Shaun White was on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Sarah Palin opened for him. That’s how big the Flying Tomato has gotten.
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Volcom used to be all about youth against establishment, but with this North American Volcom Tour 2010 lineup they appear to be much more about middle-aged heavy metal hair bears. . .
Volcom is proud to announce the spring 2010 U.S. edition of The Volcom Tour, headlined by Mastodon, beginning April 16, 2010 and featuring special guests Between the Buried and Me, Baroness and Valient Thorr.
Well, at least with three out of the four. . . .
[Link: Volcom Entertainment]
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Early Olympians reportedly competed nude. In that sense, this Terry Richardson Rolling Stone cover of Shaun White rocking out shirtless over his burning board makes some sort of sense.
Shaun White has revolutionized snowboarding, won the big gold in Vancouver and lit his snowboard aflame, Hendrix-style, on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone, joining an elite club of athletes to appear on our cover not once, but twice. . . And as the focused, business savvy White tells it, a lot of his recent success on the half-pipe and off can be attributed to a new addition to his life: “Getting into music has changed my personality and my way of doing things,” he reveals to RS writer Vanessa Grigoriadis. “I”m far more open now.”
Jimi Hendrix would be proud. At least the rest of Shaun is covered up. . . click the link for video.
[Link: Rolling Stone]
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Shaun White and the Olympic pipe jocks aren’t the only shreds taking the double double. Eric Willett doubles up on his way to stomping a win at the TTR River Jump in Livigno, Italy last weekend. Don’t know that we’ve ever seen anyone land an entire run so solid.
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Round 3 eliminations at the Quik Pro 2010 at Snapper Rocks are currently in progress and live on the Internet. Thanks to three to four foot waves at Snapper Rocks organizers got an early start with the first heat beginning at 7:30 AM local time.
Today’s round 3 match-ups look like this:
Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Jadson Andre (BRA)
Heat 2: Taylor Knox (USA) vs. Adrian Buchan (AUS)
Heat 3: Tom Whitaker (AUS) vs. Chris Davidson (AUS)
Heat 4: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Owen Wright (AUS)
Heat 5: Bobby Martinez (USA) vs. Andy Irons (HAW)
Heat 6: Damien Hobgood (USA) vs. Luke Stedman (AUS)
Heat 7: Dean Morrison (AUS) vs. Kai Otton (AUS)
Heat 8: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Brett Simpson (USA)
Heat 9: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Dusty Payne (HAW)
Heat 10: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) vs. Kekoa Bacalso (HAW)
Heat 11: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Daniel Ross (AUS)
Heat 12: Dane Reynolds (USA) vs. Jeremy Flores (FRA)
Heat 13: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Luke Munro (AUS)
Heat 14: Kieren Perrow (AUS) vs. Mick Campbell (AUS)
Heat 15: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Patrick Gudauskas (USA)
Heat 16: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs. Tiago Pires (PRT)
[Link: Quik Pro 2010]
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The 2010 Oakley Arctic Challenge will be streamed live on Freecaster.tv beginning Friday March 5, 2010. To watch it live click here or click the link for more info.
[Link: The Arctic Challenge]
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The website Alister & Paine bills itself as “the digital magazine for 21st century executives” and seeing how they knew enought to interview Sanuk’s Jeff Kelly we’d have to agree. So how does Sanuk stay relevant?
By constantly doing what Nike and Sketcher and Crocs and those guys can’t do. We’re completely random. It separates us and it still gives us that feeling that we’re a brand that works out of a garage. . . We’ve had guys like Brad Pitt and Matthew McConaughey embrace the product and wear it religiously. Vanity Fair asked Brad Pitt what his favorite shoes were and he said ‘Sanuk Sidewalk Surfers’. You can’t ask for a better endorsement than that.
[Link: Alister & Paine]
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Talk in the Rally world regarding Ken Block is often harsh, mostly because he was able to come out of nowhere and immediately become one of the most talked about rally driver in America. But all that aside he won the 2010 Rally America 100 Acre Wood Rally for the fifth time in a row this weekend according to a post on RallyBuzz.
“I can’t tell you how difficult and challenging this weekend has been,” said Block. “This is the location of my first national rally win, so I have now won this rally five years in a row and it is a pretty good feeling to get the Fiesta home in first. The Fiesta is a big change from the car I was racing before, but I am finally starting to come to grips with how to drive it and how to go as fast as I can. It is very fun to drive and I am really enjoying the Fiesta.”
Travis Patrana was leading by over a minute when rear suspension damage put him out of the race. In an odd twist BMXer Dave Mirra finished fourth.
[Link: Rallybuzz]
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Is it any surprise that these apparently S&M inspired Corbus aluminum art boards were created in Seattle? As the blog Rad Collector so eloquently puts it:
Legitimate longboarders have enough to contend with without having to explain why post-apocalyptic aluminum decks for ravers and S&M autoerotic asphyxiation freaks are now hitting the market.
If these design somehow tingle your taint, then please email robin@corbusboards.info or snail mail: Box 2608 #185 2nd Ave, Seattle//WA 98121
[Link: Besportier via RadCollector]
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Trust us: there is nothing the businesspeople of the Town of Mammoth Lakes, California hate more than discussions of earthquakes and super-volcanos. But that hasn’t stopped Discovery.com from bringing it all up again in a story titled: California Supervolcano Has Split Personality.
They say there is some good news and some bad.
The good news is that the Long Valley caldera, like her big sister Yellowstone in Wyoming, is not getting ready to super-erupt and again cover half of North America in ash. The bad news is that when Long Valley does someday get hot and bothered again, it may prove to be surprisingly bi-polar.
In other words it could blast and ooze, according to Stanford University geologist Gail Mahood. Mahood’s new research on the Mammoth supervolcano has not changed any future activity projections, though. That stat remains at “less than a one percent chance that it’s going to blow in any given year.”
[Link: Discovery.com]
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