Saturday August 26, 2006 : 07:42 PM
Chili Bowl Cook Off Results
Toad and Salmon’s 2nd annual Chili Bowl cookoff at SF’s Crocker Amazon skatepark went off with a bang yesterday with lots of fun, friends, bbque, crockpots of chili, adult beverages, product tosses, and top notch skateboarding too. Mixed generations of skaters gathered, competed and shared in the energy of a rare and warm summer afternoon in SF. While several unfortunate collisions took out a few of the local favorites in the skate jams, others rose above the rest and showed their might. It was grassroots skating all for the sake of skating and the chili was just as epic.
Final Results
1. Taylor Bingaman
2. Tyler Mumma
3. Gordon Eckler
4. Jack Given
5. Chris Dunn
6. Jeremy Tuffli
7. Jason Martinez
8. Jerry Gurney
Best Trick - (On facewall with wooden extension)
1. Gordon Eckler - FS Blunt and BS Pivot 270 to fakie
2. Taylor Bingaman - Indy Nosepick to fakie
3. Tyler Mumma - FS Crailslide to fakie
Chili Recipe Finalists
1. Maggie Martin
2. Jesse Trotter
3. Shawn & Todd
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Saturday August 26, 2006 : 08:37 AM
Autobahn Demo In San Diego
If you’re in the San Diego area today Autobaun Wheels is putting on a demo at the Clairmont YMCA Skatepark at 2pm. Scheduled to attend are Joey Brezinski, Clint Peterson, Pat Duffy and others. The flyer also touts free burritos and other exciting happenings.
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Friday August 25, 2006 : 11:15 AM
Jumping On Someone Else’s Train
Word has it that Jerry Hsu is now rolling on the couch and streets with Ricta wheels and Chris Haslam has been officially added to the Globe shoes team. Congrats dudes!
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Friday August 25, 2006 : 09:06 AM
Bones Hot Dog Tournament
Bones wheels has announced that they will be hosting a hot dog eating contest at next month’s ASR tradeshow. The sickness takes place at their booth #3085 on Friday 9/8 and Saturday 9/9. Each contestant during the preliminary rounds will have 2 hot dogs to eat as quickly as humanly possible. The first contestant to completely finish their two hot dogs move on to participate in the final round at 5:00pm on that day.
In the finals, each preliminary round winner will then have three hot dogs to skarf down as quickly as humanly possible and win $500. Sign up here and bring along your barf bag.
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Friday August 25, 2006 : 08:39 AM
Empire Distribution Expands Its Portfolio
The boys over at Empire Distribution are making some power moves with the inclusion of two well-respected East Coast skateboard brands and three softgoods labels to their distribution line up. Among them are Vehicle skateboards and the legendary Shut brand that had resurfaced earlier this year. Look for good things to come from all of these “skater owned and operated” companies in the months ahead.
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Thursday August 24, 2006 : 04:10 PM
Vans Downtown Showdown on the Web
Vans is set to webcast the 2nd Annual Downtown Showdown next Sunday, September 3 at 4 pm PST.
Vans has invited pro skaters from Alien Workshop, Baker, Birdhouse, Element, Enjoi, Foundation, Girl, Real, Toy Machine and Zero to submit designs for one of four obstacles as part of the Showdown, set in the backlot at Paramount Studios. The team names and their creations: Enjoi - Dick Gauntlet, Real - Hella Hyphy Bank , Girl - Mini Mega and Element - Double Do. What will these things look like? You’ll have to tune in and see…
Each team will session these four unique, custom-made obstacles in a round-robin format with awards going out for top team, best pro, rookie of the year and best performance by obstacle. The prize purse is set at an impressive $85,000.
Since space is tight this event is invite only but you can watch the Downtown Showdown in its entirety at www.vans.com and catch results, photos and coverage before, during and after the event at their live event blog. It will also hit TV screens on Friday, October 27 during the Vans Off the Wall hour on Fox Sports Net from 3-4 pm with subsequent airings on the FUEL action sports network.
