Miss the premiere? No worries. We’ve got the entire Mountain High Los Angeles video right here featuring the snow sliding talents of: Cory Cronk, Kyle Lopiccolo, Spencer Link, Harrison Gordon, Trever Haas, Nick Visconti, Ryan Paul, Marc Frank Montoya, Trevor Jacob, Scott Blum, Jussi Oksanen, Ian Thorley, Mitch Richmond, Ian Sams, Jager Bailey and Yale Cousino. All this only a hour from downtown LA. Yes, believe it.
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Sole Tech’s Don Brown had his Insta from last night’s (October 13, 2012) Bake & Destroy premiere “riot” picked up and run in The Hollywood Reporter, not bad for a night out on the town. According to the story:
An unknown number of people attending a skateboarding movie premiere clashed with police Saturday night in Hollywood near the Vine Theater. . . . Several people identified by local media as skateboarders threw bottles at police officers, according to a report from NBC4. Twitter feeds from people on the scene described police in riot gear flanking the intersection of Hollywood Blvd. and Vine and walking toward the crowd.
So funny how the police can turn 300 people having fun into a “riot” simply by showing up in their ready to rumble suits, then again, it got the Baker Boys all over the news for free in the LA Times and newspapers all across the country. The only thing getting more coverage today was some guy jumping out of a hot air balloon.
Interesting to put what actually happened in terms of what NBC Los Angeles reported: “Angry mob of skaters” and pedestrians “running for their lives.” Just think how messed up all their other stories are?
[Link: Hollywood Reporter]
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Travis Logie (ZAF), 33, took out Damien Hobgood (USA), 33, in Round 2.
Props to anyone who was able to stay up through a full night (at least in the US) of Rip Curl Pro Portugal holds. But finally, as the sun dropped low over the Atlantic, Brett Simpson and Matt Wilkinson finally got into the water to kick off the final four heats of Round 2.
“We’ve been down since 6:30am assessing the conditions,” Simpson said. “Wilko (Matt Wilkinson) and I have been having fun all day as he was here too – we’re friends out of the water, but we were just trying to catch the best waves we can. I had a really good opportunity solidify my lead out there more, but was unable to.”
Simpson slipped through that one, but in round three he’ll meet Gabriel Medina and that could be even more challenging. For the official word form the ASP follows the jump. [click to continue…]
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So you’re staying you didn’t get invited to billionaire Ron Burkle’s Bevery Hills mansion last weekend (October 7, 2012) to hang out with celebrities, rockstars, Shaun White and Tony Hawk as part of the Stand Up For Skateparks fund raiser? We didn’t either, but Tony raised a bunch of money for the Tony Hawk Foundations apparently, and it went a little like this.
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Joel Parkinson used his current ASP WCT World number one position as a launching pad to post the highest score in round one at the 2012 Rip Curl Pro Portugal. It kind of looks like he’s serious.
“I’m here to win,” Parkinson said. “Everyone is. I’ve had a few seconds this year but am keen to put a win on the board. I’m not thinking about the World Title race really. I need to get some wins first before that can become a reality.”
All the favorite (minus Jordy Smith) made it out of Round 2, but there are still four more heats to go. Follow the jump for the official word from the ASP. [click to continue…]
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Journalist Fred Pawle talks to Graham “Sid” Cassidy about a deal he nearly landed that was allegedly “the most spectacular offer the sport of surfing has ever seen, one that makes the offer from Californian media company ZoSea, which was accepted amid subdued optimism from within the sport this month, look amateur by comparison,” according to his story in The Australian.
But, in a tumultuous meeting in Hawaii in December 1996, the ASP board voted to request amendments to a contract it had signed with CSI earlier that year. CSI, the goose that had spent that year laying golden eggs, declined. At considerable expense, it walked away. Surfing has never recovered from it.
Nice to look back and claim that a past missed deal that just as easily could have ruined profession surfing was what doomed it, but it is interesting in comparison to the reportedly $20 million ZoSea deal. Click the link to read the rest.
[Link: The Australian]
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The dirty streets of Reno, Nevada is the perfect place for a premiere of the new The Bangshow video Birds of A Shitfeather. According to a post on Yobeat the complete video is showing tonight (October 12, 2012) at the Freight House. Nice to see someone in snowboarding is still keeping it dirty fresh.
[Link: Yobeat]
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Looks like TPG, the fund that many felt was Billabong’s only hope, has withdrawn its offer, according to story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The proposal has been withdrawn and talks have ceased, Billabong said in a statement this morning.. . The withdrawal of the bid is likely to put further pressure on Billabong’s shares as the firm struggles with a weakening retail outlook in. . . Shares in the company, which traded at nearly $12 in 2010 and fell as much as a quarter last week after TPG first raised concerned, opened 1 cent, or 1 per cent, higher at $1.005 this morning.
So this means, after taking a really close look at the company TPG decided that they weren’t interested in pursuing what many felt was a low ball offer. Guess it’s time for Launa Inman to get to work with new board chairman Dr. Ian Pollard and turn the slogging Billabong ship around and point it toward the channel before it gets washed up on the rocks.
Follow the jump for the official Billabong press release. [click to continue…]
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Last Friday (October 5, 2012) the Association of Surfing Professionals sent out a press release (along with the above pretty picture) saying they had “entered into a Term Sheet with ZoSea Media. . . designed to enhance the organizational structure of the sport as well as the direction of professional surfing in the coming years.”
That’s pretty much all the detail we got other than the names of the guys behind ZoSea Media. They are Terry Hardy (right, most well known for being Kelly Slater’s agent) and Paul Speaker the former President of Time Inc. Studios and current Quiksilver board of directors member.
According to his bio on PTTOW! site (an invite-only youth marketing summit he co-founded) Hardy is “a pioneer in youth lifestyle & media [who] has been fortunate to work with the industries leading talent and brands including Kelly Slater, Bam Margera, Tony Hawk, Quiksilver, Roxy, MTV, Sirius/XM, GoPro, Pepsi, Fox, and ESPN.” No one will forget he is also the one who spearheaded the last run at the ASP with his rebel Slater Tour back in 2009.
Paul Speaker (right), on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have much experience in action sports, but his entertainment resume is certainly colorful. Aside from his time at the National Football League in 1995 (where he was “director of marketing and ideas”) he seems to have a knack for showing up just as things are about to fall apart. He arrived at indy film production company The Shooting Gallery in 1998 and left shortly before the Shooting Gallery shut down “without warning” in 2001, according to a story in The Village Voice, for what they described as “several factors, from the slowing economy to the grandiose ambitions of head entrepreneurs Meistrich and his high school friend, Chief Financial Officer Steve Carlis.” Speaker, however, was not mentioned in the Voice story. [click to continue…]
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Network A, one of the Youtube channels desperately in search of “traction” in action, launched an innovative “interactive” video today with Plan B Skateboards.
This online video – with over 800 viewable combinations – lets the viewer edit the footy while watching it. The video features some amazing skating from Ryan Sheckler, Paul Rodriguez and Torey Pudwill. With a history of releasing videos like “Questionable” and “Second Hand Smoke,” Plan B is known for taking skate videos to the next level, so it should be no surprise that they raised the bar again in this partnership with Network A.
Try it and see or follow the jump for all the official details. [click to continue…]
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