Daniel Rajcsanyi is a snowboarder from Munich, Germany. He is also reportedly “openly gay,” according to a story on Outsports.com. Dani wanted to enter a video for Nike’s Chosen competition so he filmed himself hitting a rail to stairs naked. The video (which is NSFW) is aptly titled German Sausage.
“I wanted to make a funny thing out of snowboarding. It was a provocation for the ‘freestyle’ scene. I wanted to change the bourgeois thinking and show the total freedom and fun of snowboarding, which should be the main thing.” He said he does not know of any other openly gay snowboarders and hopes that with the video he “made a little step forward.”
We never saw this edit featured in any Nike Chosen marketing, so we’re guessing it didn’t win (his other videos however did quite well and actually won in Austria, according to Nike). If you’d like to see Dani’s German Sausage edit, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
“Transformation is key for Billabong,” she said. “I’m sure there are people that don’t like to see the changes. . . They want the business to be what it was. I’m here to increase shareholder value. That’s my job. We have a lot of unhappy shareholders.”
On January 31, 2013 9Five Eyewear will drop their new, limited edition, perforated leather wrapped Modelo frame.
The Perf Modelo comes in two color ways, Varsity Red and Royal Blue (Drawing influence from the original Air Jordan 1’s that came in these colors). The frame comes with option of black polarized or clear lens, and will come packaged in a miniature “shoe box.”
Watch for it at authorized 9Five retailers or on the 9fivesite.com website.
We don’t really cover Skullcandy all that much anymore because they’re really more of consumer electronic company than they are anything else, but it is interesting to note that thanks to their currently low, low stock price Bloombergis mentioning today (January 9, 2013) that they are a perfect “takeover target.”
Down 66 percent since it began trading in July 2011, Skullcandy has performed worse than all but seven of the 185 U.S. IPOs completed since its debut, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The stock sank to a record low of $6.70 last week after Jefferies Group Inc. recommended selling the shares. The company’s enterprise value of 3.9 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization is cheaper than than 96 percent of stocks in the Russell 2000 Index, the data show. . . While increasing competition for in-ear headphones and the company’s move into lower-margin designs prompted the Jefferies downgrade on Jan. 2, Skullcandy shareholder Royce & Associates LLC says its brand may appeal to buyers such as Bose Corp. or Sony Corp. (6758) Even though Skullcandy’s revenue growth has slowed, the shares have fallen more than is justified and that might prompt a takeover, Roth Capital Partners LLC said.
Sony? Bose? What about Monster Cable? Any one of those wouldn’t be a bad exit strategy. Skullcandy shares are, of course, up on all the takeover talk.
Go behind the scenes with Goldcoast Skateboards‘ Product Developer, Brock Harris and Art Director, Dustin Ortiz to see hear some pretty heady stuff about skateboarding and what Goldcoast hopes to accomplish. We don’t really cruise, but there is no denying that these boards look nice.
Snowboarding brothers Jesse and Lukas Huffman produced this amazing 14-minute film exploring the lives of several Far Rockaway surfers following the devastation of Superstorm Sandy. It’s good.
We talked to Jamie Thomas about his involvement with New Balance Numeric and Hypebeast spoke with Westlife and 686 founder Mike West and Numeric Brand Manager Sebastian Palmer. West and Palmer discuss where the design is coming from and where the brand is headed. If you look very closely you’ll might even see some other familiar faces in this edit. Check it.
Anthony De Rocco, president and CEO of K2 Sports, said in a press release Monday that Backcountry Access “fits perfectly” with his company portfolio of brands that includes 14 others, such as Line Skis, Full Tilt Boots, K2 Snowboards, Ride Snowboards, Tubbs Snowshoes and Atlas Snowshoes.
Backcountry snowboarders know BCA for it’s Tracker DTS digital avalanche beacons and their Float Airbag inflatable avalanche protection systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Thanks to a little technological wizardry from Ocearch (and some tagged sharks) surfers can now track sharks around the world using the non-profit’s Global Shark Tracker. Want to track “Mary Lee” the 16 foot great white and she tools around Jacksonville, Florida beaches? It’s all there for you. Now, if they could just tag all the sharks.
