February 23, 2011 at 2:19 pm | Spongercity Contests, International News
Although the waves were probably not the best ones you can score at Pipe we’d like to congratulate the IBA and everyone who made this possible because the quality of the webcast, the commentators, the organisation, the clips, the recaps, the replays, the promotion of the event, the fact that Redbull was involved, the TV’s running the event live, the riders level: everything was as good as it gets !
The only issue we had was the live scoring not refreshing well enough. Other than that it’s simply the best webcast and the best promotion we’ve ever seen for an event and for bodyboarding in general.
Can’t wait to watch the next event at the Box, in Western Australia in April.
Will then follow the Peruvian Inka Challenge, the Arica Chilean Challenge, The Búzios Bodyboarding Festival, the Zicatela Pro, the Sopelana BBK, the Sintra Portugal Pro, the Ferrol Pro, the Campos Pro, the Knights Beach Pro, the Reunion Pro, the Confital Pro and the Fronton Showdown.
(In bold are the Grand Slam Series events)
February 23, 2011 at 2:06 pm | Spongercity Contests, International News
Jeff Hubbard won the first stop of the all new revamped IBA tour for 2011. The Pipeline Pro was the 1st event in a series of GSS (Grand Slam Series) events for 2011. Congrats Jeff !
MEN’S GRAND SLAM SERIES #1 – Pipeline Pro
FINAL – IBA PIPELINE PRO
1st Jeff Hubbard (Haw) 2000pts $6,000
2nd Tom Rigby (AUS) 1720pts $3,800
3rd Jared Houston (ZAF) 1460pts $3,000
4th Dallas Singer (AUS) 1340pts $2,000
February 22, 2011 at 8:08 pm | Spongercity Contests, International News
Ibaworldtour.com/live
February 22, 2011 at 8:00 pm | Spongercity General, International News
If you read this you probably dont give a sh*t about it, but just in case… we’d like to – at least – make the announcement official:
We recently dropped the french version of Spongercity.com so we’re back to where we started with just english language (yes, Spongercity.com has always been in english before but we translated everything in french as well).
Why did we drop the french version ?
Well, we’ve launched another french website project with a french media website called Bodyboardfrance.org which will now take care of the french news we used to write and publish on Spongercity.com – We basically merged the french stuff we used to post on the Spongercity.com ‘french version’ with what the guys at Bodyboardfrance.org are doing. They concentrate on french stuff, we concentrate on english stuff – everything is easier this way and we have much more time to publish content here on Spongercity.com in english now and work on quality interviews and reviews and stuff. We’re very happy with the way things work now and it’s sick to have more time in our hands to just work on english language and have the guys at Bodyboardfrance.org take over with the french thing.
If by any chance you used to visit the french version of Spongercity.com you can now read heaps of stuff in french language over at Bodyboardfrance.org – BodyboardFrance.org has a massive background in publishing boogie stuff on the web for frenchies, it’s a community site with a huge messageboard for frenchies and french-speaking bbers in general + a media/news website that you can browse thru with daily updates, reviews, industry news, interview etc. pretty much like we do here at Spongercity.com
No changes at all for Spongercity.com in english – we’ll keep on delivering news on a daily basis, we’ll keep on focusing on international news wherever the news come from and we’ll keep on doing what we do, trying to keep the website well designed and as clean and simple as possible. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and iTunes (thru the Spongercity Podcast) – same as always !
Thanks again to all you guys following us, it’s inspiring to check the stats & visits every now and then and we’re happy to be doing this and publish content on the web for thousands of bbers to enjoy.
Cheers,
Spongercity.com
Yewwwww
February 22, 2011 at 2:01 pm | Spongercity Clips, International, Videos News
Captain Cook discovered the Cook Islands in the 1770’s … Sam Bennett returned in the 2010’s … Watch it here: http://vimeo.com/20156802. Imagine if Captain Cook had a boogieboard on his ship when he went there for the first time ? Yewwwwww
February 22, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Spongercity Clips, International, Videos News
We’d break all our bones trying to do what Pierre-Louis does on this paipo ! The kid is amazing. Backflips, spins, ARS & rolls on a wooden paipo… Yeah PLC !
