Archive for Industry
August 6, 2009 at 9:38 pm | Spongercity General, Industry, Spongercity Store News
What if we told you that we made Spongercity™ leashes? fin tethers and neoprene heel pads for your fins ? What if we told you we’ve been working on these for months now? What if we told you they’re the best leashes and accessories around? What if we told you we’ve used the best materials and worked with the best factory and people to create those leashes? And what if we told you we’re gonna deliver sick colors combo for these?
Yep, it’s all happening!
We’re launching Spongercity™ Accessories and will be ready to deliver at the end of this month on the Spongercity Store and a couple core shops around the world.
We were tired of seeing the classic black leashes and could never find the leashes we were looking for confort-wise and quality-wise so we decided we’d create our own range of accessories. Why not ? We were already doing Tshirts and caps so it made sense to work on a hardware range now.
The problem is.. we didn’t want to go for the easy & cheap made in china products and the easy all black color. We wanted to create something original that we’d be proud to use, looks good in the water and is the best quality possible. The good news is, we made it: Our whole range of accessories is Made in The USA, using the best materials and manafacturing there is. It’s simply some of the best leashes, fin tethers and heel pads you can find at the same price or even cheaper than what’s available on the market.
How did we do that you’re gonna ask ? Why could we do this and other brands – big brands – couldn’t ? Simply because we’re not doing this for the money and we’re gonna sit on our margins just because we fuckin wanted to release leashes and accessories that rock and that’s it. We’re not here to make money, there’s no money in our sport anyway.
To keep our prices fair and accessible to everyone worldwide we decided to offer free shipping to almost all countries worldwide (see if your country is good for free shipping when you’ll checkout in the Spongercity Store).
This means the prices on the Spongercity Store already include the shipping wherever you are. Prices might seem expensive for US citizens but when you do the math (price minus shipping) it will most likely be the same price as all other hi-standard leashes on the market.
Aussie and Euro citizens will be stoked coz the price is also the same as other leashes on the market Aussie & Euro markets and the shipping is free also. Take this into account when looking at the prices: they all include shipping wherever you are, you won’t pay anything else than what’s on the price tag!
ALL DELIVERIES WILL TAKE PLACE LATE AUGUST – EARLY SEPTEMBER. You can pre-order anything you want and we’ll keep the item aside for you until we’re ready to ship them. Nothing to pay to pre-order, just let us know what you want and we’ll put it aside. Use the contact page on the Store to tell us what you need.
Here are pictures of all the Spongercity™ Accessories:
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Bicep Leashes – Picture 1
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Bicep Leashes – Picture 2
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Bicep Leashes – Picture 3
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Fin Tethers – Picture 1
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Fin Tethers – Picture 2
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Fin Tethers – Picture 3
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Heel Pads – Picture 1
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Heel Pads – Picture 2
- Spongercity™ Deluxe Heel Pads – Picture 3
Spongercity™ Deluxe Bicep Leashes are available in Royal Blue, Street Grey and Blood Red.
Spongercity™ Deluxe Fin Tethers are available in White, Red and Black
Spongercity™ Deluxe Heel Pads are available in Blue neoprene, Red neoprene and Black neoprene.
All items have the original Spongercity™ red label on them.
We’ve paid attention to details and our accessories have the sickest color combos you can find with seams matching the color of the urethane on leashes and urethane ends matching the color of the nylon bicep strap as well… Fuck black ! Bring the colors back !
Spongercity™ Store – You can already preview all items on the store. Pre-order by using the contact page. We’ll let you know as soon as products are ready to ship. All items are already in stock, we’re just finishing the packaging and stuff.
How do you like the new store look by the way? We just updated it with a fresh new look!
PS: Yes we tested our leashes and accessories and good surf last week already and loveddddd them all ! Yewwwww. We couldn’t choose between each colors so we opened a box of leashes and took one of each like kids in a candy store ! ha ha, yes we can do this !
If all works out well we might consired sponsoring a couple riders in the future. Note this down kids !
July 31, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Spongercity Industry News
WA Bodyboarder Brendon Backshall has just joined the Boogerking team. He Joins Ben Player, Mitch Rawlins, Jason Finlay and Max Arent on the coveted Team.
“Brendons flair both in and out of the water were the major factors in Boogerking sponsoring him. Welcome aboard Brendon!” – Toby Player
July 31, 2009 at 4:05 pm | Spongercity Industry News
OGM Bodyboard Shop, the european bodyboard shop sponsoring Pierre Louis Costes just signed another international rider: Chris Won Taloa, the north shore legend. Chris kills it standup, dk and prone and will be shredding hawaiian & californian waves under the OGM flag now. Check Chris on video here and there.
July 26, 2009 at 7:43 pm | Spongercity Industry News
2010 is just around the corner. Well not really… but most boards companies have already started producing or designing their boards for 2010 and it’s gonna be hard to choose your next boards among all the available ones. So we thought it would be a good thing to gather some of the hottest boards for 2010 (yep some are missing, we know! BZ boards pics, more Moreys, more CustomX boards, some Sniper boards from europe and a couple more brands…). We’ve tried to make a selection of pro models and stock boards that will definitely some of the good boards. It’s a sneak preview, we would have like to have more brands and boards but not all boards pictures were available. We’ll probably update this post as it goes. Some are already available in Oz, some worldwide, others can only be pre-ordered and the rest are simply not available yet but will be later this year or in early 2010.
