When we saw Chad Fernandez back hanging with the kids at a recent street comp we kind of wondered what he was doing. After viewing this little clip it appears he’s been hard at work.
[Link: You Will Soon]
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While on tour in the UK, “Canadian heart-throb” Justin Bieber apparently made a trip to Manchester’s indoor shred-dome Chill Factore, according to a story on Men Media.
First he headed to the indoor ski slope at Chill Factore next to the Trafford Centre, before heading down the road for a pitstop at the Daytona go-karting track.
From the photos it would appear that Shaun White doesn’t have much to worry about currently.
[Link: Men Media]
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Surfer Dave Pearson, 48, was surfing New South Wales’ Austalia’s Crowdy Head at about 6:30 PM when he was hit by a three-meter shark, according to a story in the Daily Telegraph.
The Coopernook local had been swimming in the rough surf for several hours before the beast attacked him – severing his arm and causing lacerations to his face. . . Crowdy Beach Surf Life Saving caretaker Adam Eady was one of the first on the scene to help Mr Pearson when his friends brought him to shore. . . “He was very lucky to come away from that without serious injuries. . . “The shark bit through his board – if it hadn’t of been there it would have ripped him in half.”
Experts say the shark that hit Pearson was most likely a bull shark. It was the second attack in the area in a week, according to the story.
[Link: Daily Telegraph]
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Chris Engelsman, the former Publisher of Snowboarder magazine has been promoted to Director of Sales Strategy for the ASG/Grind Network and former Snowboard Magazine Publisher Jeff Baker is rolling in to replace Engelsman at Snowboarder. ASG’s SVP Group Publisher Norb Garret is making strong moves, apparently.
“Both of these moves serve to strengthen our team and help advance the growth of the ASG/Grind Networks and the individual brands such as Snowboarder,” said Garrett. “In his new role Chris will work alongside Elisabeth Murray to help drive our businesses forward across all media as he has done at Snowboarder over the past several years. With Jeff we are thrilled to bring his insights and creative talents back to Snowboarder and anticipate continued growth with our print, events, digital and video platforms.”
Congrats to Engelsman and Baker. Follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
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Note to parents of teenage boys: if you stop your car up next to a group of kids on the street and the first thing that happens is one of them smashes out your back window with a skateboard DO NOT get out of the car.
A father from Gresham, Oregon named Tom was responding after finding out that his 15-year-old son had been beaten up by a group of kids. He reportedly drove straight to the scene to see what was up, according to a story on KOIN Local 6.
“As soon as I stopped the car one of them busted out the window of the car,” he said. “I jumped out to confront them and one of the teens said, ‘You want a piece of me?’ so I backed up and the teen in front of him yelled for one of the kids behind him to hit me.” . . That’s when Tom was hit in the face with the metal wheel side of the skateboard.
Tom was left bleeding out his eyes and face and the kids, of course, got away before police could arrive. If that wasn’t bad enough, Tom’s cousin was beaten to death on December 31, 2010, and Tom is being laid off from his job at Les Schwab at the end of the month. On top of that, police detectives have not even contacted the family yet because they “don’t have detectives working weekends.” They’re never there when you need them are they?
[Link: KOIN]
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Hard to believe season two of Rob Dyrdek’s Street League is almost upon us. This year sees the tour expanding by one stop, adding a couple new states and staying out of California entirely.
Stop 1: May 7 – 8th Key Arena, Seattle WA (Sunday Finals 4-6pm EST on ESPN)
Stop 2: June 11-12th Sprint Center, Kansas City MO (Sunday Finals 4-6pm EST on ESPN2)
Stop 3: July 16– 17th Jobing.com Arena, Glendale AZ (Sunday Finals 5-7pm EST on ESPN2)
Championship: August 28th Prudential Center, Newark NJ (5-7pm EST on ESPN2) [click to continue…]
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Tony Hawk and friends including Agent Orange and others put on what looks like a great show at the Clairemont YMCA in San Diego, California on Saturday, March 19. It looked a little like this. . .
[Link via Mountain and Wave]
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To celebrate the planting of the first 150 etnies “buy a shoe, plant a tree project” trees owner Peirre-André Senizergues flew team members Ryan Sheckler, Kyle Leeper, Chris Del Moro, CJ Kanuha and Benji Weatherly, to Costa Rica to plant trees in the etnies Rainforest on the Maleku reserve.
With the worldwide support of the Buy a Shoe, Plant a Tree project, etnies is on track to continue planting 35,000 trees in the forest beyond Friday’s ceremony. Through this project and with the help from La Reserva Forest Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the recovery and preservation of indigenous tropical rainforests in Costa Rica, the new forest will help the Maleku to replenish their reserve with the trees that once maintained their community before their land was destroyed by cattle farmers and a violent rubber-tree war that massacred many of their people.
It’s nice that etnies is helping to bring trees back to one of Costa Rica’s most popular tourist attractions. Follow the jump for more. [click to continue…]
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Richmond, Virginia based Brian Lopez is building a business by making cruiser boards out of reclaimed wood flooring from basketball courts. The company is called Glide Skateboards, according to a post on Treehugger.com.
Materials such as reclaimed floorboards are resurrected when we mill, laminate, and shape them into functional works of art. . . We believe it is time to stop depending on our mother earth for resources and to start co-depending with her for a sustainable future.
Resurrection is good.
[Link: Glide Skateboards via Treehugger]
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We’ve been charmed lately by Ms. Enever’s solid surfing and saucy dance moves, but now Stab magazine is sharing a few images from their Hard-cover book along with an interview with ASP Women’s tour number 3 about getting undressed for Stab.
We had a stylist who picked out heaps of clothes but I ended up, uh, kinda not wearing clothes at all. But, it was really cool. I walked out of the shoot feeling like I’d grown up five years. It was, like, a confidence boost to know that I could feel comfortable with myself taking those types of photos. At first, I was a bit freaked out and then I got more confident; it made me more confident in my body image. I’ve never done anything quite like that and it opened my eyes. I walked out and went, whoa, what just happened?
Strangely, after seeing the photos, we were thinking the same thing.
[Link: Stab Mag]
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