Best designed action sports websites

Snowcase

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I'm doing a little research on action sports websites and need some help picking the best designed ones. Give me your top 5 with a short description of why you think it's design is better than the others you've listed. This list might be small so if it's been listed before please don't list it again unless you have a different description of why. Thanks guys!
 
www.redbull.com
www.monsterenergy.com

both have tons of links to videos, pictures, current events, upcoming events, athlete info, monster even has a music section. they're super entertaining and you can kill a lot of time clicking around there, plus they have tons of crazy and cool shit which helps to hype up their brand.
 
go to seshn.com and check out their client list. those are the best designed action sports websites. seshn's killing it. that and everything redbull touches.
 
um, not a single site posted here is decent from a design aesthetic. actually, looking around, you're not going to find a well designed action sports website, because most of them are put together to appeal to people who are into action sports, not into design.
 
RVCA - Their main website is easily navigated, everything works, it has gone to that blog feel, but still remains RVCA with out looking like a wordpress install. But... they do use WP which annoys me a bit since their shop is in another content system. They could be saving load times and what not buy using an CMS that can do everything rather than 2 individual ones.
686 - Super consistent. They have a custom built CMS that executes the site beautifully and fast. That and the owner updates the blog nearly every single day which I think is really cool and shows his commitment to the company.
Mammoth Mountain - website is about as easy to navigate and book on as a ski resort gets. I always get annoyed when the store is taken care of by an outside source but Mammoth keeps it all contained in their own site. Aside from that, I love the design and it doesn't look like any of the other resorts out there.
This is an old website, but I love it and it still works.http://www.nike6motelnotell.com/ The design is just pretty awesome. everything else is standard.
Creative Reaction - to the point, simple, dark, elegant, an ease to navigate, doesn't look like wordpress. It's asp so I'm not actually sure what CMS they used, but likely they paid for it. The only thing I'm annoyed by is that a lot of their products lack descriptions. Maybe just cause they are still getting the season switched over.
Holden - I hate Flash. I wish people would stop using it. But if you are going to use flash, do it like Holden. Their pages always load uber fast meaning everything is loaded externally and via actionscript. It's easy to navigate. They are doing things you would have trouble doing with html5/js and therefore actually requiring flash.
 
Well fuck.
Last year when I interviewed with them, they were using a custom built cms. Still the same website but now it's wordpress? I'm still not entirely convinced in that I only see 2 calls to wp-includes which could be they are running wordpress but doesn't mean the site is in wordpress....
and as far as CR goes, just saw that it was aspx, didn't look much into it aside from that. All I know is that there are quite a few asp.net cms's out there so i figured it was one of them.
Love your list of sites!
 
I guess they put their blog into wordpress the rest of the site remains in their own CMS. Looks like it happened in March of this year. I had no idea. Not sure why they did but my guess is for mobile updates. They did a decent job working with it because it doesn't just look like a blog, still retains a lot of the same feel it has always had. I think it's clear that I'm not a wordpress advocate. I haven't worked on a wordpress site in at least 3 years and I'm pretty happy about it.
 
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