Well we sure had a great afternoon of skating with our crew on this GSD and sure hope you did as well. But seriously, we’re wondering who else out there made as big of an impact on humanity today with their skateboard as this guy above did. Skating on a jam-packed highway in Southern California to raise attention to the merits of skateboarding as a commute alternative? High fives and hands down, he’s got us all beat. Hmmm… that goofy footed dude looks really familiar!
The Berrics site always delivers. Today it’s Guy Mariano footage from the cutting room floor? Is there such a thing? Not as far as we’re concerned. Check it.
Although we firmly believe that every day truly is “Go Skateboarding Day”, it just so happens that this year the official GSD takes place this Saturday, June 21st all around the world with many, many events planned. Make the most of it no matter where you are!
Drop on over to the official Go Skateboarding Day site for a list of events and one or more in your specific region of the world.
Notable events include: Emerica’s “Wild in the Streets” - New York, NY The entire Emerica team will be out in full force rolling along with everyone else, taking over the city streets of New York. This is THE place to be!
Cowtown’s Golden Egg Quest - Phoenix, AZ. On Saturday, June 21st at 6pm, with the support of Emerica, Fourstar, and Girl Skateboards, Cowtown is opening up their warehouse for everyone to skate their mini ramp and some street props out back for a night of skateboarding, food, entertainment, more skateboarding and finally the Golden Egg Quest. They throw out maps of an undisclosed area of the city where they’ve hidden tons of golden eggs filled with product vouchers for all kinds of free skateboarding product.
etnies’ Pier Pandemonium - Huntington Beach, CA
Come skate with etnies on Go Skateboarding Day and help raise money for Johnny Romano! This event kicks off at 6pm. Participants are encouraged to meet at their local skate shops, skate to the Huntington Beach Pier and then down to the jetties.
Four local shops are supporting the event. etnies is giving each of the shops a backpack for the raffle. Tickets will be sold at $1 a piece to support one of our favorite and most inspirational pros, Johnny Romano. All donations will go to Johnnykickscancer.com. etnies will be creating their own backpack full of goodies, accepting donations and raffling their backpack as well. At the jetties tents will be setup with food and drinks. Donations will be tallied and the raffle for each backpack will be pulled. Link up for an afternoon of skateboarding, fun and a great cause!
When you’ve rented a waterslide facility for an off-season afternoon of skating with some of the world’s best skaters what do you get? Well, you get some very unique, fun, and spectacular moments of skateboarding that’s what! Watch this footage from the printed pages of TSM’s issue #53 at Raging Waters and you’ll understand just what we’re taking about.
Attention skatepark designers and builders, take notice for future snakerun plans and proposals!
Last weekend James Craig broke his arm in three places while out skating and filming for Blind skateboards’ upcoming video. We wish him a speedy and healthy recovery. He should be back on board by the summer’s end. Drop James a message of good cheer over at the Blind skateboards site.
2008 Gorge Games to Include Bowl Jam and Game of SKATE
The Gorge Games are returning to Hood River, Oregon next month with several skateboarding events, but will exclude street and vert. Go figure huh? Regardless, we’ll be on site to check out the Mini Bowl Jam and eS Game of Skate events.
A televised broadcast of the Gorge Games hits the armchair skateboarders from August 18th through August 22nd on Fox Sports Networks.
With gasoline prices now climbing over $4 bucks a gallon, we’re not sure who’s ready to step up and jump into the brand new seats of this rather large and custom essuvee.
Nonetheless, from the press release: The Tony Hawk Foundation is auctioning a one-of-a-kind 2007 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Unlimited, customized by Tony Hawk and DUB. The Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 4x4 has been tricked-out with 24” TIS 09 wheels, Toyo off-road tires, a custom 9” body lift, skateboard racks, and Birdhouse skateboards. Inside you’ll find 7” monitors in the headrests, embroidered Tony Hawk logo on the seats, an Alpine DVD Headunit System, a Custom Fiberglass Subwoofer Box, plus many more unique details.
In addition to the Jeep, the winning bidder will also receive the new T-Mobile Sidekick LX Tony Hawk Edition (designed by Tony), plus 4 VIP Tickets to Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom HuckJam tour and an opportunity to meet Tony before the show. The winning bidder will also be featured with the Tony Hawk DUB Edition Jeep in an upcoming issue of DUB magazine.
