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Jack Freestone has joined Nixon’s global surf team. He’s been wearing the watches for a while, so this is really a promotion.
“It’s exciting to have Jack officially represent Nixon front-and-center,” said Nixon Marketing Manager, Michel Murciano. “He is a part of a new generation in professional surfing and has the ability, smarts and style to take Nixon to a new level.”
For the official word from Nixon, please follow the jump.
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Vans is launching an all-new Anthony Van Engelen collection on March 12, 2016 and it has some some interesting stuff in it (like the AV Holser windbreaker). To check it all out, follow the jump.
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We teased you with the teaser, now check out the full 13 minute cut of Liam Gallagher’s Faster Forward: 30 Years Of The Legendary Banked Slalom.
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Tommy Guerrero and Ray Barbee talk a little more about music than skateboarding, but that’s kind of nice on a Wednesday — skateboarding, community, music. And some quality people talking about it.
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Myra Aikau said it best this morning (February 25, 2016), “We are proud to tell you that today, Eddie will go.”
“This is what we’ve been waiting for,” said event director Glen Moncata. ”This is real Eddie. It’s going to be a little morning sick to start as it fills in, but as the trades come on we will be looking at one for the record books.”
The surf looks great, the guys are already up charging (heat 1 is in the water), and really, do you have something better do today? Watch it all live by clicking right here.
For the complete heat line-up and official word from Quik, please follow the jump.
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Tatiana Weston-Webb is releasing a signature line of traction with her longtime surf wax and accessories sponsors, Sticky Bumps. She also renewed her contract with the Vista, California based company.
Tati has been with the brand for over 6 years, and this year she will release her signature traction pad for Sticky Bumps, the Tati Signature Traction. 2015 marked Tati’s rookie year on tour, and her incredible surfing resulted in top finishes and earned her requalification for 2016. She finished the year at #7 in the WSL Championship Tour rankings. As the 2016 contest circuit begins in Australia, both Sticky Bumps and Tatiana are eagerly anticipating each event. The Tati Signature Traction will be available online and in stores this summer.
For the official word from Sticky Bumps, please follow the jump.
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Turns out there was some news from Shaun White’s concert/stunt jump event in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend of February 20-21, 2016. Mark McMorris broke his femur after catching an edge on what looked to be a pretty chunked up landing zone.
here’s what happened to Mark McMorris tonight in #AirandStyle for those wondering. pic.twitter.com/yyyuYhtXRq
— Josh (@JoshMorschauser) February 22, 2016
According to a story from CBC News, McMorris is going in for surgery and will be out for the rest of the season. We wish him the best and look forward to his complete recovery. . . and to his hanging out with his girlfriend at one of our favorite coffee shops.
[Link: CBC News]
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Jake and Donna Burton Carpenter’s sons George and Timothy, are apparently responsible for accidentally torching Mount Mansfield’s historic Stone Hut just before Christmas, after getting the place warmed up for a friend who they thought was spending the night, according to a story in the Vermont Digger.
The brothers and a few friends “built the fire up really big” in the wood stove, and brought in some wet wood from outside, which they leaned up against the stove to dry out, the report said. . . A few of the pieces were placed at an angle where the tip of the wood was against the stove and made a ‘hissing’ sound as the snow began to melt against it,” the police report reads. . . The group left the hut and headed down the mountain at 2:40 p.m. About five hours later, they realized the friend they expected to spend the night at the hut didn’t show up.
Sometime later, the Hut caught on fire, however, the fire was not reported until 7 AM the next morning by a lift mechanic. The Carpenters have reportedly pledged $100,000 for the restoration of the hut. Pretty expensive way to learn that whole Smokey The Bear “never leave a fire unattended” thing.
[Link: Vermont Digger]
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According to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald, Rip Curl made at least some of their 2015 snowboard outerwear in North Korea, a country known for using slave labor in manufacturing. Of course Rip Curl didn’t mention it until after it was pointed out to them by Fairfax Media. Now the surf wear company is doing everything they can to blame it on their China based contractors.
After Fairfax Media sent Rip Curl photos of its garments being made in North Korea, the company’s chief financial officer Tony Roberts released a statement that said the firm “takes its social compliance obligations seriously. . .We were aware of this issue, which related to our Winter 2015 Mountain-wear range, but only became aware of it after the production was complete and had been shipped to our retail customers. . . This was a case of a supplier diverting part of their production order to an unauthorised subcontractor, with the production done from an unauthorised factory, in an unauthorised country, without our knowledge or consent, in clear breach of our supplier terms and policies.”
Hey, you can’t keep those margins in check without cutting production costs, right? In other news, Kim Jong-un may be getting the boot from his own country for a failing economy.
[Link: Sydney Morning News]
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