At fist we thought this was a joke. Aren’t the Catholics in enough trouble with kids already? But it’s not. Australia’s Friar Gabriel M. Cortes is for real according to a story on Catholic.com.
In addition to his missionary work, Friar Gabriel is involved in community efforts with the local government, the Shire of Toodyay. He serves on the Crime Prevention Committee as well as a committee to design and build local skate parks.
Jake Burton discusses his daily shred and the 2010 Olympic snowboard uniforms with USA Today. The Gore-Tex pants (but not the jacket) will go on sale next October for $250.
On Friday evening, March 19, 2010 Red Bull hosted one of their 2010 Butter Cup series events at Boreal Mountain Resortat the summit top of California’s Donner Summit. Nearly 150 people jibbed for the judges trying to get “tapped in” to the 10 man finals. It looked a little like this.
For all the times we’ve heard about people skating long distances, only a few have skateboarded across the United States. Boulder, Colorado’s Rael Saltman Oswald wants to be one of them after reportedly being inspired by the film Forrest Gump.
The good news: he’s not trying to raise money for anything. He’s simply trying to remind everyone how great it would be to have a bike trail across America specifically built for non-motorized forms of transportation.
Screw Apple. . . Neff does it all on a Sony Vaio, apparently. At least that’s what this new Sony ad featuring Shaun Neff appears to say. Borrowing heavily from the wearing lots of shirts Youtube meme the ad is cool, funny, and raw, but will it encourage anyone to buy a PC over a Mac? Hell, no!
Former child actor and Snowboard Academy star Corey Haim dropped dead in his apartment this morning after an apparent “accidental overdose” according to a story on Fox6.
Haim died at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. . . . Coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said an autopsy would determine an official cause of death. . . Haim collapsed in front of his mother inside an apartment in the Oakwood Apartment Complex, located between Burbank and the Hollywood Hills, officials said.
Paul Rodriguez was in Sacramento, California yesterday (March 7, 2010) for Nike SB’s roll out of the new Omar Salazar shoe at the 28th & B Skatepark. By 2 PM the park was packed. Close to 1,000 made it in and maybe 200 more lurked in the parking lot and peered in through the fence. Police were on the scene, the Sacramento Fire Department showed up worried that there weren’t proper exits from the park.
Amidst of all this chaos, P-Rod took time to play a game of skate with two kids who will probably remember this day forever.
The video includes what went down on March 5, 2010 during qualifications at The Arctic Challenge. Here are the results from Saturday’s semi-finals (read the story here):
1 30 Peetu Piiroinen FIN
2 23 Mikkel Bang NOR
3 8 Tore Holvik NOR
4 14 Eric Willett USA
5 9 Seppe Smits BEL
6 22 Torstein Horgmo NOR
7 33 Mark McMorris CAN
8 7 Ville Uotila FIN
9 12 Roope Tonteri FIN
10 15 Sage Kotsenburg US
There is still time to catch the final event live on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Click here beginning at 4 AM PST.
