Saturday March 29, 2008 : 11:45 AM
Spring Skate Events
On the evening of April 3rd, Bobcat and Sleekstak.net present a benefit night of rock and roll in Seattle to support the ongoing efforts to expand and improve the Marginal Way skatepark.
Saturday, April 5th Dekline brings an afternoon of music, BBQ and a Game of Skate to Pacific Drive in Pacific Beach, CA. 1st place finisher wins a year’s supply of Dekline shoes!
Sun Diego and the SPoT heads are getting ready to unleash the 3rd annual Spring Break Yo’ Self skate jam on April 12th in Mission Beach, CA. Live Webcast starts at 5pm PST at 411.com. And since the renowned San Dieguito rail, Sports Arena double set and Rincon replicas have been properly put to rest with Sun Diego events over the past years, Big Bertha will make her debut in a couple of weeks to those that have the skills to give her a run for the money. With a prize purse of $25 large, we can expect an afternoon of heavy hits for sure.
In the meantime, check in on a recap of the action from last year right here.
On Thursday, April 24th prior to the annual Top Shop contest at the 3rd Lair skatepark in Minneapolis, the City team will be on hand for a skate demo and signing items of all sorts.
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Saturday March 29, 2008 : 10:29 AM
Ride The Sky Trailer Posted
Check out this page dedicated to the new Fallen video, Ride The Sky. 30mb of trailer and a director interview ready to be clicked and enjoyed. Looks like premier dates are going to be announced soon.
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Friday March 28, 2008 : 09:55 AM
Change Ups
News releases and electronic information confirm that Jereme Rogers and Momentum wheels have parted ways. Guy Mariano is once again back with Rudy on Royal trucks. NSS shoes has announced the enlistment of Chad Knight, Tom Knox, and Brian Sumner to its team. And although no official word has been distributed to media , but both Tony Hawk and Bam Margera are no longer included on the team roster at the Adio site. Their signature shoe models are gone as well. Is something more significant in the works?
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Friday March 28, 2008 : 09:11 AM
Daily Ops are Top Notch at The Berrics
Start your morning properly with a visit to The Berrics where you’ll find plenty of entertaining Thursday Throwaway footage and an installment depicting the ill skills of the skate compound’s newest recruit Jimmy Cao. Reda’s travels back home to Brooklyn are not to be missed either!
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Friday March 28, 2008 : 09:06 AM
Epicly Session’d
With all the well-deserved hype around the Epicly Later’d show on Vice TV many may not know (or have forgotten) that it started with O’Dell’s photo blog. Check out this latest entry featuring a pretty insane all-star pro mini-ramp session. The shows AND images are Epic.
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Friday March 28, 2008 : 09:05 AM
Vans ‘Catch The Bus’ Tour
If you live around the Southern part of the US it looks like Vans could be headed your way. AND if you happen to live in Texas and Florida Tony Alva will be stepping off the bus. Check out the site for the exact dates, locations and updates on skaters joining the drive.
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Thursday March 27, 2008 : 08:38 AM
Coming Events this Weekend
Seasons 4 video premiere in San Francisco, CA - Friday, March 28th
Vox Hot Moves and Hot Dogs skate jam in San Pedro, CA - Saturday, March 39th
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Thursday March 27, 2008 : 07:29 AM
Rick McCrank And Peta2
Rick McCrank is teaming up to Peta2 to promote vegetarianism. He’s featured in this print ad stating, “I am a professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and father. For me, eating meat feels unnatural.” It’s a bit odd that Rick also has a leather and suede pro-model shoe…but I guess he isn’t eating his shoes so Peta doesn’t mind.
Momentum Wheels is also stepping up with a prize pack that includes wheels, T-shirts and stickers. You can enter to win here.
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Wednesday March 26, 2008 : 11:09 AM
Fighting for London’s South Bank
The skaters of London and beyond need your support in saving the Southbank skateboard area from becoming re-developed into a commercial shopping area!
Since the early 70s “The Undercroft” (the sheltered area beneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank) has served as the centerpoint of the skateboarding community in the UK. It’s an open public-space that has brought together thousands of young people, from various backgrounds, over the last 35 years to form a harmonious and positive community. But the free and open public area is now under threat and could soon be no more!