Watch it here: http://vimeo.com/20185680
February 21, 2011 at 8:25 pm | Spongercity Clips, Industry, International, Videos News
We’re a week late on this one as we didn’t get much time to blog about everything we wanted to – and haven’t slept much recently due to intensive hours spent watching the Pipeline Pro super late every night (the Spongercity HQ are in Europe) – but here’s some cool news from TURBO:
Turbo Surf Designs are proud to announce the signing of Canary Island Super Grom – Elliot Morales. At only 19 years of age Elliot has made a big impression at his home breaks in the Canary Islands, namely the infamous El Fronton. Turbo has now backed Elliot and put him straight into The Turbo Global Team. Elliot is currently in Hawaii staying at the Turbo House for the IBA Pipeline Pro and will head out to Australia in the middle of the year to work on some team projects.
Turbo Managing Director, Gregg Taylor, stated “that he was stoked to have Elliot joining the Turbo team and looks forward to working with Elliot and furthering his career in Bodyboarding. The Canary Islands has so much talent among the local riders and it is not easy to stand out from the crowd, though Elliot has been doing that for a number of years now. It will be exciting to see how Elliot develops with his trips to Hawaii and Australia working with the senior members of the Turbo team”
Elliot simply stated “i am so happy of being a member of turbo team!!!”
At this stage Elliot is happy for his surfing to do the talking, check it out: http://www.vimeo.com/19515976
February 21, 2011 at 8:19 pm | Spongercity Clips, Industry, International, Videos News
Dan Sivess will now be working more closely with PRIDE to design the boards/templates for the brand and we can surely expect some good stuff coming from the lads at PRIDE and Dan Sivess with the skills he has and the solid team of riders at PRIDE.
They worked on a Pride Technology Podcast and Episode 1 is now available to watch: http://vimeo.com/20032979
Official release goes like this:
We are pleased to announce the collaboration between internationally renowned bodyboard shaper Dan Sivess and Pride bodyboards. Over the last few years, Dan Sivess has shaped over 3000 custom boards for the sport’s elite. His extensive experience and creativity has led him to become the shaper of choice for former, present and future World Champions.
Today, Dan becomes Pride’s exclusive head shaper. Pride bodyboards’ research department will work closely with him to deliver some of the finest boards ever released in bodyboarding.
Episode 1 of our Technology podcast series is an introduction to the Pride and Dan Sivess collaboration.
Video clip can be watched here: http://pridebodyboards.com/technology.php
Make sure you check the next episodes of our Technology podcast series to find out more about bodyboard conception and manufacturing.
February 21, 2011 at 8:02 pm | Spongercity Contests, International News
Kim Feast wins the Pipeline Pro DK Division in a tight heat against Cesar Bauer (2nd) Winny (3rd) and Myles Kauhaahaa (4th). Congrats Kim !
Sick to see all those guys shredding on the knee and although the waves weren’t that good most of the riders managed to get barreled and throw some solid snaps & floats (including the so-called prone riders who actually got some skills and sometimes even more style than some of the DKriders…).
February 21, 2011 at 7:57 pm | Spongercity Industry, International News
Glen Thurston officially launches his board company called iD Boards. You can already browse thru the new website and have a look at the boards / features etc.
Jarrod Gibson is involved with iD and has worked with Glen on the boards and templates.
From Glen at iD:
Welcome people, friends, athletes and media to the official launch of www.idboards.com – an online multi-layered website that invites people that are interested to create there own identity.
Part of our vision is to increase professionalism, quality and passion in our sport and has been displayed through the crafts themselves. Each inspired by top athletes and designed by Jarrod Gibson “the world’s best shaper” and also woven through the sites swift design and concentrated content.
We hope ID Boards lifts the standard for bodyboarding companies of the future, and creates a friendly atmosphere in the industry. Its small steps for us, but we are making each step count.
Can’t wait to see the boards and iD’s new team rider coming !
We’ll keep you updated.
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