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Weekend Reading List (4.21.12): Soccer Goal Tech, Is Baseball Dying, World Cycling, Surfing’s Dirty Boards

Goal-Line Tech

From ESPN Playbook: MLS moves toward goal-line technology

Other sports have utilized technology to ensure correct calls for years, from the ball-tracking system in tennis to instant replays in football and basketball. Finally, it appears soccer — the world’s most popular sport with the most passionate fans — will use technology to determine if a goal is, indeed, a goal. Continue reading Weekend Reading List (4.21.12): Soccer Goal Tech, Is Baseball Dying, World Cycling, Surfing’s Dirty Boards

SIA 2012: Quicksilver Makes a Play for the Mountains

Quicksilver, a brand known among surfers, watermen, skateboarders and snowboarders, is prepping its fall 2012 line for a newly launched mountain division. The line will be on show at Outdoor Retailer and SIA this month.

The fall line includes 16 pieces including insulator jackets, down parkas, fleeces, bombers, windbreakers and shells that range in price fom $80 to $250. In an early look Quicksilver revealed a photo of its Ghost Tree jacket, shown in orange.

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Siren Introduces SUP Board with ‘Unique, Fast Design’

For those intrigued with surfing but find it intimidating, stand up paddleboarding or paddle surfing (SUP) may be an alternative that’s easier to learn and offers an excellent workout. SUP is also popular with women, and Siren, the company that designs boards specifically for women, has introduced the Hot Pursuit Down-Wind Racing SUP.From Siren: “Building upon its collaboration with Channin Surfboards and CS Composite Engineering, Siren has created a unique and fast shape that caters specifically to the down-wind SUP racing arena.
The product of rigorous R&D and beginning as a 3D model based in proven hydrodynamic theory, a lightweight polystyrene core is precision machined and finished to exacting tolerances before being laminated with carbon fiber in an ultra-high modulus epoxy matrix. This shell is then sanded, painted and clear coated before entering the post curing phase. The 12.6 x 28 x 4.5-inch result is a nimble stand-up paddle board that is as fast as it is stable. Continue reading Siren Introduces SUP Board with ‘Unique, Fast Design’

Artist Turns 72 Beer Cans into Functioning Surfboard

The Beer Can Surfboard by Richard Quinn Morrison (Photo: Richard Morrison/Enviro Surf Art Series)

Here’s one way to recycle those empty aluminum beverage cans from your next party. Surfer and artist Richard Quinn Morrison, who started the Enviro Surf Art Series, has created a surfboard using 72 empty beer cans from six brands salvaged from a local bar. Morrison created the board with the help of surfboard maker Gary Seagraves. The 6’2” board uses a rocket fish design with twin fins and a swallow tail, and it was designed to be functional. Watch this video of how he put the board together. The board will be put to use soon to test out its sea legs.

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FROM 72 RECYCLED BEER CANS COMES A SWEET SURFBOARD (TREEHUGGER)

 

Catch Some Air or a Wave

We’ve heard of surfing, where you basically ride on the water; we’ve heard of windsurfing, where you ride on the water propelled by the wind; and we know about para sailing and para gliding, where you ride over the waves propelled by wind. So it was just a matter of time until someone came up with kite surfing.

This is part para sailing and part surfing. It is now an adventure sport that is being encountered in off the Venezuelan coast, but it probably won’t be long before it catches the trade winds and makes its way through the Caribbean.  It also seems to be gaining popularity in Australia and New Zealand.

This sport is a hybrid of surfing and kite flying, and uses both the waves and the wind to propel the rider. The surfer uses a standard board, reportedly with or without footholds or straps, and apparently hangs on to a kite. So you hang ten while hanging on.

[Via Mid Day: Have kite, will surf]