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Oxbow World Longboard Championship 2007



2/3/ 2007
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Oxbow Pro World Longboard Championship
at Anglet, France
April 30 to May 6, 2007

A New Dimension for Longboarding
Today, the longboard is an entirely new tool for surfing. The modern longboard
allows surfers to ride on all kinds of waves, and to combine style and remarkable
artistic sense with radicalism. Today, professional longboarders aspire to the creation
of a genuine international longboard tour, a goal that has led to the idea of
developing major competitions in line with the expectations of top surfers around the
globe.
An Event: The Oxbow Pro World Longboard Championship
To answer these expectations, this 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.

A "Made in France" Brand: Oxbow
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!

A date: Oxbow Pro World Longboard Championship
From April 30th to May 6th, 2007, on Anglet beaches.

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