As more evidence that longboarding is its own brand of skateboarding comes The Longboard Expo to be held January 5-6, 2012 at the Hilton Long Beach in Long Beach, California.
This show is focused on bringing brands and buyers together in one place to conduct business in professional environment. The time is right for a truly focused show that celebrates the innovations found within longboarding.
Beginning tomorrow (Saturday, September 3, 2011) at 9 AM PDT the Maloof Money Cup DC will be streaming the entire event live on their Youtube channel.
Watch the best Pro and Am skaters in the world compete on a brand new concrete plaza built to last in the heart of D.C. The top prize for the pro division is $160,000.
This is so much better than having to wait three days to watch Street League online. Thanks, Maloofs. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
Seal Beach, California’s Inflight Surf and Sail owners got pepper sprayed on Tuesday, August 29, 2011 by a woman who returned to the store to retrieve her purse after reportedly stealing clothes from the shop, according to a story in the OC Register.
When Inflight owner Missy Scarbrough told the woman she could get her purse back when the police arrived, supect Arlene Bremner pulled out a can of pepper spray.
Missy Scarbrough said she was sprayed first, at which point her daughter ran to the second floor of the store to get Scott Scarbrough, who fought to subdue Bremner. She said the contents of the purse, including a knife, fell out as Bremner tried to get to a second can of spray.. . . “They were wrestling and everything was falling off the walls,” Scarbrough said. “My husband is pretty tall, but she was picking him up and putting up a good fight. She was very small and petite but superhuman yesterday.”
Bremner is now being charted on multiple felony counts of burglary, plus “using tear gas weapons while committing a crime.” We’re just glad the Scarbroughs are all okay. Nice work, Scott.
Florida, Florida, Florida. Add Shane Lancaster, 19, of Keystone Heights to the list of surfers bitten by a shark while surfing Florida’s sunny beaches.
“The water was probably up to my belly button and I slid off my board. And as soon as my foot hit the sand, (the shark) grabbed ahold real quick and it was gone,” Lancaster said. . . “It wasn’t like I was screaming,” he said of the pain. “It was scary and shocking, that’s all.”
After a trip to the hospital and some stitches Lancaster was back home and feeling okay.
Depending on how you look at it, Andrew Keel’sMotocrossboard is either either a two-wheeled, motorized, dirtboard or a very small, light motorcycle that you stand on sideways. Either way it appears to be another strange way to roll through the woods standing sideways.
Lifeguards closed two miles of San Diego, California beach today (August 31, 2011) after a shark was reported sighted just south of Children’s Pool in La Jolla, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
About 2 p.m. Wednesday, three men in their 20s who were on boogie boards reported seeing a 12-inch tall dorsal fin at the beach off Casa Reef, just south of Children’s Pool in La Jolla, San Diego lifeguards said. . . The animal was swimming just past the surf break, said lifeguard Lt. Nick Lerma.
San Diego’s Mission Beach has reportedly been closed twice in the last week after sharks where reportedly spotted in the water there.
We have to agree with one of the quoted surfers who said: “It’s the ocean. There are sharks in there, whether we see them or not.”
This news indicates that the FIS executive committee has chosen to disregard the work of a joint task force that was established this past May by members of FIS Snowboarding, FIS National Associations, athletes, judges and the TTR to address the Olympic qualification processes for snowboarding.
Add Andy Finch and Tommy Czeschin to the list of snowboarders who are followingLouie “Tiny Dancer” Vito into the world of reality TV as the two shreds compete as a team in the CBS reality travel show The Amazing Race.
Here is their bio:
As members of the United States Olympic Snowboarding team in 2002 and 2006 respectively, Tommy Czeschin, 31, and Andy Finch, 30, have “years of experience knowing how to be focused and get in our zone,” Finch says. But they know their weaknesses. “Typical snowboarder – the book smarts part of it is probably going to be the hardest for us,” Czeschin says.
The season premiere is September 25, 2011 at 8 PM. And yes, this will be good.
