Walker Ryan’s full Shuffl Video part is now online, though, if you’d gone to the premiere you’d have already seen it.
[Link: Circa]
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November 2010
Source Interlink announced today that they have moved four of their off-road motorcycle properties (Dirt Rider, ATV Rider, MiniMoto and EnduroCross) into the loving arms of Action Sports Group’s Publisher Norb Garrett. He seems happy about it.
“Bringing these dynamic titles and events into the ASG/Grind Networks group is another key step in our strategic plan to create the world’s largest action/adventure sports media company,” said ASG/Grind Networks SVP Group Publisher Norb Garrett. “By adding the largest off-road motorcycle title Dirt Rider, ATV Rider, a fast-growing arena motorcycle series such as EnduroCross, and the MiniMoto event, we have added an important piece of our overall content strategy for the Web and TV through both our vertical and horizontal efforts with our action sports portal GrindTV.com and Yahoo! Sports content partnership. Additionally, the brands create exciting new cross-marketing opportunities for our advertisers and marketing partners.”
If anyone can save these properties, it’s Norb. Follow the jump for the rest of the official release.
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While on the road with Vice co-founded Shane Smith, Girl Skateboards’ Spike Jonze was “detained” in Yemen until the two could come up with the money to be released, according to a story in the New York Post.
. . . while filming their search for al Qaeda for an MTV investigative series that premieres Dec. 6 — “The Vice Guide to Everything.” They avoided jail and retrieved their footage with an $8,000 political bribe.
Compared to some of the location fees paid for the last Jackass movie $8,000 is pretty cheap.
[Link: NY Post]
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Yobeat.com, the snowboard site that has been “making fun of snowboarding since 1997” is taking their T-shirts to retail, according to founder Brooke Geery.
“Really, what it’s been about for me all along is having the opportunity to start the best T-shirt company in the world. I have seen so many t-shirt start ups come and go, all been because they didn’t develop consumer base beforehand,” YoBeat founder Brooke Geery said. “We’ve spent nearly 15 years developing a following so that when we finally offered our products to shops, people would want them. It was simple, really.”
That is apparently why this week is “T-shirt Week” on the site.” It’s a dream come true,” Geery said. “If there is one thing the snowboard industry needs more of right now it’s T-shirts, and we’re excited to be able to step in and fill that void.”
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Ross Rebagliati, the world’s first Olympic snowboard gold medal winner, has not has the same luck with British Columbia politics, according to a story in The Globe and Mail.
“For personal and family reasons, it is with regret that I must step down as the Liberal candidate in Okanagan–Coquihalla,” Mr. Rebagliati said in a news release Friday. “I remain steadfast in my support for the Liberal Party of Canada and our Leader Michael Ignatieff, but the time has come for me to focus on new life challenges.”
Rebagliati decided last October that he was going to seek office, but since then has apparently decided that (unlike the 1998 Nagano Olympics) he had very little chance of winning. Wonder what his new “life challenges” are going to be?
[Link: The Globe and Mail]
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Writer, adventurer, director Charlie Smith and Super Action Agent Circe Wallace were married this weekend (Saturday, November 20, 2010) in Las Vegas in front of family, friends, and business associates. Smith dropped his writerly veneer and went straight for the heart with his last tweet on Friday:
Life. Is. Perfect. . . Or saturday night it will be.
Circe followed that up on Sunday evening with the following:
The first day of the rest of my life was beyond perfect. So much love and the most beautiful friends and family..thank you @chasdoesntsurf!. . . Everyone who attended thank you for making the room glow with Love. Here’s to doing next level shit.
We’re still wondering who is going to be on the top end of Circe’s usual 15/85 percent split, while at the same time figuring they’re both giving 100 percent. Congrats. . .
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It seems rather obvious, but the best way to win a Vans Triple Crown of Surfing title is to start off with a win at Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa. After sitting out all season recovering from a heel slice it’s nice that Joel Parkinson could drop in with a win. Questions of how Parko recovery have back were answered with authority as the ASP Tour surfer decimated most of his opponents this weekt.
“It has been a pretty up and down year emotionally,” said Parkinson. “I cut my foot and I was out of action for six months, I didn’t surf for three months and I didn’t compete for six months. Then I had a baby son so we had some joy, and then Andy (Irons) passed. It’s been one of those years with one good thing then one bad thing. The year is almost over, we’ll get through it and I’m trying to make amends with all good things that can happen from here to December. . . “Riding a wave is always one of those things that, no matter what happens in or around your life, you can still ride a wave and forget everything. . . “Considering that the last few years I didn’t make a final here, to actually get a win and go to Sunset, which is one of my strengths and Pipe, where I’ve done well, it’s definitely a good start to the Triple Crown.”
For the rest of the story and the complete results follow the jump.
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Swell.com surf gear reviewer Bill Laity apparently spent the better part of his weekend trying to set the Guinness World Record for the longest surf session at the Huntington Beach Pier in California, according to a story in the OC Register.
At 12:25 a.m. Sunday, after nearly 14 hours in heavy rain, biting wind and all-around miserable conditions, he was “going strong,” according to Michael Figueroa of Swell, a surf-gear maker and Laity’s employer. . . “He’s a waterlogged prune of a man at this point, surfed out and sunburned,” Figueroa said.
Laity reportedly gets to take a five minute break every hour. Our question: how many waves did he have to catch between breaks? For all the answers check out the OC Register’s updated story from November 24, 2010.
[Link: OC Register]
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Yesterday (November 20, 2010) the Salomon Backyard Bang went down in Denver. We hoped to have more complete results, but this is all we have.
Men
1st Frank Bourgeois $1500
2nd Cole Linzemeyer
3rd Cody Boan
Women
1st Courtney Cox $1000
2nd Lynn Niel
3rd Izzy Lalive
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Ari Marcopoulos will be releasing his latest photography book Directory with Rizzoli International Publishers and Nieves in April 2011, according to a post on Slamxhype.com.
Bound to mimic a phone book, Ari Marcopoulos: Directory presents a collection of approximately 1,200 photographs, with curator and critic Neville Wakefield providing insightful commentary on some of Marcopoulos’s singular images. Co-published with Nieves, each book in this limited-edition series includes a print signed by the artist. . . Influential to both art and fashion, Ari Marcopoulos’s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends.
Guess we’ll have to add this to the collection as well.
[Link: Rizzoli via Slamxhype.com]
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