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KALIM SURFING CONTEST 2007

Kalim Surfing Contest 2007
The Monsoon Begins!

Presented by: Phuket Boardriders Club

Date: June 16-17, 2007
Time: 8.00am – 5.00pm
Location: Kalim Beach, Phuket, Thailand
Sponsor by: Static Group, Freedom Surf Adventure, Jack Danial, TAT, Shark Cool Bite!

Total Prize Value: 100,000 THBThe Phuket Boardriders Club presents the third annual 2007 Kalim Surfing Contest – The Monsoon Begins! All Club Members and interested visitors are invited to kick off the monsoon season during the 2 day event to be held at Kalim reef on the south end of Patong Bay. This year’s contest will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 16-17.

With tons of sponsors and over 100,000THB in prizes, this year’s event promises to be the best yet, providing Mother Nature cooperates and sends us some swell! And, as always, the event will be capped off with the usual A-class awards party (venue to be announced).… Read the rest

DAMIEN HOBGOOD TAKES TOP HONORS AT BILLABONG PRO TAHITI

Billabong Pro Tahiti
Stop No 3. of 10 on the 2007 Foster’s ASP World Tour Teahupoo, Taiarapu, Tahiti May 4 -16, 2007


LIVE on www.aspworldtour.com and www.billabongpro.com

TEAHUPOO, Tahiti (Wednesday, May 16th, 2007) – Damien Hobgood (USA) has been crowned the 2007 Billabong Pro Tahiti Champion after beating Foster’s ASP World Tour ratings leader Mick Fanning (AUS) in a last-minute victory in 5 to 7 foot (1.5 – 2 metre) surf at Teahupoo.

Hobgood bowed out of the 2005 Billabong Pro Tahiti Final halfway through after dislocating his shoulder – a circumstance which made his win today that much more meaningful.“It’s insane – I was stoked to have another chance at it,” Hobgood said. “I feel that things happen for a reason and I did my best out here in 2005 and came up short. I replayed that wave in my mind a hundred times going, ‘I should have tried to stay in that barrel and not come out doggy-door,’ but I feel like I can put that out of my mind now.”… Read the rest

CLASSIC ZICATELA 2007

With great fun, patience and energy to begin and to finalize this past weekend, may 5th y 6th, CLASSIC ZICATELA 2007, in Revolcadero beach from Acapulco Guerrero Mexico, the event that conmemoration to the children in its day, childrens day in Mexico. All the children from 5 to 16 years old, were the winners, since this event gave them contest experience.

Childrens of Puerto Escondido Oaxaca and Acapulco were present in this celebration in their honor the parents helped the children but small to take the wave, the day Sunday they enjoyed a pie before premiacion Raul Noyola, Jose Manuel “yuco” Trujillo, Citlali Calleja, Quetzal Estrada Team VANS, and Fernanda Duran were present motivating to the small ones also a ceremony was made to remember the Vans marketing director Rafael Ortiz Caballero that to die in last days.

RESULTS
CATEGORIA “A” 4 A 8 AÑOS
1.-… Read the rest

SHARK ISLAND CHALLENGE 2007

“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

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