To follow on from Gordon's previous post:
The profile pages are there for you as a bodyboarder to provide coverage of yourself, specifically at a time when there is no other medium available to the sport. As a grom (and I'm sure there's still that grom in all of us) get stoked, fill in your profile and upload any photos you have of yourself. If you right click on the page and choose properties the address (URL) is 'your' web page and you can email it off to family, friends or potential sponsors. It also includes results from the last two years which have been sent to us. (Going forward, if the results from a contest you rode in are not listed on our site - make sure you get the contest organiser to send us the results)
As a Pro/SABA Circuit Competitor/Sponsored Rider you should be updating your profile, no questions!!! As a Pro you should be promoting your own image as this is your livelihood. As a sponsored rider you are providing exposure for your sponsors - your profile page lists your sponsors along with their logo which I will try a get from them if I don't already have it. As a SABA Circuit Competitor, by competing you obviously have the interests of the sport at heart and should be promoting it as best you can ... if the sport grows, we all get to reap the rewards in the end. Through building an online community of bodyboarders in South Africa, we will be able to market the sport in a far more appealling way to sponsors. Hopefully, the site is appealling and professional and I encourage you to approach potential sponsors with
" ... this is my online profile, check it out .... (eg Gordon's profile http://www.sixty40.co.za/?display_profile.php?id=385) "
We all know how much effort needs to be put into a Portfolio, however, your online profile should cover most of this. Results, which will build up over time, photos which you can upload onto your profile yourself and a set of profile questions (if you think they need to be added to, let me know what you would want to see as part of the Rider Profiles).
You need to be registered with the site to be able to update your profile, so if you are already a member follow the register link at the top of the page or on the menu on the left.
What I would ask from you is, if you do have a mailing list of bodyboarding friends - send an email out to them letting them know of the existence of the site and tell them to sign up and update their profiles too ... hopefully it's not too much effort!!! We've all gotten something out of the sport, be it at simple as scoring the late arvo glass off with mates after school or work, or getting to travel the world doing something we love .... so let's make sure the sport prospers.
Look forward to all that extra work you will be creating for me ...
Later,
Kelly
It makes it interesting for everyone else and yourself to see what your buddies r up to now days. Spread the word. Sasha Taljaard, Douglas Cockwell you r some of those for example who need to do this as the groms also want to see this info.
