SUSCRÍBETE
miércoles, 29 de abril de 2009
Do you remember ? Manny Vargas !
Manny?
MeXsHoT !
Mexico: Tacos, El Chavo del 8, Cantinflas, Spring Break y Puerto Escondido.
En el pacífico perfecto de Zicatela, uno de los beach breaks más famosos del mundo.
La sesión de la temporada se activa, aquí un bodyboarder en una bomba!
Foto cortesía: Magicseaweed.com
martes, 28 de abril de 2009
Después del Voto!
Olas en Barcelona.
bcn
Cosas que No Se Deben decir en el agua/ Cortesía: Bodyboarders en Corona !
05. Está bueno ese pico !
04. Me metí un tubo !
03. Ese tubo me escupió !
02. Salí volando !
01. Estaba bien bueno !
Utilizar este glosario en el momento equivocado te traerá graves consecuencias con tus panas !
Pronto un nuevo top 5!
La playa ``El Confital´´ esta ubicada en Las Palmas, Islas Canarias (España) y el pasado Diciembre 2008 fue el epicentro del evento cierre del circuito mundial de bodyboard de la IBA (International Bodyboarding Association) un aprox. de 150 de los mejores del mundo insidieron en la region de Las Palmas para la ultima para del ranking mundial 2008.
ALfredo Alvarez amigo de bodyboardingpanama.com, envia increibles tomas de momentos de la competicion, asi como tambien del area en donde se llevo a cabo la competencia que vio coronar a Uri Valadao(Bra) como el Campeon Mundial del 2008.
Bodyboardingpanama.com agradece a nuestro amigo ALfredo Alvarez por tan excelente contribucion y por este medio deseamos exortar a todos aquellos amigos del bodyboarding a que nos envien imagenes de sus sesiones.
jueves, 23 de abril de 2009
martes, 21 de abril de 2009
Butush !
REVERSO @ ROKAPOINT, PANAMÁ.
FOTO: RUBEN 8A.
ARTE: MINT CREATIVE.
ATLETA: SASHA RADOMISELSKAYA.
TEMA: BUTUSH !
PRONTO: SURF PESADO COMO NO SE HABÍA VISTO.http://www.grupobarcelona.com
Historia del Bodyboarding
Courtesy of the International Bodyboarding Association.
The sport of bodyboarding started in 1971 in Hawaii. Thanks to surfing legend Tom Morey. From its humble beginnings, bodyboarding has grown into an international sport. The first major professional competition was held at the Banzai pipeline with a $5,000 dollar prize purse. That was many years ago and John Patterson, now a top man with Manta Bodyboards in the USA, won the contest while bodyboarding in beautiful 6 to 8' foot waves. Over the years, the Pipeline competition evolved into what has become know as the World Bodyboard Championships. The top athletes from around the world converge on the North Shore of Oahu to surf the competition and see who was the best. This was fine for a few years, but soon it became evident Pipeline favored a special type of rider.
Around the same time the ISP/ASP tour was beginning to take off. So in 1988, competitors and officials alike began meeting following every Pipeline event to write a set of competition rules that all countries could follow with the hope of forming a world circuit to determine the World Champion. The driving force behind these meetings were the heroes and legends of today. Riders like Pat Caldwell, Jack Lindholm, Alexander de Pontes, Mike Stewart, Ben Severson, Ross Hawke, and Fabio Aquino, met with officials Mary Lee Christensen, Derek Hulme, Tony Abrahams, Phil Smith and Bob Thomas. This was not an easy task but after 4 years, a set of competition rules was finally approved. It was first used by the Honolulu Bodysurfing Club to run the 1992 World Championship and later adopted by all the major bodyboard associations.
The next task was to set up a would tour. So in 1993, with the guidance of former ISP director Randy Rarick, the Association of Professional Bodyboarders was formed, with the focus on developing all levels of the sport, both amateur and professional, male and female. In 1994 the APB change its name to Global Organization of Bodyboarding. (for visual effect, GO Bodyboarding) That year was also the beginning of the inaugural World Tour. Surf Club de Vienna from Northern Portugal put up $10,000 in cash and agreed to follow the GOB guidelines for a professional competition. The contest was a great success and the GOB now had validity as a organization.
In 1995 the GOB had 8 events ending with the World Bodyboarding Championships at Pipeline. That year we changed our name to Global Organization of Bodyboarders, and crowned our first GOB World Tour Champion, Guilherme Tamega from Brazil. He narrowly edged out Mike Stewart to clinch the title in the last heat of the year. The total prize money for the year 1995 was close to $200,000.
