by The Editors on February 24, 2014
Burton’s 32nd Annual US Open of Snowboarding from Vail, Colorado (yeah, that still trips us up) will be getting the full TV treatment on Fox Sports 2 as the network announced today (February 24, 2014) that they will be pumping out five hours of live coverage beginning Friday, March 7, 2014 at 10:30 AM PT.
The deal is part of a larger partnership between Burton Snowboards and FOX Sports, with additional coverage of Burton’s iconic Global Event Series on FOX Sports 2 and FOX Sports Regional Sports Networks throughout the year, including the Burton US Open Snowboarding Qualifiers, Burton European Open, Burton Rail Days, Burton High Fives and more. . . Veteran snowboard TV host Preston Strout calls the play-by-play, while Tom Monterosso, Snowboarder Magazine Editor, provides analysis from the booth.
For the official word from Burton including a complete schedule (yes, it’s next week), follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on February 20, 2014
Yes, apparently Late Night With David Letterman is still on and as is the custom he’s interviewing Olympic gold medalists. Here he talks to halfpipe gold medalist Kaitlyn Farrington. If you need to know anything else, watch. Oh, and if you want to see Sage Kotsenburg utter the first words we’ve ever heard him speak, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on February 19, 2014
We’re not the biggest fans of the jock, team sports mag Sports Illustrated or of its annual porny-spank-book-posing-as-fashion swimsuit issue. But we’re willing to make a couple exceptions: first are the photos by Derek Katella, and second, is for any pro surfer who shows up there. This year it’s Anastasia Ashley and she does it better than most of the fashion models. Guess she’s had a little more experience in a Mikoh bikini.
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by The Editors on February 18, 2014
Joe Turpel, Pat Parnell, Rosy Hodge, Todd Kline, and Martin Potter are headlining the ASP’s World Tour announcer team for the 2014 season. Ross Williams, Peter Mel, Strider Wasilewski and Ronnie Blakey round out the team.
“We’re very excited about the core commentary team for 2014,” Jed Pearson, SVP of Content and Programming, said. “Their experience and background within the sport is unparalleled and for the first time in ASP history, we’ll have a dedicated and consistent team for the sport. In addition to our core team, we look forward to utilizing regional resources around the world to ensure that the broadcast is the best possible quality for the fans.”
No complaints here. Truthfully, we enjoy listening to all of them and looking at a few of them. For the official word from the ASP, follow the jump.
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by The Editors on February 10, 2014
Legendary skateboard photographer Jody Morris has collected his photos into an elegant, lovely hard bound book titled 20plus. Featuring photos from two decades of skateboarding 20plus is a necessary addition to every skate library.
Here’s what skateboarding documentarian Sean Mortimer has to say about the book:
Morris’ unifying love of skating is clearly seen through his images as Skid Row skaters are snapped alongside legends like Tony Hawk and Danny Way. Morris’ close relationship with his subjects allows for rare images of iconic skaters lounging in graffiti scrawled tour vans, shredding abandoned buildings, avoiding dessert dust storms. . . It’s Morris’ rare ability to blend the culture into the action that makes him one of the most sought after action sports photographers. With over 70 magazine covers to his name, 20 PLUS is loaded with definitive images from an insulated culture.
20plus is available online at Half Acre Paper for $39.95. Click the link to purchase, or follow the jump for more info. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on February 5, 2014
After years of dealing with delays to prime time, worrying about spoilers, and having friends point their webcams at their TVs so they could uStream their live feed to us here in America, we’re finally going to be able to watch every bit of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics that we want to watch. And watch it live.
For the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics NBC, the old media TV monster, is doing it like they’ve never done it before. They will be live streaming every event, every day through their NBC Sports Live Extra smartphone app (available for IOS and Android). The app allows users to select the events they want to watch and then hits them notifications when the events are about to begin. It’s like having an Olympic servant who takes care of everything. After getting the notification we can either watch it on the iPhone, iPad, or in our case Airplay it to the AppleTV for viewing on the big screen. For fans of the Olympics, this could be reason enough to buy a $99 AppleTV and set it up.
