We’re close the the new season and with the cold weather over the last few days there’s been some promising photos floating around from a few of the mountains. We covered Perisher’s plan to open early back here so I thought I’d update with how the Victorian mountains are looking too… I’m not sure it’s looking good enough …
Perisher To Open The 2012 Season Early
Perisher is kicking of the 2012 season a week early due to good snow fall. Starting from June 2nd (that’s this Saturday) the lifts will be running. Check a few photos sent through yesterday and head over here for more information.
Slush And Sun At Whistler
Here’s the latest episode from the When in Whistler guys, which is being supported by our friends at 3CS. It features David Kinskofer, Daniel Currie, Myles Delange, Tom Clairs, Brian Goodwin, Eric Turgeon, Gordon Beaulieu and Ryan Manning hitting the ‘Blue’ Park and the ‘Black Park’ on …
Zoo York Dismantling The Team
It’s a bad news week for skating. In addition to the news of the loss of DVS and Matix, it looks like Zoo York is not going to resign any rider as they come out of contract. Chris Nieratko has done an interview with Zered Bassett over at ESPN. Bassett has been with the brand for a decade and has just found out that he won’t be doing another board for them. In the interview, they talk …
DVS And Matix Declare Bankruptcy
DVS shoes and Matix clothing have declared bankruptcy in the US and are likely to be sold to a new owner within 45 days time. The reasons given were around an “expensive restructuring in Europe, increased materials and factory costs in China, problems with their senior lender, and the overall tough economy.” Never good to see good brands in trouble however, to all other TM’s out there, this may mean that the likes of Mikey …
Amazing Sebo Walker Lakai Commercial
There’s not a lot I can say about this … An epic commercial for Lakai featuring Sebo Walker. Enjoy!
Analog’s Design Unlikely Features Comp Has 1 Week To Go!
There’s only one week left in Analog’s ‘Design Unlikely Features’ competition which has been running for a few weeks now. There’s over 70 entries in so far and some of them look amazing. To see them and enter yourself, hit the site here.
Kate Upton’s First Skullcandy Ads
Join me in pretending that this has something to do with surf, skate and snow because… well, it involves Sports Illustrated cover girl, Zoo York spokes person and Terry Richardson’s personal dancer, Kate Upton. These are the first ads from Skullcandy featuring the …
2012 ESS Billy Rail Jam Clip
The 2012 ESS Billy Rail Jam happened the other night and Owen Milne has put together the above clip covering the day. Looks like Jye Kearney took the win – more results to come soon.
2012 Diaries Downunder Teaser
Couple of exciting emails this morning for New Zealanders… I had an email from some friends in Queenstown saying that there’s some snow on the hills and that they’re looking at a good start to the season over there, as well as a teaser for the 2012 Diaries Downunder series …
Alana Blanchard and Monyca Byrne-Wickey For GoPro
Alana Blanchard and Monyca Byrne-Wickey star in this new commercial for the GoPro HD HERO2… It features the girls hanging out in some pretty epic places, mostly in bikinis, which makes it a commercial that is definitely worth watching! Check it out!
Shaun Belmore Joins Nitro
Belmore has got on board with the good guy at Nitro and shot through this little edit of him riding Tom Pelley, Andrew Roth, Matts Kulisek, and Jossi Wells (on a snowboard). Congrats to both the Nitro dudes and Belmore!
Quick Clip – Stale Sandbech Front Triple Underflip 12
Front triple underflip 1260 – first try. No big deal.
Nyjah Huston Wins 2012 Street League KC Stop
Nyjah Huston has won the Kansas City Street League stop stomping a kick flip backside nose blunt on the Big Section rail scoring a a 9.1 and finishing the day $150,000 better off. He saw off stiff competition from EU Selection winner Bastien Salabanzi, Chaz Ortiz, P-Rod, Chris Cole, Ryan Sheckler, Sean Malto and Mikey Taylor in an impressive finals. Check the highlights clip below and a breakdown on the scores below that.
Facebook Helps Select ‘Pro Skater HD’ Levels
Mashable had an article up yesterday about how the new Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD will have additional downloadable levels and Hawk is letting the facebook fans decide which levels they want to see available. The game features seven levels from the first two iterations of the game and the fans can decide which levels from the third game that they’d like to be made …
D-Way’s Waiting For Lightning Party Photos
Danny Way’s ‘Waiting For Lightning’ premiere happened in Melbourne last night and it looks like it was an incredible night. Initial reviews for the film are saying it is absolutely amazing. The photos show a room full of good dudes – have a flick through. There’s like a million shots but there’s some gold as the night goes on. Looks like there will be a few people in pain this morning.
Hype Winter Party Photos
The Hype Winter party we mentioned a while back has happened and here’s the photos from the night. Lots of the usual crew made it along – looks like it was a super fun night!
John John Has Landed
He’s been hyped since he was six, but in winning the Billabong Pro in Rio, John John Florence has proved he’s a bonafide world title contender.
Riley Blakeway’s Epic Dolphin Days Edit
Riley Blakeway has released this epic clip called Dolphin Days. It features Chima Ferguson, Bo Reid, Rhino, Josh Pall, Jake Hayes, Ryder Lawson, Sammy Winter and Bjorn Johnston and would have to be one of the best local clips I’ve seen recently. I don’t want to hype it too much so settle back and enjoy. Best two minutes and six seconds you’ll have today.
