When celebrity chef Ludo Lefebvre decided to open one of his pop-up restaurants on the Big Island, Quiksilver jumped right in and offered the services of Mark Healey, Stephanie Gilmore and Reef McIntosh. Check out the video to see how it all turned out.
Meanwhile, in deepest, darkest Africa the Maloof brothers have flown in a bunch of A-list skateboarders to compete in the strangely placed Maloof Money Cup in Kimberly, South Africa. Luan Oliveira walked with the $100,000 first prize, but we still don’t understand any of the logic behind the entire event. Seriously, what is the Maloof angle? Is it De Beers diamonds? Does Kimberly just need to spend tourism dollars? Someone, please explain it to us, because the skaters we’ve spoken to can’t explain it either.
The crew from Snowboard Alta went up to Utah’s Skiing Only resort to ask skiers how the felt about snowboarders riding on the mountain. As might be expected, no one wanted to see snowboarders on Alta Ski Area. Then again, these are people who have chosen to ski a mountain that excludes snowboarders. Kind of like walking into the smoking lounge at the Las Vegas airport and asking people if smoking should be banned.
Hey, baby. Videograss new film The Darkside should be hitting the iTunes store soon. In the meantime, take another look at the teaser. The film features: Ben Bilocq, Chris Grenier, Danimals, Darrell Mathes, Gus Engle, Harrison Gordon, Jake OE, Joe Sexton, Johnny Miller, Jon Kooley, Jonas Michilot, Jordan Mendenhall, Laurent-Nicolas Paquin, and last but not least, Nick Dirks.
During the Buffalo Bill Downhill race this weekend on Colorado’s Lookout Mountain a skater from Salt Lake City, Utah was taken out by a deer that decided to cross the road directly into a pack of downhillers, according to a story on WPTV.com.
7NEWS said the skateboarder, who is from Salt Lake City, walked away with serious scrapes, but no broken bones. The deer was OK.
We know what you’re saying to yourself: More Hot Dawgz & Hand Rails? Who cares about a bunch of crushed ice in the mountains of Los Angeles. Well, apparently Arbor and Flux care. And to tell you the truth we like this edit better than the one we posted earlier. So there.
Jeff Grosso rounds up skaters Eddie Elguera and Salman Agah to discuss the origins of “fake” and “switch.” For those who could never figure out the difference, this could be required viewing.
Speaking of Mountains, in three minutes with Lance Mountain you’ll learn more than spending a week with a stack of old skate mags. The highlight of this episode of Free Lunch is Lance talking about his father’s Museum of Military Memorabilia.
About half the collection is British military. Dazzling dress uniforms for the British Dragoons, Hussars and Lancers stand at attention. One case contains bandsmen’s uniforms from each of the five regiments of foot guards of the Household Division, more commonly known as the Life Guards.