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Tuesday vids dopeness
Dopeness time! The weekly selection of cool vids! Read the rest of this entry »
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Tuesday vids dopeness
A cool selection of 6 vids to watch this week! Read the rest of this entry »
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Tuesday vids dopeness
Massive selection of cool vids this week, starting with the boys at Sapinus, Tahiti! Maururu for such a sick clip! Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
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Riptide Issue 195 now available
Riptide Issue 195 is out, it’s got the 2013/14 Board Guide in it and heaps more.
From Riptide:
It’s nearly killed us keeping a lid on this one. We’re amped to finally reveal the cover of Riptide #195: Damien Martin driving through a Shipsterns bomb twice as wide as it is tall (he paddled it too). We could barely get the damn thing to even fit on the cover!
This monster is just a taste of what #195 has in store, an issue made up of equal parts progression and controversy; experience and youth. Overflowing with the best shots of this incredible winter and backed up by some of the best writers in the biz, this is not an issue you want to miss.
Packaged with our 2013 Riptide Board Guide liftout (with the revolutionary new Riptide Online Board Guide coming hot on its heels), you’ve only got six more days until you can get your hands on a copy. Available in newsstands, on Apple and Android devices and on your PC via Zinio, you can get the issue any which way you please.
Stay tuned for more teasers in the coming days…
Photo: Andrew Chisholm
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Killer Days
Can’t wait! Upcoming movie filmed by Todd Barnes & Chris Bryan and edited by Todd Barnes: KILLER DAYS
Out late 2013′
Presented by Found Boards
Media Partner LeBoogie Magazine
Riders:
Mitch Rawlins
Thomas Robinson
Jake Stone
Damian King
Andrew Lester
Jones Russell
George Humphreys
Killer Days / Trailer from Todd Barnes on Vimeo.
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Wednesday vids dopeness
Because we’re late this week the video dopeness comes on Wednesday! Sorry folks! Here you go! Read the rest of this entry »
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Tuesday vids dopeness
Time to watch some cool videos this week! The Spongercity.com video dopeness of the week is here: Read the rest of this entry »
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Is boards volume the next big thing?
In the surf industry, amongst shapers, customers and retailers the new big thing the last few years became the VOLUME of a board. What the beeeep you gonna ask? VOLUME? Yes, volume! The volume is basically measured in LITERS and tells you how much water you would fit into your board if it was hollow. Now you know what VOLUME is.
Why is volume so important? Because it’s going to determine how (well or bad) a board will float you. A board (at least a custom board) is normally adapted to you size, weight and ability to shred. A lot of parameters are taken into account when buying a board or ordering a board to your shaper: Length, Width, Wide Point, Nose, Tail, Nose to Wide Point, Thickness & options such as deck contours, tail options etc. but the VOLUME parameter is never mentioned in the process. Same as a surfboard, or any craft that floats, a bodyboard has a volume and that volume will play a lot when you surf. Know what your min. and max. volume is will be (or should be) a priority very soon. It has helped a lot of surf-riders and pro-surfers to improve their board choice and understanding of shapes and dimensions to know about volumes. When buying a board if the volume of each stock board is indicated on the blister or paper wrap your board choice could be much easier and much better. It’s now the case for a lot of surfboard manufacturers and shapers and it might soon be the case for bodyboard shapers.
In the bodyboarding industry (appart from some brands but very few of them) the dimensions of the stock boards are not even mentioned on the board packaging or on the website you’re buying your boards from but it plays a lot for riders (pros or amateurs) and it’s crucial to know those dimensions. Shapers, if you read this you know it’s crucial.
Knowing your min. and max. volume will help you choose your board(s) for prone, DK, small waves, bigger waves, hollow waves etc. Having more volume will help in smaller conditions for example while having less volume will help for control in heavier waves. Playing with volumes (thickness and dimensions are what will make your volume increase or decrease) will be the next level in choosing the right board(s). Of course the different cores will also play since some are more or less buoyant (PE is less buoyant than PP for example) but given the same core knowing what exact volume your board is will definitely be useful when you choose a board.
We reckon knowing and indicating the volume of each board on its packaging and online specs will be the future of professional shaping and serious brands. We’ve warned you and you’ve read it on Spongercity.com first. Yewwww
From Wikipedia for the geeks: Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by some closed boundary, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains.[1] Volume is often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit, the cubic metre. The volume of a container is generally understood to be the capacity of the container, i. e. the amount of fluid (gas or liquid) that the container could hold, rather than the amount of space the container itself displaces.
Tuesday vids dopeness
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