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Oxbow
Pro World Longboard Championship

Ben Skinner: photograph Courtesy Oxbow
The French stage of the world circuit of Longboard
From the 5 to May
11 2008 will be held in Anglet, on the Basque coast, Oxbow Pro World
Longboard Championship, the French stage of the world circuit of the
discipline. Oxbow made reappear this world circuit to carry it on the
level of the WCT, the professional circuit of surfing shortboard.
An event which
joins together the world elite of Longboard: Longboard incarnates the
tradition and the myth of the sports of slips. For as much, the
discipline knew to evolve/move and represents a type of surfing very
tendency. On one of the most technical and intense waves of the Coast
Basque, Riders, best the longboarders of the world, taken along by the
surfers Oxbow Ben Skinner, recently crowned Champion of Europe, Duane de
Soto, Eduardo
Bagé and the room of the stage, Antoine Delpero, will make the
demonstration of their talent and will confront themselves to succeed
Brazilian Phil Rajman. With the program of this event ASP equipped with
a prize money of 50 000 $, the celebration of the old practice of the
longboard and its new tendencies, and many festive animations. Never
Longboard was also modern.
A Oxbow Event:
Strong of its engagement in the discipline, at the sides of the largest
surfers, and its 13 tests world on spots like Haleiwa, Malibu, Holy Leu,
Makaha, Jeffrey' S Bay, Cabo San Lucas, and Raglan, the Oxbow mark is
definitively associated Longboard. Through its collections, of its
event-driven implication and support of the riders of its TEAM, Oxbow
is one of the leaders of the world of Glisse. |