Hey!

Exciting news, The second and final teaser for Pastiche is now online at vimeo.

Check it out at:
www.vimeo.com/3903243
It can also be viewed on our blogsite - www.clawsandteeth.blogspot.com

As you may know Pastiche premieres in May across Australia and will be available in stores from the 11th of May.

Spread the word.

Cheers,

West Matteeussen
Claws and Teeth

Attention to SBC Club members,

We now have a new look & feel for SBC.

We have just set up a blog site for SBC to keep everyone up to date on the latest in the club, results, photos, news etc! Whaley salt dog Tim Boreham has written up a flavoured account of this years first comp to kick things off!

So stay clean, surf mean & check da blog!

Peace Pikey (VP)

http://sydneybodyboardclub.blogspot.com/

Here is the first taste of a new video project from filmmaker Lucas Vazquez.
‘HOLD’ will be available late 2009 and showcases all the best riders surfing the best waves known to man… All shot in quality HD, with epic water and land angles, this project is sure to be one of the most highly anticipated video releases of 2009.
A teaser will be available soon, until then, check out these frame grabs of BSC team riders Dallas Singer, Ewan Donnachie, Joe Clarke and Dave Winchester!

Episode 3 Season 3 on Boom! bodyboarding podcast is out now!!!! We have The Versus Project with Mitch Rawlins Pierre Costes and Ryan Hardy. Check out one of the best teams in the sport ripping it up in Hawaii 09

Download it for FREE from the podcast or watch it in HD on vimeo.

Thank you

Chad Waldron

A big congratulations to BSC team rider Joe Clarke who placed 3rd in the Rheopaipo Pro on the Gold Coast over the weekend. Come pop in and see Joe working at BSC Coolangatta!

Written by Terry McKenna

Some of the best bodyboarders from Australia and the world were on hand to compete in round one of the Pro tour to compete for early valued points. The competition ran over three days with the final day dishing up some classic Duranbah wedges. It was also doubled up with the 1st round of the amateur QAB(Queensland Association of Bodyboarding) state championship series.

In the Pro Men’s final it ended up being an all QLD affair with local knowledge proving a major advantage on testing Duranbah conditions. Mitch Rawlins had a slow start with Jake Stone slamming a massive backflip of a solid 6 footer landing hard to finish off with a spin and a roll and being the main man to catch. Only to have Joe Clarke quickly fight back whipping a nice stylish ARS(Air Roll Spin). Corey McLeon was next to notch a high scoring wave smashing a full vertical inverted air to land hard in the flats. Mitch showing his long knowledge of the Duranbah waves waited patiently getting bread and butter moves in until the dying moments of the heat when a 6 foot wedge popped up, Mitch was quick to pounce and flew down the face and wacked it hard flying into a full rotation air reverse landing smoothly and pulling off to solute to the screaming spectators who were applauding the fantastic final. Eventually it was Mitch Rawlins from Gold Coast/Western Australia 1st, Jake Stone from Sunshine Coast 2nd, Joe Clarke from Gold Coast 3rd, Corey McClean from Gold Coast 4th

As Mitch Rawlins stated “Duranbah is one of the best suited waves for bodyboarding around Australia! I love coming home every year to compete at Duranbah. But the level of competition is getting so much better and if you’re not on your game you’ll be knocked out.” At the end of the contest it was also confirmed that the last leg of the Pro Tour will wrap-up at Duranbah in November in conjunction with the Australian National Titles of Bodyboarding. Mitch also has to say this “I am also stoked to hear the National Titles and last leg of the Pro Tour will be held here as there is a fantastic arena here(Duranbah) for spectators as you can see by the large amounts that have been around to watch over the weekend. I’ll definitely be back again to compete here!!”