The year 1996 brought new challenges. GOB sanctioned its first ever Wave Pool event and Women Bodyboarders were added to the tour with outstanding results. The level of bodyboarding, like figure skating, is not as lopsided between the men and women. The women can bust the big moves just as well and sometimes better than the men. The combined tour sanctioned 18 events with $335,000 in total prize money.
The tour continued to trundle along in 1997,but there began to come about a shift in the focus of the athletes towards having a tour held in more extreme waves rather than just quantity of events and prize money. The 1997 Morey World Champs at Pipe only helped fuel this desire amongst the riders....this is a contest that will go down in history as one of the best and most dramatic ever in bodyboarding. Pipe lived up to it’s true reputation and put on a stunning display, sending in 2 massive and perfect swells in 3 days, and the final day was as good as Pipe gets....the level of bodyboarding was raised a few more bars, and when the spray cleared Australian Steve Mackenzie emerged the winner, only the 3rd non-Hawaiian since the event’s inception to win the contest. Seeing bodyboarding at this level, in big, spectacular and precarious surf, was seeing bodyboarding at it’s best and really truest form.
Over the following years Pipe continued to be the mainstay and standard for bodyboarding as an extreme sport, however there were also some events held in Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean that were nearly as awesome and terrifying as Pipe. It was these events that also got the most attention from the media who wanted some radical photos to publish and stories to tell. These comps were also the most effective bait in drawing new guys from the far most regions of the world to join the tour and challenge themselves both against their competitors and the ocean itself. The 1998 Reunion contest was one of the tour’s best ever. It was held at a gnarly left reef break in perfect 10-12 foot surf. Again the level of the sport was being pushed ever forward, and this event also saw the rise of a new star in South Africa’s Andre Botha: at the time just 16 years old, André surfed his way through the crushing surf all the way to the finals where he was narrowly defeated by the more experienced world champion Guilherme Tamega. However the world title was about to change hands, as Andre went on to win the end of year contest at Pipe, thereby becoming the youngest person in the sport’s history to take the title at just 17 years of age. This was testimony to the rapid growth of the sport worldwide, and the huge new influx of talented kids that are making a name for themselves on the GOB today. In ‘99 Andre retained his title despite fierce opposition all the way through the year, lending credit to the depth of talent in the sport in places as obscure as South Africa.
At the end of the 1999 tour, riders again met to discuss how the tour could be improved. At the time there was a split within the sport. In the one camp there were the competitors that supported and followed the GOB tour, and in the other camp were a group of riders that were incredible in their ability, but chose not to compete because some of the venues on the tour had weak waves, which in turn did not reflect the really radical side of bodyboarding. However the latter group had a lot of popularity with the kids and media around the world with their “soul surfer” approach. In order to bring the bodyboarding world together as one and strengthen the sport as a whole, riders realized that the only feasible way would be to create a “Supertour”, an international bodyboarding tour held in the most challenging waves in the world.
An Australian by the name of Tom Wilson who ran the Australian bodyboard tour at the time, put forward a proposal to run a contest in Tahiti at an infamous reef break called Teahupoo in 2000.It was to be an invitational event of sorts, restricted to 24 elite bodyboarders. While it was not a tour event, it was sanctioned by the GOB, and herein lay the seeds for the Super Tour of the future. In May the comp went ahead in epic 10-12 foot surf that was as heavy as the ocean can throw out...the contest was a spectacular success, and was won by a young Australian named Ryan Hardy, who took the lead in the finals with an insane 360 in the guts of an 8 foot barrel...it was a vision of what was to come, bodyboarding at the highest level in waves of severe consequence, at a surf spot that is every bit literally deadly as any surf break ever surfed.
In 2001 the first trial run of a Super Tour (ST) was held. Unfortunately in part due to the terror attacks of 9/11 and the resulting impact on the global economy, the tour was hindered in getting fully off the ground. However the seeds had been sown and there was finally a unity amongst the riders in supporting the ST concept. One of the year’s finest highlights actually came from without, where in Sydney, under the direction of Mark Fordham and Nathan Purcell, a contest that had been put on for six years each July....the Shark Island Challenge. This was one of the most feared and revered contests and surf spots in the world, but had never been run under the GOB umbrella due to the fact that Shark Island could only accommodate a small group of competitors because the spot can only be surfed at high tide and on a rare combination of swell and winds. This year the event just happened to coincide with one of the biggest swells to hit the east coast of Australia in living memory. The contest went off in a big way, and the 24 invitees put on a show that would either be described as heroic or suicidal, depending on your view point....they were surfing on waves as high as 2 or 3 story buildings that were breaking over just a couple of feet of water, waves that were utterly inaccessible to any other wave craft. The public took notice, and so did the event sponsor Human Shoes, who were impressed enough to come forward with an offer to sponsor the entire ST for 2002.
