17th Street Board Shop was the next stop for a Neff Game of SKATE.. It was HOT out so the Ice Cream that the Neff RV provided was much appreciated! Several kids braved the heat and battled it out in a game of SKATE for Neff Prize Packs.. There was some great skating going on but at the end of the session Matthew Bates took the win with Simon Schrider and Britton Vitolo hot on his heels!
17th Street Board Shop was the next stop for a Neff Game of SKATE. It was HOT out so the Ice Cream that the Neff RV provided was much appreciated! Several kids braved the heat and battled it out in a game of SKATE for Neff Prize Packs. There was some great skating going on but at the end of the session Matthew Bates took the win with Simon Schrider and Britton Vitolo hot on his heels!
Behind The Cover: Kolohe Andino’s Last-Minute Banger via TransWorld Surf
Covers are either the first or last page we pick for the magazine. In the case of this month’s cover, we waited until a few days before we shipped the magazine off to the printer to pick the cover. Kolohe Andino is one of the most photogenic surfers on Earth, and we had an insane variety of shots, but the one that kept sticking out in our heads was the noseblunt fin waft you see in front of you. The interesting thing about this shot is how it made its way to our cover.
Just before the crew of the Red Bull ‘Minor Threat’ trip set sail on the Indies Trader in early June, we told all four (yep, four) photographers on board that we were looking for a cover of Kolohe. The boat has internet capabilities, but it’s spotty at best, and sending images across the web proved harder than we thought it was going to be. During the daylight hours, the surfers were surfing and the photographers were shooting. From dusk through midnight the huge crew gobbled up every last drop of bandwidth Facebooking, Twittering, or whatever else you do while on a boat full of 20 dudes for two weeks. Needless to say, large photo files couldn’t be sent during normal working hours. The photographers ended up having to set their alarms for the middle of the night and take turns sending photos, and even then, the huge files took hours to load and didn’t always work—it was a clusterf—k, but at the midnight hour, this photo came in and was exactly what we were looking for.
Ryan Miller was in the right place at the right time, and he nailed the shot.
We generally never pick our cover surfer before we see shots, but when it came to Kolohe Andino’s Pro Spotlight issue, we couldn’t have put any other surfer in that spot. Kolohe Andino is an amalgamation of everything surfing has become—he is our sport’s poster child, and now, he is TransWorld SURF’s latest cover boy. Better yet, cover man.
—Chris Coté
Yesterday after a long haul to the East Coast the Neff RV made a stop over to Vertical Urge in North Carolina for the first ever Neff East Coast Game of SKATE. The RV rolled up to a gang of sweaty kids and ready for some Ice Cream. Vertical Urge had their own indoor skate park which was much needed with the scorching temperatures! After all the preliminary rounds of about 45 skaters the finals came down to 3, Mason Bovemder, Thomas Dritsas and JT Thomas. Some heavy tricks where put out there and after all said and done JT Thomas took the win and plenty of Neff Goodies to go along! Look for the RV later in the week at 17th Street in Wilmington NC, Rukus in Baton Rouge LA and Tylers in Austin Texas.
Chas Guldemond takes you on his late season shredding missions to Mammoth Mountain and Boreal. There is also some sick skating from Volcom
Brothers Skate Park!
Go to Neff World now and get these exclusive Neff Walpapers. (Click on the image)
Neff is a Proud Sponsor of the 2011 Bull Run Rally. The Neff RV participated in the rally which ran from July 8th to the 15th starting in Vegas and ending in Miami. The New Boyz caught a ride in the Neff RV and helped us hype the crowd with performances through most of the rally. Check out the Neff love on these RAD cars!
Neff Rider Ryan Decenzo is one of the four X Games Real Street finalist. Show him some love and get your vote on!
Teaser 2 is the 2nd of 3 teasers released by Process Films for its current 2 year film project. Following some of Norway´s most progressive
snowboarders, A Shot in the Dark will be split into two separate films. The first is a trick film while the second follows a documentary format.
Progression in snowboarding has been moving at an alarming rate over the last few years. A Shot in the Dark takes a look at the various channels of pressure riders face, and the harsh reality of injuries.
In Teaser 3, Norwegian DC team rider, Mats Hofgaard shares what goes through his mind.
