CONTENT Jetpilot Vest Tech & Product ‘Wakeboarding?’ ‘Life on the Water’ ASA ‘C H R I S’ Gallery DSMRA Ben Player The Interview Visual Format Interview TAKE 3 1 | DTSEMTREME.COM
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NIGHTHAWK 2 SEG F/E NEO VEST $199 @ Jetpilot.com.au
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TECH & PRODUCT
FUSION MS-BB300R
GOPRO HERO 4 The Hero 4 Black delivers double the performance of its competitors capturing cinema-quality 4K video at 30 frames per second. Filming in 720p lands you in an astonishing 240 frames per second catching liquid smooth slow motion. The Go Pro Hero 4 has demanded versatility now compatible with over 100 mounting attachments, waterproof casing, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth features, additional Go Pro software and much more. RRP - $729
Fusion 2015 brings you its latest marine speaker system the ‘Fusion MSBB300R. Fusion has developed new features to maximize your experience on your watercraft, as fusion states,“ every boat needs a FUSION beat“. The MS-BB300R includes new updated features Apple IOS audio playback, Bluetooth Streaming, Easy Mounting, Multi-zone Technology and Wireless Adaptions. These features with enable you to have the most enjoyable and clear understanding when operating speaker systems with Fusion. RRP - $999
SPY OPTIC + HYPERLITE V2
The Hyperlite V2 brings you the best experience whilst wakeboarding with its duel strengthened rope and 360-degree foam grip comforting the rider for long duration sessions.
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Whilst on the water protect your eyes with Spy, Optic’s. These happy lenses provide 100% UV protection and constructed by high quality propionate. These brick solid glasses come in numerous colours and designs to keep you looking stylish and safe in the sun.
WAKEBOARDING
What is wakeboarding? Wakeboarding is a water-based sport, which involves riding a wakeboard over a surface of water. It was developed from a combination of water-skiing, snowboarding and surfing. What is a wakeboard? Wakeboards are buoyant boards made of foam or a wood mix with resin and coated with fiberglass. Fins and grooves in the bottom of the board enhance the performance and can be reposition accordingly to comfort the rider. Metal screws then attach bindings to the board, which lock your feet in whilst ridding. These can also be adjusted. Video J Video above captured and created by Dawson Hunter J
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How is wakeboarding conducted? You are pulled on top of the water by a boat or winch. Once you are up on top of the water you can carve by leaning on your heels to go out and toes to go in. Once you have the basics down you can progress on to harder tricks and skills such as switches, ollies and going of jumps. The start of the wakeboard. Toby Finn was the developer of the wakeboard after being a keen surf and snowboarder wanting to mix the two. He made the first shape of the wakeboard in early 1985 and the sport took off in popularity from there. Wakeboard Prices Wakeboards vary in price from basic beginner boards to advanced professional boards. Beginner boards starting from around $300 and advanced boards $700
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Life on the water.
When I’m not at work, studying or with my family I’m no other place then on the water. It’s when everything happening in life freezes, disappearing for a few hours whilst I slide across the waters surface. As I carve in and out keeping to myself, judgement no longer exists towards my personality or appearance. I let my talent define who I am. Not all of us are privileged enough with opportunity to ride behind a boat. In this situation you may feel as if wakeboarding isn’t possible. But you’re a very wrong as there are parks that you are able to wakeboard at! No boats needed. A local park for me is Penrith Wake Park. Penrith Cable Park is a large man made lake around 100 meters squared. Suspended by metal poles, 10 meters in the air is a cable that surrounds the outside of the lake. A motor runs a cable around the circuit at 19 mph. This cable pulls wakeboards around the circuit enabling them to train without the use of a boat. Cable Wake Parks are easily assessable for the public and there range of parks is multiplying rapidly. It improves the safety of the sport, as you aren't being pulled by a boat with a large engine, instead a cable that is suspended above you. It significantly improves the performance of the riders as it helps them learn new tricks and skills that they can develop. Prices
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The ASA is the peak body for scooter sports in Australia. It aims to target the best young scooter riders in the country. It is here to help support and promote the scooter industry. By giving all scooter riders the opportunities to contribute to the sport by providing sanctioning for events, rider insurance, and a voice in the sport also provide a place every rider can call home
Why create ASA?
