Twenty years ago, a Canadian ice hockey player named Duncan MacPherson, 23, disappeared while snowboarding on the Stubai glacier in Austria. His still frozen body was found 14 years later by resort workers. Planetski.eu retells the story once more hoping to find some answers.
In that time his parents, Bob and Lynda, fought a long campaign to try to find him, to discover what happened and came across what they believe was bureaucratic bungling, police intransigence and even corruption. There are accusations of something even more sinister. . . .They claim the authorities had no desire to discover what had happened to their son and wanted the whole incident hushed up to protect the multi-billion euro Austrian tourist industry.
Pool party, pool party. . . If you can’t attend it the Pro-Tec Pool Party in person today, then there’s no better place to watch all the action than on Fuel.tv live and online. Show starts at 1 PM PST.
Rob Dyrdek is a trooper. He’ll go out and sell and sell and sell. He’ll even do in-store appearances for DC Shoes at Sport Chalet over in the skate department between the climbing gear and the trampolines.
Craig Levra, Chairman and CEO of Sport Chalet, stated, “We are continuously working to bring unique experiences to our customers that are relevant to their sport of choice. Rob is an icon in skateboarding and an inspiration to many of our customers and we are delighted to have him in our stores this month.”
On Sunday May 17, 2009 from 2 p.m. to 2 p.m. he’ll be in La Canada, California and on May 20, 2009 he’ll be in Tempe, Arizona. And you know what? He’ll do a great job and all the kids will go home happy. Is that so wrong? [click to continue…]
Looks like Tony Hawk (the video game brand) is taking another leap into the future with something called THRide which is apparently being launched at the E3 Expo the first week of June. Here’s what Tony said on Twitter this morning:
Here is the info on our new game (finally!) Warning: highly addictive once you get on board http://bit.ly/ELtc6 . . .The board controller is a marvel of new technology. Responds like a real skateboard, you can even go for grabs and the sensors detect it.
Brown Cannon is a professional photographer who likes to put his water photos on surfboards an then show them in galleries, according to a story in the Marin Journal.
Cannon’s images of whales and waves and water, of sea life and coastal environments – “the full scope of a person’s relationship to the ocean” – adorn classic surfboards that are both fine art and functional – sculpture that you can actually surf on. . . He has been creating these custom boards for two years now in collaboration with GP Surfboards, a company in Capitola near the rideable waves of Santa Cruz.
Currently Browns work appears to be on display at two locations (Richardson Bay Audubon Cetner in Tiburon, CA and Casa Romantica in San Clemente, CA) with a third at The Bolinas Museum going up on May 20, 2009.
The Chicago Park District is apparently opening four Lake Michigan beaches to surfing according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Vince Deur, who founded the Surfrider Foundation’s Lake Michigan chapter in 2007, said Wednesday that supporters met Tuesday with Park District Supt. Timothy Mitchell, who agreed the district would begin taking steps to allow surfing at four beaches between this Labor Day and Memorial Day. . . The surfing group and the Park District are also looking into allowing surfing at the 41st Street Beach all year, beginning perhaps as early as Memorial Day weekend, Deur said.
Billabong’s stock went into a trading halt soon after the market opened yesterday, according to Australia’s the Age and now analysts are stuck trying to figure out exactly what that means.
You’ve got two choices,” one analyst said. “A capital raising for who-knows-why, or a profit downgrade. Or if you want to be really, really wild, how about an upgrade. There’s enough anecdotal evidence to say it’s not on the upside.” . . .A second analyst agreed, saying: “Most of the market’s expecting their profit to come in below their guidance, but not dramatically so.”
We’re not even going to guess on this one. We’ll all know soon enough. But it doesn’t sound good.
Last night, while perusing the most watched YouTube videos of the day on our iPhone we clicked on an interview with former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura on the Larry King Show. We’ll listen to pretty much anything Ventura says for three reasons: one, he a former pro wrestler, two, his Minnesota accent is one of the best on record, and three, he’s insane in a what that makes him seem perfectly sensible.
During the interview Larry asked Governor Ventura if he would “ever want to run for office again.” Ventura replied:
I’m enjoying attempting to become the best surfer that I can be in Baja Mexico. Always remember this. Surfing is a dedication and it’s a life dedication toi do it. If someone were that dedicated to religion would they call him a religious bum?
Larry then pointed out that Ventura is a “very big man” and asked if surfing was difficult?
“It’s harder,” he said. “But I want to get my weight down another 30 pounds, but let’s remember the greatest surfer in the world is Laird Hamilton and he is 6’3″ and a half and weights 230 pounds.”
Twenty years ago, a Canadian ice hockey player named Duncan MacPherson, 23, disappeared while snowboarding on the Stubai glacier in Austria. His still frozen body was found 14 years later by resort workers. Planetski.eu retells the story once more hoping to find some answers.
