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May 30, 2009 at 12:14 pm | Spongercity Industry News
Toby Player just signed with Cartel Board Co. !
This just in: Cartel Board Co are pleased to confirm the signing of Aussie bodyboarding legend Toby Player to the team. Cartel Board Co was established in the USA in 1996 and continues to play an important part in the sport of bodyboarding. Toby joins DK legend Paul Roach among many others in a truly impressive team of hardcore riders.
Cartel Bodyboards are distributed by Turbo Surf in Australia with a niche offering of high performance Signature boards. The board range includes the Paul Roach DK and Versatile Signature Boards along with the new Toby Player Signature Range. Toby worked with experienced Australian shaper Glenn Taylor to design his new signature model.
The Cartel board range will be officially launched in Australia in July 2009 when the one and only Paul Roach comes to Australia for the DK Sessions event at Tiona. A series of instore promotions with Paul Roach and Toby Player will also be undertaken. Keep an eye out for further details.
Toby had the following comments in regard the recent signing:
“I’m stoked to be joining Cartel, It’s a fresh take on an established brand.
For the first time ever I’ve been able to work with a shaper in Australia (Glenn Taylor)
to come up with a sick template for my Signature model.You’ll be seeing a lot more of Cartel in the future!”
related links:
www.cartelboardco.com
www.turbosurfdesigns.com
www.dksessions.com
Although this press release is coming from our friends at Cartel Australia, note that Cartel is of course distributed in Europe and the US (yeah it’s a US brand). We don’t know yet if Toby’s pro model will be available worldwide but we’ll let you know ASAP. It probably will since most Cartel pro models are available worldwide.
May 23, 2009 at 8:01 pm | Spongercity Industry News
PRIDE Bodyboard just previewed what will be Mitch Woodland’s pro model in 2010. Check it out here. The board looks good and has a clipped crescent tail, unlike most boards in the Pride range this year. All boards had a rolled crescent tail with the deck rolling down on the tail. This time the tail has its own piece of foam. Got the difference ? Works pretty good and help locking your lower body on the board better we reckon.
May 22, 2009 at 7:49 pm | Spongercity Industry News
The french clothing/wetsuit brand Sen No Sen just signed Andre Botha and also redesigned their website: Sennosen.com.
Here’s the Sen No Sen 2009 Team:
ANDRE BOTHA – Usa / South Africa
MAX ARENT – Australia
JEREMY ARNOUX – France
JULIEN MIREMONT – France
AITOR OJEDA – Canary Islands
JIMMY PETILLON – Tahiti
MAT DESAPHIE – France
JULIEN LACOUTURE – Reunion Island
JEFF LEVINGSTON – Australia
April 26, 2009 at 4:34 pm | Spongercity Industry News
Science Bodyboards recently announced the signing of one of Australia’s hottest young prospects in 17-year-old Alex Halsey. Alex joins what is arguably one of the strongest youth teams in the world of bodyboarding.
“We have been watching Alex for some time now and we have been very impressed with his ability in the water and also his professionalism out of the water. So when the opportunity came to get him on board the Science Team we jumped at the chance” Said Science brand manager Chris Apps.
Alex who hails from Western Australia has already been gaining plenty of magazine and video coverage being one of the lucky 5 riders that were selected to be part of Movements Future trading Grom Trip and also landing a part in the Claws and Teeth film Pastiche, which premieres around Australia throughout May
“I’m stoked to be riding for science, they have such a great team and a lot of them are good mates of mine so this will definitely help push my surfing, and it is amazing to have mike as a mentor as well it can only be positive for my srufing”. Alex Said
April 24, 2009 at 3:24 pm | Spongercity Industry News
TURBO bodyboards just announced that they have a distributor for europe now: Napco Global (for all enquiries, please email : contact@napcoglobal.com). This means that TURBO will now be distributed worldwide: OZ, USA, EU. Watchout for next season’s range !
April 23, 2009 at 2:04 pm | Spongercity Industry News
That’s right, Billabong Ausralia just announced the signing of Jake Stone and Charlie Holt in their boogieboard team. So now it’s Mitch Rawlins + Matt Lackey + Jake Stone + Charlie Holt + Thorpe Walluew (+ Dave Ballard… we reckon…). Good team again and fresh blood. Still sad for Ryan Hardy though.
