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In this issue we bring you what can only be described as boundary pushing bodyboarding. Pierre Marqua gives us a first hand account of a ground breaking trip to Namibia that saw our countries top international competitors take on the longest barrelling wave on the planet (I am sure there may be one or two people who dispute that fact but the proof lies in the dazed expression of those barrel hardened travellers.). And to top it off, we give a final round up of the countries premiere event, the Tand Invitaional 2012. Enjoy.

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{issUE 16 // 2012} SkeletonS in the cloSet

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stephen du Preezby Alistair Jones

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In this issue we bring you what can only be described as boundary pushing bodyboarding. Pierre Marqua gives us a first hand account of a ground breaking

//SkeletonS in the cloSet

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trip to Namibia that saw our country's top international competitors take on the longest barrelling wave on the planet (I am sure there may be one or two people who dispute that fact but the proof lies in the dazed expression of those barrel hardened travellers.). And to top it off, we give a final round up of the country's premiere event, the Tand Invitaional 2012. Enjoy. Ian Kruger (ed)

Greg Fraser and Sampi Kamffer doing the long walk (2km) back up the point, Skeleton bay. Taken before Sampi's reported 1km long barrel. Read more about that here (The Bomb Surf Blog) // Image by Anthony Fox

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by Jarret Johnson

Additional graphics byThomas Pepler

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Plagued with swell charts more

unstable than a see-saw, it was a

hard call to make, but with a little

glimmer of hope on the charts, the

Tand Invitational 2012 was set to

run.

Everyone knew it would be big, but

man was it big; a grumbly, untouched,

icy snow mountain big. None the less

the contestants were there, there

were monstrous waves, and it was a

go.

I think that more than anything

this was the year of the groms. Not

necessarily doing well in the event,

but getting out there before the

heats were on to test it out, going

in during every break we had and

pushing the limits in the free surf

and expression session. They rode

without any thought for the following

day, riding any wave they could

catch.

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IMAGE//Henk Esterhuysenby Ross Nortier

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IMAGE//Jared Houston

by Ross Nortier

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by Cobus Bosman

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IMAGE//Mark McCarthy

by Ross Nortier

The conditions on both days were

testing to say the very least. The

contestants surfed their hearts out

for a 1 in 16 chance of walking away

with 20K. People do silly things

for that ... calculated, technical,

boundary pushing silly things. It's

the good kind of silly that you look

back on in a few years and remember

for the thrill that Tand is.

When the final horn sounded it was a

tight call. But the now two times

Tand Champion tightened his grip on

the title. Jared Houston loves that

wave with everything in him, and you

can see it in the way he rides there.

Huge congratulations to every

rider that even dared paddle out

on either day and to everyone that

came and spectated from parents to

girlfriends and even Henk's dog. You

were all a part of history. Massive

thanks go out to Turbo Bodyboards,

the International Bodyboarding

Association and Red Bull for their

support in making this event as

successful as it was!

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Sam VennRideR: daniel WorsleyWheRe: South Coast, Australia

WoRdS: Nine to five, five days a week, it's times like this which make life worth while. down the coast at a spot called treno's with Guy Williment and Spencer Frost. Dan

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Ross NortierRideR: tom FluxWheRe: Kalk Bay

WoRdS: it was a sneaky little insider. it ended up bowling on me so i dug in, afterwards i came up to have had my brand new Churchill sucked off my right foot! Tom

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Alistair JonesRideR: Stephen du PreezWheRe: South Coast

WoRdS: Nobody wanted anything to do with this one at all, but it was my turn to go and all i could hear was Al Jones screaming Go!!!it ended up just being a close-out, luckily i didn't hit the reef, came up laughing, answering Al's question,"Yeah, i'm alright." Stephen

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Marcel habetsRideR: Marc WebsterWheRe: Kokkerot

WoRdS: Marc "Webby" Webster holding down the 1st position at the Kokkerot Invitational by boosting moves like this clean Invert in the finals of the contest. Matt (Marc's brother)

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Claire ButlerWheRe: Famous

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Jye McdonaldRideR: elliot ButlerWheRe: dbar, oz

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Warren BaynesRideR: ian Kruger & dax RowlandsWheRe: Chambers

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Alistair JonesRideR: iain CampbellWheRe: New Pier

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: tó ManéRideR: Pedro BettencourtWheRe: Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Keoki SaguiboRideR: James MasonWheRe: Super Suck

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Anthony FoxRideR: Greg FraserWheRe: Skeleton Bay

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: dawn RouseRideR: Stephen du PreezWheRe: New Pier

WoRdS: this day was special. it was the 1st time in a long long time that the bodyboarders took over the peak at New Pier. Such a good day. Stephen

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: Peter LambertRideR: Allan hortonWheRe: Baby Pipes

WoRdS: Mr Peter Lambert and i made a wise decision hitting the Atlantic seeing False Bay just wasn’t doing it. Waves started cranking. We made turns shooting, light got bad very quickly so i tied my thiel bodyboard to the kelp and used his board, couldn’t let this one slip by. Allan

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 01Photo: jfkphotographyRideR: dane KlusenerWheRe: South Coast, Secret Spot

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the BUrning Shore.

