Yep. Looks like you can’t stop the man in black. Shaun White proved once again that he is the greatest halfpipe rider in the history of snowboarding no matter what he wears. We were hoping for something a little more dramatic, but White looks good in black.
Scotty Lago jawed his way into second place with Louie Vito dancing into third.
We heard Kazu-san was underscored. On Twitter former X Games announcer Todd Richards said: “Come on? Kazu gets the shaft.”
Ryan Sheckler seems like the wrong person to be representing a debit card called “BillMyParents.” Wouldn’t it be more fitting for his parents to promote a card called “BillMyKid?”
Seeing as Denver, Colorado seems to be a little higher in our minds this week, here’s a little taste of what goes down in the Mile High City when the Snow Industries of America aren’t around from the crew at CLFX and 303 Boards Shop. You know, just to remind us that Denver isn’t only about snow.
Stevie Williams and BMXer Nigel Sylvester go head-to-head in this Glenn PP Milligan directed promo for The Takeover Tour(a BMX and skate tour coming next summer, or something).
With the hoopla surrounding The Eddie we missed this yesterday. But armed with NASA quality lights “international big wave surfer” Mark Visser hit jaws at night during the January 20, 2011 monster swell. With the lights Visser seems much easier to spot in the whitewater. The footage will be included in the documentary series 9 Lives.
Dave Lee, Marc Wierenga and the crew at Signal Snowboards took a Skullcandy Superpipe and built it into a boombox snowboard as part of their Every Third Thursday project. We can hardly wait until all the kids are rocking these turned up to 11. . .
Last night CNN broadcast a little profile on Shaun White. It was part of their Revealed program and the videos have gotten Shaun nothing but grief from the independent snowboard media.
…full of ridiculous claims, everyone just saying how awesome he is, including himself, all the footage was provided by sponsors and advertisers, and we could go on and on. So if you don’t know what to do right now, check how CNN revealed Shaun White.
In fact, this whole program reminded me of a Transworld article. All the footage was provided by sponsors and advertisers, The “editorial” is provided by someone nobody even knows, all claims are ridiculous, all the riders input is strictly worthless sound bites we’ve heard a million times before, and they call it important.
We haven’t watched it yet, but we’re going to just as soon as we link all this video up. . . follow the jump for the rest. [click to continue…]
