We spent International Waboba Day, August 12, playing Waboba Tennis (Wennis). What did you get up to?
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Get Ready for International Waboba Day, August 12th
Get social for International Waboba Day, this coming Friday, for a chance to win some exciting prizes.
Here’s what wabobablog.com has to say:
We’ll be hosting contests and giveaways all day on ourFacebook and Twitter pages, so you best be checking our pages and share your Waboba adventures. We’re not going to spoil all of them because surprises add some pizazz to life, but we will tell you about two that will automatically enter you to win on August 12th. We have no limit to the number of prizes we’ll give away, so be sure to show and spread the Waboba love!
1. On Twitter, use the hashtag #Waboba and mention @wabobaballs. For example, “I love International #Waboba Day more than my birthday. Out celebrating on Bali with @Wabobaballs.” If you do an awesome, fun tweet and we fave it, you’ll be entered to win. Get it? Got it? Good.
2. Post on our Facebook page wall at any time during International Waboba Day, August 12th and you’ll be entered to win. Share your pictures. Post a video. Ask us to marry you. Whatever. But of course, if you make us blush, laugh, or cheer, that will increase your chances of winning.
Stay tuned for more. Have fun and see you outside!
Where to find Waboba in Bangkok
We’ve had quite a few messages recently asking where to find the Waboba Extreme ball in Bangkok. The ball is coming to various places very soon, but for now you’ll be sure to find them at Planet Scuba, 666 Sukhumvit. It’s very close to Emporium at Phrom Phong, and adjacent to Soi 24.
Once you’ve bought your ball, don’t forget to enter our video competition for a chance to win a holiday in Phuket.
One Month Left for Entries to Waboba Asia Video Contest 2011
Here’s a gentle reminder that you now have exactly one month left to submit your entries for the Waboba Asia Video Contest 2011. The closing date for entries is September 10.
The prize is a five-star holiday in Phuket, including flights to and from Phuket, two nights in a five-star hotel and $700US in cash. You’ll find details of the competition here. If you haven’t started already, get filming today.
Help Us Organise a Waboba Tournament in Thailand
Waboba Tournament by Gigantes at Live Beach, Mangualde
Here’s another good reason to help us organise a Waboba tournament in Thailand. The tournament that just ended in Mangualde, Portugal, was a huge success.
We’d like to start with a local tournament and hopefully take a Thai team to the Waboba World Cup. If you have a Waboba team, a club or a suitable venue for a tournament in Thailand, we would like to hear from you.
The below report is by Leeroy at the tournament that just ended in Mangualde, Portugal:
16 teams, over 90 players total, played in the Waboba tournament hosted by Gigantes Sports Mangualde at Live Beach and after 64 exciting games the winner was BEIHAUS!
Athletes can hardly wait for the next tournament and the champions hope to be eligible for the Waboba World Cup. As for now, team Beihaus are available, willing, and eager to teach or play against any team that would like to challenge them.
GSM, third runner up cannot wait to give BEIHAUS another go, they were the only ones that managed to win a game against the champs and are dying to take the title away. Their team tactics and strategy have to be worked on and they are definitely not going to let the opportunity go by!
“More, more, more!” and “What are we going to do between 19:00 and 21:00 every day?” can be heard from everyone. Emails tell us how much they liked this new sport and even though finals were last Friday, EVERYONE misses the tournament and will surely continue playing Waboba.
Waboba thanks Gigantes Sports Club and their team for the excellent organization and dedication throughout the tournament. Fair play was guaranteed by the president of the club and the referee, both calm cool and definitely playing by the rules. They would love to host the World Cup in 2012 and help Waboba organize it at Live Beach next June, but that depends if we have teams from other countries ready to play and challenge Beihaus!
Thank you to the Mangualde City Council for backing up this new sport and as discussed Waboba is in Mangualde to stay! Also thank you to the Live Beach team for making this tournament possible by giving us the space from 19 to 21 each day, promoting the tournament and having the hindsight of identifying a good thing when they see one.
More images here.
Organize a Waboba Tournament – $250 USD for Winning Team
We want to share some very exciting news with you. We have decided to work with 4 very special Waboba customers in planning individual Waboba tournaments in their city with their friends. The best part is, we’ll provide the balls, other goodies, and a $250 USD cash prize to each winning team! What better way to enjoy summer than plan a beach day with Waboba and your friends?
