As much as we would love to have spent the last few days upgrading Boardistan.com, we’re just thankful to have our old site back in one piece and functioning. Seriously. Thank you to everyone who noticed we were down and texted, IM’d, or emailed encouragement and/or theories on exactly what happened.
We can assure you, none of the rumors were true. We were neither hacked, nor hired away by any large companies who do not allow blogging on the side. And we most certainly were not strong-armed into taking the site down by powerful men with smooth, confident South African accents.
Our problems over the last few days were much more mundane and entirely too retarded to discuss here in any kind of detail other than to say this–– If a set of hard drives are reportedly backing each other up automatically that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea to have a couple more back-ups as well.
As we learned last week, sometimes DIY means “destroy it yerself.”
Action sports retail has been headed for the showroom model for years. Sadly, the only way this really works is when the retail stores are owned by the manufacturers who are selling the product. That’s exactly why we’re expecting to see a lot more deals like today’s announcement in the Orange County Business Journal that Billabong has purchased all five Becker Surf locations.
Hawaiian surf legend Marvin Foster was found dead on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 from what the medical examiners described as suicide, according to a story in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Foster, 49, died from asphyxia due to hanging. . . Surfer Rusty Keaulana, who grew up with Foster, said this morning, “I’m still bummed about it. He was like my brother.” . . Keaulana described Foster as a fearless “goofy-foot” surfer who was the first to go left at Waimea Bay.
Sam George’s documentary Hollywood Don’t Surf, has been getting much of the action attention in Cannes this year, however, it wasn’t the only surf film at the famous French Film Festival this year. Bjorn Ritchie Lob’s Keep Surfing, is one of them.
Sadly, it’s in German so we have no idea what they are saying. Nice boobs though.
With the mortgage crisis have come pools. Empty pools. And many of them in Fresno. Which is probably one of the only reason’s you’d want to visit Fresno. . .
When Chrys Worley saw how much her autistic 7-year-old son Sasha loved skateboarding she realized that it might be good for other kids who suffer from the disability. So she started the A.Skate Foundation, according to a story in the Tuscaloosa News.
“It’s often really difficult for kids with autism to be part of organized sports,” said Chrys Worley, a West Blocton mom whose 7-year-old son has autism. . . “Skateboarding is something they can do as a group but also individually,” she said. “They don’t have to be overwhelmed, and it’s constant motion.”
We’ve always used skateboarding as therapy, but it’s nice to know someone is using it to help the kids who need it the most.
When a action sports clothing company (Comune) refers to its own promotional snowboard film as “avant-garde” and uses an infamous 1960s anti-establishment art colony in Colorado (Drop City) as its main inspiration to help it move product through the malls of America (Urban Outfitters, Pac Sun) it’s difficult not to chuckle.
When the title of that black and white film is as pretentious as “Black Holes and Invisible Forces Bending Time Through Particle Deformations Creating Infinite Freedom in the Garden on the Moon,” it almost becomes farcical.
That said, the new Comune teaser Burn The Witch is fun to watch no matter we look at it.
Two reports submitted to the Shark Research Committee website in the last week suggest there may be a bit of increased shark action in the waters near San Diego.
On Thursday May 13, 2010 around 1:15 PM surfer Mary Baker was waiting for some waves a bit outside the lineup at La Jolla Shores when she say a fin turn and head toward her.
“I looked outside and about 100 feet from me I saw the large triangle black fin, about 18 inches high, heading my way,” Baker said. “I moved South and inside to get my friend out. I surf everyday and know the difference between marine animals. This was a large triangle fin heading straight at me. Not a dolphin, seal or a bird. It was a black large triangle fin.”
Four days early on May 9, 2010 at about 5 PM surfer Brian Monroe was out at Ocean Beach when he saw a shark acting aggressively near a Grey Whale.
“I saw a large dark grey dorsal fin, 18 – 24 inches high, and splashing directly next to a Grey Whale ( Eschrichtius robustus) that had its back elevated out of the water,” he said. “I quickly paddled to shore and observed what appeared to be two whales, one large and one small, being repeatedly pursued by a large dark grey dorsal fin traveling along the surface. The shark appeared to be acting in an aggressive manner.”
And then there is the Great White reportedly spotted at San Onofre near the power plant . . . sounds like a similar men in a gray suits, no?
The Sheckler Foundation is proud to present, Skate for a Cause, a family friendly event that combines a world class skate jam with a carnival. We have invited the top names in skateboarding to participate in this unique skate event that will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Pretty much everyone you’ve ever wanted to see skate will be there: Chris Cole, Eric Koston, P-Rod, PJ Ladd, Mikey Taylor, Mike Mo, Sean Malto, Torey Pudwill and many more. This should be good. And, it’s for a good cause.
As much as we would love to have spent the last few days upgrading Boardistan.com, we’re just thankful to have our old site back in one piece and functioning. Seriously. Thank you to everyone who noticed we were down and texted, IM’d, or emailed encouragement and/or theories on exactly what happened.
