Nice Bali Action on A Dynocore™ by Hayden Welch

Hayden Welch is a 17 y/o gromment who blows the back out a lot of waves.. here he is on a five month old Dynocore in Bali a couple weeks ago...

Dynocore™ action in Bali

Mattia Morri has been testing out a Dynocore™ for us in Bali. heres some nice pics by Nicole Gozzer..

Bali Action

Dru And Angie just spent a few days in Bali with surf photographer Simon Muirhead.. heres a couple gems! anyone thirsty?

The Mystery Surfer

He’s a quietly spoken fella from the apple isle. You’ve seen him charging 20 foot Shipsterns – airing off the step, landing in the flats, riding out on the foam ball. What you may not know is that he shreds small waves and can thread left hand tubes like nobody’s business. His name is James Holmer-Cross and he is the mystery surfer in the Rip Curl Padang Cup 2010. We found JH-C checking the waves at Uluwatu and hit him up for a lil interview… cheers to waves mag for the Story in our team rider!

Fwd: DIVERSE at Reef Bali Pro on Kuta Beach

Photo Captions:
  

1. The tip of Dewa Ardika's surfboard leading him out of the only barrel of the day.
2. Dewa Ardika's reaction to the MC's announcement that he placed second in his heat and advances to Round 3

Fwd: DIVERSE at Reef Bali Pro on Kuta Beach
Hi Dave,

Nice pic of DIVERSE Board & rider....
PETER NEELY
INDO SURF & LINGO
PO Box 50 Peregian Beach Qld 4573

skype: peterneely
www.indosurf.com .au
Open Division Action Gets Underway on Day Two of Reef Bali Pro at Kuta Beach

23 June 2010, Kuta Beach-Bali: Round 1 and the first four heats of Round 2 were completed today in the Reef Bali Pro at Kuta Beach, as the highly anticipated increase in swell finally arrived resulting in glassy 3 foot waves for most of the morning.
 
Standouts during the morning's session included Kadek Murtika from Canggu, who found the head-high lefthanders coming in from the south very much to his liking, resulting in a Round 3 berth as his reward for taking first in his Round 1 and Round 2 heats.
 
The wave of the day honor belongs to a lucky Dewa Ardika from Kuta, who in the final minute of his Round 2 heat slotted into the only barrel of the morning and managed to find the doggy door, going from last place in the heat to second, thereby dodging an early exit and gaining himself a spot in the third round.
 
Of historical significance was the presence of Affan from the island of Sumba competing in his first ever Coca-Cola ISC event.  The Rob Machado look-alike has been living and surfing in Bali for a while, but has never competed in a formal competition until today.  Although he failed to advance into Round 2 with his third place finish in Round 1, he showed that he could surf with power and style so no doubt we will see more and better results from him in future Coca-Cola ISC events as his contest experience increases.
 
The contest organizers called a stop to the action at just after 11pm due to the low tide and strong wind conditions.  Action will resume tomorrow morning at 6:30 am, with the higher tide and less wind setting things up for the remainder of Round 2 and at least the completion of Round 3.  See attached heat draw for tomorrow's lineup.
 
 
You can follow the action on Facebook via Reef Indonesia and Indonesian Surfing Championship, and on the Coca-Cola ISC Tour Reef Bali Pro minisite at www.isctour.com/events/padma.
 
 
The Reef Bali Pro 2010 is sponsored by Reef Indonesia, Kawasaki, the Hard Rock Hotel and Centerstage, the Hard Rock Café, Hard Rock Radio, Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia, Heineken, Optik Seis, Waterbom Bali, FHM, Surf Time Magazine, Lines Magazine, and sanctioned by the Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship Tour.
 
Photos and text:  Tim Hain – Coca-Cola ISC Tour

ISAAC PADDON AND ADAM GREER BALI SESSION

Jetstar Air lines only let us take boards up to 6'2 in length my choice was the round tail wave dominator which i rode most of the time . it worked in all conditions big and small, im glad i made the right choice. we also took the 6'2 sg which worked different but equally as good in a range of conditions.

ISAAC PADDON AND ADAM GREER BALI SESSION

ISAAC PADDON AND ADAM GREER BALI SESSION

Adam and myself scored a few rare uncrowded waves on one of the points in Bali last week. Between us we have a round tail 6'2 Wave Dominator, a 6'2 SG retro egg and a High Performance longboard. After a 6 hour session cold Bintangs and noodle soup never tasted bettter.

Diverse team rider Mattia Morri all around indo

New Teamrider Mattia Morri 1 week into a new board at Canggu

Mattia "stratonto" morri-MONOPRODUCTION from mattia di Bitonto on Vimeo.

Three of a kind?

Here is 3 of a new Quiver for slim@baliwaves.com
Jack is a 6'2 x 18 1/2" x 2 5/16" sprint,
The Queen is a 6'4" x 18 1/2" x 2 5/16" turbo sprint
With the King being a DK quad 6'1 x 19 1/2"x 2 3/8"
im holding the Ace up my sleeve... Haha.

