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Friday, 22 February 2013 00:00

Nachos, Wheels and Bottled Water

Joe Clarke's ink with ISEE WATER is the latest in a long line of sponsorships bodyboarders have picked up from outside the industry. There's been some strange ones...

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Friday, 08 February 2013 00:00

Brandon Foster Speaks

Saffa dropknee legend and seasoned travel guru Brandon 'ODB' Foster talks life, serious injury and California livin'.

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Thursday, 31 January 2013 13:37

Gregg Taylor on Pipe

IBA managing director Gregg Taylor opens up about the Pipeline Challenge.

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Wednesday, 23 January 2013 16:11

Neck-level

Lewy Finnegan opens up about how it almost went horribly wrong.

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Tuesday, 18 December 2012 13:39

The Ins and Outs for 2013

There's some new faces on next year's World Tour. Come have a look-see!

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Wednesday, 12 December 2012 11:14

Bodyboarder of the Year - Awards Night

If you haven’t heard already, we gave our iconic polls a bit of a shakeup this year.

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Tuesday, 11 December 2012 09:19

New Look World Tour Announced

Breaking news from the cats at the IBA - the provisional schedule for the 2013 World Tour has been released, and there's change in the air.

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Monday, 10 December 2012 00:00

Title Race with Jase

The IBA and Jase Finlay released a clip over the weekend featuring the man talking about his Canaries win last year, as well as some banging pre-comp Fronton freesurfing. Lemme tell ya, it's a doozy.

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Tuesday, 20 November 2012 00:00

Sliding Doors

Remember who got second?

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Sunday, 04 November 2012 00:00

The Cover Shot

Ah, the cover shot. Coveted by riders and photographers alike, and gazed at by millions of readers around the world (well, maybe tens of thousands of readers), the cover shot sure is hot property.

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Friday, 26 October 2012 10:31

5 of the Great Bodyboarding Moustaches

Who gets your vote for the best bodyboarding moustache?

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Tuesday, 09 October 2012 10:32

Grudge Match (sort of)

Pepsi vs Coke, Lakers vs Celtics, Federer vs Nadal. Winchester vs Tamega? Yes, our humble sport seems to have produced a contender for the list of the world’s great rivalries.

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Monday, 01 October 2012 00:00

Lewy and Gurney Talk Sharks

The shark debate has reared its ugly head again, with Western Australia premier Colin Barnett announcing plans last week to cull sharks found in close proximity to swimmers.

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Thursday, 27 September 2012 09:33

The More-Than-One Club

Winning a World Title’s basically the most difficult thing you can pull off in our sport (aside from one of those Gainer Flips the Tahitian guys are landing, they look ridiculous).

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Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:28

Ever dreamt of what it’d be like to win a World Title? Us too. We thought we’d flick a few questions to freshly-crowned Dropknee World Champion Sacha Specker, after he clinched the title this week at the Bodyboard Pro Festival in Venezuela.

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:00

Knees of Fury

Pierre Louis-Costes’s win at the Sintra Pro earlier this month, has set up a tantalising finish to the prone World Title race. But did you know there’s also a tight battle going on amongst the dropknee guys?

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Tuesday, 04 September 2012 09:40

The New-Look World Tour

Blackrock, Cloud 9, Nuggan, Skeleton Bay, Indo and a roaming Tahiti comp have all been added to the World Tour next year…is what you’d be hearing if the pros got their way.

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Thursday, 30 August 2012 16:46

Stone signs with Grand Flavour

It's official - Jake has left Billabong and signed with his pals out west - Grand Flavour. Chad Jackson flicked us a media release, interview-style, containing some ripping insights from Stoney on his freshly-inked contract.

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Thursday, 30 August 2012 15:03

BSC Spring Clean Sale

BSC Narrabeen store are having a huge sale this weekend only!

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Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:00

Sharks, tubes and spearguns

Another shark attack in Western Australia on Tuesday rocketed the state’s coast into the headlines yet again. It came six weeks after a 24-year-old surfer was killed by a five-metre great white 160km north of Perth – the fifth fatal attack in WA in 10 months.

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