What does every backwoods, self-sustaining snowboard hideout need? An iPhone app, obviously. And that’s exactly what snowboarder Mikey Basich just launched with his Area-241 app. The app gives daily glimpse into world of legendary big mountain snowboarder and Do-It-Yourself master Mike Basich at his Area-241 and while on the road.”
“I am super stoked to see Area-241 come to life in a Mobile app” said Mike Basich, “I spend the majority of my screen time on my iPhone now-a-days and I am stoked to be able to showcase my latest projects and adventures as well as share my snowboard history and personal archives in this cool app.”
James Robert Eising, 18, of Mt. Eden, New Zealand died after falling in on organized downhill skateboarding race in Birkenhead, New Zealand.
James was one of about 200 people who were scheduled to skate-board down Colonial Rd – a windy and steep road that leads to the Chelsea sugar refinery. . . [Eiseing] was the last in his group and was going about 40km/h. There is a sharp right-hand corner and the first three skidded around but managed to negotiate the corner. The deceased then lost control of his board, skidded, spun in the air and cartwheeled and then crashed on to his head.”
Eising was wearing a helmet and full pads. Our thoughts are with Eising’s friends and especially with his parents and two sisters.
Blake Harris won the Billabong’s City Squared street skateboarding event at Queensbridge Square on Melbourne’s Southbank on Sunday April 15, 2012.
“It was good, I’m pretty happy, it’s been a good day. This thing (the obstacle) is deadly, the hub bas were pretty nice, but the box was pretty dangerous, I’m glad to be walking away. I got smashed earlier on a normal nose blunt, but apart from that I’m okay, everyone was shredding… good times. I’m definitely happy, this was definitely one of the top competition wins I’ve had,” Harris said after his win.
Four-time ASP World Champ Stephanie Gilmore downed current ASP World Champion Carissa Moore 15.76 to 15.06 to win stop three on the ASP Women’s World Tour, the TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival on Saturday, April 14, 2012.
“This is by far the best start to a season I’ve had in my career,” Gilmore said. “To have three Finals straight off the bat, I’m kind of tripping out. It’s really cool. That was a really close final, I’m sure it could have gone either way. I watched Carissa’s (Moore) wave from behind and she did that huge first turn and then raced to the next section, but if she did another turn straight away, I’m sure she would have gotten the score. I’m glad it went my way though.”
The Q1 2012 numbers from theAssociation of Magazine Media (formerly the Magazine Publishers of America) seem to suggest that there is no bottom to the magazine advertising slide.
While we’re getting tired of saying this we’ll say it one more time: As Transworld Media is the only action sports company whose print advertising is tracked by the MPA we’ll run their numbers and use them as the harbinger for the rest of the action sports print business.
Overall magazine advertising was down 8.2 percent for the quarter so Skateboarding, Surf, and Wakeboarding were ahead of the market. The other titles were decidedly not.
Advertising in Transworld’s parent company Bonnier Corp magazines (that are tracked by the MPA) were down 9.5 percent (excluding Transworld titles) while Transworld titles were down 11.5 percent over all in Q1 vs. 2011.
Brands that are still buying ads in print must be making publishers so happy, but from the looks of this they are becoming less enthusiastic. No worries though. There’s always the Internet where advertising was up 22 percent in 2011.
To look back on past Boardistan coverage of action print advertising numbers click here.
Legendary skateboard photographer Grant Brittain has taken a journey through his archives an pulled out his best images from the 80s for a solo showing opening Saturday, April 21, 2012 at San Diego’s Bottlecraft Beer Shop
Sk80′s captures the rise of an underground movement of youth culture shot from an insider perspective. Fully immersed in the infancy of skateboarding we now know today, Grant not only shares the raw power behind the craft but candid moments with friends; including skate legends, Natas Kaupas, Mark “Gonz”, Sinisa Egelija, Hawk, and Kevin Staab to name just a few. Join Grant and the Skateboard Mag crew for an evening of fond memories, great beer and good times.
Last week more than 300 workers fainted at a Sabrina Manufacturing plant in Kampong Speu while making Nike shoes. Now a group of Nike executives are reportedly traveling to Cambodia to find out why, according to a story on UPI.com.
“Workers faint every week at Sabrina,” Free Trade Union Leader Chea Mony said, adding that the incident was only picked up by the media when fainting occurred en masse. . . Nike has yet to comment on the issue.
They’re probably fainting from the sheer joy that comes from making shoes for the number one footwear brand in the world. Seriously, wouldn’t you?
OFF! is a “super group” lead by ex-Black Flag singer Keith Morris and they are reportedly bringing “back everything we loved about old school West Coast skate culture.” Sounds good to us.
