Posted on 27 February 2010
Rick Thorne’s Grindz And Rhymez Tour is coming to your local skatepark looking for it’s best rippers by holding a jam style contest for skate and bmx. Each winner from both sports will win Monster Energy and Famous Stars and Straps flow. Plus the Famous Stars and Straps skate/bmx demo will be in the house [...]
Tags: Famous Stars and Straps, Grindz And Rhymez Tour, Rick Thorne's
Posted on 10 February 2010
Joe and Gavin Maloof, who own the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, said Tuesday they will hold Maloof Money Cup New York June 5-6 at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, featuring street skateboarding competition. The winner will earn $100,000.
The Maloofs have agreed to donate the $1.8 million, world-class skate park they will build for the competition to [...]
Posted on 07 February 2010
Crossroads retail show best trick contest held on 2/4/10. Featuring Chris Cole, Nick Merlino, Nyjah Huston, Ben Hatchell, Peter Smolik and more.
Tags: Crossroads retail show
Posted on 22 January 2010
Just in time for the final Grand Prix before the Olympics, Shaun decided to learn this new trick.
Tags: Shaun White
Posted on 31 October 2009
The Damn Am Series was created by Brian Schaefer and Rob Meronek as they noticed that there was a need to bring the Tampa-style am contests to skateboarders outside of Tampa. If you can’t get into Tampa Am directly through your sponsor, entering a Damn Am is the only official way to qualify for Tampa [...]
Tags: contests, Damn Am, skateboarders
Posted on 08 September 2009
Here are some video clips of some of the girls that where in Sunday’s event. They are short but sweet so you get the idea. There is also a clip of slams and a clip of the structure being built. Enjoy:-)
Here is the Snowboard Rail Jam Structure being built
Laurie Currier took first place and these [...]
Tags: Laurie Currier, Snowboard Rail Jam
Posted on 02 September 2009
It looks like vans shoes has made themselves an vehicle you can skate in. I am not sure how to make this better as it is a tight space to work with but maybe more of an eliptical ramp with metal coping vs pool coping. Cool idea though. Here is the commercial vans made with [...]
Tags: skateboard van, vans shoes
Posted on 04 August 2009
The legends of skateboarding dropped in for their contest runs today in front of a VIP viewing box packed with cheering pro skaters who were barely walking when they were busy dominating the skateboard scene.
Skateboard Park Legends contest, which ran solely as an exhibition jam session at X Games 14, became a medaled event this [...]
Tags: Christian Hosoi, skateboard, skateboard park
Posted on 26 July 2009
We went to the Home Depot Center to see the much anticipated X Games 15 Super Park course. There is nice combination of wood and concrete and this course is built for speed! There is a nice big cradle that you can grind or air over which is going to be where the sickest tricks [...]
Tags: Home Depot Center, Super Park, X Games 15
Posted on 16 July 2009
Today June 15, 2009 at about 4:30 pm the last corner was finished on the Red Bull side of the Coastal Carnage bowl. I initially got a call from my friend Seth Elson from Four Star Fabrication and he gave me the scoop that he and his partner Brian Ferrel had designed the red bull [...]
Tags: Coastal Carnage, Converse Shoes, Red Bull