Three years ago (May 24, 2007) the San Diego, California surf community was rocked when Emery Kauanui died after a fight with Seth Cravens a reported member of the Bird Rock Bandits.
Now, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune Kauanui is being remember with a “day of Aloha” today at Windansea Beach.
Kauanui’s family and friends plan have organized a daylong event at Windansea Beach in La Jolla that will culminate at dusk with a “surfboard candle lighting” ceremony. Organizers are calling it the first annual Memorial Day of Aloha. “We welcome everyone to join our ohana for a day of celebration,” a flyer produced for the event states. The event will be hosted by Kink Kukulele and will feature live music; food; wiki wacky ride, ukelele and keiki hula contests; as well as a raffle, with the winner taking home a trip to Hawaii.
Our thoughts continue to be with the Kauanui family. Click here for full coverage of the event in the La Jolla Light.
Quiksilver’sbrand new Euro campus in St Jean De Luz (home to all their brands) looks like an amazing place to work. . . too bad it’s in France.
It is home to some 500 staff and around a dozen different nationalities, with an average age of 30. Quiksilver follows a policy focused on in-house training and promotion for its staff (80% of positions are filled internally). The project had a budget in the region of 24 million euros and enjoyed financial backing from the French government, the Aquitaine Regional Council and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques General Council.
As much as we would love to have spent the last few days upgrading Boardistan.com, we’re just thankful to have our old site back in one piece and functioning. Seriously. Thank you to everyone who noticed we were down and texted, IM’d, or emailed encouragement and/or theories on exactly what happened.
We can assure you, none of the rumors were true. We were neither hacked, nor hired away by any large companies who do not allow blogging on the side. And we most certainly were not strong-armed into taking the site down by powerful men with smooth, confident South African accents.
Our problems over the last few days were much more mundane and entirely too retarded to discuss here in any kind of detail other than to say this–– If a set of hard drives are reportedly backing each other up automatically that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea to have a couple more back-ups as well.
As we learned last week, sometimes DIY means “destroy it yerself.”
Action sports retail has been headed for the showroom model for years. Sadly, the only way this really works is when the retail stores are owned by the manufacturers who are selling the product. That’s exactly why we’re expecting to see a lot more deals like today’s announcement in the Orange County Business Journal that Billabong has purchased all five Becker Surf locations.
Hawaiian surf legend Marvin Foster was found dead on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 from what the medical examiners described as suicide, according to a story in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Foster, 49, died from asphyxia due to hanging. . . Surfer Rusty Keaulana, who grew up with Foster, said this morning, “I’m still bummed about it. He was like my brother.” . . Keaulana described Foster as a fearless “goofy-foot” surfer who was the first to go left at Waimea Bay.
Sam George’s documentary Hollywood Don’t Surf, has been getting much of the action attention in Cannes this year, however, it wasn’t the only surf film at the famous French Film Festival this year. Bjorn Ritchie Lob’s Keep Surfing, is one of them.
Sadly, it’s in German so we have no idea what they are saying. Nice boobs though.
With the mortgage crisis have come pools. Empty pools. And many of them in Fresno. Which is probably one of the only reason’s you’d want to visit Fresno. . .
When Chrys Worley saw how much her autistic 7-year-old son Sasha loved skateboarding she realized that it might be good for other kids who suffer from the disability. So she started the A.Skate Foundation, according to a story in the Tuscaloosa News.
“It’s often really difficult for kids with autism to be part of organized sports,” said Chrys Worley, a West Blocton mom whose 7-year-old son has autism. . . “Skateboarding is something they can do as a group but also individually,” she said. “They don’t have to be overwhelmed, and it’s constant motion.”
We’ve always used skateboarding as therapy, but it’s nice to know someone is using it to help the kids who need it the most.
When a action sports clothing company (Comune) refers to its own promotional snowboard film as “avant-garde” and uses an infamous 1960s anti-establishment art colony in Colorado (Drop City) as its main inspiration to help it move product through the malls of America (Urban Outfitters, Pac Sun) it’s difficult not to chuckle.
When the title of that black and white film is as pretentious as “Black Holes and Invisible Forces Bending Time Through Particle Deformations Creating Infinite Freedom in the Garden on the Moon,” it almost becomes farcical.
That said, the new Comune teaser Burn The Witch is fun to watch no matter we look at it.
Three years ago (May 24, 2007) the San Diego, California surf community was rocked when Emery Kauanui died after a fight with Seth Cravens a reported member of the Bird Rock Bandits.
