Ken Achenbach has always known how to turn ideas into dollars. Here’s another one as seen on Cldfx.com:
The backpack features a vertical snowboard carry, an internal padded laptop sleeve, a fleecelined goggle pocket and lots more. You better be fast if you want your own COC Mission Pack, the online shop isn’t online yet, but you can save a Pack by writing an email to COC. They’ve also got a colabo on the Crossfire Glove, we keep you updated.
Wonder if a free pack is included with the price of camp?
We didn’t attend the Grenade Games 5 brought to you by Monster Energy Drink this year and we haven’t watched any of the videos or read the miles of web stories about how “crazy they were.”
In fact, the only thing we know about the Monster Grenade Games is this photo of Leanne “Party” Pelosi and to be honest: that’s about all we need to know.
For the rest of Jared Souney‘s compelling interview with one of snowboarding’s most progressive snowboarders both on and off snow. Oddly, at the end of the interview Benedek says something that Souney apparently missed: “You guys know how it is. Anything past the four minute mark and you just zone out.”
For the rest of David Benedek’s 14 minute conversation click the link.
Burton announced yesterday they have have hired Mike Rees as CFO of Burton Corporation. Rees, who spent the last 16 years working with VF Corp, has an impressive CV including stints at both Reef and Eagle Creek. But there was one one bit of experience that we found especially interesting:
In his early days as a CFO at VF’s Outlet division, he was responsible for the financial operations of approximately 60 retail locations while taking on additional work as the General Merchandise Manager.
We’re guessing those skills are going to come in very handy sooner rather than later. Follow the jump for the entire press release. [click to continue…]
You survey the daunting mountainside before you. Other snowboarders rocket down the slope, spraying a fine mist of powder in their wake. You strap on your snowboard, take a deep breath, and start your run, the board gliding above the snow as you pick up speed. You try a trick known as butter: you lean forward, flatten out, and then lean the other way and flatten out again, completing a 360-degree circle.
Almost makes us want to plop down at our desk and hit the shred.
We’re pretty sure there is no better place for spring shredding than Mammoth Mountain. The Unbound Main Park is still kicking with all the jumps, rails, and two halfpipes, the top of the mountain is littered with untracked big wall corn runs, and the crowds are light.
The minds behind the Toronto, Ontario, Canada blog KingShit.org have just launched a new snowboarding site named, not surprisingly King Snow. Here’s what they had to say about it:
Before we say anything else, please go visit the new snowboard site we started, called King Snow. If you think snowboarding is retarded, then don’t go. Now, on to the goods.
We’re putting them on the list because they just gave Embry Rucker a porfolio. And that’s not a bad way to kick off a new site.
The Newport Beach Film Festival begins on Friday April 24, 2009 and included in the festival is The Action Sports Film Series presented by etnies, Fuel TV, and Surfing Magazine.
Here are just a few of the 20 films and five world premieres: Echo Beach, The Lost Wave, P. Rod’s Street Dreams, Travis Rice’s That’s It, That’s All, and “The Malloys” in Waveriders.
We’d link directly to the show times for the Action Sports Series, but we can’t because the site is in Flash. You’ll have to find it yourself. Flash is rad.
New York Timeswriter Michael Brick gets looks into boardsports triathlon Ultimate Boarder and finds the intersection of marketing, action sports, novelty and a founder who just wants make money doing what he loves.
The Ultimate Boarder organizer, Tim D. Hoover, a 38-year-old amateur surfer and onetime film industry worker, described the contest as his ticket to raising his family in this easygoing beach setting 60 miles north of Los Angeles. . . .“I really wanted to make this a grassroots, bootstrap, organic thing,” he said. “I wanted to do something to inspire and create a format for the next generation of kids that grow up in this lifestyle.”
