Nike Chosen Sessions – Full Force
By now you’ve probably seen the jaw dropping video and images of the Nike Chosen Sessions park in Silvretta Montafon, Austria, dubbed ‘the most progressive snow park ever built’ and just to whet your snowboarding whistle listen up – it’s complete with wall rides, street rails, huge hits, a skate inspired bowl. Twelve amateurs and...
NASS Street Spots
We’re heading full pelt towards Relentless Energy NASS 2012 taking place 6th – 8th July. And we’re hearing tit bits from the NASS-shaped horse’s mouth about the music folk who have confirmed to play this year, names such as Sum 41, Pulled Apart By Horses, Chiddy Bang, Freerange DJ’s, Roni Size, Modestep to name but...
The Best of the Snowboarding Blogs: March
ReCreation with Nick Visconti TransAM series presented by Skullcandy Congrats to Niche Snowboards who’ve just been awarded the ISPO Eco-Award for sustainable innovation and Eco-responsibility. The Niche Story Snowboard is a well thought product with carefully selected, sustainable materials such as the FSC certified wood core and hemp stringers to replace carbon fiber. Critical substances have...
The Best of the Surfing Blogs: March
Couldn’t stop staring at this image from The Chive – Big Wave Surfing Collection. Surfer Jorgelina “Lina” Reyero from Argentina mounts a camera on her surf board and hits Byron Bay. Blind Surfer Derek Rabelo carves his first pipe . Manly-Freshwater World Surfing Reserve Legendary world surfing champion Kelly Slater accompanied the Governor of New...
The Best of the Skateboarding Blogs: March
There have been comps and skate footwear/clothing releases all over the shop but nothing to write home about. Digging through the grot I’ve found a few gems for you in the form of a few shorts. Pull up a pew. In this Blind Sunday Fundays video TJ Rogers show some mad skills at Chino Park,...
Quick-Fire Interview with…
Tim Bonython, 53, is a surf film Producer who was born in Adelaide and now lives in Avalon Beach, Sydney. His most notable productions to date include Biggest Wednesday, Blackwater, MayDayz and the series Hawaii00. His latest project, ‘The Immersion Tour 2012′ which you can see at the Australian Surf Movie Festival kicks off next...
Surface: The Real Faces of Surfing
My photographer pal Rick Davy called me the other day to tell me about one of his latest projects. He, along with Designer Dan Chamberlain have embarked upon a creative project called ‘Surface’, their aim is to photograph the real faces of surfing in Cornwall. No pros, no glory boys just real local surfers, getting...
Quick-Fire Interview with…
Tristan Patterson, 36 is a Film Director from Los Angeles, Califonia where he runs a production company called Animals of Combat. His latest film , ‘Dragonslayer’ follows a well known skateboarder, Josh “Screech” Sandoval and the transient life he leads. I watched the film a few days ago and it’s different from most other skate...
Australian Surf Movie Festival
Back in 2002 an Australian guy called Tim Bonython had an idea about taking surf culture to the masses, after looking into how he could achieve this and with the support of Quiksilver, his plan became a reality and the first Australian Surf Movie Festival hit town. Ten years later, with sell out crowds throughout...
The 2012 XGames ~ Backyard Music Sessions
For the third year running, crowds from all over the world have gathered in Tignes, France this week to be part of the European Winter X Games. Not only do they want to see more than 150 of the world’s best athletes competing for those coveted gold medals, they also congregate to what by now...
European Winter XGames Starts Tomorrow
We’ve hit the 3 monumental days we’ve all been waiting for. Snow fiends the world over will now either be in Tignes this week to partake in the adoration of the world’s finest skiers and boarders or calling into work sick so that they can watch the Games. ESPN and CANAL+ will be collaborating and...
The Skateboard Spike
I got an out of the blue email from a fella called Cubi, a Central Park longboarder last week. I get emails a lot from people asking me to help showcase their new sports equipment and extreme sports videos and if I’m entertained or impressed then yep that there video is going on this here...
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