All Action Sports articles – Page 9
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Karakoram to make snowboard bindings at a new U.S. factory
While continuing to get them made in the U.S., Karakoram, the American supplier of splitboard bindings founded by Bryce and Tyler Kloster in 2008, will move into a new factory in North Bend, Washington state, close to the mountain region around Snoqualmie Pass. The company has just come out with ...
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Burton releases an Ak snowboarding apparel line with Gore-Tex
Burton’s new snowboarding apparel incorporates Gore-Tex fabrics and is named after the postal abbreviation for Alaska. The Ak line has received Bluesign approval and purports to combine waterproofing and breathability with style. The first items are the Ak 457 Gore JP Jacket and JP Bib, made with a three-layer 70D ...
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ArticleA bullish European surf industry honors Frederic Basse
Surfboards, wetsuits and other hardware items in the surf sector have recorded growth rates of between 20 and 40 percent during the current post-Covid year, according to the European Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (EuroSIMA). Speaking at the annual EuroSIMA Surf Summit in Hossegor, on the French Basque coast, Jean-Louis Rodrigues, ...
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News briefsPorsche gets involved in kitesurfing
In addition to its long-standing sponsorship activities in the sports of tennis and golf, Porsche will also support the further development of kitesurfing in the future. The first event sponsored by the automotive brand will be the Red Bull King of the Air in Cape Town in November 2021. In ...
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Brazilian surf brand incorporates Polygiene treatment
Oceano Surfwear has incorporated Polygiene’s Stay Fresh anti-odor treatment into a shirt collection, called Legends, developed in cooperation with a Brazilian surfing champion, Everaldo “Pato” Teixeira. The shirts, says Polygiene, “come with a guarantee that you can wear more and wash less – lightening the load on our planet and ...
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Short stops
June 25 Short Stops: Canada Goose - CSGA – HeiQ – Hestra - Jones Snowboards - Klarna – London Ski & Snowboard Festival - Parley For The Oceans - Shopify
Corporate: +++ HeiQ has acquired 100% of the equity and voting rights in a Hong Kong-based materials technology company, Life Material Technologies, which develops bio-based antimicrobial additives and treatments used by manufacturers of plastics, coatings, textiles, ceramics and paper, for $6.45 million, plus a potential earn-out ...
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News briefsThe Munich region is set to host Europe’s largest surf park
Following the official approval of the project, the ground-breaking ceremony for Surftown MUC is scheduled for the autumn of 2021, and its completion is planned for the summer of 2023. Located near Munich, the new complex will comprise a 20,000-square-meter surf pool as well as a 29,000-square-meter multifunctional hybrid building ...
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June 10 Short Stops: Accell - Archroma – Callaway - Football Association – Jack Wolfskin - Joop!- Kappa - Onefootball – Pinarello - Puma – Rusty – Shimano - Surftech – Titleist – VF - Wilson
Corporate: +++ VF Corp. is planning to discontinue the Eagle Creek brand of backpacks and luggage by the end of this year due to strategic and financial concerns, according to the Outside Business Journal +++ According to Bloomberg, the Sequential Brands Group is working on a deal with ...
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Burton calls on snowboarders to clean up their mountains
Burton Snowboards is calling for the annual Burton Clean Up Days, which started years ago with a crew of company employees picking up trash on their local mountain. Over the years, the event has grown into a movement of like-minded snowboarders cleaning up their personal playgrounds around the world. This ...
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Surfrider Europe launches Green Sport program
The Surfrider Foundation is launching its Green Sports Hub Europe program. Over the past few years, the NGO has actively participated in sports-related projects to protect the ocean and its users. The launch of Green Sport represents the next step in Surfrider Europe’s mission to promote healthier environmental sporting practices. ...
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Decathlon introduces inflatable surf board
Olaian, Decathlon’s surfing and bodyboarding brand, is launching a surfboard that can be inflated in only two minutes with a high-pressure pump, the company claims. The surfboard has been developed in France’s Basque coast, where Olaian has its global design center. The new surfboard weighs 5.8kg and can fit into ...
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Rip Curl to sponsor the World Surf League
Rip Curl will be sponsoring the World Surf League (WSL) Finals for the next three years. The single-day, winner-take-all tournament – taking place at Lower Trestles, in San Clemente, California – pits against one another the top five surfers from the Championship Tour (CT) rankings, in male and female divisions. ...
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Burton wants to see more female snowboarders in Sweden
Snowboarding has been expanding in Sweden lately. Starting with the current winter season, Burton Snowboards and the Swedish Ski Association have entered a collaboration to promote snowboarding among women, giving them an opportunity to try out the sport. Burton is partnering with the organization on projects like ProgSession and its ...
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Blue Tomato to rent snowboards and related gear
Blue Tomato, the European action sports e-tailer and retailer based in Austria and owned by Zumiez, has begun renting snowboards, splitboards, boots and bindings at two points of sale in Austria: one store in Obertauern and its headquarters in Schladming. The service, called “Rent Your Ride,” will be expanded to ...
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Surf Expo was held physically in Florida
Not all the industry’s trade shows are being held virtually these days. Without giving any attendance figures yet, Emerald Holding has reported on a successful in-person edition of its Surf Expo show, held from Jan. 6-8 as planned in Orlando, Florida. A total of 321 exhibitors registered for the event. ...
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News briefsGiro brings Rome Snowboards' co-founder on board as snow brand manager
Giro, the U.S. helmet specialist owned by Vista Outdoor, has hired Josh Reid as its new snow brand manager. Reid has a 25+ year career in the snowsports industry. He started as a prototype tester at Burton Snowboards, eventually having a hand in everything from leading Burton’s hardgoods testing department ...
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Burton re-sells a surf brand
In 2006, Burton Snowboards bought Channel Islands, a brand of surfboards, from Al Merrick, a shaper who founded it 51 years ago in Santa Barbara, California. Burton has now agreed to sell CI Surfboards to the founder’s son, Britt Merrick, along with members of its management and athletes. According to ...
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EuroSIMA Surf Summit to be held digitally
As many other conferences, the 19th edition of the annual EuroSIMA-Surf-Summit will now be held online, due to the current contact restrictions caused by Covid-19. As originally planned, the European surf industry association will start the event on Oct. 1, but the free and interactive conferences will be spread over ...
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Surf photographer joins Mizu’s ambassador team
Mizu, the brand of drinkware and other hydration and filtration products founded in 2008 by a Finnish pro snowboarder, Jussi Oksanen, has welcomed Todd Glaser, the well-known U.S. surf photographer, to its ambassador team. Glaser was a staff photographer at Surfer for over a decade, earning more than a dozen ...
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Garmin partners with Surfline to provide watch-controlled surf video
Garmin has paired the release of two smartwatches – the Fenix 6 Solar and the Surf Edition of the Instinct Solar – with the inauguration of a partnership with Surfline Sessions of Huntington Beach, California. Garmin’s wearable devices measure wave count, top speed, distance surfed and total water time. The ...
