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The Kauai Bodyboarding Association announces 2009 Amateur Tour schedule
Friday, 30 January 2009 15:12

KBA 

The Kaua‘i Bodyboarding Association has announced the full schedule for 2009 Amateur Tour.

All competitors will have the chance to test the professional in a point rated system.

KBA will host the third stop of the United States Bodyboarding Association (USBA) / IBA World Tour on June 30th.

The event forms can be printed from the KBA site at www.myspace.com/kauaibodyboardingassoc

The full KBA 2009 Amateur Tour schedule is the following:

 1 Feb. 21 Pillars, Anahola  

 2 April 25 Horner’s, Waipouli  

 3 June 20 Shipwreck’s, Po‘ipu  

 4 Aug. 15 Helicopter’s, Po‘ipu  

 5 Oct. 10 Targets, Kekaha  

 6 Dec. 12 Polihale Campout/Christmas party/awards ceremony

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Bodyboarder dies at the Austinmer Beach in Australia
Friday, 30 January 2009 11:00

Austinmer Beach 

A report will be prepared for the Coroner following the death of a man at a popular beach in the State’s south last night.

About 7pm officers attached to Wollongong Local Area Command were called to Austinmer Beach after a witness reported seeing a man appear to lose consciousness and slip from his boogie board into the water.

Local lifesavers pulled the 56-year-old Kirrawee man from the water and notified emergency services.

Ambulance staff attempted to resuscitate the man, but were unsuccessful.

The man’s body was taken to Wollongong Hospital for formal identification and inquiries into the incident continue.

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ISA World Bodyboarding Games is open to candidate nations
Monday, 26 January 2009 09:55

 ISA World Bodyboarding Games

Following the ISA decision of creating a separate, exclusive event for Bodyboard, the ISA is proud to announce the launch of the bidding process for candidate nations to host the historical first edition of the ISA World Bodyboarding Games.

This is an historic step for the ISA and for Bodyboarding. The discipline will now have its own World Championship held in the ISA “Olympic Style” spirit, with all the athletes competing as members of their National Teams.

In the recent past the ISA successfully launched the ISA Junior and the ISA Masters World Championships. In a similar way, the ISA plan to call for the hosting of the first ever World Bodyboarding Games will provide Bodyboarding an opportunity to conduct a contest in a Bodyboarding friendly way, using dedicated Judging panels and criteria.

Each discipline inside surfing has its own structure and needs. In the case of Body Boarding, the waves the athletes prefer to ride that make the discipline one of the most exciting sports in the world, are different than the ones most regular surfing competitions are held on.

Additionally, the judging expertise needed is very specific due to the range of acrobatic moves performed. Bodyboarding is a precise, technical sport and the judging panel assembled for an event of this discipline should have an extensive current knowledge of the sport. Judges in surfing tend to be specialized between bodyboard and surfboard disciplines and it is preferable to assemble a judging panel in this way. Now this can be economically done in a stand-alone bodyboard event structure.

The ISA sees this as a great improvement, not only for Bodyboarding but also for the sport of surfing. By having each surfing discipline in a high standard of development, our sport as a whole goes to the next level of organisation, which in turn helps the athletes reach new levels in their performances, opportunities and recognition.

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Joel Parkinson, Taj Burrow, Bruce Irons, Kelly Slater, Josh Kerr, Julian Wilson and Gabriel Medina have fallen in Round 1 of the 2013 Oakley Pro Bali, at Keramas, Indonesia.
The chest-head high waves on offer brought a few surprises on the first elimination round of the 2013 Oakley Pro Bali. John John Florence scored one of the biggest airs ever seen in competitive surfing. Full rotation up in the sky awarded with a 10-point ride. Unbelievable Alley-Oop.


Tom Butler and Sebastian Steudtner want the biggest waves in Europe
17/06/2013
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Tom Butler and Sebastian Steudtner had a busy winter chasing huge swells around Europe.
When they're not surfing, Butler and Steudtner never stop training and getting fit for the next big wave surfing session. Road cycling is a big part of their training program as is boxing. In the beginning of the year, two huge swells invaded the Atlantic. On the 13th January, Shane Dorian pushed the both European surfers to paddle into the biggest waves to date in the Old Continent. Praia do Norte, Nazar [ ... ]


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Bruno Sroka will kiteboard from France to Ireland
18/06/2013
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Bruno Sroka will try to connect France to Ireland in a 240 nautical mile (444 kilometers) kiteboarding journey that will last 17 hours.
This will be the first of three projects that will get Bruno Sroka kite crossing the Mediterranean Sea (2014) and the Atlantic Ocean (2015). The former kitesurfing world champion is always setting himself new and intense challenges. He kite crossed the English Channel, he sailed along Israel, Egypt and Jordan for the Gulf of Aqaba project and he crossed C [ ... ]


Kiteracing Oceanic Championships set for Western Australia
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The inaugural Kiteracing Oceanic Championships will be sailed in Leighton Beach, Western Australia, between 10th-15th December.
The new annual Course Racing event is run by the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) and International Sailing Federation (ISAF). There will be kite racers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, America, Great Britain, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Poland, and more, competing at the Kiteracing Oceanic Championships.


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Monfalcone crowns 2013 Raceboard Youth and Masters world champions
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Giuseppe Zerillo and Pawel Gardasiewicz have been crowned the 2013 Raceboard Youth and Masters world champions, at Marina Julia, Monfalcone.
The final day of windsurfing races saw one more race being run, for a total of six counting for the overall results. Light wind specialists Giuseppe Zerillo and Pawel Gardasiewicz made it clear right from the start that they were in it to win it, taking bullets in every single race.


Antoine Albeau sails to victory at the 2013 PWA Catalunya World Cup
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Antoine Albeau has conquered the 2013 PWA Catalunya World Cup, in Spain. The final took four hours to be completed, due to the gusty and shifty winds.
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The Jeff Wilcox Memorial Classic returns for 16th edition
18/06/2013
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The Jeff Wilcox Memorial Classic has been revived. One of the longest running independent bodyboarding events in Australia will be run for the 16th year, since 1990.
"You don't have to reach the top to be a champion, just be the best you can be". Jeff Wilcox's quote has never been so updated and real. Inspiring the new generation, that is what the event's all about. Jeff was a brilliant sportsman with amazing potential, excelling in bodyboarding and hockey. He passed away with only 14 years  [ ... ]


The King of the Box 2013 debuts in New South Wales
18/06/2013
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The King of the Box 2013 will attract more than 180 of Australia's best wave riders to the Box Beach, in Port Stephens, Australia.
The world's best bodyboarders have been visiting the Box Beach, in New South Wales, but this year the competition will be opened to surfers, too. An innovative contest structure will have a two-week waiting period to ensure the best possible conditions. The two selected windows are September 5th-8th or September 12th-15th.


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