Kelly Slater’s brand now has a name and a website – Outerknown. The site is nicely designed, simple but with some great photos. It’s missing a favicon, which drives me nuts… It’s the little details that matter. But you can register to receive updates from them as it gets closer …
‘There Goes’ All Three Parts
John Waddell has released all three parts of the There Goes film online. The film features Jye Kearney, Jake McCarthy and Daniel ‘Harry’ Crean. The guys hit some amazing spots for this film. You can watch the full 20 minute film over here or hit Jye’s part above and Jake and Harry’s …
Kingpin Skate Supply Welcomes Daniel Basargin
Kingpin Skate Supply has welcomed SLOTH (Daniel Basargin) to the team with this clip that brings back all kinds of nostalgic feelings for 480p hard core wide angle filming… These guys love this style in their team clips and it’s always good to see. Enjoy!
Windells Final Session For 2014
Capita dropped by for the eighth and final session with the 2014 Windells campers. Riders included Scott Stevens, Kyle Kennedy, Justin Norman, Max Tokunaga, Tim Humphreys, Maja Keefer, Sean Neary, Ryan Lanham, Nick Visconti and many more. Check it out above.
Christopher Chann In Slow Mo At Stoner Plaza
I came across this rad slow mo clip that was uploaded yesterday by Christopher Chann. Filmed by Adam Shomsky at Stoner Plaza it gives you a really good idea of the amazing board control this guy has. And style. And repertoire.
Snowboarding Is Sexist And We Should All Be Ashamed
Rachael Oakes-Ash has written a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald on sexism in snowboarding. Specifically on coverage of womens snowboarding (and skiing) in the magazines along with representation by women on industry bodies. Snowboarding is a sausage fest and I’m not sure where the figure of 33% female participation in …
Billabong Reports $233.7 Million Loss
Billabong has reported a $233.7 million loss after another $146 million in impairment charges, restructuring costs and financing costs combined with a 50% drop in earnings from their Americas operation. CEO Neil Fiske is blaming the result on the prior 18 months of corporate turmoil which led to a huge loss in …
Javier Mendizabal With Desillusion
Desillusion Magazine have gone out to create another clip about the backgrounds and hidden talents of one of skateboardings long standing names. You don’t really hear much from Javier Mendizabal anymore but he is still rolling occasionally and taking lots of photos. Check out this really nice little profile of the guy.
Diaries Downunder 2014 Episode 3
Here’s the new episode of Diaries Downunder featuring Scotty James. The beginning to this one is a little more like a travel advertisement but there’s some pretty epic ideas in there for your next trip over… The flight to Milford Sound looks pretty awesome. But the wine and cheese shots …
Mile High Highlights
Film/Edit by Mitch Ayers for Boardworld. I don’t know why but I’ve always struggled to get interested in this comp – however after seeing this years highlights reel from the crew at Boardworld, I might have to pay more attention. Seb Toots took out the mens section and Jamie Anderson the …
Eli Reed Skates The Playboy Mansion
Diamond Supply Co. and Playboy have got together for a clip with Eli Reed. The story line doesn’t matter so much as you get a good view of the famed mansion as well as resident Playmate’s Kayla Collins, Ashley Doris, Carly Lauren, Crystal McCahill, Jaslyn Ome, Tiffany Toth, and Dani …
Nyjah Huston Wins Street League Super Crown
Nyjah Huston has continued his undefeated run at Street League taking out the season title over the weekend. It all came down to the last trick (which seems to be a theme in these comps) and Huston stomped a full cab flip into the bank for a 7.8 bumping him …
Rome’s FIND in Kazakhstan
Rome has released the first section in their three part film, Find. Featuring LNP, Ozzy Henning and Ian Boll travelling to Almaty to ride some pretty unique street features while shifting cattle, fighting drunks and enjoying crowds who gathered to watch the guys ride… Oh, and a whole lot of bribing. Henning’s …
Terry Kennedy’s Skate and the City: Los Angeles
TK has a new series starting with Network A called Skate and the City. In the premiere episode, he talks about the changes in the city over his life time, chats to Z-Boy Nathan Pratt, DGK owner Stevie Williams and a few other crew. Full credit to him, this is …
Rome Torti Passes Away
Well known and much loved skate photographer, Rome Torti, passed away on Friday August 22nd at home on the Gold Coast. He had been successfully fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer for five years, the cancer returned a while back and he maintained the fight up until last month when …
Billabong Sells Up SurfStitch and Swell
We reported on happenings in this space last week and it’s finally come to pass… At a much, much lower price than was being reported. Billabong has scored itself around $35 million for the sale of SurfStitch and Swell to a consortium of investors including the SurfStitch founders. The reports …
Air Time With John Jackson Episode 4
John Jackson’s latest episode is basically flat out partying. He holds a house party at his place to raise funds for a Burning Man project. Then heads to Burning Man with the crew. There’s a lot of queueing. And the place looks like my nightmare – no showers, hippies and …
Street League and ISF Team For Olympics
Street League has endorsed the Olympic Committee’s decision to appoint the ISF (International Skateboard Federation) as the official representative body for the sport. Street League will be working with ISF to set the standards of competition and bring the SLS Tour into the qualification process for the Olympics… Should it officially get …
Boardworld’s Modest Minute Session 1
Photo: Pete Long by Alen Zvokelj Boardworld have shot out this one minute edit from Perisher park featuring Jordan Crockford, Pete Long, Luke Harvey, Rainer Occhilupo and Tenzin Butt. It was sponsored by Modest who has all these guys on the team. The clip was filmed and edited by Marcus Skin. Check it out.
