Here’s the latest Blueprint episode featuring Jamie Lynn, Bryan Iguchi and Pat Moore hitting Valdez, Alaska. The guys talk about the good and the bad/scary of being in the area, their past experiences and what it means to ride there. A good watch for sure.
NBD With Halldor, Sage and Eric
I’m at a loss for words on this one. There’s some fun riding in here – and the little bumps and hits are done with style… Then, well, there’s just some other stuff in there.
Surfstitch Smashing Their Guidance
Surfstitch are riding high after needing to issue a note to correct their guidance from their prospects… In the right direction. They’re 37% up on earnings and on track to beat market expectations into 2016. Founders Lex Pederson and Justin Cameron have smoothly integrated operations from their two acquisitions (Swell and …
Last Weeks Energy Drink Fuelled Meat Spin
Last week was a big one for upping the spin count in snowboarding. Max Parrot stomped a Quad-Underflip 16 while Billy Morgan nailed a Back 18 Quad Cork. See above and below. Parrot’s jump was landed off a 75 foot booter at Whistler while Morgans came off a spot in …
Blueprint In Italy With Mathes, Longo and Iguchi
Here’s the latest Blueprint episode which sees Pat Moore along with Danimals, Darrel Mathes and Arthur Longo head to the Alagna and the Aosta Valley in Italy. The guys have a few days riding before bringing in Bryan Iguchi for some fun. Check it out.
Investment Fund CIO Backing Billabong
The Chief Investment Officer of Sydney based NAOS Investment Fund, Sebastian Evans, has backed Billabong for a comeback. There’s not much reasoning given for his confidence in the Bloomberg article, but they do talk about the cost cutting program specifically citing the move from China to Vietnam, Bangladesh and India for manufacturing. …
Sexual Snowboarding : This Just Happened : Chapter 3
Here is Chapter 3 of This Just Happened by Sexual Snowboarding. Featuring the usual crew of Halldor Helgason, Felix Engström, Nils Arvidsson, Luda Lejkner and Ethan Morgan, it is the mix of weird, gross, funny and all round rad that we’ve come to expect. Enjoy!
Gino Iannucci Interviewed For Route One
Route One has done an awesome interview with Gino Iannucci. It has been released in three parts and covers a lot of history from back in the day as well as his current interests and thoughts on skateboarding. Definitely a rad watch. Part one is above and parts two and three …
DC’s L’Invasion 2015 Looked Like Fun
Photo: A few familiar faces in attendance. DC have held a team-retailer party thing in Meribel, France recently and damn, did this look like fun. The company had the likes of Devun Walsh, Anto Chamberland, Iikka Backstrom, Ryan Tiene, Justin Fronius, Mat Schaer, Mons Roisland and others there, as well …
Changes And Lawsuits At Quiksilver
It hasn’t been long since Andy Mooney was moved on and the new-old team are clearing house. Two of the top sales execs that Mooney brought in have left the company and the sales departments are being restructured to have brand specific reps rather than single reps selling across the three titles. In addition, …
Blueprint Visits An Old World For A New Perspective
In this episode of Blueprint, Pat Moore travels to Europe to hang out and ride with Jake Welch, John Jackson, Nicolas Müller and Jake Blauvelt – not a bad crew. This is Moore’s first trip to film pow in Europe which is crazy considering how long his career has been. It’s another …
Red Bull Team Hits Madagascar
Red Bull team members Barney Page, Denny Pham, Nestor Judkins, Wilko Grüning, Brian Dolle, Gosha Konyshev along with filmer Patrik Wallner, and photographer Lev Maslov hit up Madagascar for a bit of skating. The conditions for skating there look sketchy but fun and the clip they turned out is epic. …
Kelly Slater Retires As April Fools
Photo: WSL/Kirstin Scholtz This was big news last week – while Australia had moved onto April 2nd, the U.S. was back on April 1st and Slater unleashed his gag for the day – retirement. There was just enough seriousness in the text and combined with the time difference, people were all …
Vail Resorts Acquires Perisher For $176 Million
Vail Resorts have acquired Perisher for AU$176.6 million (US$136 million) and is grouping the resort in with its other holdings to offer passes that can keep you going year round. The Epic pass (which was available for for $749 till March 31st) includes riding at “Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado, …
Street League 2015 Schedule
The schedule for the Street League 2015 tour is out and it kicks off in mid-May with the Nike SB Pro Open in Spain followed by the official stop one in LA mid-July. There’s only four events in total, including the championship – from memory, this is shrinking again from …
Billabong Owners Creeping Up And New Legal Troubles
There have been two little interesting pieces of news come out of Billabong over the last week – Centerbridge and Oaktree have increased their holding in Billabong for two months running with the investors now in control of 38.5% of the company. They’re only small increases but this might be to …
Andy Mooney Removed As CEO Of Quiksilver
In an otherwise regular morning, this big bit of news dropped – Quiksilver have ousted CEO Andy Mooney and replaced him with Quik vet, Pierre Agnes. Shares are down on the news. This comes after last weeks earning report that showed some good signs for the company. However they were …
Blueprint With John Jackson
I’m a week late on this but with good reason that I wont bore you with… Anyway, Blueprint is back and this time with John Jackson after a prolonged absence from the sport due to knee injuries. And it was very prolonged – first air time in about three years. …
Jenkem’s Shane O’Neill Documentary Teaser
Jenkem have put together a mock teaser trailer for a Shane O’Neill documentary that seems to be a friendly jab at his style. Called ‘ZIGRAM23: the Shane O’Neill story’ it’s about a skateboarding robot. The editing is actually awesome. Check it out.
