Here’s a little video clip from the new Billabong Girls Second Summer limited edition collection. The video features the new limited edition collection for this summer and the athletes series bikinis with our A-Team riders.

Last week most of the european snowboarders met in Biarritz for the ”We’ve Got Balls” soccer tournament. We are talking about a football World Cup for Snowboarders. The winners received €1000 to give to a charity of their choice. The concept is really fun, each country builds a team of snowboarders and they all play against each other: Switzerland, France, Spain, England, Austrians and Locals all came to play in the south west of France.

I was part of the swiss team with fellow countrymen Romain De Marchi, David Pitschi, Thierry Kunst, Fredi Kalbermatten, Stephan Maurer, Moritz Frey, Stephan Probst, Alessandro Boyens and team Captain Nicolas Mueller.

Each team had to have a girl on the field at all times.. which meant i had no other choice than run all the time. exhausting! luckily Hana Beaman accepted to run some for me on the last couple days.. that’s after loosing my big toe nail, getting major cramps in both thigh, suffering from an eye infection and several crash at tackling attempts.

We played against the Spanish team at first and I was quite frightened by them as their players were all strong and good at soccer. luckily we made it through with a first Victory.

Then we got smashed by the Austrian Team..

It was pretty fun to play against Lisa Filzmoser and Aline Bock..
I say play against when really on the girls side of the field, most of the action happened right before the game in a fun dance warm up session. And we lost our last game against the frenchies, whom only got lucky the game didn’t last a couple extra minutes. On the french side, Margot was running all over the place super into it.. so I decided to take advantage of L’Arrogs smoother running skills and who was actually quite easy to dribble.

The next day was a day off, with perfect surf off shore all day, so Vanessa, Margot, David and I, spend the day surfing.. 3 sessions of 2.5 hours really didn’t give us much rest.

We started the second day playing against the English team which had won all their games until then. Everyone had warned us of their angry way of playing.. but somehow against all expectations, we won. We had a pretty good tactic on that game.. Romain was in defense blocking anything or anyone who could go through, most guys stayed in defense all the time, but Nicolas and Freddy were always ready to run to the adverse cage and strike.
We played the last game against the locals and my good friend Vanessa was playing in there team after leaving the french team as they never let her play because she was a girl. Well those guys were really fun to play against! They were playing for the fun of it. We won.
After all games, we ended up in second place after the English team. At that point I wasn’t even able to walk anymore.

The finals were hold on the last day. We played against the Austrian again, I almost decapitated one of their players by lifting my foot over head trying the reach for the ball when the guy on the other side went for a header. anyways.. we won there again and we were up against England in the finals.

That was a very long game. Tied at the end of the game, tide at the end of the extra time. I hated that game, I ran everywhere and spend the whole time in front of the English’s cage, and every time the guys would try to strike, they always chose to kick the ball way off field but never gave me the ball. I had spend the whole week running and hurting my self, and on the last game I was suddenly not worthy of touching the ball anymore. I got really angry and didn’t participate to the penalties.
Tied at the end of penalties, and England won at sudden death penalties. Well good on them because they did include both of their female players in the game Jenny Jones and Laura Berry which both did really good. We ended 2nd with lots of sour muscles.

The whole week was really fun, even if no one could walk anymore after the overdose of soccer. I suggest we chose a less violent sport for next year.. who’s up for beach volley ball? Because meeting all the snowboarders at the beach is super fun, plus it was for a good cause.

Vanessa was still around for a couple extra days which we spend surfing at the beach.. that was definitely easier on the body the soccer! Thanks to Method mag who helped getting things organized for this event and thanks to all the soccer girls for being such good sports mates, Vanessa, Lisa, Hana, Margot, Aline, Jenny, Laura, Alex, I’ll see you all next year!

Thanks to Lisa Filzmoser, Yoann Hamonic and Vanessa Andireux for the photos.

