NEWS NOVEMBER 2007

28/11/07
With the lack of news updates this month you may have guessed we have been kinda busy. Well, you guessed right. Our new Spring / Summer 08 range is now available at all authorised UNITE. Dealers across Australia. While you're out Christmas shopping over the next couple of weeks don't forget to keep a look out for more new UNITE. gear to drop at your local Dealer in early December!

We sent Tommy Smith to WA for a quick in-and-out photo shoot misson last week. He scored some amazing waves alongside the Panic Button's very own Chad Jackson and Brad Hughes.

Check out Tom's new UNITE. ad in Riptide 161 on sale December 19 and Panic Button's debut film 'Draw' premeiring in December for the results of the trip.

Winston McCall is currently in Europe touring with Parkway Drive. "Germany was cold. It was minus 12 the other night. Fucked up shit, but I get to hit The Flowrider [in the US] in a week and a half, so life's good."

Having played over 160 shows in 2007 including dates in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, UK, USA, Canada, and Japan, this December PWD will be wrapping up the year with a US West Coast Tour. Joining them will be xDeathstarx, go here for show details.

Also, February 2008 will see PWD team up with 50 Lions to hit the road on the 'Surf Rat Tour'. The Tour will be passing through the likes of Cooma, Wangaratta, Wagga Wagga, Kiama, Sutherland, Coffs Harbour, Sunshine Coast, Townsville and many more regional towns throughout the East Coast of Australia.

All shows are all ages, tickets go on sale November 21.

05/11/07

Gold Coast ripper Simon Ormerod and "The Hardlyfe" filmer extraordinaire Chris Bryan team up for their Riptide first cover at a Northern NSW reef haunt.

Learn to turn and burn like the pros! This issue Riptide schools the youth on how to bottom turn and carve with precision, style and power - BANG!

The generation gap - Bodyboarding veterans Mike Stewart and Michael "Eppo" Eppelstun talk bodyboarding with their two rising apprentices, Thomas Robinson and Jake Stone.

Is Avalon's superstar Ben Player Australia's MVP? Finally, after more than four years, Riptide's Tim Leeson checks in with the kid before he heads off to El Confital chasing world title glory!

With Christmas a mere hop, skip and jump away it's time to start making that Christmas wish list! Scope all the freshest bodyboarding accessories and gear and then send your parents on their merry way to the shops!

Also, there's your chance to score Alex Bunting's entire set-up and much, much more in the biggest issue ever!

Riptide 160 on sale now!

03/11/07

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