Archive for the 'Skateboarding' Category
Jake Brown Cannot Die
I’ve seen some gnarly wrecks in my life, both in real life and on video, but as far as SHEER HEIGHT of a bail…this is the worst I’ve seen. 50 feet straight into the bottom of the mega ramp. AND HE WALKS AWAY.
Read More..>>Back on my Board
Well, for the past couple weeks I’ve been “healed”, but scared to try anything too active. Just a couple days ago, to see if my body could handle being active after a month of sloth, I decided to go jogging on a whim (to quantum physics lectures — a story in itself) and my body [...]
Read More..>>Fate’s a Prick
I hope this doesn’t become an annual tradition, but once again my 10-year-old tail bone injury that refuses to heal has awakened, making it difficult to sit, stand, lay down or anything in between. Normally I wouldn’t mind taking a couple days off skateboarding to let it “heal”, but I leave for California TOMORROW!
What happened [...]
My First Fisheyes
Three months and two days after ordering it, my fisheye is in my hands. Fortunately everybody chose today to be “Don’t Go Skateboarding Day”, and everybody at the park sucked. I shot some random stuff around town to try and get a feel for the lens when my friend Nick called me to go skate [...]
Read More..>>Invasion of the Longboarders
It’s been brewing for the past couple years, quietly, and behind the scenes…but the jocks are invading skateboarding. This summer particularly, the invasion is in full swing. How? The longboard, my friends. The longboard.
I’ve never had a problem with my longboarding brethren; in California, the longboarders seemed to be comprised primarily of small-wave-day surfers and [...]
Thrashin’!
Those crazy rebels! Backflippin’ off my truck!
Read More..>>Skate Rats
Got a text from Mauro today asking me if I wanted to shoot some skating, so I headed up to the skatepark to meet him and his friend. They wanted to head to the Super 8 where there’s a little 3-stair rail they wanted to hit. My photos turned out a lot better than the [...]
Read More..>>People Still Ride These Things?
Remember that one week like 8 years ago when those Razor scooters were totally cool? I discovered today that despite their unpopularity now, Razor still has a touring pro team. Here’s a hilarious video from some contest in Australia this year. Apparently in the scooting world, you’re not required to land your tricks to [...]
Read More..>>The Big Race™ Part II: Hello Kitty Personally Congratulates the Loser
I didn’t really think it would happen.
I didn’t really think that everybody involved in The Big Race™ would actually be cruel enough to force the loser to get a Hello Kitty tattoo on his ass, but he seemed game. Defeated, but accepting.
Chuck, Tom and I showed up at the Ink Spot at about [...]
The Big Race™
So about two weeks ago my friend Chuck calls me at 2 in the morning to tell me that he and a mutual acquaintance, Tom, were at the bar having a couple drinks and a friendly debate. I guess the debate was “who is faster on a skateboard”, and a challenge was born to determine [...]
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