We’ve always had a thing for burned out, wrecked places, but nothing really compares to Billy Rohan’s Vice.TV trip to Bhagdad last summer. Watch and you’ll see what we mean.
[Link via Radcollector]
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Andy Irons’ win over Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, and Cory Lopez in the 2006 Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters may have been one of the happiest days of Andy’s life. Seeing Andy bouncing with joy at the end of this clip has brought us smiles during an otherwise sorrow filled week.
[Link via Windowseat Pictures]
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Have to admit that checking Chilly Miller’s runs through the Mammoth park do have us itchin’ a little more than usual to get winter rolling.
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Vans has just released their freshened up Triple Crown of Surfing app Vans Live. The completely redesigned app is a super smooth upgrade from last year’s version. Vans Live allows iPhone and iPad users to catch all the live action, scoring, photos, surf forecasts, and heats on demand from all three jewels of the Triple Crown (men’s and women’s events) via both WI-FI and 3G.
Only on Vans Live can you follow the 28th Vans Triple Crown of Surfing presented by Rockstar Energy Drink, watching top-ranked pros such as Kelly Slater, Jordy Smith, Mick Fanning, Dane Reynolds and other vie for the coveted Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Title, valuable ASP world title points, and a potential world title showdown at the infamous Banzai Pipeline.
App creator Black Sun Productions has improved nearly every aspect of the since the first version appeared last year (click to see our original review). But our favorite feature (aside from it being free) is the push alert. They allow even the laziest surf fan to know exactly when the events are on. If the contest is live, users will get pinged and that alone is worth downloading the app. Click the link and be ready for the November 12, 2010 start of the Reef Pro from Haleiwa.
[Link: Vans Live]
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When core mall retailer Zumiez announced today (November 3, 2010) that their October revenue in stores open a least a year rose 21.5 percent there wasn’t an after hours trader who didn’t feel like jumping in apparently. The stock rocked up to $28.34 a share, according to a story on Canadian Business.
Analysts expected a rise of 7.8 percent, according to Thomson Reuters. . . Total revenue for the four-week period ending Oct. 30 rose 27.3 percent to $31.4 million.
Zumiez stockholders should be jumping for joy. Speaking of jumps, follow this one for the entire press release.
[Link: Canadian Business]
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We’ve always said that every minute spent with artist/filmmaker/furniture builder Dave Seoane is like 60 seconds. Pretty much. In part one of his Planet Earth Perspectives interview he talks about the good old days of snowboarding. Click the link for for more videos of Dave in action.
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Surfers in Puerto Rico for the Rip Curl Pro Search paddled out today in memory of Andy Irons and have postponed the event until Friday morning “to give the ASP professional surfers the space they needed to clear their heads, get their arms around each other and just take it all in,” according to Neil Ridgway, Rip Curl Global Marketing & Advertising Chairman.
Kelly Slater had this to say about the day:
“We had a nice paddle out for Andy,’ Slater said. “It was a huge a group of people that got together – a couple hundred people paddled out. Obviously everyone is very somber and it’s just devastating news for everyone.”
“Everyone had their own connection with Andy on so many different levels,” Slater said. “He was a classic guy. Although he and I butted heads a lot a few years ago, I have so many good memories of Andy and we have become pretty good friends since. Generally, we just sit around and don’t even talk about surfing. We just have dinner and talk.”
“We’re just baffled that he’s gone.”
For video from the paddle out and more surfers’ comments follow the jump.
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Lyndie and Andy Irons at the premiere of Fly In The Champagne February 19, 2009.
Reports of Andy Iron’s untimely death began circulating via text message and phone calls a little after 1 PM today (Tuesday, November 2, 2010). The 32-year-old three-time ASP World Surfing champion reportedly succumbed to fever during a layover in Dallas, Texas on his way home to Hawaii. He was found in his room by Grand Hyatt Hotel employees at 9:44 AM, according to the Associated Press.
Irons was in Puerto Rico to compete in the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico but reportedly was ill on arrival and was too sick to surf his round one heat 8 against Luke Stedman and Owen Wright.
Follow the jump for the rest of the story. . .
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Back in December of last year (2009) when we heard that several trade shows were flying retailers in and putting them up for a couple nights just so they could walk the isles of a convention for two days we asked a rather obvious question in a post titled Skate Trade Show Overload:
We have to wonder what happens to the entire trade show business model when they have to pay retailers to attend. Lord knows retailers need to be treated well these days, but it still seems to bring us back to the question that’s been plaguing the boardsports business for several years: are trade shows even relevant anymore?
It would appear that today ASR’s parent the Nielsen Company answered a little late with a resounding “No” according to a post on Shop-eat-surf.com. According to what Tiffany Montgomery described as “multiple people briefed on the matter” ASR has cancelled all of their upcoming trade shows. She says:
The demise of the industry’s largest trade show on the West Coast, with 700 brands, 450 manufacturers and attended by 18,000 people from over 60 countries, has the potential to dramatically alter the trade show landscape in the action sports industry.
Nielsen VP of Operations Lori Jenks is quoted in the the San Diego Union-Tribune:
“Unfortunately due to the difficult economic environment and the consolidation in the action sports industry, Nielsen Expositions have decided to suspend the production of both ASR events in San Diego indefinitely,” wrote Lori Jenks, vice president of operations for Nielsen Expositions.
As we all know, the only companies who stand to be hurt by ASR going away are the small and the new. But then they’re the ones who get in the way of the big corporate labels anyway. The major labels can afford to do their own sales work, and if the barrier to entry on the little guys gets a little higher through all this, who really cares, right?
It should be even better news for Agenda’s Aaron Levant. His show has always specialized in the small guys. If ASR leaving the trade show game is good news, Levant didn’t want to talk about this afternoon. The only response we got from him was, “No comment on the ASR situation.”
[Link: Shop-Eat-Surf and San Diego Union-Tribune]
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P-Rod’s got another little taste of his upcoming Plan B video part up on Youtube. What for P-Rod’s magic fence fingers. Things change when P-Rod touches them. Must be magic. The entire video will be available on iTunes on November 15, 2010.
[Link via The Skateboard Mag]
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