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News Flash: 2011-2012 Winter Was Bad The Snow Industries of America today confirmed what any snowboard retailer knows by heart–this last snowboard season was hard no matter how you look at it. No snow early season got everyone off to a dismal start, Christmas roared in as a valiant savior, but then things fell apart again. For retailers, the only consolation [...]
IVI Injects Those Hollywood Hills On Saturday night, May 12, 2012, high in the Hollywood Hills Pete Fox, Rob Dyrdek, and Jerome Mage hosted a rocking party to celebrate the launch of IVI and show off their complete sunglass collection. Bleached played, DJs Ana Calderon and Mom Jeans made music, and the heads mingled. Personal friends of Rob stopped by [...]
Bohnam Snaps Back Into Summer Those hunting, fishing outdoorsy, hatchett-throwing skaters at Bohnam have just dropped a couple nice new pieces for summer. Camo pockets? They got ‘em. Summer is here! Sorry to say we don’t offer a tank top yet, but you can use a scissor on any of our existing tees and go sleeveless Indeed. To see more [...]
Cabbie Who Killed Skateboard Up For Murder The Toronto cabbie who “struck and killed” 28-year-old longboard skateboarder Ralph Bissonnette (pictured right) on Monday May 14, 2012, has been charged with second-degree murder, according to a story in the The Star. Taxi driver Adib Ibrahim, 43, appeared in court Tuesday. The father of three from Ethiopia was remanded in custody until next week. [...]
Nixon Brings Glad Tidings Of Super Joy Anyone who surfs sharp, slicing, grinder reef breaks knows that often the single most important thing to know is when the tide is right. That’s where tide watches come in. Nixon just upped their tide watch ante with their new one-piece silicone Supertide. With pre-programmed tide charts and sunrise/sunset data for over 230 global surf [...]
Bid On Good Wood Skateboard Art On May 19, 2012 the Good Wood Skateboard Art Auction will open and run for one week. The auction features custom cruiser skateboard art by more than 80 artists including the following: . . . Swoon, Matthew Barney, Richard Coleman, Ed Templeton, Neil Blender, Twist, Thomas Campbell, Lance Mountain, Cyril Lance Mountain, Jerry Hsu, Don [...]
Florence Floors Parkinson In Rio Pro 2 John Florence lined it up and put it down in the finals of the Billabong Rio Pro today (May 16, 2012) against Joel Parkinson at Barra Da Tijuca. Florence, who now sits at No. 6 on the ASP WCT, will look to carry the momentum from today’s massive victory to the upcoming ASP WCT [...]
Billabong Rio Pro Gets Into Round 3 It was an ugly day at Barra Da Tijuca for the 2012 Billabong Rio Pro as surfers returned to the waves after a four-day break. Storm surf threw up shifty, slamming four to six foot beasts for the Round 2 surfers to negotiate and survive. Those who did felt like victorious warriors. Two of the [...]
Fitzgibbons Takes Billabong Rio Pro Women It was a women’s next wave showdown at Barra Da Tijuca, Brazil on Sunday, May 13, 2012 when Hawaii’s Coco Ho faced off against Australia’s Sally Fitzgibbons in the women’s finals of the Billabong Rio Pro. “That was so crazy and Coco (Ho) had me on the ropes for sure,” Fitzgibbons said. “I just had [...]
Pedro Barros Wins Another Pro-tec Pool Party If you didn’t watch it live online (you can now) Pedro Barros won his second consecutive Pro-tec Pool Party on Saturday May 12, 2012. Rune Glifberg was second, Bucky Lasek was third. Follow the jump to read the official word from Pro-tec if you’d like, but the best way to see what went down it [...]

News Flash: 2011-2012 Winter Was Bad
The Snow Industries of America today confirmed what any snowboard retailer knows by heart–this last snowboard season was hard no matter how you look at it. No snow early season got everyone off to a dismal start, Christmas roared in as a valiant savior, but then things fell apart again. For retailers, the only consolation [...]

IVI Injects Those Hollywood Hills
On Saturday night, May 12, 2012, high in the Hollywood Hills Pete Fox, Rob Dyrdek, and Jerome Mage hosted a rocking party to celebrate the launch of IVI and show off their complete sunglass collection. Bleached played, DJs Ana Calderon and Mom Jeans made music, and the heads mingled. Personal friends of Rob stopped by [...]

Bohnam Snaps Back Into Summer
Those hunting, fishing outdoorsy, hatchett-throwing skaters at Bohnam have just dropped a couple nice new pieces for summer. Camo pockets? They got ‘em. Summer is here! Sorry to say we don’t offer a tank top yet, but you can use a scissor on any of our existing tees and go sleeveless Indeed. To see more [...]

Cabbie Who Killed Skateboard Up For Murder
The Toronto cabbie who “struck and killed” 28-year-old longboard skateboarder Ralph Bissonnette (pictured right) on Monday May 14, 2012, has been charged with second-degree murder, according to a story in the The Star. Taxi driver Adib Ibrahim, 43, appeared in court Tuesday. The father of three from Ethiopia was remanded in custody until next week. [...]

Nixon Brings Glad Tidings Of Super Joy
Anyone who surfs sharp, slicing, grinder reef breaks knows that often the single most important thing to know is when the tide is right. That’s where tide watches come in. Nixon just upped their tide watch ante with their new one-piece silicone Supertide. With pre-programmed tide charts and sunrise/sunset data for over 230 global surf [...]

Bid On Good Wood Skateboard Art
On May 19, 2012 the Good Wood Skateboard Art Auction will open and run for one week. The auction features custom cruiser skateboard art by more than 80 artists including the following: . . . Swoon, Matthew Barney, Richard Coleman, Ed Templeton, Neil Blender, Twist, Thomas Campbell, Lance Mountain, Cyril Lance Mountain, Jerry Hsu, Don [...]

Florence Floors Parkinson In Rio Pro
2 John Florence lined it up and put it down in the finals of the Billabong Rio Pro today (May 16, 2012) against Joel Parkinson at Barra Da Tijuca. Florence, who now sits at No. 6 on the ASP WCT, will look to carry the momentum from today’s massive victory to the upcoming ASP WCT [...]

Billabong Rio Pro Gets Into Round 3
It was an ugly day at Barra Da Tijuca for the 2012 Billabong Rio Pro as surfers returned to the waves after a four-day break. Storm surf threw up shifty, slamming four to six foot beasts for the Round 2 surfers to negotiate and survive. Those who did felt like victorious warriors. Two of the [...]

Fitzgibbons Takes Billabong Rio Pro Women
It was a women’s next wave showdown at Barra Da Tijuca, Brazil on Sunday, May 13, 2012 when Hawaii’s Coco Ho faced off against Australia’s Sally Fitzgibbons in the women’s finals of the Billabong Rio Pro. “That was so crazy and Coco (Ho) had me on the ropes for sure,” Fitzgibbons said. “I just had [...]

Pedro Barros Wins Another Pro-tec Pool Party
If you didn’t watch it live online (you can now) Pedro Barros won his second consecutive Pro-tec Pool Party on Saturday May 12, 2012. Rune Glifberg was second, Bucky Lasek was third. Follow the jump to read the official word from Pro-tec if you’d like, but the best way to see what went down it [...]