May 31, 2012 at 9:59 pm | Spongercity Contests, General, International News
Sorry for the lack of update, Spongercity.com is currently on a roadtrip!
Winny just won the Arica Challenge ! Congrats Winny ! Crazy final against Tamega !
Excerpts from the IBA website:
Arica, Chile – Sunday, 27th May 2012 – Australia’s Dave Winchester has won the 2012 IBA Stealth Arica Chilean Challenge Grand Slam presented by BSC, in glassy 6 foot (2 meter) waves at El Gringo today. Winchester topped last years event winner Guilherme Tamega (BRA) in the dying seconds of the final. Needing a 6.84 with 30 seconds remaining a solid set approached, offering Winchester who was in first priority one last opportunity to come out victorious. The Australian paddled into the last possible scoring wave of the heat, drove off the bottom and launched a clean invert onto the open face, a clean spin in the pocket and finished it off with strong close-out roll to score a 9.17 and take out the final.
“I am so happy to beat Tamega today. I just wanted to get him back for beating me in the final here last year. It was even better that it all happened in the last few seconds, because he thought he had it.” Winchester added, “Now I am excited to head to Brazil. Something different, a beach break and a it’s a wave most of us have never surfed before.”
On his way to the final, Winchester defeated fellow countryman Andrew Lester in the quarterfinal and an in form Mike Stewart (HAW) in the semifinal. With two 3rd place finishes and a win here today, Winchester is in a commanding lead on the 2012 IBA GSS rankings, 900 points ahead of number 2 seed, Jeff Hubbard (HAW).
The Brazilian powerhouse, Guilherme Tamega was looking like a strong contender for the win today, taking out 2010 world champion, Amaury Lavernhe (FRA) in the quarterfinal and 2011 world champion Pierre-Louis Costes in the semifinal, but eventually fell short to Winchester in the final.
Event 4 of 4 on the IBA GSS tour will be held in Itacoatare, Brazil from June 7-17. Marking the halfway point of the 2012 GSS, the beach break hosting this event is renowned for its powerful wedges and consistently big swells, the perfect recipe for another action packed IBA Grand Slam.
For more go to: Ibaworldtour.com
May 23, 2012 at 12:32 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
You gotta watch these today:
Ben Player filmed by Matt Hill at Home – http://vimeo.com/42577850
Where The Wild Things Are – Intro – http://vimeo.com/42389385
Dave Hubbard Reunion Island – http://vimeo.com/42582964
May 22, 2012 at 12:33 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
You gotta watch this cool clip some friends just released: http://vimeo.com/42491484
Filmed in the Canaries during their trip, edited and shot by french videographer G. Duque and featuring 2 of Soyroll™ Euro riders from French Brittany. We like the editing, the lifestyle footage, the fun waves, and all the stoke you have on a trip is well shown here. Makes us wanna go on trip right now! yewww
May 22, 2012 at 12:16 pm | Spongercity Boards Tests, General, International, Tests News
We recently got our hands on a brand new board from NMD (Thanks Napco for the board) and thought it’d be cool to review it since we havent reviewed any boards for a while now. So here you go for a NMD WINCHESTER 41 PE 2012 board test!
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May 21, 2012 at 11:54 am | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Moving Pictures, Videos News
Soooooooo good. Kingy’s level is just above the rest in this vid ! You gotta watch this:
May 18, 2012 at 11:38 am | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Moving Pictures, Videos News
These are to be watched today:
Jacob Romero x Flipmode – All kine zones – http://vimeo.com/42248941
FLICK Teaser – http://vimeo.com/42353090 – Looking good!
Amaury “MOZ” in Puerto/Canary 2011 – http://vimeo.com/42122009
Nick Gornall just before going to Chile – http://vimeo.com/42309583
May 18, 2012 at 10:05 am | Spongercity America, Contests, International News
Arica, Chile – Thursday May 17, 2012 – Today’s Press Conference officially kicked off the 2012 IBA Stealth Arica Chilean Challenge, hosting the largest field of competitors ever to compete in the trials of an IBA GSS event. With over 100 riders in the trials draw, event organisers have set aside four days to complete the trials and decide the top six riders who will secure their slot in the 32 man GSS event. The strong Chilean contingent along side other South American riders from Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela will be standing their ground against Hawaiians, Australians, French, Basque, Portuguese, South Africans and riders from as far as Morocco and Reunion. Event organizers are expecting to start competition at 7:30 am. With a flurry of big swells expected throughout the waiting the 2012 IBA Stealth Arica Chilean Challenge presented by BSC is bound to be action packed.
Follow the event, news & official releases on the IBA site: http://ibaworldtour.com
As usual we’ll be giving a couple updates as the event goes on but it’s always best to follow the event LIVE on the IBA site and read all the news & event posts on the IBA site directly.
May 15, 2012 at 7:05 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
More vids to watch today after Ivan’s sick video:
- Jake Stone’s Throw Down Part: http://vimeo.com/42118025
- Jeff Hubbard’s latest clip by Mason Rose: http://vimeo.com/41974861
- PLC in Portugal: http://vimeo.com/42088970
- HB & James Kates: http://vimeo.com/41957592
- One day at Box Beach: http://vimeo.com/42060321
- Amaury Lavernhe in Chile: http://vimeo.com/42020379
May 15, 2012 at 6:50 pm | Spongercity Clips, General, International, Videos News
Sick clip of Ivan Pulic! Watch this: http://vimeo.com/42180116
Smoothest landing at 1′10” and crazy lip rebound at 1′50” – yewwwww
May 13, 2012 at 8:02 pm | Spongercity General, International, Magazines News
Surge Media Group, www.SurgeBodyBoarding.com is proud to release Surge Version 5.0. The cover showcases bodyboarding legend Brian Wise pulling into a beast of a wave at Off The Wall on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. The photograph was taken by photographer Ricardo Estevez.
Version 5.0 premieres two household bodyboarding names—Maui’s own Jacob Romero, aka Guy Hags, and IBA staff photographer/South African ripper, Sacha “The Spex” Specker. Version 5.0 then brings the ruckus with a photo feature of this past winter in both Hawaii and California, profiles on New York based Atlantic Bodyboard Shop and artist Shorty Fatz, and steps into the vast world of Go Pro with none other than Robbie Crawford. Finally, Surge brings you the Class of 2012, a feature dedicated to the future of bodyboarding. Over three dozen profiles of the best up and coming bodyboarding talent—age 21 & under—from America and other regions in the world. It is the biggest of its kind to have ever been publicized, so don’t miss out on this feature and all the other goods this issue has to offer.
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