Latest
Update: July 28, 1999
Johnny
Tsunami Hits Disney Channel
A movie that gets the snowboard/skier debate all right. Johnny moves
from Hawaii to Vermont to attend a prep school and is saved by snowboarding.
Random
Quote
"The foyer of the restaurant features gray stone tile interspersed
with pebble stone tiling. The walls are covered in grayboard, a
weathered looking board wallcovering also known as Montana snowboard."--Captain
D's Press Release.
Seal
Beach Can't Agree to Disagree
300 people jammed in the Seal Beach City Council meeting to voice
their support for either windsurfers or the surfers debate over
who gets to surf the San Gabriel river mouth.
--Fighting
for Surf Turf
--Windsurfers
and Surfers Battle In Seal Beach
Justin
Matteson Wins Rad Board
The San Clemente local takes the competition by skateboarding, surfing,
and wakeboarding better than anyone else.
Three
Mom's Guard Surf City's Culture
Natalie Kotsch, Ann Beasley and Michele Turner
are helping to keep the surfing alive with The International Surf
Museum.
K2's Builds Snowboard Line
According to the LA Times, K2's purchase of Ride will
help build their snowboard line. Sure.
Keeping
Your Skate Spot Open
Skateboarding.com's Lance Dalgart runs down a quick and easy
5-step plan for keeping skate spots open.
Shea
Lopez Wins US Open Of Surfing
The surf was up in Huntington Beach and so was Shea Lopez
as he blew past international competitiors to grab the 1999 title.
--Lopez
Dominates Final
--All
Eyes on The Water at HB.
Keala
Kennelly Wins For the Women
Winning a spot in the Gotcha Pro, Keala says taking the US
Open Women's event was the biggest win of her career.
--Kennelly
Scores Major Victory
Interference
on Redman
She probably would have won the Open, however, Melanie Redman
got a little impatient and got the interference call on the first
wave of the finals.
O'Connell
Saves his Best for Last
Laguna Beach's Pat O'Connell doesn't let his mother down
and advances into next round.
Brook
Bummed By Friend's Pain
She's happy to be advancing, but Serene Brook would rather be competing
against Layne Beachley.
Corky
Carroll on US Open's Wild Friday
The surfing O.G. lays down the world from the stands at the US Open
of Surfing for the OC Register.
The
US Open "Gets Extreme"
Biking and skating were also featured at the US Open, but why would
anyone want to miss the surf action?
Seal
Beach Loc Ryan Simmon Wows HB
Ryan made it to the Quarter Finals of the US Open of Surfing and
this is how he did it.
Surfers
Find Wild New Rides
Notes from the Rad Board Competition. Whatever that is.
Duke
Stamp One Step Closer
Hawaiian's are getting closers to seeing the first local ever on
a stamp from the US Postal Service.
Surf
Inspired Bedsheets?
Doug Smith and Ed McLean are trying to get you into
their bed. . . sheets. The sheets feature Aloha prints and could
be the next wave in bedding.
Crowd
Surfing at Woodstock
It was the 30th anniversary and could have been some of the best
crowd surfing in the history of concerts.
Tony
Hawk In The New Yorker?
The East Coast Media Machine has decided to profile Tony Hawk
and skateboarding in general with a ten page story. Here's what
Skateboarding.com had to say about it.
Orland
Illinois Skatepark Draws a Crowd
Built by David Evans and Associates Inc., the Orland Skatepark
is 25,000 square feet of concrete fun.
--K2
Buys Ride Snowboards
--Gotcha's
Live Coverage of US Open
--Juno
Arlie Carsten's Band?
--Surfrider
Lands OC Prosecutor
Previous
Bags o' Crapola:
-July 23,
1999
-July 21,
1999
-July 16,
1999
-July 14,
1999
-July
12, 1999
Special
thanks: to Jim Romenesko's MediaGossip.com
for the inspiration. In the words of Eddie Murphy on doing
Richard Pryor material, "It's a tribute."
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