Leave it to a longboarding bank robber to put on a wig, a San Diego Padres snapback, and roll into a Wells Fargo bank only to hair out at the last minute and walk out. That’s what happened on Saturday, April 7, 2012 in La Jolla, California according to a story on KTLA.com.
The man walked into the Wells Fargo branch at 7714 Girard Ave. in La Jolla at about 1:38 p.m., the FBI said. He handed a demand note to a teller. The teller looked at the note and then at the man. The would-be robber may have panicked at that point, because he grabbed back the note and walked out of the bank. . . No money was taken and no one was injured in the robbery attempt.
The man, who police described as in his mid-30s or early 40s and white, may have had a last minute change of heart. Sad it couldn’t have happened three minutes before he walked into the bank.
Dane Gudauskas is just dying to get you into his new Vans x Rit Era Boardshorts. And thanks to partnership between Vans and the Rit Dye company we can all do it ourselves.
The Vans x Rit Era Classic is our effort to once again share our custom culture with consumers. We are proud to present the opportunity for you to turn a timeless board short into you own creation with a few dye packets, some creativity, and a D.I.Y. attitude.
There’s nothing like and easy-to-use, pre-packaged “D.I.Y.” kit for those times when you just don’t have time to really do it all yerself.
The International Association of Skateboard Companies will host their 2012 Skateboarding Summit at the Doubletree Hotel in Orange, California May 10-11, 2012. And now, through April 16, you can get an “early-bird” registration discount.
The IASC Skateboarding Summit is a two-day event that gives the leaders in skateboarding a chance to come together in a non-competitive atmosphere to educate themselves on topics meant to broaden their perspectives, connect them with their peers, and to inspire and further their business. . . . This year’s summit will host three special events: The Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Icon Awards, as well as special screenings of the new Bones Brigade Documentary by Stacy Peralta and the new Danny Way documentary Waiting for Lightning by Jacob Rosenberg.
Seeing as print media is all the rage lately, Andy Summons, Tom Batrouney, and Andrew Diprose decided they’d like to jump on board with a new surf print publication. The result–a 224 page quarterly “book” called Paper Sea, according to a story in The Australian.
Distancing themselves from the stereotypical surf story about rad dudes with blond hair and shark tooth necklaces, Paper Sea Quarterly caters to the wider surfing and artistic community, unearthing an edgy world of street art, design, photography, hip hop and of course, surfing. “We’re not just interested in the world’s top 44 surfers, we’ve got guys who work in retail, in cafes, but they surf incredibly and they’re interesting people with incredible stories,” Paper Sea photo editor Tom Batrouney said. . . “There is nothing on the market that’s similar to it. There are surf magazines aimed at surfers that are only interested in surfing, which makes up a very small percentage of surfers,” he said. . . Batrouney says every time someone calls their 224-paged tribute to surfing, art and style a magazine he dies a little inside. . . “It kills me every time I hear that word, it in no way resembles a magazine, it’s 2.5cm thick.”
Sounds a little like Mike Ballard’s The Skatebook(RIP) only for surfers. Hopefully this works out a little better than that.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln classics and religious studies professor Tom Winter has reportedly become an “Internet sensation” after a photo of him skateboarding was posted to Reddit.com, according to a story in the Journal Star.
The photo inspired dozens of memes — photos with humorous text superimposed. . . “Nine pages of memes and a site I never knew about before yesterday,” Winter said. “It’s a pretty good photo.” . . . By Thursday afternoon, the photo had gotten more than 756,000 views on Imgur.com, the Internet image hosting site on which it originally appeared, and 1,300 comments on Reddit.com. Users of Imgur.com wrote mock captions for the image, which features a skateboarding Winter, arms out and holding a briefcase.
People see a wise, older man skateboarding and are astounded. Yes, that’s how bad skateboarding’s image is.
Sally Fitzgibbons did the almost impossible today by defeating a hard charging Stephanie Gilmore in the women’s final at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach. And she was stoked.
“I’m speechless,” Fitzgibbons said. “I’m so pumped. That was tough. Bells went to sleep on both of us and it got real tactical at the end. Steph (Gilmore) only needed a small score and I just hung on for dear life. That wave she took at the end looked so small and I had a feeling there was going to be another set, but there wasn’t. I just can’t believe I won Bells two years in a row!”
For the rest of the story, and full results follow the jump. [click to continue…]
It’s been 11 years since he’d last done it, but Mick Fanning put down three solid waves to win the 2012 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach over Kelly Slater. Slater got the first heat wave, pulled into a barrel but didn’t come out. Fanning answered back with a 9.1 and an 8.6 putting Slater into a combo situation.
Slater fumbled around for a while, seemingly falling off every wave he caught, until finally pulling out one of the biggest air reverses in ASP history. That one air scored a 10 and put Slater back on track. But then Fanning busted out a massive 9.7. Slater was stuck for the rest of the 40 minute final hunting an 8.8. The best he could do was a pair of 8.07s (one of which he felt was horribly underscored).
“I was moving around trying to get active,” Slater said. “I was just trying to find my feet. I knew Mick was going to be patient. Mick put his serious face on and won’t talk to me in the water so I threw a little rotator at him. It was always going to be a struggle with those waves out there. Long waits between walls.”
When the horn sounded Fanning was ahead 18.8 to 18.07. “I made one final and Kelly won it. I made another final and Joel won it, so it feels pretty good to get them both back today,” Fanning said from the stage. “It’s bells anything can happen. Its one of the hardest waves to win on in the world. . . One of the most special things was sitting out there when everyone was cheering for Michael to look back and see the beach brought a tear to my eye.”
So Fanning wins, Slater takes the ASP World Tour ratings lead and the women still have to run their quarters, semi’s and finals. Follow the jump for complete results and the official word from the ASP. [click to continue…]
Stop number two on the ASP World Tour, the Rip Curl Pro Bell Beach could wrap up today. Four heats of round five are underway now and then it’s right into the quarter, semis, and finals. Kelly Slater, Owen Wright, Mick Fanning, and Joel Parkinson are already in the quarters, so this is going to be good. Click here to watch it live.
Surfer Magazine’s Hot 100 franchise continues on for 2012 with a 38 minutes video that free for everyone to see right here.
“We’ve spent a lot of time over the past two years reimagining SURFER—making it a brand that delivers the most authentic surf content in ways that our fans really connect with,” says SURFER Editor Brendon Thomas. “As partof that rebuilding, this year we completely overhauled The Hot 100 issue from a linear list of names to a diverse magazine geared towards young surfers. The movie is a natural extension of that.”
We’re going to watch it anyway if and when we find 38 minutes in a row. Follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
Leave it to a longboarding bank robber to put on a wig, a San Diego Padres snapback, and roll into a Wells Fargo bank only to hair out at the last minute and walk out. That’s what happened on Saturday, April 7, 2012 in La Jolla, California according to a story on KTLA.com.