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Thursday August 24, 2006 : 08:25 AM
Santa Cruz Vets To Appear in V-Day
Santa Cruz skateboards’ Veterans division is working on an energized skate video titled “V-Day” featuring its legendary riders Eric Dressen, Tom Knox and Jason Jessee. The mini doc flick will also include insightful interviews from those which they’d influenced years ago as well as with their peers and friends. Perhaps their newest Vet team recruit Keith Meek will also be involved?
For the record, Tom Knox kickflipped wallrides back in 1988. Believe it!
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Thursday August 24, 2006 : 08:01 AM
Philly Heats Up with a Mini Ramp Comp at FDR
There is nothing extreme about “SkateNerd’s Hot in the Shade at FDR 2006”. SkateNerd Inc. is hosting Philadelphia’s first ever mini ramp contest at FDR Skatepark in South Philadelphia. This competition will take place on the small steel 4.5 ft high skateboard ramp at FDR.
The sponsors are really what make this event special. While top skateboard competitions are usually sponsored by huge soda beverage corporations and mega bucks footwear brands, SkateNerd has another approach. Whole Foods has sponsored the competition with shopping cards for their health food supermarkets and fresh water to drink. Small skateboard companies such as True Love Collective, Saturday and Traffic put forth t-shirts and boards for contest winners. Artists and web site designers such as Creeper and Haveboard.com donated their skills and time with mural art and web promotion. Skateboard shops, Minnow and Nocturnal donated gift cards, skateboard equipment and even cash!
SkateNerd sees Philadelphia’s skateboard culture as a creative and healthy lifestyle. However with out many places to ride the skateboard community is in danger. Funds raised through t-shirt sales and a low cost bbq will be donated to FDR Skatepark as well as the Skateboard Advocacy Network, who seeks to advocate for skateboarders through organized representation and community action.
Those extreme contests are lame, get with it and come down to FDR on August 26th!
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Wednesday August 23, 2006 : 05:08 PM
Independent To Release Low Trucks
For several months now there have been rumblings and undercover hype about the upcoming release of Independent Truck Company’s Low trucks. While, riding a bit contrary to the brand’s deep history as the best turning trucks since forever (28 years and counting), the market demands a street-specific performance truck and Independent surely delivered.
From the official press release:
Independent Trucks is proud to announce the worldwide release on September 15, 2006 of the first-ever Independent low-profile street truck; the new Independent Stage 9 Low.
Utilizing the original Fast-Action Independent Geometry with the same kingpin and pivot angles–the new Stage 9 Low turns and responds quickly and precisely, just like an Independent truck should. By keeping the original axle position relative to the mounting holes the new Stage 9 Low provides the truest wheel base possible and keeps the meat of the baseplate outside of your wheels for solid nose and tail tricks. The shape of the inside portion of the hanger has been rounded for additional grind space on Smith and feeble grinds.
In its debut release, the new Stage 9 Low will come in Silver with red cushions in size 129. Independent will also be releasing an Eric Koston Stage 9 Low in conjunction with the release of this new truck. 139 sizes will be available for Holiday release.
Upon testing these Low trucks, Eric was asked of his opinion and he replied, “Rides like an Indy.”
And the rest of you thought they wouldn’t?
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Wednesday August 23, 2006 : 07:59 AM
Vans Unleashes Its Ridin’ Dirty Recap
Vans has posted up a video recap of its Ridin’ Dirty Tour that blazed along the east coast over this summer. Check the footage of Dustin Dollin, TNT, Chima Ferguson, Andrew Allen, Scott Kane, Dylan Rieder, and some very welcomed and inspiring footage of John Cardiel skating transitions once again for the first time at Brooklyn’s Autumn bowl. Yeah Cards!
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Tuesday August 22, 2006 : 10:07 PM
Foursome Skate Across Canada To Fight Breast Cancer
Four determined skaters are doing the distance across Canada to raise funds for breast cancer research. Rob Lewis, 26, of Winnipeg, Aaron Jackson, 25, of Summerside, P.E.I., Benjamin Jordan, 25, of Toronto and Carlos Koppen, 26, of Halifax have been averaging 100 kilometres a day since they left Halifax in May.
