While we were doing something else, Pamela Anderson was at a “private home in Malibu” with the US Snowboarding’s Olympic hopefuls . . . frolicking “with celebrity families in 40 tons of snow.”
Olympic snowboard coach Bud Keene was obviously an extremely attentive instructor getting Pam right up on her slippery, pink, Mammoth box. . . click the link for more photos
[Link: Gossip Girls]
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Police in John Cardiel’s home town of Sacramento, California have been increasingly harassing fixed gear bike riders for breaking a state law that requires brakes on bikes. When the Sacramento News & Review did a story on the issue they went to Cardiel for the straight scoop.
John Cardiel dashed down Ninth Street on his fixed-gear bike, tearing southward in the right-hand lane, when he heard yelling, which grew louder and closer. He looked over his shoulder and saw two Sacramento police officers on bikes trailing him, hollering, “Stop!” . . . Cardiel explains that he “skidded to an immediate stop.” Then, he describes that the cops applied their hand brakes and slid past him. “One guy almost fell over. I had more control than they did,” Cardiel remembers.
Cards ended up with a $25 fix-it ticket and the police continued their war on everything that isn’t motorized and gas guzzling.
[Link: Sacramento News & Review]
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While the Rip Curl Pro Search was getting blasted off the beach at Supertubes, this is what it looked like at Mundaka. Meaty. . .
[Link: Stab Mag]
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Josh and Nick are still rocking the danger. . . whether you like it or not. One question: what’s with the “Guest pros?” Is the Dangerzone going corporate? Gawd, we hope not. . .
[Link: Tahoe Dangerzone]
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Jennifer Stewart, a Willington, Ohio woman who spoke out against the way Wilmington Police were treating a 15-year-old skateboarder during an arrest, is facing misdemeanor charges of obstructing justice and disorderly conduct, according to a story in the Wilmington News Journal.
The disorderly conduct charge appears to be based upon things the police believe Stewart said, according to Daugherty. He said he wants to hear what she did say so he can determine whether he thinks a jury would regard her words as criminal. . . “Speech is one of our most precious liberties. You are allowed to loudly voice your disagreement with public officials in our country. If her words were simply voicing disagreement and made no threat or obscene language, then I don’t understand a criminal charge,” Daugherty said.
We don’t either.
[Link: Wilmington News Journal]
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Following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, former Olympic snowboarder Ross Rebagliati has written a book and entered politics, according to a story in the Whistler Question.
Rebagliati — who lives with his wife Alexandra and five-month-old son Ryan in Kelowna — on Friday (Oct. 23) announced his candidacy for the Liberal Party nomination in the riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla in the next federal election. . . “It was going to be an election without an option, basically,” Rebagliati said in an interview. “I felt like there needed to be a choice for the constituents.”
Rob’s wrife Alexandra is temporarily running his campaign.
[Link: Whistler Question and Vancouver Sun]
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Join Bruce Logan, Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, and Danny Way as the International Association of Skateboard Companies kicks open The Skateboarding Hall of Fame with a skateboarder from each decade at the Vans Skatepark in The Block in Orange, California on Saturday, October 24, 2009.
IASC and Skatelab are pleased to announce the first ever official inauguration of skateboarders into the skateboarding hall of fame. Industry experts have been polled, you voted, and this is the night it becomes concrete.
The party begins at 6 PM with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction, and a combi session. Tickets are a $50 donation. Click here to buy tickets online.
[Link: IASC]
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At about 8:50 PM PST on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Kareem Campbell tweeted the above message. That’s about all we know, but we can’t say we’re completely uninterested in where this is all going. . .
[Link: @kareemcampbell]
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Gareth Stehr is opening a showing of his art work at LA’s Goodform Salon Gallery on Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 7-10 PM. As The Skateboard Mag’s Bart Jones says, “. . . if I knew any better I would say he’s gonna have some wild funky shit up in there…” No doubt.
[Link: Goodform Salon via The Skateboard Mag]
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Former OC Register surf writer and current The Faster Times surf columnist Shawn Price goes over all the Slater Tour/ASP Tour upgrades detritus one more time in his column: Dodging A Pro Surfing Civil War, Part Two.
The Assn. of Surfing Professionals, having voted in sweeping changes last week that effectively killed the so-called Champions Surf Tour, gets back to regular business and wraps up the European leg of the World Tour this week with the Rip Curl Pro Search in Portugal.
Click the link for the entire blow-by-blow recap of the last year in pro surfing politics.
[Link: The Faster Times]
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