It’s a Chopper baby! This limited edition Burton snowboard series features all of a kids favorite characters from ToyStory. Woody, Buzz, Zurg, the aliens and Ham all make appearances on the top sheet graphics of the eight boards ranging in sizes from 80 to 130cm. Featuring Burton’s catch-free convex base and a super-soft flex this board is perfect for even the littlest of groms.
Our guess is that the Rad Dad club is going to be all over this one for Christmas, so don’t get stuck hunting this down for your little bro or sis on December 23rd. Do it now (if there are still any left).
The ceremony will feature this year’s 28 Invitees, including newly elected riders John John Florence (Hawaii), Ian Walsh (Maui), and Alex Gray (California), as well as former “Eddie” champions Kelly Slater (Florida), Greg Long (California), and Ross Clarke-Jones (Australia). The surfers will be joined by members of the Aikau family, including Eddie’s younger brother and Invitee Clyde Aikau.
This ceremony is one of the most moving ways to experience the true spirit of Hawaii and the spiritual connection between the Hawaiian people, the ocean, and the surfers who ride the massive waves of Waimea. Go tomorrow. The ceremony begins at 3 PM at Waimea Bay. For the official word, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
We all have loads of gear. Take one look around the garage or office of any action sports worker and you’ll find a pile of equipment. We’ve all got solutions to tame the clutter, but few of them look as good as Turnstone’s new Limited-Edition Bivi Board Rack.
A division of SteelCase, Turnstone offers sustainable designed, modular and modern office furniture and accessories. The Bivi line encompasses everything from desks and privacy screens to desk chairs and couches. The board rack is made to work congruently with the existing Bivi line, but it can also be mounted solo on a wall.
With three slots for board storage, the rack can hold an equal amount of mounted skateboards or snowboards. If you’re a deck collector, however, it will probably top out at nine or ten boards depending on the width of the boards and if you choose to add the rubber shelf protectors.
Available in arctic white, platinum, tangerine, wasabi, and midnight metallic, this thing looks right at home next to pieces from George Nelson or Charles and Ray Eames. The rack has a $219 price tag, but for hose who appreciate good design the biggest problem may be in not buying the entire Bivi office suite to go with it.
What better way to ring in the holiday season than with The Gonz decorated Christmas tree and Snoop there to wreck the place with his cane. #bahhumbizzle
Stance apparently wasn’t happy simply supplying socks for sweaty skate dudes. Nope. They’ve reportedly hooked up the ladies as well.
The collection takes inspiration from both the runway and the streets. Intricate beading, fringe detailing, studs and fun prints can all be found in the collection. Right away, you’ll notice that these aren’t your everyday socks! . . Stance is truly changing the way we view socks.
There is nothing better than free money and the most popular way to round up small amounts of cash these days appears to be Kickstarter. The craftsmen at Bean Snowboards in Boston, Mass would like to continue with their “very limited Artist Series” of handmade snowboards, but they don’t have money. That’s where you come in.
We work with local artists to produce unique snowboards showcasing their design and then have a party/gallery showing to spread the word about their art and give them an opportunity to sell other works. This year we just don’t have the capital to do the Artist Series so we’re turning to the Kickstarter community to help us fund it.
If you’re going to support someone it might as well be guys who are making snowboards with American-made materials in America. Right? Click here to buy in.
Not that we’re interested in continuing this whole “Weezy becomes a skateboarder” thing, but Lil Wayne makes some more sense in this interview with MTV. It’s a reminder that you don’t sell all those records by not knowing what’s up. Like the man says, “Skateboarding is its own world and I want to vital in that world.”
Large companies often make seriously idiotic decisions. For instance, when Nike bought surf brand Hurley back in 2002 someone at the company decided that even though they had a solid surf brand, they would also dive into surf category with the Nike brand and compete directly with the company they just bought. Well, those days are reportedly over according to a story on Shop-Eat-Surf.
Nike is announcing this morning it will exit the surf category for the Nike brand and roll all surf resources under the Hurley umbrella, including Nike’s marquee young surf team riders like Julian Wilson, Carissa Moore and Kolohe Andino. . . . Going forward, Nike will focus Nike action sports on skateboarding and snowboarding, a company spokeswoman said.
Nike has done quite well in skateboarding, but we’ll bet their snowboarding efforts will continue moving in a direction very similar to their surf work. Then again, maybe they could buy an established snowboard brand. Hmmm, anyone know any recently streamlined companies with a strong last name and great brand recognition?
Jenkem Mag has a great essay from Lurper on how corporations are taking over skateboarding and what that means to skateboarders and skateboarding. And it includes nuggets like this:
As George Ritzer points out in The McDonaldization of Society, businesses attempt to operate in an extremely efficient fashion. They focus on making everything quantifiable (skatemetrics) rather than focusing on creating subjective quality (“best” video part), they want everything to be predictable (i.e. standardized, the same experience every time), and they want all aspects of a business or activity to be easily controlled, basically the antithesis of what skateboarding is today. As the corporation’s values become more and more apart of skateboarding and influence the ideologies of individual skaters, the greater the potential that our activity will fundamentally change.
Kind of puts skateboarding business in perspective doesn’t it? If you have time, read the rest.