There is one catch, however. To watch the live events on the app you must be a subscriber to one of the paid television providers. If you pay a cable bill, chances are you’re good. If you don’t pay a cable bill (and you know someone who does) you can simply sign in with their credentials and get all this streaming for free (yes, it works!). Oh, and Android users? You’ll have to figure it out yerself.
The 2014 Winter Olympic Snowboarding events begin tonight (Wednesday, February 5, 2014) at 10:00 PM with Slopestyle Qualifiers. For the complete schedule of Olympic snowboarding events (and when they’re on) follow the jump. If you load the app, you’ll already know all this!) [click to continue…]
by The Editors on January 14, 2014
We haven’t had the best of luck creating anything worth watching with a GoPro, however, we know that the GoPro camera has done more to shape the way we all see action sports than any single invention in the history of man. Period. Yes, it’s that big of a deal. Now, GoPro has won an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Natas, natas, natas . . .) in a category they basically created: Inexpensive Small Rugged HD Camcorders. For the rest of the story, watch the edit.
by The Editors on January 9, 2014
After 10 years of producing Color Magazine, Canada’s Fourcorner Publishing Inc. has announced that they will no longer print the magazine and are taking an “extended hiatus from the traditional methods.”
“I may have received back just as much as we gave [while making the magazine]—which was always all of ourselves,” said founder Alessandro Grison. “I am forever grateful for the amazing people I met and got the opportunity to work with over the years. I’m thankful to walk away enriched by memorable experiences.”
The rough times in action sports media continue. Sadly, we’re guessing this won’t be the last bit of bad news we’re expecting in the coming months. For the official word from Fourcorner, follow the jump.
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by The Editors on December 20, 2013
This is about as far as we’re going to go with the whole Christmas Gift Guide idea. Four books: two for people who like to read and two for people who like to look at pictures. Word books first.
Welcome To Paradise Now Go To Hell
by Chas Smith
In his debut book Welcome To Paradise, Now Go To Hell writer, editor, filmmaker, and handsome father Chas Smith weaves many of his best surf story lines into a tale of surfing (and violence) on the North Shore of Oahu. Its centerpiece is the story of Smith being verbally assaulted by world champion Mick Fanning and the shit-storm that his reporting of that incident caused. But there’s also more about surfing in general, the North Shore, Hawaiian history, and just how much Chas Smith the writer admires Chas Smith the man. We couldn’t stop turning the pages once we started and ended up reading it straight through. We guessing you will, too. It’s good.
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By Nick Carroll
This tell-all surf memoir is the “autobiography” of the two-time ASP world surfing champion Tom Carroll written by respected surf journalist and editor (and Tom’s brother) Nick Carroll. It’s a family book. It’s a surf book. Here’s the official pitch:
On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, cheeky grommet, brilliant surfer, Australian sporting hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, big wave charger. Inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction, part family curse, part legacy of the footloose surf culture he’d done so much to legitimize. Tom’s family and friends struggled with him, kept his secrets, and looked on in anger and fear as the wheel began to grind him down. Then a window opened, but getting through it made charging Pipeline look like a piece of cake. This is the story of an unlikely moral education: of humility, family, damage, brotherhood, youth, stupidity, glory, single-mindedness, and surrender, and about the feeling of water moving under a surfboard, how it can bind past to present and make sense of lives.
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by The Editors on December 17, 2013
Years ago, (seems like a lifetime now) I rolled in late-night to a bar called Whiskey Creek in Mammoth Lakes, California. It was a weeknight and the place was half empty, but the other half was all local: goggle tanned ski instructors, lift ops on their last dollar, off duty cat drivers, and bored, alcoholic wives of the idle rich scattered around the room. The band had just finished playing and I made the mistake of rolling up to the bar next to an older guy who had already been there too long. He turned, one hand on an old fashioned, looked me straight in the eye and before I could say hey, said, “I’m working out a way to put anyone in “the zone” any time they want.”
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