Yobeat has stared doing their own version of Skateline called, Hateline. They’re blatant about the rip too – first video blurb says “Skateline is one of my favorite things on the internet and I was inspired to, well…Copy the shit out of it.” It is presented by Justin Leville, who …
Quiksilver’s Take It Easy Snowboard Movie
Quiksilver has released a snowboard film called Take It Easy. The film was shot in Whistler and Helsinki. It features Danimals, Johnny Brady, Ian Hart, Teo Konttinen and Zebbe Landmark along with Travis Rice, Bryan Fox and more. There looks to be a lot of familiar shots in here – …
Quiksilver’s Lessons From Billabong
“Yay for shares!” There’s a poorly written article that consistently gets names wrong (excuse me Mr. Pot, what did you say?) all about the lessons Quiksilver can take from the troubled times at Billabong. The shares are trading at US$8.28 on the NYSE today, the articles author believes that based …
Nitro’s Down To Earth – Full Movie
Nitro have released their full Down To Earth movie online. The film features Benny Urban, Dominik Wagner, Basti Rittig, and Marc Swoboda on a year of snowboarding. These guys are regulars in the epic Isenseven productions. You can check all 20 minutes out above.
The Final Burton [SNOWBOARDING] – Resorts
The final piece of the Burton [SNOWBOARDING] series is now out and it’s pretty epic. This one is set in the resorts across Squaw Valley, Seven Springs, Breckenridge, Blackcomb and more. It features Mark McMorris, Danny Davis, Peetu Piiroinen, Jack Mitrani, Christian Haller, Werni Stock, Roope Tonteri, Marko Grilc, Ben Ferguson, …
Quiksilver Sells Maker Of LibTech And GNU
Mervin Manufacturing, the company behind LibTech and GNU, has been sold by Quiksilver. The company was initially acquired in the late 90’s by Quik and more recently have kicked massive goals and seen huge growth through some of their snowboard tech. The purchase was made by Extreme Holding… No, really. …
Flux Bindings Breaking Bear Episode 3
This is probably my favorite of these to date – here’s episode three of Flux’s Breaking Bear series. Featuring Ryan Tarbell, Jake Schaible, Blake Axelson, and Scotty Vine shredding the park at Bear and coming up with some creative/funny moves. I still can’t decide if I like or hate the …
Rip Curl Bucks The Trend And Makes A Profit
Photo: Nat Young by ASP/Kirstin Rip Curl has surprised pretty much everyone by turning a profit. They have powered through a restructure and ridden a resurgent retail sector, which seems to be eluding most other brands, going from a little over $4 million loss in 2012 to a $14 million …
The Ethiopia Skate Project
I came across this awesome clip for Ethiopia Skate – a project to get skateboards and a skate park going in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Run by Abenezer Temesgen, they currently have seven boards to share between 25 kids. From the footage below, you can see the crew are doing amazingly …
Dennis Durrant On Adidas International
Australian Dennis Durrant has been signed to the Adidas International team. The press release has a bunch of quotes in it but outside of them, I’m hearing a few big names in and out of skateboarding are pretty hyped on this guy and with a welcome clip like the one …
Shaun White Was At Perisher … We Know This Already
In a press release sent out on October 21st, the news was ‘broken’ that Shaun White was apparently training at a “secret facility” near Perisher. There was some publicity footage (below) and photos which indicate that GoPro might have been the company paying for the private pipe (note that I …
Tumor Humor For Rome Torti On Sat 2nd Of November
Tumor Humor, an event to raise money to help the skate photog and good dude, Rome Torti, is happening on Sat 2nd Of November at Shark Bar in Miami on the Gold Coast. Torti has been fighting cancer for five years and has emerged winner at each round. Get along …
Flux Bindings Breaking Bear Episode 2
Here’s the second installment of Breaking Bear from Flux Bindings. This episode features Tyler Lynch, Ian Sams, and Erik Leon doing a few laps in the park. There’s some super impressive tricks in here – definitely worth checking out.
Episode 1 Of The Pretty Sweet Tour
Here’s the first clip t come out from the Girl/Chocolate Pretty Sweet Tour earlier this year. Sean Malto, Rick McCrank, Marc Jonhson, Eric Koston, Cory Kennedy, Guy Mariano, Brandon Biebel, Chico Brenes, Mike Carroll and Mike Mo Capaldi and the rest of the team hit LA, Vegas, and Denver. These …
Get Outta Town Episode – Ender Bender
Here’s episode four of Get Outta Town featuring Devun Walsh, Ryan Tiene, Benji Ritchie, Dustin Craven, Iikka Backstrom and more. This installment is called Ender Bender and sees the guys in the Whistler backcountry. There’s quite a few epic shots in this one.
