In a shockingly conservative veto California Governor Jerry Brown slammed the door on Senate Bill 105 that hoped to require helmets on the slopes for anyone under 18, according to a story in the Sacramento Bee.
Brown says in a veto message Wednesday that helmets provide protection, but parents can and should make good choices for their children without the state getting involved. . . The Democratic governor says “not every human problem deserves a law.”
And on that we have to agree. California voters likely hope this is an attitude Gov. Brown continues with in other areas as well.
Apparently, US Snowboard Team Alpine racer Vic Wild, 25, is planning to throw in the towel on the United States of America and race for Russia in the coming season, according to a story on Russia Today
Vic Wild, husband of Russia’s world champion in parallel slalom Alyona Zavarzina, has expressed a wish to compete for the Russian national team, says the head of the Russian skiing and snowboarding federation. . . “Currently we are preparing the papers to be admitted to the Russian citizenship. It’s hard to say now how long it will take,” Leonid Melnikov told the Sport-Express newspaper. “We are very interested in this athlete. He would add more competitiveness within the team. We know him as a professional and disciplined guy,” said Melnikov, adding that Wild has already begun learning Russian.
We guessing the US Team won’t mind all that much. Za vas, Vic.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 is shred movie night at the ThirtyTwo headquarters in Lake Forest, California. Ammo and Videograss’Shoot The Moon (click for the teaser) are premiering and there will be free food. What more can you ask for?
Ashbury has a new am. His name is Justin Fronius here he is in an edit by Working for the City’s Jon Stark. If we knew anything more about it, we’d tell you for sure.
Depending on how you look at it, Andrew Keel’sMotocrossboard is either either a two-wheeled, motorized, dirtboard or a very small, light motorcycle that you stand on sideways. Either way it appears to be another strange way to roll through the woods standing sideways.
This news indicates that the FIS executive committee has chosen to disregard the work of a joint task force that was established this past May by members of FIS Snowboarding, FIS National Associations, athletes, judges and the TTR to address the Olympic qualification processes for snowboarding.
Add Andy Finch and Tommy Czeschin to the list of snowboarders who are followingLouie “Tiny Dancer” Vito into the world of reality TV as the two shreds compete as a team in the CBS reality travel show The Amazing Race.
Here is their bio:
As members of the United States Olympic Snowboarding team in 2002 and 2006 respectively, Tommy Czeschin, 31, and Andy Finch, 30, have “years of experience knowing how to be focused and get in our zone,” Finch says. But they know their weaknesses. “Typical snowboarder – the book smarts part of it is probably going to be the hardest for us,” Czeschin says.
The season premiere is September 25, 2011 at 8 PM. And yes, this will be good.
Greg Dacyshyn, Burton’s Chief Creative Officer, had a column on “innovation” in the Burlington Free Press today. In it he talks about how meaningful the term “standing sideways” is to him and how innovating Burton is.
As for innovation, there is no denying that it is at the core of what we do here at Burton. We’re literally obsessed with making our products better. It started when Jake Burton hand-built over 100 different snowboard prototypes in his Vermont barn back in 1977. At that time he was making snowboards using the construction techniques of skateboards, surfboards, boats, water skis, and even solid wood furniture. He tells a great story about how, since there were no snowboard manufacturing machines, he had do it all by hand, and almost killed himself twice when wooden blanks shot off his hand router and went through a wall.
In a shockingly conservative veto California Governor Jerry Brown slammed the door on Senate Bill 105 that hoped to require helmets on the slopes for anyone under 18, according to a story in the Sacramento Bee.
