by The Editors on September 20, 2013
If it’s fall then that means it time for the 10th Annual Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails event at Southern California’s Bear Mountain. Forty of the world’s top rail slayers will congregate in Big Bear, California on Saturday September 21, 2013 to help kick off the 2013-14 winter season.
The men’s first place winner will be awarded $10,000 and the women’s first place will take home $1,000. The jibber with the best trick will take home $500. Both men and women’s first place finishers and the best trick winner will be presented with one-of-a-kind, customized iPad Minis, which will serve as their digital trophy. Provided courtesy of Fusion of Ideas, the iPad Minis will display the digital checks and head shots of winners. These winners will also take home go-pro cameras customized by Fusion of Ideas.
The event is free to the public. Gates open at 9 AM and the comp starts at 2 PM. Bear Mountain is located at 43101 Goldmine Drive
Big Bear Lake, California. Check out our photos from the 2011 event click here to see a little about what you have to look forward to tomorrow. For the official word from Bear Mountain follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on September 20, 2013
To kick off a new season of Every Third Thursday, Dave Lee and the Signal Snowboards crew decided to do something really silly. Build a snowboard at the bottom of the ocean. Why? Because, apparently.
[Link: Signal Snowboards]
by The Editors on September 18, 2013
Surf Expo says they had more buyers at their fall show than they’ve ever had before with 8,000. Sounds like a good show.
“Buyer attendance was up fourteen percent compared to last September’s show and even eclipsed our record-breaking January 2013 show by four percent,” says Show Director Roy Turner. “More buyers than ever before put their trust in Surf Expo to offer the most diverse array of product categories and brands under one roof.”
We’ve never been to Surf Expo, but don’t feel sorry for us. We just watch it all on video. Like this. Follow the jump for the official word from Surf Expo and nearly everyone who attended follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on September 11, 2013
If you were hoping to find out just a little bit more about Billabong and Yes. Snowboards‘ Helen Schettini, here it is. If you’d like to know more, tune in next week for webisode 2.
by The Editors on September 11, 2013
Z-Flex Skateboards and stylish men’s grooming products Uppercut Deluxe and collaborated on a skateboard that comes with two combs and some quality pomade.
“We are so proud to be able to collab with Z-Flex on this Mr Chipper Deluxe model. I remember one of the very first skate photos I saw as a kid was Jay Adams on a Z-Flex board which always sticks in my mind as pure and raw skateboarding; when style and attitude was everything! It’s so rad to come together and create this board years later to combine our passions of skateboarding and barbering in a slick and destroy model!”- says, Luke Newman, one of the founders of Uppercut Deluxe.
For the official word from Z-Flex and Uppercut Deluxe follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on September 10, 2013
We have an brand new old Johnny Layton deck in our closet. Not gripped. Not mounted. Not nothing. Eric Stricker gave it to us when he really didn’t have to give us anything. And that was cool. Every time we see the board we’re reminded of that. And maybe that’s why we leave that deck right where it is. New, yet old.
In other Johnny Layton news watch this.
by The Editors on September 10, 2013
Yobeat.com posted this yesterday, so we’re going to post it today because it made us laugh and put all action sports in proper perspective (at least to us, at this moment in time, today, (redundancy for poetic effect)). Airboarding. We wish we’d thought of it.
by The Editors on September 9, 2013
What does “going pro” even mean in skateboarding these days? Does it mean the skater is finally getting paid? No. Does it mean they guy is competing in “pro contests”? No. After years of asking everyone we know what “going pro” means and getting a different answer each time we’ve finally figured it out. If you get a “pro model” anything and someone promotes you as having gone pro, then you’re pro. Take Julian Davidson for instance. Element just bumped him up to the “pro team” and gave him a “pro model” so the dude is pro. Period. Congrats, Julian.
by The Editors on September 9, 2013
According to a post on Bodyboard Museum, the lead singer was Brett Young:
As a member of the Skid Kids his outlaw antics were often looked down on by b/b heirachy. Youngy didn’t care too much and despised the local comp scene that frothed over contests in 1ft waves at Manly. Youngy was all about pulling into gnarly pits and had the same head pumping style as Pat Caldwell. Brett had tongues wagging when he performed a pop song in the video nasty Rip The Pit. He was highly criticized for his role and eventually packed his bags to move to Japan where he worked promoting his sponsor Manta. It was in Japan that BY was killed when the car he was driving on a express lane highway crashed. Today he is remembered with the annual Brett Young Trials part of The Shark Island Challenge.
And now you know the rest of the. . .
[Link: Bodyboard Museum]
by The Editors on September 6, 2013
Matix Clothing worked with Tyler Surfboard’s Tyler Hatzikian on a spring 2013 collection that they say offers up “timeless style, performance, hot rod culture and surfings roots.”
Tyler Hatzikian has over 25-years of commitment to improving his skills as both a shaper and glasser. Tyler’s surfboards are not only far from replica, they are developing a reputation of being iconic on their own. He is proud to carry on the planer after following the footsteps of the legendary craftsmen of his local surf community in the South Bay.
The collection sounds right on target. Now we just have to survive the winter before we get our hands on it.
[Link: Matix Clothing]
