In the VIP room Wes Miller was playing smooth classic hits on his ukelele, Jesse Billhauer was rolling, Jim Kempton was signing copies of his book Surfing: The Manual: Advanced, while Randy Rarick and Spencer Croul were talking story. Everyone else was checking out the old boards and grabbing a bite.
The San Diego law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has “formed an “action sports” practice to provide legal services to surfers, skaters, snowboarders and others who are starting their own companies.
Attorneys in the San Diego firm’s new practice area — many of whom participate in the sports themselves — will work in collaboration with other practice groups, such as business, intellectual property, tax and estate planning, product liability, real estate and labor and employment.
In the new Norwegian horror film Dead Snow (Dod Sno) a group of frozen undead Nazis awaken to feed on the brains of young snowboarders. Not exactly a healthy diet if you ask us.
The film opens on January 1, 2009 and is in Norwegian. We doubt their will be subtitles, but we still can’t wait to see it. Maybe Terje will translate for us.
There’s not a lot of obvious attitude here. . . . She does, however, have a depth, as her lyrics suggest, and she mused recently about her drifting friends and her hope for the future. “I’m kind of ready for the whole marriage and kids thing,” she said. Or at least, “something bigger than what it is now,” she added.
Men’s Fitness recently did a short interview with Shaun White asking probing questions like, “What are the most played songs on your iPod,” and “How do you mentally prepare for contests?” But the funniest part was the photo that ran with the story.
The guy has long red hair, skinny jeans, and Shaun’s Target collection t-shirt, but something just isn’t right. Guess that’s what happens when you let jocks do the photo editing.
Glenn Crisp, a 33-year-old physical therapist from Corpus Christy, Texas kept surfing after getting hit by a stingray. Now he’s got Vibrio vulnificus, the flesh eating virus.
As of Thursday afternoon, doctors had removed decaying flesh from his inner and outer thigh, his inner and outer calf and from the top of his left foot, in their attempt to relieve swelling and to stop the spread of the infection.
In 2007 26 people got the virus and seven of them died. Crisp, who is on anti-biotics is still in the hospital and doctors don’t know how long he will remain there.
Everyone knows he grew up in Hawaii, but now there is video proof from the Associate Press that Barack Obama has some solid water skills. Now, if we could just get some spearfishing footie we’d know for sure.
Oren Tanzer, the guy responsible for one of the best snowboard programs in the world just got a promotion. Now Mr. Tanzer is the Director, Youth Action Sports Marketing for Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.
Oren’s leadership in the youth action sports area of Mammoth’s business has allowed us to be a leader in this very important market segment,” said Howard Pickett, Chief Marketing Officer at Mammoth Mountain. “By aligning Oren and his team’s efforts closely with marketing and sales for the rest of the mountain, we intend to take both the terrain park business and the entire resort to the next level of success in the destination travel industry.”
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We’ve tried to think of all kinds of ways to monetize surf web cams, but there is nothing better than someone just handing over $1 million. Even if they are Australian dollars.
According to as story on Goldcoast.com.au, the Queensland Government’s Smart State Innovation Projects Fund has handed the money to Coastal Watch’s Chris Lane (pictured right) to help “keep beaches safe.”
Most of that will go to fund the technology which will allow Coastal Watch cameras to count the number of beach users at a particular break, measure wave height, and the shoreline position hourly. . . .It will also provide real-time pictures of beaches which allow lifesavers to monitor areas from their clubhouse. . . “It’s good to be able to help out surfers to find the best surf or boaties where the chop is,” said Mr Lane, “but it’s great to be able to help keep people safe when they go to the beach
Right. And it’s great to have another $1 million, right? Surfline. . . . you listening?