In the Pro Drop Knee final it again proved to be an advantage to have local knowledge with Dane Pope from Gold Coast showing a stylish but powerful approach to the powerful Duranbah waves. South African Sacha Specker was the early leader in the final landing a heavy floater and getting some nice smooth cutbacks. But Nathan and Dane were quick to fight back with Nathan getting a great sized wave and digging the rail deep to slam a nice sized cutback. Over half way through the final Dane used his local knowledge to get shacked in the Duranbah green room showing full style as he cruised through the barrel to come out and smash the oncoming section with a nice wack.

The next round of the Rebel Sport IBA Australasian Pro Tour will be held at Soldiers Beach NSW next weekend.

The next event is the Soldiers Beach Pro which starts on Thursday on the NSW Central Coast.

Late entries for this event are still being accepted by calling Terry McKenna on 0401023661

No.6 proudly welcomes 2 new additions to its factory team.

Max Arent-Highfield and Manny Vargas join No.6 to assist development of the specialty board line and work together on the new internet video features launching mid-year called NOSIXTV produced by No.6 and developed with Robert Isambert creator of the dvd RING OF FIRE.

Max Arent-Highfield is from Avalon, a suburb in Northern Sydney and hotspot for surfing talent, is one of the young Australian pros now making a gun for the life in the top 16 IBA and travelling to exotic locations. Mentored by 2x World Champion Ben Player and only 20 years old, Max has received one of the highest exposures for riders of his age in film and magazine. Max releases a signature line this year with No.6 featuring his signature specs and artwork.

Manny Vargas from Imperial Beach, California is no stranger to the bodyboard scene. His influences and creativity run deeply as he is founder of the Freak Fest Adventure tours and BodyboardingLive. Manny will help to direct the new NOSIXTV webisodes and release a new line of products under the No.6 label this year.

Arent-Highfield and Vargas join No.6 team Leroy Kaiwi, Ben Gohl, Jonah Romero, Chuck White, Kyle Matsumoto, Reis Yonehiro, Kelly Gordon, Kingsley Uaiwa, Alex Brown, Chucky Faras, Adam Burton, Darren Uyenoyama, Mark Gonzales.

For more information visit : www.theno6.com and www.myspace.com/no6bodyboards

The first round for Gold Coast Bodyboard Club 2009 kicked at Duranbah Beach on Sunday 15th March. With waves and weather in our favour, there was a whole lot of ambience surrounding the days events.
The club itself has so much to celebrate this year including a long list of new members as well as new sponsors. Topping that list are the clubs two Major Sponsors: Escape Travel Tweed City & Bodyboarders Surf Co. followed up by the Minor Sponsors: Bakers Delight Coolangatta, Milt Cromptons Meats, Onelife Health & Fitness & Quick Colour Print.

The club is here to support its members as well as their families, so we strongly urge all parents, partners and friends to get involved throughout the year. There will always be plenty of food and drink to go around, as well as activities to keep you amused all day long such as ball sports, music and not to mention helping out with some of the clubs overall roles such tasks as judging or lending a hand on the BBQ.

This year the clubs aim is to start showing its true potential-and with a newly elected committee in place-this is sure to happen. Already the club has worked together to get hold of some much needed new equipment, such as tents, chairs as well a PA System. All of this combined created a really strong atmosphere which clearly marked bodyboardings goals for the future on the Gold Coast as well as Queensland.

The talent within the club this year already has proven to be above standard with a lot of new faces putting up quiet a fight against some of the well known locals looking whom are keen to add some more silverware to their already full shelves. The day itself dished out some fun 2-3ft waves, which the younger competitors took advantage of straight up. The judges were handing out some pretty high scores while the waves were still clean which made it pretty hard to make it through the initial heats. Leading into the afternoon, peaks became a little harder to come across-but those with the local knowledge made the most of what was available.

