The work keeps rolling on Santa Clarita’s new skate park, with a grand opening set for the end of March.
The 40,000-square-foot park is part of a 15-acre expansion of the Santa Clarita Activities Center, and will dwarf the former park which closed last year.
The new park is part of a $25 million upgrade to the activities center…Â More info
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Derek Seaman is one of the masterminds behind O’Brien’s new wakeskate, the Intox. And Derek has actually been experimenting with wakeskate design for quite some time. I had the pleasure of hearing a few stories back in 2003, and at that time he was already testing some custom designed boards that were unlike anything in wakeskating. But now Derek has the opportunity to make his designs a full-on reality for wakeskaters everywhere. Derek is here to explain some of the design features of his first major wakeskate release with O’Brien.
Why did O’Brien want to step up their involvement in wakeskating to go beyond the traffic series?
Well, I think it was time. O’Brien has always had a strong desire to step it up in the wakeskate scene, but they wanted to make sure they did it right with the right product. By working together on this project, we leveraged our combined talents to achieve that goal. From every experience we’ve had at the camp, O’Brien makes a solid product which is usually highly underrated… More info
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Cape Town, South Africa – Like a predator stalking his prey, Patrick Davids’s eyes rarely stray from the choppy green sea, and his radio is always at the ready.
While the assortment of sunbathers, swimmers, and surfers may not know his name, they know what he does and that one day they may owe him their lives.
Mr. Davids, or “Rasta” as he is better known, is a shark spotter who helped set up one of the world’s only shark-monitoring units along beaches in Cape Town, South Africa.
From a cramped beach hut, Davids has helped build up a network of full-time shark spotters on nine beaches, watching over one of the world’s most shark-infested shorelines.
Nearly seven years ago, the former …Â More info
For the action sports industry in 2009, it’s all about keeping your head above water.
Already struggling with a glut of inventory, the $14.4 billion industry is forecasting sales to fall as much as 25 percent this year. Some surfboard makers say their business is down 30 percent to 40 percent as consumers put off larger purchases.
With numbers like that, industry insiders say some brands will disappear and the economic undertow will pull down a number of mom-and-pop shops, considered the backbone of the business because of their connection to the core action sports customer…. More info
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