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“Who will take the challenge out for 2007?”
Mark Fordham, 11/05/07

$15,000 USD – IBA Men’s World Tour Event (as per IBA rule book 2007)

“Who will take the challenge out for 2007?”

The Brett Young Nomad Memorial
Human Cronulla Shark Island Challenge trials
– June 8th – 10th

The HumanCronullaSharkIsland Challenge Main event
– June 15th – July 15th (Extension of 10 days if needed)

Bodyboarding is one of the most explosive underground sports in the world today. It is forever breaking the laws of physics with riders either busting the most ridiculous aerials over razor sharp coral reefs or being locked into huge 8-10ft barreling tubes, riding the shock wave and experiencing that vortex, that small period in time when everything seems to slow down whilst tonnes of angry saltwater is crashing around them. It’s normal to these riders – its underground – a feeling that no other normal individual will ever experience.… Read the rest

Rockstar Games Pipeline Pro Final Results
Mark Fordham, 14/01/07

Rockstar Games Pipeline Pro

Kaua’i’s Hubbard rides Pipeline to world title

By Dayton Morinaga Advertiser Staff Writer

Kaua’i has another wave-riding world champion.

In the ultimate performance for bodyboarding, Jeff Hubbard of Lihu’e won the Rockstar Games Pipeline Pro and clinched the International Bodyboarding Association world championship in the process yesterday.

“It’s up there with getting married and being born,” said Hubbard, 31.The final day of the contest was completed in spectacular barreling waves of 6 to 10 feet yesterday at the Banzai Pipeline. The Pipeline Pro is the final event of the 2006-07 world tour, and considered the most prestigious contest in the sport.

“I knew if I could win this, there would be no question that I would be the world champ, and I deserved it,” Hubbard said.

Hubbard is the fourth Hawai’i competitor ever to win the bodyboarding world championship, and the first since Mike Stewart of Kailua, Kona, won the last of his record nine championships in 1995.… Read the rest

Girls Go Big at The Rockstar Games Pipeline Pro
Mark Fordham, 14/01/07

12th January 2007, 12 noon, Pipeline Hawaii

Freitas Victorious at Pipeline while Taylor is Crowned IBA World Champion at the Pipeline Rockstar Games Presented by the Water Channel in association with Body Glove Bodyboards

By Lilly Pollard

Screams of excitement explode from delighted spectators mouths as a tiny Brazilian lady on a bodyboard paddles late into a maxing 10ft Pipeline beast. She falls top to bottom, dropping head first into the barrel, and gets annihilated by the wave. Everyone fears for her life. Water patrol race in to pick her up and the crowd cheers as she is dropped on the beach. She is safe. Leila Alli smiles, thanks the patrol, hobbles down the beach a bit, and paddles back out for more.History was made for women’s bodyboarding on this day, as the biggest waves ever seen for a women’s contest were ridden.… Read the rest