Stance has pulled up a whole new collection for winter 2012-13 and it’s all here.
Whether you’re throwing double corks in the park or destroying pillow lines in the backcountry, we’ve got your feet covered. We create socks that keep you warm, dry, and ready to rock. Yet there’s more to it than that. We also aim to blend form and function. By collaborating with our team of Punks and Poets, we craft socks as original as the riders who run them. After all, your socks should ooze with style—not sweat. At Stance, we focus on your feet so you don’t have to.
This is Boardistan story if ever there was one. Walker Ryan, Dave Bachinsky, Jimmy McDonald, Laurence Keefe, Dan Zvereff, Stas Provotorov, Gosha Konyshev, Kenny Reed and Michael Mackrodt roll off through China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan to follow the spice road with Patrik Wallner. This is just the teaser. The film premieres in Shanghai on October 12, Seoul October 19, Tokyo October 25, Bankok October 27, and Moscow on November 4, 2012.
Steamer Lane will be lifted back into its rightful place on the world tour November 1-11, 2012 as the O’Neill Coldwater Classic returns the Santa Cruz, California break to World Championship Tour status.
With a long and rich history, the O’Neill Coldwater Classic at Steamer Lane is known for producing powerful and consistent conditions in a classic Northern California setting. Originating in 1987, the event has taken on various incarnations over the past three decades. It was once an ASP WCT event (prior to the ASP creating a two-tier system), but for the past few years, it has run as an ASP Star or Prime event. With this year’s upgrade to the highest echelon of professional surfing, it will not only bring the top caliber of talent to Steamer Lane, but a lofty $425,000 prize purse as well.
Crazy that in this barren desert of skateboarding Skateline has become an oasis of interest. A bubbling fountain of compelling. A geyser of guffaws. Yes. That’s how bad corporate skateboarding has made things. But here comes Gary Rogers with a little more. Thanks, Gary.
Whenever we hear that a former pro surfer has a “new album” coming out we automatically begin cringing. With the exception of Donovan Frankenreiter (and we admit to cringing a little at the start) the road most surfing troubadours walk is not paved with critical acclaim or booming success.
Into this milieu drops three-time world surfing champion Tom Curren (right). His debut EP Summerland Road goes on sale October 16, 2012.
Still one of the most well known, beloved and legendary of professional surfers, Curren has a mystique that was enhanced by his musical aspirations and abilities. During his years on competitive surf circuit, Curren always found opportunities to create and perform music, developing bands with names such as Skipping Urchins and Plankten. His sound reveals musical influences ranging from jazz to African music to acoustic guitar melodies, reflections of a world-traveling competitor. His diverse repertoire made such an impression on Jackson Browne that he asked Curren to join his touring band last year.
While telling the world that the TPG deal is not “guaranteed” Billabong has also board membered up by adding in Dr. Ian Pollard to the position of director and chairman elect of its board.
Dr Pollard will join the Board as Chairman Elect and interim Chair of the Audit Committee on Wednesday, 24 October 2012 following the company’s Annual General Meeting. . . Dr Pollard is an actuary, Rhodes Scholar and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has held a wide range of senior business roles including as Chairman of Just Group Limited and of Corporate Express Australia Limited and as a Director of OPSM Group Limited and DCA Group Limited, which he founded. . . He is currently Chairman of RGA Reinsurance Company of Australia Limited, a director of Milton Corporation Limited and of SCA Property Group and an executive coach with Foresight’s Global Coaching.
Sounds like a pretty bright guy and bright guys are good to have on the board. Follow the jump for the official word from Billabong.
[Update October 10, 2012: Turns out Pollard will only take the board chairman position if the TPG deal falls through, according to a story in The Australian. Guess that makes sense.] [click to continue…]
Check out Dragon’s exclusive footage of one of the most talked about snow goggles in the market today, the Advanced Projects X. . . . The Advanced Projects X goggle collection is available in an array of styles and lens options, with easy lens interchangeability to adapt to varying snow conditions. These goggles all include Dragon’s exclusive Super Anti-Fog™ lens coating which eliminates fogging and increases vision.
The 30th Annual Vans Triple Crown of Surfing has signed on 11-time World Champion Kelly Slater to go up head to head against 2011 champ John John Florence for a one-time $100,000 winner takes all cash bonus (that’s in addition to all the money the winner will win by being the top finisher in the three jewels of the crown). Slater hasn’t won a triple since 1998.
The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is the world’s premier series of professional surfing events that runs from November 12 through December 20 in the famous winter waves of Oahu’s North Shore, Hawaii. The final event of the 3-event series — the Billabong Pipe Masters — is the final event of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Tour and will crown the ASP World Surfing Champion.
All this just for surfing Haliewa, Sunset, and Pipeline with a couple other guys out. Follow the jump for dates and times. [click to continue…]
Now Snowboarding, the makers of the snowboard binders on a swing, are proud to announce the addition of Canadian badass Devun Walsh to their team of “heavy hitters.”
A backcountry rider with a skateboard-influenced style, Devun Walsh has partnered with infamous Wildcats member and long-time friend JF Pelchat by signing a deal with NOW Snowboarding which positions Walsh as a shareholder within the innovative new binding company. . . “Devun is one of the most influential riders in the industry and we’re thrilled to have him on NOW,” comments JF Pelchat, inventor and founder of NOW Snowboarding. “Dev has been riding the binding since day one and has been instrumental in testing it, improving on it, and making it what it is today.”