Just click on the models you wanna see or browse thru all models by clicking the left or right arrows on your keyboard or on the slideshow arrows (once you’ve clicked on any of the board link of course). Pretty easy!
Enjoy.
NMD 2010 Boards (A selection of Pro Models and cores – Models are avaible in lots of other cores or variations)
NMD 2010 Novy 3D Core
NMD 2010 Novy PE Core
NMD 2010 Novy Small
NMD 2010 Player 3D Core
NMD 2010 Winchester 3D Core
VS 2010 Boards (Pro Models only in 3D Core – Models are avaible in lots of other cores or variations)
VS 2010 Hardy 3D Core
VS 2010 PierreLouisCostes 3D Core
VS 2010 Rawlins 3D Core
PRIDE Boards 2010 (Most Pro models and the combo board)
Pride 2010 cade sharp 606
Pride 2010 cade sharp 808
Pride 2010 Combo 505
Pride 2010 Combo 707
Pride 2010 Combo 909
Pride 2010 mitch woodland 606
Pride 2010 sam bennett 808
ELIT Boards 2010 (A selection of various models)
Elit 2010 blank-ltd pp.jpg
Elit 2010 dkf pp
Elit 2010 sd2 pe
Elit 2010 sd2 pp
Elit 2010 td2 pe
HB Boards 2010 (A selection of the Icon series models)
HB 2010 brad hughes icon PE
HB 2010 icon PP
HB 2010 projekt icon PE
HB 2010 sean virtue icon PE
HB 2010 sean virtue icon PP
HB 2010 TS icon PE
HB 2010 TS icon PP
MOREY Boards 2010 (Bunting models)
Morey 2010 bunting PE
Morey 2010 bunting PP
TOYS Boards 2010 (Pro models as well as a few other boards)
Toys 2010 Aka Lyman
Toys 2010 Aka II
Toys 2010 GnR
Toys 2010 The Game
CUSTOM X Boards 2010 (Shapers Series models as well as the A.Luehman board)
CustomX cxc
CustomX cxr
CustomX cxv
CustomX Adam Luehman
CARTEL Boards 2010 (Roach Pro models as well as a few other boards)
Cartel 2010 5-STAR
Cartel 2010 9Board
Cartel 2010 9Borad crescent tail
Cartel 2010 50/50
Cartel 2010 D5
Cartel 2010 D5crescent
Cartel 2010 flowboard
Cartel 2010 FVT
Cartel 2010 LTD
Cartel 2010 M2
Cartel 2010 Roach DK
Cartel 2010 Roach LTD
TURBO Boards 2010 (Pro models and the IV board as well)
Turbo 2010 botha pe
Turbo 2010 IV
Turbo 2010 jackson contour pe
Turbo 2010 mason pe
Turbo 2010 mason pp
4PLAY Boards 2010 (Pro models and a couple more boards)
4play 2010 boost dow
4play 2010 dallas hps
4play 2010 dallas pp
4play 2010 dallas tech
4play 2010 element xpp
4play 2010 king hps
4play 2010 king pp
4play 2010 king tech
4play 2010 smoke bpp
4play 2010 tom robinson hps
4play 2010 tom robinson pp
4play 2010 tom robinson tech
NOMAD Boards 2010 (the Gold Signature series)
Nomad chris james efc
Nomad chris james pe
Nomad chris james pp
Nomad chris james prodigy pe
Nomad glen thurston efc
Nomad glen thurston pe
Nomad glen thurston pp
Nomad glen thurston prodigy pe
Nomad matt lackey pe
Nomad matt lackey pp
Nomad matt lackey prodigy pe
NO6 Boards 2010 (Max Arent Pro Model)
no6 max arent efc
no6 max arent pp
no6 max arent pe
July 17, 2009 at 3:29 pm | Spongercity Industry News
Pride Signs Nick Perry, as you can see here and here. The press release goes as: Pride Bodyboards would like to announce the signing of northern beaches local and the “really, really, really good looking” Nick Perry. Commonly known as “Pedro Linguisey”, Nick has been on a mission this winter both up and down the coast, competing on the Aussie Tour as well as clocking up the frequent flyers chasing swells. We got a few quick words off the man after an epic session down the south coast… “I have been riding the new boards for the last 3 weeks down the south coast and I was blown away! The ride and quality far surpassed my expectations!”
Pedro joins one of the strongest youth teams in Australia with the likes of Sam Bennett, Mitch Woodland, Cade Sharp, Ben Veitch, Shaun Pyne and Jimmy Williamson. “I am stoked to be involved with Pride. The team of riders has so many different personalities and they are all in it to push the sport as far as it can go… coupled with the support behind them… yeah, i am stoked! These guys will be the future….. no doubt”
To follow Nick’s travels and sometimes unique perspective on life – get on http://memoirsofaseaman.blogspot.com/…
http://www.myspace.com/pridebodyboards
photo: Mitch Cameron / Mattick
July 15, 2009 at 4:19 pm | Spongercity Industry News
Stealth fins have been working on a new version of their fins and they just sent us pictures. See the new fins here and here. No news yet on when they will be available but it’s gonna be soon anyway.
