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Dave Winchester and Lily Pollard win the 2008 Human Bodyboarding Pro Tour
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 16:00

Human Bodyboarding Pro Tour 2008 

Dave Winchester (South Curl Curl, NSW) has officially taken out the 2008 Human Australasian Bodyboarding Pro Tour after finishing third in the Human Port Mac Pro on Sunday.

The 2008 Human Bodyboarding Pro Tour has been the strongest on record with some of the worlds greatest bodyboarders competing including Mitch Rawlins, Micheal Novy, Brad Hughes, Chad Jackson and Ryan Hardy.

The resurgence of competitive bodyboarding has been a result of more lucrative prize money on offer at each Pro Tour event, plus the level of quality riders supporting the tour.

Dave Winchester, has been competing on both the world circuit and Australasian Circuit for some time now and he his thrilled to have taken the title.

"It feels really good, this is something i have wanted to do since I first got on the tour eight years ago. It's good to set a goal and achieve it"  said Dave

Competitively Dave found that this year was one of the hardest years ever competing on the Australasian Tour, which has made the win even more sweeter.

"This year was extremely competitive with a lot of big names coming back to the tour, guys like Mitch Rawlins, Brad Hughes, Michael Novy, Ryan Hardy, Chad Jackson and then young up and comers like Joe Clark and Dave Crowley, all these guys made every comp this year a tough one, there were never any easy heats".  said Dave

Dave will now take a well earned rest, before getting married to his fiance in three weeks.  In 2009 Dave is looking forward to competing both on the world circuit as well as the Australasian Pro Tour.

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Bryce Thurston's movie Roam II to debut in Sidney
Friday, 19 September 2008 14:50

Roam II

Film maker Bryce Thurston follows up his 2007 epic Roam with a groundbreaking documentary that follows Nomad FSD riders Chris James, Glen Thurston, & Matt Lackey behind the scenes as they journey around Australia and beyond.


Roam II features amazing footage from Tahiti, South Oz, Victoria, West Oz, Forster DK Chopper shoot and the NSW South Coast, and showcases other talented riders including Ryan Hardy, Jake Stone, Adam Luehman, Michael Novy, Simon Ormerod, Dave Hubbard and Mitch Rawlins.

Roam II is a Digital Children production, presented by Nomad Bodyboards, in association with Limited Edition Fins & Agent18 Wetsuits, and supported by Yamaha, Bodyboarders Surf Co. & Riptide Magazine.

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Jeff Hubbard wins the SCION NYBB Pro
Tuesday, 09 September 2008 09:16

SCION NYBB Pro

The final day of the 2008 SCION NYBB Pro Presented by Verizon Wireless was nothing short of an amazing event.

Mother Nature was the events best friend today as tropical storm Hana had moved off the coast of NY providing swell and offshore/cross shore winds for the first round of the Men’s Pro.

Starting off the contest was a focused Jeremy Wright who progressed through his heat with ease, along with a Puerto Rico’s Jorge Colomar.

In heat two of round one Jason Bitzer seemed to have a field day with the solid conditions linking a barrel to roll to barrel combo and a solid invert to back up his first wave for the win. Miguel Ochoa of Long Beach did his home town proud placing second to an on fire Jeff Hubbard who was keeping the level of surfing high through the event.

An upset went down with three Californian riders going down in round one. Rusty Friesen, Ray Machado and Justin Crossman all could not find their rhythm and were headed back to NYC to enjoy the rest of their vacations. Willy Petrovick (HI), David Phillps (HI), Sean Kircher (NY) and Brian Stoehr (MD) all put together solid performances pushing them through to the quarter final round.

Hawaiian hero Jonah Romero was not as fortunate and was left on the beach to watch his brother Jacob advance into the next round.

In the quarters, much of the local talent started to lose their steam after great first round efforts. Names such as former East Coast Champ John Heyman and famous photographer Matt Clack along with local charger Tim Seif (all from Long Island), where taken down along with NJ talent Ryan Wade.

Just prior to the Semi final heats the winds had shifted more west making the offshore conditions more textured and difficult to read. This left riders like Jason Bitzer( NJ/HI), Miguel Ochoa (NY),Sean Kricher (NY) and Brian Stoehr (MD) off their game. Jason and Brian finished 3rd and 4th in their heats respectively, both not finding the second score they needed to advance.

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SURFING

John John Florence pulls biggest Alley-Oop in pro surfing
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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
13/06/2013
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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
18/06/2013
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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
17/06/2013
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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.
Albeau has tasted his inaugural season triumph, on the beautiful shores of Costa Brava, to halt Bjorn Dunkerbeck from claiming the title, for the first time, in three years. The French sailor demonstrated his perfectly timed starts time and time again, along with a phenomenal top speed to blow the competition out of the water.


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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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