Namibia: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Marcel Habets and Pierre Marqua. It was a three week mission: to explore a strange new world, to seek out new waves and new fishing holes, to boldly go where no man has gone before, well so we like to think at any rate.

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Top, Speximages// Pierre Marqua

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Namibia was always on my bucket list of places to go, but the logistics of it were very intimidating, expensive airfare or huge petrol bills, where to stay, where to get a 4x4 and how the hell do I drive one of those in massive sand dunes and salt pans. So when Marcel Habets asked me to join him an a mission to the heart of the Skeleton Coast, I jumped at the idea, what could be better than a good friend as guide, fellow photographer and someone to share the uncrowded line ups with.

If you don’t know this already, Namibia is home to one of the best waves on earth, a dredging left hand point break that rolls down a 2.5km stretch of beach in the middle of no-where. To get there you need a 4x4, there is no getting around that one, your Ford Bantam or your Toy-by-four SUV is not going to cut it. You also need to know someone who knows how to get there, as there is no road, no GPS and no map. The wave is known in South Africa as Skeleton Bay, and there has been a huge debate within the surfing fraternity if it was makeable on any other wave riding tool, other than a short board. A bodyboard was seen as too slow, if you can’t make Supers, just how are you are going to make this? So the challenge had been set, the line was drawn in the sand and I was frothing to find out for myself. //

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After a few failed missions out to Skeleton Bay, a swell finally appeared on the radar from our base deep in the desert, it looked like the 30th of June was going to be all time. Then the rumours started, lots of pros were flying in, it was going to be crowded, and best of all, a small crew of South African pro bodyboarders were driving through the night to catch it. As a surfer I was bleak I wasn’t going to have this to myself, but as a photographer, I couldn’t have asked for better. The reality of this wave is that for every wave ridden, 10 would go empty. So there was no need to be bleak and I loved having that many cool faces to share the experience with. We left our base at 5am, and two hours later we were finding our way down the point through the legendary Namibian mist. Slowly one car appeared, then another and another. The rumours were true; half the ASP was there, wondering around in the freezing mist like lost farts in a perfume factory not really knowing what to do. //

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Jared Houston image// Marcel Habets

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We spotted a South African flag beany huddled over a small fire, the owner turned out to be Mark McCarthy, who along with Jared Houston, Sacha Specker, Cobus Bosman and Neels Smit had spent 23 hours on the road and then spent a horrid night camping out on the frozen beach with no toilet in sight. Cold, damp and teary eyed, they were doing their best to make breakfast over a wet wood fire. No one was really amped to paddle out, because no one could actually see what the wave was doing, the mist just seemed to get thicker as the sun rose in the east.

I couldn’t contain myself any longer and had to get out there, mist or no mist, I could hear waves and that’s all that counted. The paddle out was intimidating, the current was more powerful than the rip at Uluwatu at high tide, but once out, the reality set in. It was solid, with glassy lines rushing at you out of the mist and throwing down black barrels hard onto the sand bar.

To describe the wave is virtually impossible, every wave is better than the previous wave and that was the best wave of your life. In my opinion its better than anything I have surfed in Indo or here in South Africa. Once you have one under the belt, you just want more. 15 to 40 second tube rides are all part of the package. So are heavy beat downs and long hold downs, but the rewards far outstrip the consequences of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. You need to understand that spending that much time in the green room changes your outlook on love, life and everything else. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, Skeleton Bay just puts life back into perspective in the most positive of ways. //

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Mark McCarthyimages// Marcel Habets

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Speximage// Marcel Habets

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images// Pierre Marqua

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When the mist finally lifted and the sun came out, the reality of Skeleton Bay emerged and it was time for the likes of Spex, Jerry and Boetie to show the world that this wave is not only makeable on a bodyboard, but that bodyboarders can and will take it up a level or three.

Spex dominated on the knee, riding like he didn’t have a worry in the world, Boetie clocked up more tube time in an hour than most of us have in a lifetime and Jerry, well he just went next level with long tubes, old school barrel rolls and massive backflips over very shallow sandbars. In doing so he proved that it is possible to hit the lip on this out of control freight train of a wave, but be warned, the lip isn’t forgiving and neither is the sand bar below. Do it at your own peril.

It should be noted that Spex was a massive standout that day, with seasoned pros like Sean Holmes, Danny Fuller and Tanner Gudaskus rating his one DK wave as one of the best waves they had seen surfed there... ever! That says a lot. From low tide to high tide, it never stopped, like an endless wave machine churning out set after set; Skeleton Bay humbled all who rode her that day. From ballies like Marcel and myself who surfed for as long as our bodies would allow us too, to the new generation who, even when they emerged dazed, dehydrated and very confused after 10 hours in the surf, refused to give up and stumbled their way back up the point for just one more. The look in everyone’s eyes was that of sheer ecstasy, of contentment, stoke and happiness. In that moment, everything was good with the world. As the sun started to set, and broken boards and bodies littered the small informal car park, half way up the point, cars were packed; contact details swapped, new friendships forged and a total sense of zen descended on all who partook in King Neptune’s display of magic and wonder. Like a drug, the craving has spoken and I am going back.

