[Link: People]
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Snowboarding
Who better to guide a Wall Street Journal tour of the NYC Burton Store than long-time snowboard entrepreneur Rohan Marley. You can probably guess the rest.
[Link: Wall Street Journal]
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The Annual Bear Mountain Hot Dawgs & Hand Rails event on Saturday September 18, 2010 was a reminder that Tahoe Dangerzone star Nick Visconti isn’t just another sports model with a pretty face, pleasing physique, and melodious singing voice. No, he’s a real-deal rail slayer.
“I felt like I rode hard and landed progressive and creative tricks on each feature,” says Nick Visconti. “The level of riding was amazing. Literally on another level. Any one of the competitors could have taken first because everyone was destroying it.”
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Burton’s hardcore unit Special Blend/Foursquare‘s joint seasonal advertising/promotional video Fuck It is now available in the iTunes store for $8.99 (and on DVD for those stuck in the 2000s), though we have to say, this long teaser was quite enough for us.
[Link: Special Blend]
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Chris Brunkhart will be appearing at Laguna Beach, California’s 210 AR4T Space on September 30, 2010 from 6 PM to 10 PM in support of his recently published photography collection How Many Dreams in The Dark.
“How Many Dreams in the Dark” spans two decades at the epicenter of the skate, snowboard and related music and art cultures from Portland, OR to Prague, CZH. From the earliest days of the pioneering Burnside Skate Project, to South American travels with snowboard godfather Craig Kelly, NYC with creative madman Ari Marcopoulos, to Alaska, Japan, Scandinavia and beyond, Chris captures the energy, passion and amazing playscapes of an international tribe of fellow dreamers. . . Says, Brunkhart: “This has been a dream of mine for years: These images tell a story that connects many friends, many places and the world we create in, and I look forward to sharing them with the next generation of creative dreamers.”
Click here to buy the book online and visit 210 AR4T Space at 210 North Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, California.
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Nike 6.0 has reportedly nabbed the title sponsorship position of the Winter Dew Tour’s Breckenridge, Colorado stop according to a Tripp Mickle story in the Sports Business Journal.
In an effort to promote the first line of Nike 6.0 winter outerwear this year, Nike has signed on as the title sponsor of the Winter Dew Tour’s Breckenridge, Colo., event this December. The three-year deal . . . is valued in the low seven figures annually. . .
It’s nice, but it means we won’t have the Totino’s Pizza Open to kick around any longer.
[Link: Sports Business Journal]
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Tony Hawk gets Chaz Ortiz and Dancing With the Stars Louie Vito to demonstrate the new skate-snow crossover video game Tony Hawk Shred, the Swiss Army knife of video games. . . looks kind of confusing.
[Link: Just Push Start]
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The United States Ski and Snowboard Association announced today that they will be adding “freeriding” to the US Revolution Snowboard Tour. Apparently, the word “freeriding” means “skiing” in the completely confused world of snow sports governing organization speak.
“After six years building the U.S. Revolution Tour as the premier mid-level snowboard contest, we recognized the opportunity to grow the series as part of our development within freeride,” said Snowboard and Freeride Director Jeremy Forster. “With the possibility of slopestyle snowboarding and halfpipe skiing being included in the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, beginning to conduct these events together and share resources makes sense. . . . “The host resorts have been stoked on the direction along with positive feedback from the freeride community. Hopefully, the athletes will have fun competing together and it will be a great season for the Revolution Tour.”
Looks like skiing is going to continue riding snowboarding coat-tails for the foreseeable future. How annoying is that? There is nothing wrong with skiing. It just isn’t snowboarding and shouldn’t be snowboarding. Putting skiing and snowboarding together in one event harms the images of both sports (not that we care about skiing’s image). But the USSA will never understand that because they’re too busy saving money on their national tour.
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According to a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine the “most hazardous” event at the Vancouver Olympics was snowboardcross where nearly “75 per cent of female athletes sustained injuries during the rough-and-tumble races.” But it was so much fun to watch.
“Overall, we are a little concerned about the increasing number of injuries that are not just minor,” International Olympic Committee medical commission head Arne Ljungqvist told The Associated Press on Monday. “Some of this can be regulated by stricter rules.”
We always through it was Roller Derby on snow.
[Link: Canadian Press]
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A 14-year-old snowboarder on the Russian National Team died while training in Southern Switzerland, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Valais state police say the 14-year-old died Friday after losing her balance during a jump on a boardercross course in Saas Fee. . . Police say the unidentified athlete was flown to hospital in Visp where she died of head injuries.
According to the report she was wearing both a helmet and spine protection. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
[Link: Sports Illustrated]
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