The good thing about those new fins is that Stealth eventually produced a fin that is not just a rip off the original Churchill Fins and they’ve also seemed to have improved the fins. One of the biggest weakness of the Churchills are the water/sand draining hole that totally sucks under the foot as well as the foot pocket that loses energy coz it’s almost too soft to kick well.
Stealth eventually built the water/sand holes at the end of the foot pocket, which is were the holes need to be to drain correctly and it looks like the foot pocket is stronger and less flexible than before so this means more power while kicking.
We’ll test the fins and will let you know how it goes as soon as we can get our hands on them. They look pretty good and well designed from what we can see here.
July 15, 2009 at 3:54 pm | Spongercity Industry News
Good news for Morey & Jason Finlay. Jason has just been recruted by Morey this year ! See Jason holding his new ride here.
Morey talks about the new recrut: “Jason Finlay is an incredible bodyboarder, a natural talent with a love for hitting big air sections that would send most seasoned professionals packing and from here on in Jason will be hunting down those looming sections on a Morey Bodyboard.. This past year has seen Jason burst onto the scene with jaw dropping performances at some of the best waves the world has to offer. His commitment to rising up the ranks and representing bodyboarding at its finest have seen jason go from one of the most underrated bodyboarder’s to one of the most respected up and coming riders.
Jason’s hunger and drive to succeed has never been stronger so he fits in perfectly with Morey’s quest of reestablishing itself as the dominant board company in the market which so far has been a very successful journey. With his natural athleticism and relentless determination Jason is going to dominate in 2009 on Morey Bodyboards”.
Jason says “I am thriving on the possibility of pushing my ability to its limits and now that I can further my reputation as both a technical rider and a big wave bodyboarder on Morey Bodyboards.” adding “This year I want to blow minds. I want to ride the biggest waves there are, and I want to do the biggest airs ever seen. I have put the time in and these goals are totally achievable for me, and I know now with the right support from Morey, I can make it happen. ”
Further strengthening Morey, the company that produced the first bodyboards is the re-signing of the fast living Alex Bunting. Bunt’s profile is riding a great high with his current success of nailing the cover of Riptide’s 20th anniversary issue and relentless work towards his feature part in the upcoming I Am None film Thrash’d. He has put the work in and is in a great position to showcase his widely respected and admired skills in the surf. “This year is blitzing by…with my only focus being bodyboarding, shooting and filming as many good waves as possible and having a hell of a good and loose time in between. I couldn’t be more stoked to sign on again with Morey. To me it’s important to be aligned with a company not just because of their well respected name; but that the products they produce are the best and the image they project are relevant to what people like. Along with all my sponsor’s Morey is the best board company to suit where I am right now with my life and bodyboarding career.”
July 13, 2009 at 5:37 pm | Spongercity Industry News
Nomad has just released its new 2010 collection, including the new Gold Signature Series. Check it out here or on the Nomad website.
The range includes the most up to date Chris James, Glen Thurston, and Matt Lackey pro models, the Engineered Flex Core featuring Cellu-cushion 8lb PE Decks, and the new PRODIGY Signature Series. Check www.nomad.com.au for details on the entire range and new video clip of the boards in action.
June 29, 2009 at 7:43 pm | Spongercity Industry News
The new MS Viper fins will hit the Oz market in the coming month, and hopefully the rest of the world ASAP ! Check the pictures here, and also here.
The following press release was waiting in our mail box today:
MS VIPER FIN TO HIT AUSTRALIAN MARKET
GOLD COAST, QLD – Science is proud to announce the release of the MS VIPER fin to the Australian market, the new fin designed by Mike Stewart will be hitting stores Mid August.
We are extremely excited to be releasing the new MS VIPER fin to the Australian market. The fin market has been flooded with angled blade fins for years now and we believe that it is time for change
“MS Vipers are a shorter, wider design that incorporates a delta tail, a design which I have found to be very effective at enhancing control yet minimizing drag and loss of speed. The sidewalls are more beveled like a bodyboard and less vertical, which also enhances control. They have over three square inches of drainage for the foot pocket, the most drainage of any fin on the market, which work great to eliminate any sand or pebbles. They also feature a “rivet grip” pattern on the bottom of the fins that is designed not to snag onto coral or sharp objects, Mike Said.”
“ Mike Continued, Material wise they are similar to the original Vipers; they float and use the best natural rubber available. Natural rubber is a lot more environmentally friendly. Shape wise; there similarity to Vipers is they are symmetrical and shaped out of pure function. But that’s where the similarities end.”
Look out for the all-new MS VIPER fins at your local store in the coming months
June 17, 2009 at 4:33 pm | Spongercity Industry News
The MS Viper website is now online. There’s a short clip with Mike Stewart presenting his new signature Viper fins. Check it out here: MSviper.com
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