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

For more shots, click the Read More link below...

Cronulla Bodyboard Club Presentation Night

For those of you who were involved in the Cronulla Bodyboard Club in 2010, we have organized to have our end of year presentation night at Little Italy, Cronulla on Friday November 5th. We look to kick off the night at about 7.45pm with entry being $10 per person, plus any drinks you might want.

As most of you are aware last years presentation was a good night with plenty of prize give aways. This year is set to be no different. We have received great support in donations of prizes from the following companies: Turbo, Empire, BZ, NMD, Stealth, World Bodyboards, Unite, HB, Pride, Summerset, Dragon, Carve, Dunes, Nomad, Number 6, Limited Edition, Funkshen, Reeflex, Grand Flavour, Riptide, Le Boogie, POD, Science, Zion, Chout Films & Flipmode.

Venue- Little Italy Cronulla
Date- November 5th 2010
Time- 7.45pm
Cost- $10

Please let us know if you are coming (email or phone).

Hope you all can make it!

Please call Emerald on (02) 9527 4249 if you have any questions.

Flipmode Promo Clip

Here is a little clip that the guys over at Flipmode Clothing have put together from their recent travels... Word is they may be putting a small grom team together too, so keep an eye out as to who the young rippers are that they decide to put on the growing Flipmode team!!

Flipmode promo clip "Island Edit" from Flipmode Clothing on Vimeo.

Chout TV Episode 1

The maker of Chout DVD that premiered successfully in both Cronulla and Wollongong recently has released the first issue of Chout TV Podcasts.

This is what Rich had to say on his YouTube channel: "This is the first of many Chout TV podcasts to come out over the coming months as I start the next movie "Chout Guy!" . Chout Guy will feature Jacob Romero as I take a deeper look into his life on Maui so keep watching this space. Chout TV Eps1.0 was created to showcase some of the action in my current movie Chout and get you amped to go boogin. Chout will hit the shops in November at all good bodyboard shops so keep your eyes open. Enjoy and CHOUT!!"


Chout the DVD is now available in Emerald in Cronulla, as well as SWS in Wollongong, with many more stores getting their copies in the coming days.


Below is Chout TV Episode 1.0... Enjoy.




The coming episodes should be available on the iTunes store, as well as the new website Richie is working on as we speak. More on that when we have more info for you.

Heaps of new stock!!!

We just got a heap of new boards in today, along with the new Science boards a day or 2 ago. Come in and grab a bargain before we move!!!

Check out Des and Wendell working hard at sorting it all out....

Onshore Barrels

The other arvo, we shut the shop early on the advice from a mate that a certain wave had some barrels coming through despite the heavy onshore winds.
Below are a couple of shots of Sully out there.
I can't give any more info as to its whereabouts....

Cheers to Big Rich for the images!

Team Rider - Jared Houston

Emerald team rider Jared "Jerry" Houston has been impressing all around the world of late. Currently sitting in 6th on the World Tour (in his first year) with one event left to surf, Jerry is very close to achieving his goal of a top 5 finish.
As well as doing well on the World Tour, Jerry has been getting a lot of coverage in the bodyboarding press lately. With a 6 page spread in the current Riptide which is Jared's first international full feature, Jerry has also received a 6 page spread in the US mag Bodyboarder. Along with this, Jerry has had a double in Sixty40 mag from South Africa, of a massive invert. Also keep an eye out for the next issue of Le Boogie, as a trip he went on to South Australia will have a big feature, where he will also have some shots run. Jerry has also informed us that some shots of him at the new South African slab "Devils Horn" should be run in upcoming mags in both Australia and South Africa!
Attached is the article Bodyboarder mag featured of him, as well as the invert shot that got run in Sixty40 in case you haven't had a chance to see the mags.

We also wish Jerry GOOD LUCK in the final world tour event in the Canary Islands!!! Do us proud buddy!!!

Also, don't forget to check out Jared's personal blog on the Sixty40 mag website at

http://jaredhouston.tumblr.com/

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Emerald's Big Move

For those of you who don't know yet, Emerald is moving!!! We are not going, far, we will still be in Cronulla, just around the corner from where we are currently. The new place is on Surf Rd, right next door to Oporto's chicken shop. We don't have an exact date as yet that we can tell you when we will be in the new shop, however I can tell you that we will be out of this shop by the 15th November at the latest. I will update this again as soon as we have a date that we can tell you!!!
Also, as we are moving, most of the gear in the shop is on sale, so we don't have to move as much stuff.... Come in in the next few weeks to grab a great deal!