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In a filing today with the SEC among the list of purposes for Quiksilver’s next shareholders meeting (March 26, 2010) was item number three (directly following a proposal to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock by 100 million):
3. To consider and vote upon a proposal to approve the grant of 3,000,000 shares of our restricted common stock to Kelly Slater as part of his sponsorship agreement;
Getting Kelly Slater to buy-in on the future of the company is a pretty good idea, actually. Few things are more motivating than the idea that you could make $20 million (or more) in the next couple years if Quik’s stock ever climbs up out of the dumps. Nice thinking.
[Link: SEC]
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Like vultures feeding on the pop music dead it seems the super-groups just keep coming. This time it’s Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey and bass player Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes who are kicking off a psycho ’surf rock band’ called The Break, according to a story on Beatcave.
The foursome releases its debut album, Church Of The Open Sky, on April 16th via the Bombora label. . . The band’s official website already features a new song, “Cylinders,” which they describe as having “maximum surf and twang, sturm and drang.” The song is actually the first single and will be available Feb. 9 via iTunes. . . With 15 tracks, each named after legendary surf breaks, the music is definitely exciting, a nice blend of surf-guitar rock, but with a modern twist – maybe even a hint of the Oils in there as well.
Sounds a little like Devo’s p-twang band The Wipeouters to us, but it’s all good.
[Link: Beat Cave]
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Seems everyone just got back from a SIMA Surf Summit, but that’s not stopping anyone from getting back on track. This year’s Surf Summit, scheduled for May 12-15, 2010, will be for both surf manufacturers and retailers (if there are any left).
This year the annual Surf Summit conference will be taken to the next level by unifying the SIMA and BRA conferences into one event that will truly encompass and showcase the entire surf industry. With a larger manufacturer and retailer presence and a stronger representation of the industry’s top leaders, Surf Summit 13 will be a more complete union of the tribe. . . “Surf Summit can only be made better by including the Board Retailers Association members and staff,” said Doug Palladini, SIMA President and VP of Marketing for Vans. “I’m really pleased that the BRA leadership agrees in all the mutually beneficial gains that can be generated by combining our forces for this important leadership event going forward.”
Wonder if they’re going to invite any members of the independent boardsports media? Follow the jump for more info.
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Gregory Gladstone, 38, was found floating by his board near the Newport Pier in Newport Beach, California on Saturday January 23, 2010 and was later pronounced dead at Hoag Hospital. Officials still don’t know exactly what happened, according to the OC Register.
Lifeguards were alerted to an unattended surfboard and a possible missing surfer at about 9:50 a.m., said Jennifer Schulz, spokeswoman for the Newport Beach Fire Department. Lifeguards originally reported the victim unconscious after they found him floating near the surfboard.
The coroners office said an autopsy will be done. According to the story Gladstone was a “longtime Newport surfer” who had two young children.
[Link: OC Register]
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Hey, looks like the perfect day check out the reef at Pipe (with a mask and snorkel). No VeeCo contest on Day 1 or 2 (Jan. 23-24, 2010), but there is still time.
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Wondering what Christian Fletcher has been up to lately (aside from attending surf movie premieres)? Wonder no more. It’s all right here: ChristianFletcherSurf.com.
[Link: Christian Fletcher via @surfermag]
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Ever since Jeff Clark was removed from his position as contest director of the Mavericks Surf Contest (an event he founded) we figured it would all end up in court eventually. Now, according to a press release sent out yesterday, it has.
The lawsuit comes one week after an already re-scheduled mediation was canceled by MSV attorney Paul Marotta and CEO Keir Beidling, claiming the Mavericks Surf Contest would be held that week. It was not. . . “I’ve waited patiently and remained quiet in an effort to settle our issues in private, without casting a shadow over the contest that I founded. But it’s obvious MSV has no intention of working this out. They have forced me to file suit in order to move on with my life,” Clark said.
Clark’s complaint, filed in Superior Court in San Francisco, and states that Mavericks Surf Ventures “breached its contracts with Clark, withheld payments on those contracts, and breached its fiduciary duties to shareholders by the Board’s self-dealing, squandering of corporate assets and failure to disclose even basic financial and other corporate information. The suit claims that, in breaching their fiduciary duties, MSV and its current directors acted with oppression, fraud and malice.”
Sounds like this one is going to go the distance. . . click here for all the back story.
[Link: ESPN and Global Surf News]
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Bridge to Terabithia star Anna Sophia Robb is staring as Bethany Hamilton in a bio-pic titled Soul Surfer which tells the story of a surfer girl who gets her arm bitten off by a shark while surfing, according to celebrifi. Another blog, The Boot adds the following info:
One of the actors in the film, Kevin Sorbo shared information about Carrie being cast in the film via Twitter: “Name of movie is ‘soul surfer.’ touching story. i will be starring with dennis quaid, helen hunt, carrie underwood, anna sophia robb,” he writes.
Shooting starts January 25, 2010 on Oahu.
[Link: celebrifi and The Boot]
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We got lost when the contest was called off after two heats in the semi-finals. Then the finals snuck right by us. Apparently Maxime Huscenot, the 17-year-old charger from Reunion Island, and Australian Laura Enever, 18, claimed their ASP World Junior Titles while we weren’t watching. The two reportedly dominated “the punchy two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves on offer at North Narrabeen for the final day of the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships.”
“This is the biggest day of my life and it’s absolutely unbelievable,” Huscenot said. “It feels like I just won a heat, not the ASP World Title – it’s incredible. Jadson (Andre) is an amazing surfer and the whole Brazilian team rips so hard. I cannot believe it is my day. I am at a loss for words.”
Laura Enever just wanted to do well at home.
“I just wanted to go out and have fun and that’s what I did,” Enever said. “This is my home and I’m so stoked to be here with all my friends and family giving me so much support. This is the best day of my life. It’s been my dream forever to win here at home and now that I’ve done it, I’m at a loss for words.”
For the entire ASP press release, follow the jump.
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