the DL Winter WE SURVIVED THE MAYAN CALENDAR AND IT’S finally snowed across most of the U.S. I guess that means the world isn’t coming to an end just yet and we can shred now. The dust seems to have settled since the big news from Burton hit the fan late this Fall. The announcement outlined a plan to phase out Forum, Foursquare and Special Blend, scale back RED drastically and start pushing helmets under goggle brand Anon. The plan also detailed moving Analog back to Burlington to become a snowboard apparel specific brand, while moving Gravis to Tokyo to focus on Asian markets. Wow...
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Greg Manning gman@steezmagazine.com Not a lot going on at the sponsor level. Most notably, Kazu Kokubo is now on Capita and Union. Shuriken Shannon is sporting Ipath’s. New Balance is teaming up with Westlife Distribution and Black Box Distribution to burst into the skate shoe category with it’s new line, New Balance Numeric. More to come.
In contest news, The Dew Tour roled through Breckenridge in mid December. Kaitlyn Farrington took the Superpipe finals for the women and of course Shaun White took the mens. Slopestyle finals went to Jamie Anderson for the women and Mark McMorris for the mens division. Mark also claimed the top spot for the Big Air event. Congrats goes out to, Alec Majerus, for winning this years Tampa Am in early December.
On the events side, there’s plenty goin on as usual this winter. Starting with tradeshows, Agenda NYC returns Jan 23-24, OR runs Jan 23-26 and SIA kicks off in Denver on January 31st. Also, SXSW will go from March 8-17 in Austin, TX again this year. On snow, The Crotched Mountain Block Party will return on Jan 19th, meanwhile the new series on the East, Video Games, kicks off it’s first of 4 stops at Wachusett Mountain on Jan 26th. X Games will take place as usual at Aspen Jan 24-27. We’ll be hosting our 4th annual Mountains of Steez Day on Feb 16th at Granite Gorge and the Arbor Faceoff will make a stop at Cranmore on March 9th. On the skate side, this years Tampa Pro will be held on March 22-24. Look for a new Steez website dropping in early February for more events, news and exclusives.
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