We’re sure the US Goverment will find some way to militarize MIT student Charles Guan’s Landbearshark treaded all-terrain skateboard. We’re pretty sure he could put a rocket launcher on it, but it would still be nearly impossible to ollie.
[Link: Technabob]
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Proving that stadium rock action sporting is still not dead in Europe Zurich’s Freestyle.CH packed in 32,000 people on September 22-23, 2011 for a multisport hucking contest (featured here is snowboard semi-finals action).
Halidor Helgason won with snowboard big air with a Frontside Double Cork 1080° with Seppe Smits and Ståle Sanbech in second and third. Pierre-Luc Gagnon won the mega ramp skate event with a backside ollie three. Follow the jump for the skateboarding semi-finals video.
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Here’s a slice of what we can all see at 8:30 PM PDT Wednesday night, September 28, 2011 at the Huntington Beach, California Pier as Burton’s other brand’s roll out the premiere of Vacation. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
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Southern California snowboarding kicks back into gear for the 8th year in a row as Bear Mountain presents Hot Dawgs & Hand Rails this Saturday, September 24, 2011.
40 top pros competing for fifteen grand. There will be dozens of brands set up in booth city, enter to win great stuff in contests, check out the scene at the Beach Bar, and buy your winter 2011-12 season pass at a Screamin’ Deal, this will be the very last day to get the best price of the year.
Follow the jump to see what it’s going to look like. We’re sure it’s going to be good time no matter what. [click to continue…]
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Looks like the ASP Elite Tour isn’t the only thing John John Florence has snuck onto lately.
We got word from Nixon today that John has been jumped on to the Nixon surf team thanks to a “unanimous” green light from Bruce Irons, Dusty Payne, Josh Kerr, Lisa Andersen, Dean Morrison, Rob Machado, Claire Bevilacqua, Keith Malloy, Nathan Fletcher and Mark Cunningham.
“John John’s a throwback in the surfing world,” states Nixon Marketing Manager, Mike Murciano. “He has dynamic abilities and deep roots in surf. He has the respect and drive to take him to the top. He brings strong, new elements to the team and we are beyond proud to welcome him.”
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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?
[Link: New York Times]
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And now from the “huck your kid” vault comes this stunner from 8 year old Evan Doherty from Greenwood, Missouri. Looks like Big E can handle himself quite well on the vert ramp. . .
[Link via KMBC]
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Tired of having to carry your skateboard and your briefcase into business meetings? It would appear that former University of South Florida astro physics student Alexi Novitzky has the solution. According to a story on ABC Action News it’s called “The Skatecase.”
“You open this one up and you look inside,” he said showing us the Skatecase. It’s half skateboard and half briefcase. “You can fit two composition books deep in there as well as many pencils.”
Novitzky obviously needs to get together with Valet My Skate inventor Tom Piszkin for a skatecase lock. You can’t just leave those things lying around.
[Link: ABC Action News]
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This little Burton Snowboards joint looks pretty huge. Especially all those super slow-mo glare shots. . . mmmm, good.
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Watching this Todd Falcon clip (which is promo’d as “the first new Todd Falcon footage in 5 years) reminds us of the stereotypic movements of the Fossa at the San Diego Zoo. Locked in a small cage for far too long the Fossa simply runs through a series of motions over, and over, and over. Kind of like Todd’s primo double flips.
Two questions (from the sea of questions that wash over us while watching this video): Why can’t Mr. Falcon simple roll up into Primo without stepping off every time? And doesn’t stepping off the board and flipping it around kind of negate the whole “34 in a row” claim?
[Link via Skatedaily]
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