Snowboarder Saved From Tree Well Death

by The Editors on February 26, 2009

News Treewellcrop 2-26 T640Steamboat Ski Resort ski patroller Paula Lepporoli jumped right into action when she saw a snowboard sticking out of some branches while she skied through the trees on the resort’s Typhoon run, and a 40-year-old snowboarder from Denver has her to thank for saving his life, according to a story in the Steamboat Pilot.

Lepporoli’s training kicked in as she popped off her skis and rushed to help. She dug out the rider’s head, stuck 3 1/2 feet under the snow in a tree well. . . . “He wasn’t breathing when I got there, and I cleared his airways, and he started breathing,” the 20-year Ski Patrol veteran said. “It took us 10 minutes to get him out of there.”. . . The 40-year-old Denver man survived and wasn’t hospitalized, Lepporoli said.

A few minutes later and the man’s wife and three-year-old son would have lost a husband and father. Reminds us to stick together in the trees. This can happen to anyone.

[Link: Steamboat Pilot]

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The Surf Scammer Strikes Again. . .

by The Editors on February 26, 2009

In November 2008 a phone caller posing as pro surfer Nathan Fletcher tried to scam some money out of pro surfer Derek Dunfee. Luckily, that didn’t work. Now looks like a month later the same guy got nearly $800 out of the San Mateo County Historical Museum using big wave surfer Grant Washburn’s name, according to a story in the San Mateo Daily Journal.

On Dec. 12, a day before Washburn was scheduled to attend events at the museum [to speak about Maverick’s], a man identifying himself as the surfer called the museum claiming to be stuck in Los Angeles without money. He told a museum employee that his wallet was stolen and he needed nearly $500 to purchase a ticket to the Bay Area and another $200 to purchase food and other small items, according to a search warrant filed by the Redwood City Police Department.

Money was wired to the man, however, when he called back for more workers became suspicious and called Washburn only to find that he was in San Francisco and had not made any calls.

[Link: San Mateo Daily Journal]

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Kelly Riding Slatercrafts At Snapper

by The Editors on February 26, 2009

250 Slater Narrowweb 300X353,0We’ve heard rumors that Kelly Slater has been spending a lot of time at Channel Islands’ headquarters lately and we’re beginning to understand why: he was shaping a new quiver for his campaign for number 10, according to a story in the Brisbane Times.

“I’m in experimental mode right now. I bought a bunch of boards that I’ve actually shaped. Little boards. I’ve been riding some four-fins. I think I’ve found something for me that feels really good, really fast and responsive with a lot of drive,” Slater said. . . .”Hopefully I can feel confident enough on those boards to ride them. If not, I can use the equipment I’ve been on for my whole career.”

The Quiksilver Pro starts at Snapper Rocks on Saturday (which is tomorrow in Australia) so we’ll all know soon enough if these new boards work, or if they’re just more mojo from the master of mystery.

[Link: Brisbane Times]

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Women’s Wear Daily Gets In Trouble

by The Editors on February 26, 2009

Big-TroubleTrevor Andrew has apparently caught the eye of Women’s Wear Daily and they decide to go shopping with him:

Inappropriately dressed for the bitter cold in a denim jacket, hoodie and skinny black jeans — accessorized with gold chains, a Gucci belt and oversize pink Oakley sunglasses — Andrew has a scrappy hipster-meets-B-boy look that doesn’t mesh with his “Trouble Andrew” moniker. Nevertheless, he insists, “I’m trouble — in a good way.” . . . A two-time Olympic snowboarder, Andrew is shopping for a few pieces to add to his wardrobe, which, he says, has been stretched thin by the spate of press obligations surrounding the release of his self-titled debut album earlier this month.

Guess this is the kind of coverage that starts happening when you win MTVU’s Freshman contest.

[Link: Women’s Wear Daily]

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Mavericks Not Getting Mavericky Enough

by The Editors on February 26, 2009

Surf.0226While it looked like a contest was getting pretty close in January, since then there have be no real sizable swells to speak of and it’s looking more and more like the contest will not go off this year, according to a story in the San Francisco Examiner.

Surf forecasters said Wednesday that calm ocean conditions expected in March may lead to the cancellation of the annual surf competition for the second time in three years. Unless an ocean condition called La Niña weakens or the wind patterns on the equator shift dramatically (both of which are unlikely), Mother Nature will not produce the 30-foot-tall waves needed to hold the world-famous contest.

The waiting period ends March 31. Bummer. With The Eddie waiting period ending on Saturday, it looks like no big wave contests this year.

