October is National Breat Cancer Awareness Month and to help continue to raise awareness ROXY is teaming up with Sun Diego Boardshop and will be heading down south this Saturday, October 1st from 12-3pm.
Help kick off Breat Cancer Awareness Month with a Live Art Show featuring Roxy world champion longboarder and artist Jen Smith and fellow team rider Amy Murphree. In support of Keep A Breat Foundation, Jen and Amy will be painting casts from KAB and signing FREE posters! There will also be giveaways and tons of prizes from Roxy and KAB!
See you at the Sun Diego Fashion Valley location this weekend! For more event details visit Facebook.
After a few fun weeks in the states, I’m back in the southern hemi for round two of winter. Well, actually springtime. I’m back in Wanaka with my brother Benny and fellow Aussie Scotty James to ride for the last bit of spring shredding. So far so good. We’ve been having heaps of fun in Wanaka, riding at Treble Cone and Snowpark and just being back in the scene. Cardrona is hosting private halfpipe and airbag sessions the first two weeks of October so a bunch of the international riders are also making their way back to New Zealand for slushie spring pipes and jumps before winter starts up again in the northern hemisphere. Should be fun to ride with everyone again!
The snow team girls cruised down to the office last week to check out next years 2012/13 snow line and to talk about ideas for 2013/14 outerwear. That’s right, I said 2013/14. It’s hard to wrap your head around where trends will be 2 years from now, so there is no one better for the task than our talented snow girls. They live and breath the mountain lifestyle, trend scouting snow fashion is second nature to them. Sarah Burke, Erin Comstock, and Robin Van Gyn gathered together with our talented design team to start work on what will inevitably be an amazing collection.
It wasn’t all future-talk, the girls also took some time to go over our new 2011/12 Snow Collection that launched earlier this month. Everyone agreed that the Torah Bright pant is a perfect pant, and the they love the longer fitting coats, like Brooke, Unity, and Wild. Sarah and Robin both spend their winters in the cold and wet Whistler mountains, so they are both looking forward to staying extra warm with the Cypher heating jacket.
Mountain dwellers revel in the chance to clock in some beach time, so during down time the girls hopped in the Roxy cruck and headed to the beach to catch some waves.
Malaysian-via-London songstress Zee Avi started writing her new album, Ghostbird, in her Brooklyn kitchen in summer 2010. Soon enough, she followed the winds south to the balmy waters of Florida’s Everglades, where she discovered a near-endless source of muses. Fast-forward to this past March, when she and producer Mario Caldato, Jr. (well-known for his work with the Beastie Boys) laid down 11 tracks in only two weeks – including the album’s closing number, “Stay In The Clouds,” written on the final day of recording. Now that ghostbird is out, catch Avi on tour across the U.S. this month!
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I’m really excited that the new HP ePrint campaign has launched and the commercial is playing in Australia and NZ. Have a look and let me know what you think!
The whole campaign was a lot of fun to shoot and I’m getting a lot of use from my printer lately – whoever thought I’d be able to send stuff from my phone to my mum’s printer on the other side of the world… Oh and I love love love that my mum has a cameo in the commercial! Hope you enjoy the commercial as much as I do and stay posted for more….there are a few versions in the mix.
Didn’t get a chance to hangout at the ROXY BEACH HOUSE at the Quiksilver Pro, NY this year?
That’s okay! We’re giving you a chance to score some
must-have ROXY memorabilia straight from the amazing event on Twitter!
Starting September 28th until October 2011 11th we will be giving
away 1 ROXY BEACH HOUSE prize package each week!
We’ve selected some of the most coveted items (and our favorites!)
from the ROXY BEACH HOUSE
and we’re giving you, not just one, but two chances to win!
2 lucky winners will WIN the following prize package items:
I Heart Surfer Boys Tank
Surf Camp Shirt
Aloha Shirt
Roxy Branded Sunglasses
Roxy Beach Ball
‘Stoked’ Hat
&
Roxy DIY- JUST BEAD IT kit
Week 1: September 28th-October 4th October 5th Winner Announced ($150 value!) Week 2: October 5th- October 11th October 12th Winner Announced ($150 value!)
Check out Roxy team rider Torah Bright on the cover of Snowboarder Girl. Torah made the cover of this special issue in honor of her making the 2014 Australian Olympic Women’s Halfpipe Team. Go Torah! Roxy team rider Erin Comstock also makes an appearance, discussing some of her biggest sidelining injuries and how she came back even bigger and stronger than before. Last but certainly not least, this special edition of Snowboarder Girl features all of Roxy’s must have items for this upcoming snow season including top boards, bindings and outerwear. To catch up with Torah and Erin and get a sneak peak of Roxy’s Winter 11/12 offerings, check out the newest edition of Snowboarder Girl on stands October 4th. Don’t forget to visit roxy.com for the latest updates on your favorite Roxy team riders and products!
Doheny State Beach was packed over the weekend with SUP fans and competitors alike for the fourth annual Battle of the Paddle September 24th & 25th.
The morning started with a 9am Elite Race and the newest addition to the Battle of the Paddle this year. This elite course is a multiple lap circuit that includes paddling through the surf and beaching equipment for a short, flagged sand run.
Only the top ten women advance, and Roxy’s Stand Up Paddle team did not disappoint. Advancing to the finals in the afternoon was Roxy’s very own Talia Gangini, one of the youngest riders out there, who came in with a 3rd place finish, while fellow Roxy’s Gillian Gilbree was right behind her.
Both girls moved on to the afternoon finals and Gillian overtook the 5th position from Talia who took 6th in the last round.
Roxy’s stand up Paddler Vanina Walsh also participated in the 2011 Baddle of the Paddle over the weekend. Vanina took two 1st places in the 13-14 girls and a 4th in the 18 and under girls stock board race.
Vanina was also given a special award for being the most inspirational female paddler!
Congrats to 17-year-old Kaitlyn Bachiller for winning the grand prize in our Macy’s Sweepstakes! Kaitlyn got to learn to surf with surf team rider Kelia Moniz and got a Macy’s Roxy $200 shopping trip to top it off. See below for their fun day out in Queens Beach, Hawaii! A special thanks to Kaitlyn’s mom who brought the crew homemade banana-croissant bread pudding!
If you’re a fan of Wavves, Best Coast, and the Soft Pack, but haven’t run across the Franks yet, you’ve been missing out. The trio busted onto the Los Angeles scene three years ago and hasn’t stopped to take a breath since. Their maximum-fun EP, Duh, may clock in at only ten minutes, but its five songs are sure to scorch your ears as they fuel your next surf session. Listen for their blistering single, “Ray Gun Radio,” hammering away in the background of the final episode of our California Trippin’ series
