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Story and Film by Holtzy, Photos by Nadine
One of the great things about filming on the Ningaloo Reef is that every time you think you have seen everything theres always something new just around the corner.
This time it was a pack of 20 big Tiger Sharks up to 15ft long plus a heap of Bronze Whaler Sharks feasting on a dead Humpback Whale. Theres no point trying to describe it in words just check out the footage that will say it all. I'm just glad that one Tiger missed when he had a go at my camera.
Pics are of Holtzy filming the much less dangerous Whale Shark

The guys at Fuel TV love us here at HGM. Once again the first series of Homegrown Maniacs TV is tearing up the best Foxtel channel around.
Check your local guides for full details.
Meanwhile preparations for Series Two are well underway and filming is expected to start in October this year with a super secret shoot that will blow minds.

Holtzy's Diary is back by popular demand!!!! (His mum wanted to know what he was up to).
Keep checking the HGM Head Honcho's diary over the next few weeks as he spends the hard earned HGM cash on a luxury boat cruise up the West Australian coastline in search of surf and big fish. Yep life's pretty tough in HGM land

The crew at Homegrown Maniacs are proud to announce they have signed a worldwide distribution deal with Oscorp Entertainment.
What that means for HGM fans is you will be seeing a lot more of the brand of fun madness that HGM is famous for. Not only will it help produce series two of HGMtv but keep an eye out wherever you are in the world for the complete archive of HGM DVD’s, a box set of Series One of HGMtv, plus a whole heap of cool merchandise like HGM keyrings, pencil cases and popit lids.

Story by Holtzy, Photos by Pauly Doyle & Stretch
Rob Adelberg the 21yr old FMX superstar from Benalla in Victoria took out his second Narrogin Rev Heads Australian FMX Championship win on the weekend against top quality opposition.
Adelberg qualified for the final in third place behind West Oz’s Josh Sheehan and Bundaberg’s Clinton Moore but had the smoothest and gnarliest run of the final to claim the $5300 winners cheque.

This years X-Games in LA was something very special with Australia's very own Blake'' BILKO '' Williams taking Gold in the Freestyle final just ahead of Nate Adams and Twitch. But the event was covered with a bit of a dark cloud as in the Best Trick event; Bilko was clearly smoking the rest of the field with his never seen before 360 Indy flip. But coming down to the judges final decision they handed it to last years Gold medalist Kyle Loza, who came out and threw down exactly the same trick as last year. Where's the progress for the sport in that?

Lately I have been racing at every chance I can get, I haven't raced for some time now as the eski and big nights with the boys had become a common thing. But this year I thought I'd have a crack at a local grass track race then got the racing bug back real quick.

After many dramas, delays, hours at the pub etc etc the long awaited first series of Homegrown Maniacs TV is due to go to air on Tuesday July 7 at 5.30pm on Fuel TV on the Foxtel and Austar networks.

Story by Holtzy photos by Mass Productions

The first leg of the “Backyard Battles” series went down in the sand dunes of Lancelin just north of Perth. A truckload of riders braved the heat, wind and long weekend madness to carve the shit out of the endless pristine white dunes.

There was some good stacks including Steve Sommerfelds epic (see video) and a heap of classics in the hunt for the best dune carve. It was a case of don’t fall off because if you did the rest of the riders lined you up for a heavy sand roost while you were down.

Beware the East Coast of Australia for the madness of HGMtv is coming to your side for an extended road trip. A whole stack of epic FMX, Skate, BMX, Surf and Wakeboard shoots have been lined up over the next month or so right up the eastern seaboard.

Log in regularly onto www.homegrownmaniacs.com to get updates of all the blood, sweat and tears shed along the way. This is some of the last filming for the first series of HGMtv so if you want to be involved you better let us know your brand of mayhem soon.

It's going to be a nuts couple of weeks.