by The Editors on April 2, 2008
Can you lay 50 people off on April Fools day? Apparently not. According to reports posted on Transworld Business, the Big B offered the big bye bye on April 2, 2008.
While there has been no official press release from Burton, a source says that Burton has eliminated The Syndicate staff on the West Coast, as well as several marketing positions. In all, nearly 50 jobs are said to have been eliminated.
We’ll see how it spins tomorrow.
[Link: Transworld Business]
by The Editors on April 2, 2008
From the Ottawa Citizen:
Canada’s top snowboard cross racers, who should be serious medal threats at the 2010 Olympics, were angry yesterday over the sudden termination of their well-liked coach, Austrian Rene Brunner, on the eve of this weekend’s national championships near West Vancouver. Tom McIllfaterick, the snowboard federation’s chief executive officer, would not disclose the reasons why Brunner, who has been with the team since 2005, was let go.
[Link: Ottawa Citizen]
by The Editors on March 31, 2008
Now, you’ll never be lost on a mountain again. Podpro solved the ski map dilemma for us.
Podpro is offering a free service for skiers and snowboarders that delivers instant access to more than thirty-three of North America’s most popular ski resorts. With Podpro’s service users can retrieve live weather reports, ski conditions, as well as lodging options from anywhere.
We cruised through and it’s a nice, simple interface for viewing big ski area map .jpg files on the iPhone, plus weather, snowfall, links etc. . .
[Link: Podpro via Macnn]
by The Editors on March 31, 2008
Shop, eat, surf’s, Tiffany Montgomery attended the Quiksilver shareholders meeting on March 28, 2008 so we didn’t have to. Here are her take-aways. . . wait, she didn’t have any take-aways, just the facts:
Company goals include driving growth in apparel and footwear brands, divesting the equipment business, continuing its initiative to streamline global sourcing, cutting expenses, improving operating profit margins, improving cash flow and reducing debt. . . . Quiksilver now owns 406 retail stores, a $392 million business acounting for 20 percent of apparel and footwear sales last year.
You can read the rest on her blog.
[Link: Shop Eat Surf]
by The Editors on March 31, 2008
Fans of the classic Nintendo 64 snowboarding game 1080, rejoice. The classic old game has been tuned up and relaunched on the DS platform. They’ve also re-tooled Excitebike 64, Mario Tennis, The Legend of Zelda® Majora’s Mask, and Mario Party 3. And they’re selling them for only $19.99.
Kind of makes us bummed that we don’t have any boring conference calls to sit through.
[Link: Vooks.net]
by The Editors on March 28, 2008
Chris Broderick, guitarist for the speed metal band Megadeth just updated his blog at Blabbermouth.net. He wanted everyone to know that he’s at Mammoth Mountain snowboarding . . . in a helmet. And we thought he was a head-banger.
It’s been a while since I have posted here so I figured I would try to catch up. Right now I am up in Mammoth Mountain, CA snowboarding. I invited Dave [Mustaine, MEGADETH mainman] and Justis [Dave’s son] to come up but I think they are more into warm weather sports, however, they do have a run named after Dave here.
[Link: Blabbermouth.net]
by The Editors on March 20, 2008
The gadget wanks at my favorite technology blog Gizmodo (specifically writer Brian Lam) are getting together at Alpine Meadows on April 5, 2008 for a techno snowboard “meetup.”
The place: Alpine Meadows. The Time: 9AM, upstairs in the main lodge cafeteria or something Nokia is coming with a fleet of N95s we can use, and Vudu and JBL are donating a prizes to give away, as are a few others who aren’t locked down yet.
This is probably the entire snowboard industry’s target market so it may be something worth checking out: Alex Birch and Rick Alden you guys listening?
[Link: Gizmodo.com]
by The Editors on March 18, 2008
According to a press release on Boardsport Source:
Burton and Go211.com are pleased to announce a five-year partnership in which Go211 will become a global partner of the Burton Global Open Series (BGOS) and webcast all BGOS competitions and other events over the next five years.
Let’s see, the last time Burton did a big online deal for the Open series it was with a company called Lat34.com. Sadly, Lat34 ran out of money before they could webcast even one full season of Burton Opens. This deal sounds like it will last about three years longer than GO211.com will be around.
[Link: Boardsport Source]
by The Editors on March 18, 2008
We’re not the kind to get excited when a ski resort that has banned snowboarding “until hell freezes over” finally realizes that it might be a good idea to start taking snowboard dollars. All the same, we’re glad Taos Ski Resort has decided to open on March 19, 2008, even if they’ll have mad poop behind their ears for eternity.
[Link: Ride Taos]
by The Editors on March 18, 2008
Damn, anyone can win a snowboard contest, but Keir Dillon delivered his own child. That is impressive.
Long story short, I think all the talk about doing kickflips and mctwists in the belly got her all excited and she couldn’t wait for the hospital. Luckily I watched a lot of the Cosby’s when I was a kid so it was all good in holding it down in the living room. I will say tying the cord with dental floss was something that they don’t teach you in health class.
[Link: Transworld Business]
