The surf, snow, skate Ultimate Boarder Championship is moving to San Diego and Mammoth for its fourth run. The week long event will be held April 2-9, 2011 with surfing at Seaside Reef in Cardiff, California; snowboarding at Mammoth Mountain, and skateboarding in the San Diego Sports Arena.
“We are looking for the one athlete in the world that can conquer all three board sports and truly rise above the rest,” said Ultimate Boarder® founder and CEO Tim Hoover. “The physical and mental discipline it takes to be good at even one of these sports is incredible, and to be competitive in all three is especially amazing. I’m excited about our new partnerships with Mammoth Mountain and the San Diego Sports Arena, as well as to be returning to Seaside Reef. We’re bringing the athletes to premiere locations, and we look forward to another year of celebrating the impact, skill and beauty defined by these board sports.”
According to our logs several Boardistan.com visitors each day use Apple’s magical and revolutionary iPad device. And to reward them we have created the “Our iBallz Your iPad” contest. iBallz are an ingeniously simple way to protect an iPad (or other tablet device) from damage due to drops, spills, and/or the hazards of daily digital life. They also work great as a stand to prop an iPad up at the perfect angle for doing work.
While we may have been the first action sports company to announce content compatibility with the new device, we still don’t have iPads incorporated into our current Boardistan workflow. That’s why we created a contest especially for those techno trailblazers who do. The rules are simple. Send us a photo of an iPad with the Boardistan.com site up and on screen and if we choose it as the winner we’ll send you a set of iBallz.
The photos can be compelling, ridiculous, outrageous, shocking, silly, or stupid, the only requirements are that the photo features an iPad with Boardistan.com up on the screen. The rest is up to you. Simply click here to email the photo. [click to continue…]
Consolidated Skateboard’s Steve “Birdo” Guisinger (pictured right with Leticia Ruano) gets the local hero profile treatment on Santacruz.com and uses it to kick off their Don’t Do It Foundation. The non-profit organization is dedicated to supporting local core shops.
“It’s message,” Guisinger says. “’Keep the surf skate and snowboard industry in the hands of those that are passionate about it.’” . . . “If all you have is a mall or sporting goods chain in your town, we ask that you don’t support them, and instead order from a skater owned, online store,” it says. . . Guisinger sees it as a simple choice. “The only way for local stores to survive is to drive mall chains out of business,” he explains. “So we want people at whatever cost to not support the mall chain. You vote with your money. If you go to the mall chains, you’re only empowering them. Go to your local skate shop. If you don’t have a local skate shop, buy online from a local company.”
It appears a lot can be done by not doing something.
Laguna Beach, California’s 210 AR4T Space will host an opening reception for Jamie Lynn and Friends’ABC’s and 123 show on November 20, 2010 at 6 PM. The new show features works created specifically for children by Jamie Lynn, Bryan Iguchi, Ben Brough, and Brennan Coyle.
For our first Christmas in Laguna Beach, 210 AR4T Space and The JLA Project have commandeered the help of artist and legendary snowboarder Jamie Lynn to transform the gallery into a wonderland of art created especially for children. . . 210 AR4T Space will be home to a living children’s book full of letters, numbers, characters, color, and poetry.
The most recent multiformat Tony Hawk title from Activision has had a disastrous launch in the US, selling only 3000 units in its first week in October.
GameFocus.ca is already calling it a “commercial failure.” But we wouldn’t know because we (like most in the media) have not even played the new game.
Stereo is proud to announce the addition of East Coast original Jack Sabback to the Pro roster. Look for Jack in upcoming Stereo/HiFi projects in the imminent future. —Mackenzie Eisenhour
“Jack represents proper East Coast street skating, and we’re siked to welcome him into the Stereo family.” —Chris Pastras
“Yeah mate! Welcome to the team, its been a freakin’ long time in the making! We’re on a next hype!” —Benny Fairfax
“Jack’s a well educated, stand up guy. Among many other talents, his approach to skating is unique and spontaneous. I’m proud to have him on the team.” —Clint Peterson
Recently, more and more smart companies are putting all their video efforts together into one place online ala Vice’s VBS.TV. Volcom has been running Stoneyour.TV for a while now. Burton launched their video blog Lifeline.TV earlier this year and now Vans is doing something similar with Offthewall.TV.
Mirroring a traditional television network but operating exclusively on-line, Offthewall.tv will include original content developed weekly as well as video from Vans’ vast archives in a platform that is easy to navigate, is searchable, easily shared and available worldwide. The heart of Offthewall.tv is an intuitive, proprietary player accessing hundreds of videos that allows viewers to subscribe for notification of new episodes of their favorite series, to search for videos by categories and search terms, share via Facebook and Twitter or embed links their own sites plus even edit certain videos to their own liking via a Mashable player.
The show we’re most looking forward to is Get Down with Grosso. Sadly, Jeff Grasso’s show isn’t online yet, but when it is, we’re down.
The “shocker” just might be the perfect name for this skateboard motorcycle contraption from Duluth, Georgia based Performance Concepts. According to a post on Gizmag.com the Motocrossboard looks like this:
The two-wheeled MXB Shocker features a 1,500-watt, 48-volt brushless motor producing almost 5 lb/ft of torque at around 43 amps, which is enough to propel the board to over 35 mph (56 km/h). However, the device’s speed is limited to 20 mph (32 km/h) via gearing and the programmable controller – although this can be unlocked to enjoy the full 35 mph.
The motocrossboard sells for $2,999.00 and if you order now you just might get it in time for Christmas. Nothing says Merry Christmas like a shocker.
The surf, snow, skate Ultimate Boarder Championship is moving to San Diego and Mammoth for its fourth run. The week long event will be held April 2-9, 2011 with surfing at Seaside Reef in Cardiff, California; snowboarding at Mammoth Mountain, and skateboarding in the San Diego Sports Arena.
