Beepee

January 29, 2008 at 1:02 pm | Spongercity General News

Ben Player’s got a website now with a couple cool stuff to check on it, vids, boards, projects etc. check it out here: Benplayer.com

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Aussie aussie aussie

January 24, 2008 at 11:44 am | Spongercity General, Industry News

Yeah i’m in oz as i write this, getting sun burns on the goldie at the moment, and hoping Sydney will treat me well next week. So far so good, not much waves though. Sorry for lagging on DVD reviews, we’ll add more of those when the oz trip is over. We watched Draw, pretty impressive, as well as “There’s no i” and “Insert name here” which are great vids too.

Talking about oz, oz super star Andrew Lester just signed with Morey Boogieboards, so we read on Movement Mag and Riptide Mag’s blog.

Other than that nothing too crazy this month in the boogie world. Everyone’s waiting for the pipe comp to start in Feb. and we hope hawaii will deliver and riders can start 2008 in good conditions at the banzai pipeline.

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5-South Best In The West DK Contest and Industry news

January 12, 2008 at 3:50 pm | Spongercity Contests, General, Industry News

5-SOUTH has its BEST IN THE WEST dk contest going on this week end in South California. Was scheduled in Seaside Reef but will eventeually be held at Ponto. Should be a great contest with heaps of good riders from SoCal, the 805 and more. A crew vs. crew format with probably Roach, Roldan, Vargas and more dk superstars. I’m sure the 5-SOUTH guys will post a video of the contest as soon as it’s over. Can’t wait to watch this !

Talking about DK, note that SCIENCE is releasing a DK board under the name: DK5, here’s a pic we found on the 805 message board. Looks cool but no details about the available size, rail ratio, core and stuff. Also no details about Mike Stewart drop kneeing on it. [smiley goes here, of course]

Note that we’ll release Dot Dot Dash, There is no i, Insert Name here, Happy Days, How To, and Transfer Mag DVD reviews in the upcoming days / weeks and more podcast clips. Movement 21 video teaser is now on the podcast by the way.

We spotted more websites having fun copying our shit, ripping the news off, using the same exact news tags and stuff than us. Not that we’re going paranoid, but you should get your shit together, get a life, stop ripping shit off people and start doing something with your own 2 hands instead of waiting for someone to do it for you and then copy. Karma will get ya !

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Happy New Year ! What’s next ?

January 2, 2008 at 9:43 pm | Spongercity General News

We wish you the best for 2 thousand 8. Hope you’ll score good waves, cool trips and chicks (or boys if you happen to be a boogie chick).

What’s next ? what’s up for 2008 ? Oh well, we hope we’ll see some crazy stunts in the water, some 720 airs, some kids shredding on the knee, some money in the sport, a nice IBA tour, starting with Hawaii in Feb. 08, some kids killing it, some legends ruling it, some DVDs to kill the time, some nice and clean websites to keep up to date with the latest boogie news, some sick mags to stick cool posters on our walls and read good stuff… mmh and … mmh what’s your call ?
post your comments here, dont be shy kiddos ! i know we’ve got heaps of ozzy kids reading this, Uk kids too, Euro kids too, specially from Portugal, South Americans and US spongers too. Oh yeah we’ve watched our stats this month. hehe.

For 2008, we’ve worked hard, very hard on new projects and stuff and we’ll launch ‘em all within the next couple month.

Cheers from the folks at Spongercity.com

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More link love

November 22, 2007 at 9:10 pm | Spongercity General News

We promised a few people we would add their websites when updating our LINKS page. Done deal. Sorry for the wait. If we forgot you, send us an email. Check the INFO page for email details. We answer all emails within a few days so if you get no answer from us send it again, the email must have been lost or considered as a spam.
Cheers !

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Design updates. Good for us, good for you.

November 20, 2007 at 9:57 pm | Spongercity General News

We’ve re-designed some of the site pages and eventually released the new pages yesterday night, starting with the DVD reviews pages which has a totally re-designed list of DVD reviews: more than 60 DVDs reviewed so far ! (note that the DVD release dates are wrong, we’ll correct this as soon as we remember when the DVDs came out haha). The Podcast page is new too, no more ‘media’ page. It’s all about Podcasts and RSS feeds nowadays. Come on, don’t be shy and jump in the hi-tech wagon with us ! The Music reviews page has also been re-designed and the Tests page as well. Expect more tests and more reviews very very soon. Next DVD review is FACES. Next board test is the SCIENCE 7 41.5 crescent tail 2008 edition. Fins test as well, we’ll let you know why Bluntcuts are some of the best fins out there. Let us know if you want to see any specific DVD review or board tests on the website, we’ll try to review them. We added a little Spongercity Store for those who want Spongercity tees and caps. Shipping is free for those about to ask.

Also peep the new A-Frame site here. A-Frame hails from the US and is the best online bb mag you can find. You gotta check it if you havent yet. Next issue coming soon. Thanx Alex for the hard work and sick mag.

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