After dominating the halfpipe for the better part of a decade, Shaun White is hoping to expand his snowboarding dominance (and NBC airtime) at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, by competing in two disciplines instead of one. As usual, he’ll be going for gold in halfpipe. But he’s adding the slopestyle division to his Sochi strategy. Slopestyle is the newest Olympic discipline, and in case you’re not familiar, it’s a course loaded with a variety of features that riders must perform tricks on, including rails, boxes, walls, and massive jumps … More
Zoo York just dropped their latest video, “King of New York,” a montage of hammers filmed 100% in NYC. Check it as Timbo talks to Chaz Ortiz & RB Umali about what it takes to get a video shot in the city, how most people think Chaz is from New York & what a close call this year’s Skater of the Year award was.
Back-to-back come-from-behind wins earn the Australian his third ASP crown; Slater wins Pipeline Masters, while Florence takes Triple Crown in a historic day at Pipeline.
Mick Fanning had to put Kelly Slater out of his mind heading into the final day of competition at the Billabong Pipeline Masters on Oahu’s North Shore. In his quest for a third ASP world title Fanning was in control of his own destiny, needing only to advance through two more rounds of competition in order to clinch it.
If he could just do that it wouldn’t matter what Slater did. But if he failed to advance to the semifinals, and Slater won the event, something he’s done six times before, that would mean 12 titles for Slater … More