A-Frame

Here are a few snap shots of the event by Travis Lindle… good to see so many bodyboarders coming together, with the following companies making a showing: Custom X, Toobs, Crysis Bodyboard Magazine, Ghetto Boyz, Wave Rebel, BZ, Morey, Viper, Cartel, Number 6, Science, etc.

Lil heathens scrapping for loot

The boys hanging out at the Madrid tent

Crysis had Roach, Foster, and Wright signing autographs for the kids

The legendary Roach

The Cartel and Ghetto Boyz tent was bringing the noise 

Science was showing off some interesting boards

The Toobs tent was a popular site with its immense mag collection 

The Man behind it all: Alternative Surf owner Ron Zibel, who suffered a severely broken back at Wedge two days before the event, was stuck in the hospital and unable to make it… Get well soon Ron

More coverage at: www.rookiesusa.com

Quick interview with Michael Novy at: http://spongewars.com/v3e/?p=316

Below is a list of some updates and corrections we’ve made to Issue 5 since it first came out. All the changes have been made, but if you scoped the mag when it first came out you might have seen it before we made these updates.

- Two shots in the Sammy Garcia interview were mistakenly credited to Steve Sandoval when they were actually taken by the talented photographer and bodyboarder Andrew Westerman. The black & white stand-up hack and the prone barrel water shot (with the cliffs in the background) were both by Mr. Westerman. Sorry about that Andrew we owe you a beer.

- In the Light Gallery, the unknown Oceanside dropkneer (in the shot by Chris Burkard) has been identified as San Diego DK shredder Wally Sani.

- In the Pipeline contest article, we mistakenly identified the dude doing the roll at Backdoor as Michael Novy when it was in fact Spencer Skipper.

- We accidentally named photographer Tony D’Andrea as Tony Andrea throughout the mag. We appologize for this mistake, especially considering Tony hooked us up with so many epic shots. Thanks Tony!

- When the mag first came out we didn’t credit Nick Statom for the Ben Player video edit on the first page of his interview.

- We’ve reformatted the Expedition ad so the video is quite a bit bigger now.

- We added a sequence of Tyler Wiemann getting a long barrel in the first page of the Short Bus article.

The 2008 Ventura Spring Challenge

DATES: March 27th (Thursday) - April 7th (Tuesday)
6-13 Days - Riders choose which 6-7 days within period (consecutive or split) works best for them
LOCATION: Camping at McGrath State Beach right at Santa Clara Beach
COST*: $315 (for seven days), $450 (for full 13 days) *See SPECIAL DEALS on ways to save money

For last minute inquires contact: expeditionseries@gmail.com

Hopefully McGrath will grace the contestants with waves like this…

Boss It Up has done it again in 2008 and proudly presents the new DVD called “Love Live Life”.
 
Capturing the essence of Bodyboarding as a sport and as a lifestyle worldwide this movie documents the life we love and live in several different locations.
 
From Portugal to Australia, stopping in some Atlantic Islands and passing trough Brazil and Indonesia, you can imagine the outcome. Plus Euro Freak Fest stroke Portugal in 2007 and Boss It Up was responsible for that along side FFAT Manny Vargas.
 
Starring Gonçalo Pitaça, Amaury Lavernhe, Gastão Entrudo, Jeff Hubbard, Hugo Pinheiro, Glen Thurston and friends.
 
Boss It Up doesn’t just represent and promote bodyboarding, we love it, we live it, and it’s our life.
 
Love Live Life
 
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOEU4UCpZ10

Delaware photographer and long time A-frame supporter Jimmy Johnson launches a  new site promoting his photography.

check it out… http://liquidperspectives.com/

5SOUTH PRESENTS THE MIXTAPE EXPERIMENT VOL.2

The Video consists of footage from California,
East Coast USA, Hawaii, Indonesia and Chile. The video should be out May or
early June. Thanks guys Enjoy!

Check out www.5-south.com for more info

805 ripper Matt Meyer joins  www.theothersponge.com team!

we are also doing a

BUY TWO TEES = LIMITED EDITION TOS SHIRT + NEW STICKER
 PACKAGE
@ THE FOLLOWING SHOPS:
Ebodyboarding.com
Alternative Surf
E.t. Surf Shop
The Foam Company

So what did I tell you about the waves getting huge and fun for the
event? Not to mention the waves in California too! I told you we were
all going to get some sickies. Funnels for everyone this week on me!
Now give me the set dawg!!

Taloa

p.s.

I’ll write more after I get my daughter up and running from her fever.
Lotsa love people. Enjoy!!

Contest is on and it isn’t small either. Second reef bombs every now and again and a good show of talent is doing their thing this morning with Naoshi Grady getting top honors with the second reef double up bomb pit. Don’t ask me how the contest went down as I was not feeling it being there for most of the day. I strained a hip socket area, my sacro-iliac joint to be more precise, and it has caused me to forfeit my drop knee slot to someone more adequately physically qualified for the position. In my first heat I just didn’t get the right waves. I got a sizable drainer that pinched at the end and a semi decent scorable tube that wierded out. Other than that my waves were lackluster and all I needed was a 2. something. Oh well, that’s what I get going into an event without a clear and present destination emotionally. Always something to learn. Other than that the waves were remarkable and I’m sure pipeline on surfline is the cam of the day. Like I predicted. PUMPING!!! ALL!!!!!! WEEK!!!!! And I’ll do it again somewhere soon!!

Chris Taloa.