Film producer Jimmy Hawkins, 51, and musician Gregg Cassity, 56, (both of Southern California) have a new event that is going to blow everyone away, according to a story in the Daily News. The men are owners of the National Association of Powered Skateboard Racing and they’re saying it’s the next big thing.

“Powered Skateboard Racing will be sweeping the globe,” Hawkins said in one of a series of bombastic e-mails promoting the sport. The two men and their roster of about 20 racers hope to turn this weekend lark for daredevil skateboarders into a professional sport by finding bigger venues and acquiring sponsors, equipment manufacturers and media attention. . . The result is the scene that unfolded Sunday at the Encino Velodrome when a bunch of dudes jumped on motorized skateboards and raced around the high-banked concrete oval in what is either the next hot sport or the latest example of California nuttiness.

We can already hear the organizer potential sponsor pitch: it’s Gen-Y’s own version of NASCAR. Loud billboards going round and round. Sounds like a great addition to ESPN’s X Games.

[Link: Daily News]

If the movie is even half as good as the poster it will be well worth the trip to Encinitas, California’s world famous La Paloma Theater on Friday July 30, 2010.

With Andy Irons, Andrew Doheny, Fergal Smith, Wade Goodall, and Eric it can’t be bad.

After getting hit and injured by another surfer’s loose board Harry Stoehr of Virginia Beach, Virginia is now suing the owner of the board, Nathaniel Lundstrom for $75,000 saying the injury required getting stitches, paying medical bills and missed time at work, according to a story on HamptonRoads.com.

[Stoehr] contends that Lundstrom was negligent because he was surfing without a leash, which is required by Virginia Beach city code. . . He is seeking $75,000 in damages, plus attorneys’ and experts’ fees. Lundstrom did not respond to a note left at his Virginia Beach home asking for comment on the case. . . Virginia Beach has long had a leash law on the books.

Seems like a it’s going to be a big headache for everyone involved.

[Link: Hampton Roads]

Emerica finally drops their much anticipated Stay Gold on August 17, 2010 in Hollywood (of course).

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This Friday night, July 30, 2010 from 6 – 10 PM we are recommending that everyone cruise down to San Diego’s Subtext Gallery and check out the opening of Grant Brittain and Josh Higgins art show Look.

Friends and fellow artists Grant Brittain and Josh Higgins will grace the walls of Subtext in a joint venture of unrelated themes. Brittain’s portraiture of some of skateboarding’s greatest names through the years features icons and underground heroes. Higgins’ poster-art focuses on his work with punkers, musical heros, and charitable causes. Together, the collective work suggests what it would be like to eavesdrop on these guys hanging out, having a beer, and comparing broken wrists and paper cuts.

Party starts Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 6 PM.

Subtext Gallery, 2479 Kettner Blvd. San Diego, California 92101

[Link: Subtext Gallery]

Bethany Beach, Delaware pro body boarder Colin Herlihy, owner of the Colin Herlihy School of Progressive Surfing, ran into a little trouble on July 15, 2010 when he crashed his 1998 Subaru Legacy into the driver’s side door of a Delaware State Police car and then sped away, according to a story on the Del Marva Now.

Colin R. Herlihy, 29, of Ocean View, is facing several charges, including driving under the influence of alcohol, failure to stop at a stop sign and leaving the scene of a property collision accident. . . Herlihy does not have any prior offenses, but could face up to six months in prison and up to $1,500 in fines. Additionally, his license could be suspended.

Another reminder of how quickly good times can turn bad. . .

[Link: Delmarva Now]

A woman who claims she was injured when a skateboard fell on her from an overhead compartment is suing US Airways, according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times.

The lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court doesn’t spell out how Diana Burgess was injured on the August 2008 flight. . . It only states she “suffered physical and emotional trauma” after the airline “permitted a passenger to board and place a dangerous instrumentality in the form of a large, heavy skateboard with appurtenances in the form of attached, heavy sharp metal wheels in a position of danger to fellow passengers, without security in such a manner,” the suit states.

Heavy, sharp, medal wheels? Sounds more like a prop from Rollerball.

[Link: Chicago Sun-Times]

During a Quiksilver demo at Anaheim, California’s Downtown Disney at 6 PM Saturday, July 24, 2010 Tony Hawk slammed harder than he has in a long time. “Did a tailbone 5 & my foot was a little off, sent me into b/s revert (chicken-neck) to flat,” he said on Twitter. “Hit my back & head HARD,” he said.

The fall resulted in a trip to the UC Irvine Trauma Center, according to Tony’s Twitter feed.

Doctors there told Tony that he had a “Pelvic vertical shear injury” & a hematoma,” Hawk said on @TonyHawk. “All I know is: I can’t lift my legs & it sucks.”

A little later things were looking up. “Thank you for all the well wishes,” he said. “Hooray for morphine & fentanyl, big fan.”

We are amazed that Tony was able to walk back out on to the ramp, thank everyone for coming, and promo the rest of the guys in the demo as injured as he was. The man is all pro. All the time.

[Link: DisZine]

A second San Diego Bank was robbed last week by a man described as the “skateboard bandit,” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

An armed robber used a skateboard to get away after holding up a bank in Torrey Highlands Friday, San Diego police said. . . .Witnesses at Wells Fargo Bank on Highland Valley Place believed the robber was carrying a black pistol when he demanded cash from a teller, police said. . . Officers are checking the area for a white man wearing a black hooded jacket, jeans, a green bandanna and sunglasses.

A guy with the same description robbed a different San Diego Bank on July 12, 2010.

[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]

In our continuing series of local news vs. action sports we present Newport Beach’s Andrew Doheny as he sarcastically decimates the bubble heads on Fox LA’s Good Morning LA via Skype. Nice work, Mr. Doheny.

[Link: My Fox LA]