Four Months To Sochi And BuzzFeed Thinks There Might Be Issues
The Winter Olympics are fast approaching and BuzzFeed sent some people up there to check out progress which apparently isn’t quite on schedule. Construction has been slow and the man power brought up to speed things along are being worked to the bone and occasionally arrested in some kind of …
Eric Jackson’s Welcome To Adidas Clip
Adidas have welcomed Eric Jackson onto the team. He joins Jake Blauvelt, Keegan Valaika, Turbo, Forest Bailey and Helen Schettini. He’s been welcomed in style too with this 16 minute clip covering his snowboarding career, injuries and sponsorship troubles back to his winning the Video Part Of The Year for …
ASP Inks ESPN, Facebook and YouTube Deal
The ASP has announced a deal with ESPN, Facebook and YouTube for broadcasting the tour in 2014. It’s a change from the model previously used where event sponsors were responsible for the broadcasting. It’s also not the first time ESPN has locked in for tour coverage – when Kelly Slater …
DC’s New Travis Rice Boot
DC has released a clip for the Travis Rice signature model boot being released. The clip is kind of a ‘day in the life’ type thing… And what an epic day. Check it out above.
Yoshi Tanenbaum’s Stereophonic Sound Is Pretty Awesome
Stereo has announced their newest AM as Yoshi Tanenbaum and release volume 9 of their Stereophonic Sound featuring him. Woah. This is actually pretty awesome from first trick to last. You should drop what you’re doing and take a look – this guy is good. Via Skatedaily.
Police Arrest Skaters At Broadway Bomb
The Broadway Bomb in NYC is an annual event where skaters race down the eight miles from 116th Street. This year, the event was halted when police setup barricades and started arresting skaters. The race was considered illegal because it was a large gathering without a permit… Which seems absolutely …
Coastal Capital Looking To Sack Billabong Board
If you thought things were going to settle now that there looked like there was (another) approved deal for Billabong, you were wrong. The fun continues with Coastal Capital continuing to buy shares gaining 7.6% ownership of the company. Apparently the purchases are to get them into a position where …
Fyve End Of Season Recap
Fyve have released an end of season clip recapping their activities. It was shot in Cardrona, Perisher and Falls. The clip features Lou Macias, Ryan Manning, Charles Morris, Harley Trivic, Colin Clarke, Greg Murray, Marc Triffitt and Ryan Linnert. It was edited by Jason C Manning. Check it out above.
Videograss’ Roll Call Teaser
Videograss have released a teaser for thies latest epic, Roll Call. Featuring Dylan Dragotta, Johnny O’Connor, Mark Wilson, Cody Beiersdorf, Spencer Schubert, Sam Taxwood, Ian Boll, Brandon Hobush, Derrek Lever, Blake Paul, Austin Young, Toni Kerkelä, Mike Ravelson, Dylan Alito and more, the clip makes it look pretty damn good. …
Oi Mate Season 2 Episode 4
I don’t know what it is about Friday at the moment but it seems to be the day when I receive epic clips from people. This is, unfortunately, the last episode of Oi Mate for the season. Shot during spring and featuring Stale Sandbech, Kevin Backstrom, Tor Lundstrom, Chas Guldemond, …
Dylan Rieder’s Moments from Team Average
Here’s a quick clip form Riley Blakeway featuring a few moments from Dylan Rieder’s appearance in the Monster Children film, Team Average. Nicely shot on the RED Scarlet there’s some good moments in the minute and a half. Enjoy.
Danny Davis Goes Head To Toe Burton
Photo: Blotto After nearly a decade with the brand, Danny Davis has signed a head to toe deal with Burton. Originally signed in 2004, Davis has killed it in comps and on film. He said of the deal “I have ridden for Burton my whole career, and there is no …
Switzerland Ruining Kim Jong Un’s Own Mountain Lab
Photo: Kim Kwang Hyon/AP – via Washington Post Leader of North Korea and friend to Dennis Rodman, Kim Jong Un, is super pissed off cause Switzerland are seriously screwing with his plans for a ski resort. Due to international sanctions on luxury goods, the Swiss are refusing to sell the …
Signal’s ETT Goes To Oktoberfest
Signal have taken their Every Third Thursday series to Germany for some fun at Oktoberfest. The board construction challenge was to get together a beer bong board, which was a success and a real hit in the beer halls… Seems to ride pretty well too. This looks like it was …
It’s The Ladies Turn For Burtons [SNOWBOARDING]
Here’s the teaser for the womens [SNOWBOARDING] part from Burton. The full part features Kimmy Fasani, Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter, Arielle Gold, Enni Rukajärvi, and Cilka Sadar. It will be available this Friday (October 11th, 2013).
Get Outta Town Episode 3
Get Outta Town episode three is all amazing backcountry. The guys hit a few jumps and take a few drops in some incredible spots. Check it out above!
US Olympic Team Training Profile
The contenders for the U.S. Olympic team are in NZ (except Shaun White) and are training hard. The New York Times has got a profile on the routine and the training area including a bit about Cardrona and Benny’s Cafe. There’s a video at the top of the article which …
Shaun White’s Got A Private Pipe At Perisher?
Photo: From MissSnowItAll via Boardworld There’s a rumour that Shaun White has got himself a private pipe to train it at Perisher at the moment. And there’s been plenty of sightings of White around the place to back it up. If what’s on the internet is true (and when isn’t …
Flux Bindings Breaking Bear Episode 1
Flux Bindings have started a web series called Breaking Bear. Episode one features Shaun Murphy, Robert Toste, Keoni Kaimuloa, and Alex Hereford in the park at Bear. The snowboarding is awesome, the references to the hit show are funny and it’s well put together. Enjoy!