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Toobs welcomes Jacob Reeve, Nick Statom, Kevin Jimenez, and James Murdock to the family. Here are a few shots of the boys in action…

Reeve

Statom

Jimenez

Murdock

1. No Friends Oz welcomes Corey McLean (scope his vid profile) to their team
2. Cool interview with Masters Degree student Jeff Hubbard on YouTube
3. BZ’s Nick Ostrovsky says Viva Mexico
4. Red Dawn Productions update their site with some sick New Jersey shots from the last few months
5. Jordan Stallard posted a bunch of his home videos of pro bodyboarding contests from the mid-nineties. From Kauai Classic hand drags in 1-foot slop to gigantic Tamega rolls at pumping Pipe, there’s a lot of history to catch up on. Stewart’s domination is the only thing that remains constant. Here are the YouTube links: Steamer Lane, 1991; Ocean Beach, 1993; Oceanside, 1995; Trestles, 1992; macking Pipe, 1994.
6. Island Fire, a Hawaiian produced video, is now available. Scope the trailer.
7. Jeremy “So Good” Wright took out the Open Pro division at the BIA Seaside, with Brad Mebust in 2nd, Drew Erichson in 3rd, and Bobby Kithcart in 4th. Chris Won Taloa took some time out of his busy Hollywood schedule to take down the pro dropknee division, with Enrique Desolor in 2nd, Joe Grodzen in 3rd, and Wally Sani in 4th. Complete results here. Zenfilms DK edit here.
8. In case you somehow missed it, Morey rider John “BEANS” Porzuczek scored the cover of the L.A. Times hitting a hefty section at The Wedge. Scope the cover below:

Zach Nicholas and Kellen Keene’s new video The Dawn will be premiering Friday, November 23rd at 8:00PM at Hoagies restaurant in Pismo Beach. No Friends, Toobs, and Rookies are helping to promote the event. DVDs will be on sale at the premiere. The address is 580 Cypress Street Pismo Beach, CA 93433.

Trailers for The Dawn:

The first event of this season’s BIA Tour is tomorrow, Saturday Nov 17th at Seaside Reef. The comp starts at 7AM. Full heat times are listed here: http://biatour.com

Toobs welcomes L.A. ripper Sean English to the Team

 Also Check out the new Maligs board at: www.toobs.com

Uprising Films was kind enough to preview “Ring of Fire II” with a solid Wedge edit featuring: Hubb, Grodzen, Beans, Klien, Dubb, etc.

The Bodyglove Bodyboards USBA 2007 National Championship Tour Event #4: The Imperial Beach Pro

Sponsors: Bodyglove Bodyboards, No Friends Clothing, 662mob.com, and the Town of Imperial Beach

Amateur Tour Sponsors: Custom X

The IB Pro was compiled into two days of action from Amateur upsets and darkhourse Pro efforts abound. The Amateur Division left a very important situation to be decided over the next two USBA events. New Jerseys new USBA prospect Dillon Druz who swept the northeast leg of
the tour, was taken out due to poor wave selection in the first round. This left Reis Yanaheiro still in the running for the USBA Amateur Championship. Ries took home the win and a rekindled a motivation to
compete for the title.

Heading into the Women’s Pro Division an on fire former world champ Kira Lyllelyn was surfing better then most of the Men’s Pro contestants. In the final she was able to land three ars’s and one invert cleanly proving why she is world champion material. Monique Delamore placed second with a great effort narrowly beating the current USBA Champion Roberta Bitzer.

The IB Pro’s DK division was a whirlwind of upsets and rouge performances. Bobby Kitchart (CA) was on a mission smashing every section that came his way and knocking out current DK USBA Champ Dave Hubbard. Jeff Hubbard was able to sneak by his brother as well and make it to the final where he finished 2nd to Willy Sani (CA) who put in a huge performance in his first ever USBA appearance winning the entire event!

Heading into the Pro Divisions there were some slow starts but big finishes that outweighed the early rounds. The early rounds noticeable names where Robby Grey (AUS), Jacob Romero (HI), Jason Bitzer,Brian Cruz (Guam) and Sacha Specker(SA). Early round upsets came in the form of local hero’s Ross McBride, Jeremy Wright, Brad Mebust amongst other new USBA new comers. Jeff Hubbard who consistently placed second in his heats seemed to never find his rhythm and was stopped in the
semi’s to leave his brother Dave and buddy Spencer Skipper to carry the Hawaiian flag into the finals. Also Jorge Colomer (PR) put in consistent efforts gaining him access to the final, but it was South
Africa’s Sacha Specker who was on fire after his near loss in the semis. Sacha stamped his name in the USBA history books and took home the $1000 dollar first place check.

The USBA heads to the Rosarito Beach Pro next weekend Nov 9-11th with and expected 1,500 plus crowd on hand. Check out usbamag.com/webcast for live action of the event as well usbatour.org for a live link webcast on the home page.

Thank you again to our sponsors Bodyglove Bodyboards , Nofriends Clothing and all our supporters who made this event possible

- USBA Staff

Amateur
1. Reis Yanoherio
2. Taylor Paige
3. Rob Mack

DK Pro
1. Wally Sani
2. Jeff Hubbard
3. Shawn Convoy
4. Bobby Kichart

Women’s Pro
1. Kira Llewellyn
2. Monique Delamore
3. Roberta Bitzer
4. Marcella Bingham *(AM)

Men’s Pro
1. Sacha Specker
2. Spencer Skipper
3. Dave Hubbard
4. Jorge Colomer

Well folks, we finally got the A-Frame news section back up and running.  Check back for updates on the next issue of A-Frame as well as random bodyboarding news, photos, and videos.