The more support and funding that the ASA can gain will result in a more professional panel, which will help to grow and devolved the sport of scooting within Australia.
ASA is a fantastic organization that gives young riders and the Australian scooter community a change to grow and expand. A become show its full potential as a sport
It is a non for profit organization designed to creates strong links between what is happening is Australia scooter riding and what is happening globally in scooter riding
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This is a major question within scooter riding. Scooter riding has dramatically grown is the past 5 years but is still not recognized as a sport by the Australian government sporting framework which needs to changes and the ASA id design to make this happen.
By Dawson Hunter
B R A D Changing the sport forever
Brad Daniels is a professional wakeboarding athlete that is constantly changing the sport, throwing down the impossible defying all laws of gravity. Brad doesn’t slide into the list of the world’s best wake boarders, but recently gained great publicity after landing a double indie backslide 360 flip at a local competition, snatching the attention of thousands. Living local to the Hawskburry River, brad made himself well known to the community with his level of skill within the sport. He is a great influence on the river and many youngsters looked up to him in inspiration. Perhaps very few of you know, last month Brad had a very crippling fall whilst wakeboarding pausing the sport entirely with stock. One average afternoon at Lake Penrith Cable Parks, Brad was getting in a quick session of practice before his state competition the following day. For roughly 30 minutes brad had put full concentration into landing a double 360 flip to blind, which would easily place him 1st in tomorrows comp. On his fifth attempt at the impossible trick Brad fell awkwardly, shattering the C4 feeling in his legs as he laid in the vertebrae in his spine. Brad instantly lost water calling for his mate for immediate assistance. “I heard and felt the shatter on impact” Brad spoke to the medics. At the pinnacle of his career Brad had affected his wakeboarding possibly for a lifetime. Brad was rushed to hospital to figure he had lost full feeling in his legs. From that very moment Brad was paraplegic, given a 20% of walking ever again. Brad underwent numerous surgeries, replacing his C4 vertebrae and positioning metals plates and bolts to secure and strengthen his back. It was going to be a tough recovery, especially for someone who was so physically active in their day-to-day lifestyle. The Hawkesbury community came quickly to Brads support, offering donations, encouragement and wishes. It was Brad’s love for the sport that pushed him with the determination to fight for that 20%, as he couldn’t see himself not wakeboarding again. Brad has been on recovery for the last month and with local support and his mental determination Brad has astounded his doctors with his ability to walk with few supports. Not only is Brad delighted with his achievement but the community is joyful to see the inspiration back on his feet. “ To be back on the water within the next 5 months ‘’, Brad spoke his goal to the Hawkesbury Herald.
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DSMRA MOTORCYCLE CLUB RUN ENDURO SCHOOL By SAMEUL DUFFY
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DSMRA (Dual Sports Motorcycle
Riders Association) is a club run indifferent states including New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Australian Capital Territory. I met up with the New South Wales representative Tim Clarke. Tim is also the Vice President of the DSMRA Club and the organiser of this event in Capertee. The Motorcycle camp was run over a weekend where everyone learnt basic enduro motocross skills and also Survival tips in order to help you when you crash out ‘ into the bush.
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These skills include Cornering, Clutch throttle and jumping techniques in order to help progress in Enduro Motocross. Enduro motocross is a very technique and enduring sport with events that can go up to 6 days long. These journeys go through different. Environments including dense fore areas, riverbeds, and rocky/steep hills in order to challenge the rider and their capabilities on the bike. The program was run by the landowner and qualified motocross coach John Reeks.
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Also with his son Josh reeks as the demo Enduro school rider to help the riders in any confusing of the process of different activities. I sat down with Tim Clarke the Vice President and organiser of the event to ask him a few questions about the event and what he thought about the how it turned out. “So how did you think of this event? “I came up with the idea when Reeky (John Reeks) first became a member DSMRA club and he
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Mentioned that he had a farm up in Capertee and he also said that he was a qualified coach. So then I said to him, why don't we hold an enduro school and he said that sounds awesome so we did it.” “How do you think it turned out?” “Great! A lot of members from the DSMRA showed up and also people who weren't apart of it. We had a great turn out, about 35 people showed up, we had old guys and youngsters and everything in between. It was just an all round good event for all ages interested in the sport of Enduro Motocross.
