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Actions sports, the web, Kelly Slater, Steve Caballero, and where to find it all.

On 01.25.12, In Adrenaline Talks, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Surfing, Wakeboarding, Windsurfing, By AdrenalineHotTub

The world of action sports is making big moves online. The announcement of four new action sport channels on YouTube last week featuring Kelly Slater, Tony Hawk, and Shaun White, to name a few, promises our favorite athletes all the time. Even better, it is just the tip of the iceberg.

Continuous streaming video platform Redux, makes it easy to flip through videos from all over the web by genre in playlists. Redux offers a whopping 50 action sport channels ranging from everything from watersports, BMX, Rad Collector, to skydiving and base jumping. Once you pick your ‘cup of tea’ you sit back and enjoy a custom curated list of vids. You can choose next at anytime and switch channels with a swift click. I have gotten lost on the Adrenaline channels for hours, it will suck you in.

Brand new product by Chill.com let’s you follow your favorite action athletes Facebook feeds of videos. Us enthusiasts stick together so you can probably follow your friends as well to get the best in big wave, big air, and best trick.

To top it all off, our favorite athletes are getting more tech savvy. My Instagram feed is filled with travel stories of Steve Cab, Jossi Wells, and the GoPro film crew that captures the best in action sports. Facebook feeds are littered with edits and regular tweets by surf, skate, and snow’s fame keep us all up to date.

Awww, I love it when a good marriage works. We can only hope action sports and tech stay together for the kids.

The Surf Expo 2011 Orlando

On 09.14.11, In Kiteboarding, Surfing, By AdrenalineHotTub

Upon my Los Angeles return from the Surf Expo in Orlando this weekend, I am still riding out the good vibes from the event. New 2012 products in wake, surf, kite and SUP made it like a fairy tale like Christmas for all us waterman and -women.

Wave kites, impacts vests, new surf shapes, all lined the booths of brands innovating for the 2012 consumer. Slingshot, Cabrinha, Mystic, and Hyperlite (wake bindings) proved to be at the forefront of the industry showing us new designs, lines, and updated technology.

I am already excited for next year. Here are some pics from the show:

Thank you to Kiteworld Magazine and Kiteboarding Magazine, my two favorite employers for making me feel right at home at the Surf Expo!

-Jenna

Nitro City, a resort for the rest of us.

On 07.16.11, In Extreme Paradise Trips, Kiteboarding, News, Surfing, Toys, Wakeboarding, By AdrenalineHotTub

If you have hung out with me in the past few months, you have undoubtably heard me talking about Nitro City Resort in Panama. From the Nitro Circus umbrella, Travis Pastrana and Red Bull North America’s, Hayes Wheeless bring you an action sports resort beyond our wildest dreams.

“Picture a resort on a peninsula that’s an hour away from everything, quiet, with good food and normal girlfriend or wife stuff to do,” Pastrana says. “But if you want to skydive or ride motocross or use the cable park, you can do that, too.”*

Kite, wake, motocross, surf, windsurf, resort massage, 5 star dinner, some r&r in your chosen action sport themed room, repeat. Just heavenly.

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I originally heard about the resort from my partner in Blowme Clothing, who runs Sirlin Enterprises as he has done all the graphics for the resort, from the boat decals to the tees. Josh has already booked his stay for September and it is clear I should probably follow in his footsteps. According to Josh, “you drop your girlfriend off at the pool and go play!”

The resort is described by the website as being the ‘closest white, sandy beach to Panama City.’* Equipped with luxurious beachfront rooms, two restaurants and a bar, a waterfront pool with waterslide, a motocross track, an extreme water sports center and a cable park it is clearly a resort for both worlds. It is Club Med, for adrenaline addicts. When can we get our fix?

According to Hayes Wheeless’s Twitter (Red Bull America and co-founder of the resort), the resort is almost done construction and on the brink of being public ready. I can hear the excitement building just among the kiteboarding pro community as I cover the Rosham Throwdown this week in Hood River.

“Tell me when it is open and I will book my trip tomorrow,” Slingshot pro rider and South east rep for wake and kite, Matthew Sexton replies excitedly to hearing about the resort for the time yesterday. He turns to the line of pros beside him, “who is in?” I spread the word to Jason Slezak and Sam Bell of Real Kiteboarding (on Liquid Force and Naish pro team consecutively), ‘you in boys?’ Nothing but thumbs from the kiteboarding front lines.

As I peruse through the Nitro City Facebook I see nothing but upcoming events in all the action sport disciplines. Wake dayz, Kite-cross, and notably past: Travis Pastrama skydiving in to announce the upcoming opening (http://www.youtube.com/v/7ZqToVVpqVQ?version=3). My gosh, the excitement is so high I can barely type this. And the room rates, all very affordable:

Preparing to get my adrenaline fix in Panama City as we speak…

*http://espn.go.com/action/fmx/news/story?page=travis-pastrana-rama-part-6&campaign=rss&source=ACTIONHeadlines
*Nitrocitypanama.com

Tunes for this post: Benny Benassi

Nike, (The) Chosen

On 07.08.11, In Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Surfing, By AdrenalineHotTub

I know. Most of you have seen this. It was prime time. But it is not everyday that we see our favorite action sport athletes on prime time. Thanks Nike.

“Paul Rodriguez, Julian Wilson, Danny Kass and the rest of the Nike team take the stage in the mother of all night jam sessions” according to the video description.