“You gotta pick your vice,” Lil Wayne said, “you got candies, trees, or drank. We got the Vaiders in candy, candy all in the inside—I call ‘em sugar rush. And then we got the Stevie Williams edition with the trees—self-explanatory, you already know what that is. And then we got the Skytop IIIs from the Muska with the drank, you know what I mean? As you can see we got a detail with a drank on the side, ice cubes and all that. But like I said, pick your vice, man: candy, trees, or drank. Yagada.”
Yes, Lil Wayne can talk however he want to talk. ‘Cause that his thang. Click the link for all the info.
Open your calendar and drop these new summer 2013 Agenda Show dates in there: Agenda NYC is July 10-11, 2013, and Agenda Long Beach is July 25-26, 2013. Now you know. For more info click the link.
From the “over-engineered snowboard gadget file” comes the Boarder Kontrol snowboard brake systems developed by Australian Tony Haddleton. He calls the device a “revolutionary new concept in snowboard tuition.” We think it’s probably much less complicated to just to learn to turn, but we’ll let you be the judge.
Thankfully, our friends at Yobeat.com not only attended the Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom, they created some content while they were there. Olympic multi gold medalist Seth Wescott won, just ahead of Graham Watanabe and Jason Robinson. Travis Rice was sixth, Terje Haakonson was eighth, while Temple Cummins and Rob Kingwill finished ninth and tenth. The finish we were mooted stoked on: Shaun Palmer in 21st. Yeah, Pizalm. For complete Yobeat overage click here. For the complete official results, click here.
Earlier in the week Endeavor Snowboards officially announced the addition of Rusty Ockenden and Cam Pierce to the pro team. They let us know yesterday.
“As a photographer, I’ve had my lens on Rusty for a few years now. He has great style, goes big and stomps his tricks” says Endeavor partner and Transworld Magazine Senior Photographer Scott Serfas. “Cam made a name for himself as one of the best up and coming urban riders as a youngblood on the Forum team. He has one of the best styles in the game and I believe he’s a perfect fit for Endeavor. I’m really looking forward to working with both these guys a lot more on and off the snow.”
Just when we thought it was almost too quiet at Billabong, comes news that former Billabong USA CFO Peter Bryant will “will steer an overhaul of the company’s reporting and operational structures,” with a title of group executive for commercial operations, according to a story in The Australian.
Chief executive Launa Inman has set out a strategy for the company to move from a regionally-based structure to a single global business. . . Mr Bryant, who has been with Billabong since 2004, was in December drafted to fill in for chief financial officer Craig White, who quit after the company delivered its third profit warning in 12 months.
Sounds like Bryant will be able to set things up nicely for Paul Naude (of VF Corp) if either should win the takeover war.
We’ve pretty much stopped covering Skullcandy headphone company since founder Rick Alden left in 2011, but now we get the news that Alden is back in the CEO position. Current CEO Jeremy Andrus has announced that he was joining a private investment firm, according to a story on Twice, and Alden is now back in as “interim CEO.”
In a statement, Alden said: “I am honored to play this role in the next chapter at Skullcandy. This company has been my life since founding it and I’m excited to come back in as we enter our second decade. I could not be more fired up to jump back in and get my hands dirty, especially around product development and geographic expansion.”
And to think he didn’t even mention it to us when we saw him (pictured far right with Dennis Nazari, Terry Kidwell, and Dave Wray) at the SIA Show in Denver. In other news Skullcandy’s stock was down 7 percent today.
A 32-year-old German snowboarder who fell headfirst into deep snow, suffocated Wednesday (February 6, 2013) at the Salzburg’s Saalbach-Hinterglemm, according to a story in the Austrian Independent.
Before the lifts closed down at Reiterkogel, a group of snowboarders went off slope. The German was the last one of the group and got stuck in a trench where, according to the Alpine police, up to four metres of fresh snow had accumulated. . .There, the man fell down – head first – and could obviously not support his weight anywhere. Thus, he was not able to breathe. . . His friends quickly realized that he was missing, started searching for him and called the lift attendants.
A doctor who flew in with the rescue helicopter “could not resuscitate the man,” according to the story. It sounds very similar to the British snowboarder who died in December at Chamonix. Our thoughts are with the man’s family and friends.
Our favorite independent snowboarding website Yobeat is crowd sourcing a snowboard movie and they want you to be in it. The movie titled YoMerica! will be filmed by everyone featuring everyone. Here’s what it’s about:
It’s about you, me, us and we. It’s about going snowboarding, taking turns, laps, night riding and all the feelings that made us start and keep riding. It’s for the kids who ride every day, the warriors who drive hours each weekend for a few laps on some shitty hill, the good kids who hook up their friends and the pros who inspire us all. This is a film for snowboarders, no matter where they fall on the totem pole, to enjoy, laugh at and contribute to.
We better get our filmer on the program so we can start collecting some footy. You should, too. For the official details, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