Part 2 Of Episode 3 For Air Time
Here’s the second part of John Jackson’s trip down to Mexico with his buddy Noobs as well as Daniel Ek for the Air Time series. These dream sequences, or whatever they are, are just weird. And the ‘spiritual vibe’ in some of Jackson’s voiceover is a little over the top, but …
Adidas Welcomes Louif Paradis
Adidas has welcomed aboard Louif Paradis. He joins Eric Jackson, Jake Blauvelt, Kazu Kokubo, Keegan Valieka and more. His intro video breaks all the rules – it’s 15 minutes, there’s barely a brand mention in it and it’s equally split between snowboarding and interviewing… Pierre Minhondo has killed it and …
Heliski Crash In NZ
Sad news from Wanaka over the weekend where one of the Harris Mountain Heliski helicopters went down. According to reports, conditions were perfect when the pilot, instructor and five passengers were out on Mt. Alta. All on board were New Zealanders – one man died, the other six passengers have …
O’Neill Featured On Undercover Boss
This one caught me off guard – on Monday evening I happen to be flicking around channels and came across an episode of Undercover Boss that features none other than O’Neill. For those not familiar, this show appears to be some sort of scripted “reality” series. This episode stars Toby Bost, Americas …
The Mentawais With Alex Dive
Dragon and RPM have teamed up to support a series called Shacks and Shakaz. It follows N.Z. team rider Alex Dive on a few journeys, the first trip taking him to the Mentawais. It was shot and edited by Guy Macindoe – came up really, really nice.
Billabong And Surfstitch Making Moves
Over the last two weeks, there’s started to be some interesting rumblings on the Gold Coast about Surfstitch. The reports in Rag Trader and Motley Fool suggest that Surfstitch management have been meeting with fund managers to look at buying Billabong out of their 51% of the business in order to publicly …
Dragon’s #weareframeless Perisher Edit
Dragon have released a Perisher filmed clip featuring Cohen Davies, Josh Vagne, Shaun Belmore, Nic Harvey and Charles Beckinsale. Called #weareframeless, I believe the name is a reference to the frameless goggles. It was filmed by Mitch Ayers and Tom Hannam with Ayers doing the editing. They definitely got some nice days shooting up there.
John Jackson’s Air Time Episode 3
I feel a little weird tagging this video as a snow article but it is still John Jackson and on this mission, he is joined by former Forum team mate, Daniel Ek. The guys are headed down to Mexico for a bit of surfing – the episode doesn’t take us …
Mike Mo Wins ESPN’s Game of Skate
Photo: ESPN X Games. I had no idea this was happening but apparently ESPN have started their own BATB style comp which wen’t down last week. Mike Mo Capaldi was the winner – he beat PJ Ladd in the finals and Shane O’Neill in the semi-finals but if you want any …
Burton’s 2014 High Fives Competition
Photo: Mikkel Bang by Adam Moran from the 2013 comp. Burton have announced details for their 2014 High Fives comp to be held at Cardrona in September. The teams and off-snow details are slim but in the pipe and slope will have some big names onboard including Stale Sandbech, Ayumu Hirano, …
Windells 2014 Sessions 7
Windells hosted a tonne of riders for one of the last sessions of the summer. Jeff Deforge, Tim Humphreys, Nick Visconti, WIll Dennis, Kyle Kennedy and more grabbed some GoPros and got after it. Check the recap video above.
Rome Snowboards ‘Find’ Teaser
Rome Snowboards are releasing a rad three part film called Find. Featuring LNP, Will Lavigne, Stale Sandbech, Ozzy Henning and more, the parts are split by destination; Kazakhstan, Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and Norway. From the teaser, it looks like it’s been amazingly shot and edited. Release dates for the parts are below. 23/08/14 …
Nowhere Bound With Desillusion
Desillusion have put out a road trip clip featuring JR Watson, Dylan Gordon, Ben Barnick, Cierra Cegielski, Holly Hanson and Samson Hatae. The guys camp, ride motorbikes, skate, surf, see some snow and shoot guns… Not a bad little trip at all. It’s shot and editing in Desillusion’s own awesome …
Andrew Wood In Whistler
We got an email over the weekend that was awesome for several reasons. Most of you wont have seen but if you want to contribute to the site, you need to answer a set of questions – we got answers for one Andrew Wood (not our usual Andrew Wood, this …