We talked about The Panic Button a while ago and posted links to their youtube teasers but now their website is eventually online, it looks sick and you’ll be able to watch the DVD teaser and download their podcast as well. We’ll add The Panic Button teaser on the Spongercity Podcast if we can. Check the website here.
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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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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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This is one of the rare californian video out in 2007 and it would’ve been a shame for us not to review it coz it’s fresh, it’s got awesome footage and it’s got what most videos dont have: heaps of different spots, heaps of different riders and a taste of what travelling around the world is. Read the complete review…
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SPONGERCITYINTERVIEW_BENPLAYER_LASTWORDS
INTERVIEW done on the 8th of March 2005 – “Last Questions” with Ben Player
BEN PLAYER not only works at Movement Mag but he’s everywhere : he’s in every single Mag and video, he competes on the world tour and makes it to the top 10 if not the top 5 of the RIPTIDE peer poll every year for the past five years (#6 this year). Ben’s surfing is creative and as stylish as it gets, he’s impressive in the water and super cool out of the water. He was probly out of the water and at home in Oz the other day when i asked Ben if he was ok to be interviewed for playbord.com coz he said yes pretty quickly and answered his emails for a couple days. We got lucky… Anyway, both me and Ben thought that a real interview is kinda boring and lacks of spontaneity and authenticity so we agreed on the ‘Last Words’ interview format (which i must admit i borrowed to TransworldSURF Mag). I sent Ben the 30 or so quick questions and got my answers the next day. That was last week, we cant be more fresh than this on playbord ! So here are Ben’s last words and facts :
Last surf you had : Yesterday at Black Rock. 4 ft and flawless. I surfed for 9 hours.
Last mind-blowing barrel : Backdoor January 05
Last board you loved : The board I have now, Grey top, white pin and red outside rail.
Last trip you went on : A road trip yesterday ; a 4 hour drive each way.
Last bodyboard movie you watched : Raised Heights, Waldren Bros. Video…insane
Last rider who blew your mind : Morgan Brown ; an local aboriginal at Balck Rock yesterday.
Last time you got dropped in on : Yesterday and got a nose of a board in my ribs
Last time you were scared : January 24th at Pipe 12-15 ft and no one out.
Last thing you bought yourself : A coffee this morning…Cappucino
Last car you rode in : My Holden Barina..small and cheap.
Last time you got lucky : A while ago…too long.
Last injury you had : mmmm, popped my shoulder yesterday and am killing today.
Last song you loved : Modest Mouse…that bling bling one.
Last thing that made you cuss out loud : All ways, I swear too much.
Last punch you threw : Ages ago…stupidly.
Last time something changed your life : The other day when I broke up with my girlfriend.
Last video part you were stoked on : Raised Heights
Last time you stand up surfed : 1 year ago.
Last thing you broke : My Apple G4, I fractured the LCD screen.
Last time you took a picture : 1 week ago with one of those LOMO cameras
Last book you read : Da Vinci Code
Last website you visited : Porn over the last couple of days…he he.
Last magazine you read : Movement
Last time you lied : The above question.
Last girl you kissed : Catherine my ex girlfriend
Last time you wished you were alone : After I kissed her goodbye…not.
Last time you wished all your mates were here : Today
Last time you thought you were gonna die : At Teahupoo a couple of years back.
Last time you felt inspired : Every moment I have time to appreciate life
Last time you said « it’s the last time » : The last time I broke up with my girlfriend.
THANX A LOT BEN
Spongercity.com
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Parkway Drive is touring in europe and we were lucky to watch ‘em play live yesterday night in Paris, France. We took a little trip to Paris with a bunch of friends and enjoyed a nice hardcore show with heaps of bands. Parkway Drive was definitely the stand out band, they played 8 songs, mostly from their previous album. Freaking awesome live show. Check a few pictures we shot and a small video from yesterday night. You must have heard ‘em in recent bbing videos.
For full picture gallery click here. For seperate pics it’s here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
For the video, right-click and download this .mov video: PWD live show clip.
Note that we re-recorded the song over the video because the sound was crap and the camera microphone pretty much died. The music was so freakin’ loud that it blew the mic.So the image and sound might be a little un-synched but it’s still pretty good to watch hey !
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Riptide issue 160 is out. It says “Biggest issue ever” on the cover and jeez, yes, it’s sick and nice! Check it out.
We just got the brand new HELLO (luck squirrel club) teaser which is awesome. We’ll add it on the Podcast ASAP. While waiting for it, you can already watch it here. “This is a film that’s fun, colourful and if anything has too much personality. We want the viewer to be involved, we want them to walk away better for the experience. We didn’t sit on a beach shooting riders we had no relationship with, or paddled out and shot the same footage as 3 other film crews. We wanted to personalise this film so it had to be about the people, not purely about what happened in the water.”
Their DVD will be out in 1 or 2. Stay tuned, more news coming soon.
Last but not least, in the same vein as THE INSIDE but 13 years later, Scotty Carter’s new project with Mike Stewart called FIRE, which we talked about a while back, eventually has a teaser to watch. It’s here and it looks different and pretty interesting.
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Yewwwww. Kyle Maligro who has been riding for Toobs back in the days and then rode for BZ for a while is now back on the Toobs team with a new killer board model. It’s got his old logo on it and i’m already frothing looking at the board. As Kyle said, it’s “Good to be back with the Toobs family.”
