One of our favorite snowboard filmmakers, Rome’s John Cavan, will be up for a live Twitter Interview on Friday September 4, 2009.
Follow the jump for all the infos. . . and then dive in on Friday. Maybe he’ll finally tell us all, what the secret is.
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If you only go to one skateboarding trade show this year, you might want to make it the Crossroads Retail Show at Blackbox Distribution in Carlsbad, California.
For all our coverage from last year, click here or here for our video interview with Jamie Thomas.
[Link: Black Box Distribution]
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In The Nation writer Brian Calvert checks in the the “stuggle to launch a surf club behind the Israeli blockade.”
Gaza is, among other things, a natural place to surf. Waves that build across 3,000 miles of the Mediterranean break on its beaches with surprising frequency and occasional intensity. But of course, Gaza is also the crowded home of 1.5 million refugees and descendants of refugees, isolated under an Israeli blockade and reeling from bombardment. If it weren’t for that grisly reality, outside surfers might find their way there. As it is, the handful of locals who ply Gaza’s beaches do so on a diminishing supply of ragged surfboards.
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: The Nation]
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While everyone up and down the Eastern seaboard was chasing surf created by Hurricane Bill, there were some sad stories to go along with the big waves. One was that of Andrew Nathanson, 51, according to a story in The New York Times. The novice surfer was out with an instructor on August 21, 2009 and apparently wanted to get one more wave when he died.
Elyse Nathanson, Mr. Nathanson’s wife and partner of 30 years, said he died of blunt head trauma at Stony Brook Medical Center, several hours after he was pulled from the water. Aside from his wife, he is survived by three children: Brian, 19, Alison, 17, and Kevin, 14. . . “He was out there doing what he wanted to do, where he wanted to do it,” Mrs. Nathanson said.
Our thoughts are with Nathanson’s family and friends.
[Link: The New York Times]
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David Scott Olivet, the CEO of Oakley moved out of that position and into a newly created position called “chairman” last month according to a story in the Orange County Business Journal.
Olivet plans to start his own investment company and continue working for Oakley founder Jim Jannard’s latest venture, Lake Forest-based Red Digital Cinema Camera Co., a digital movie camera maker. . . The Laguna Beach resident has started Renegade Brands LLC, which looks to invest in apparel and other consumer companies. . . . “I will play a variety of roles, from investor to active board member to executive depending on the situation,” Olivet said.
Sounds like Olivet has decided to spend a little more time figuring out what to do with all his money. Meanwhile, Colin Baden, who has been president of Oakley since 1999 will step in as new CEO.
[Link: Orange County Business Journal]
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Shayla Belanger, a case manager for juvenile re-entry with the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence in Providence, Rhode Island decided that it might be a nice idea to take some of the cities gang members surfing after thinking that the sport embodies “grace, humility, patience and teamwork,” according to a story in The Providence Journal.
“I believe everybody in the water is equal,” she said. “As soon as I get them out there and show them something beautiful, they open right up.” . . Gansett Juice, a surf shop in Narragansett donated the surfboards and wetsuits, while Douglas Shehan, and his stepson, Griffin Koskua, 13, both surfers, agreed to meet the city boys on the beach and provide them with some tips.
Everyone in the water is equal? Maybe in Rhode Island.
[Link: The Providence Journal]
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The administration at Australia’s Sylvania High School took action when two Red Bull workers dropped off a few drinks and fliers at the school which had earlier “banned the product on health grounds,” according to a story in The Daily Telegraph.
School officers threw out several cans of the beverage left by the company and refused to hand out any of the stickers and flyers to students. . . The state’s most influential parents’ lobby group has called for a statewide ban on the controversial drinks amid increasing fears about their health risks. . . The Federation of Parents and Citizens’ Associations wants the crackdown because of concerns over students becoming loud and hyperactive in class after consuming cans of Red Bull, V, Mother or Cocaine. . . Experts said the drinks can cause mood disturbances, heart palpitations, dizziness, headaches and dehydration.
Yeah, just what high school kids need, right?
[Link: The Daily Telegraph]
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[Link: The Surfer’s Path]
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Quiksilver has voluntarily recalled the Roxy Girl “Very Nice” cotton hoodie after it was discovered that the hoodies’ drawstrings could cause a “child to become entangled or strangled.”
The recall offers an at-home remedy, which included removing the drawstrings from the hoodie, or those who purchased it could return it to the point of purchase or to Quiksilver.
[Link: Consumer Product Safety Commission]
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South African surfer Gerhard van Zyl, 25, died on Saturday August 29, 2009, after having his leg “nearly bitten completely off by a shark” while surfing between South Africa’s Glentana and Outeniqua near Mossel Bay, according to a story IOL.
A friend pulled Gerhard out of the water after the attack and tied a tourniquet around his wounded leg, according to local media reports. . . “We found him on the beach and treated him for amputation to his right leg,” said Lambinon. “He was airlifted to a hospital in George and when he got there, was declared to be in a critical condition. He was later declared dead.”
This is reportedly the first shark attach at Glentana Bay.
[Link: IOL]
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