The Roxy Pro Snapper Rocks is goes live on day one of the waiting period. The men’s Quiksilver Pro is on standby currently. There really isn’t one heat to miss on the women’s side. Courtney Conlogue is currently in the water with Malia Manuel and Silvana Lima in Heat 1.
“The swell has filled in this morning and there are some good waves coming through from behind the rock,” Rich Porta, ASP International Head Judge, said. “It’s about three-to-four foot with cross-shore winds and we expect conditions to improve throughout the day as the tide drops. Women’s Round 1 will start at 7:30am with Round 1 and the opening round of men’s competition on standby.”
Follow the jump for the Round 1 match ups and the official word from the ASP. [click to continue…]
Thanks to the magic of a round planet, the Vans Bowl-A-Rama Bondi on Saturday, February 25, 2012 actually begins on Friday afternoon in North America.
Watch a live webcast of the 8th Annual Vans Bowl-A-Rama Bondi this Friday, February 24 at 3:00 pm (PST)/6:00 pm (EST) in the States at www.vans.com/bowlarama to see the world’s best skateboarders battle it out for an unprecedented $80,000 AUD (more than $85,000 USD) at Australia’s infamous Bondi Beach. . . Viewers can also watch the event with the free, multi-platform Vans Live 2.0 app, available for download now on iTunes for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and for Android devices at Android Market place.
Skaters scheduled to compete include: Pedro Barros, Bucky Lasek, Anthony Furlong, Renton Millar, Kevin Kowlaski, Sky Siljeg, Curren Caples, Rune Glifberg, Rion Linderman, Alex Perelson, Omar Hassen, and more plus Masters skaters Steve Caballero, Jeff Grosso, Sasha Steinhorst and Eddie Elguera.
Who said the independent footwear industry is over. The Hundreds has just announced four new additions to their Spring 2012 footwear line and our favorite (of course) is the “extremely limited edition” Scully:
The Scully, featuring a Nubuck/ballistic nylon upper exterior, performance textile lined interior, and a foam padded tongue & collar with extra laces. The shoe also includes high quality performance molded PU insoles and a patterned rubber outsole.
Looks like a perfect shoe for creepin’. Creep, creep, creep.
THIS Los Angeles is opening their These Friends Three show tonight, Friday February 24, 2012 from 7 to 10 PM. The show features 100 pieces from 100 artists. Here are some of our friends who are included in the show:
Arlie Carstens, Chris Pastras, Cole Barash, Don Pendleton, Geoff McFetridge, Jared Eberhardt, and Natas Kaupas.
Billy Marks and Mike Vallely sit down with Erica Yary and Rob Brink at the Weekend Buzz table to talk balls. Billy Marks balls, Chet Childress balls, and Mike V.’s “old man balls. . . that really hang long and sway and shit.” If that doesn’t make you want to watch this clip we don’t know what will.
What we really like is that the business was founded by, and continues to be led by a entrepreneurial and dynamic duo, Andy Laats and Chad DiNenna. Andy founded the business shortly after picking up his MBA at Stanford from the ground up, partnered by Chad. They determined that the action sports sector didn’t have a watch brand clearly identified with folks clearly passionate about surfing, skating and snowboarding.
It would appear that TCP has their priorities straight, right?
The crew at Chasing Monsters captured the last big Mavericks swell with some of the most amazingly super-slow motion footage we’ve seen in a while. And having Skindog as a guide only makes it better.
The world famous Carlsbad Gap was torn down yesterday Thursday, February 23, 2012 to make room for renovations on the campus of Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California. We can still see Kris Markovich hitting that thing in our mind’s eye. It’s nice to see that workers showed respect and used a monster-sized excavator to remove the historic gap because it wasn’t going down easy. Follow the jump for the ON Video history Bridging The Gap. [click to continue…]
Timothy Robert Baker, a 24-year-old snowboarder from Salt Lake City, Utah died Thursday, February 23, 2012 after being buried in an avalanche in Dutch Canyon area just outside the boundaries of The Canyons ski resort, according to a story in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
Baker was riding his snowboard . . . near the Ninety-Nine 90 Express lift when he triggered the avalanche at about 3 p.m., said Summit County sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Bridge. . . “His friends were on the side watching him go across the mountain,” Bridge said. . . The snow slab started to shift underneath a cliff where unstable snow pellets had pooled, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. Baker was swept down the mountain into Dutch Draw, a basin to the southeast of the resort.
According to the story neither Baker nor his friends were equipped with avalanche transceivers. Our thoughts are with Baker’s family and friends.
Private equity firm TPG Capital’s offer for Billabong is outrageously low compared to previous fashion label buyouts according to a story in Businessweek.
Excluding extraordinary items, analysts now estimate Billabong will earn A$64.5 million in the year ending June 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. TPG’s offer is worth almost 12 times that forecast, compared with the median bid of 24 times profit for takeovers of apparel makers greater than $500 million in the U.S., western Europe, and developed markets in the Asia-Pacific region, the data show.
In other words, TPG is offering half the average multiple for Billabong. In its analysis Businessweek questions what exactly TPG knows about the company that would cause it to make such a low offer. Are things that much worse than they appear? Or is TPG just out trolling for bargains?
For an in-depth look at the continuing Billabong situation, click the link and read the story. Or check out the Sydney Morning Herald’s piece A Tragedy of Errors.
