Coreban Vibe 8 fters

Coreban Australia was proud to take delivery of the Pure Coreban Vibe 8 footer last weekend for shop team rider Hayden Stintman. Haydo had previously owned and loved his Coreban 8'11 Lithium but wanted to try something new this coming season and for a local surf comp. He

was then on the search for a performance oriented SUP in the sub 9′ length, mostly looking at boards in the mid 8′ range from different manufacturers. The minute he saw the first picture of the Vibe online he knew he had found his board and placed the order! Already familiar with the line and its build quality Haydo was stoked to get on the list for another Coreban.

Being the Noosa areas authorized Coreban dealer Stand Up Paddle Surf Australia jumped on the order. Coreban's Woogie Marsh was able to hand deliver the Vibe 8′ in Pure construction to a smiling Haydo and make his dreams of short high performance SUP come true!

At 6’4″ and 105 Hadyo is a pretty tall guy. The 130.9 liters of volume and 29″ width of the Vibe was easily able to float his lanky frame and I’ll be the first to say that his stand up surfing performance has jumped up a couple levels with the Vibe in his quiver.

With a string of a couple of small days of surf in the up to chest high range at Peregian Beach last weekend into the start of the week, Haydo was able to get the Vibe out and get a feel for her. What I witnessed being in the water with him on the weekend at Peregian Beach in Sunny Coast was a board that fit perfectly in the waves.

The surf was perfect Open Beach Peregian A Frames light winds close to glassy conditions. The 8′ Vibe with it’s nice rail outline and super surfy rocker fit right into waves and I saw Haydo flying down the line. The Vibe fit right in the pocket and he was pumping that board down the line like a shortboard. The best part was that Haydo wasn’t just rebounding off oncoming white water sections, he was hitting them higher and harder then I had ever seen him do on any other SUP! With his speed in the pocket and the bottom/outline of the Vibe he was able to get off a bottom turn and hit the oncoming sections getting his little 8′ pocket rocket pretty vert on his mini lip smacks.

The Vibe that Haydo has is beautiful in the Pure construction with the Australian Pine deck outlined by white rails and bottom. The dimensions are 8′ by 29″ wide by 4.5″ thick with 130.9 liters of volume. In my opinion Coreban has a winner on their hands for above average Jo to get on a stand up in the 8 to 9 foot range. It will probably also work pretty well as a kids SUP or for smaller women. With five boxes the board is versatile and can be ridden as a tri, 2+1, or quad. Coreban has definitely come up with a great rocker line and it shows in the trio of the 10′ Icon, the 9′ Fusion, and the 8′ Vibe.

If you are interested in Coreban stand up paddle board whether it is for surfing, racing or just paddling around, contact us at Coreban Australia and we’ll be glad to answer any questions or get you a demo of selected models…

Coreban Bus travels South

On the road again! But this time I get to take the family so it's PAC the bus and head south the boy even got a day off school so we could get an early start on the traffic.

Thursday night we hauled the Coreban bus down past Ballina to New Italy rest stop for our first night in the massive bed in the back of the bus in between the snoring the trucks and the freezing weather I think I got a few winks but it was fun to PAC the family in and to start the adventure.

The next morning we were up early and cruised through to Coffs for a coffee break and refuel. With Coffs only an hour from our final destination we were squared away the Scotts Head Holiday Park before lunch and out on the point surfing a few waves soon after.

I've never been in this part of Australia before and at first sight you think why not as it is just beautiful and has everything you could ask for in quite seaside getaway (I think it's a bit of a secret on how good this place and I'm sure the locals would love to keep it like that but to bad I've found it now and I'll be back for sure).

Saturday morning brought another classic Aussie winter morning coldish but just perfect and myself and Taj (my son) were fired up to get back out in the waves and score a few before the crowded turned up. Another epic session with the boy but every session that a father and son has together is epic and I am enjoying seeing him fall in love with the ocean and with surfing he has more froth than a badly pored Guinness YEEW happy days.

Obviously we had come down for a race carnival held by Scotts Head SLSC which had a middle distance race Saturday and a BOP style race on the Sunday.

Saturdays race was from Grassy Head back to Scotts Head a distance of about 7km the race was basically flat with just a light flew wing breeze blowing just enough to have you chasing that bump just in front of you so a bit of a lung burner but fun non the less.

Kelly Margetts paddling like a machine took 1st with Noel Graham 1st in the unlimited division. After the race it was back out on the big boards to catch a few sliders out on the point and was a fun time had by all involved.

Taj my son being a normal nagging 7year old keep hassling me for 2 buck to buy a raffle ticket which proved to be a great investment with him winning 1st place only to decline the top prize of a paddle to get mum and dad a bottle of red wine well done boy brownie points for you to cash in some time.

The evening was topped off with a few brews and a feed at the bowlo and then back watch the GP only to fall asleep before the start.

Sunday

Another freezing morning greeted us on Sunday morning but still with a few small waves and a great canvas for the BOP style race.

In consolation with a few of the more experienced paddlers a good fun course was set and it was time to get down to racing, all fired up and keen to get another good result I was keen to get underway however once the gun sounded I ran in to a hole lost my board for a few seconds jump up fell off and got going again so my plan to hang with Kelly and Jake was out the window with the getting a great start and pulling a gap that I just could not bridge so it was change of plan and time to get to work on trying to restore my race and try and paddle back through the field though that's racing I guess and theres always another around the bend.

