Tona Boards

Boxed up and ready to ship!

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:58:38 +0000

Finally, after 3 years we are boxed and ready to ship out first batch of TONA POPs!! Still a lot more to come off the production line!! stay tuned!!

Interview. Behind the lens of the ‘island time’ vid.

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:09:57 +0000

Stance Interview with The Island Boys by stancemag

Go behind the scenes of TONA and Kitescoop’s ‘Island Time’ vid. Over 130,000 views in the first two weeks! See what inspired us to make the vid, meet the riders, the camera guy and find out more about future projects, stickers and girls!

GO ahead…. ck it out one more time!!!

Band together…..

admin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:31:14 +0000

When we decided to order our wristbands to do some promotional work for Tona, we thought it would be a good idea to do something positive for our community instead of just selling or giving away the bands. We had a few charities in mind, but had not decided on one until I bumped into a friend of mine who told me about the National Sailing Academy. He told me to go to and see Elizabeth Jordan personally and find out more about the Academy. After meeting with Elizabeth I felt like this was the right organization to go with. The idea of teaching Antiguan kids how to swim and sail was something that resonates well with the Tona lifestyle and our purpose. Below is a little more information about the Academy and their goals. For more detailed information please visit their website: www.nationalsailingacademy.org

“The Sailing Academy was formed two years ago and is providing free sailing lessons to 150 children a week through a schools programme. The Academy is also funding swimming lessons for 200 children – an essential skill for would-be sailors. We hope to expand our activities during 2012 by having Academy ‘satellites’ on the west coast at Jolly Harbour and the east coast at Parham Harbour.

Although we are endorsed by Government, all funding is from private donations, mostly from the yachting community. We are the only sport in Antigua that can, potentially, offer many young Antiguans future employment – we have a vibrant, and growing, yachting industry and the way into it is by learning to sail”

Elizabeth Jordan

Tona Wristbands can be purchased at Turtle’s Surf Shop in the Yacht Club Marina or at Kitesurf Antigua on Jabberwock beach. The cost is $5 EC.
If you live outside of Antigua but would still like to support the Sailing Academy you can place orders directly from our online store http://www.tonaboards.com/store/
Thanks for your support!

Island time…………….. TONA style!!

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:54:50 +0000

Ck out TONA’s 1st official video… 70,000 views in the first 3 days!
Thanks to Dre (Cabrinha) and Sam (Naish) for joining Jake and being a part of ‘island time!’
Shabbs is the man behind the lens, and ck out the credits for info on the all local original music!!
Jake is representing with the POP……………. A MUST SEE!!!

Coming soon.. We promise!

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:37:40 +0000

POP is coming soon!!! definitely worth the wait!!

GOT IT! Let’s roll!!

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:27:00 +0000

Once we were happy with the feel of the pre production prototypes, we settled on core thickness, flex pattern and glass lay-up and we are off and running with the production line. All our hard work, picky high standards of what we wanted from a TONA board was worth it. We have found the perfect blend to reproduce the feel of the original custom TONA pop.

Here the graphics are being produced before being added to the heat compression mold.

The board cores after sanding ready for the CNC to cut the channels into the bottom.

The CNC machinehard at work preparing the cores.

hello 2012!

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:49:39 +0000

2012 is going to be a good year for TONA. We committed to our initial POP board production and they will be available in the USA, Europe and the UK by the end of March/April. Finally we are able to get this great stick to you guys. It has been a long time coming. Lots of R&D, testing and refinements to get exactly what we are looking for and we nailed it. Thanks to jake kelsick and the entire Antigua crew for the testing and feedback! We will be posting info about the development of the POP from the very start of the design stages, the custom prototypes all the way to the final product. We have learned a lot and we achieved a lot.
The Driftwood was introduced in 2011 is still our skate of choice and available also in the US, Europe and the UK. We are getting some cool media from around the globe from the core riders….. Thanks guys and keep it coming!!!
We have some new and exciting plans in the works now.. Too early to let the cat out the bag…. but we are stoked about it……
It was a good year, thanks to all you guys out there that inspired and encouraged us to put all this together…and there is always more to come!…….

