After accidentally stumbling on to the ridiculous ABC Television “diving with the stars” reality contest show Splash and not getting it, we thought it even odder that Tony Hawk would make a five second guest appearance on the show ollieing off the show’s high dive to the cheers of a live crowd shouting: “Tony. Tony. Tony.”
Those who spent any time at Mr. Hawk’s Fallbrook facility will remember hours spent jump ramping into the pool on hot days, so this is really nothing new.
But we were left wondering: Is this the kind of compelling action sports content we can expect from TMZ Action Sports?
A 21-year-old surfer from DeBary, Florida wins the honor of New Smyrna’s first shark bite of the season, according to a story in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
The surfer, whose name was not available, was bitten about 1:30 p.m. Saturday as he caught waves off New Smyrna Beach near the south jetty, Marris said.
According to the International Shark Attach File Florida’s Volusia and Brevard counties share the 2012 record for shark bites with eight each in 2012. Yay, Florida.
When a Lion Airjet overshot a Bali runway on Saturday, April 13, 2013, and blasted right out into the ocean surfer Ben Panagian was on the beach with some friends, according to a story on Sky.com. They paddled out to see what they could do to help.
The 31-year-old said that when he and his friends reached the jet, they began transporting those could not swim to the shore. . . “Most people were in shock, they were panicking,” he said. “There was one man who could not walk … and there was one woman whose face was bleeding.”
Panagian is also reportedly the boyfriend of Schapelle Corby, an Australian woman who is spending 15 years in Indonesian prison after being accused of smuggling marijuana. For the rest of the story, click the link.
Raen and Fred Segal are releasing a limited 25-piece Squire collection featuring a rare, vintage European Mazzucchelli acetate.
“While visiting one of our factories, we were given unlimited access to the vault holding rare and vintage acetate previously not available to manufacturers,” said Creative Director Justin Heit. “We dusted off this hidden Mazzucchelli sheet rumbling through a stack of materials, and immediately knew we needed to share a collection using this material with a very special retailer. Fred Segal was the first choice and perfect fit.”
Each frame is individually numbered. Budding James Deans should hook a pair up before they’re gone. For the official word from Raen and a look at the acetate, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Tonight at the T.F.R. Gallery in Encinitas, California a collection of images from the biggest names in skateboarding photography will be all together in one place. Photographers include: Grant Brittain, Brian Gaberman, Ed Templeton, Atiba Jefferson, Mike Blabac, Anthony Acosta, John Humphries, Joe Hammeke, Mike Burnett, Matt Price, Dave Chami, Jai Janju, Zack Dowdy, Ryan Allan, Arto Saari, Joe Brook, Peter McBride, Blair Alley, Joey Shiged, Aaron Smith, Rhino, Dave Swift, Dan Zaslavsky, Mike Gould, Seu Trihn, Jaime Owens, Rodent, John Bradford, Miki Vuckovich, and Tod Swank.
Inspired by Grant Brittain’s iconic photo of Tod Swank, the Push Photography Show is celebrating skateboarders pushing in the streets. Proceeds from the sale of the Push photographs will go to the non-profit skateboard initiative Just One Board.
Far From Home is the story of Brolin Mawejje. Born in Uganda, Mawejje moved to America in 2004. Now, “nearly a decade later, he finds himself in Salt Lake City, Utah; studying towards a doctorate in Neuro-Oncology at Westminster College and training to represent Uganda in the 2018 Winter Olympics as a snowboarder.”
Anastasia Ashley, who has has never been afraid to use all of her talents to keep her surfing career on the up and up, sits down with the HuffPost Live to discuss sexism in surfing.
A lot of people don’t realize that surfing is a very sexualized sport for both males and females. . . when you flip through a surfing magazine not only is it girls in their bathing suits who are very attractive, there are a lot of shirtless guys,” Ashley says. “I think it’s all part of the game. You can’t take it too seriously because it’s a never ending battle.
Ken Block drives through some Russian snow in a mass tangle of GoPro cameras. He also blasts out a skier on his way down the mountain. Would have been more fun to see Block out on the Russian dash-cam highways of death, truthfully.
Hard to believe there wasn’t room for some of this footage in the final Perpetual Motion product. Did you see all that Walker Ryan goodness? If not, watch it again just to see how smooth he rolls.
The designers at Lost Enterprises are bringing back some classic nautical aloha flavor with their Lost At Sea collection of “Wovens, Terry Tanks, Cotton Elastic and Striped Boardshorts, Cord Printed and Striped Walkshorts, and caps.” A hoy there, matey. The entire collection is available on Swell.com, so check it out now.
