The Agenda Trade Show has a new director of women’s sales and marketing, it’s former Insight Marketing Manager Vanessa Chiu.
Her addition to the team represents AGENDA Founder Aaron Levant’s recognition of the shifting culture in the industry—with an ever-growing number of female-centric brands, athletes and enthusiasts. Chiu, who spent eight years with the Australian surf/lifestyle brand Insight, most recently as head of marketing and PR for the U.S. division, will focus on aligning strategic partnerships with women’s brands and nurturing a more female-focused experience at AGENDA’s three bi-annual shows in Long Beach, New York and Las Vegas.
Everything you know about the birth of the Dogtown skate scene may be different than you thought, or maybe, just maybe, everyone is playing along with someone’s sick joke in the film Day At The Pool from House of Salt.
The film features blazing interviews with Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, Jay Adams and the rest of the Dogtown crew. They all reveal that one anonymous kid from the swimming-pool suburbs of Los Angeles may have been singularly responsible for the skateboarding revolution that redefined adolescent life in America. Upon further probing, blazing interviews become heated as an intentionally hidden secret is uncovered.
After the top contenders got knocked out in earlier rounds of the 2013 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, it was Adriano de Souza who knocked out American tour rookie Nat Young to became the first South American to win the event in its 52 year history.
“This is the most important event on tour to me,” De Souza said. “Guys like Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, my hero Mick Fanning, they have all rung the Bell. I have been coming here a lot of years. I love the place. It has been a tough time for me recently. I started 2013 without a sponsor for the first time in many years. I had to believe in myself that a company would believe in me and one did. I have to say thanks to Pena for believing in me. I have a lot of people to thank, but all I want to do right now is ring the bell.”
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Carissa Moore made it two in a row by taking the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach over Tyler Wright in 3- to 5-foot surf moving her even further ahead in the ASP 2013 World Title race.
“To win Bells is a dream,” Moore said. “As a little kid, you always looked forward to watching it and reading about it. The history and the prestige and the people who have won it are really legendary. To be a part of it now is really special.”
On Saturday, April 13, 2013 Lib Technologies will host their “international gathering of creativity and flow” at Japan’s Mt. Tanigawa Tenjindaira Snow Resort.
A heavy cast of North American riders including Jamie Lynn, Forest Bailey, Scotty Wittlake, Chris Beresford, Scott Blum, Austin Hironaka and Jesse Burtner will strap in next to an equally impressive crew of Japanese riders including Kohei Kudo, Masashi 247 Nishina, Shuji Kjiura, Takaharu Nakai, Ruiki Masuda, Yosuke Nishida and Goro Komatsu. . . An after-party will follow the event and feature an amazing live set from snowboarding legend, amazing musician and Lib Tech Ripper, Wes Makepeace.
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Yes, it’s a special issue of Surfing Magazine that is filled with bikinis, but as most girls we know will tell you, it’s a great way to check out all the new bikinis without having to pull them off the rack and try them on. The print version officially launches on April 2, 2013. Spring break, forever!
Economic correspondent Paul Solman reports on an American-born product hit hard by globalization: the surfboard. In Southern California, U.S.-based manufacturers fear they will soon be wiped out by competing, foreign companies due to discrepancies in labor costs and duty taxes.
Probably one of the best bits we’ve seen on explaining the ins and outs of free trade. For even more on the story including why it might be a bad idea to fight back, click here.
A skier found snowboarder David Sitek, 26, tangled in a tree Wednesday night (March 27, 2013) at 8 PM, according to a story in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
The skier called for help and the Ski Patrol responded, bringing Sitek down to the resort clinic. Paramedics were unable to revive him. . . The specifics of the accident remained under investigation, though Hoyal said Sitek was wearing a helmet at the time of his crash.
The Agenda Trade Show has a new director of women’s sales and marketing, it’s former Insight Marketing Manager Vanessa Chiu.