So who are these 4 lucky customers? We have no idea. You tell us.
Do you want to be 1 of the 4? It doesn’t matter where in the world you live. To help you decide, here are some basic rules, but other than that, you’re free to play as you please.
-3 people per team
-Have to have a team name
-Minimum of 6 teams
-You can play in the pool or open water – depending on location and preferences. If playing in a pool, we suggest playing by our pool game rules with the Waboba Blast. If playing in the ocean, lake, or river, play by official Waboba ball rules with the Waboba Pro.
-Work with us to promote your tournament by creating a Facebook event and getting people to sign up.
Since we can’t physically be there (unless you happen to live where one of us lives), it’s up to you to gather people to enter the tournament, create a Facebook event to invite friends, and pick the date and actual location (whether you want to play in a pool, lake, or ocean). Of course, we’ll help you spread the word and organize it as much as we can. We just want you to make a fun day out of it and have a blast with lots of laughs.
If you’re interested in working with us in planning a laid-back totally awesome fun tournament, please email jordan@waboba.com why we should pick you and your location. Are you game?
Waboba เปิดตัวการแข่งขันประกวดวีดีโอช่วงซัมเมอร์ แต่ปืนดันขัดลำกล้องซะงั้น!
ในการแข่งขัน Waboba Asia Video Contest 2011 คุณทิม วิลสัน ผู้หลงใหลการเล่นลูกบอล Waboba ได้คิดค้นประดิษฐ์ปืนยิงลูกบอล Waboba ซึ่งอาจจะเป็นเครื่องแรกในโลกขึ้นมาเพื่อเปิดการแข่งขันในครั้งนี้
ลูกบอล Waboba เป็นลูกบอลเนื้อเจลที่ไม่เหมือนใคร ประดิษฐ์ขึ้นโดยแจน ฟอน เฮแลนด์ ชาวสวีเดน ซึ่งเป็นลูกบอลประสิทธิภาพสูงลูกแรกของโลกที่ออกแบบมาให้กระเด้งบนผิวน้ำโดยเฉพาะ
ถ้าขว้างลูกบอลให้เรียบไปกับผิวน้ำเหมือนก้อนหิน ลูกบอลก็จะกระดอนบนผิวน้ำไปได้ไกล 30 หรือ 40 เมตร ถ้าปาลูกบอลลงบนผิวน้ำในมุมสูงๆ มันก็จะกระเด้งขึ้นมาเหมือนกับลูกเทนนิส
ลูกบอลซึ่งมียอดขายในยุโรป อเมริกา และออสเตรเลียนับเป็นล้านๆ ลูก ได้มาวางจำหน่ายในเมืองไทยแล้วเมื่อต้นปีนี้
คุณทิม ผู้อำนวยการบริษัทแบงคอก เบาวนซ์ จำกัด กล่าวว่าเขาได้สร้างอุปกรณ์สำหรับยิงลูกบอล Waboba ของตัวเองขึ้นมาด้วยแรงบันดาลใจเดียวกับที่ประดิษฐ์ลูกบอล Waboba ขึ้นมา แต่เขาก็ไม่ท้อถอยถึงอุปกรณ์ที่เขาประดิษฐ์ขึ้นจะล้มไม่เป็นท่าก็ตาม
“ที่จริงแล้วผมก็แค่ค้นหาไอเดียใหม่ๆ ที่คนอื่นๆ อาจจะนำไปใช้เพื่อเข้าร่วมการแข่งขัน Waboba Asia Video Contest” คุณทิมกล่าว ซึ่งก่อนหน้านี้เขาเคยทำงานเป็นช่างภาพข่าว
“นอกจากนี้ ผมยังทดลองทำการ์ตูนแอนนิเมชั่นแบบ Stop-motion ด้วย ซึ่งผมก็หวังไว้ว่าวีดีโอเหล่านี้คงจะสร้างแรงบันดาลใจให้คนอื่นๆ ลุกขึ้นมาอัดวีดีโอของตัวเองแล้วส่งเข้ามาประกวด”
รางวัลชนะเลิศสำหรับการแข่งขันประกวดวีดีโอในปีนี้ก็คือ ที่พักโรงแรมระดับ 5 ดาวสำหรับ 2 ท่านที่จังหวัดภูเก็ต โดยมีตั๋วเครื่องบินไปกลับให้ พร้อมเงินสดติดกระเป๋าอีก 700 เหรียญสหรัฐ
“ผมคิดว่าโครงการประกวดวีดีโอนี้คงจะทำให้เด็กๆ มีอะไรทำ จะได้ไม่ว่างในช่วงปิดเทอมซัมเมอร์นี้” คุณทิมกล่าว
ถึงแม้ว่าปืนยิงลูกบอล Waboba ของเขาเองจะไปไม่ถึงฝั่ง แต่คุณทิมก็เล็งเห็นถึงความเป็นไปได้ที่จะจัดการแข่งขันที่ยิงลูกบอล Waboba ที่สร้างจากฝีมือของตัวเองที่จังหวัดภูเก็ตในช่วงปลายปีนี้
“ผมคิดว่าคงจะเป็นงานใหญ่น่าดู เราจะต้องรวมพลหลายๆ ทีมมาร่วมสนุกกัน ลองจินตนาการภาพดูว่ามีทั้งไม้ยิงหนังสติ๊กแบบติดเครื่องกล เครื่องยิงลูกบอล ปืนอัดระเบิด ทั้งหมดมาแข่งขันกันเพื่อยิงลูกบอลออกไปให้ไกลที่สุดและกระเด้งให้ได้มากครั้งที่สุด