With the financial backing that bodyboarding had needed for so long, and with the new leadership of Mark Fordham and Steve Kirkman from Australia, 2 of the most prominent figures and visionaries in bodyboarding, the ST looks ready to go into orbit.
The GOB is now looking at working with the ISA toward gaining Olympic recognition for the sport of bodyboarding. The future holds even more promise with the advent of a televised World Tour and events in exotic locations. We will also begin a series of safety and bodyboard rescue clinics in conjunction with the International Surf Lifesaving Association. We see a fantastic future for this fun and competitive sport.
Such a brief overview of our bodyboarding sport over the last 20 years says little to convey it’s real picture. Ours is a special sport where a little kid that finds his way onto the beach for the very first time can pick up a basic bodyboard and go out in the water and have hours of safe fun. Bodyboarding has a fast learning curve, since you bypass the technicalities of standing up on your board, and immediately begin to focus on the art of riding waves. And someone with the right experience can take that same craft and use it to attack waves that surfboards are incapable of dealing with due to their shallow and surging nature....the very type of waves that are most exciting to behold, let alone be ridden. While surfing is yet progressing, bodyboarding is barnstorming, and no doubt will continue to do so, as riders push the frontiers of rideable and unrideable
El Día del Planeta Tierra, cuidemos los Océanos.
La primera manifestación tuvo lugar el 22 de abril de 1970, promovida por el senador y activista ambiental Gaylord Nelson, para la creación de una agencia ambiental. En esta convocatoria participaron dos mil universidades, diez mil escuelas primarias y secundarias y centenares de comunidades. La presión social tuvo sus logros y el gobierno de los Estados Unidos creó la Environmental Protection Agency (Agencia de Protección Ambiental) y una serie de leyes destinada a la protección del medio ambiente.
En 1972 se celebró la primera conferencia internacional sobre el medio ambiente: la Conferencia de Estocolmo, cuyo objetivo fue sensibilizar a los líderes mundiales sobre la magnitud de los problemas ambientales y que se instituyeran las políticas necesarias para erradicarlos.
Las Naciones Unidas celebran el día de la Tierra cada año en el equinoccio vernal (alrededor del 21 de marzo). El 26 de febrero de 1971, el secretario general U Thant firmó una proclamación a ese efecto. Al momento del equinoccio suena la Campana de la Paz en la sede central de la ONU en Nueva York
El Día de la Tierra es una fiesta que pertenece a la gente y no está regulada por una sola entidad u organismo; tampoco está relacionado con reivindicaciones políticas, nacionales, religiosas, ideológicas ni raciales.
El Día de la Tierra apunta a la toma de conciencia de los recursos naturales de la Tierra y su manejo, a la educación ambiental, y a la participación como ciudadanos ambientalmente conscientes y responsables.
En el Día de la Tierra todos estamos invitados a participar en actividades que promuevan la salud de nuestro planeta, tanto a nivel global como regional y local.
"La Tierra es nuestro hogar y el hogar de todos los seres vivos. La Tierra misma está viva. Somos partes de un universo en evolución. Somos miembros de una comunidad de vida interdependiente con una magnificente diversidad de formas de vida y culturas. Nos sentimos humildes ante la belleza de la Tierra y compartimos una reverencia por la vida y las fuentes de nuestro ser..."
sábado, 18 de abril de 2009
Alerta de Oleaje en ambas Costas de Panamá. ALERTA VES*****
Ésta alerta se hace efectiva gracias a las distintas herramientas de pronóstico de sistemas climáticos que existen en el planeta.
Un enorme sistema de baja presión se está formando debajo de las costas de Nueva Zelandia, en el pacífico sur, acompañado de una gigantesca energía de groundswell, este pude ser uno de los oleajes más grandes hasta el año en el Pacífico. Periodos de entre 19 a 20 segundos se presentan, a partir del martes en la noche de la semana entrante, y se va apuntando hasta el fin de semana con mayor fuerza y tamaño. las condiciones se presentan más que favorables, al contar con un viento off shore proveniente del caribe, que también presenta olas. Aunque no tan grandes y perfectas, como las del pacífico, así mismo un swell ENE se presenta para todo el caribe panameño.
Para los que no han hecho aún ésta aventura, un Costa a Costa se puede realizar durante estos días, el Istmo de Panamá, es la única región del planeta en donde se pueden correr y surfear 2 océanos el mismo día, gracias a que Panamá cuenta con una red vial de primer mundo, y la distancia entre ambas costas por la zona del canal es de tan sólo 80km.