Ty Evans and Brain Farm – We Are Blood Trailer
This is probably the most anticipated skate film in a while, maybe even since Ty Evans Fully Flared. The Brain Farm backed production is shot on a pretty epic scale – some of the locations like the sports stadium and Burj Dubai hotel heli-pad are incredible. Anyway, go full screen …
Quik Reports Good Signs – Makes A Loss
Quiksilver have reported a first quarter loss of US$10.8 million but have beat analysts expectations on a loss per share basis and total revenue. The market expected around $336 million and CEO Andy Mooney delivered $340 million which was on guidance (this was in constant currency terms – taking into account the current …
Rip Curl Now Worth $310 Million
A few years ago, Rip Curl was looking at listing the business or selling it off for a valuation around the $400 million mark. Time has not been kind to the surfwear companies but if you compare the damage to the two main rivals, Rip Curl has remained fairly stable and …
ETT Creates A Product They Can Sell
Christian Hosoi and a man in a lab coat help out in this latest ETT to create a low-fi snow skate – and they actually put them into production to sell at $99.00! If you’re lucky enough to live in a town that gets regularly snowy, this could be a lot …
South Korea Confirms 2018 Snowboard Venue
In only three short years we will be seeing the worlds best snowboarders compete at South Korea’s Bokwang Phoenix Park. It is located in the township of Bongpyeong-myeon, in the county of Pyeongchang. Apparently negotiations around the resort have been difficult but Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Kim Jong-deok has got …
Jeremy Flores – Please Stay Positive
Desillusion and filmer/editor Sebastian Zanella got the camera out while Jeremy Flores was taking a forced vacation from the tour and did one of their awesome profiles on the guy. I said it was by Desillusion, do I need to say anymore? Get watching.
Mess Up Meribel
I got put onto this one earlier today and it is a bit of fun… Kiwi Nick Hyne along with Alex Stewart, Victor Loron, Giacomo Erriciello and Gabriele Baj got messy and did some filming at the DC house in Meribel. Semi male-nudity, atomic wedgies, falling into fires, running barefoot through fires …
Never Buy A Snowboard Video Again
In the past I have always had mixed feelings about torrenting snowboard videos. For some, like brand videos, I see them as a marketing exercise and the brand benefits from more people seeing it – I don’t feel too bad about that. For others where they have inexplicably decided to make Australian …
Yuki Kadono’s Winning Back to Back 16s
For all the bitching about style and spinning to win, Yuki deserves so much kudos for how solidly he lands the second 16 in this run, if for nothing else. This run won him the Burton U.S. Open slope contest for 2015 and deservedly so – he scored 90.05 ahead of second …
Burton U.S. Open Halfpipe Results
Photo: Chris Wellhausen via Transworld The Burton U.S. Open went down last weekend and saw Taku Hiraoka go big and take the win. His run included a front 5 frontside grab, back 9 mute, front double 10 stale, cab double 10 mute to front 1260 tail and scored 90.99 knocking Ayumu Hirano …
Sexual Snowboarding – This Just Happened Part 2
Sexual Snowboarding have just released part two of ‘This Just Happened’. Featuring Eiki Helgason, Halldor Helgason, Felix Engström, Gulli Gudmundsson, Nils Arvidsson and Måns Hedberg, it’s a mix of Euro weirdness and awesome riding. Check it out.
Surfstitch Has Got Billion Dollar Dreams
Surfstitch has reported a pretty awesome first half of the year putting them on target to reach (and possibly exceed) the full year guidance in their IPO prospectus. Sales were up 23% year on year to the end of December, this may be partially down to the addition of Swell …
Peralta Documents Powell
Here’s a neat little clip Stacy Peralta made of George Powell in the workshop. There’s not that much to say about it – nicely shot and edited, definitely worth a look (even if it’s really a bit of a commercial for the Powell Peralta brand).
Billabong Hits Profit And Lays Out New Horizon
Billabong has hit profit and CEO Neil Fiske is talking about the next phase of his turn around plans. According to his statements, the focus has been on the simple and easy gains (low hanging fruit) that could be enacted to stabilise the business. Now they’re into structural reforms like …
Snowboarders Testing Tow In Options
There’s a lot of jokes around about snowboarders coming from money… Maybe that’s just an Australian thing, but some videos I’ve come across this week are not helping the stereotype. On Monday I came across a clip of a snowboarder getting towed by a private plane. Check that one out above. …
XGames Real Snow Parts Drop
We’ve heard a bit about the up-coming Real Snow parts through Blueprint but now they’ve all dropped. I’ve posted them all inline to save you from having to deal with the shitty XGames website. The parts are all pretty damn amazing in their own way – Seb Toots is an amazing …