My Sprint in Lombok

From: "Woodberry, Jake"
Hey Dave
How's things? Loving surfing the sprint, they seem to turn with plenty of
speed regardless of wave quality.
Here's my 6'4" on an average wave off south Lombok.
Cheers jake

Feedback on the Monster Mullet

Dave,
just some feedback on my monster mullet I purchased several months
ago. Went to Bali in March/April for the first time in 23 years & it
went unreal at Ulu in the varying conditions (2ft to 5ft) - surfed
virtually every day for 2-3 hours at Ulu & felt like I was in my teens
again not a 49 year old !
Regards,
Chris Locke

Padang Padang

From: Grant Pearce
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009
Hi Dave,

Just wanted to send through a few pics of Padang Padang when I was over there last month…the board I am riding is only a 5’10 which I was riding with a twin fin setup making it loose as anything but super fun… My first time surfing padang in Indo..will be back for sure… Grant Pearce




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Kuta Reef was pumping today

Hooray for swell all over the world. Today it was pumping at Kuta Reef. Heres some great pics By Jim from Baliwaves.com shot from the channel on a boat. the Surfer is our own team rider Sima Rae. Sima is riding his new Sprint He had Delivered this week. Many thanks to Krystal Cadbury & her partner for delivering the boards. Hope you guys are getting great waves on your Diverse boards wherever you are in the ocean today.

New boards for a couple of Bali's best surfers.

The boards are our Sprint model Indonesian special. the prints are just a sample of the full graphic prints we can do...

Sprint testing in Bali by Rusty rider Marlon Gerber

Bali Stock instores now....

Our Bali stores are stocked with some Mullets and Quads ... check here to see the locations

Alaias for Bali

This Is the Alaia I Made in Bali, I went to a wood factory on the side of
the road on the way to Caangu. Took it to a shed with a planer and a Sander
and walla... Wood for Riding. Some Tung oil from the Green tree eco store
on Sunset road sealed it up to make it waterproof! Enjoy Nature...

Another Day In Paradise!

Ok... Sure is fun to travel to other tropical countries with waves  to make boards...  Here is how todays work on location in Bali went. i went to sleep last night with the knowledge the the broken part on the shaping machine had arrived and would be in operation first thing in the morning. therefore i would be able to start early and get about 10 boards shaped today. Great, i go home to  Oz on friday, thats just enough time to comfortably be able to finish them all and deliver them b4 i go. zzzz  zzzz Wake up at 7 am, packing all the orders forms i had completed the day before. i Opened the packet of new logos i had printed in Australia b4 i left. they are a special logo made for Indonesia to help us all know where your board is made.   mmm nice new Rail logo... but  lo and behold no main DIVERSE logo? what the! thats right the printing company had left them out... maybe i should have opened the packet b4 i left! but after dealing with that company for 15-20 years you kind of get a little lazy..  ok 8am the breakfast is down the hatch, im off to the printers over here to get a quick batch of make-do logos done. They are open, but the man who knows my job is not in till 9am.!  right on time, he says ok, we dont have that paper here sorry.  Well lets try an alternative then, so we feed it into a printer.... jam! no go.  ok lets try the good laser printer it should work he says! oh sorry this computer just got formatted we have to install the drivers..... lets find the cd. mmm that guys not here yet... oh here he is... install. load paper. print... JAM!  ok sir we can screen print for you. please come back toomorow morning at 10am!  sheesh pretty quick for screen printing, ok sir thanks, thats the best you can do.  Off to the factory thinking i can shape them all still and pick up the logos in the morning to glass them toomorow.. no biggie! get to the factory.. The parts didnt come, the guy flight comes in at 3pm this arvo now! Ok gonna be tight, i will do some shapes tonight. My family are not here to go home too, i dont mind working at night here, its cooler too!  While im waiting i go to the wood factory up the road and but some timber to make an Alaia i promised the boys over here. Sweet! all good, fired up the old planer and hacked away wishing i had earmuffs and did it at night too. it was 34 degrees and 99% humidity! out with the sander and the 60 grit. nice finished in 2 hours. a bit rougher than what i make at home but nice to have some fun with!  Well while im waiting for the Shaping Machine parts, i thought i better go collect some money owed to me for a board from one shop. Hello is the boss here? oh no sir he has gone to lunch, back in 30 minutes. cool ill just check my emails while im waiting in the air conditioning.  oh the wireless password is? oh dont know. the guy who does that is on lunch too!  ok here comes the boss, Sure we owe you x,xxx,xxxIDR. but the girl who does the money just left for the day, come back toomorow !    ok Quick email check at hotel then back to factory... parts arrived time to test it.. no go, test, no go... fiddle with wire, no go, test no go, support call at $7 per minute.. test no go, ewiggle test no go, swear turn off .. test no go etc etc. 7pm. time to go home 40 minutes of ball tearing motorcycle riding in traffic down the same road for the 6th time today...  a quck shower and im writing this Email as the low battery warning is coming on on my computer and the lightning is signalling an impending storm probaly putting the power out briefly again!.. mmm better save and send real quick huh!  see yas all toomorow! gonna be a good day!