The Tony Hawk Foundation DUB Edition Jeep will be offered on eBay from June 12th to June 22th, 2008.
Proceeds from the sale of this Jeep will benefit the Tony Hawk Foundation and its mission to help bring free, quality public skateparks to youth in low-income areas.
A charitable, non-profit organization, the Tony Hawk Foundation was established in 2002 by its namesake, professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, to promote and provide funds for high-quality public skateparks throughout the United States—with an emphasis on the word “quality.” Since then, the Foundation has awarded $2,348,500 to 390 communities. The Foundation focuses on working with local officials and grassroots, community-based organizations that plan to hire designers and contractors with strong experience designing and building skateparks.
Fury Team Mates Arto and Lance Grind Ahead in Different Directions
Following his recent change of board and shoe sponsors, Arto Saari has opted to roll in a new direction with his current choice of trucks as well. He is heading up the development of a new truck and team under the Destructo brand with the project code name D2. Will his signature truck be named the Arto D2? We’ll just have to wait and see won’t we? Speaking of trucks, Lance Mountain is now back on the Independent Truck Co. team (and its 30th anniversary tour) where he belongs.
Master skate photographer Mike O’Meally is delivering a solo photo show Far From Home at the Dactyl Gallery in New York next week and if you’re in the area you should definitely roll by and check it out. The show opens on Friday, June 27th and runs through Friday, July 18th.
Until then, read on about the drive behind his work ethic and the upcoming show’s featured images right here on Quiksilver’s official blog.
Satva Leung is premiering his latest video tonight in SF at Madrone. This newest Streets release features the hotbed of talent emerging from the southern city of Atlanta.
Streets ATL Features: Grant Taylor, Anthony Williams, Kris Markovich, David Clark, Justin Brock, and Jeremiah Babb and includes spots such as Black Blocks, Downtown, Foundations and Midtown.
This is a “must see” video piece, so drop on over to Chocolate’s site to witness the highly-evolved and versatile video part from the team’s new super am Vincent Alvarez. Damn, that fool’s skilled!
Portland Maine has recently reversed it’s downtown skate ban as they see skateboarding as a possible commute option. With gas at over $4 it would be nice to see more people skating to work and school. But “sliding”? Let’s just say any sort of skate ban lift is a good thing.
We just received an electronic mail message from Nieratko over at NJ skateshop giving us the heads up on the Red Bull Jersey Barriers contest. Red Bull created 12 custom Jersey barriers for 12 shops and is running an ongoing online video contest with you, the viewer, rating the best footage. Then what?
From the press release:
At the end of three months the overall Top 5 clips will be watched and voted on by the Red Bull Skate Team and they will pick a best trick and best shop. For best trick the skater wins $1000, the best shop will also earn $1000 as well as that shop’s filmer/editor an additional $1000. The winners will be announced later this summer.
And if you didn’t know Skatebook has launched a new blog with message boards and various other features. We’re waiting on the SKALEBRITIES™ section with baited breath.
Rune Glifberg repeated victory at Quiksilver’s Bowlriders in Malmo, Sweden yesterday while Arizona’s super-skilled teen phenom Aaron “Jaws” Hamoki blew minds (including his own) to land in second place.
Danish ripper Nicky Guerrero edged out Chris Miller to seize the top spot in the Legends final.
Final Results
1. Rune Glifberg (DK)
2. Arron Hamoki (USA)
3. Benji Galloway (USA)
4. Andy Scott (UK)
5. Ross McGouran (UK)
6. Mathias Nylen (SWE)
Legends
1. Nicky Guerrero (DK)
2. Chris Miller (USA)
3. Pat Ngoho (USA)
4. Reese Simpson (USA)
5. Sasha Steinhorst (USA)
Juniors (15 and under)
1. Alex Sorgente
2. Love Rydstem
3. Werner Sandoz
4. Fernando Bramsmark
5. Stephan Boussac
6. Filip Nilsson
We’re at Quiksilver’s 9th annual Bowlriders event in Malmo, Sweden where the qualifying rounds of action have been very heated amongst an international field of skaters for the past two days. Depending on your local timezone you can check out the action of today’s semi-finals and finals via the live webcast right here. Plus, these guys are on the scene to rock a live set as well! Complete results to come later.
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