If you want to know how the 10th Annual Hot Dawgs & Handrails at Bear Mountain went down and how Tommy Gesme won then whole thing, then check out Mary Walsh’s story on Snowboardermag.com. It’s good.
[Link: Snowboarder Mag]
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If it’s fall then that means it time for the 10th Annual Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails event at Southern California’s Bear Mountain. Forty of the world’s top rail slayers will congregate in Big Bear, California on Saturday September 21, 2013 to help kick off the 2013-14 winter season.
The men’s first place winner will be awarded $10,000 and the women’s first place will take home $1,000. The jibber with the best trick will take home $500. Both men and women’s first place finishers and the best trick winner will be presented with one-of-a-kind, customized iPad Minis, which will serve as their digital trophy. Provided courtesy of Fusion of Ideas, the iPad Minis will display the digital checks and head shots of winners. These winners will also take home go-pro cameras customized by Fusion of Ideas.
The event is free to the public. Gates open at 9 AM and the comp starts at 2 PM. Bear Mountain is located at 43101 Goldmine Drive
Big Bear Lake, California. Check out our photos from the 2011 event click here to see a little about what you have to look forward to tomorrow. For the official word from Bear Mountain follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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To kick off a new season of Every Third Thursday, Dave Lee and the Signal Snowboards crew decided to do something really silly. Build a snowboard at the bottom of the ocean. Why? Because, apparently.
[Link: Signal Snowboards]
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Seth Wescott, the two-time Olympic Boardercross Gold Medalist, has taken a stand against Russia’s “anti-gay propaganda” laws ahead of the Sochi Olympics, according to the Associated Press.
Wescott told The Associated Press on Wednesday that there’s potential for February’s games in Sochi (SOH’-chee) to be a “negatively-overshadowed Olympics” because of Russia’s law prohibiting promotion of “nontraditional” sexual relations. Activists have denounced the law and called for a boycott of the games.
Add this to the list of very good reasons that the Sochi Olympics should be boycotted, but it won’t be because there’s just too much damn money at stake for everyone.
[Link: Associated Press]
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If you were hoping to find out just a little bit more about Billabong and Yes. Snowboards‘ Helen Schettini, here it is. If you’d like to know more, tune in next week for webisode 2.
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Yobeat.com posted this yesterday, so we’re going to post it today because it made us laugh and put all action sports in proper perspective (at least to us, at this moment in time, today, (redundancy for poetic effect)). Airboarding. We wish we’d thought of it.
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It’s old news if you’ve been following along, but good news compared to what could have happened when Luke Mitrani came down hard on a fronside double fork 1080 attempt in New Zealand and broke his neck (fractured his C5 vertebra) on September 2, 2013, according to a story on GrindTV.com.
. . . [Mitrani] underwent a successful surgery and is currently recovering. In less than two weeks he’ll be back in the U.S., where he will continue the rehabilitation and physical therapy that he has already started in Christchurch. He is expected by doctors to make a full recovery within six to twelve months, though that time frame will have him sidelined for the rest of this winter season, which means he will not be able to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
Phew. This was another really close call for the Frends crew. And we’re glad Luke is up and walking around. We wish him a speedy and complete recovery! Having nurse Nadja Purtschert there by his side can’t be a bad thing. . .
[Link: GrindTV.com]
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Have you seen Union Binding Company’s Contact Pro lately? Apparently, Gigi Ruf logged 200 days of on-snow testing and motored through 20 different prototypes on the way to creating this beautiful binder.
Aside from a soft EVA cushion, the only binding-to-board contact here is a small ring around the disk. A smaller disk means a smaller binding footprint. A smaller footprint allows your board to flex and perform more naturally. . . Compatible with any traditional 4×4 mounting system, the 3 Hole, along with Burton snowboards featuring The Channel, you can mount Union Bindings on any board you choose.
Union loves this binding so much that they created a special section of their website just to tell you all about it. Can you believe a snowboard binding manufacturer would go to those lengths to communicate with consumers? At Union, they do it for you.
[Link: Union Binding Company]
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Billabong’s women’s snowboard team just put in a week of work at Whistler and it looks like Jamie Anderson, Helen Schettini, Rebecca Torr, Alex Duckworth, Taylor Godber, and Jenna Blasman had a pretty good time. Check it.
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Leatherman, makers of the fine folding multi-tools favored by Hollywood grips and handymen alike, has apparently been working with Signal Snowboards, Girl Skateboards, and Korduroy.TV on a new selection of multi-tools designed specifically for snowboarding, skateboarding, and surfing. The snowboarding tools are already out, but here’s a little sneak on the skate tools:
The Grind and Jam skate tools are designed specifically for assembling and maintaining a board—adjusting/setting trucks, tightening bolts, filing grip tape, etc.—and fall into the company’s PocketTool line. The Jam can be used in conjunction with the Leatherman Style® PS mini-multi-tool, by just snapping it into the frame of the Jam. These single-piece tools are lightweight, fit easily in a pocket, or clip onto a belt loop. Users can skate with the tools on, or clip them to a bag. In addition to the pocket tools, Leatherman will also be releasing a black pocket knife set, one with a blade only and the other with an integrated set of screwdrivers. Both knives have a storable carabiner to carry/open a bottle and a Blade Launcher™ system for quick-deploy.
For more details on the surf and snow tools, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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