by The Editors on May 5, 2008
Andy Tompkins, the former show director of the Action Sports Retailer has moved over to a new job as show director at Interbike.
Lance Camisasca of Lifeboat Solutions (Interbike’s industry consultantancy), will continue to manage Interbike’s bicycle advocacy efforts and provide input and guidance to Tompkins and Joe Flynn on the strategic development of Interbike shows.
Since both shows are owned by Nielsen Business Media, it’s kind of like getting a new office.
[Link: Bike Biz]
by The Editors on May 2, 2008
According to Investerms :
Volcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VLCM) shares are soaring more than 25% midday Thursday on practically five times trading volume after first quarter results and an analyst price target upgrade.
The California-based clothing and accessory maker that sells products under the brand Volcom has added more than $100 million in market capitalization after reporting a 70.4% increase in first quarter net income. Net income rose to $9.3 million, or 38 cents per share, from $5.5 million, or 22 cents per share, on a 58.5% increase in revenues. Even with this drastic sales growth, Volcom managed to increase gross profit slightly to 52.4% from 52%.
Sometimes we’re glad we don’t own Volcom stock, and other times (like today) we’re bummed.
[Link: Investerms]
by The Editors on May 1, 2008
According to a Marcus Sanders story on Surfline:
San Francisco surfer Adrian Ruiz, 26, was attacked and killed by a shark while surfing at Troncones in Mainland Mexico on Monday afternoon. . . According to local paper Despertar de la Costa, the shark bit him on the right thigh, left a 15-inch wound, and he died from blood loss. He was about 300 yards offshore when attacked, and the situation was aggravated by a lack of emergency services at the beach.
[Link: Surfline.com]
by The Editors on April 28, 2008
Following the Solana Beach shark attack in which a 66-year-old triathlete was killed, the sharks in Florida have been going off. Three bites in three days at New Smyrna Beach.
The latest attack happened Monday as David Alger, 18, was surfing south of the jetty. . . . The beach patrol said he stepped off his board and was bitten on his left foot. . . . Over the weekend, two other surfers were bitten in separate incidents.
[Link: CF News 13]
by The Editors on April 23, 2008
Remember Dale Webster? He’s the completely spun surfer from Northern California who was featured in Dana Brown’s Step into Liquid? Well, he’s still at it according to Sports Illustrated’s Chris Ballard.
Every day for the last 32 years, every single day, he has surfed. He heads out each morning in Bodega Bay, a blustery town on the northern California coast, and paddles into the 50° water, a worn-out 59-year-old in a worn-out wet suit. He’s caught waves during howling storms, while wracked by kidney stones and, once, within snapping distance of a Volvo-sized great white (“never paddled so hard in my life,” he says). He’s gone through 35-plus wet suits and as many surfboards, and he’s scraped off 45 pounds of surf wax, all of it preserved in a gooey, browning mound in his backyard. All that cold water has narrowed his ear canals, and his eyes are bloodshot and glassy, in need of surgery.
Having surfed 96 days straight once before in our lives we can say this: running streaks like that is enough to drive a man deeply, irrevocably crazy. We don’t care what anyone says, Dale Webster is crazy.
[Link: Sports Illustrated]
by The Editors on April 22, 2008
According to the Houston Chronicle William M. Barnum Jr., a director of Zumiez Inc. just bought 54,937 shares of Zumiez.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC, William M. Barnum Jr. reported he bought the shares for $18.05 to $18.40 apiece on Thursday.
Wonder if he knows anything?
[Link: Chron.com]
by The Editors on April 21, 2008
According to the Orlando Sentinel, A 14-year-old girl was bitten on the foot by a shark while surfing Volusia County Beach.
The teen was surfing near Minorca condominiums between 8 and 9a.m. when she stepped off her board in knee-deep water and was bitten on her right foot. She was taken to Bert Fish Memorial Hospital and treated for puncture wounds and lacerations.
We’re glad she’s okay. Apparently that section of the beach is pretty sharky.
[Link: Orlando Sentinel]
by The Editors on April 20, 2008
The surfing community lost one of its most OG members when Parker “Woody” Brown died Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Hale Makua, Kahului, Hawaii. He was 96.
“Woody Brown was one of the first and greatest icons in the history of surfing,” state Sen. Fred Hemmings said Friday.
“He was the essential surfer, an iconoclast: extremely independent, futuristic and, most especially, healthy — which explains why he lived for 96 very productive, wonderful years,” said Hemmings, the 1968 world surfing champion who inaugurated the world professional surfing circuit in 1975. “… I only hope more of us who call ourselves surfers can live the way Woody lived.
Woody Brown is survived by his wife, Macrene; three sons, Woody Brown Jr., William Parker Brown and Jeffrey Sellon; two daughters, Mary Sue Gannon and Jennifer Snyder; and 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
He will be missed, but his legacy will live on.
[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]
by The Editors on April 20, 2008
While we may not so sure about “The Triathlon of a New Generation” a.k.a. the Ultimate Boarder 2008, a contest in which athletes compete in snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding with combined scoring, we are absolutely sure that the right guy won.
Carlsbadistan’s Aaron Astorga edged out pro snowboarder and ESPN commentator Todd Richards and rolled away with a check for $30,000.
“It was an amazing event and everyone had a great time,” said Ultimate Boarder™ champion, Aaron Astorga. “The contest organizers did an unbelievable job of bringing all of the surfers, skaters and snowboarders together and I know a lot of us are already looking forward to next year’s contest.”
Follow the jump for all the details.
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by The Editors on April 19, 2008
In an email sent out to Transworld Media employees on the morning of April 18, 2008 Group Publisher Jeff Griffing announced that after six months on the job he would be leaving Transworld Media and moving east (the second time in the last year that he has quit and moved).
My wife and I have decided to leave southern California to raise my son Jake back east. . . .There will be rumors that I left because I’m frustrated with Bonnier, Winter Park, whatever…..none of which are true.
His replacement: former VP of Sales and long-time Transworld adman Liam Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson will have the distinction of being Transworld Media’s seventh Group Publisher in the last five years.
