Rip Curl added 19 Victoria, Australia retail shops to its quiver with the purchase of Ozmosis, according to a story on Ragtrader.com.
Rip Curl Asia Pacific CEO Steven Kay said the company was looking forward to working with its new Melbourne-headquartered team. . . . “Melbourne is one of the great epicentres of youth culture and Victoria home to some of the best surfing, skiing and snowboarding in the country, and Rip Curl wants to provide its customers with better access to the lifestyle products they need. Ozmosis can really help us do that,” Kay said.
This means Rip Curl has added 34 Australian store fronts in the last year. Looks like they’re set on staying in the game.
Tanner Gudauskas had a great run at Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro at Trestles this week, however, it all ended by six hundredths of a point in his final match up with Brazilian Miguel Pupo on Saturday, May 7, 2011.
“Miguel ripped and it makes it exciting when it’s a close Final,” Gudauskas said. “Congratulations to him, it’s been a fun week. . . This week has just been classic,” Gudauskas said. “It has been a blur. I am just coming off of an ankle injury and wasn’t expecting anything and I just started making heats and then I was in the final.”
Hawaiian Keanu Asing , 17, who won the ASP 5-Star Oakley Pro Junior. For all the official details, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Don’t think that Andrew Reynolds’ is letting big business get in the way of his skateboarding. As Stay Gold proved, the boss is still on top of the monster drops. Here’s a little more evidence for a Friday morning.
It appears that DC Shoes is progressing even more in the direction of becoming it’s own nation state with the unveiling of its new flag. While we originally had mistaken it for an updated Puerto Rican flag, it is nice to know DC is giving its fans something to wave during Street League events and (MMA brawls).
And in these terror ridden times DC has given it such an appropriate name––the Riot Flag.
It’s hardly news to say that Kolohe Andino, 17, is doing well at the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro at Trestles. He was built for this wave, especially when the sets are rolling through in their rglassy, rampy two-to-four foot range. And that’s exactly what rolled through when he edged Dusty Payne 17.50 to 17.03 in Heat 4 of the Round of 24 on Thursday, May 5, 2011.
“Before the heat my nerves were running wild,” Andino said. “I had to step aside and focus because I was pretty nervous. Once the heat starts I start to get a little more comfortable, but actually after I got that 7, I was still nervous because I knew Dusty (Payne) could get a bomb and rip it. I just want to give credit to Dusty (Payne) he’s one of my favorite surfers and it’s a bummer we came up against each other and I probably had the best heat of my life.”
Andino was not alone. Brazil’s Gabriel Medina, 17, rolled on with his big-name wrecking by snubbing Patrick Gudauskas with a 9.5 and the highest score of the day. For more details and all the results from Trestles follow the jump or click here to watch the Oakley Jr Pro which is live now. [click to continue…]
Sally Fitzgibbons‘ short winning streak ended in the semi-finlas of the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic at Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia today (Friday, May 6, 2011) when she fell to Peru’s Sofia Mulanovich. She also got bumped back down to number two on the ASP World Rankings list after Carissa Moore was able to defeat Mulanovich in the finals. Sally says she’s trying not to ignore all that.
“I’m trying to not think about the World Title too much, I know that there are a lot of girls within range, so I’m just going to keep my head down and have fun.”
Moore on the other hand was pretty fired up about her performance.
“I’m really, really happy, I’ve been fired up ever since the last two events with Sally (Fitzgibbons) and I’m just super excited I was able to come out on top this time,” Moore said. . . “I was really excited to make another final and it was refreshing to have a Sofia as an opponent,” Moore said. “She was leading for most of the heat and I was kind of nervous out there.”
For the rest of the story and full results, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Rob Dyrdek’s skateboarding 2011 street extravaganza kicks off this weekend (May 7-8, 2011) from Seattle, Washington’s Key Arena and anyone with an Internet connection can watch the Street League qualifiers LIVE on facebook. Saturday’s qualifier and Sunday’s last chance qualifier will be broadcast on the Street League Facebook page from 3 to 7 PST on Saturday and at noon on Sunday.
To watch the finals you’ll have to have ESPN (International viewers (and those who know how to pretend to be from outside the US) can catch the finals live on the DC Shoes Facebook page). Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
The day-long event will include an adaptive skateboard clinic for quadriplegics, paraplegics and amputees; a professional skate exhibition; and adaptive skate contest featuring a prize purse of $10,000. . . “They Will Skate Again” is a spin-off of Life Rolls On’s popular and award-winning adaptive surfing program “They Will Surf Again.” Through the platform of action sports, LRO helps individuals discover the limitless possibilities beyond paralysis. This is the second They Will Skate Again event hosted by Life Rolls On, which launched the program in March, 2010.
Market Watch’s Jeff Harbaugh was wondering what happened to the Skullcandy IPO and did some nosing around. He discovered that on April 30, 2011 Skullcandy filed a revised form S-1 with the SEC. In his latest column he looks into exactly what changed and what it might mean to the company and it’s potential public offering. He says:
Skullcandy is counting on the success of its IPO to reduce its leverage and give it the working capital it needs to execute on its plan. Shareholders and executives have taken a bunch of cash out of the company in the fourth quarter, resulting in a big loss. They were entitled to do that under existing agreements, but how does it look to a potential stock purchaser? Those potential investors also see a company whose 2008 net income of $13 million fell to $3.5 million in 2009 even as sales grew 47% to $118 million. Now, on sales of $160 million, there’s a loss of almost $10 million.
For Harbaugh’s conclusions (and some interesting reading), click the link.
Organizers of the Nike 6.0 Lower Pro announced today that for the first time ever, the event will be carried live on Time Warner Cable in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Hawaii.
The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) PRIME Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro and ASP 5-Star Oakley Pro Junior will be shown in their in entirety from May 3rd through 7th through a live feed to Oceanic Time Warner Cable’s SURF Channel 250 and 1250HD in Hawaii from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm PST each day. From May 3rd to May 6th Oceanic Time Warner Cable will replay each day’s action after the live portion ends, and it will loop until competition resumes the following day. After the contest finishes on May 7th, Oceanic will replay the entire five-day event on a loop until May 13th. . . Additionally, the Oceanic Time Warner Cable live feed will be transported to Time Warner Cable’s Los Angeles, San Diego and Desert Cities markets.
And that’s great news for people who still have cable, because the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro webcast has been almost unwatchable thanks to incessant stalling and/or dropped connections every 10 seconds.
Rip Curl added 19 Victoria, Australia retail shops to its quiver with the purchase of Ozmosis, according to a story on Ragtrader.com.
