Rich Lornie of Chout Films has just arrived back in Australia after a month long trip to Hawaii for the premieres on Oahu and Maui of his amazing vid CHOUT! While in Hawaii Rich scored some pumping swells, and has already made a good start to Chout Guy, the second installment of the Chout series. Here is a quick clip, Chout TV ep 2.0 featuring some of Hawaii's best riders.
He is off to the Canary Islands next weekend, to cover the final World Tour event at Confital and the much anticipated invitational event at El Fronton, one of the craziest waves around! We look forward to seeing the footage he comes back with after that trip!! Enjoy his clip below...



Chout TV eps 2.0 from Chout Films on Vimeo.

The Aussie Tour has been run and won...

A big congratulations goes out to Dave Winchester, for winning the Australian Bodyboard tour on the weekend. The National Titles were held in QLD at D'Bah on the weekend, where the best riders from all ages came from all round the country to compete to be crowned the best in Australia. Winny won the Pro Mens tour, and we would also like to send out a big congrats to Jon Capilli, Emerald Team rider, who was crowned National Dropknee Champion, narrowly edging out another Emerald rider, Glen Sullivan for the title. Congratulations must also go out to Emerald rider Brendan "Barney" Ryan who won the Masters Division.
Well done to all our other team riders who made it to Nationals, and we hope to see you there again next year!

EMERALD HAS MOVED!!!!!

That's right, we have moved! It was a big move, all the way to the shop next door! We are currently located at 126-128 Cronulla St, Cronulla. It is literally the shop next door to where we have been for the last 15-20 years. We will be in this shop for the next month, and we are currently open for business as usual, before we move to 2 Surf Rd, Cronulla (next door to Oporto's) which will be our permanent residence from mid December onwards. You will still be able to reach us on (02) 9527 4149 or (02) 9544 4693. Our email remains unchanged. Sorry if we have inconvenienced anyone with our moves, but once we get into our Surf Rd store we will be there permanently! The new shop will be bigger, brighter and better than our old store was, so we hope to see everyone in there!

Presentation Night Pics

CBC Presentation Night Goes Off With a Bang

Last night saw a hoard of both young and old bodyboarders and their families converge on Cronulla's Little Italy restaurant for the annual presentation night for the Cronulla Bodyboard Club. This year saw bigger numbers than the last few years which meant it was a tight squeeze to fit in at Little Italy, but they managed to fit us all in and feed the hungry masses. Everyone who attended walked out with prizes of some sort, thanks largely to the generosity of the companies we stock in Emerald, who were keen to help out with a few prizes for the kids. The guys who came in the top 4 in each division all won a board as did the Most Improved and Encouragement Award.

The final results were as follows:

AAA Grade
1st - Glen Sullivan
2nd - Lloyd Taylor
3rd - Mickey Lewis
4th - Blake Tabone

AA Grade
1st - Dane Woods
2nd - Billy Danzey
3rd - Will Pinkerton
4th - Jack Baker

A Grade
1st - Luke Hartcher
2nd - Alexander Torday-Smith
3rd - Elliot Gooding
4th - Liam Baker

Most Improved - Andrew Cole

Encouragement Award - Josh Seage

We would like to say a big thanks to the following companies for providing the masses of prizes for the night:
BZ, Turbo, No.6, Nomad, Science, NMD, Funkshen, Manta, Hot Buttered, Pride, Empire, World Bodyboards, Dunes, Zion, Reeflex, Attica, Limited Edition, Stealth, Pod, Carve, Dragon, Grand Flavour, Unite, Custom X, Chout Films, Riptide, Le Boogie, Phil Gallagher, Summerset, Flipmode, Ocean & Earth & Propel.

Congratulations to all the guys who competed this year, and we hope to see you all again next year, hopefully with an even bigger number of people!

A big show of thanks to Des for running the comps was shown by most of the guys and girls putting in together to give Des a gift of a travel voucher worth over $500, so he can go on a long awaited holiday!! Des puts a lot of time and effort into running the club each year, which he does almost single-handedly, so it was great to see that the members recognised his efforts in such a big way!

We would also like to say a special thanks to Mickey Lewis and Glen Sullivan for helping organise and supervise the night, as it would have been chaos without you guys!

Sam Venn was on hand to capture the night in photo form, and we will put up another post with some of the pics of the night later on when we get the images from him, so look out for that one.

EAST SWELL!!!!

For the fist time since late May, the surfing Gods finally provided us with some solid East swell with offshore winds. All the regulars were out the Island on Tuesday morning making the most of the good conditions. Also on hand to sample some of the Island's finest were Ben and Toby Player as well as Andrew "Gherkin" Hurton from the northern beaches.

Young photographer Sam Venn braved the cold, wind and rain to capture the action before he had to head off to school. Cheers to Sam for supplying us with the following shots!

Des

Ben Player, Reverse

Luke O'Connor

Josh, ARS

Gherkin

James Mantzios

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