Howard is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. He is in his mid 80’s and builds these turbine powered offshore boats himself with a helper or two. This is a 45 ft Skater that has been well over 180 mph. Howard uses it to its full capability down the middle of San Francisco Bay and up through the Sacramento Delta. Stoked News been in it at 180 and it was still accelerating hard.
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One of the great things about the snow sports industry is that it keeps re-inventing itself every few years. Just when you think you’ve mastered everything there is in skiing, snowboarding, and backcountry skiing, somebody comes out with something new – like the dual edged snowboard.
Snowboarding was born during the 1960s and has gone through a number of evolutionary changes. Beginning with the “Snurf,” snowboarding started out as a simple toy without bindings or sophisticated technology. Jake Burton exploded onto the scene when he introduced his own unique snowboard design that included fixed bindings, space-age materials, and radical sidecut designs in the 1970s. Since then, snowboarding has enjoyed phenomenal success. But during the past five years, snowboarding interest has begun to wane as new winter sports enthusiasts return to the action of skiing made popular by the X-Games.
Many snowboarders have returned to skiing for one simple reason: skis allow the rider to take advantage of more varied terrain and ride them with more control. For riders who are still …Â More info
The Maloof Money Cup (www.maloofmoneycup.com), a three-day, five event competition and festival — hailed as the world’s greatest skateboarding competition — is back for a second year. The event, created by Joe Maloof, owner of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, returns to the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif. during the opening weekend of the OC Fair, July 10-12, 2009.
Sanctioned as the National Championship by World Cup Skateboarding (www.wcsk8.com), the Maloof Money Cup (MMC) — presented by industry vets, etnies and action sports staple Monster Energy— is the largest pursed event in the history of professional skateboarding with more than $450,000 in prize money… More info