Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow presents Russ Pope + Neil Blender = Baggage Claim Opening Reception, Saturday , April 5th, 2014 : 6-9PM.
AR4T is located at 1175 South Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, California.
[Link: AR4T]
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Its spring and there’s no better time to go bananas. Fyasko has done it up and gone well over the top with their new Go Bananas Collection. Planet of the Bananas has never looked so smooth. Looks like this “apish” surfer is getting all the goodness. Follow the jump for all the product. . . [click to continue…]
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These two brands have been showing up on the same people for decades, so it’s fitting that Vans and Independent Truck Company are collaborating on an exclusive apparel and footwear collection.
As original manufacturers in skateboarding, these two brands share an influential heritage deeply rooted in the early days of skating’s genesis as well as current team riders from Amateur to Legendary such as Gilbert Crockett, Anthony Van Engelen, Geoff Rowley, Tony Trujillo, Andrew Allen, Curren Caples, Daniel Lutheran, Dustin Dollin, Elijah Berle, Jason Dill, Omar Hassan, Pedro Barros, Christian Hosoi, Jeff Grosso, John Cardiel, Ray Barbee, Steve Caballero and Tony Alva. Hailing from Santa Cruz, Independent has offered skateboarding hardwoods since the late 70’s, providing the functional equipment that hardcore skaters rely on to this day.
For the official word from Vans, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Mt. Hood summer camp consolidation is well underway as Windells Camp and High Cascade Snowboard Camp join forces as We Are Camp, LLC. After shaping the world of snow summer camps and creating one of the most popular youth sports training brands in the world, former pro snowboarder Tim Windell appears to be taking a break.
“Combining the two camps has been a dream of mine since 2003,“ said Tim Windell, legendary world-champion snowboarder and Windells Camp founder. Windell will serve on the board in an advisory capacity to the company during the transition. Together, the brands offer an unrivaled summer snowboard and ski camp experience with three private terrain parks, Oregon’s best indoor and outdoor skate parks, two high-speed quad chairlifts, four surface tows, four BagJumps, two mini-pipes, and North America’s only Olympic-sized 22’ Summer Superpipe, which serves as the summertime Olympic training facility to the U.S. Snowboarding team and all major contending countries.
We’re stoked for Tim. Job well done! For the official word from We Are Camp, follow the jump. Or click here for an interview with Tim Windell and We Are Camp CEO Kevin English from Yobeat.com. [click to continue…]
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The ASP fired up their jets again in Australia for the first day of the Drug Aware Pro Margaret River. Wildcard Yadin Nicol, knocked Kelly Slater into Round 2 in their Round 1 match-up, but the question on everyone’s lips was: what was Mr. Slater wearing? The answer: a contest jersey, a wetsuit with no logos, and a Jake Burton Channel Islands sticker on his surfboard. Yadin, was happy with his performance against the Quik-free Slater.
“It felt great to beat Kelly Slater,” said Yadin Nicol. “I wish I could have done that last year or the year before. I felt comfortable out there. I usually don’t start out that well so I’m happy to have one under my belt. There wasn’t much going on in that Heat so Slater and Durbidge didn’t have much of a chance to fight back, so I was lucky in that sense.”
Hometown hero Taj Burrow (above) blasted through his Round 1 heat ahead of Brett Simpson and Quiksilver’s new number 1 Fred Patacchia. For the official word from the ASP and complete heat results, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Penny gets into a three-way with their latest skateboard release, and they look pretty swell.
Inspired by surfboard art and by the creative mind of one passionate Penny follower, the new Fades series combines the best of both Penny worlds: fabulous, vibrant colors, and the beach lifestyle that underpins the essence of the Penny brand. The new Fades series offer a unique addition to the already widely diverse stable of color options. . . Each board across the collection mixes three perfectly complementary color combinations in an ombre effect that fades across the board. . . Global Marketing Manager Jay Baikie said, “The new Fades series has come about through the power of social media and our ability to connect with our customers by really tapping into what they’re asking for.”
For the official word from Penny, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Kelly Slater has left Quiksilver and few are surprised. The most surprising thing to us (aside from the April 1, 2014 roll out) is that news went out in a press release from the ASP. Why is Kelly Slater leaving Quiksilver an ASP news item? Oh yeah, that’s because Kelly owns has extremely close ties to the owners of the Association of Surfing Professionals.
Mr. Slater, however, was a true professional with his exit letter:
There is little I can say that would give the credit due or cover the debt of gratitude I feel on a personal and professional level to Quiksilver. As a brand and on a human level, they have been a part of my life, career, and personal relationships for more than 23 years now, well over half my life. They’ve supported me through good times and bad, personal hardships and competitive triumphs, and never wavered in backing my choices and desires in all that time.
Quiksilver founder Bob McKnight was equally professional and warm.
“Kelly has been a part of the Quiksilver family for over 20 years. It’s been an incredible journey watching him grow from a young surfer with great potential, to the 11-time World Champion he is today. We wish Kelly all the best as he enters this next phase of his career.”
Yes, it went on for a long time (23 years) and they created some iconic images together, but it was just a clothing sponsorship, and Kelly was just a model, and Quiksilver is just a giant clothing company dead set on selling swimsuits to the mall moving masses so we’re sure they’ll find cheaper, younger, more handsome men to model their products in the future. And Kelly, well, he’s moving on up to model for a huge French Fashion conglomerate (that owns Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Puma, and Volcom/electric]. Because if you’re going to model, it might as well be for the French. They invented it.
[Side note: we searched Kering’s site for “Kelly Slater” and the site replied: “Did you mean ‘helly later’?” Yes, that’s exactly what we meant.]
[Link: ASP]
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Woodward West is going full street this summer and we’ve got all the details right here. . .
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Hobie Alter, the man most responsible for the modern age of both surfing and sailing, died yesterday (Saturday, March 29, 2014). He was 80 years old. According to a story on SurferMagazine.com:
A true waterman, Alter competed successfully in the Makaha International Surf Contest in 1958 and ’59, won a trio of tandem surfing championships from 1961-’63, and was elected to both the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame (1997) and the National Sailing Hall of Fame (2011). But Alter’s legacy will always be that of a pioneer of surfboard and sailboat production, called “the Henry Ford of the surfboard industry” by Steve Pezman, for his contribution to the large-scale manufacture of surfboards.
We had the honor of interviewing Alter for a surf magazine nearly a decade ago. It was a phone interview and he was sitting on the front porch of his home in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. We hit him with questions he’d been asked thousands of time before. But he didn’t seem to mind. At one point, we heard him say,” Whoa.” And we asked, “What just happened? You okay?” He laughed, “A Bald Eagle just got a big one.” We knew then, that Alter was living right. Our thoughts are with Alter’s family and friends.
[Link: Surfer Magazine]
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Whenever we see the words “swimsuit issue” we always think of that old issue of Transworld Skateboarding Magazine that was teased as a “Special Swimsuit Issue.” Remember? This issue of Surfing Magazine is not that. This is a bunch of bikinis on skinny girls. Hot girls are so hot right now. Especially when they’re lounging around in the sun, glistening with sweat, and nearly naked. Because, you know, they’re just waiting to make all your dreams come true. They’re open, willing, and available right there in the pages. Creep out, kids. . .
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