While the city of New York was digging out from another savage winter storm Casey Neistat took to the streets behind his jeep to get some snowboarding done. And yes, he didn’t leave it up to any one else because he is most definitely that guy.
[Link: The Atlantic Cities]
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We’ve seen Leticia Bufoni skate and she kills. She’s won the women’s World Cup State street title four times. Now, she’s dropping a little something else in the pages of Men’s Health & Fitness Brazil. “Confira maid foots da garota MH de fevereiro,” it says. Apparently, that means “Check out more photos of the MH February Girl.” So we did and we’re having a rough time connecting these photos with the girl we used to see bombing the street course in black jeans, a tank top, and a black bandana . . click the link for the rest .
[Link: Men’s Health & Fitness Brazil]
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This new Brixton Spring 2014 Lookbook edit is loaded. Check it out and you’ll see what we mean.
[Link: Brixton]
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Oscar Loreto is a skater from Los Angeles. He’s also missing his left foot and nine of his fingers. Adaptive Action Sports is helping him (and many others) find confidence through skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing and they’re helping more and more people each much. For more info on ADACS, click the link.
[Link: ADACS]
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Want to check out all the new Matix body coverings for Spring 2014? You into style and fashion? Then click the link and take a stroll along the shores of the Salton Sea along with Daewon Song, Marc Johnson, and the Matix crew. It’s a beautiful wasteland.
Side note: If you want to read everything there is know about this desolate corner of Southern California, check out Imperial by William T. Vollmann.
[Link: Matix Clothing]
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The pipe at Sochi’s Rosa Khutor Extreme Park was reportedly terrible, possibly the worst Olympic Halfpipe since the debut of snowboarding in the 1998 Nagano Olympics. But 12 snowboarders soldiered on through the sugar and sand flats, over holes in the walls, and three of them prevailed on Tuesday night, February 11, 2014. Sadly for US fans it wasn’t the American dream team let by two-time Gold Medalist Shaun White. It was the Swiss and Japanese.
While Americans Danny Davis, Greg Bretz, and Shaun White where shaken by the rough pipe in both their final runs, Iouri Podladtchikov and Japan’s Ayumu Hirano put down two solid runs (their second runs scoring highest) and Taku Hiraoka pulled it out in a clutch second run save. Luckily, the judging didn’t seem to be a factor at all (for once). Follow the jump for complete results. [click to continue…]
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VonZipper announced today that they are “bringing newness to the Old Continent” with their newly appointed distributor in Europe Despomar.
“As one of the first and most successful VonZipper Distributors in Europe, it makes sense to have the Despomar team take over our European Operations,” stated VonZipper President and Founding Diplomat GT, as he signed an accord of awesomeness. “This relationship will open up a new era in Euro-American cooperation forged and focused on the values of sunglasses, goggles and good times.”
For the official word from VonZipper, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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While the rest of us were staying up all night watching Olympic snowboarding, complaining about judging, and the “quality of the venues” the true hard cores were out on the snow at Mt. Baker for the 2014 29th Annual Legendary Banked Slalom.
Here is a list of duct taped winners in all categories (along with their times, hometowns and ages):
Pro Men
Harry Kearney 1:43.35 Norwood, Colorado 20
Pro Women
Marie-France Roy 2:00.78 Les Eboulements, Quebec 30
Pro Masters
Pat Abramson 1:50.48 Boulder, Colorado 41
Pro Women Masters
Marni Yamada 2:02.64 Seattle, Washington 35
Next Generation
Jaydn Chomlack 2:07.76 Whistler, British Columbia 11
Juniors
Hank Kennedy 1:54.02 Glacier, Washington 15
Younger Amateurs
Jacob Krugmire 1:57.66 University Place, Washington 17
Older Amateurs
Spencer Cordovano 1:51.20 Hailey, Idaho 26
Women Amateurs
Martina Nemcova 2:03.42 Boulder, Colorado 23
Women Masters
Kelly Edmonds 2:09.33 Shoreline, Washington 34
Masters
Scott Reynolds 1:51.67 Rossland, British Columbia 31
Mid Masters
Tim Gallagher 1:58.35 Mammoth Lakes, California 44
Grand Masters
Jay Moore 2:01.01 Bozeman, Montana 50
Click here for a complete and total list of the losers (who had much more fun last weekend than any of us!)
[Link: Legendary Banked Slalom]
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Gold Coast surfer and professional abalone diver Mark Morlock, 41, could lose his right eye after an attack he calls the “most brutal and cowardly thing I’ve ever seen,” according to a story in the Courier-Mail. Another surfer fired his board directly into Morlock’s face stabbing him in the eye while the two were at Snapper Rocks.
He said a fellow surfer who he unwittingly cut off on a wave at the same break about five months ago confronted him. . . “I heard a voice behind me go ‘hey you’ and I’ve turned around and he goes ‘you remember me?’,” Mr Morlock said. . . “I said ‘yeah I remember you, what do you want?’. Then he let his board go from between his legs, straight into my face. He said ‘you’re not laughing now, are you mate?’
Morlock has reportedly undergone 12 hours of micro surgery to save the eye and the offender is described as a “notorious troublemaker.”
[Link: Courier-Mail]
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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…]
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