The conditions began to diminish leading into the finals but the level of surfing only grew with some pretty high combinations being put together in all divisions. Overall the day was a huge success and looks to get even better as the year goes on. A big shout out goes to all the clubs members for making it all possible

Dont forget that this weekend, Duranbah plays host to the first state round for QAB as well as the Rheopaipo Pro. All the action kicks off on Friday so make sure you get down there to show your support, as well as catching up with some of your favourite riders. Also good luck to all our club members competing

RESULTS

GROMMETS FINAL
1st Jackson Schepers
2nd Kent Mullins
3rd Liam Rhodes
4th Harrison Petalas
5th Zane Breen

CADETS FINAL
1st Thorpe Waluew
2nd Jordan Brown
3rd Dylan McAskill
4th Jack Sanderson-Dyer
5th Keelan Biltoft

JUNIORS FINAL
1st Jacob Hein
2nd Jordan Putland
3rd Tom Rigby
4th Saul Adamson
5th Damien Slockee

MENS FINAL
1st Tim Roy
2nd Casey Redden
3rd Stevie Lloyd
4th Adam Sillars
5th Ben Phillips

MASTERS FINAL
1st Tony Charteris
2nd Justin Becker
3rd Mel Rigby
4th Brett McAskill

WOMENS FINAL
1st Kira Llewellyn
2nd Luciana Menezes Torres
3rd Nat Keillah
4th Rafeala Baia
5th Daniela Guitard

DK FINAL
OPENS final
1st Matt Lackey
2nd Stevie Lloyd
3rd Dane Pope
4th Corey McLean
5th Adam Rose
6th Mick Parkhill

OPENS FINAL
1st Corey McLean
2nd Sam Boulton
3rd Tom Rigby
4th Liam O’Toole
5th Jimmy Williamson
6th Jack Oliver

Proudly Sponsored by:
-ESCAPE TRAVEL TWEED CITY
-BODYBOARDERS SURF CO
-Bakers Delight Coolangatta
-Milt Cromptons Meats
-Onelife Health & Fitness
-Ella Bache Coolangatta
-Quick Colour Print

BSC’s hard working staff member and talented team rider Bill Winchester has left on a no-holds barred, round the world tour for the rest of the year. With an extensive list of exotic locations on the ‘to-do’ list, we’re sure to hear plenty of interesting tales from the man. Here’s his first report:

Hola!!

How is everyone?? Just thought id let you know i am alive and well.

Ive been in Puerto for about a week now, waves have been pretty fun. The first two days were small but then it kept picking up each day until yesterday was about 8 - 10 foot…pretty damn scary. There were only 5 of us out on the whole beach which doesnt make it any more comfortable.

Its definitally the heaviest beachy ive ever surfed. Today was a better size at 4-6 foot, the sand isnt perfect at the moment cos its the first big swell of the year but its still pretty sick.

Ive done a few 2 hour Spanish classes and will probably do them for another week. Ive come to the conclusion that i am an absolute retard with no capacity to learn a new language. Im really hoping a miracle occurs because at the moment i think im more confused than when i got here.

My favourite cheap snack at the moment is vegemite tortillas….so good!!

Anyway, hope everyone is well. Im off to hang in the pool and then probly have a nap.

Hasta luego,

Bill

Matt Lackey is proud to announce his new self titled film project, supported by his sponsors Nomad Bodyboards & Limited Edition fins.

The film will explore Lackey’s travel lifestyle, inspirations, peers, and his own amazing ability in the water.

Lackey recently talked to Manny Vargas about his first solo project, “I’ve wanted to work on a film project for a while now. Nomad’s FSD ROAM projects gave me a real taste for it, so this year I wanted to create my own thing. Its going to be a fun project, getting both in front & behind the lens, and having Roach and Aka involved with the film is amazing.”

The film is scheduled for release late 2009.

Check out a behind the scenes, hidden camera look at the interview between Lackey, Manny Vargas and Paul Roach discussing the new bodyboard film “Lackey the Movie”.

http://www.vimeo.com/3608435 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9lhV8x_2Y

Fill up your iPod with the best podcasts @ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=294198102

There are plenty of behind the scenes clips to follow over the next 6 months.
Stay in touch @ www.nomad.com.au and www.limited-edition.net.au