SPORTING-SAILS - Moon Sail

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TSJ+PJW SPORTING-SAIL Review - Longboarding

Check out this great review put together by Peter J. Weinrauch and The Skateboarder's Journal!

SPORTING-SAILS - Hermes Holiday Ad

Its an inspiring advertisement - elegant and simple as can be

SPORTING-SAILS - Nick Smith & FCD Surfboards

Sporting a soupy-toed noseride hogging the inside

Sporting an egg-cellent 6"6 single fin

Sporting a stylish cutback showering the face with clouds of spray

Sporting a signature bottom turn in delayed fashion

Nick Smith (SPORTING-SAILS Co-Founder & USC Surf Captain) having fun in some summer surf in San Diego

Check out the latest SPORTING-SAILS video on FCD Surfboards

SPORTING-SAILS - The Dafoe Show by Wolfe Productions

Check out the latest video trailer from Wolfe Productions - "The Dafoe Show"

Click here

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SPORTING-SAILS - Press

HUCK Magazine

About.com

SPORTING-SAILS - Dawn Patrol

SPORTING-SAILS - Dawn Patrol

SPORTING-SAILS - Techni-Ski Skateboarding

SPORTING-SAILS - Techni-Ski

Sportsman: Billy Smith

Photo: Lauren Parks

www.sporting-sails.com

SPORTIING-SAILS - Morning Sail

Morning Sail in Ventura, CA

"2 Corners & An Arch"

Sportsmen: Ryan Dafoe, Kalon Baird

Film: Billy Smith

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SPORTING-SAILS - Skate & Create - The Ramp Room (aka "The Pit")

There was a time we skated inside.

Washington winters and nothing was dry - not even the sky.

Up and down we skated around.

All sorts of sound made the neighbors frown.

Best room in town.

Skate & Create

"The Pit had a nostalgic smell to it. They lived there for but a year, but the character and memories that the air in there held made for a surprisingly comfortable setting that even strangers couldn’t ignore. One could smell it in the air…this was a good place.

There were strange vessels filled with fluffy ash and various accoutrements. The kind of things that could have only been acquired by those so enthralled in the pursuance and dispersement of the happiness provided by a supplement to, soon to become an accomplice of, surfing. A man could spin around and around, getting lost in the patterns and dream scenes on the walls, without seeing a unit of foam and resin. But it was there. It was always there. Harbored within two men that quickly came to understand that even in the wettest of environments, waves are not always found. Within a mile of salt water, cargo ships, whales, and octopi, waves are not always found. Not in here. Not in the Sound.

So they sat. They thought. Puff. Drink. Skate. Create. Stumbling and learning and through an endless imagination, a creation is unveiled that made wide the eyes of those in the know. A ramp was created and thus sparked the endless creation of human movement. A dance floor was born. And in the Sound, where waves were not always found. These men created. And skated." - Nick Cowgill, Pit Resident (circa 2005-2006)

SPORTING-SAILS - Web

SPORTING-SAILS getting some interest from online sources:

The Extreme Scene

The Gearcaster

SPORTING-SAILS - 1989

Bill Smith Jr. SPORTING-SAILS in Vail, CO - 1989

SPORTING-SAILS - FCD Fish

FCD Surfboards.

5'10 Twin Fin.

Sporting Yellow & Red.

Pierpont.

February 6th, 2009

SPORTING-SAILS - The San Francisco Slide

Nick Smith - in style & strength - slides through a San Francisco mix - wheels on fire like the quake of nineteen "oh" six

Photo: James Blose

SPORTING-SAILS - Imagination & Inspiration

Sometimes the most memorable evolutions in sports

lack complete desire to progress.

Making something from nothing is what having an imagination is all about.

The more you know, the less you need to have fun!

"When there's surf, I'm totally committed;

when there's none, it doesn't exist" - Miki Dora

SPORTING-SAILS - In Sweden!

Jenny Kjellbom
SPORTING-SAILS Team, Designer: HOPE
& Former Rider of the Swedish National Snowboard Team
sports her sail in fantastic flying fashion.

Skate & Deploy

SPORTING-SAILS - Slide or Deploy

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to slide or to sail down the mountain remains a decision one must contemplate during the descent.

The sound of screeching horror or the elegance of a whispering breeze...

Skate & Deploy.

SPORTING-SAILS - Malibu - Call to the Wall 2008

Co-Founder of SPORTING-SAILS & Sukräfte Team Rider, Nick Smith, gracing this beautiful & historical wave with an elegance derived from ski/skate style & strength.

SPORTING-SAILS - Harry Egger - Hot Pursuit of Speed

Harry Egger in the "hot pursuit of speed" means trying every trick in the book of aerodynamics - just like the speedski pioneers did 70 years before him.

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SPORTING-SAILS - The History of Ski-Flying

“Without a doubt it is a magnificent, even intoxicating feeling to float down in the air so long, far and high, truly acting more like a bird than like a human being, to a certain extent acquiring a superhuman characteristic trait and flying along just like an eagle.” - Sep Bradl (Austria, 1936)

Sep Bradl is the very first man to jump and fly over more than 100 meters at Planica in 1936. His accomplished attempt to "soar down the mountain" marked the beginning of the era of ski-flying.

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SPORTING-SAILS - Vail

...strap in and go!

ice & snow

down below

two sails,

two skis &

one breeze

is all you need...

SPORTING-SAILS by Sukräfte, LLC

inspiration is the reason

try something new

not bound by the season

enjoy many sports

not just one
mix them together

have fun

rid the conventions

simply create

skate like you ski

ski like you skate

SPORTING-SAILS by Sukräfte, LLC

SPORTING-SAILS - Leo Gasperl - Elegance of the Turn

leo gasperl (1930s-1940s)
angel of the snow

fastest man on skis

first coach of the italian national ski team

instructor to many royal families & international VIPs

model of ski fashion

lover of fine wine & architecture

photographer & writer

futurist artist & sporting hero

while other sportsmen have come & gone,
none displayed the elegance of leo gasperl

SPORTING-SAILS - A Tribute to Bill Smith Jr. & The Ski-Klipper

vail, colorado

nineteen seventy-one

bill smith jr. & karl hochtel

laughing in the sun

camprobbers cabin

game creek bowl

bratwurst & schnapps

no ski patrol

colorful ski-klippers

for miles & miles

friends & family

with faces full of smiles