Read on for more information of their fundraising journey that will terminate in Vancouver sometime in October.
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Tuesday August 22, 2006 : 01:22 PM
Helping a Brutha in Need
Early this summer, Deluxe’s filmer Biggs was hit while riding his skateboard by a taxi cab that ran a stop sign. He got served and was very lucky that he didn’t die. In an effort to help offset his huge medical bills, Beers & Bros Presents: “The Best of Biggs” video premiere at Thee Parkside located at 1600 17th Street (at the corner of Wisconsin) in San Francisco.
The “The Best of Biggs” video is a one night only viewing of a short film Biggs put together of all of the best footage he has shot in the last few years of living in San Francisco. Biggs has no plans of cutting the footage to DVD, so this could be your only chance to see the flick.
$5 Donation at door
Doors at 8pm. Video at 10pm.
Plus: DLXSF product raffle. Come on down and win big.
Also, MicE might be shaving heads so Biggs doesn’t feel left out. So don’t show up wearing a beanie or hat, you might be the next to get it.
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Tuesday August 22, 2006 : 11:37 AM
Slam City Jam This Weekend…Calgary
It’s that time of year again, The Slam City Jam goes off this weekend at Stampede Park in Calgary, AB starting on Friday and ending Sunday night with the Pro Finals from 4-10pm. As always it should be a great contest and gathering.
Wondering why it was moved from Vancouver to Calgary? Vancouver is working hard to get ready for the 2010 winter Olympics. Hopefully four years will be enough time.
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Monday August 21, 2006 : 08:54 AM
It’s the Way of the Warriors
Do you have a crew of friends that collectively possess the creativity and skating, filming, and editing skills to produce a top notch skate video? Well, the time is now to skate and document in a battle for your glory days. The 2nd annual Way of the Warriors contest is getting ready to roll any day now. Last year’s winners, the Wetboys definitely know what it takes.
Awards will be handed out in a variety of categories including “best filmer”, “best editing”, “best trick”, and the ever sought after “best video.” The site claims that registration is still open, but closes soon. Get to it!
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Monday August 21, 2006 : 08:16 AM
New Gonz Video Footage And Signature Shoes
adidas has recently posted some new Gonz footage. Visit their skateboarding site and click on the floating Gonz head on the lower right side of the page to check out Mark and the Krooked team ripping up Nor Cal’s Sunnyvale park.
We also ran across this sneak peak of Mark’s shoe line hitting stores sometime next year. Looks like he’ll be sporting slips, Stans and mid-tops covered with his original artwork.
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Monday August 21, 2006 : 08:05 AM
‘Don Vito’ Margera Held On Colorado Sex Charges
Bam Margera’s uncle Vincent Margera, 50, was arrested Friday night after a skateboarding event in this Denver suburb after being accused of two incidents of sexual assault on a child, said Lakewood city spokeswoman Stacie Oulton. She said the charges involved inappropriate touching. Click here for the full story.
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Sunday August 20, 2006 : 01:30 PM
Dewing It in Portland
The third stop of the Dew Tour brought out loads of amplitude and wicked spills and thrills to the skate fans and mainstream crowds seated in the Rose Garden of Portland, Oregon. Perhaps those armchair skateboarders glued to their TV sets over the weekend caught the action too.
Out on the lackluster street course, man-child Ryan Sheckler rode away with his second win of the tour, gunning for a good shot at a another overall tour victory. Sandro Dias destroyed all competitiors on the vert ramp. Done deal.
Next? San Jose, California - September 7th-10th.
Final Results - Top 5
Street
1. Ryan Sheckler
2. Jereme Rogers
3. Greg Lutzka
4. Nyjah Huston
5. Austen Seaholm
Vert
1. Sandro Dias
2. Bucky Lasek
3. Jean Postec
4. Anthony Furlong
5. Max Dufour
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