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SPONGERCITY INTERVIEW with Aka LYMAN and Will GEORGE – INTERVIEW done in Sept. 2006
Maybe you’ve heard about it, maybe you haven’t but Will George and Aka Lyman are launching a new board company. Yep ! Some of the best drop kneers out there are gonna release some fresh and nice boards called TOYS. We thought we should talk to Will and Aka about that new project… Here’s what the Dk masters had to say:
1. Hi guys, wassup ?
Will: Not much man whats up ?
Aka: Just chilln with my kids.
2. Can you introduce yourselves for those who don’t know you ?
Will: Will George 27 years old 6 foot tall 185 pounds.My home is Laguna Niguel California and Oahu I think that covers it..
Aka: Aka Lyman 32 Oahu , Hawaii is my home.
3. So what have you been up to lately ?
Will: working on Toys ,surfing , fishing , partying , enjoying life…
Aka: going to my kids baseball games and getting in the water as much as i can. makin toys happen!.
4. You guys are launching a new board company, can you tell us what’s the project and how you came up with the idea for this new board brand ?
Will: TOyS is all about fun and having a good time. I want to have the best boards , the best team , the best fins . I want tOyS to be rockin!
Aka: I came up with ToYs a few years back. I just had to wait for the right time to make this thing right. Were ready now and here we go.
5. What’s the concept ?
Will: I think for me it is for the kids to get the goods! I want kids to get the same level boards that Aka and I ride.
Aka: yeah like Will said. We want ToYs to be by Body Boarders for Body Boarders , get everyone the best boards out there.
6. Are the boards different ?
Will: yeah they’re good!
Aka: hahaha the boards are the same shapes that Will and I ride , we are not putting our names on anything lame !
7. Will you offer more DK oriented boards ?
Will: Yes! we have a board called the YoYo that is for little kids and girls. Then we our also going to have a prone board pro model. I cant tell you who it is yet but ToYs will be signing one of the top prone riders in the world to the team.
8. Who’s shaping the babies ?
Will: Pete Anaya , we also have another shaper coming on board soon!!!
9. Will, can you give us the dimensions and specs of your current board ?
Will: I will tell you this it is 43 inches long , the rest is top secret 
10. Aka, can you give us the dimensions and specs of your current board ?
Aka: Oh man I don’t have them right now , all my stuff is at the factory right now.
11. Both of you will have a pro model i guess, will you ?
Will: yeah a Aka Lyman board and a Will George board.
12. Aka we haven’t seen you on a boogieboard in the mags or videos for a long time, is it a media come back ? What motivated you to be involved in this project ?
I love to surf! plus my kids are getting older now so I’m looking forward to them seeing me surf and them surfing with me. The other main motivation is getting to do a company with some of my best friends. Getting to design all the boards ,ad’s , everything it’s really cool.
13. Will, you left your long time sponsor Toobs to start TOYS, was it a hard decision ?
No. getting to do a company with me and Aka was a dream since I was a kid. We get to make all the calls all the shots for ToYs so it is sick!
14. What’s the typical Will George’s day ?
If the waves are good i’ll surf. if no waves maybe do some fishing with Raffi. recently my days have been working on ToYs and making it happen.
15. And what’s the typical Aka Lyman’s day ?
Kids , kids , kids!!! to much stuff to go through the whole day.I got 2 boys so the work never stops. The waves have been good the past few weeks so the kids have been not going to school and going to the beach with me.
16. What else do you guys do when you’re not in the water ?
Will: fishing , t.v. , baseball , girls , working out , you know stuff like that
Aka: BBQ’s at the beach and golf , I love golf
17. Who do you like to see surf ? who’s got skills on the knee ?
Will: heres my list , Aka , Roach , Raffi , Keith , JJ , Fred , Kainoa , P.Cooper , Leroy , Mason Rose , Lackey , Jacky Buder, that’s all I can think of for now.
Aka: Roach, Will , Raffi , the whole ToYs and Sandy’s crew
18. Who inspires you ?
Will: everyone who playes for the New York Yankees.
Aka: my family!
19. The new company is a full time job for you guys or do you manage to work and do this company thing aside of your other activity ?
Will: full time.
20. When will the boards be available ?
Will: soon very soon! As we do this interview we are taking care of some details and the boards will be out soon!!!
21. Who’s in the team besides Will and Aka ?
ToYs team: Aka Lyman , Will George , Raffi Meyer , Keith Sasaki , JJ Ayala. plus there is one very other very big name DK rider and very big Prone rider who will be joining the crew soon.
22. We’ve seen nice pics/framegrabs of you guys and also Raffi, filming for your new video. Where and what have you filmed so far ?
Will: We have been on location in Mexico , California and Hawaii so far…
23. When will you release the video ?
Spring /Summer 07!!!
24. Do you guys wanna add anything ? any thank you’s ? fuck you’s ? love you’s ? hate you’s ?
Will: ToYs would tour coming to you spring/summer 07… Rock for light!
Aka: Love you’s my family. Thank you’s you guys for the love on your site. That’s it for me…
Thanx a lot Aka & Will – TC at Spongercity.com
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Movement Mag issue 20 is right around the corner and the teaser is already downloadable here (iPod compatible). Just right-click and download with “save target as…”. Enjoy.
That cool teaser has also been added to the Spongercity Podcast. If you wanna subscribe, there’s nothing easier, just click the link and use iTunes to read and download all the clips. Don’t click if your are already a subscriber, just open iTunes and refresh the Podcast.
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