Day 3 Arica Monday, 03 August 2009 22:30 The Arica Chilean Challenge started the day by finishing off round four. The conditions had dropped from the day before but still provided the odd 2 to 4 ft wave. Heat 4 round 1 saw Jason Bitzer (USA) taken out with only one scoring wave to Pablo Peirto (Germany) and Igor Sanchez who both where able to find two scoring riders in the difficult early morning high tide conditions. The following heat saw a Boris Villalobos (Chile) take down yet another heat follower by Spain’s Diego Cabrera who was originally on the injured list but pulled through in...

WATERSPORTS: River boarding puts riders eye-to-eye with raging waters by BEN FLETCHER THE BELLINGHAM HERALD She’s technically from Western Washington University and regularly sports pads and a helmet. But Rochelle Parry never played for the now-defunct Vikings football team.  Maybe she should have. The 46-year-old, who works as a web and graphic designer for the Bellingham university, spends a good chunk of her time dodging her own share of would-be tacklers, though these more resemble large boulders, crashing waves, souse-holes and strainers. She rides a river board – a belly-to-a-plank...

Ewan Donnachie from Sydney’s Northern Beaches has won The 2009 Nomad Shark Island Challenge in clean 1 – 1.5m conditions to claim first prize of $10,000 over an accumulated two round points system. Click image for more images… Since the completion of Round 1 back on the 12th of July, riders and officials have been on stand-by waiting in anticipation for the second round to commence. The weeks that followed saw small to flat condition as Sydney basked in a stable weather pattern. Towards the end of the 21 day waiting period riders voted unanimously to extend the period to accommodate a strong...