Bodyboardingpanama.com está regalando 3 Kepy´s Ves 3 Stripes a quien envié un fotoreportaje de un coast 2 coast, o para comprobarlo, debes comprar y fotografiar el momento en que: 1. Adquieres un periódico del día en Ciudad de Panamá, y otro que adquieras el mismo día en Ciudad de colón (Rey de Sabanitas).
Envía esta info a kepy@elcorredor.net.
jueves, 16 de abril de 2009
2nd CALL
2nd Call es el nuevo privew de la serie de podcasts BOOST! es fresco y moderno. En este privew hemos incluido algunas tomas del reciente trip a spots secretos durante la semana santa, además combinamos imágenes y videos captados durante el verano2009 para que tengas una muy leve idea de lo que va ser BOOST! serie de podcast que llegaran a tu ordenador a través de www.bodyboardingpanama.com, 3rd reef production and Mint Creative.
Para el primer capitulo tendremos los siguientes features:
1- top spots de bodyboarding
2-Villegas ProFile
3-Verano 2009
martes, 14 de abril de 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STHEFANY!!!
Se Acabó el Relajo con los accesos a las Playas! Las Servidumbres son Públicas ! Es Ley de Panamá!
Bueno, este es un tema que pica y se extiende. A las personas que les gusta la playa, si van con frecuencia, imagino que se han encontrado con distintas situaciones sobre los accesos a las playas en Panamá.
Verán, muchas veces por desconocimiento o por simplemente no querer entrar en "problemas" con los pseudo propietarios de las fincas costeras, uno agacha la cabeza y se va del lugar al donde quiere uno ingresar, que al fin y al cabo, es una playa PÚBLICA, es decir de uso de todas las personas que deseen ingresar a la misma.
Qué hacer ?, bueno es muy simple:
1. Debes conocer tus derechos, y la leyes que se han aplicado.
2. Debes informar a las personas propietarias que tienes conocimiento de las leyes.
3. Debes DENUNCIAR ante la policía éste hecho.
4. Debes, unirte a un grupo de personas que tengan el mismo ideal y hacer presión.Recuerda, la vida te ha dado la oportunidad de conocer lo hermoso de éste planeta, no existen DUEÑOS de las SERVIDUMBRES, eso es ILEGAL.
Si deseas informarte los dejo con el link que habla CLARAMENTE al respecto de las Servidumbres, se detallan los accesos, dónde deben estar, etc.
Lastimosamente, existen los famosos Secret Spots o Lugares Secretos de surf, a los cuales, poco a poco no se puede ingresar, ya que unos cuantos propietarios de Tierras se han inventado sus propias leyes privadas.
Son muchos los casos, hasta que los visitantes de las playas, los que desean surfear las olas o simplemente pasear no entiendan que es un DERECHO, es LEY, el acceso a las PLAYAS, hasta entonces, verás cómo por hostigamiento y amenazas, unos cuantos LOCOS, te prohiben el ser libre de Vivir el Surf !
Y los dejamos con los lugares que actualmente presentan estos inconvenientes:
1. Madroño. / Provincia de Los Santos. ("inversionistas no permiten ingreso de surfistas a esta Playa de renombre).
2. El Playón. / Costa arriba de Colón /La Guaira. (no existe forma de ingresar por tierra si no eres propietario o amigo de los dueños de las fincas en dicho lugar).
3. Secreto. /Punta Mala / Los Santos. (la ciudadana Mireya Moscoso, ex presidenta de la república, construye cerca sobre servidumbre pública, y finca de al lado, ahuyenta a visitantes con escopetas ).
4. San Pedriño. / Veraguas / Azuero. ( el acceso es limitado, debes cruzar 3 cercas, no hay servidumbre).
5. Playa Raya. / Cañas / los Santos. (mismo caso, no existe acceso por tierra, todo se encuentra completamente cercado).Despierten Seres Humanos, el planeta es de todos !.
Kepy´s Ves*** 3 Stripes escribe a kepy@elcorredor.net o llama al 340 4242
Los Kepy´s Ves*** 3 Stripes son los gorros que están causando furor en NYC, y ahora en Panamá! Para adquirirlos sólo debes llamar al 340 4242 o escribir a originalshopstore@gmail.com.
KEPY´s Ves*** son comercializdos y distribuidos por GBP/Panamá.
Para ventas, escribe a kepy@elcorredor.net
Ves*** Patrocina a:
Rubén Villegas, Begoña Martínez, Antonio Díaz.Deseas ser parte del Team Ves***?
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