Sure, the San Francisco Giants may have won the 2012 World Series last night, but the really big news in NorCal was the Downtown Throwdown. Okay. Just kidding. It looks like a few people showed up to see snowboarding on the streets of San Francisco. Yobeat was there. Here’s what they saw.
[Link: Yobeat]
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Snowboard trainers Mitch Tölderer and Bibi Tölderer-Pekarek show us how to get ready for the new winter season. Remember: “He pulls heezs heelz on zee germ bool az far to heez buttock as possible.” And ya dis not too hard for us. It eez too sexy!
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El Salvador’s Carlos “Zancudo” Erazo rips. No doubt about it.
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Whenever we see the Brothers Marshall gear an old Surf Punks song begins bouncing through our brains. Wonder why that is? Click the link for the rest of the Brothers fall 2012 goodness.
[Link: Brothers Marshall]
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Surf journalist Steve Barilotti is working on a documentary on the life and times of seminal 60s psychedelic artist Rick Griffin (creator of the surf comic Murphy) and he needs your help on Kickstarter.
The Film: “Griffin” is a feature-length documentary that explores the art, life and eccentric spark of one of the world’s least known and most influential 20th Century surrealists. Over the time-warped span of the 1960’s, one-time teen cartoonist Rick Griffin created defining icons for three pillars of west coast counterculture: surfing, psychedelic rock and underground comix.
Barilotti has reach is original Kickstarter goal of $20,000 but there are three days left so you can still help him out with getting this project completed. Click the link for more info.
[Link: Kickstarter via Boing Boing]
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This looks faker than surfers paddling the streets of NYC, but the Tosh 2.0 writers made due. As usual.
[Link: Above The Law]
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Dawn patrol on the streets of New York City. You know, as viral video from the movie Chasing Mavericks. And yes, it got our attention so apparently it worked. The movie opens in theaters Friday, October 26, 2012.
[Link: Image Resource]
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Skatepark of Tampa founder Brian Schaefer sets the stage for a new Ride Channel series celebrating The Skatepark of Tampa’s 20 years of skateboarding.
Countless memories have been created over the past two decades, and to help relive those experiences we asked 20 pros, ams, and industry leaders to share their SPoT stories with us. . . There will be 20 more episodes with the likes of Stefan Janoski, Andrew Reynolds, Tony Hawk, Brian Anderson, and many other iconic skateboarders explaining what SPoT personally means to them. Check out each episode, airing every Wednesday from now until Tampa Pro in March 2013 and share in the excitement of the Skatepark of Tampa 20 Year Experience.
Watching this it reminds us how a small group of people can have huge and positive impact if they’re passionate and they stick to doing what they know is right.
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LA skater Charley Ford, 24, was in his car in Compton, California with another man and a 10-month-old baby Sunday afternoon (October 21, 2012) when, according to a story in the LA Weekly, “someone ran up, opened fire, and then fled on foot.”
It doesn’t seem clear if Ford was the intended target, but the other two inside the vehicle weren’t injured, deputies say: The department pointedly says the suspect “started shooting into the car at the victims. . . Ford was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.”
Our thoughts are with Ford’s family and friends.
[Link: LA Weekly]
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NYC skateboarders didn’t let something as silly as a court order top their Broadway Bomb, according to a story in the NY Daily News.
Hundreds of scofflaw skateboarders gave Manhattan hell on wheels in Saturday’s “Broadway Bomb” road race, snarling traffic in an illegal mass ride from Morningside Heights to Wall Street. . . The skaters rolled south on Broadway from 116th St. to Bowling Green, defying a court order that outlawed the “dangerous” rally because it lacked permits. . . Cops tried to quash the race by stringing up temporary fences at intersections and ordering skaters onto sidewalks, but many just pushed onto side streets instead. . . “They’re like, ‘You can’t do this.’ We were like, ‘F–k off,’” said Ian McMahon, 18, a skateboarder from Killingworth, Conn. “We got so excited for this!”
A reported 1,500 skateboarders participated with no arrests nor injuries according to the story. They even had a podium with the top three finishers. Nice work, NYC.
[Link: NY Daily News]
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