by The Editors on August 26, 2011
Thanks to the approach of Hurricane Irene Rob Dyrdek has moved the Street League New Jersey finals up to tomorrow (Saturday, August 27, 2011).
In response to Hurricane Irene, please note that the Street League Skateboarding Championship event at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ that was originally scheduled for this Sunday is being moved one day earlier to tomorrow, Saturday, August 27th at 3pm. Tickets will be honored for the new date and doors for the public will open at 2pm. Refunds for ticket holders who cannot make the new date, will be available at the point of purchase beginning on Monday. The championship broadcast will still air at its original time-slot at 5PM ET on August 28th.
Not a bad idea.
[Link: Street League Skateboarding]
by The Editors on August 25, 2011
Greg Dacyshyn, Burton’s Chief Creative Officer, had a column on “innovation” in the Burlington Free Press today. In it he talks about how meaningful the term “standing sideways” is to him and how innovating Burton is.
As for innovation, there is no denying that it is at the core of what we do here at Burton. We’re literally obsessed with making our products better. It started when Jake Burton hand-built over 100 different snowboard prototypes in his Vermont barn back in 1977. At that time he was making snowboards using the construction techniques of skateboards, surfboards, boats, water skis, and even solid wood furniture. He tells a great story about how, since there were no snowboard manufacturing machines, he had do it all by hand, and almost killed himself twice when wooden blanks shot off his hand router and went through a wall.
Click the link for the rest.
[Link: Burlington Free Press]
by The Editors on August 25, 2011
On Saturday and Sunday, August 27-28, 2011 the Fifth Annual Malibu Invitational returns for a fifth consecutive year to Surfrider Beach and the Malibu Inn.
The Malibu Invitational has established itself as an end of summer institution bringing together great surfers for good causes: “The contest began as a benefit for Lyon Herron,” said contest organizer Skylar Peak, “a local grom who was suffering from a rare disease, and needed both financial and spiritual support.”
This year, in addition to helping out Lyon Herron, money raised will also to to support THERAsurf and Babette Ho, wife of Jeff Ho. For more information, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on August 24, 2011
The finals of the Maloof Money Cup Best Line Competition were held yesterday (August 23, 2011) at the Magic Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ronnie Creager rolled away with first place and $10,000 in cash for a line that included a “smith grind 270 out, a switchtail 270 out to a switchcrook half-cab flipout.”
Not bad. Morgan Smith and Kurtis Colamonico finished in second and third.
For the official word from Maloof, follow the jump.
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by The Editors on August 24, 2011
Yesterday, while skating doubles with Kevin Staab at Kona Skatepark in Florida, Tony Hawk something “went wrong.”
Now Tony says this is his new look. We have to say, the photo of his missing tooth is much better than this one taken directly after the mishap.
On the upside, now he’ll be able to roll around undetected in Jacksonville.
[Link: @Tonyhawk via TMZ]
by The Editors on August 24, 2011
Pacific Sunwear has reported their financial results for its quarter ending July 30, 2011 and guess what? They lost $19.3 million. Of course, they’re pitching this as a good thing because they loss less than they lost last year at this time, and they beat analysts’ forecasts. In other “good” news, while total sales fell, sales at stores open longer than a year were actually up one percent, according to a story on Forbes.
“Until recently we had expected this positive momentum to continue, yet we are now more cautious in our near-term outlook due to a combination of factors including macroeconomic pressure, along with a highly promotional start to the back-to-school season,” said President and CEO Gary Schoenfeld.
Losing less is good. Just give Mr. Schoenfeld a few more years and things will probably get right back on track. Or maybe he just loves hitting two-year stock price lows.
[Link: Forbes and Bloomberg] [click to continue…]
by The Editors on August 24, 2011
The Maloof Money Cup announced it Pro and Am roster for the Washington, D.C. event September 3-4, 2011 at RFK Stadium’s Festival Grounds and it is stacked.
Geoff Rowley, Andrew Reynolds, and Dennis Busenitz on on the list, plus Greg Lutzka is going to defend his title going after what Maloof is calling the “richest purse in skateboarding.” Take that Street League. Top skaters from this even are going to Africa for the World Championships, apparently.
Skaters who finish in the top 16 based on combined scores from New York and D.C., will earn a spot on the Maloof All Pros, which was started by Joe Maloof this year to recognize the top skateboarders in the world, and send them to the Maloof Money Cup World Championships in Kimberley, South Africa Sept. 28-Oct 2.
Follow the jump for all the skaters and details. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on August 24, 2011
SoCal OG snowboarder and industry veteran Todd Proffit is the new Advertising and Events Manager at Mountain High Resort. It’s a bit of a homecoming for Proffit.
“Mountain High was the first place I ever snowboarded so it’s great to get back to my roots,” Proffit said. “I’ve dealt in many other sections of the action sports industry but my passion has always been snowboarding. I’m really looking forward to the coming winter season and to continue to elevate Mountain High as the best resort in Southern California.”
Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on August 23, 2011
SUPRA has signed Neen Wiliams to their team so he can skate full time in the Skytop III.
“They’re really good to skate in,” Neen said about the Skytop III. “It takes the ‘pact real nice. You can jump down whatever you want and it won’t fuck up your feet or your heels.”
And that is damn good to know because no one wants fucked up feet. . . or heels. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on August 23, 2011
We were as shocked to learn that Kodak was still in business as we were to be reminded that they had partnered with Burton Snowboards on a new Playsport video camera. Kodak says it is:
The perfect pocket-sized digital video camera to take to the slopes. It’s rugged, waterproof, shock-absorbent case lets you record all the tricks and sick runs you dare to try.
The only problem? It’s not a GoPro. But it is available online now. Click here to buy one.
[Link: Kodak Playsport]
