by The Editors on August 18, 2010
Mark Occhilupo’s former accountant, Noel Holmes, had sued the pro surfer in Brisbane Supreme Court claiming that he gave Occy $50,000 to buy 21,739 friends and family shares of Billabong stock just before it went public in 2000 and now he want’s the nearly $200,000 proceeds back. Occy apparently believed the shares belonged to him, according to a story on ABC.net.au.
But today it all got sorted out in an out-of-court settlement, according to the Courier Mail.
Lawyers for the disputing parties have spent most of today in private discussions. . . An out-of-court settlement was reached and details were not disclosed.
As might not be surprising, Occy is glad it’s over and just wants to get back in the water. “”The first thing when I get back to the coast I’ll be going for a surf for sure and take my shirt off,” Occhilupo said outside court.
Apparently Occy’s suit worked. . .
[Links: ABC.net.au and Courier Mail]
by The Editors on August 18, 2010
686 has moved from the darkside and into the light with the relaunch of their Winter 2010-11 web presence.
They’ve also added a little game to the mix with their interactive 686 Reservoir Dogs ad campaign featuring Marco Feichtner, Louie Vito, Forest Bailey and Patrick McCarthy.
As each ad drops, clues and a video are posted on www.686.com where consumers can follow the leads to win prizes and solve the big “mystery”…
Sounds mysterious indeed. Time to start sleuthing. Follow the jump for the official word.
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by The Editors on August 17, 2010
Larry Mabile ripping into his version of Simon Anderson’s thruster.
For the past four years Scott Bass (of Down The Line surf talk radio) has been hosting a gathering of the surfboard tribe, “as cliche as that sounds,” he’s quick to add, called the Sacred Craft Consumer Surfboard Expo.
Anyone truly into the art of surfboards already knows about the expo and has probably attended every single one of them. But for those of us who buy our boards off the rack and only think about them when something goes horribly wrong, having the Sacred Craft as the fourth horseman of this fall’s ASR Trade Show apocalypse was the perfect chance for us to see something we’ve so far missed entirely. And we don’t think we were alone
Follow the jump for the rest of the story or Click here for a small photo gallery from the show.
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by The Editors on August 17, 2010
Volcom’s Gigi Rüf movie 9191 premiere world tour begins September 1, 2010 at the Lido Theater in Newport Beach, California and continues on around the globe during the month of September. For more tour dates click the link.
[Link: 9191 Movie]
by The Editors on August 17, 2010
by The Editors on August 16, 2010
Surfer Nicholas Edwards, 31, a mine worker and father of two children from Busselton died after being attacked by a shark at 8:15 AM on August 17, 2010 near Gracetown in the Margaret River area of Western Australia, according to a story in Western Australia Today.
Police and the RAC rescue helicopter were dispatched to a beach south of Cowaramup Bay near Gracetown this morning. . . The man was retrieved from the water and rushed to hospital, but police have confirmed he has died from his injuries. They could not say how old he was or confirm his identity. . . The man is believed to have been attacked while surfing on his own, at a beach only accessible by four-wheel-drive vehicles.
According to a story on ABC.net.au a man watching the surf saw Edwards go down.
Rob Alder says he saw Mr Edwards lose his board and not come back up again. . . He rushed down to the beach with his friends and alerted a rescue crew. . . He says they found Mr Edwards washed up on rocks near South Point, lying unconscious with a huge gash to his leg. . . Mr Alder and his friends created a tourniquet using a surfboard leg rope and tried to resuscitate Mr Edwards for 20 minutes until the ambulance arrived. . . Eddie Kilgallon was one of the rescuers who tried, unsuccessfully, to resuscitate the man. . . Mr Kilgallon says Mr Edwards’s injuries were horrific. . . “[The] back half of his leg was totally chomped. It looked like one bite. It looked like a big shark bite,” he said.
The beach reportedly remains closed. Our thoughts are with Edwards family and friends.
[Link: Western Australia Today, ABC.net.au, and The Australian]
by The Editors on August 16, 2010
Saturday August 14, 2010, while watching shaper Larry Mabile shaping away inside a plexiglass box in what we thought was one of strangest parts of the surfboard fetish show Sacred Craft, we realized that Lost’s Matt Biolos was standing right next to us.
“Wouldn’t that be kind of weird to be working in a clear plastic box with all these people watching?” we asked.
“I’m going to be in there tomorrow,” Matt said. Then he explained the contest to us. Shapers were given an hour in a half to copy some one else’s shape. In this contest it was the thruster that Simon Anderson’s surfed to victory at Bell Beach in 1981.
Not only did Matt show up, he showed the rest of the field who was boss by winning the event and a $1,000 check signed by Scott Bass, according to a story on Global Surf News.
“This is a bit of redemption for me, as I am sometimes pegged as a guy who is only known for his marketing expertise, and maybe I don’t get credit for my shaping ability,” said Biolos in front of a large crowd on Sunday at Sacred Craft. “It is real honor to win this event, as Simon Anderson is a true legend.”
A gracious Biolos reportedly offered the prize money to a local charity. Kind of bummed we didn’t get to see it all go down live. Follow the jump for video of the entire contest.
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by The Editors on August 16, 2010
For a while 87-year-old O’Neill brand founder Jack O’Neill was worried that a new seawall being built by the County of Santa Cruz, California would cause the land in front of his Pleasure Point home to erode away even more that it has, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News. So he was asking for the County to extend their wall past the front of his home.
I was satisfied with my house the way it was,” O’Neill said Wednesday, looking out at the emerging seawall that runs up against his property. “But the wall creates a little hurricane when the sand and sea get washed down, and it eats out what’s at the end.” . . O’Neill’s seawall plans call for expansion of the county’s concrete seawall around his property. The work, which he says will cost him at least $1 million, involves removing the rock and riprap that now offers him protection from the waves and replacing them with a sturdier wall contoured around his home.
Last week, the California Coastal Commission approved O’Neill’s plans for the wall as long as he didn’t develop the property next to him. Looks like Jack will be on the point for a few more years.
[Link: Mercury News]
by The Editors on August 16, 2010
This story has been written up pretty much everywhere already, but as Podium was nice enough to send out the press release (including this photo of Mike Dunlap and Justin Reyes) we decided we’d throw in our two cents.
Here’s what they’re saying:
Under the terms of the new agreement Billabong will distribute Podium brands DVS, Matix, and Lakai in Australia as well as New Zealand alongside its current line of in-house brands including Element, Nixon, Von Zipper, Kustom Footwear and Plan B. . . .Although Billabong will assume full distribution of Podium’s brands in Australia, the company’s distribution responsibilities in New Zealand will be limited to Billabong’s company retail store channels as well as stores belonging to the Billabong-owned Amazon retail chain.
Looks like step one in a much more meaningful relationship down the road, something no one denied when Podium interviewed itself on Transworld Business.
Chalk up another win for the Bong. Follow the jump for the official release.
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by The Editors on August 16, 2010
Mark Occhilupo’s former accountant, Noel Holmes, had sued the pro surfer in Brisbane Supreme Court claiming that he gave Occy $50,000 to buy 21,739 friends and family shares of Billabong stock just before it went public in 2000 and now he want’s the nearly $200,000 proceeds back. Occy apparently believed the shares belonged to him, according to a story on ABC.net.au.
