Surf legend Shaun Tomson and actress Tanna Frederick (interviewed here by Scott Bass) have launched a new fund raising organization “that campaigns globally to protect and restore the world’s oceans.” It’s called Project SOS, not to be confused with Project SOS (Strengthening Our Students) or Project SOS (Support our soldiers) or Project SOS (Support Open Source) or SOS (snowboard outreach society)
Project SOS is collaborating with a number of generous local and national sponsors including ZJ Boardinghouse, Quiksilver, Rocker Board Shop, Kreation Café, Charlie Palmer Restaurants and Natural Surf Technique. . . Surf participants will raise money by asking people to sponsor their commitment to surf non-stop during a five-hour shift. . . The event will be followed by a Gala with a live band, auction, cocktails, tapas, buffet dinner, a performance by Tom Curren and a celebrity “blue” carpet befitting Oceana. . . Celebrities Surfing the event include Michelle Rodriguez (”Lost”), David Chokachi (“Baywatch”) and World Champion of International Professional Surfing Peter “P.T.” Townend under Project SOS Surf Captain Frank Caronna.
The surf event is Sunday April 5, 2009 from 10 AM to 3 PM with a celebrity Gala event is Sunday night from 6 PM to 10 PM at Shuters on the Beach Ballroom in Santa Monica, California. Sounds like a great party for a good cause.
The Eagles placed first in all four men’s events, with four different athletes winning. . . . “It was great for the guys to have every event won by a different athlete,” coach Jeff Corrado said.
This is like a trifecta of stuff we’ve never heard of before. . . and that’s a rare occurrence. Not that we care about any of this, it’s just more proof that there is some kind of parallel universe out there.
Looks like Greg Weaver and the guys have decided that they no longer want to share their Sonora Pass antics with the world so they put a password on the clip. Can’t say we blame them, really.
Collin Murray, Mike McGraw, Brian Callan, and Scott Petrichko are Bean Snowboards: Boston’s snowboard micro-brewery. And, according to a story in the Boston Herald, they are “proudly spreading the word that their boards are ‘Made in Boston.'”
By hosting numerous demo days and rail jams at Blue Hills, which is only a few miles from downtown Boston, Bean is trying to build a local riding community that takes pride in a homegrown board, commented Callan. . . . It’s a business model that has worked well for some small West Coast board companies, but might be tough to duplicate in New England, where brands like Burton, Ride and Rome dominate. “The East Coast is more of a commoditized market,” Murray said.
Last week the Volusia Couinty Council approved a surf contest for April at New Smyrna Beach, Florida’s shark infested waters. The sponsor? Jacksonville, Florida’s Landshark Lager.
We’re not sure if this is funny, or dumb. According to the Orlando Sentinel April is peak shark bit month with “26 bites during the past decade that month.” Nice marketing hook.
Apocalyspe Now screenwriter and Big Wednesday screenwriter and director John Milius narrates Scott Bass and Ty Ponder’s Vietnam/surf doco Between The Lines (which comes out on DVD on April 15, 2009) CNN spoke to Milius about movies, writing great lines, and most importantly surfing.
“One of the most poignant things of the film is how many California surfers went to Vietnam, and how many didn’t come back,” said Milius, 64, who learned to surf while growing up in Southern California. . . “One of the reasons I put surfing in ‘Apocalypse Now’ was because I always thought Vietnam was a California war.”
A group of surfers, backed by the Surfrider Foundation, has stopped plans by the Town of Palm Beach, Florida that would have dredged sand for “beach nourishment” and potentially ruined the surf break at Reach 8, according to a story in the New York Times.
Like other critics of beach nourishment, the surfers and their allies argued that unless replacement sand is well matched to the beach, which is hard to do, the sand causes problems, interfering with nesting sea turtles and small animals like sand fleas that form the bottom of beach and marine food webs.
Can you imagine Palm Beach with sand that doesn’t match? Us neither. Congrats on the win.
The photography of J. Grant Brittain, Joe Brook, Jon Humphries, Bryce Hanights, and Ryan Flynn opening night Friday, March 13 at Artery in Portland. With sponsors like Nike SB and Red Bull the hors d’œuvre have got to be good.
We were rolling through our online search this afternoon when we ran across a headline that looked awfully familiar on Boardsport Source, a European action sports business site. The headline said, More Fake Vans Seized. It was familiar because it was a story we ran a couple days ago titled More Fake Vans Seized In Manila.
Someone at Boardsport Source lifted the headline and the entire story from our site and posted it on theirs without even a link, a mention, or an attribution to our site or the website that originally posted the news story. Guess Boardsport Source doesn’t really understand the world of blogging. Hopefully, this will help them out: In blogging it it totally cool to quote a story, and attribute that content with links back to the original poster, but nothing is shadier that ripping off content with no links back.
