Dogtown’s “lost” Z-Boy Chris Cahill died last week after what was described as a “lengthy” battle with cancer, according to a story on Yo Venice.
Chris Cahill was one of the 12 original Z Boys with Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Jim Muir, Nathan Pratt,Alan Sarlo, Wentzle Ruml, Peggy Oki, Paul Constantineau, Bob Biniak, Shogo Kubo and Stacy Peralta. Cahill was also part of the original Zephyr skate team that competed at Del Mar in 1975, bringing Dogtown style to the world.
Cahill, a airbrush artist and surfboard shaper, did not appear in the Dogtown movie as his spent most of his life in Mexico. According to his website his shop The Underground “was one of the first and most innovative in the Dogtown area and of the era..” For more on Chris Cahill and his art visit Cahill Underground or read this interview by Steve Olson in Juice Magzine.
Alex Corporan, Ivory Serra and Andre Razo dressed out room #1022 at New York City’s Ace Hotel with photos from their photo book Full Bleed, and NY Skateboarding was there to document it.
The room will display a selective collage of photos from the book. We visited Alex & Ivory during the setup and shot a little interview asking questions about the book, photos and the room.
As if The Hundreds bikinis weren’t enough, the LA style raconteurs have also launched a trunks and T-shirts line with OG custom trunk builders Katin. Guess sometimes the streets just get too hot. . .
Mt. Hutt Skifield was the first resort in New Zealand to open this weekend (June 26, 2011) with what is their latest opening in “at least a decade” according to a story in the Ashbutron Gardian.
It is only a partial opening with only the Magic Carpet and the Quad chair, accessing half of the main Broadway trail to open, meaning plenty of skiing or snowboarding for beginners and intermediate riders. . . “There isn’t any off-trail snow yet but we have to play with what we’ve got.
“Having the mountain open has a huge flow-on effect for this area and people around here need something to perk them up.
Resorts in North America are still open and New Zealand doesn’t have any snow. Weird weather cycles, indeed.
While on a Rip Curl trip to the Mentawai Bethany Hamilton reportedly sliced her bicep last week (June 21, 2011), according to a story on The Christian Post. A letter from the family described the following:
On a wipeout her surfboard fin sliced her bicep, she got 10 stitches, but now has some numbness in her arm which is a bit concerning. She is on her way to Singapore to get checked out by a physician on her way home. We have appointments with physicians in Hawaii as well, whom she will see immediately when she gets home. We talked to Dr Rovinsky (Bethany’s surgeon after she lost her arm) here on Kauai and he said it’s likely that she cut a nerve during the incident, she may have to have surgery to repair it.
Birdhouse Skateboards crowd sourced a project asking people to create something that would help move the Birdhouse brand forward. Birdhouse Flips The F*ck Out was the winner and it got Nikolaus Drellow a “head up his own ass” trophy at an event called the Wrath of Cannes. Now, all Birdhouse had to do is make this game happen. Come on. We’re itching for another reason to drop our iPhones.
We’ve been calling it the shark bite capital of the world for years, but this week Orlando Sentinel photographer Jacob Langston caught more evidence of why New Smyrna Beach, Florida is still shark central.
Langston’s focus was on his subject in the foreground of his camera and didn’t see the four-foot spinner shark jumping over another surfer. . . It wasn’t until he was back in the office editing his video that he realized he had captured the awesome moment in the background.
We’ll say it for at least the tenth time: can’t believe they risk surfing with sharks for those waves?
Debbie Hodges, the major driving force of the Eastern Surfing Association, has announced that she is resigning as executive director effective September 30, 2011, according to a press release on Surfline.
“It was with sadness that the ESA Executive Committee accepted Ms. Hodges resignation, and it won’t be an easy task finding a replacement,” said Tom Warnke, Chairman of the ESA Board of Directors. “Debbie was always looking for ways to help the competitors become winners and champions, and we thank her for her many years of dedication and service to the organization,” he added.
Kind of hard to imagine the ESA without Hodges, but it has been a rough year. Click the link for the rest of the story.
Kevin Moraga, 15, was surfing with friends at Playa Grande in the North Pacific side of Costa Rica at a little after noon on Sunday, June 19, 2011 when he was hit by a shark in the left thigh. The bite resulted in massive blood loss, according to a story in the Tico Times.
Moraga was transferred on Wednesday in a coma to the Hospital Mexico in San José, where doctors are better equipped to handle trauma patients. He died Thursday afternoon of a cerebral edema. An edema is caused by a large build-up of fluids in the brain.
This was reportedly the first shark attach at Playa Grande in recent memory. Our thoughts are with Moraga’s family and friends.
The 2011 Nike US Open of Surfing just released the line up for the music portion of the enormous summer bash in Huntington Beach August 4-6, 2011 and it looks damn good.
This year’s musical line-up is a representation of today’s youth culture featuring headlining sets by psych-pop rockers MGMT, platinum-selling rockers Jimmy Eat World and Swedish electro/rock sensations The Sounds. The series will also include sets by the most buzzed about names emerging on the music scene this year: Surfer Blood and Dead Country.
Sure, Jimmy Eat World and MGMT are great and all, but we’re looking most forward to seeing Surfer Blood on Saturday, August 6, 2011. Follow the jump for more details. [click to continue…]
Dogtown’s “lost” Z-Boy Chris Cahill died last week after what was described as a “lengthy” battle with cancer, according to a story on Yo Venice.
