Emerald Relocation Sale!!

Check out our online store, for some massive savings storewide, as we need to clear out our stock, so we can move stores! Everything in the shop is reduced! So check out www.emeraldsurfcity.com or come in store and grab a bargain! HURRY, before stock runs out!!!

Team Rider - Shaun Petersen

Shaun has been tearing it up lately, taking out his frustration of missing out on the Shark Island Contest by one place on every wave that gets in his way! Check out his new vid to see what hes been up to in the water.

Untitled from Shaun Petersen on Vimeo.

Team Rider - Josh Kaihe

We recently received some shots of our young team rider Josh Kaihe, doing what he does best out the Island. It was a solid, straight swell hitting the island, with the odd bomb coming through, and a very sparse crowd that was game enough to have a go. Josh was out there, as usual, and managed to pick off a few sick ones. Here's a couple of them, courtesy of photog Matty Harber.

 

Official Chout Teaser

Emerald Scoop!!! Below is the official teaser for the new bodyboarding vid titled CHOUT! by Lornedog Films. The teaser is sick!! Some big heavy barrels, and even bigger heavier moves! Check it out, feel free to leave comments and let us know what you think and we'll pass it on to Lornedog...

Morning Of Mountains And Men

Check out Fluidzone's feature today on why we were late opening on Friday the 13th August. There were some very big waves around that morning, and instead of heading for a sheltered location, we went straight to a rarely surfed big wave location to try our luck in the big juice! Check the link below to go straight to the action!
Morning Of Mountains And Men

2010 Shark Island Comp Finally Runs!

That's right! After 2 months (to the day!) of waiting, a clean pumping swell with offshore winds was delivered! It was a beautiful Saturday the 14th of August that greeted the competitors of the Fluidzone Shark Island Challenge yesterday morning. With light offshore winds, a blue sky, and clean pumping 4-5ft of SSE swell, the event was called ON.
First heat saw a showdown between three of the most outstanding locals, John Showell, Andrew Lester, and Adam "Wingnut" Smith, and WA star Ryan Hardy. Hardy took out the heat, and Lester got through in second place.
The second heat was Damian King, Jase Finlay, Jones Russell (In place of Jared Houston) and Dave Winchester. Winny won a very close heat, with Kingy making it through the heat on a countback, just managing to overcome a charging Jones Russell, who was in the event due to Jared Houston having to head home to South Africa 3 days earlier to sort out visa's for his upcoming World Tour assault in Europe.
The third heat saw Nick Ormerod (replacing Michael Novy due to injury), Sam Strachan, Shaun Pyne and Brendon Newton fighting it out. Once again this was a very close heat, with local hellman Shaun Pyne winning, and Nick Ormerod just edging out local up and coming star Sam Strachan by 0.2!
The fourth and final heat saw Emerald's Glen Sullivan take on 2 x World Champ Ben Player, Dallas Singer (in place of Thomas Robinson) and Dan Worsely from South Africa. Dan flew out of the blocks with a big score early in the heat, but couldn't find a second score to back it up. Dallas and Ben Player progressed through to the semi finals.
The first semi was again an amazing prospect, with Andrew Lester, Ryan Hardy, Damian King and Dave Winchester. These guys are arguably 4 of the best riders in the world! It was a hard fought exchanged between these guys, with the lead changing multiple times during the heat. The judges were faced with a tough job to separate the scores, with Hardy and Kingy proceeding to the final, narrowly defeating Lester and Winny.
The second semi saw local hope Shaun Pyne take on Nick Ormerod, Ben Player and Dallas Singer. Pyneo managed to keep the local's hopes alive coming through the semi in second place behind Ben Player.
This left a final for the ages, with 4 world titles shared between Kingy and Benny, as well as Hardy being arguably the best and most stylish rider of his generation, and local self confessed hellman Shaun Pyne. The waves unfortunately slowed down a bit for the final, but there were still plenty of contestable waves and air bowls to be had. Hardy was performing several moves on each waves, along with getting deep heavy barrels. He had one wave where he did a flip out of the Peak barrel, straight into a forward spin, backdooring Surge, and finishing with a large invert. This would have been the move of the contest, but Benny had other ideas. He quickly followed this up with a massive ramp, where he launched a massive air forward, which gave him perfect 10's and the move of the comp. He unfortunately couldn't find a big enough second score to give him the title. Kingy and Pyneo were simply out-surfed in the final by Hardy and Ben, with Hardy taking out the 2010 Fluidzone Shark Island Challenge.
Dave Ballard was awarded the best barrel, and also winner of the locals expression session, which also included Christian "Rissole" Riguccini, Tristan Barfield, Mark Fordham, and Des Govender. This was held between the second semi final and the final, and saw some great riding by the locals, who showed how the Island should be ridden.
A big thanks goes out to Contest Director Alex Leon, and everyone else who made this comp possible! Cheers guys!

Below are a couple of framegrabs from our filmer Rich Lornie, who was in the water for the entire event. You will be able to see the footage of the Island event on his upcoming DVD titled Chout!. Check Out his teaser below as well.

Jones Russell

Dallas Singer

Nick Ormerod

Dan Worsely

Ben Player

Dallas Singer

Damian King

Ben Player

Dave Winchester

Shaun Pyne

Ben Player

Dave Winchester

Ben Player's Perfect 10 Air Forward

Lindsay Jackson

Lindsay Jackson is one of Emerald's Junior Team members. Lindsay has been impressing in the water lately, recently picking up sponsorships from Custom X bodyboards, Attica Wetsuits and Limited Edition fins, adding to his current sponsors Enjoy Yourself Clothing. The last week or so has seen some fun waves, and Lindsay has sent us a little clip of him doing his stuff out in the water.... Enjoy.

Small Clean Swell, Comp Doesn't Run...

Once again today, the swell that the organisers of the 2010 Shark Island Challenge had hoped for did not materialize. We woke this morning to some fun 2-3ft South swell with light offshore winds. The Island became pretty crowded early, as everyone had the same idea of beating the crowds out there.

Young photographer Elliot Gooding, from the Coalcliff area was out in the water shooting photo's of his mates. He has kindly sent through a few shots for us to put up on the blog, so here you go!

Ross Shepherd

Rich Lornie

Billy Danzey

Michael "Rat" Ostler

Jared "Jerry" Houston

Rosco

Rat

Rosco

Jerry and Dane Woods having some fun...

Emerald Video Advert

Last year, Sully put together a short ad for Emerald, to go on the 2009 Nomad Shark Island Challenge DVD. He has recently uploaded it onto Vimeo, so we thought, why not throw it on the blog and see what you guys think of it....

Emerald Bodyboard Shop. CRONULLA from Glen Sullivan on Vimeo.

Manta Promo Tour

Wednesday arvo saw the first stop of the Manta Promo Tour at Emerald in Cronulla. All the guys from Manta were there, including Spencer Skipper, Brendon Backshall and John Showell, along with shaper Reon "Fish" Fisher. As well as signing autographs for the frothing groms, the boys gave away a few boards and accessories as well. Photographer Phil Gallagher was there to shoot all the action. You can check out all of the pics on fluidzone.com's Facebook page here.
Thanks to Phil for providing the following pic of Des and the boys.

Spencer Skipper, Dessie, Brendon Backshall, John Showell