“งานนี้คงจะคุ้มค่ากับการตั้งตารอคอยเลยทีเดียว “ เขากล่าว
สำหรับข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับการแข่งขัน Waboba Asia Video Contest 2011 โปรดเข้าชมที่ www.bangkokbounce.com หรือ www.wabobablog.com.
Stop-Motion Spells Asia Video Contest Promo
This is what you might call a ‘serving suggestion’ for the Waboba Asia Video Competition. It’s a little something I made with a box of Waboba Balls and my son’s spelling bricks.
Stop-motion animation is completely allowed, by the way, so if you feel your creative buds tingling, this is certainly a method you can consider. This was my first ever attempt at stop-motion. It’s shot on a Nikon D90, with a remote control that allowed me to shoot repeated shots without moving the camera or breaking my back. You’ll see that I initially forgot to set the lens to manual focus, but I’ll remember for next time.
The closing date for the Waboba Asia Video Competition 2011 is September 10, so you still have the whole summer to come up with something.
The first prize is a holiday in Phuket, including flights for two to Phuket from anywhere within Asia, plus two nights in a five-star hotel, plus $700 USD in cash. The competition rules are here.
Happy shooting.
Waboba Asia Video Competition: Random Inspiration #1
The closing date for entry to the Waboba Asia Video Competition is September 10. That means you have the whole glorious summer to come up with something. To get you in the spirit, here’s a little piece of random inspiration from Vimeo, a great old video from Matt Harding. But where hell is he??
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
The first prize in the Waboba Asia Video Competiton 2011 is a holiday in Phuket, including flights for two to Phuket from anywhere within Asia, plus two nights in a five-star hotel, plus $700 USD in cash. The competition rules are here.
Waboba Asia Video Competition – Win a Phuket Vacation
Thanks to the Mazzarella family, winners of the Waboba Asia Video Competition 2010, for sending us these photos from their weekend at the Hilton Sanya Resort and Spa.
The Mazzarellas won two nights at the Hilton plus 5000RMB in cash when they came first in the Waboba Asia Video Competition 2010. They have been so busy with their ski factory that it took them until now to find time to collect their prize. But we’re told they had an amazing time there with their visiting relatives from Italy.
If you like the sound of a free stay in a five-star hotel, you definitely need to enter our Waboba Asia Video Competition 2011.
This year’s prize consists of flights for two to Phuket from anywhere in Asia, plus two nights in a five-star hotel, plus $700 US in cash.
To enter the competition, you need to shoot a video up to three minutes long, upload it to a video website like YouTube, Tudou or Vimeo, and tell us about the video at competitions@waboba-asia.com.
The style of video is entirely up to you. It can be arty, sporty, fast, funny, but it must have the Waboba Ball in there somewhere, preferably with it bouncing on water.
Here’s last year’s competition winner:
Life’s a Beach and a Ball on Vimeo.
Feeling inspired? Get your camera out and start shooting. This year’s full competition rules are available here.