http://www.gopro.com/support

Upload the new firmware and enjoy the new settings and features you’ll be able to use!

In the meantime, enjoy these sick GoPro bodyboarding clips….

Keep your eyes peeled, the photographers and editors are poised to release a real US mag that supports the sport of Bodyboarding in the United States.

The Arcel attack is back my friends!

Yesterday I headed down to Oceanside where I picked up some new Arcel core boards.  With Polypro foam no longer being produced, the first batch of Arcel core boards

to come from BSD Bodyboards.  Arcel was developed for bodyboards in the mid-80′s.  This is a light, strong foam used for bodyboard cores. It’s properties include main

taining it’s stiffness even in warm waters. The downside is the ease with which it dented when you squeezed it. So, now that bodyboard manufacturers are limited with Polypro, some special companies have been able to resurrect Arcel cores.

Check out the new BSD line.  The Arcel is a lot stiffer, lighter, and faster than the new Polyethylene/Polypropylene core (3-d core) combo cores out on the market.  BSD boards are here.

YOURIDING.COM RELEASES NEW FREE SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING GAMES FEBRUARY, 2010 Following the release last Fall 2009 of our new Surfing and Bodyboarding webgames, we are proud to announce the addition of two brand new sports on YouRiding.com: Free Skiing and Snowboarding. Never stop riding! CLICK HERE TO PLAY

WIN A TRIP in APRIL TO NORTH AMERICA WITH TJ SCHILLER AND GIGI RÜF! MARCH, 2010 What would you do to win a full-paid trip to a top North America snow destination? Thanks to Dragon Alliance the answer is easy: log on, play the Dragon game mode in Free Ski or Snowboard and be selected by random drawing! You don’t have to be the best to win, you just have to try the game! CLICK HERE TO WIN

THE WINTER X-GAMES EUROPE are ON youriding.com free skIing game MARCH, 2010 Starting on March 10, 2010 and brought to you by CoreUPT.com, the webski company, play the official Slopetsyle and Superpipe of the Winter X-Games Europe in Tignes, using some of the CoreUPT.com pro skiers such as Colby West or TJ Schiller! CLICK HERE TO KNOW MORE



Day two of the 2010 Turbo Bodyboards Pipeline Pro Presented by Body Glove has continued today at the insane Banzai Pipeline.

Sets were a solid 6 feet (2.0 metres) and conditions were picture perfect for the majority of the day.

The action moved into overdrive as the competition progressed through the rounds of 96, 80 and 64, eventually weaning the field down to the final 48 riders.

Hawaiian Vaj Lederman, who gained a local wild card into the event, ripped through all of his heats and was by far the stand out surfer of the day.

In the round of 96 he put together a combined wave total of 16.90.  This included a near perfect 10 for a huge double barrel at Backdoor.

“From take off it looked like it was a long curving wave, right down the line, through the bowl at pipe, to backdoor and right down to Off the Wall”.  Said Vaj.

“I pulled into the wave and about half way down I didn’t think that I was going to make it out, the wave then re-sectioned all of the way down, somehow I gave a quick chest lift and it gave me the speed to get through the next section and I just doggy doored it out of the close out.

“I am feeling really healthy at the moment and I have been doing lots of training in the water”.

Vaj moves into the round of 48 where he  will face off with 24th seed Ardiel Jiminez of the Canary Islands, 25th seed Brad Hughes of Australia and South African ripper Jared Houston.

Terry McKenna, the International Bodyboarding General Manager has been thrilled with the event so far and excited by the prospects of the event concluding with one of the best swells the event has seen in many years.

“Today we saw the many different faces of pipeline, conditions changed from big and perfect, to big and messy, this means that the riders have to show there versatility to progress”  said McKenna.

“The forecast for tomorrow is looking big, so lets hope that conditions are good enough to conclude it in some great waves”.

