From their About Page:

Azriel Clothing started with the idea to make sick clothes at an affordable price all the while helping others less fortunate. Founded in Bend, Oregon Azriel is a socially conscience company with a deep rooted belief in helping the community and others around them. 10% of everything Azriel sells goes to children’s charities. Along with this Azriel is currently working on a shirt project to financially aid the family of Tyler Eklund, a 14 year old snowboarder who was paralyzed at a competition this last year.

However, they also stated what and how they support Team Eklund:

Tyler Eklund, The Bend, Oregon 14-year old paralyzed in a snowboarding accident in Nevada is now recovering at Portland’s Legacy Emanuel Hospital. Tyler suffered an injury to the C3 section of his vertebrate in a snowboarding accident this last winter. The nerves in his body are not healing like doctors had hoped. When he injured these nerves, the damaged extended downwards, and while lower body nerves such as ones of hands of fingers can heal themselves, the nerves in the spine cannot.

Doctors say he will only be able to use the top 2 segments of spine and his head. Theses sections do not include control of his extremities or lungs. Chances are he will need a respirator for the rest of his life and a home to accommodate his immobility.

75% of every shirt sold goes to the Eklund family to help in aide the construction and renovation of their house to make it accessible for Tyler.

I’ve been working at boardriding industry for about 5 years, make a lot of good connection, get to know the industry better through industry reports until i left my (corporate) work last month. The picture of the industry in my head is full of fake corporates, jocks and ignorance. That’s how i left anyway.

So it’s a very nice feeling everytime i find a cool company in the industry exist not only for the money and sh*t (who don’t like money anyway, i just want to continue to have money with style…) but also for a good cause. Which is rare to find these days.

Check Azriel Clothing here, a very good web design as well!

I would love to see more professional athlete make the use of internet to make the most of their career. From what i see, professional athlete in my country is too lazy to do this. Most of them think that having a MySpace account is enough. Pity. They should learn from Sean o Brien.

You should check out Sean O Brien’s blog and his tour diary page.

Priceless! Cool!

Like always most of my internet hours filled by RSS readings. This time i found an interesting company / business idea through CoolBusinessIdeas: Nvohk (spelled invoke).

Like the title of this post, Nvohk is a community-managed, eco-friendly, surf-inspired clothing company. The company is now recruiting members via their site.

How it works:
1. Enter your Name and email address at the site.
2. When 20.000 members sign up, you will be invited to contribute $50 a year to develop and manage the company.
3. Members make major business decisions including logo design, product designs, advertising etc.
4. 10% of net profits go straight to environmental charities.
5. 35% of net profits are rewarded to members via reward points.

It sounds like some sort of Public Company or even a one tier multi level company but better. Because you don’t have to recruit anyone which will become your affiliate and because their concept is community driven. Also what interests me is the eco-friendly message they are in. It is important. Many times, surfers are contributing saving our earth, and we can’t stop because saving our earth is a never ending project.

For more information you can go to their site www.projectnvohk.com and make your choice. FYI, the company also supported by Transworld Surf magazine.

I’m in.

The Nixon Art Mosh is a rotating art installation open for one evening of fun featuring the artwork from local artists, athletes and friends. The November 16th stop will also showcase items from Nixon’s exclusive LTD Collection, featuring watches made from Tony Hawk’s skatedeck as well as the leather jacket from Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.

Featured artists include: Taylor Dunfee, Grant Brittain, Chivo, Dustin Ortiz, Tyler Nelson, Michael Carter, Dave Swift, Rob Machado, Axel Pauporte, Anthony Ghiglia and Randy Laybourne

Entertainment will be provided by DJ Chris Cote. We invite you to join Nixon from 7-11pm for an evening of drinks, appetizers, music and the great art that San Diego has to offer.

Nixon Art Mosh
1037 J Street
San Diego, CA 92101

The PacSun community (www.pacsunteam.com), on Loop’d Network, will offer sponsorship opportunities to amateur surfers, skaters and snowboarders, and provides a forum for them to interact with other athletes, fans and enthusiasts.

Beginning Nov. 5, PacSun will launch a nationwide effort on Loop’d Network that will enable the company to find surfers, skaters and snowboarders to sponsor through its online community. In addition, PacSun will leverage Loop’d Network’s interactive features to directly connect with community members.

If video is the most important media to promote skateboarding business, however, Girl Skateboards has all the advantage by having Spike Jonze on their side. The famous director has also served as the owner of the company (he’s the one that the world can describe best about Girl Skateboards). But truly, that’s how they got the legendary Yeah Right video.

Creative-Online also highlight about the company’s site CrailTap.com and its unique approach to communicate and connected to its visitors.

You can find more on this here.

Via Skate Daily.

In their own words:

The Grom Project is dedicated to educating, inspiring and preparing youth to build a better future: for themselves, their communities and the environment. We speak to kids through surfing – its athletes, companies and culture; because the surfing lifestyle, at its best, challenges us to pursue respect, personal excellence, knowledge and peace.

How true.

It’s nice to hear that people are still care about the better living earth. It’s a core of Boardriding community anyway…

More on Grom Project here.

You have received a friend request from cjhobgood:

Hey! Me and my brother Damien just joined Go211.com’s pro team! We’ll be uploading new videos and photos of our competitions and travels – you’re definitely going to want to check it out!

Add me as a friend – then we can stay in touch!

-CJ

Dude, i felt special and stoked. I went to my profile page at go211, and approved his friend request. Soon after that, i read this on the upper side of go211’s front page:

Breaking News: ASP and Go211.com announce new venture; Professional Surfers C.J. and Damien Hobgood have joined the Go211 Pro Team!

So i realize, everyone that has Go211 profile would probably become CJ Hobgood’s friend.

Dude… damn. I suddenly back to a ‘ordinary’ person feeling.

Ok, at least CJ is one of my 3 top friends now. In a boardriding networking site. Thanks CJ, you’re a top friend to me!

Anyhow the visual look is a bit old school (no pastel colors) but the game is smart. I like it, i think you should try Radical Mathematical.

Anyway, i stole this picture below from Skate and Annoy.