Jordy Smith was getting all over the nearly perfect performance waves at the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro at Trestles today. In the round of 48 he and Josh Kerr rolled over Brazil’s Wiggoly Dantas and Damien Hobgood and then he marched right through Gabe Kling and Aritz Aranburu and will meet Josh Kerr in Heat 8 of the Round of 16 tomorrow morning. It doesn’t look like much will stop him.
Skate Park of Tampa’s Ryan Clements and his fiance Jenna Becker will be featured on an upcoming episode of Home & Garden TV’s Battle On The Block reality interior design show.
The show pits neighbors against each other to see who can come up with the best room. Here is how their show is being pitched:
In this episode, three families in the hip urban neighborhood of Ybor City in Tampa, FL, compete to redesign and renovate their master bedrooms. . . .Newly engaged Ryan and Jenna are desperate to create a soothing bedroom that reflects their hip style, but their bold color choices threaten to make their bedroom more zoo than Zen.
According to an email sent out to friends Ryan loves the new bedroom, but wonders how the show will turn out:
The worst was that HGTV literally ran our lives for five days (interviews, show prep, filming, etc.) and the best part is that we got an absolutely amazing, completely free master bedroom out of the deal,” he said. “This is my official disclaimer that I have no idea how we’re going to be portrayed on the show since we signed our lives away and have no control over the outcome. Jenna thinks that she’s going to be labeled as the ‘dumb blonde’ and my fear is that they’re going to make me look like a semi-retarded, anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive, conspiracy-theorist, maniac.”
The Clements family bedroom episode airs May 15, 2010. Set your Tivos.
Which reminds us: we always hate it when people invite us over to their house and then proceed to kick our asses in every single game we play. It’s just not polite.
The resulting visual history of Santa Cruz surfing is beautiful — and unlike anything before compiled. It ranges from the skateboarding-spawned origins of aerial surfing with an innovator named Kevin Reed to the divergent personalities of Westside icons Richard Schmidt (now a popular surf instructor at Cowell’s) and Vince Collier (the self-appointed Godfather of the so-called Westsiders surf gang).
From there Conley says it “buries the nose and tumbles.” But we still want to see it.
As if being the largest footwear manufacturer in the world (and number 1 action sports footwear brand) isn’t enough for the Portland, Oregon based company, Chief Executive Mark Parker now says that Nike plans on growing by more than 40 percent in the next five years to $27 billion in sales, according to a story on MarketWatch.
And guess which pond they plan to over-fish. . .
In addition to retail and apparel, Nike also sees the fast-growing action sports market, which it called underpenetrated, as a growth opportunity for both its namesake brand and Hurley, according to Parker. The company also said it will do a better job gaining the wallet share of its female customers. . . Converse, which Nike bought in 2003, will help fuel growth as well. Nike wants to double the size of the $1 billion brand in the next five years, with plans to open the first full-priced Converse store in Boston this summer.
And then one day the sales reps at action sports media companies will only have to make one call a year. We can hardly wait.
The December 2008 Issue won a Silver Eddie for overall editorial excellence in the “Consumer Sports Full Issue” category and the 2009 Buyer’s Guide took the Bronze Ozzie Award in the “Best Supplemental Annual or One-Shot” category.
“Snowboarding looks easy until you try to drop in on one of those Superpipes, the same might be said about making snowboarding magazines,” said TransWorld SNOWboarding’s Editor-in-Chief, Annie Fast. “We work hard to make it look easy, so we’re especially honored by the recognition of the greater magazine world with a silver and bronze—it’s like winning our own magazine Olympics!”
We have to admit that every time we see a bobsled track or water slide we think about doing this. Leave it to some crazy sponored Euro to make it happen.
Now everyone can decorate their offices and homes with skateboard decks that have been chopped into tiny little squares thanks to a company called Art Of Board, according to a post on Treehugger.com.
Using the colorful scraps from broken skateboard decks, we provide commercial and residential spaces and retailers with unique, sustainable design solutions to help them reach an audience, sell products and create a defining style or experience. . . With our roots firmly planted in the skateboard culture, we provide skaters and skate shops alike the opportunity to donate broken decks, thereby becoming of part of every project. We also donate a portion of our proceeds to the Tony Hawk Foundation, which supports youth and public skateparks.
Think of the hours that could be spent trying to figure out exactly whose deck each piece came from. . . .
“I’m going to get in the ocean,” she told us. “I promised myself I’d learn how to surf this year. I surf a little bit and so I’ve got my pink surf board and I’m ready to get in the ocean. . . “I’m always learning new things. I think it’s really important as we get older to not think that you’re not too old to learn something new. It makes you live better.”
It’s difficult to believe there’s anything she hasn’t exposed herself to.
Each time we see someone taking a brand new Apple product and wrecking itwe’re reminded of the scene in the Steven Spielberg’s creepy movieAI where a crowd of screaming futuristic MMA fans get boners watching sad little robots being torn apart by machines.
Why does the world take so much joy in seeing “revolutionary and magical” products destroyed? Built To Shred’s Jeff King and Chad Knight probably can’t shed any light on that, but they know one thing for sure: it’s great for traffic.
