Casio G-Shockhas signed up US Halfpipe champion Louie Vito as a brand ambassador and now Louie will have a new sticker on his board and some pretty tough watches to wear around.
“I am hyped to be joining the G-Shock family,” said Vito. “From their superior products to their rad team, I back everything they stand for and are doing.”
It’s likely that Vito is even more stoked on the monthly check he’ll be getting from the Japanese time keeping giant. For the official word, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Friday, March 9: Slopestyle Finals // 6:30 AM — 1 PM PST
Saturday, March 10: Halfpipe Finals // 6:30 AM — 1 PM PST
Click the link to catch all the action. It’s almost like being there, without having to park three mies away or getting crushed in the crowd. Follow the jump for an even more detailed schedule including Central Europe, New Zealand, and Japan Time Zones. [click to continue…]
Competitors got an early start today (March 8, 2012) in the Burton US Open of Snowboarding Halfpipe Semi-Finals and it’s a good thing they did because by the end of the day’s event the pipe was getting pretty warm and slushy. Lucky for Greg Bretz (above) he put down his frontside melon, backside inverted 900 mute, frontside 1080 tail grab, Cab 720 mute and a frontside double cork 1080 indy run right away and got to watch everyone try to beat it. No one did. Danny Davis and Louie Vito came the closest. The 13 qualifiers from the semi-finals will join former event winners Danny Kass, Kazuhiro Kokubo, and reportedly Shaun White (though he has a history of bailing on the US Open at the last moment) in the finals.
In the women’s comp Elena Hight continued her dominating ways and threw her “banger backside method, frontside 720 melon grab, Cab 720 mute grab, frontside indy grab, backside 900 no grab and an alley pop backside rodeo indy grab. Elena, Arielle Gold, Gretchen Bleiler and and four other qualifiers will join Kelly Clark in the halfpipe finals on Saturday, March 10, 2012.
Follow the jump for the official word from Burton and complete results. [click to continue…]
From the number of dead opossums we see by the side of the road, we would expect more of them are into skateboarding, but this one apparently loves the snow at Liberty Mountain, Pennsylvania. We apologize in advance.
Kent Callister is turning out to be the most photogenic new kid on the booter.
Would you be surprised if we were to tell you that Sebatien Toutant and Jamie Anderson were the top slope style qualifiers in the 2012 Burton US Open of Snowboarding? No? Well don’t be because Seb busted out a Cab hard way 270, Cab double under flip mute grab, backside double cork 1080 mute grab, frontside on to wall ride 360 out, 50-50 to backside rodeo melon grab out on his first run and no one even came close even though they had two more tries. Maxence Parrot and Janne Korpi qualified in second and third.
For the women Jamie Anderson locked down a second run that included a board slide 270 out, backside 540 mute grab, switch backside 540 mute grab, backside tail slide and 50-50 to tail grab. Kjersti Østgaard Buaas qualified in second and Spencer O’Brien nabbed the third spot.
Burton US Open of Snowboarding slopestyle finals go down Friday, March 9, 2012 at 06:15 am (PST). Follow the jump for complete results.
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Signal Snowboards had a great urban snowboarding idea. Rent a house in Minnesota and use it for filming base. Sadly, the winter never really hit all that hard, but the low snow content didn’t stop the Signal video cameras from rolling, apparently. More videos are on the way, so yeah, we guess we’re feeling Minnesota, too.
Snowboarder Austen Sweetin is now on the Zeal Optics team and this “coffee addict from Washington. . . who is known as the “Golden Child” of snowboarding for his sunny disposition and skills on a board” would like to tell you all about his new deal and why he’s so into it.
Police think the Snowboarder Bandit robbed another bank on Monday, March 5, 2012, but this time he left his shred gear at a home and reportedly wore a motorcycle helmet and a black leather jacket, according to a story on KTLA.com.
The robber. . . robbed the Schools First Credit Union on East Santa Ana Canyon Road. . . Investigators think the robber — believed to be about 25-years-old . . . He typically gives the teller a note implying he has a weapon, and then demands cash.
This brings his total to nine robberies since December 2011. And yeah, we’re going to ride this one out. We apologize in advance.
Casio G-Shock has signed up US Halfpipe champion Louie Vito as a brand ambassador and now Louie will have a new sticker on his board and some pretty tough watches to wear around.
