All we can say about Brad Domke’s big wave skimming is: what?
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Apparently, NBC Sports action arm Alli Sports has an unlimited tolerance for pushing flame retardant, mouse dissolving, caffeinated, carbonated high fructose corn syrup on the youth of the world as they’ve just announced that they have signing up for four more years of partnership with Pepsi Co. Along with this comes plans for a three venue annual tour: beach, city, mountain.
“The action sports landscape has grown and changed dramatically since we launched the Dew Tour in 2005. The multi-stop series format was what the industry wanted and needed then. The Dew Tour changed the industry forever, taking the sports to a whole new level. The new Dew Tour, which will include three major events across Beach, City and Mountain venues, represents what the athletes and industry want and need today,” said Wade Martin, President & CEO, Alli Sports. “We believe our partnership with Mountain Dew represents one of the most unique, integrated relationships between brand and property in all of sports. This partnership extension and the new approach we created for the Dew Tour together with Mountain Dew, the athletes and the industry, truly underscores that.”
The new tour will feature stops in Ocean City, Maryland; San Francisco, California; and Breckenridge, Colorado. For the official word, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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A large sewage spill in San Diego County reportedly flowed right down the Tijuana River and into Imperial Beach on April 4, 2012 and no on notified anyone of the spill, according to a story on NBC San Deigo.
The spill was caused by a software malfunction in the treatment plant, an engineer for International Boundary and Water Commission told NBC San Diego. . . Raw sewage and runoff water spilled in the plant for three hours before any of the workers realized, the plant’s engineer said. . . The spill flooded parts of the plant’s system, which filters about 25 million gallons of Tijuana sewage. As a result of the sewage spill, the filtration system shut down, allowing that water to flow unfiltered into the Tijuana River.
Officials said they didn’t report the spill because the water that got out was “actually cleaner than the water that’s in the river,” county spokesman Gig Conaughton. No so said surfer and sewage taste tester Anthony Marsh. “It’s like a really raspy taste, and you could see the foam and the brown in the water.”
And that’s how hard IB surfers are. . .
[Link: NBC San Diego]
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ActionWatch, the “action sports industry’s premier source for market intelligence,” has formed a joint venture with Australasian Surf Business Magazine to provide market intelligence from the independent surf retail channel to the Australian surf market.
“The experience we have gained developing the ActionWatch program in the U.S. makes us much more efficient with launches in other countries,” said ActionWatch co-founder Cary Allington. “We’ve wanted to better utilize the infrastructure we have developed by expanding into other countries for a long time, but we needed a perfect partner. It is clear to us that ASB is the perfect partner for us in Australia.”
For the official details follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Four-time ASP World Champ Stephanie Gilmore downed current ASP World Champion Carissa Moore 15.76 to 15.06 to win stop three on the ASP Women’s World Tour, the TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival on Saturday, April 14, 2012.
“This is by far the best start to a season I’ve had in my career,” Gilmore said. “To have three Finals straight off the bat, I’m kind of tripping out. It’s really cool. That was a really close final, I’m sure it could have gone either way. I watched Carissa’s (Moore) wave from behind and she did that huge first turn and then raced to the next section, but if she did another turn straight away, I’m sure she would have gotten the score. I’m glad it went my way though.”
Follow the jump for the official word from the ASP. [click to continue…]
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For all the details on SIMA’s 23rd Annual Waterman’s Weekend scheduled for August 10-11, 2012 at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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If this footage of Lee Wilson doesn’t get you packing your bags for Indo, we’re not really sure there’s anything that will.
[Link via Balibelly.tv]
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Saturdays, NYC’s hipster surf boutique, worked with Shut NYC to create the Saturdays x Shut Skateboard Deck. The board is 29.6 x 7.75 and features 7-ply hardwood maple, Ace Trucks, Shut Wheels, Bones Abec 7 Bearings, and it’s all made in the USA. Completes are $180 and are currently available on the Saturdays website.
[Link: Saturdays via Slamxhype]
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Police say Kevin McGarry, 42, of Ocean Township was found face down off the Jersey Shore’s Roosevelt Avenue Beach Wednesday afternoon April 11, 2012. He was wearing a wetsuit and still attached to his surfboard, according to a story on NJ.com.
He is not believed to have been in the water for an extended period of time when a fisherman spotted him near a rocky jetty off of Roosevelt Avenue, said borough police spokesman Capt. Earl Alexander. . . An autopsy will be conducted tomorrow to determine a cause of death, he said.
According to officials, it appears McGarry died “as the result of a surfing accident.” Our thoughts are with McGarry’s family and friends.
[Link: NJ.com]
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