PS it was flat the next day, in case you were wondering.

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Allan hortonRideR: Jarret JohnsonWheRe: tand

WoRdS: this day at tand was as close to perfect as you get. the tides were slightly against us but we weren’t complaining. All the boys were ripping; Fat Andy, Rufus, Bas…they were schooling me. When they got out, i was able to paddle into this one. “Wes Kus is die beste kus!” Jarret

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: tó ManéRideR: Pedro BettencourtWheRe: Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Marcel habetsRideR: Mafoos LombardWheRe: Kokkerot

WoRdS: After battling through slush, sand and over rocks, you finally get a glimpse of this super fun reef. trust me it is worth the walk! Mafoos

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Matthew 'Rex' hodgeRideR: Ryan BothaWheRe: Playgrounds

WoRdS: this image tells us a very partial story. Looking at it, the viewer is struck with a sense of incredible tranquillity and remoteness. in truth, just outside of this frame lies a veritable who’s who of South African surfing - huffing, puffing and hassling their way through the best of the sets. That is why I love looking at this wave – it represents my concerted effort to return the favour - to embrace the benefits of the boogie for taking off deep and snaking those surfing snobs into this special little slab. Ryan

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Jye McdonaldRideR: daniel WorsleyWheRe: South Coast, oz

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: jfkphotographyRideR: derek FootitWheRe: South Coast, Secret Spot

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Anhony FoxRideR: edward MillattWheRe: Famous

WoRdS: After getting skunked on Weskus, which included a Stormers semi-final defeat with plenty of abuse from a certain Sharks supporter. the depression hadn't faded yet when charts showed what looked like gold. So it was a day off work and back in car for 250km. Needless to say the gold rolled in all day. Edward

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Johan RademeyerRideR: Niklas MartinWheRe: herolds Bay

WoRdS: i had been dreaming of a wave like this all day. As i paddled into it, the long wall of water shaped itself beautifully over the shallow herolds Bay sand bank. i raced down the line, hit the lip and flew. After landing smoothly and completing the wave with a roll I heard the Wedge Crew groms hooting on the beach. this only added to the stoke mother-nature had just supplied me with. Nik

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Alistair JonesRideR: Michael 'Rat' ostlerWheRe: New Pier

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: daniel GrebeRideR: Roger PardoeWheRe: Washing Machines

WoRdS: After surfing Long Beach for a couple of hours, myself and Brendon Van Wyk decided to take a look at 'Washings', a sick reef in Kom. When we paddled out we realised what a blessing we were in for, here's a shot from the session, hope you enjoy it.Roger

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: tó ManéRideR: Manuel CentenoWheRe: Super tubos, Peniche Portugal

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Cedric demeautisRideR: Etienne OlivierWheRe: P'tit Port, Mediterranean

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Jye McdonaldRideR: elliot ButlerWheRe: dbar, oz

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Simon healeWheRe: West Coast

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SIXTY40 ISSUE 16 GALLERY // 02Photo: Michael AnserminoRideR: Wesley CoetzeeWheRe: South Coast

WoRdS: Light offshore for the morning, clean water, pumping waves and 2 guys in the water. After hours in the water Ryan got out while i continued to surf alone. i couldn't get enough of this day! thanks Ryan and Mike. Wesley

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//2012 World dropknee chAmpion

SAchA Specker.

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Hey Spex, first of all,

congrats from the sixty40

team and I think that

we speak on behalf of

the entire country when

we say we are extremely

proud of you.

Agh thanks pal.

Let’s start with the

lamest question of all,

how does it feel?

It's pretty surreal at

the moment. It still

has not really set in.

I think when I get home

and spend some time with

family and friends it

will hit home a little

more.

We all know it has been

a long journey, what did

you do differently this

year that brought it all

together?

The only thing that was

different this year, was

that I followed the DK

tour. In previous years I

only did Pipe and maybe

one other event.

What are your plans from

here?

No big plans as of yet.

To secure my slot on

the 2013 GQS and keep

focusing on my riding.

I prefer not to plan too

far in a advance.

Has expanding your

focus into photography

helped or hindered your

competitive edge in your

opinion?

Competitively I think my

photography has helped

me. I feel more balanced

and driven when I do get

the chance to ride and

I am always analysing

and closely watching the

best in the world, so

it is easy to pick up

on improvements I could

make to my own riding.

Last but not least, how

were the celebrations?

Rockstar, or a few beers

with the boys?

Very chilled... a few

Rum and Cokes with the

crew in Venezuela.

Congrats again Sacha

and looking forward to

celebrating when you are

home.

Thanks Ian. Amping to get

home and tan some chops

on the braai.

Stay tuned to our December issue for a full interview with the Multi Talented Mr. Specker.

S A c h A S p e c k e r .

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