So, Tony Hawk’s 900 garage sale auction hosted at Julien’s Actions closed on September 23, 2025, and wow, did it bring in a ton of cash. The unofficial total (we added it up with Gemini’s help) was $1,759,290.00 for 99 items. Tony says proceeds from this sale will go to The Skatepark Project so win-win all around.
Some highlights from the sale:
The 900 Board: $1,152,000
The 900 Helmet: $115,200
The 900 Adio Shoes (worn out): $64,000
The Sweaty 900 Kneepads: $57,600
Del Mar Skatepark Staff Shirt (our favorite item): $896
Signed Frosted Flakes Cereal Box: $512
Nixon Skateboard Watch: $5,120
Tony’s Richmond Skate Ranch ID Card: $2,880
So, the big question: who paid $1.15 million for a skateboard? And guesses?
It also has come to our attention that celebrity pays when it comes to selling off old junk. Mr. Hawk is a little ahead of us on our lifetime action sporting eBay sales, but we still have time. We have yet to tap into our complete Big Brother Magazine collection, nor our original set of Skateboarder Magazine from Volume 2 through Action Now. Maybe we should check with Julien first. . .
Neftalie Williams, the director of the Center for Skateboarding, Actions Sports, and Social Change, will moderate the discussions with Steve Van Doren & skateboarder Bryce Wettstein as part of a four-day celebration of action sports and culture at San Diego State University October 9-12, 2025.
“We are thrilled to welcome Steve Van Doren and explore the incredible legacy of Vans across skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, music, and virtually every facet of youth culture,” said Williams. “His insights will help students understand how to build and sustain a culturally relevant business across generations. As the perfect complement Bryce Wettstein will share her journey as an Olympian, professional skateboarder, and college student — offering a powerful perspective that will inspire students and highlight the intersection of skateboarding, business, media, and culture.”
Former pro skater and longtime entrepreneur Erik Ellington is settling in to brew some non-alcoholic beer. It’s called, Easy Does It Brew, according to a profile on MyBurbank.com.
Eleven years sober, he created the non-alcoholic brew company with a clear mission: to encourage people to moderate their drinking while maintaining their social connections. The inspiration struck in 2022 when Ellington tried a non-alcoholic beer while quarantined with friends who had COVID. “Something happened where I felt like I was part of the party. I was participating in it when it wasn’t anything having to do with the alcohol. It all had to do with socialization.”
Sober skaters deserve your support. Click the link for the rest of the story.
Sabrina Carpenter goes towing behind a truck and somehow survives. You probably won’t, so please don’t try it. Shame on you Sabrina for setting such a terrible example for today’s rolling youth. You should know better. Of all the things. . .
Yes, according to Vans,SZA the singer, is now the creative director at the VF Corps shoe brand. So far this year sales are reportedly 14 percent down. Guess those Vibram soled Cab hikers didn’t right the ship. Then again, maybe Solána Imani Rowe can save them. Hopefully somebody gets her. Vans will have to tread carefully.
Back in the day it seemed we were always seeing Sean Sheffey on his bike, skateboard strapped to his backpack, pedaling up and down Coast Highway on his way to and from work. Now, according to a story in the Deseret News, Sheffey has joined The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. . . aka The Church, aka The Mormons.
In 2023, Sheffey was resting at the skate park in Encinitas, California, when two missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints approached him and asked if they could pray with him. . . “I was missing a lot of my prayers and Bible study for some years then. It was just absent in my life by choice, and I thought at that point I had room to welcome God and religion back in my life,” Sheffey said.
In 2024 he joined the Church officially. And it seems like things are going well. And that’s great. For the rest of the story, click the link.
The San Bernardino Sun has a great catchup profile of pool dog Tristan Rennie. When not skating he works for the fire department in Running Springs, California.
So five years ago, the new dad began studying. He took online fire science classes and went through EMT school, started taking shifts in an ambulance as he worked his way toward a firefighting position. . . When he applied for a position at the Running Springs Fire Department, he presented a pretty unique resume: “I just put: ‘Athlete for Rockstar Energy drink,’” said Rennie, a Carter High School product. He, of course, highlighted all that went with that, that he’d managed his travel and scheduling, the physical training and so forth.
Glad everything is going well. Click the link for the rest.
This great clip should answer most of your questions about what Ed Templeton is up to lately. Wires Crossed, right? And if not, then this interview with Jamie Thomas definitely will.
Pin-up Magazine sits down with pro skater Alexis Sablone to discuss the intersection of skateboarding and architecture and life.
A competitor in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Sablone knows better than anyone the skater’s intimate relationship with the built environment, which results in a more finely-tuned understanding of the small details of certain buildings or streets than even the architects or planners who designed them could claim. Like all skateboarders, Sablone — who once rode the Guggenheim’s iconic spiral, a challenge in itself given the slope and run of the unending ramp — values those smaller, “unassuming blips in the everyday landscape,” like “a street median, a gap in the sidewalk, a fire hydrant on top of a hill.”
