9Five Eyewear is now on the try it before you buy it program with their new Home Try On. Choose up to six different frames from their website and then you’ll have seven days to sort them out, keep the frames you want and send the rest back in a provided mailer. Shopping from home really is getting better and better.
Remember that Thrasher cover of Chris Strople? It was a yellow cover, but the photo was black and white? Your dad probably does. Anyway, in this week’s Love Letters To Skateboarding Jeff Grosso talks to Mr. Strople about that very cover. Can you believe it? It’s true.
Despite what you may have heard there are still kids going to snowboard summer camp at Mt. Hood this year. Here’s the latest video news from Windell’s. Looks good, doesn’t it. Click the link if you think you want to go.
What more do you need to know? Russian bikini girls wearing high fashion footwear and surfing in a competition. Maybe this is something the ASP could consider now that they’re taking surfing to the mainstream. . .
It traces his upbringing in the seaside town of Lorne on Victoria’s south western coast and his turbulent experiences as a ‘conscientious objector’ on the run from conscription and the Vietnam War. Ultimately, it is about an extremely gifted individual with an intense connection to the Southern Ocean, whose approach to surfing has been a spiritual journey often putting him at odds with the surfing subculture and society in general.
The film plays June 20, 2013 at Broad Theater in Santa Monica, California, June 21, 2013 at the world famous La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas, California and June 27, 2013 at Village East Cinema, in New York City.
We’ve always been stoked on Trevor Colden. The kid is good. And, as proof, here’s a teaser from his full part which apparently debuts on Thrasher Mag on Thursday, June 20, 2013. They’ve seen it and described it as “gnarly as hell, no-filler, all-ender, skate prodigy insanity.” Watch for it and in the meantime peep this tease.
Yes, when an independent magazine gets another issue out it is something to celebrate. That’s why we’re posting this video from the crew at Later Magazine. And then there’s the part about writing from Chas Smith, Dave Carnie, and a special appearance by Chris Cote. We might even have to read this one . . . if it finds its way into our mailbox.
Dennis Busenitz certainly does catch those flips nicely. In fact, there’s not much Busenitz does on a skateboard that doesn’t look good and fast. Here’s a little more proof.
It would appear that the wizards behind the Wave Garden are continuing to perfect their magical wave building machine. They’re also giving us a much better look at what the entire place looks like. The big question: When will the first one show up in Minneapolis?