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At Onboard functional surfboards with quality and performance is what we are about.  From the shaper to the end product the team working on Onboard Surfboards has a wealth of experience that create leading edge designs and lends credibility to a team that prides itself on matching surfers with the right surfboards. To honour our commitment to matching surfers to the right surfboards we have not limited ourselves to Onboard Surfboards only, we will source boards from the leading surfboard brands around Australia and the world to ensure the match is right. We currently stock Ripcurl Chilli, Billabong JS, Quiksilver DHD, Gunther Rohn, Insight, Hot Buttered, Seven, Modern Mals and Blue. The staff at Onboard all surf orientated and there is no shortage of expert advice when you step in our shop at Glenelg. Always in stock is a large range of wetsuits for both summer and winter. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THIS YEARS WETSUIT RANGE Big News!!! Teale Vanner Congratulations to our Mega Grom and Onboard Team Rider Teale Vanner for cleaning Australian titles in Ballina, and the Duke Award for outstanding surfer on the event! Australia’s surfing future looks assured with talented trio Teale Vanner (Kangaroo Island, SA), teen star Sally Fitzgibbons (Gerroa, NSW) and Todd Rosewall (Jan Juc, Victoria) all securing berths into the 2007 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Championships by winning national surfing titles at Sharpes Beach near Ballina, Northern New South Wales today. Vanner will be Australia’s top seeded surfer in the world championships scheduled for Portugal next May after breaking through for his first major victory in the blue ribbon U/18 Boys division which was completed in peaky 1-1.5 metre waves. The natural footer carried his week-long stand-out form into the final to defeat the nation’s best junior surfers from all six states and make history by becoming the first South Australian to climb the winner’s podium in the division. Always regarded as one of the best free surfers at his home breaks in South Australia, Vanner had yet to carry that winning form into the competitive arena, but with newly found confidence he added his name to a list of past champions that reads like the who’s who of Australian surfing. “Coming into the comp I was a bit of an underdog, no one really knew of any surfers from South Australia. To win it is just phenomenal for me, said Vanner. “I put in a full week with Sasha Stocker the head coach from Surfing Australia before I came here. He was telling me all this stuff I needed to do and I put it all into practise. At home we’ve got big powerful waves so I’ve been trying to surf this kind of mush a lot .... I was talking to myself in the final, paddling back out going, ‘Come on, you can do it.’ I’m ecstatic … Portugal’s the next goal for me now. Vanner was presented with the prestigious Duke Kahanamoku Award.  Vanner also received a bonus prize courtesy of presenting sponsor Samsung, for the Wave of the Day, a newly released Samsung K5 MP3 player. Onya, Teale. Official Results – Quiksilver Australian Grommet Titles presented by Samsung U/18 Boys: 1st – Teale Vanner (Kangaroo Island, SA) 2nd – Josh Johnson-Baxter (Ocean Grove, Vic) 3rd - Jackson Collins (Phillip Island, Vic) 4th – Chris Salisbury (Newport Beach, NSW) News Courtesy of Surfing Australia