In this time of fall snowboard movie premieres it’s good to look back and remember where it all came from. This film of Gunnar Burgson and Vern Wicklund reportedly using their new snow sliding invention in the early 1940s proves that the basics of sliding on snow really haven’t changed all that much in the last 70 years.
Follow the discussion of this clip started by OG shred Andy Coghlan in the facebook History of Snowboarding group.
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Clint Peterson does all the work while Shaun White waits in the van.
[Link: @Shaun_white]
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The crew at Push.ca has a snowboard video series called Living Legends in which they profile some of the biggest names in Canadian snowboarding. Kevin Sansalone has had a impact on world snowboarding for years. Watch and remember (or maybe even learn).
[Link: Push.ca via Board As Fuck]
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In a review of magazine advertising for the first half of 2011 (January through June) the The Association of Magazine Media is reporting that business is slightly up compared to 2010. But only by 1.3 percent. In the action sports magazine space*, however, Transworld Media is pulling through with gains much higher than the average on every title except Skateboarding and Wakeboarding.
Here’s how the titles look in order of performance based on total advertising pages sold in first six months of the year (click here for past reports):
2011 2010 %Chg TRANSWORLD MOTOCROSS 500.22 440.49 13.6 TRANSWORLD SURF 407.77 372.29 9.5 TRANSWORLD RIDE BMX 130.25 120.41 8.2 TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING 351.08 337.17 4.1 TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARDING 432.24 463.30 -6.7 TRANSWORLD WAKEBOARDING 205.86 222.48 -7.5
*Transworld Media is the only action sports publishing company whose titles are tracked by The Association of Magazine Media’s Pub PIB.
[Link: Association of Magazine Media]
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Kelly Clark won her tenth consecutive halfpipe contest, and Japan’s Ryo Aono (picutred left) stomped past Louie Vito to finish off at the 2011 Burton New Zealand Open. Mark McMorris and Jamie Anderson won the slopestyle comp.
Ryo Aono’s championship run started strong with a Frontside 1080 which lead into a Cab 1080, Frontside 900, Backside 900 and Frontside 1080 Double Cork. In second was Louie Vito (USA) with a Crippler, Backside 540 Mute, Frontside 1080 Double Cork, Cab 1080 Double Cork Truckdriver and Frontside 1080. Coming in third was Iouri Podladtchikov with a run that included a Cab 1080, Crippler, Backside 1260 Double McTwist and Frontside 1080.
For more official details and all the results follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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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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