We guess he’s the original ZJ. For those who never knew Jefferson “Zuma Jay” Wagner’s story, this piece in the San Francisco Chronicle is a great place to start:
Wagner is owner of Zuma Jay Surfboards, an institution of 33 years that has become a cultural crossroads in Malibu, drawing tourists, celebrities, workaday folk, billionaires and mom-driven surf groms from the valley. He slept in the back of the shop for more than a decade and now holds court behind the counter, dispensing quips and esoteric commentary along with leashes, wax and ding-repair kits.
Follow the link for the rest of this angry surf story.
Now, you’ll never be lost on a mountain again. Podpro solved the ski map dilemma for us.
Podpro is offering a free service for skiers and snowboarders that delivers instant access to more than thirty-three of North America’s most popular ski resorts. With Podpro’s service users can retrieve live weather reports, ski conditions, as well as lodging options from anywhere.
We cruised through and it’s a nice, simple interface for viewing big ski area map .jpg files on the iPhone, plus weather, snowfall, links etc. . .
Shop, eat, surf’s, Tiffany Montgomery attended the Quiksilver shareholders meeting on March 28, 2008 so we didn’t have to. Here are her take-aways. . . wait, she didn’t have any take-aways, just the facts:
Company goals include driving growth in apparel and footwear brands, divesting the equipment business, continuing its initiative to streamline global sourcing, cutting expenses, improving operating profit margins, improving cash flow and reducing debt. . . . Quiksilver now owns 406 retail stores, a $392 million business acounting for 20 percent of apparel and footwear sales last year.
Fans of the classic Nintendo 64snowboarding game 1080, rejoice. The classic old game has been tuned up and relaunched on the DS platform. They’ve also re-tooled Excitebike 64, Mario Tennis, The Legend of Zelda® Majora’s Mask, and Mario Party 3. And they’re selling them for only $19.99.
Kind of makes us bummed that we don’t have any boring conference calls to sit through. [Link: Vooks.net]
One of the nation’s best young skateboarders lives in San Jose, but is never allowed to grind, ollie or kick-flip unless his folks are around.
Harry Murphy, who also has his own sponsor, is only 8 years old.
“I still don’t like to let him out of my sight when he’s skating though,” said dad Paul Murphy.
Even under careful supervision, with a helmet always attached, little Harry is living his dream. In the first grade, he wrote an essay about his desire to become a sponsored skater. A year later he is one.
“As soon as I started,” Harry said, pushing back red-brown curls spilling from his helmet, “I wanted someone to sponsor me.”
Chris Broderick, guitarist for the speed metal band Megadeth just updated his blog at Blabbermouth.net. He wanted everyone to know that he’s at Mammoth Mountain snowboarding . . . in a helmet. And we thought he was a head-banger.
It’s been a while since I have posted here so I figured I would try to catch up. Right now I am up in Mammoth Mountain, CA snowboarding. I invited Dave [Mustaine, MEGADETH mainman] and Justis [Dave’s son] to come up but I think they are more into warm weather sports, however, they do have a run named after Dave here.
Failed pro snowboarder Rick McCrank is part of the new push by Peta2, the worlds largest youth animal rights organization, to promote being nice to animals.
Shown on his skateboard doing a noseblunt in 15 sequential shots, McCrank goes on to say, “I am a professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and father. For me, eating meat feels unnatural.”
After having a major whinge in the weeks leading up to the event, Kelly Slater finally manned up and crushed the competition at the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach. In as story titled “Kells Bells” Australia’s The Age put it this way.
With three minutes left in the 35-minute final, Slater blasted off the top of a wave, leaving the crowd, commentators and surely the judges, gasping at his spectacular aerial skills. . . “I was really surprised Bede let me paddle up there (to Rincon) by myself,” he said. “I caught a little one (wave) and it wasn’t very good, then looked out the back and there was a really good one, so I went and sat out there.” . . . The “really good one” produced a score of 8.30 for Slater, which combined with his next-best wave gave him a total winning score of 15.63.
We’re just glad to see Kelly hungry and back on the hunt. He makes the ASP tour worth watching, no doubt.
The crew at Robust Flavor is sending it with viral videoness. As the proprietor said, “A video on Youtube.com can get one million views, that’s more people than read the action sports magazines. And putting it out on Youtube is free.”
The gadget wanks at my favorite technology blog Gizmodo (specifically writer Brian Lam) are getting together at Alpine Meadows on April 5, 2008 for a techno snowboard “meetup.”
The place: Alpine Meadows. The Time: 9AM, upstairs in the main lodge cafeteria or something Nokia is coming with a fleet of N95s we can use, and Vudu and JBL are donating a prizes to give away, as are a few others who aren’t locked down yet.
This is probably the entire snowboard industry’s target market so it may be something worth checking out: Alex Birch and Rick Alden you guys listening?
