9 Five kicks this lookbook video off with a little message to Luxottica’s Ray Ban brand and doesn’t slow down from there. All we can say is — trucks to your forehead.
[Link: 9 Five]
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Oakley and Red camera founder (and #462 on Forbes Billionaire List) Jim Jannard is apparently buying up a couple beach front lots on Kauai’s North Shore according to a story in Pacific Business News.
Jannard is under contract to purchase several adjacent Hanalei Bay beachfront homes about a quarter-mile up the beach, a source tells PBN. . . . Jannard’s Kauains LLC in 2012 purchased a 23,162-square-foot parcel of land on Weke Road in Hanalei for $13.35 million from Jan Hailey Revocable Trust, near his current purchases. He sold it to Waioli Surf Shack Holdings LLC for $15 million a year later, according to public records.
If you’re going to own a strip of beach front somewhere in the world, it might as well be Hanalei Bay, right?
[Link: Pacific Business News]
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The Joel Tudor Duct Tape Invitational (poster by Thomas Campbell) presented by Vans returns to the Noosa Heads, Australia this weekend (March 13 – 15, 2015) as part of the historic Cricks Noosa Festival of Surfing. The world’s best traditional long boarders will exhibit their unique long boarding style for a piece of a $10,000 USD prize purse and the privilege to be a part of the celebrated heritage of the Noosa surf community.
The 16-man contest spans a three-day window with top contenders including defending champion and Noosa local Harrison Roach from Australia, past Duct Tape winners Alex Knost and Tyler Warren of California, plus a talented roster longboard specialists from all over the world. Strict guidelines will enforce the use of traditional, single-fin logs without modern attachments and no interference allowed. Additional points will be awarded for best shared wave, encouraging surfers to ride the same wave with style and creativity.
Other long boarders who will be working magic on the waves include: Ryan Burch, Dane Peterson, Matty Chojnacki, Jai Lee, Thomas Bexon, Matt Cuddihy, Mikey Detemple, Robin Kegel, Bryce Young, Troy Mothershead, Nathan Strom, and Kai Ellice-Flynt. For the official word from Vans, please follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Mike Ranquet. Photo: Kevin Kinnear
Few have been around the snowboard industry underbelly longer than Mike Ranquet. He remains one of the snowboarders most responsible for brining modern skate style to snowboarding and, remarkably, he’s still in the game thanks to Chris Roach and D Day Snowboards. Yobeat interviewed Mike for their Hump Day feature and had Mikey Leblanc write the intro. How’s that for a power packed package? Here’s a little taste:
The industry has an appetite for the next Baby Jesus. It’s always looking for the next big thing. And that’s been the trend for so long, but Baby Jesus, you know, he grew up. Every team is always after this new kid, and that kid’s fucking old after awhile. You look at some goggle companies that have a surf team and you look at that surf team three years ago and you look at it today and there’s maybe one out of the six people that are off that team. You look at a snowboard list now and one from three years ago, and it’s a whole new team. As a brand it’s kinda defeating to try and build some kid up and he just isn’t cool in a couple years.
You really should read the rest.
[Link: Yobeat]
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Spitfire Wheels is happy to welcome Luan Oliveira to the team. To see the new pro edition conical this relationship has spawned, please click the link.
[Link: Spitfire]
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Vice Sports (just one more arm of the billion dollar media octopus called Vice) is dropping in with a new show which follows the Too Hard crew as they gather footage for their all-girl snowboard action videos. It’s called Lady Shredders and as you might expect, part one comes with full raw-dog Vice stylings that just might make this more entertaining that your average snow doco. Bad-ass indeed.
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It’s been gone for two years, but this year the Oakley Lowers Pro finally returns to Southern California’s Trestles April 28 – May 2, 2015.
“Oakley has a long history at Lower Trestles and we’re excited to be back at this esteemed surf break to host some of the world’s best surfers in our own backyard,” said Cuan Petersen, Director of Global Sports Marketing, Oakley. “Lowers is a perfect canvas for innovative, high-performance surfing, which makes for an ideal competitive venue. And while it can be a picturesque wave, it’s a difficult one to master. It’s definitely a place that differentiates the good from the great. We’re looking forward to kicking off the competition at the 2015 Oakley Lowers Pro.”
With the ratings points on this years event being even with a WSL Championship Tour it will likely be the only time to see all the heavies this summer. Stoked. For the official word from Oakley, please follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Yuki Kadono put down one of the most epic runs in the history of snowboarding to win the 2015 US Open of Snowboarding Slopestyle contest. Back-to-back 1620 triples. Check!
Last week (March 3 -7, 2015) Burton Snowboards presented this years edition of the longest running snowboard contest in the world: the US Open of Snowboarding at Vail, Colorado. The entire thing was broadcast live online and if you cared about the event at all, then we’re guessing you watched at least some of it, but just in case you didn’t (or if you just love reading comp results) we’ve listed all the officials for easy access and reference after the jump.
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We knew him best from Ted Richards serialized comic Mellow Cat which appeared in Skateboarder Magazine from 1978 to 1981, but those who knew Kurt Ledterman as the editor at Surfer Magazine (and brains behind Skateboarder) remember a charming, kind, intelligent man, according to a remembrance from legendary photographer Jeff Devine on Surfermag.com. Ledterman was 69.
He treated all contributors during his reign as an editor at SURFER—and also as an integral part of Skateboarder—with a politeness that many still remember. He loved jazz and obscure rock. He would formally invite you to drive him up the hill to his house on Soledad Mountain to enjoy an obscure background-drumming lick on the latest T. Rex album, piped through his parents’ stereo. Over and over. His mom described his informal group of musician friends as, “better than a barking dog.” . . . As editor at SURFER, he filled and stylized the magazine with his verbal accounts and captions. Publisher Steve Pezman once called him the soul of the magazine. “Kurt’s stretch at SURFER and Skateboarder would become an indelible part of the lore of both magazines,” he says. Surfers from Malibu to San Diego knew and loved him. Seeing him actually surf only added to the respect.
We know that Ledterman’s contributions to Skateboarder created delight in the minds of young readers and inspired them to find more in the magazines than simply photos and stories. Our thoughts are with Kurt’s family and friends. Radical-mon. . .
[Link: Surfer Magazine]
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In tandem with this year’s Skate Copa, adidas introduces #BoostTheBar —a best trick contest held on a custom built bump-to-bar obstacle that’s open to everyone to skate. With cash prizes and Boost prize packs up for grabs, Boost The Bar is going down at every #adidasSkateCopa stop in North America with the first stop happening this Saturday at Noon at the Westchester Skate Plaza in LA.
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