SIC 2011 promo clip

Untitled from Fluidzone on Vimeo.

This short clip put together by SIC Contest Director Alex Leon in conjunction with the IBA shows just how beautiful and brutal the Island can truly be. This is the reason why the title of Shark Island Challenge Champion is coveted world wide. For your chance to win your way into the main event, be sure to hit http://www.riptidemag.com.au/images/stories/downloads/2011SIC_trial_entry_form.pdf and get your forms in quick smart!!!

Chout The World Sneak Peak

Check out the short teaser that Lornie has released for his upcoming vid Chout the World. It is the second film for Rich Lornie, and looks to be an impressive follow up to his successful debut release CHOUT!

Chout! The World (Sneak Peak) from Chout Films on Vimeo.

Swell Times

The incredible month of May has been producing the goods once again this year, with good waves almost every day since late April, there have been a lot of smiling faces, and tired sore bodies in the lineups around the state. The last few days have been no exception in the Cronulla area, with fun waves at several of the local breaks, which helps to spread the crows and keep happiness to a maximum. Good friend of Emerald, Big Rich has sent through a few shots of yesterday arvo and this morning. Check out these sweet juicy images!! Don't forget to check out more of his work at Robsonsvids on Flickr
Enjoy

Golden Arvo Glow

Azza Glossop

Rich Lornie

Jye Zappacosta

Shaun Pyne

Sam Strachan

Luke O'Connor

New rubber a must

The weather has been cooling down very rapidly, and the water temperature is sure to head south very soon too. We now have a full range of Reeflex, Dunes and a bunch of Attica suits in store, with the new Zions due to land in the next week or two as well. There have been some massive improvements to the quality of most of the suits this year, so make sure you're toasty in the water this winter, with a top quality bodyboarding wetsuit!!! We currently have well over 100 winter suits in store, so there's sure to be one for you!

Jerry's Chile Warm Up

"Mark Mccarthy and I have been in Arica, Chile for almost a whole week now, getting some practice in for the up coming event starting the 20th. I decided not to do Peru, because I felt that last year I was ill prepared for this event, especially in regards to picking the good lefts which offer the highest scoring potential!
I was invited(along with mccarthy) to go in the local contest held at el Gringo this weekend and I jumped at the oppurtunity to practice under contest conditions. The locals really surprised me from the Semi Finals onwards and some of the guys I really hope qaulify for ACC 2011 include Alan Mu`noz and another alan but im not sure of his surname!The guys rip! I ended up winning the event and got a sweet trophy so im pretty stoked, Alan and I were pretty tight in the final so I was stoked to come out on top! Cheers for having me!
Tommorow looks like the arrival of some swell so im itching to get some good waves and some more valuable practice!Well done to Sam Bennet and all the other competitors at the Peru comp, great job!"

The words of Jared Houston, on his preparations for the upcoming IBA Grand Slam event at Arica, Chile.

Jared Houston gets The Daily Frame

Jerry managed to get himself a few decent waves on his brief visit to the east coast after the IBA Box comp, and managed to bust this invert that the boys at Fluidzone.com thought was worthy of their website's Daily Frame! Check it out, and check out their awesome site, for all things bodyboarding.

The run of swell continues...

The last couple of weeks have seen a very fun run of swell in and around Cronulla. The weekend was no exception, and the forecast for the next week also looks quite promising! Saturday morning saw some very good direction, groomed swell out the island, with Surge absolutely on fire, and a few good ones from the peak as well. Although he arrived a bit late, Rich Lornie managed to catch a bunch of the action for us. Here are a few frame grabs from the Lorndog! Enjoy...

Ben Hall

Dave Ballard

Kane Cox

Rissole

Jared Houston Le BOOGIE Interview

Earlier this week Jerry caught up with Le BOOGIE's Nick Perry for a quick interview while on his way to the airport... Check it out!


Jared Houston talks to Le BOOGIE Magazine from le BOOGIE on Vimeo.

Venn's View

Monday and Tuesday morning were predicted to be the perfect size and direction swell and wind combination for Cronulla's infamous Shark Island to roar back into action. As it turned out, there was a bit too much north in the swell for the Island to be amazing. There were still plenty of punters ready to have a dig and run the gauntlet that is Shark Island.
Bundeena's Sam Venn was in the channel documenting all the action that went down before he had to scoot off to school. Sam is a budding young photographer, who seems to be improving at his chosen craft swiftly. Look out for some more images coming from Mr Venn's lens soon.
Thanks to Sam for providing us with these shots, a mixture from Monday and Tuesday.

Jack Baker

Ryan Hutt

Rosco

Glen Sullivan

Island Fun

The last week has seen fun swell out Shark Island, most mornings and afternoons have had rideable waves. The swell has been up and down in size and yesterday morning provided some very east almost nor-east waves out there, for those who were keen to try their hand at pulling in.
Here are a few frame grabs from Chout Films' Richard Lornie, who was on hand to document all the action.

Andrew Lester

Shaun Pyne

Jared Houston

 Keep an eye out for an upcoming new teaser for Rich's new vid Chout The World, the much anticipated sequel to his successful first DVD Chout.