Our friend Greg Marguerie sent us this really nice little video clip, shot in Reunion island with a 7D camera. (Note the classy blur effect on some of the footage, same cool effect you get on a still shot – “tilt shifting effect”). It’s called “The Hunger of Spoiled Children”. Watch it here.
Main Characters : Charly Chapelet, Lucas Vergnes, Sylvain Langlet & Guillaume Kapfer.
Directing : Gregory Marguerie
Sound : Flying Lotus – Sketchbook
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That’s right, for the release of the Amaury “Osmoz” DVD, Sniper Bodyboards and Amaury gave us 25 DVDs to give away on Spongercity.com! The 25 first readers who send us an email with their complete address (postal address) will receive the DVD for free. We’ll post the DVDs as it goes. We’ll let you know when we run out of DVD’s. We won’t give more than 25 copies so hurry up if you want one for free. When the stock we have is over the giveaway is over.
Please contact us by email, using the email address that is here on our INFO page Email address is info [at] spongercity [dot] com
Thanks heaps Sniper and Amaury for doing this and teaming up with us at Spongercity.
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As we just read on Michael’s blog today, “Michael Novy suffered major back injuries after a heavy beat down at Indies on the NSW Central Coast this morning”. – Michael said “I just got out of hospital, got three fractured vertebrae. No damage to my spinal cord though, just two months outta the water and plenty of physio”.
We hope Michael will get better very quickly and will be back in the water soon.
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It’s the “underwater issue” and it’s got a sick cover with Winny, shot by Trent Mitchell in Samoa. Beautiful shot and colors. Check the cover out here on the Riptide website and also check what Winny has to say about the cover and the shot here on Winny’s Blog.
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What was kinda of just a rumor is now official, Jeff “Hubb” Hubbard rides for Agent 18 now. There’s a cool little video clip of Jeff ripping with his new springy from Agent 18 here on the Riptide website. Jeff rips. So much speed and projection out of small waves on that clip.
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Yeah Pierre ! Pierre Louis Costes nails it and finishes first in a french final against Amaury Lavernhe. Congrats guys ! and congrats Pierre !
Don’t miss the video here with the final day of the event and PLC’s monster backflip. The biggest we’ve seen on video and probably the biggest ever completed since Tom Morey started boogieboarding decades ago…
PLC and Amaury are the best watermen France has ever had, that’s for sure, whatever the water/wave sport is. No one freesurfs and competes in France at this level whether it is on a boogieboard, surf, SUP, kite… whatever water/wave sports you mention.
Peru Inka Challenge results are as follows
1st Pierre Louis Costes France 1st 1000 points
2nd Amaury Lavernhe Reunion 2nd 860 points
3rd Jared Houston Sth Africa 3rd 730 points
3rd Jeff Hubbard Hawaii 3rd 730 points
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That’s right, the rumor was in the air for a little while now and it’s official: Mitch starts his own bodyboard brand ! FOUND BOARDS
here’s Mitch talking about it on his own website:
“Its always been a dream of mine to start my own brand. Have team riders, team trips, sponsor local and world tour contest. Dreams of making the sport bigger and better so everyone can see that bodyboarding is actually a great sport right up there with surfing. So as of today I have started my own brand called Found boards. It’s the start of a vision I have been carrying for quite some time now. I am going into Found boards head first with total commitment in making it work. I have taken quite a lot of risk in the water and this is probably the biggest out of the water, it’s a new challenge I’m taking on and one I am looking forward to. My aim is to be uncompromised in the quality of Found boards and its products that’s my promise to you. There is going to a lot of exciting times coming up that I want you all to be apart of so I hope you can join me In my vision to make bodyboarding what it should be”.
Mitch Rawlins
Found boards
No info about the boards yet and where they’re made… we’ll keep you updated !
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The tour is now in Peru. The PERU INKA CHALLENGE is the 5th stop on the tour and should certainly be an interesting one to watch & follow ! We’ll keep you updated as it goes.
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Winny won the Arica Challenge yesterday in good solid waves and nailed a 9.75 and a 10 in his heat to beat french hell man Amaury Lavernhe. Congrats Winny !
The contest was once again a great one to watch and the level of the riders was unbelievable. Ben Player, Winny, Hubb, Plc, Amaury… everyone shredding the El Gringo reef harder than ever.
You can watch the final day of competition right here: http://vimeo.com/11993514
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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
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