BEN THE
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BEN THE
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VISAUL “What does your typical day look like?” “My typical day is waking up at sunrise or just before then I would have a coffee without a lid. Then I would go to the surf and try to have surf regardless of the conditions, which gets me in check and in tune with my surrounding. Then if the waves are good ill come in have some breakfast, go out again for another surf, come back in have some lunch and go back out again. I will to surf at least three times a day if the conditions are good. If the waves are bad I’ll just do that surf in the morning then I would have breakfast and then deal with bills and planning my next trip and other things like that. A lot of people think it's a bit of a bludge occupation but it's not like you have to give it a hundred and ten per cent. When I’m not injured I will be training at the gym every night doing yoga, core exercises and just anything that I think will help me progress in my sport.” “What is your favourite place to surf”? ”Pipeline is definitely my favourite wave, that's because you never get the same wave twice and I think that’s the beauty of surfing because it always keeps you on your toes and you just have to expect everything that could come from that wave.”
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FORMAT “Where do you see the future of body boarding going?” “I think the growth of the sport with still amaze their is a lot of passion in body boarding and a lot of creative interesting people, people who are just doing some really amazing things. So the more people involved in the sport the more the sport will grow industry wise the better.” “What attri butes does someone need to achieve to become a professional body boarder?” “ I have two younger brothers ones twenty-two and the other is twenty-one and they told me that they want to be professional skateboarders, so I told them that an awesome dream but you can't just expect things to come to you. You have to be ambitious and put in a lot of hard work, if you want to be good at anything you have to put in a hundred and ten per cent and that's the same with body boarding you have to do those things to become the best in your sport or any sport. “What training do you do to prepare yourself?” “ I do a range of different training methods I do a lot of flexibility and core exercises to put less stress on my lower back when I’m doing airs and stuff like that”
BEN PLAYER There are 5 trillion pices of plastic in the ocean !! , Do you really want mother nautre to digeste this. Ben player the ipitomy of Australian bodyboarding , growing up on the Northen Beaches of Sydney NSW. Has been bodybaording since the age of ten and is now a 3 times Bodybaord champion.And has a deep and strong relasionship with the ocean.As the ocean has played a major role in his life. He refers to it as his wife “ I’ll never leave it will always be a part of me and I love it dearly “. This is why he has recntly decided to become an amboseder for take 3.As he feels he can contibiute to a great cause and leave the world in a better place then he found it.
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TAKE
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By Tom George What is take 3 and the ambassador project you might ask? Take 3 a non for profit organization started in 2009 .Its goal it to raise awareness of marine debris, by encouraging every visitor to participate in the act of taking just 3 pieces of rubbish every time you depart the beach .A very simple but effective program. Take 3 also aims to expand trough Australia. This is where Ben Player in the role of the ambassador program designed to spread the take 3-message. In prevention plastic pollution in the ocean. Creating an extremely talented team of ambassadors with the aim to create a social change in attitudes towards marine environment. Ben’s knowledge and passion for the ocean has a major role in the work done with take 3 to protect the marine environment. Also to expand with many of Bens contacts. Also existing partners of take 3 working together to influence a positive change on Surfers, Body boarders, Fisherman and anyone who lives on the coastal fringe. Pollution, picking up your rubbish and take 3 isn’t a major topic bought up within body boarding. But this can all change with Ben’s popularity and respect within the body boarding community. As he provides a role model for young up and coming body boarding and anyone who uses the ocean often. And encourages the fact that everyone can make a difference and create awareness .Ben has Developed a few ides that could really benefit the ecosystem. One is to place poster along and near the beach encouraging people to pick their rubbish and place it back into landfill. Another idea, which has been implemented, is a large rubbish catcher that is placed out to sea acting as a magnet for the rubbish, then being brought back onto land and pushed into land fill. “You love it you enjoy it so respect it “ This quote really sums up Bens positive attitude towards the ocean and his relationship. His efforts along with take -3 will continue to see the growth and awareness of plastic pollution within the world. Ben is a prime example of how professional sport men and women can influence people to make a change for the better and this is why he is a great ambassador for take 3.
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- Exclusive Interview Ft. Ben Player – - About wakeboard – - DSMRA – - DSMRA Interview – - TAKE 3 – - BRAD’s Recovery –