Someone, please hook Jack Mitrani up with a full-time acting gig so he can move on from snowboarding. This Burton “Winter Storm Warning” news segment is the best thing he’s ever done. It’s like he was built for this. From here on out Jack should do the acting, and Danny Davis, well, he has a nice mustache, but he should probably just keep riding that logo stick.
[Link: Burton Snowboards]
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After a week on the hot, bikini-ass strewn sands of Huntington Beach, California it’s nice to know the heads at Windells are still keeping things chill on snow at Mt. Hood. We’re taking this as a nice little snow refresher after a salty week of wading waste deep in nearly naked teens.
[Link: Windells]
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The 2011 Burton New Zealand Open kicks off August 9, 2011 (which is basically today thanks to the time change) with more than 240 athletes at Cardrona Alpine Resort in Wanaka, New Zealand.
Now in its ninth year, the BNZO is offering a NZ$50,000 prize purse for top-placed riders in both events. MINI will also launch this season’s ramped up version of the Creative Use of Space Award (CUOS) that started for the first time at last year’s BGOS events. Worth a total of $85,000, this year’s CUOS will include three key elements: most creatively built slopestyle feature, most creative trick utilizing the CUOS slopestyle feature and most creative halfpipe trick.
Live online coverage of the event begins August 12, 2011 (August 11, 2011 PST) on www.opensnowboarding.com. Click here to watch it or follow the jump for all the official details including a complete schedule. [click to continue…]
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Tim Stone, a 29-year-old Australian snowboarder, who had taken his snowboard off to climb the side of Tarn Basin near the Mt. Cheesman Ski Area on Friday, slipped and fell to his death, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
“As a result of slipping on the ice he couldn’t stop and just slid down into rocks, causing a massive head injury,” Senior Constable Dave Watkins of Darfield Police told AAP on Monday. . . The accident happened about 12pm (10am AEST) on Friday, when the man, as yet unnamed, and his two male friends were climbing out of the basin after a morning of snowboarding.
According to The Press, Stone was not wearing a helmet. Our thoughts are with the Stone’s family and friends.
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald and The Press]
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Click here for a complete photo gallery of day 1.
When the Agenda Show opened at Huntington Beach, California Hyatt Hotel yesterday (August 3, 2011) it didn’t take long for the place to fill right up. And that didn’t seem to bother show co-founder Aaron Levant all that much.
“Even in the first two hours it was packed everywhere we went,” Levant said. “The valet filled up and there was no where to park. We’re having some logistical problems like that, but they’re good ones, just because there are so many people here. We’ve been getting compliments all morning. It’s good show.”
Levant brought the show back to Huntington Beach after a January show in Anaheim because there’s just nothing like the synergy created by the US Open, Huntington Beach, and being right in the middle of it all.
“This is our third year in a row that we have coincided with the US Open,” Levant said. “The US Open has a lot of energy. And the two things together has an undeniable draw for someone traveling from across the country or across the world. They can come out to Agenda, get business done, hang out at the US Open. See the contest. See the free concerts. I think that whole synergy together is kind of undeniable.”
While the space in Anaheim was larger, Levant was able to bring close to 350 brands back to the Hyatt thanks to a temporary building called The Pavillion. “We really wanted to come back to Huntington for the summer with the US Open and the whole vibe here,” he said. “So that’s why we had to build that whole zone, because we just maxed out the space here.”
Not a bad problem to have, actually.
Click here for the complete photo gallery.
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According to their new ad in the August 2011 issue of Snowboarder Magazine (we subscribe on Zinio) when you think of their Artifact Rocker, Rome Snowboards would also like you to think about blown out, aging porn stars. Apparently, both are “stuffed with hot rods.” Get it? Hot rods.
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Here is an example of why we’ve always liked pro shred Kevin Jones and why he is a refreshing reset button for snowboarding. In an interview with Russell Winfield on Yobeat,com Jones was asked if he “took a bunch of time off from snowboarding.” KJ’s answer:
No, I didn’t take time off snowboarding, I stopped being a tool bag for the idiots that control snowboarding “culture”. I just snowboarded without cameras for three years…. it was very refreshing.
Kevin “stopped being a tool bag for the idiots.” That may be the best line of snowboard poetry we’ve ever read. It nice to see Kevin back on the mic. Click the link for the rest.
[Link: Yobeat.com]
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There really is only one affordable way to spend the summer riding at Mt. Hood–and that’s by digging. Yobeat.com takes a look at the day in the life of the crew that keeps Windells on the smooth and groomed.
[Link: Yobeat]
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Shaun White was in New York City on Monday night July 18, 2011 to attend the premiere of the Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis film Friends With Benefits at the Ziegfeld Theater. In the film Shaun White plays himself, apparently, according to a story on Entertainment Alley. As they said:
Benefits screenwriters, Keith Merryman and David A. Newman were also in attendance, as was Olympic-winning snowboarder Shaun White – who plays himself in the flick. The “Flying Tomato” rocks, but his porn ‘stache is kind of freaking me out!
Can’t say we disagree. Will be interesting to see him freaking out on the big screen. Friends opens around the country Friday, July 22, 2011.
[Link: Entertainment Alley]
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Pro snowboarder Aaron Robinson was reportedly killed Tuesday, July 19, 2011 while riding in the backcountry near El Colorado, Chile, according to a story on ESPN/Action.
Arnau Fernández, the marketing manager at Valle Nevado, Chile, . . . said that Robinson was doing road laps in the area known as Santa Teresita when he fell and hit his head on rocks.
Robinson was the two-time winner of the North Face Masters Tour and was obviously no stranger to big mountain riding. Our thoughts are with his family (especially his brother Jason) and all of his friends.
[Link: ESPN/Action and Frequency via Yobeat.com]
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