Greg Martin and the UK-based crew at Friday are proof that doing good work and sticking to the game makes great business sense. And it looks like there are a few others who understand, according to a post on BoardSportsSource.
Friday Management Group (FMG), has announced the signings of snowboard legend Terje Haakonsen (NOR), US star Jake Blauvelt and US up-and-comer Matt Ladley to its roster.
It’s easy to think about what we’d do if we had loads of revenue coming in, but now thanks to the The Tony Hawk Foundationwe all can give twice as much as we we thought we could.
In addition to giving away $130,000 to help 14 low-income communities across the U.S. build skateboard parks the Foundation has committed to a “dollar-for-dollar” match on any funds raised via skatewatts.org through January 15, 2010.
Having helped launch it in October, the Tony Hawk Foundation is also featuring the Watts Skatepark project during the Athletes For Hope Who Gives? Racing For A Cause challenge, a widely publicized fundraising event hosted by globalgiving.org/athletes-for-hope/. . . . With few alternatives to crime, gangs, and drugs, youth in the Watts community struggle daily to find healthy pastimes that can keep them engaged and active. Through this effort to build a free-quality public skatepark in Watts, the Tony Hawk Foundation is helping local youth realize their dream of a world-class skatepark. . . Make a contribution during this limited campaign, and the impact of your donation will be DOUBLED.
Now is our chance to make Tony pay. Donate $10 and Tony will make it $20.
Anyone who really cared about this made-for-TV sporting event from Breckenridge probably watched it on NBC over the weekend.
We were super stoked for Danny Davis, Ipod, JJ Thomas, Kiersti Buass, Jamie Anderson, and especially 16-year-old Tyler Flanagan for ripping things up.
For history sake we’ve listed the results for the halfpipe and slopestyle results from December 19-20, 2009 after the jump, or you can check Nick Lipton’s approved, official, event-sponsor-cleared PR coverage by clicking here. [click to continue…]
Fiscal 2009 wasn’t exactly a good one for Quiksilver. The company lost $73 million, but that hasn’t stopped the top executives at the company from getting raises for 2010, according to a story on the OC Retail Blog. Looks like Bob McKnight is a million dollar base salary man again.
Here’s how it looks for next year vs this year (according to an 8-K filing:
Robert B. McKnight, Jr., 2010 $ 1,000,000
Chief Executive Officer and President 2009 $ 903,000
Raymond Dulieu, the founder of Freecaster.tv, the European online action sports event streamer, has reportedly partnered up his web business with the Extreme Sports Channel, according to a story on Broadband TV News.
As part of the agreement between the two parties, Extreme will see its popular website www.extreme.com rebranded “Extreme.com powered by Freecaster.tv”. . . Online content will be managed by Freecaster.tv and expanded to include live streaming of action sports events.
Sounds like an extreme deal made in extreme heaven.
We know full well that former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin no longer has anything to do with the company, but the stories of his bankruptcy just keep coming and they’re getting better and better. Most recently we read this in the The Australian:
IT was the $66 million share sale that eroded Matthew Perrin’s position as chief executive officer of surfgear company Billabong. . . But yesterday the now-bankrupt entrepreneur could not tell a court what his wife Nicole, whom he suggested had received almost $32 million in proceeds from the sale, had done with the cash. . . “It’s her money, she’s entitled to do what she wants with it,” he said.
Maybe she left it in her other purse. . . wonder if Matt looked there?
Kurt Welden, 31, of Austria got in way over his head on the Moelltal Glacier in Carinthia, Austria last week and had to be rescued, according to a story in the Mirror.
A reckless snowboarder clings to the mountainside inches from certain death on the edge of a cliff. . . He had left the safety of the piste . . . in search of fresh powder. . . After stopping he managed to dig away enough snow so his board wouldn’t slip while he waited for help.
Guess the moral of the story is don’t ever ride with Kurt Welden.
We kind of always wondered how Corey Duffel got that rich, luscious, punk rawk hair that looks all raggedy, and yet styled at the same time. Now we know. It’s Paul Mitchell.
Inspiration hit Rick Alden on a chairlift, during a snowboarding trip in 2001. The iPod had just been introduced, but none of the headphones were designed to appeal to the iPod-toting action-sports crowd. It was time to change the game. . . Alden, now 45, is riding high. 2008 revenue topped $86 million, and 2009 was expected to reach $120 million.
It seems like months ago, but we think we voted for Rick. You’re welcome.
The Broadcast skateboarding brand looks pretty legit, huh?
With the help of pro skateboarders Ethan Fowler, Paul Shier, Shiloh Greathouse, Gareth Stehr, Danny Falla, Aaron Harrison, Joel Meinholz, Eric Gilbert, Kevin Coakley, and Connor Getzlaff, Broadcast Wheel Company has developed a premium street and park urethane formula that is the direct result of feedback and testing from droves of skaters who were disappointed with the mediocre wheels that were currently available from other brands.
Greg Martin and the UK-based crew at Friday are proof that doing good work and sticking to the game makes great business sense. And it looks like there are a few others who understand, according to a post on BoardSportsSource.