April 22, 2009 at 1:49 pm | Spongercity Industry News
That’s official, Tom Robinson (ex-science team rider) is now riding for 4PLAY bodyboards! His custom boards are shaped by Reon Fisher in Cronulla, Australia. Here’s some news from Reon and the 4PLAY team riders:
4Play Happenings by Reon “Fish” Fisher
I’ve been pretty busy of late shaping boards and working with our team riders on their new signature models. The range is finally finished and looking incredible…. So I thought I’d take some time out to fill everyone in on some of the weird and wonderful happenings of 4Play over the past few weeks.
First up we have once again collaborated with the Waldron bros for the release of the 4Play Dallas Singer Boom Podcast. Follow the link http://www.vimeo.com/4256235 to check it out, or go to www.waldronbros.com to scope the action from Chad and Kane Waldrons website. The Podcast documents Dallas’s Hawaiian 09’ season starting from my shaping bay in Cronulla and then onto all the North Shore Hawaii action.
Damian King has been busy his next jet ski adventure thru some of Australia’s Southern Coastlines. Keep your eyes peeled for some more big pits from the Kingy.. Also make sure you check out Kings daily blog on
Portmacquarie.iprime.com.au/ there is a classic story up there at the moment of one of his more radical jet ski sessions
The big news I’ve been hanging to announce is our new signing of Thomas Robinson. We are stoked to welcome the Corpse to the team and he has definitely been out there working since coming on. In the last two weeks the lad has done two trips into the South Oz desert and one to the Notorious Shipstern Bluff in Tasmania. Next trip will see Thomas and Dallas team up for a Riptide trip that should see some damn hi-fi tech Bodyboarding go down! Check out the attachment to see Thoms new board models in HPS (Tri-Core), Tech (Polyethelene) & PP (Polypropelene). Make sure you read the Thomas interview regarding the signing in the newest Riptide E-Newsletter. If you aren’t already on the mailing list go to http://riptidemag.com.au/ and sign up.
This season also sees the release of our new Tri-Core. Tri-Core is the next stage in evolution of CCT (Composite Core Technology). Tri-Core is a three layered core with Dow on the top and bottom for the added flex and cushioning while the middle layer is high density foam similar to that of Polypro for rigidity. It’s truly a revolutionary core that I have been testing with the riders for the last six months with nothing but good feedback. I can’t wait for the public to be able to ride this core as it will seriously blow minds.
Besides all that we have our new deck logo for the season to spice things and give the boards a nice clean professional look…
That’s about it from the 4Play Hq… Surf hard and remember 4Play always comes first…
April 19, 2009 at 10:51 pm | Spongercity Industry News
All signs point to yes. As you can see here NMD has already shaped Michael Novy some boards and has already chosen a logo for what we assume will be his upcoming pro model. Let’s hope the shape is sick ! Board and colors combo look sweet from the picture. (Photo © Phil Gallagher)
Design-wise the new NOVY logo is based on shoe brand PONY. The PONY logo being this one. Looks pretty cool on Novy’s board we reckon.
April 1, 2009 at 10:03 pm | Spongercity Industry News
Oz ripper Max Arent now rides for No6 bodyboards and Limited Edition fins.
Max says: “A new deal has just been sealed between myself and No. 6 bodyboards + Limited Edition Fins starting this April 1st. It was a tough decision leaving NMD and Stealth but I did feel it was time to move on and No. 6/ Limited Editions proposal was too good not to sign! I will now be the number one rider of No. 6 and I will be involved with film team trips of Limited Edition team with Griz, Lackey and Pence etc which will be fun. No. 6 are also releasing my own No. 6 MAX Signature model in the coming couple of months which from what i’ve seen of the samples looks freaking awesome. I will be able to release photo’s of the samples in the next week, so stay on it”.
Check a short clip from Limited Edition saying hello to Max here.
Note that No6 also recruted Manny Vargas and Kyle Matsumoto in their team!
March 29, 2009 at 3:19 pm | Spongercity Industry, Links News
Blogs blogs blogs ! Some are very boring, some are cool, some are good. Matt Lackey started blogging on the Billabong Oz site recently and the good thing is… it’s good stuff !
…Then go back to his blog on the Bong site more often and read his future posts here (address of his blog amongst the other blog categories on the Bong Oz site): Bodyboard category
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