According to the Houston Chronicle William M. Barnum Jr., a director of Zumiez Inc. just bought 54,937 shares of Zumiez.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC, William M. Barnum Jr. reported he bought the shares for $18.05 to $18.40 apiece on Thursday.
Wonder if he knows anything?
[Link: Chron.com]
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While we may not so sure about “The Triathlon of a New Generation” a.k.a. the Ultimate Boarder 2008, a contest in which athletes compete in snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding with combined scoring, we are absolutely sure that the right guy won.
Carlsbadistan’s Aaron Astorga edged out pro snowboarder and ESPN commentator Todd Richards and rolled away with a check for $30,000.
“It was an amazing event and everyone had a great time,” said Ultimate Boarder™ champion, Aaron Astorga. “The contest organizers did an unbelievable job of bringing all of the surfers, skaters and snowboarders together and I know a lot of us are already looking forward to next year’s contest.”
Follow the jump for all the details.
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In an email sent out to Transworld Media employees on the morning of April 18, 2008 Group Publisher Jeff Griffing announced that after six months on the job he would be leaving Transworld Media and moving east (the second time in the last year that he has quit and moved).
My wife and I have decided to leave southern California to raise my son Jake back east. . . .There will be rumors that I left because I’m frustrated with Bonnier, Winter Park, whatever…..none of which are true.
His replacement: former VP of Sales and long-time Transworld adman Liam Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson will have the distinction of being Transworld Media’s seventh Group Publisher in the last five years.
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Writer Jeff Hemmel has a great story on the Lib Tech Skate Banana on First Tracks Online.
There’s some crazy stuff going on up in Washington State. First comes the notion that a snowboard’s edge should resemble a crinkle-cut French fry, rather than a traditional curve. The dust on crust had barely settled from that outburst when next came the idea that camber was old news, and that rocker — yes, wakeboard-like rocker — was the wave of the future.
While we all know Mike Olson is a design genius, it’s nice to see others appreciating his banana. . . tech.
[Link: First Tracks]
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The annual SIA/Leisure Trends Group retail audit overview press release was emailed out today. Sadly, they didn’t do much to breakout snowboarding from the rest of the stuff they track, and we couldn’t care less about how many pairs of twin-tip skis were sold or what the Vice President of Descente has to say about anything. So, here are some of the data points that, jumped out at us like a pride of starved snow leopards.
In other words, nothing much to see here. Read the rest after the jump.
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[Link: AfterBLUNT TransBlogging]
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Apparently, the Iranian snowboard team has taken the National title in a snowboard contest held in Iran.
Iran’s snowboard team has claimed the first prize in the international snowboarding competition at Tochal ski resort in Tehran, according to PressTV.com.
The Iranian team won the championship with 969 points. Slovenia and Australia came second and third with 692 and 412 points respectively.
Radoslav Zidek, who won a silver medal in Snowboard Cross at the 2006 Winter Olympics, bagged the gold medal. Charles Ferry from Australia won the silver and Hossein Kalhor from Iran walked away with the bronze medal on Friday.
Thirty-four skiers from Iran, Australia, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia participated in the three-day event, which ended on Friday.
An International Ski Federation official from Austria was sent as an observer as the winners will qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
We’re a little skeptical.
[Link: PressTV]
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Looks like Travis Rice isn’t the only Oakley sponsored snowboarder who can win his own self-designed contest. Gretchen Bleiler just won an even that she created originally called The Gretchen Bleiler Invitational. They later changed the name to the CoverGirl Snow Angels Invitational, but that didn’t stop Ms. Bleiler.
Even after changing its name to the CoverGirl Snow Angels Invitational, it was all about Bleiler at the inaugural event last weekend. The Aspen hostess took home the mostest at the women-only season-ending snowboard weekend she created, claiming $10,000 for her dominance in the superpipe and being named the event’s MPR (most progressive rider).
In the video Gretchen says she “just wanted it to be an event that the girls would talk about and love and enjoy coming to,” but it’s kind of like going to a birthday party and watching the hostess eat all the cake. . . and ice cream.
Just wait until we host the Boardistan Blowout. . . we’re going to scoop up those medals like spilled Cheerios.
[Link: Denver Post]
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Ai Ito, 25, went missing at Blackcomb Mountain on March 23, 2008. the RCMP said they found her body on April 7, 2008.
Police say the location is described as the water basin beneath the 7th Heaven run on Blackcomb Mountain. And on-scene evidence suggests that Ito had a bad fall, then succumbed to the cold weather before she had a chance to get up and out of the area.
Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
[Link: News1130.com]
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A 34-year-old Italian snowboarder died on Thursday March 27, 2008 when he fell from a 250 foot cliff near the Corona Bowl “just outside the ski-area boundary.”
A helicopter crew spotted him at the bottom of a 75-metre (250-foot) cliff, near the area where he went missing. . . . The man was dead when rescuers reached him and all evidence suggested he had fallen off the cliff by accident, Cst. Yakub said. The man’s body was recovered and was to have been transported to Vancouver General Hospital for an autopsy.
[Link: The Whistler Question]
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