[Link: via ESPN/Action]
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Sometimes it’s good to leave the house and travel to Orange County. The Greg Weaver Art Show may be one of those times. August 28, 2009 from 6-10 PM at Hurley Headquarters, 1945 Placentia Ave Costa Mesa,CA.
[Link: Hurley via @surfersjournal]
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On Tuesday morning Snowmass, Colorado skaters found a heavy local dominating the bowls in their skatepark. It was a bear, according to a story on 9news.com. The animal kind.
Authorities say it looks as if the bear had been in the park all night when they found it Tuesday morning. . . The solution to get the bear out was to give it a way to climb out. . . So, authorities with the Snowmass Parks and Rec Department put a long ladder down into the skateboard bowl and the bear eventually climbed up and got out.
[Link: 9news.com via @kytxbs19]
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Shaun White linked up his back-to-back double corks again to win the first LG Snowboard FIS World Cup Halfpipe of the season at Cardrona, New Zealand, according to a story on Funsporting.com.
Shaun put down a straight air, backside 900, frontside 720, cab double cork 1080, to a front 1080 in his first run, and a straight air, backside 500, frontside 720, cab double cork 1080, front double cork 1080 on his second run.
Although there were several riders like Nathan Johnstone (AUS) or US-riders Danny Davis and Scotty Lago who did try the Double Corks, it was White who was the only one sticking them into the snow in the finals, in his second run even as back-to-backs. But no one should think that this would be the end of the story as White adds: “For sure I have something in store. I’m always trying to stay ahead of the rest. I have more tricks which I might reveal at the national qualifiers for the Olympics.”
On the women’s side Neither Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark, nor silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler could stop World Cup Halfpipe Champion Jiayu Liu, 16, of China as she won her sixth FIS World Cup snowboard event with back to back 720s.
For complete results click here: Men’s Halfpipe, Women’s Halfpipe
[Link: Funsporting Photo: FIS – Oliver Kraus]
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This clip has been out for 12 days, but our jaws still drop watching Dan Brisse road gap webisode from Absinthe Films on Vimeo.
[Link: via @rianrhoe]
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Smile On Your Brother is a traveling art show and auction (the first contributor project) “conceived by Mike Giles and Annie Lam and co-curated by Bob Kronbauer of www.clubmumble.com fame.” The show is raising money to provide 100 skateboards to disadvantaged youth across Canada.
The auction, which began yesterday and continues until October 20, 2009, features what organizers are calling “the original shape of skateboards when they first hit the market” featuring art by skateboarding artist and “those affected by the skateboarding industry.”
Participating artists include: Thomas Campbell, Randy Laybourne, Dave Carnie, Don Pendleton, Chris Pastras, Andy Jenkins, Andrew Pommier, Bob Kronbauer and more (click here for the full list).
The art show will hit six shops in Canada (starting at Live Stock Vancouver Aug. 24-26, 2009).
[Link: Contribute via @gwinterbottom]
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When the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Center was announced a while ago we didn’t really put two and two together. We thought it was just another dry slope, only this time stateside in Lynchberg, Virginia. But when a friend mentioned that this new park was at Liberty University, the school founded by the Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell it seemed even stranger.
According to a story on Inside Higher Ed, Jerry Falwell, Jr. built the 11-acre park to attract college students to Liberty U.
Adding a ski slope to Liberty is a move straight out of the Falwell playbook, according to Kevin Roose, a Brown University student who went “undercover” at Liberty to a write an expose on the university. . . .Jerry Falwell belonged to the ‘By any means necessary’ school of evangelism. He gave away cars to the first people who registered; he had a video game contest. I think if he could have gotten away with it, he would have given [new students] pieces of Noah’s Ark.”.
Grand opening festivities for the slope are August 29, 2009. The “mountain” is open from 5 to 10 PM daily and costs $7 a hour, $4 if you’re a student.
[Link: Liberty Mountain via Inside Higher Ed]
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We’ve always liked Oakley A Frame goggles (it is all we ever wear), but now we find out they are even better because they’ve been blessed by the designers at Lifted Research Group, Inc.
This collaboration will introduce two limited edition Oakley A Frame snow goggles set to hit the shops for 2009. Each model is available in one of two exclusive L-R-G designed styles.
So there’s no real performance difference between this and a regular A Frame. Just the colors, strap, and and “the L-R-G logo is laser-engraved on the lower corner of the Black Iridium® lens,” because these days one can never rep too many logos.
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Tony Hawk announced today via Twitter that he will be speaking at The Twitter Conference in LA on September 22, 2009. He will join Loveline’s Dr. Drew, former Star Trekker LeVar Burton, and celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos on a panel titled Twitter and Celebrity: A Match Made in Heaven?
Not sure what I’ll be saying cuz I’ve been wingng it so far… but it’s working.
Match made in heaven? Well, it appears to be working quite will for Tony. Hearing Tony speak will cost $299. That’s how much the conference costs, which reminds us: all the money in social media is in telling other people how to make money in social media. . . funny how that works, isn’t it?
[Link: @Tonyhawk and The Twitter Conference]
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On August 18, 2009 The Town of Mammoth Lakes, California officially shut down bikes at the Volcom Brothers Skatepark. According to the press release:
The decision was made after extensive consultation with the Town’s insurance authority regarding options to consider for potential joint use by skaters and bikers. Throughout the consultation it became apparent there were no valid options to pursue for joint use. Mammoth Lakes Police Department will continue its random patrol of the park to ensure existing rules and ordinances are being followed by the users of the park.
According to the Mammoth Times after a short trial period “it became apparent to the town’s Tourism and Recreation Department that mixed use wasn’t a viable solution in this particular park.”
Can’t even pretend to say we’re bummed, those pegs just rip stuff up.
[Link: Visit Mammoth Lakes via Examiner.com and Mammoth Times]
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