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Previous organiser gets the ball rolling again
by Howard Swanwick
13/03/2007:// From April 30th to May 6th, 2007, on Anglet beaches, the World Longboard Championship anticipates being the first critical rendezvous for international longboarders in 2007. This major event will be the initial stage of a future World Longboard Tour that Oxbow is endeavouring to give new life to, in order to bring it up to the level of the WCT, the international shortboard championship.
On the strength of its long and focused involvement in the sport, its association with some of the greatest surfers in the world, and its 12 world championship contests at exotic spots like Haleiwa, Malibu, Saint Leu, Makaha, Jeffrey's Bay, Cabo San Lucas, and Raglan, Oxbow can justly claim to be the brand that has brought back the eminence of longboarding. After creating the first longboard world championship in 1992 with Nat Young, this French brand takes it on again, with this event reinforcing the Oxbow image as an innovative and dependable brand. With this new project, Oxbow shows it supports longboarding and intends to play a prominent role in the creation of a bona fide longboard world tour.
A place: Anglet on the Basque Coast, France The cradle of European surfing, the Basque Coast offers a region rich in surf spots, perfect for hosting a world longboard championship. By refining its infrastructure year after year, Anglet answers to the practice of this sport on its four and a half kilometres of beaches. Its northern beaches offer the best as far as beach breaks on this coast, with three international famous beaches: les Cavaliers, la Barre and les Dunes, all ideal for organizing the World Longboard Professional Championship 2007.
Longboarding in the Limelight for Seven Days On one of the most technical and powerful waves of the Basque Coast, les Cavaliers, the best longboarders of the world will demonstrate their talent to spectators, led by Oxbow team riders Ben Skinner, Duane De Soto, Eduardo Bagé and Antoine Delpero (Oxbow's native to the spot and grand hope). On the program for this ASP event is the celebration of the ancient sport of longboarding and its brand new developments. Longboarding has never been so modern!
Date: Oxbow Pro World Longboard Championship From April 30th to May 6th, 2007, on Anglet beaches.
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