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Celebrity
Ten minutes inside the mind of Kelly Slater or the best surf trunk commercial ever.
[Link: The Mountain And Wave]
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Pharrell Williams is 35 years old and doesn’t have as much time to skate as he’d like, but Skateboard P. still sites skateboarding as his original influence, according to a story in the Guardian.
The first sport I got into – and the one that has had most impact on my life – is skateboarding. Most people think skateboarding is for some kid with blond hair from suburbia. But I remember when I was 12 or 13, growing up in Virginia Beach, everybody, black and white, was doing it. Skating taught me what it meant to be cool, to have credibility. I had it. I got so mad with it that I had a half-pipe put in my house. I had the look – the baggy jeans, the Vans. I still wear Vans shoes. I rap about skateboarding. My nickname is Skateboard P.
We’d still wear Vans too if our company sold shoes that looked like Ice Cream’s.
[Link: Guardian.co.uk]
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Not that we didn’t see this coming, but apparently Kelly Slater will surf in his sponsors Quiksilver Pro at Snapper Rocks Feburary 28-March 11, 2009.
This the strongest indication yet he plans to chase an incredible 10th world crown. While 36-year-old Slater has refused to be drawn on his surfing future, organisers of the iconic Snapper Rocks event have revealed the unstoppable American is already locked in for March 2009. . . . “The Quiksilver Pro, presented by LG, and the Gold Coast are two things very special to Kelly,” said event spokesman Johnathan Jenkins.
Nice that his main sponsor can still get him to come to work.
[Link: Goldcoast.com.au]
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Time Magazine interviews Kelly Slater and asks hard hitting questions like, “How would you describe the feeling of surfing to someone who has never tried it?” But they also asked the question everyone’s been asking lately: Are you going to try next year?
Well now it’s expected, isn’t it? Everyone’s saying, “Good luck for your tenth!” Everyone’s expecting me to go for it. We’ll see, I don’t know. I haven’t made a decision yet.
We’re betting he will.
[Link: Time Magazine]
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This is the kind of TF that makes us think taking all that money might be worth the grief Ryan Sheckler has survived all these years. This place is like a cathedral of skateboarding.
[Link: Skateboardworks]
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While doing promo for Disney’s High School Musical 3 in Melbourne, Australia, star Zac Efron said he loves surfing and would like to hit the waves with Kelly Slater.
“I love to surf every chance I get,” he admitted, adding “Oh man, I would love to go surfing with Kelly Slater at Bells Beach.”
Sounds like a great promo op for Quiksilver: Kelly on a surfing mandate with Zac.
[Link: Ace Showbiz]
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[Link: Youtube]
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Tony Hawk has endorsed a lot of things: roller coasters, BMX bikes, and video cameras. Now we can add chewable vitamins to the list with the release of Tony Hawk HuckJam Gummies the “multi-vitamin for teens.”
These chewy “gummy” vitamins, shaped like miniature skateboard decks, skateboard wheels and Tony’s signature hawk skull, provide a good source of 11 vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin C, which bolsters the immune system*, and Vitamin B-12, a major factor in energy metabolism*.
Remember to take a couple of these after eating at McDonalds. You’ll need them.
[Link: PR Web]
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Kelly Slater has a new book coming out titled Kelly Slater: For The Love (click the link to view a digital version).
The book, written by Kelly with master surf journalist Phil Jarratt, is reportedly “filled with never before seen photos and untold stories from Kelly and his closest friends” and features an intro by the surfing crooner Jack Johnson.
Good news and bad news: The good is that Kelly is on a Quiksilver store book signing tour, the bad news: he’s only going to sign 200 books at each location so you might want to get there early. Here they are:
NEW YORK
November 16, 2008 3PM – 5PM 519 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 212.226.1193
November 18, 2008 7PM – 9PM 587 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10017 212.888.7526
CALIFORNIA
November 20, 2008, 7PM – 9PM 1422 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica 310.899.9400
And if you’re a Citibank credit card holder Spin Magazine is throwing one more signing (click here for more info):
November 21, 2008 8-10 PM Malibu Performing Arts Center, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu
Probably wouldn’t be a bad book to add to the signed surf collection.
[Link: The Mountain And Wave]
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