Posts Tagged ‘Burton Snowboards’

I Think We Have a Shaun White Issue

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

*This entire post was made possible by Jeff over at Ocupop and by the number 12.

I don’t even know where to begin with this one. I mean, for real, this is troubling. I’m not seeing one Burton, target, HP, Red Bull or Oakley logo on him. His handlers must be pist!

I can only assume Mr. Blanco is coming directly from some sort of Thai ceremony where he played the role of Davy Crockett. That shirt is just blowing my mind right now. I really want it to be held together with safety pins in the back. Or may just shredded fabric. And that racoon tail. I’ve seen dudes on bikes try to rock that shit in Riverwest and they always give up after a few days. Even the shitbag/scenesters are like “you just went too far Fess Parker.”

Man, we’ve seen akshin sport styles go this way before. Gator? And what did he do? Oh yeah, he killed his girlfriend and dumped her body in the desert. This only lends credibility to my prediction as to how we can make snowboarding cool again. Check #9 it’s in there.

Ah Shit.

And where is Senor Blanco off to? To see the prez of course. Can you imagine Brobama and Blanco getting together. The ego in that room is going to be mega. They’re going to have to measure ‘em for sure.

This is how it’s going to go down.

Obama: Shiiiiit, maaaaan. That honky muf’ be messin’ mah old lady… got to be runnin’ cold upside down his head, you know?
Blanco: Hey home’, I can dig it. Know ain’t gonna lay no mo’ big rap up on you, man!
Obama: I say hey, sky… subba say I wan’ see…
Blanco: Uh-huh.
Obama: …pray to J I did the same ol’ same ol’!
Blanco: Hey… knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in’, man!
Obama: Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak ‘em…
Both in unison:…leg ‘er down a smack ‘em yak ‘em!
Obama: COL’ got to be! Y’know? Shiiiiit.

True facts. Though really I could have written this whole thing in WindDings 3,  as I imagine these two wont be speaking about anything of importance.

Meanwhile, over on Sean’s Facebook page we have this mess:

Man, white folks is angry.

Follow-up: This might be part of Burton’s elaborate “Keep Snowboarding Rich and White Campaign.”

What ever happened to Anne-Flore Marxer?

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

I posed this question last month because we never, EVER hear of her in the US anymore. And that is a shame. The girl has more style than like 500 Rumorators. A few years ago she got the boot from the Burton team and has since been nearly invisible. Okay, so I didn’t so much pose this question, it was more of the statement “stop wondering what ever became of Anne-Flore Marxer.”

Then this gem dropped in the comments:

hey this is me you are talking about.. it’s just a really weird and random comments.. as if I had died or something.. you probably missed my Transworld pro spotlight this year :) anyways the problem is that I don’t compete, i ride backcountry and shoot all year around, but being european girl shredder does not help getting a US major film crew.. the whole industry really is not helping the female riders at all.. so even if I shoot all year around and great pics I still don’t have a film crew.. if you have any tips let me know cause I really don’t see how I could change that.

So I guess AFM reads rumorator.com or at least followed the google alert for her name. That pretty much makes my day. Seriously, A.F.M. This shradmama is 100% radness. YES!

Yes, Anne-Flore, I did miss your pro spotlight in transworld this year. But really I’ve missed everything in Transworld Snowboarding since that Terje interview in like 1999.  So don’t put too much weight on that.

I guess the real issue out there is that she no longer has the mega-media machine of Burton behind her, so she’s having a harder time getting some hype in the US. But she’s still out there, and I can only assume she’s killing it. In fact if you want to catch up with her she’s got a blog happening in the intarweb. You can check her out here: Annefloremarxer.com and you can get in her Twitter trough here.

Now since she asked for some advice, I’ve got this for her:

Anne-Flore, you’ve got to update a bit more on the reg. It’s nearly a month between posts going on over there. Keep your fans updated at least once a week. And as far as being a female in the male-dominated world of the shrad. I’m sorry. You’re a great rider, the old media is dumb and you’re not nearly enough of a dirtbag (or redhead hooked-up by Red Bull) to appeal to the current US market.

On the other hand, you’re spending all year riding in the backcountry. This is not a bad thing. It’s pretty much a dream come true. Live it up.

But now that I know you’re out there still I’m going to keep keeping up on you. And if you ever want to to get dinner or see a movie, let me know.

Be well,

RvR

ps. What ever happened to Stefan Gimpl?