Anyone who has ridden the canyon at Mt. Waterman knows that it is one of the best, if not the best snowboard run in North America. People who haven’t been there, however, would never believe terrain like this could exist one hour from downtown LA.
Now that the resort has reopened after a five year close, everyone has the chance to experience one of California snowboarding’s best kept secrets. Don’t miss it.
[Link: LA Times]
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Electronic Arts has reportedly signed a “multi-year strategic partnership that joins EA SPORTS™, the world’s leading sports software brand, with IMG and its global network for marketing and licensing in sports and entertainment.”
“We’re very pleased to be working with EA SPORTS, the clear leader in sports gaming,” said Bruno Maglione, Co Managing Director of WW Licensing at IMG. “We’re excited by the many possibilities this partnership presents us. The potential of the EA SPORTS label to extend into other relevant consumer areas is both powerful and compelling.”
Does this mean we’re going to see and EA US Open of Surfing game in the near future?
[Link: Earthtimes.org]
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We should expect this from the New York Post, but then seeing it in print is still funny. Columnist Ken Moran starts his Stratton Mountain sports story out like this:
STRATTON Mountain was the birthplace of snowboarding and always has offered the best in parks and pipes to boomers, blazers and women’s clinics.
He then loads on a bunch of press release information loaded up with complete fabrications. It’s surprising that writers like Ken are still getting paid.
[Link: New York Post]
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Pop will definitely eat itself. Eric Bush, the kid who was shown on Youtube being thrown around by Baltimore police officer Salvatore Rivieri is now getting all kinds of media attention. Maybe he can turn it into a career in reality television.
[Link: Baltimore Sun]
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Matt Skenazy spends the day with surfer/journalist Daniel Duane author of Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast and finds him pretty much exactly how you’d expect to find a freelance writer: spending time with his wife and kids, visiting the Saturday farmers market and sending out queries. Matt Warshaw and Steve Hawk are quoted.
[Link: City Hill Press]
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The San Francisco Chronicle profiled Ian Johnson today mentioning that art school dropout has work being “featured right now at San Francisco’s White Walls Gallery, another show is coming up in Tokyo in May and a book on his art is due in August.” And Ian says he owes it all to skateboarding.
“Skateboarding is entirely responsible for where I am right now with my art career,” says Johnson, who is known for his detailed portraits of authors and jazz music icons from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. “I’ve always been into art but never really considered it as a career until Western Edition launched.”
Click the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: San Francisco Chronicle]
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Sole Tech’s Bill Conrad, who builds window displays for Emerica and sets up their tradeshow booths was in Las Vegas on his birthday and won $1.7 million at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Congratulations, Bill! Spend it all in one place! Just kidding. Don’t do that. And you better not quit your job here, cuz we love ya.
Let’s see, $600,000 will go to taxes, another chunk to paying bills, we’d say maybe you should keep your day job, Bill.
[Link: Emerica Skate]
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From The Daily Telegraph:
JAPANESE “Yakuza” gangsters have launched a campaign of intimidation to force a media blackout on the furore surrounding the country’s killing of dolphins and whales, it was claimed yesterday.
Australian surfer Dave Rastovich attracted world headlines after he and conservationists including actress Isabel Lucas travelled to the Japanese fishing village of Taiji last year to protest at its annual dolphin kill.
Rasta says:
“These are the goons from the fishing industry who are visiting surf stores intimidating people and threatening to punish them financially,” Rastovich said.
“People are feeling it. They are washing their hands of us. They don’t feel safe”.
[Link: The Daily Telegraph]
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Guess standing out in the water holding a paddle can get pretty boring. Maybe that’s why Laird Hamilton has decided he needs a little tunage while he’s out janitoring.
H2O Audio, the leading watersports music company, announced today that Laird Hamilton has officially been appointed to its Board of Directors. As a member of the Board, Hamilton will be strategically guiding the company with marketing its brand and developing its next generation of surf/music products.
Luckily, their product is already solid.
[Link: PR Newswire]
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According to Boardsport Source:
Quiksilver, Inc. reported that Robert McKnight has resumed his role as president of Quiksilver, Inc. and remains both chairman of the board and CEO. Mr. McKnight will again direct the company’s strategic and operational initiatives as it focuses on its Quiksilver, Roxy and DC core apparel and footwear brands, seeks to improve its operating results and implements strategic initiatives for the Rossignol group.
The company also announced that Bernard Mariette has resigned from his position as president and as a director of the company in order to pursue other interests, which may include attempting to acquire the Rossignol group. As previously announced, J.P. Morgan is conducting a process on behalf of the company to reduce its exposure to the winter sports equipment business, including a possible sale.
Avoir, Bernard. Hope you have better luck buying Rossignol the second time around. Quik was up 53 cents on the news.
[Link: Boardsport Source and LA Times]
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