The surfboard, made of white fiberglass and sporting a blue wave design covered with sponsor stickers throughout, is currently on view in the museum’s first-floor Artifact Walls. It has a rubber pad at the back of the board for traction and three removable fins along the bottom. . . “Over the past 20 years, his approach to surfing as a professional and dedicated philanthropist has changed how people surf and view the sport,” said Jane Rogers, curator, at the museum.
That means in a way both Al Merrick and Jake Burton are in that museum as well. It’s a Smithsonian trifecta.
This year at the annual Tony Hawk Foundation Standup For Skateparks benefit at former Source-Interlink owner Ron Burkle’s Beverly Hills estate, T-Hawk, Shaun White, Lincoln Ueda, Mitchie Brusco, Matt Hoffman, and Bucky Lasek put on a skate demo, the Black Keys played a private show and the whole gig raised $755,000 to help build free public skateparks in low-income neighborhoods.
“It was our best event by far,” said Tony Hawk. “The auction items were one-of-a-kind, and the skate demo was one of the best sessions I have ever witnessed (or taken part in). The Black Keys were the icing on the cake—the crowd was in awe.”
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Not to beat any dead horses, but four-time ASP World Surfing Champion Stephanie Gilmore is also in the ESPN The Magazine Body Issue naked. And while we hate to play favorites, Stephie wins this round. But now we’re done. We promise. . .Then on second thought, Stephie better not stay out in the sun too long or she’s likely to get a rosy hodge.
ESPN: The Magazine has posted a few teaser photos of naked athletes from their Body Issue that hits news stands on Friday, October 7, 2011. And Gretchen Bleiler is not only in the magazine, but on one of the covers as well.
“The nude thing is interesting at first. You’re like ‘Really I’m going to just take it off.’ It just gets more and more comfortable. Especially on a day like today,” Bleiler says. “It was nuking out there and I felt bad for everyone who had clothes on. I was the one who was lucky on a day like today. It’s a huge honor to be grouped in with some of the most amazing and skilled athletes in the world. Celebrating Men, women. Every different kind of body, every different kind of sport and showing that everything is beautiful in a very athletic way. I want to be strong and I want to be badass and I think we accomplished that.”
We’d have to agree. Mrs. Hotel is looking fit, especially when you flash back to her first pinup outing in FHM. Follow the jump for the video and magazine cover.
All we can really say about these Louie Vito photos from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue is that he looks pretty fit and that it could have been so much worse.
Shaun White has a new flavor of gum according to a story in the New York Times, and sadly, it’s not called “tangy ginger sweat.”
Whitemint, a new flavor of chewing gum by Stride, the Kraft Foods brand, is named for the athlete and features his likeness on the package. White, who appeared briefly in a commercial for a Stride line called 2.0 that was first shown in June, stars in a new commercial for Whitemint scheduled to begin on Monday.
And as only a packaged good marketing person could say: “some consumers may derive “emotional benefits” from chewing gum affiliated with the popular athlete.” Is that even possible?
The Black Keys join an impressive list of supporters of the Tony Hawk Foundation. DaGeDar Presents Stand Up For Skateparks is Co-Chaired by Tony Hawk and fellow THF Board Member and skate legend Mike Vallely, with other notable supporters including Andre Agassi, Michael “Flea” Balzary, Ron Burkle, Chantal and Stephen Cloobeck, Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Dempsey, Jon Favreau, Perry Farrell, Leeza Gibbons, Brian Austin Green, Robin and Danny Greenspun, Ben Harper, Mat Hoffman, Terry Kennedy, Anthony Kiedis, Bobby Kotick, Chuck Liddell, Howie Mandel, Sal Masekela, Lance Mountain, Andrew and Trina Pascal, Andrew Reynolds, David Spade, Bill Walton, and Shaun White.
Sounds like a great crew of people to hang out with (if you’re into that kind of thing). Click here to purchase tickets. The most economical are $400 each, but the $20,000 package looks a little more plus. Follow the jump for more info. [click to continue…]
Add Andy Finch and Tommy Czeschin to the list of snowboarders who are followingLouie “Tiny Dancer” Vito into the world of reality TV as the two shreds compete as a team in the CBS reality travel show The Amazing Race.
Here is their bio:
As members of the United States Olympic Snowboarding team in 2002 and 2006 respectively, Tommy Czeschin, 31, and Andy Finch, 30, have “years of experience knowing how to be focused and get in our zone,” Finch says. But they know their weaknesses. “Typical snowboarder – the book smarts part of it is probably going to be the hardest for us,” Czeschin says.
The season premiere is September 25, 2011 at 8 PM. And yes, this will be good.
Kelly Slater has reportedly donated the board he surfed on at the 2011 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, according to a post on the Mountain and Wave.