[Link: SF Examiner]

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Jeremy Fish Ambushes Fecal Face

by The Editors on February 26, 2009

Photo-1In preparation for his Fecal Face Dot Gallery opening tonight, February 26, 2009, skate artist and former Think Skateboards art director Jeremy Fish has painted a 30-foot-long mural with three dimensional characters in it according to a story in the Xpress.

The mural-in-progress, which covers two of the Fecal Face Dot Gallery’s four walls at Gough and Market streets, depicts a wooded scene of half-finished cartoon animals and trees. Fish carefully draws the perky lips belonging to one of the trees that overlooks what seems to be a future battle scene. . . . The artist has been crafting the mural for 25 hours, but states he only has a few hours left of touching up the details. World-famous skateboard filmer and photographer Dan Wolfe is in the room shooting time-lapse photographs of the process while old-school East Coast hip hop bumps from small speakers in the corner.

The Ambush opening party is tonight at 6 p.m. at Fecal Face Dot Gallery – 66 Gough St. (@ Market St.), San Francisco, with an after party at The Uptown, 200 Capp St (10-2am).

[Link: Xpress and Fecal Face Gallery]

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Where Have All The Surf Shoppers Gone?

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

45269170The LA Times looks for answers to the question: what happened to the surf fashion industry? Writer Andrea Chang catalogs all the year end reports we’ve linked to lately and talked to Quiksilver’s Bob McKnight, Huntington Surf & Sport’s Aaron Pai, ASR’s Andy Tompkins, Tanya Turner at Jacks in Dana Point, Sport Chalet’s CEO Craig Levra, and longtime surfer Mike Dumitras, 30, who paid a friend $20 for an old Hurley wetsuit and patched it with duct tape rather than buying a new one.

Bob McKnight, speaking from beneath Quik’s billion dollar mountain of debt, says they are prepared: “We’ve been through a couple downturns like this, so we know what to expect,” McKnight said. “But this one is certainly worse than anything we’ve seen.”

So what is the answer? Where have all the consumers gone? Turns out the economy is bad and people like Mike Dumitras just aren’t buying as much stuff as they were a year ago. Dammit, Mike. Would you buy a new wetsuit already. We’ve got an entire industry waiting.

[Link: LA Times]

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Another Skater Gets Run Over Towing

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

Sadly, another skateboarder (who was hanging on to the side of his friends car and then leg go) was run over and hospitalized this week. This time it was in Denver.

Authorities believe the victim was holding the driver’s side door of a Ford Mustang while his 16-year-old companion was driving the car westbound on 85th Avenue. . . . Police are investigating how fast the Mustang was going and why the teen let go of the door just before he was struck by the car.

Apparently, the Denver Police don’t know that this scene plays out over and over and over again.

[Update Feb. 26, 2009: 9news.com is reporting that 15-year-old Austin Ayers has now died from his injuries. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.]

[Link: Denver Post]

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Iconoclast LA Pop-Up Until April 11

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

Iconoclast La Store

Get them while you can. The new Iconoclast Pop-Up will be popped up at 451 N. Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA until April 11, 2009 so for the next 35 days it will be the spot to get limited edition art, prints, books, and other stuff from some of our favorite artists:

The Iconoclast Editions pop-up shop features work by David Ellis, Jimmy Baker, Harmony Korine, Neil Farber, Jacob Dyrenforth, Ohad Meromi, Charley Harper, Lisi Raskin, Ryan McGinness, Larry Clark, KAWS, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Chris Johanson, Raymond Pettibon, Shepard Fairey, Todd Cole, Mark Gonzales, Evan Hecox, Jo Jackson, Todd James, Takashi Homma, Os Gemeos, James Jarvis, Andy Jenkins, Spike Jonze, Ari Marcopoulos, Geoff McFetridge, Steve Powers, Mike Mills, Thomas Campbell, Terry Richardson, Mark Borthwick, Craig Stecyk, Ed Templeton, Henry Chalfant, Tobin Yelland, Clare Rojas, Antonio Adams, Cynthia Connolly, PAM, Andrew Pommier, KR, Cheryl Dunn and many more.

We were going to say something about Mike Mills and celebrity salad bar designers, but we’ll save that for another time..

[Link: Iconoclast LA]

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Jamie O’Brien Riding The Sponge

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

No offense, but after watching this we can say for sure that we prefer watching Jamie O’Brien standing up on a surfboard.

[Link: Etnies]

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