TONA in the UK!

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:28:36 +0000

TONA kiteboards confirm their distribution centre in the UK. The B2B Company will look after our newly launched ‘power style’ brand focusing initially at developing the UK market, creating exposure and fresh business. The first batch of TONA Drftwoods landed in Manchester Airport yesterday courtesy of Delta Airways. The POPs shave been ordered!!! Contact them NOW to lock in your ride for 2012!!!!

Contact info@theb2bcompany.com for more info

More info coming soon!!..

Go Pro sesh with Jake and POP.

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:50:38 +0000

More testing footage

GoPro Sesh! from Jake Kelsick on Vimeo.

Local shops.

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:42:44 +0000

Below is a list of kite shops that has been passed to us from the members on kitescoop. These are shops that are personally recommended by the locals in a particular area as the best kite shops. We at TONA would like to continue to support the local shops and thank them for keeping us hooked up with gear. TONA believes these community shops should all be carrying our products if they are not already. We have made an effort to reach out to them individually to introduce ourselves and TONA. Please contact them, call or email and ask them if they have any TONA products. You may be surprised who has our stuff….
(If you are a retail store and not hooked up as yet with TONA product, please feel free to contact us. If you are a retail store and would like to be on this list let us know and we would be glad to look into it and add you.)

USA

(Retail stores in the US contact Bryan Bryan@npusa.com to get hooked up)

Kite Riders LLC, Madison, WI
http://www.kiteridersllc.com/
Bob@kiteridersllc.com

Hit up Pepi at 2nd wind in Hood River.
541 3864464
http://2ndwind-sports.com/

Belllingham KitePaddleSurf.
http://www.kitepaddlesurf.com/
There are a lot of wakestyle riders up in the area. The Owner’s name is Andy, you can reach him by email.
shop@bellinghamkiteboarding.com or andyandmarlys@gmail.com
Bellingham, WA 98225 tele (360) 775-2741

Island Riders Kiteboarding & Wakeboarding
42 Montauk Hwy, Copiague, NY
866-891-9569
631-608-0366
516-443-8872
info@islandriders.us

Ocean Extreme sports
St. Augustine, Florida
http://www.oceanextremesports.com/contacts/
904.461.9415

oTHEerside boardsportes.
http://www.othersideboardsports.com
down in da Keys!
islamorada, fl

321Kiteboarding.
You can hit up Brett at 321 Kiteboarding in Cocoa Beach, Florida. (321) 302-5663
WWW.321kiteboarding.COM
Super nice guy and his shop is located around the corner from the 520 slick (sick place to ride).

UK Distributor

The B2B Company
www.theb2bcompany.com
Please contact Oliver for further details. oliver@theb2bcompany.com

Europe

(Retailers interest in Europe contact Ronald at europe@tonalife.com)

Edge boardshop
Frederiksgade 51
8000 Aarhus C.
Danmark
(+45) 31 23 51 81
http://www.edgeboardshop.dk

Caribbean

AIRFLY972
Pointe Faula
Le Vauclin – MARTINIQUE
Tel: 0596 76 25 31- 0696 33 16 42
airfly.mq@wanadoo.fr

Australia

Westozboardsports.com.au : http://www.westozkiteboarding.com.au/
speak to Jason
jason@westozkiteboarding.com.au
0411 510 514

Canada.

West Coast Kollective, http://www.westcoastkollective.com/
your Western Canadian source for Kiteboarding
Tyler Burslem Tyler@westcoastkollective.com
Jeff Kindree Jeff@westcoastkollective.com

http://www.boardsports.ca/
Local Phone: 416-485-9463
Toll Free: 1-800-665-WIND
Fax: 416-485-6065
Email: sales@boardsports.ca

http://www.silentsports.com/store/
(905) 889-3772

http://www.jacknjills.net/
Store email addresses:
sales@jacknjills.net

Westshore surf shop
http://www.westshoreclothing.com
Kincardine, ON

New Zealand

www.ballistics.co.nz
North Shore
Auckland
Phone: 09 489 4074
Email: info@ballistics.co.nz