Lots happening in sports this week and this coming weekend. Here's a few bits of news and a few events... Oh, and Dragon Alliance released their newest sunnies style last week. Called the Decca, it's got a 50's style to it but the guys are also running a pretty cool little give away through Pop to win sunnies and a couple of festival tickets. Head over here for details and see a few entries in the gallery above!


Videograss' Bon Voyage Premiere in Melbourne Tonight!
This is going to be an epic film - the second from the guys at Videograss - and the premiere is going down tonight at 1000£ Bend (361 Lt. Lonsdale St. Melbourne) tonight at 7.00pm. It's free entry and the night has been supported by Ashbury Eyewear, Holden Outerwear and Ride Snowboards... Oh, and us. Pop Magazine. Hit here for details.

Forum F'It Premiere
The premiere for the epic new Forum flick F’It is happening in a couple of weeks time. If you’re in Jindy, you need to get along to the carpark outside First Tracks on Friday September 17th for a BBQ and outdoor screening. If you’re in Melbourne it’s going to happen on Monday 20th September from 7pm at Revolver on Chapel St. Check the details above and peep the teaser below – going to be rad, hope to see you there!



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Travis Parker Rejoins K2
The legend, Travis Parker, is back at it and has rejoined K2 snowboards... It took a bit to confirm this when we heard the news but our friend, Robbie Walker, posted it in his blog along with a photo of a freshly signed K2 poster from back in the day.

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Street League Stop Two This Weekend
Event two of the inaugural Street League series is happening this weekend and the hype is definitely building and not just around the event. There is continuing escalation between Street League and the Maloof Money Cup with next years Maloof series becoming a five stop series including one international destination called the Platinum Money Cup. We’re all still waiting for news on Chris Cole’s situation with the $1 million still on the table from the Maloof’s if he can win the next MMC event. The Vegas Weekly has picked up the story with columnist Robin Lynch picking up the story – you can read his run down here. Nyah Huston’s win and statistics in event one has set the benchmark for the So.Cal event this weekend and riders now know that they have to do to win. He finished with 5.0 average tricks landed and an 82% consistency score. Shane O’Neill finished on a higher average trick score (5.2) but lower consistency cause he has more runs in each section. The guys will be looking to these numbers as the target this weekend. Finally, the Championship Points table has been released... But that's a whole other thing. Best to read more on this here.

Ali Boulala Is Back And On Kr3w
Ali Boulala has been off the board and out of the spotlight after a motorbike accident a few years ago in which his good friend and fellow pro, Shane Cross, was killed. Boulala suffered some serious injuries and was also sentenced to a hefty jail term despite everyone including Cross' family claiming that it was not for the best. After he was released and deported from Australia (he is originally from Sweden) earlier in the year, he has been off the radar until the announcement late this week that he has been signed onto Kr3w denim. Check the welcome back video here...



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Lifetime Collective Video
I got sent this amazing short film done by Brock Mitchell for Lifetime Collective. The description says it’s, “a short film inspired by New York photography, in the streets of Calgary Alberta.” Whatever it is, it looks amazing. The clip stars Sean Macallister, check it out!



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Stab Magazine Editor On Empire Ave
Linc and Tim at Empire Ave have got an amazing feature together with the founder of Stab Magazine, Sam McIntosh. The article goes into the positive points of trying your own business, how Stab came about and the direction of the magazine. Despite all the controversy you can’t help but like these guys and what they do… Well worth a read.

Check it out here.

Andy Irons Versus Kelly Slater

Watching Andy Irons win the Tahiti comp on Sunday morning reminded me of the last time I’d seen him surf, at Winki Pop against Taj Burrow back in April. As Taj ran down the stairs before that heat, a smart-arse surf journo mate sitting nearby yelled, with mock concern: “go easy on him, Taj!” TB looked back, grinned, kinda rolled his eyes, then went out and completely and utterly annihilated his Billabong team mate. It was merciless. Watching Irons surf that heat was almost uncomfortable. Here was a bloke who on his day still has a legitimate claim on being the best surfer in the world, looking completely out of his depth at three-foot Winki. Surfing against Taj five years ago, it was him who woulda done the annihilating. But in April 2010, Andy didn’t look like he deserved to be competing against him. Worse, he looked like he knew it.

But that was then.

There’s a lot of words been written about Andy’s multiple-world-champ-disappeared-into-the-wilderness act, and everyone had an opinion on whether he was ready to be back on tour at the start of the year. If you only know Andy Irons from Blue Horizon, you’d be forgiven for thinking he’s kind of a dick. While that movie did him no favours, is it really the worst thing in the world for a professional athlete to turn into a slavering competitive mongrel when he puts on a contest shirt? Andy Irons rules. He wears his heart on his sleeve, gets publically emotional, and does ridiculous turns in parts of the wave most people can’t get to. At Bells that day, Dane Reynolds was the only person I spoke to who didn’t seem weirded out by AI’s apparent flakiness against Taj. “Andy’s back, man!” Dane had enthused, before describing how Andy had completely blown him away the day before at 13th Beach. Clearly, Dane was seeing things the rest of us weren’t, but if Andy and Kelly use Tahiti to get all fired up for the rest of the year, it could be the best reason we’ve had so far to get back into the tour.

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