Please spend the next 20 minutes to checkout a very observant documentary film “Save The Southbank” that has been produced by Winstan Whitter and Toby Shuall to generate an understanding of the area and the important situation at hand. Do your part and sign the online petition to join the fight!
*Note - In order sign the petition you have to be a UK resident, but perhaps you can get creative with a Google search and make up an address for the cause. Get to it!
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Wednesday March 26, 2008 : 09:38 AM
Duffs Sold to UK Distributor
Duffs footwear has been sold to its UK distributor and is said to be in the process of shutting down it’s Oceanside office. More on the story right here at TWS Biz.
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Wednesday March 26, 2008 : 09:32 AM
Looped for Life
On March 1, 2008 Alex Chalmers and Josh Borden battled an afternoon of mental and physical roadblocks to become the newest members of “The Loop” club courtesy of Tony Hawk. Congrats dudes!
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Tuesday March 25, 2008 : 08:30 AM
Return of the Snakes
Our pals at Skate and Annoy have tipped us off with a bit of visual information pointing to the resurgence of the 70’s skatepark era snake run. Several hybrid skateparks are employing snake features within their designs including Portland, Oregon’s (4th of 19), Gabriel Park which has just broken ground, a wee-sized snake in Wake Forest, North Carolina and a pay to play effort in Naples, Florida.
Outdoing them all, Mark Scott and a host of skaters and volunteers just completed phase 4 in Lincoln City with a steep snake that drops over 30 feet in elevation, gives you the butterflies and empties into a wide and vertically abundant bowl at the bottom. Buy a LC Snake tee shirt or two right here to support the LC skatepark cause and help to complete the construction efforts underway. Dirty deeds done dirt cheap!
Lastly, how about this Japanese snake that’s set to open next week near Chiba at the lavish surf side Villa Spica resort? Not good enough? Well, their adjacent left hand kidney pool looks to be worthy of the jet lag to get there.
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Monday March 24, 2008 : 02:39 PM
“Stand for something or fall for anything.”
Speaking of Mariano, the crew at 48 Blocks are on it indeed. This morning they dropped an insightful interview with Guy and it’s a very inspirational read from then to the now. Awesome!
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Sunday March 23, 2008 : 05:51 PM
Tampa Pro 2008 Final Results
2008’s Tampa Pro is a done deal. Sweltering in the SPoT’s hot box of humidity, highlights from the semi-finals and finals included Rattray’s rapid fire barrage of tricks, Busenitz’s speedy and adaptive abilities, a couple of shaved heads and pony tails, a ho-ho demonstration by Chris Casey, Koston’s unmatched skill and sense of humor and a live webcast with the play-by-play by a couple of skate-crazed MCs. Notably, the re-emergence of Matt Beach’s professional career was great to witness as he made the cut into the finals with much more than average versatility. Like Mariano, he’s definitely back where he should be!
Unfortunately, while it all went down Antwan Dixon spent time behind bars with 5 felonies stacked up against him. Not good.
Look for a full recap of the action with photos and video in the coming days on the SPoT and 411VM sites. Final results are below.
Street
1. Greg Lutzka $20,000
2. John Rattray $15,000
3. Mike Peterson $10,000
4. Matt Beach $5000
5. Ryan Sheckler $4000
6. Kyle Berard $3000
7. Danny Fuenzalida $2000
8. Eric Koston $1750
9. Dennis Busenitz $1500
10. Stefan Janoski $1250
11. Chad Fernandez $1000
12. Shuriken Shannon $1000
Street “Best Trick”
1. Adam Dyet - Nollie Cab heel boardslide $3000
DFL Award
Joey Brezinski
Pro Vert
1. Pierre Luc Gagnon
2. Danny Mayer
3. Buster Halterman
4. Adam Taylor
5. Neal Hendrix
6. Jussi Korhonen
Am Vert
1. Ben Hatchell
2. Pedro Barros
3. Ronaldo Gomes
4. Sam Beckett
5. Martin Andre
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Sunday March 23, 2008 : 08:47 AM
Tampa’s Webcast Reschedule
An accommodation for yesterday’s rained out Pro Vert event at the Cuban Club, finds the SPoT crew and judges running the competition this morning hung over or not. As a result, today’s webcast of Tampa Pro’s street semi-finals and finals has been pushed back to 1pm EST (10am PST). Watch and listen in live then!
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