We kind of had a feeling that Laird Hamilton’s comments on CNN last week regarding last Monday at Nazaré, Portugal would not go unchallenged. So here is Ken Collins’ response to Laird’s thoughts on Maya Gabeira and Carlos Burle. Big wave ping pong has never been so exciting.
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Kevin Meehan, the former general manager at Burton’s clothing and footwear companies Analog and Gravis has been named to the brand new position of President North American Region at Volcom, according to a story on Apparelnews.net.
In a comment from Volcom Chief Executive Officer Jason Steris, Meehan is a “cross-functional operations professional,” with 19 years experience in action sports, where he has worked in strategic planning, organizational development, marketing and sales strategy and business development.” Adding Kevin to the team provides even more firepower to drive the brand, Steris said in a company statement.
It’s nice to see that Volcom is still making good decisions even when they’re under pressure from their French overlords at Kering.
[Link: ApparelNews]
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While it won’t surprise anyone who knows Agenda Show founder Aaron Levant, it is good to see that the show is continuing on the up and up with all kinds of expansion plans for New York City and Las Vegas in 2014.
This January 2014, Agenda:NYC men’s street wear and lifestyle show will be hosted at the 82 Mercer building in Soho, for the last time. Moving locations for Summer 2014 edition, Agenda:NYC expands to the Jacob K. Javits center, housed in the Javits North building. The newly constructed space provides more than double the square footage to the current New York footprint.
In Las Vegas the Agenda Show will double in size with the addition of a surf/lifestyle zone called Woods and the Agenda WMNS section.
“We feel AGENDA has barely scratched the surface of what is possible in the Vegas landscape. There are so many opportunities and an amazing potential to grow in this space,” shares Levant.
For the official word from Agenda, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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The new balance numeric skate team of Levi Brown, Arto Saari, Tom Karangeloc, PJ Ladd, Tyler Surrey, and Jordan Taylor will be making an appearance at Allston, Massachusetts Orchard Skate Shop on Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 5 PM. The evening will feature an Arto photo show and the premiere of the Zero video. Follow the jump for all the details. Orchard is located at 156 Harvard Ave, in Allston. [click to continue…]
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Want a quick refresher course on some stories every real snowboard should know? Then Onboard’s collection of “38 iconic moments” is a great place to start. Beginning with the Bunker Board 1939 and rolling right through Peetu Piiroinen winning his 4th TTR Title and you have a pretty straight (if not Onboard/Euro focused) list of events you should have at least heard of if not witnessed. Dive in and enjoy.
For more stories to discuss and debate follow the jump for The History of Snowboarding: A 30 Year Time Line [click to continue…]
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Corey Duffel, Bo Mitchell, Rob Brink and a big, hairy Erica Yary impersonator star in this week’s episode of the Weekend Buzz. Ouch.
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The 2013 HD World Junior Championships are going down right now in Florianopolis, Brazil. On live are the final eight heats of Round 3. Want to see the next wave of pro tour surfers, check this out.
[Link: HD World Junior Championships]
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Tow-in legend Laird Hamilton discusses Monday at Nazaré, Portugal with the mainstream media and has a few interesting things to say about Maya Gabeira and Carlos Burle world record attempts.
“Maya, she doesn’t have the skill to be in these conditions,” Hamilton says. “She should not be in this kind of surf and I feel like it’s Carlos’ responsibility to take care of her and make sure she doesn’t drown.”
From the comments around the net Hamilton does not appear to be alone in these opinions.
[Link via Tracks]
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The legend of Tom Sims gets another nice boost in the form of a Mazda car commercial which somehow ties Tom’s innovative spirit to that of the Mazda CX-5. If the jocks at the world’s finest snowboard site Yobeat hadn’t been watching some pro sports balls and bats game we would have never known about it.
[Link via Yobeat]
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Happy Halloween for sure, but where are all the bikinis?
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