As Eddie Wall says, “What started as a little sketch is now the Eddie Wall Ride Invitational. We have 30 of the best pros here. . . ” And it all went down at Mammoth Mountain on May Day. May 1, 2010. Tim Humphreys won it all and Peter Line won an iPad.
“I won $20,000 like then years ago. And this is way better than that,” Peter said. “Twenty grand goes right to bill. This is all for fun.”
[Link: Video Hyper Shred]
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Sam George’s feature documentary Hollywood Don’t Surf focuses on how many times Hollywood has failed when trying to properly capture surfing will be shown at a sneak preview at the Cannes Film Festival next week according to a story in the Laguna Beach Independent.
The cinematic retrospective explores 50 years of Hollywood surfing movies, featuring rare surfing footage, such as Thomas Edison’s 1906 Hawaiian surfing footage, and excerpts and behind-the-scenes shots from numerous surfing films including “Gidget” beach party movies, “Ride the Wild Surf,” “Big Wednesday,” “North Shore,” “Point Break,” “In God’s Hands” and “Blue Crush.” Interviews with Hollywood luminaries and surf stars include Quentin Tarantino, John Milius, Steven Spielberg, Stacy Peralta, Mac- Gillivray, Gary Busey, Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton, Peter Townend, Robert Englund, Frankie Avalon and real-life “Gidget” Kathy Kohner.
We’re most interested in seeing how Sam handles the In God’s Hands section.
[Link: Laguna Beach Independent]
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We knew there was a reason our old Clay Marzo post has been getting traffic lately. Apparently, he was on ABC’s Nightline. That would explain it.
[Link: The Mountain & The Wave]
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What’s better than a documentary about a trio of surfer girls making a charge at the pro ranks?
Nikki’s 14 and is sponsored by Rip Curl. With serious power in her turns this pint size ripper is tipped to be the leader of the next generation of female surfers. A charger in the water and a charmer on land, India surfs for Billabong, and has been competing against Nikki since she was 9 years old. While Roxy’s Jess has been taking out titles left right and centre despite battling chronic fatigue for the last 4½ years. And to top it off she’s just been beached for 6-12 months with a shoulder reco.
Rhetorical question. . . and no, there is no punchline.
[Link: First Love]
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Alright parents. . . here’s a 1.3 year old Ava Marie shredding Mammoth’s Canyon Lodge (we still call it The Hut) earlier this month. Who can go even younger? Huck your babies. Maybe they’ll get sponsored.
[Link via @jaredsouney]
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Club Mumble continues it’s Honoris Professio Program with a special limited edition Emerica shoe for Justin Regan. Watch to video for all the details.
[Link: Emerica and Club Mumble]
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We can’t explain how annoyed we’ve become with all the Grenade Games Six crap that has hit us on facebook the past couple weeks. But now that The Games have begun, we’re not so bummed. Check out this video and decide for yourself if you want to follow the rest of the week’s videos on the Grenade Games Vimeo Channel.
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The “Our Park” video was posted to Youtube by Hybebeast TV and explains how Nike’s plans to build a skate plaza in Tokyo’s Miyashita Park aren’t sitting well with the artists who frequent the park, nor the homeless people who live there. Check it out.
[Link: The Smoking Section via Skate & Annoy]
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It appears that Shaun White had to get up a little too early for his interview with The Today Show’s Matt Lauer. Is all that late-night Vegas party action “spending time with his family” catching up with him a little. . . ?
[Editors’ Note: Turns out Shaun does say the word “Target” once in the interview. We missed it the first time. Thank you to our astute readers for pointing that out. The post has been corrected.]
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