Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for checking the site out, for your support and feedback! Let’s hope 2013 brings another great year for waves, trips and stuff, another great year for the IBA tour, growth for the sport and the industry!
Cheers,
Spongercity.com
Epic year for the tour with an awesome – absolutely awesome – finish at the Fronton a few days ago, crowning Jeff Hubbard with the World Champ crown for this year, PLC wining the Fronton event and stopping Dave Winchester on his way to winning a first world title. Let’s hope Winny can make it next year, would be epic to see him win a world title as he’s been competing so good this year. Only Jeff could beat Winny. Massive congrats to Jeff, what an athlete! Also congrats to Jared Houston, soooo impressive at the Fronton. We think he was the best rider that day overall, unfortunately only 2 waves count in each heat but Jared must have had some of the best moves and waves out there that day.
See you at the Banzai Pipeline next year for the very first stop of the 2013 IBA Tour ! CANT WAIT !
Peep the highlights from the Fronton event, siiiick !
A crisp new magazine is not the only thing hot off the press – with it comes a brand spankin’ fresh concept that is sure to shake up the bodyboarding world.
If you somehow haven’t gathered by now, we’ve crowned our inaugural Bodyboarder of the Year in these pages. Sure, the iconic Peer Poll is cool, but didn’t having the Reader Poll separate leave unanswered questions? We thought we’d give the readers a chance to influence the Top 20 list and the results were, as expected, captivating. Have a flick through and see where your guy or gal finished up in bodyboarding’s prestigious new honour.
We bring you a couple more banging features – one showing that not all high-profile surf trips go as planned, even with a team of four of the world’s best, and another documenting a potential World Champ-in-waiting’s pressure-relieving jaunt to the frigid waters of Ireland.
You’ll also find insightful stories on a diverse crop of some of the sport’s colourful characters – from the prodigious ’90s versatile star, to a young pro at a career crossroads to another burgeoning talent who’s juggling a bodyboarding career with work, a mathematics degree and being a young dad.
Add to that a new focus on big, clean image spreads, and a beautifully shot bonus DVD featuring three eclectic guys from opposite ends of the globe and you’d be hard-pressed to find another product that comes close to the comprehensive bodyboarding package that is Riptide Magazine.
Bodyboarder of the Year – Dave Winchester
Peer Poll Number One – Jeff Hubbard (Reader Poll 3rd)
Reader Poll Number One – Dave Winchester (Peer Poll 2nd)
Dropkneer of the Year – Dave Hubbard
DK Peer Poll Number One – Matt Lackey (Reader Poll 3rd)
DK Reader Poll Number One – Dave Hubbard (Peer Poll 2nd)
Women’s Bodyboarder of the Year – Isabela Sousa
Women’s Peer Poll Number One – Isabela Sousa (Reader Poll 2nd)
Women’s Reader Poll Number One – Lilly Pollard (Peer Poll 2nd)
Grom of the Year – Lewy Finnegan (Peer and Reader Poll 1st)
Movement Mag issue 41 is now available. As you might have heard it’s their last issue… sad. Don’t miss this issue !
Nothing beats cracking open a magazine for the first time and feeling the weight, touching the texture and the smell the ink of beautiful pages. Issue 41 is a tribute to the past 8 years of making Movement, it’s an anthology of our best gear all squashed into 192 pages and wrapped between two hard covers.
Sixty40 Bodyboarding Magazine Issue 17 is out – Issue 17 is celebrating our very own Dropknee World Champion, Sacha Specker. This issue delves into the mind of one of the hardest working individuals in our sport, and in our humble opinion, the best waterman in the country. But that’s not all, we also drop a profile on Dylan Van Tonder, a very talented individual hailing from the usually wave starved Port Elizabeth as well as Luke Kitchin, the current SA Junior Champion. And just to round it off, we have an article on the boys from the dirty south hitting Sumatra. Be sure to check the exclusive clip, courtesy of Josh Kleve, linked to the article. As it’s our final issue for the year, have a safe festive season filled with waves and see you in 2013.
Just got the news from Nomad, Michael Novy is now riding for them and has a new pro model in PP and D12 Cores.
Here’s the full release from the guys at Nomad: Michael Novy, one of Australia’s finest bodyboarders, and a quintessential cog in the two original ROAM films has joined the team that spawned the series, the NOMAD FSD.
Following his signing to the Nomad team Novy commented, “I’m ecstatic to be riding for Nomad after years of working alongside them and their team. To have signed with a company that will be supportive and proactive I can focus on really developing my surfing. This has rejuvenated my passion and I am enthusiastically looking forward to 2013 with Nomad and what it will bring”.
Nomad Team Manager Shane Britten said of their new recruit “Its great to finally be working with Novy as part of the Nomad FSD. In the past he has always been there as part of our projects, and even this year has travelled extensively with Chris James, so we know he is a great fit for our team which prides itself on surf travel and wave exploration. Novy is an incredible bodyboarder and will bring a fresh dynamic to our already renowned team of riders as we begin new projects for 2013”.
An extremely limited 100 board release of the new Nomad Michael Novy Signature Series will be released and available in store in Premium PP and D12 PP during the 1st week on January, 2013. Pre-Order the Nomad Novy at your favourite bodyboard retail store today.
VERT Mag has just released a new Digital Issue on ISSUU. This is an exclusive digital issue (available on iTunes since September) that compiles some articles published during 2011. The articles were reviewed and improved, with more pages and photos, bilingue texts and some exclusive content. It’s totally FREE now.
They are currently working on the next FlipBook issue which will be a full bilingual (Portuguese/English) issue, so stay tuned!