The 2010 Bodyboard Pipeline Pro presented by Body Glove will take one more full day of surfing to complete, tomorrow is about a 80% chance to run with a huge 17 feet North West swell forecast to hit the North shore.

Stay tuned to the event official website www.fluidzone.com/pipe for the LIVE webcast and all of the latest results.

All Photos by Pezz (Mahalo Bryan)

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ABOUT THE EVENT

The International Bodyboarding Association World Bodyboarding Tour, is the worlds official tour and each year crowns the World Bodyboarding Champion.

The waiting period for the event runs until the 26th of February, allowing officials to only surf in the biggest and best possible conditions.

The IBA/TURBO Pipe Pro is a Grand Slam event, carrying double ratings points and a cool USD$25, 000 prize purse.

The Turbo Bodyboards Pipe Pro is presented by Bodyglove and powered by Fluidzone.

Brenden Newton joins the Respect Crew

Respect Bodyboards is proud to announce his last crew member. None other than the world class bodyboarder Brenden Newton. “I just signed Respect Bodyboards and I´m really excited about that because I really belive in the company, in what they`re doing”, declares Brendan.

So Brenden joins the select crew of nutbags from all corners of the planet like the Brazilian underground charger José Otavio; the french all rounder Eric Gamez or the aussie underground global roamer Simon Murphy.

Put Your Name Here: Brenden Newton

Rui Ferreira, rider & team manager, decided it was time to look for some representation at Oz, cradle of the world bodyboarding panorama. So we launched the Put Your Name Here contest in Australia in order to find the most outstanding riders out there.

We received a lot of mails with footage, photos and CVs from guys all over Australia, and surprisingly one of them was Brendon’s. He was looking for a sponsor, and we were looking for somebody like him (very hard to find). No doubt it was kind a miracle. He was all we were looking for. He’s got the talent, the potential, the courage, the style, the charisma, … everything.

As renowned photographer Trent Mitchell stated in a recen Riptide magazine: “…He wants to push it harder than ever before. This is the future. It’s not a forecast; it’s the catalyst for Brenden’s future and, in turn, the sport’s”. And at Respect we think that too.

The man

“Brendo”, as he is famously known, has been tagged as one of the most crazy loco big-wave riders ever. To the public and in the exclusive group of big-wave chargers he is known as the best, the craziest and importantly the most acomplished.

Undoubtely, Brendo deserves his undisputed title of “the craziest bodyboarder ever”, he is a very peaceful and calm person though. Since he burst on the scene in 2003 in the bowels of a massive barrel at Shipsterns, he became obsessed with big waves. Brenden has travelled all around the world in the search of the biggest, most powerful, hollow and dangerous caverns on earth. Australia, Tasmania, Tahiti, Ireland, Canary Island, … wherever the BIG WAVE is waiting to turn up he is already paddling. He has became in one of the pionners of big wave bodyboarding, even though he keeps blowing everyone’s mind in small and mid-wave surfing with his depured style and inimitable flow.

2010. Innovation is here!

We here at Respect have come out with a crew of misfits not too fond on the status quo, a team who sees things differently, some may call them crazy but we call sheer genius!! It´s not about the 9-5 but living to live! We here live for the ocean (wedges, slabs and ledges!) together with the help of the craziest and newest innovations in cores and materials and our diverse  crew from all corners of the globe we bring you the best in 2010! Take the path less travelled and ride with us….Team Respect.

So the Respect 2010 range will have amongst all its models 2 signature models of Brendo: the Brenden Newton Usual and the Brenden Newton Performance.

The first one, the Brenden Newton Usual will feature Engineered Flexible Core (EFC™), NXL skin, Surlyn + Mesh and a 3 Variable Stringer System. The second one, the Brenden Newton Performance will feature a PP core, NXL skin + Ergonomic Pads System, Surlyn + Mesh and a TriFlat Type S™ stringer. Two different configurations to answer the needs of the most demanding riders. Available very soon at the best surf shops.

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