If all goes as planned, we will be launching our Fall 2010 Collection by the end of next week. We are excited; the new stuff is looking really good. We are currently working to ad all the new stuff to the website, once complete, we will hit the launch button. In the meantime we’ll leave you with this tease, just to give you a little taste of what’s to come. Here’s one of the 2 new color combos of The Karlton coming in hot! Have a rad weekend!

Introducing the Karlton in cyan

For a nation that tends to focus on football, baseball, and basketball, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sporting event get folks more excited than World Cup Soccer. The last minute Goal by Landon Donovan made people completely lose it. If this video doesn’t fire you up then you don’t have a pulse. Can’t wait for the next game! Come on USA, let’s do this!
GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are a fan of the kite surfing scene you’ve no doubt heard of Ben Wilson and his recent decision to part ways with his longtime kite sponsor, Slingshot. It wasn’t bad blood, as Ben has nothing but praise and thanks for the company (watch his thank you video), it was more that Ben has a very big vision for the future of kite surfing, and desired the freedom to explore new horizons. Here’s a message from Ben regarding his search for perfection in bridging the gap between kiting and surfing.

It’s going to be interesting to see where Ben Wilson’s search for perfection takes the sport of kite surfing!

Summer’s here and there’s definitely something brewing in the Pacific. The tropics have already fired up, we have 3 named storms tracking west off the coast of Mexico, and things are just getting started. Will we get a big hurricane swell this year? Like Guillermo and Linda from 1997? That is the question, and we hope the answer is yes. Let’s do this!

From Celia with Love

We’ve got to give some big time props to to Flynn Novak for helping push the progression of surfing. These clips are absolutely amazing! A full back flip rotation on a surfboard, landed perfectly, and ridden out…are you kidding me? Nope, here’s Flynn on ESPN.com explaining and proving that surfing’s first true back flip is a reality.

However, there is some unfortunate news to report. Flynn was in the running to make the cut for the spring round of www.innersection.tv but was disqualified because one of his other clips had been previously used. It’s confusing, but rules are rules, here’s the FULL REPORT. Anyways, hats off to Flynn for taking things to the next level. He’s a hero with our without a section in innersection.tv.

Yesterday officially kicked off the 2010 Summer and in Southern California it’s the siren call for south swells, bikini’s and battling the crowds at lower trestles. Here’s a video from last summer with Cory Lopez and Andy Irons absolutely ripping Trestles like tigers slaughtering a wildebeest. It’s a mind-boggler that we didn’t come across this video sooner, but better late than never thanks to the good guys at www.insurfnews.com

Teddy Navarro specializes in making crappy surf look fun. We get lots of days like this in June, due to the constant south wind cheese breeze, but Teddy doesn’t complain, he just makes it rain buckets of salty sea spray. Seriously, has June Gloom onshore slop ever looked so shredable?