Once we actually got out of our hotel and inside the Denver Convention Center it was all good. The isles were full of smiling faces, booths full of people checking out product, and it didn’t really matter where we all were, because we were together.
Click the links for some photos: People : Booths : Product : Parties
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[Link: Volcom Pipeline Pro]
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Yesterday, when ESPN/Action’s Micah Abrams reported that Torah Bright, 23, had suffered her second concussion in three days and was withdrawing from Winter X Games 14 we worried that the 2010 Olympic halfpipe hustle had claimed another rider, but according to a report in The Australian Torah is okay.
She was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital for precautionary scans which cleared her of any serious injury, but she has withdrawn from the X Games, which was to have been her last competition before the Olympics. . . Bright played down the mishap as “a bit of a fall” and said it would not affect her preparation for the Winter Olympics. . . “I have really been pushing the limits of my riding and that’s all part of it,” she said. . . “It’s not the first or the last time I will have a fall. I am fine. I feel good and I just decided to sit out X Games in the best interest of focusing on the main event in Vancouver.”
That girl is tough. Hope she can keep in mellow until the games, but we’re not sure she knows how. . .
[Link: The Australian and ESPN/Action]
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Our first night in Denver we heard reports that our hotel had been the site of a near shootout with cops the previous night. Then, when we tried to drop by the 686 party at the Tarantula Billards & Bar it had already had shut down by a reportedly drugged up civilian who tried to run out on his bar tab. Six Denver cops later and the guy was handcuffed and in the back of the car. One visitor from the Northwest said it was the gnarliest thing he had ever seen. “The cops did everything they could to get the guy to cooperate, but he just kept going at them.”
All this and we haven’t been inside the Denver Convention Center. But we’re going in today and we’ll keep you posted. Follow us on Twitter if you want the latest updates.
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And in the biggest news in skateboarding today, Madonna’s “22-year-old lover” Jesus Luz was reportedly seen rolling around Rio De Janeiro’s Ipanema Beach on an motorized skateboard, according to the Daily Mail.
But while big kid Luz was looking more youthful than ever in his graphic shorts and muscle-baring black vest, Madonna was looking a little puffy-faced back in London.
The British press apparently has no sympathy for 51-year-old cougars.
[Link: Daily Mail]
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Victor Garbev, a 28-year-old snowboarder from Sofia was killed in an avalanche a little after noon January 28, 2010 near the Bulgarian resort of Bansko, according to a story in the Sofia Echo.
MRS was alarmed about the avalanche which fell right under Todorka peak near Banderishka Polyana slope at 12.15pm.. . . After 45 minutes of digging into the fallen snow, rescuers found the body of the young man.. . Rescuers are still searching the area for any other casualties. . . Bansko mayor Alexander Kravarov told Darik that the snowboarder was a Bulgarian, a Bansko resident and also a ski instructor. The man had skied in an area that was outside the marked ski run and where skiing was forbidden, Kravarov said.
It apparently took rescuers more than 24 hours to find him.
[Link: Sofia Echo]
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In a filing today with the SEC among the list of purposes for Quiksilver’s next shareholders meeting (March 26, 2010) was item number three (directly following a proposal to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock by 100 million):
3. To consider and vote upon a proposal to approve the grant of 3,000,000 shares of our restricted common stock to Kelly Slater as part of his sponsorship agreement;
Getting Kelly Slater to buy-in on the future of the company is a pretty good idea, actually. Few things are more motivating than the idea that you could make $20 million (or more) in the next couple years if Quik’s stock ever climbs up out of the dumps. Nice thinking.
[Link: SEC]
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Eddie Wall has signed with Bond Outerwear and Weekend Snowboards according to an announcement that went out last night just in time for day one of SIA Show in Denver.
“Our whole philosophy with our brands is to work with people, whether they are reps, riders, or our accounts, that get what we are doing and have the same passion for it that we do,” stated Dan McNamara, co-Founder of Bond Outerwear. “Eddie is a great fit for us because he is one of us, and having him as part of the family means the world to Christian and I.”
Eddie joins Heikki Sorsa and TJ Schneider on Bond and Mark Carter and Heikki on Weekend Snowboards. Sounds like the Laguna Beach, California scene is back on the up.
Follow the jump for all the details.
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For the past 20 years brothers Tim and Tracey Canaday have been making snowboards in Denver, Colorado. When Snowsports Industries of America decided that 37 years in Las Vegas was enough Canaday and the rest of the Never Summer Industries crew thought the show was finally going down in the right town, according to a Colin Bane story in Denver’s WestWord.
“I think a lot of people in the industry see leaving Las Vegas and coming to Denver as a sign that the party’s over, and maybe that’s a good thing,” Tracey Canaday says. “Vegas is a great place to have a show, for obvious reasons, but I would love for it to work and be successful here in Colorado. It makes sense on a lot of different levels to have the SIA show here. It’s a lot cheaper for our company, for one thing! But it’s also the perfect place for the snow sports industry to get down to business.”
For the rest of the Never Summer and Denver SIA story, click the link.
[Link: Westword]
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A 41-year-old skateboarder in New Zealand is dead after losing control on his “American style motorised skateboard”
Havelock Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Alan Stanford said the man had been skating down a hill on Mahakipawa ”He got into some dirt and flipped the skateboard. This flipped him on to the concrete and he hit the back of his head,” said Mr Stanford. . . ”It was pretty unreal really.”
Emergency crews tried to revive him but he was declared dead on the scene.
[Link: Stuff.co.nz]
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