Street League 2012 Kansas City Stop – Australian Broadcast Times
This weekend is the first stop for the 2012 Street League season and it’s happening in Kansas City. It will be broadcast live on ESPN2 as well as a live webcast happening on Streetleague.com. I’ve converted the timing below so you can see the local Australian broadcast times (these are all EST). Beneath that is a clip of Street League founder Rob Dyrdek performing a feat more …
Bastien Salabanzi Street League Commercial
This weekend is stop on of Street League 2012 in Kansas City. In the lead up, the guys have released a commercial featuring the EU Selection winner, Bastien Salabanzi. It’s only two tricks but it is pretty impressive. Below that I’ve posted Bastien’s EU Selection video shot at the DC Embassy in Barcelona which scored him a place in the comp …
Putin Suggests Sochi Contractors Finish On Budget
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has overseen a lot of the preparations for the 2014 Sochi winter games, has become “aware of the desire of some ordering parties and subcontractors, to increase the cost of the sites now, in the final stages of the construction,” which makes him very unhappy, but I’m sure he could …
I Feel Like This Would Cause Some Kind Of Chemical Burn
Danielle Ruiz has been announced as the newest team member of the Street League Dime Squad (the cheerleader girls). As part of the announcement, they released the below clip… Am I the only one who flinched when they first started spraying the energy drink around? I thought for sure that the next scene would be a hazmat team …
Street League Kansas City 2012 Course And Format
The first Street League stop for 2012 is happening in Kansas City on May 19th and the new course for the stop has been revealed. There’s quite a few changes to the comp this year – for those that want to really understand the format and sequence, I’ve laid out the steps below from prelims to finals, and how the scores will accumulate over the weekend. The biggest …
WTF Are You Feeding Your Kids Norway?
Norwegian Jørn Simen Aabøe, a name you’re want to going to both learn to pronounce and remember, has stomped a triple frontside rodeo 1440 – at this point though, names are really meaningless. I believe Shaun White was keen on naming these sort of tricks with things like armadillo’s or hurricane’s or something… for this, perhaps …
Hype Winter Party In St. Kilda This Saturday
This Saturday night (May 12th) On Point Collective, Nitro and 3CS are getting down to The Vineyard in St Kilda (Vic) to celebrate the coming of winter 2012. All the details are on the flyer below – there’s a photo comp, som drink specials and a bunch of good crew.
Billabong Gives The Trump Treatment To CEO Derek O’Neill
Billabong have replaced long time employee Derek O’Neill with former Target boss Launa Inman as CEO. Inman’s skills seem to revolve around retail which suggests Billabong may be doubling down on their (so far) failed retail strategy rather than taking a different path. Got to admire the balls it takes to do that…
Courtney Phillipson On Holden And K2
Courtney Phillipson is joining Robbie Walker, Andy Lloyd, Nick Wood, Richie Carroll, Tim Nelson and Michaela Davis-Meehan on the K2 team, as well as Andy Lloyd and Jake McCarthy on the Australian Holden team. I hit up Saun Belmore for a photo for this post and he was good enough to put together the attached clip from their riding over the last season (thanks Shaun!). Congrats to CP as well as Holden and K2.
Tony Hawk Talks Selling Out
Tony Hawk has given a quick video interview to Entrepreneur where he talks about being accused of being a sell out once your merch becomes popular. The main point from the clip is that you’ve got to keep going and there’s always going to be haters. Check it out below.
When in Whistler – Episode 5
Episode five of When in Whistler is out. The blurb with the clip says, “April gave us perfect snow and weather conditions for awesome park shredding! And boy did we make the most of it” The clip features Matt Sedunary, Daniel Currie, Pete Long, Eric Turgeon and Gabriel Marshell. Enjoy!
Epic Clip Of Nic Harvey At Northstar
Mitch Ayres sent me through this epic clip of Nic Harvey riding at Northstar. The blurb with the clip says the guys collected the footage in less than half a day. Ayres did a rad job with the edit as well! Enjoy!
Nick Wood’s 2012 OS Clip
I got sent this rad little clip of Nick Wood riding overseas late last week. The edit was done by Rob Stagg and Wood looks like he’s killing it over there. Check it out!
Billabong’s Summer Swim 2012 Video
Billabong have released their summer 2012 swim clip this morning which is looking great because… well… bikinis. Need I say more?
Billabong ‘Flaunt It’ Clip
Here’s a clip from the Billabong ‘Flaunt It’ comp held in Tahoe featuring Jamie Anderson. There’s some great riding in here as well as a rad editing job… Maybe a little of Andy Lloyd’s style? I’m not sure if he was involved or not but it’s definitely worth a watch.
Oakley Puts The Brakes On Shaun White
Oakley are launch a competition to see who can swap the lens on their Airbrake goggle the fastest. The clip below, featuring Shaun White, shows you how the new system works. This site get’s you to film your self making a lens change – the winner will be the person who clocks the fastest time. I’ll update as soon as the micro site is …