In November, when P-rod’s Plan B part hit the virtual shelves over at iTunes, eyebrows were raised in all sorts of directions. Following the groundbreaking pay to play Berrics’ release of Shane O’Neill’s part earlier in the year, P-rod became the second skater to give the concept a shot. But unlike Nugget, whose footage was put out with a “cough up the dough and do this starving young artist a favor” type of plea, P-rod isn’t poor, resulting in a greater outcry about it not being free for the digital taking.
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Last-minute flights, dealing with injuries and meeting up at an international event is just part of the daily routine when you’re a pro athlete in a relationship. For this edition of Better Half, we caught up with two pros bridging the Dew Tour gap - Winter Dew Tour freeskier Mirjam Jaeger, who hails from Switzerland, and Dew Tour vert skater Adam Taylor, a Florida-native living in San Diego.
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There is a saying that it’s sometimes hard to distinguish the difference between luck and hard work. But that’s not the case when it comes to Pierre-Luc Gagnon, who did something that no one’s ever done before.
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Picture This is an Alli feature designed to give you a peek into the lives of today’s top action sports athletes. For this installment, we sent skater Josh Stafford a random list of things to take pictures of with his camera and here’s what he sent back.
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My Five is an Alli feature where we ask the same five questions to five different athletes and compile all the crazy answers for your reading pleasure. For this installment, we talked to skaters.
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