A little behind the scene’s product and design discussion from Damien Hobgood on The Goods via our new friends at Super Spectacular Adventures.
[Link: Super Spectacular Adventures and The Goods]
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March 2009
No surprise. Kelly Clark edged out Mercedes Nicoll, and Sarah Conrad to win the Roxy Chicken Jam at Mammoth Mountain, California.
Kelly lived up to her reputation today as ‘Queen of the Halfpipe’ and took home her second consecutive Roxy Chicken Jam 6Star win. This puts her in excellent position to go after her first Swatch TTR World Title in tomorrow’s Slopestyle competition. “The title would be an amazing bonus to a really great season to me right now” said Kelly Clark setting her eyes on the prize. “It would just be like icing on the cake.”
If you liked that sample then follow the jump for more official PR writing from the Swatch TTR.
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In a country where a vacationing woman was thrown in jail for two months for drugs after being given an injection by a doctor at a Dubai hospital and another couple spent three months in prison for allegedly having sex on the beach it’s amazing that anyone would show up for a protest. But surfers in Dubai did just that on March 29, 2009 after a swimmer died Friday on Sunset Beach near the world famous Burj Al Arab hotel, according to a story in The National.
The municipality argues that surfers are a hazard to swimmers, but defenders of the sport claim they actually save lives, and that Friday’s tragedy illustrates their point. . . “There would have been surfers to pull out the person who drowned as we often do, but we were just too afraid to turn up, not knowing what to expect from the police and municipality,” said Danny Van Doreen, of Surf Dubai.
Surfers have been ticketed not just for surfing, but also for having surfboards on the beach or in their cars. The surfers say the beaches that have been closed to surfers are the only beaches which “benefit from swells generated by winds blowing down the Gulf,” and they have no place else to go.
We wish them luck.
[Link: The National]
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Though we rarely venture into the land of the Action Sports Group online, we tried to visit Surfingthemag.com a little after noon today and nothing came up. So we tried Surfermag.com. . . nada. Skateboardermag.com? Nope. Snowboardermag.com? No.
In fact, none of their sites were up. Wonder what’s going down at Source Interlink? Aside from their ASG websites, we mean? We’d call them to see what’s up, but we’d kind of rather wait to see how long it takes them to figure it out.
[Editors’ Note: By 3:15 PM the sites were back up. Nice work]
[Link: Action Sports Group]
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Randy Laybourne is opening a new collection of photographs today March 28, 2009 at Concepia in Friday Harbor, Washington. The show titled Going (flickr collection here) features images from Randy’s recent relocation/honeymoon trip from California to Canada. The opening party, which is also the grand opening of the gallery is today from 2-5 PM. If you can’t make it click here to watch the live camera feed.
Concepia, 232 A Street #7, Friday Harbor WA
[Links: Lookforwardtothepast and Concepia]
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And we have to admit, watching Brian Conley step off a moving ski onto a board (no straps) while holding a camera in his right hand, and then get barreled on a Boco Grande monster is just plain crazy. Check it out.
[Link: Billabong XXL 2009]
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The communications person at the Tigard, Oregon Police Department needs a raise. We hear a so many stories about cities and police departments having trouble with skateboarding and yet, none of them ever do anything to promote cooperation. In Tigard the police department decided to host a skateboard competition this Sunday, March 29, 2009, The Tigard Police Skateboard Challenge 2009, according to a story in the Tualatin Times.
“It’s a chance for us to reach out to them and build a better relationship — and hopefully be viewed differently by that group of kids,” said Sergeant Mike Eskew, the officer in charge of youth services. . . While he has never had a bad experience with a skateboarder himself, Eskew acknowledges the animosity traditionally built into skateboarder/police officer relationship. . . . “I think we’re even targets of scorn on video games,” he said.
How sad is it that this “no duh” action on the part of a local police department seems like genius public relations in a world otherwise filled with incompetance? Hopefully, more police departments will take note.
[Link: Tualatin Times]
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What would an Ipath shoe be without a little hemp? The Darius classic boat-shoe stylings features saddle stitched hemp, canvas, a shock absorbing mid sole, and not surprisingly, a secret stash pocket. This is a shoe even some of us Vans fans might wear.
The Darius drops May 15, 2009.
[Link: Ipath]
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The Surfing Heritage Foundation is apparently running into a little opposition in Dana Point, California as organizers push for the proposed $30 million project to be built in what the OC Register describes as a “sprawling, passive park along Pacific Coast Highway and Niguel Road.”
It is the proposed park location that has locals a little upset. At the Surfing Heritage Museum Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 many were not interested in seeing their open space replaced by a 30,000 square foot building no matter how cool its contents.
“For you surfers who didn’t want a freeway ruining your park in San Clemente, we don’t want a building ruining our park in Dana Point. We will support your surf museum, and you need to support open space,” McCabe said. . . Though the current plan met with much opposition at the meeting, some people supported the planned location. San Clemente resident Tom Morey, creator of the iconic Boogie Board, said Dana Point residents should trust their elected leaders, who should do all they can to put the museum in Dana Point.
According to the Dana Point Times:
The location had previously been approved by the City Council as the home of a new library in 2002, but plans to build it fell apart after the proposed $18 million project was denied a state grant. When the Surfing Heritage Foundation approached the city in 2007 with the idea of building a museum they inherited the conceptual plans for the formerly approved 33,300 square foot library. “Instead of books being there it’s going to be surfboards,” said foundation executive director Tom Pezman.”
We love the idea of the museum, and Dana Point is undoubtedly a perfect place for it, it’s just a tad ironic to see surfers fighting on the side of ripping out a park to put in a building.
[Link: OC Register and Dana Point Times]
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Stephen Teran is a 6’5″ shoe salesman from Tucson, Arizona who happens to have Volcom as his Twitter username. He has 60 followers and likes to update with comments like “Taking the trash out. I want to go home already. Supposed to leave 2 hrs ago,” and “buying some sonoran hot dogs.”
Tonight Mr. Teran got the following tweet from the Volcom marketing division’s Willie Marshall: “@volcom yo hit me up, I got a proposition for you.”
We’re guessing that Willie is hoping to obtain Mr. Teran’s username. It will be interesting to see how this little proposition turns out because there are a couple more Twitter brand squatters out there who may be waiting in line for some propositions of their own: Burton, Billabong, Quiksilver, Electric, Roxy, Nixon, Dakine, Hurley, Adio, Rip Curl, Independent, Vans, O’Neill, Etnies, emerica, Gravis, K2 and more.
Looks like Twitter caught the action sports industry by surprise. Why does that not surprise us?
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