Ended up really enjoying the race and managed to get back to 4th so not all bad especially how well Kelly and Jake are going, super fit with great technique seem to me they are really setting the standard in Aussie and the world so fantastic to be racing against such quality opposition.

Again after the race it was fun to go and catch a few sliders on the point with the crew and just enjoy the afternoon it's such an awesome place.

A big thank to Jas and the Scotts Head SLSC was a fantastic event and can't wait to get back there next year YEEW.

TOMOZZA OFF TO LENNOX YEEW.

Scotts Head SUP Weekend

A photo journal of the weekend of races, waves and fun.

Scotts Heads SUP Weekend from Jodie Marsh on Vimeo.

Fun Vid from Talia

Coreban SUP Sponsored Athlete Talia Gangini

ASRA Coreban Clinic Debrief

Mr Myagi, K train,Cougar Bait, Cheese ,Shaggy, Matt the Perz Carr, Toot White are just a couple of the nick names the ASRA SUP Crew run with and yes going on the names they are one hell of a great bunch of people.

The day started with a coffee at Uncle Belly's local haunt pretty sure Uncle B is the unofficial Mayor of Rose Bay with every finger on the pulse of who's, who and what's going on in the Rose Bay community "YEEW" Belly you da man.

After setting up a waiting for the K train to arrive who was running late due to some urgent morning business we got the clinic underway.

With the south west wind up and some fun little bumps rolling into Rose Bay we had a great little play ground to practice our SUP technique and SUP skills.

The plan was to head across the bay and get out of the wind and do some extra technique stuff specific to down winding however the wind got the better of some of our crew and we decided to send them back to base.

A few of the more advanced crew did manage to get across the bay so after delivering one lot of crew safely back to Belly, I headed of to find the other crew that had got across to the other side. I'm not sure if its a military thing but for as much as I searched for the boys I couldn't find them and had me looking into the merky waters expecting some special forces Navy diver to expode from the depths and go for the tap out! thankfully they were all just hanging in the sun and shooting the shit (not literally, talking dude talking).

After a quick down wind clinic we paddled up the wall in the lea of the wind and out into the wind line stoping for a quick photo shoot with the crew with the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the back drop, then it was a quick scoot across the bay back to Belly's beach.

Back at Belly's, Couger Bait and K train had fire up the barbie and cooked up a feed fit for the troops nothing better that a BBQ after an icy paddle.

The clinic ended with us just hanging out talking crap and hanging shit on one another to much fun and was a privilege for me to hang with the ASRA crew.

But wait there's more, Being boys we were running little late due mainly verbal diarrhea and had to make a mad dash back to Paddington Barracks to evac Mr Myagi Wife to the rugby.

Later that evening we headed to the local Irish bar for a few Guinness pints and dinner which was again a laugh a miniute and eventful evening .

The K train should be on the comedy stage maybe linked up with the Belly with the most froth Belly.

I would like to give a very special mention to all of the ASRA Crew but with a VP mention to Matt Carr - we only meet Matt a couple of weeks prior to the Clinic when he was on holiday with his Wife in Noosa - I was given his book to read which is on the to do list after the wife has finished. The book is called Battle Scars and from what the wife says it is a great look into the life of a dedicated Solider.

Yeew!

Enjoy the ride

Ma te wa

Woogie

Scotts Head Race Weekend

Scotts Head Races are this weekend!!!

Its time to enter so I can work out catering we have some great pizes sup paddles from star board and SUP ATX clothing from Corban and Hayden Surf, local B&B and breakfast at Tervana 6 Scotts Head plus lots more Demos from Coreban SUP and Starboard, Hayden Fenn and Epic and others....

$5 from your entry goes into the prize pool so the more entrants the more the prize pool will be .
to enter go to:

https://www.registernow.com.au/secure/Register.aspx?ID=4088

look forward to seeing you all and theres a band on at the Bowlo on Saturday night to loosen up before the bop race race on Sunday

any questions give Jason a call 0418 416 680

Wrecks & Relics – Return of the Fossils

This year’s Wrecks & Relics has a distinctive primitive feel as we welcome back the fossils of surfing to beautiful Noosa. Now in it’s 7th year and more popular than ever, the weekend competition has been set down for the 18th & 19th June 2011.

Although last year’s competition wasn’t held on Noosa’s glorious point breaks, we had two days

of quality waves and offshore conditions on the open beaches and a great time was had by all.

Events include Over 50s, 55s, 60, 65s, Over 50s women, Old Mal (pre-68) and Over 50s SUP (One division only per entrant). To compete you must be 50 years old as at 18th June 2011. Entry Fee is $70 and as the Wrecks & Relics is a two day event, every competitor surfs at least twice.

Please do not book any flights or accommodation until your Entry has been confirmed or your name appears on the Competitor List page of this website.

Thanks again to Classic Malibu and John Madill Toyota for being sponsors again in 2011.

Stay tuned for more updates on this site as they come to hand.

This is on this Weekend the SUP Heats are on tomorrow morning at 9:00 most likely at Access 11 (Old Access12) Noosa River Mouth.