Billabong USA celebrated its 3rd annual Design for Humanity event with an incredible night of art, fashion, and music to benefit Charity:Water. The evening featured an art exhibit and auction with featured works from renowned industry artists, a full-scale runway show with designs from celebrity collaborators and spectacular live performances by musical guests The Airborne Toxic Event, Iglu & Hartly and DJs The Misshapes. All proceeds benefitted charity: water (charitywater.org), a non-profit organization that works to bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

Musical performances included Street Drum Corps, indie pop stars Iglu & Hartly, the highly acclaimed alt-rockers The Airborne Toxic Event and DJs The Misshapes. The fashion show featured one-of-a-kind bikini collaborations by Katie White of the The Ting Tings, actress Olivia Thirlby and supermodel Tori Praver.

Celebrity guests included: Ben Hollingsworth (The Beautiful Life), Brent Savage (Athlete), Catt Sadler (E! The Daily 10), Chelsea Gilligan (Miss Teen California USA), Chris Hesse (Hoobastank), Christine Tegan (Model), Damien Fahrenfort (Athlete), Dan Estrin (Hoobastank), Dane Ward (Athlete), Doug Robb (Hoobastank), Eddie Wall (Athlete), Estella Warren (Lies and Crimes), Evan Ellingson (My Sister’s Keeper), Gudauskas Brothers (Athlete), Jesse Charland (Hoobastank), Jordan Woolley (The Beautiful Life), Kenna (Musician), Kyle Ayer (Athlete), Lauren Storm (I Love You, Beth Cooper), Mariana Renteria (Model), Matt Lanter (90210), Natazha Aiken (Model), Sal Masekela (E! The Daily 10), Saleisha Stowers (Model/ America’s Next Top Model), Sanoe Lake (Athlete), Sara Paxton (The Beautiful Life), Sebastian Zietz (Athlete), Tami Farrell (Miss California USA) and Zach Roerig (Vampire Diaries).

See the Images and watch the video of the unforgettable evening on http://us.designforhumanity.com/blog/

Design For Humanity

We’ve just uploaded the Billabong Girls Wetsuits range for this summer. If you’re looking for some neoprene to keep you warm while surfing this summer have a look here! There are neoprene tops, bottoms, shortjohns, springsuits, short sleeves steamers and fullsuits in 3/2mm and 4/3mm for colder waters. We’ll add surfing accessories and rashguards there very soon as well.

Billabong’s Design For Humanity fashion, music, art event is happening tonight US time at the Avalon and Bardot club in Hollywood.

Billabong’s 3rd Annual Design For Humanity is a music/art/fashion show benefit to raise awareness and funds for the non-profit organization, CHARITY: WATER. They are dedicated to bringing clean, safe drinking water to the billion people in developing nations who don’t otherwise have access. Sounds simple, but unsafe water cause 80% of all sickness and death, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence…including war.
100% of ticket sales are donated to this worthy cause, and it is going to give a community in need clean water for generations to come. Design for Humanity: a cause to celebrate!

The night opens with a custom Billabong bikini fashion show featuring Tori Praver and top runway models rockin’ one-of-a-kind swimwear down the catwalk. A few select pieces will be on display in the silent auction including one fashion collaboration with The TIng Tings and one with Hollywood actress Olivia Thirlby. Katie’s is a one piece and Olivia’s is a bikini.
The selected pieces from the runway will be up for auction on ebay.

In addition to the fashion show, the evening will showcase an art show and silent auction in Bardot with original art pieces by numerous talented artists by the likes of Barry McGee, David Carson, Wolfgang Bloch, Alex Weinstein, Tyler Warren, Julie Goldstein and many more. Proceeds from the silent art auction will also be donated to charity: water. DJ Franki Chan will be mixing beats in Bardot starting at 8pm US time with The Misshapes from NYC starting their DJ set at 10:30pm US time.

Following the fashion show on the main stage will be a concert opened by the fabulous Iglu & Hartly and headliners The Airborne Toxic Event with Dj Mark Moreno behind the turntables.
A press release, photos and the video of the evening will be available for you after the event.

For further Info go to www.designforhumanity.com

Design For Humanity