Williamsburg’s KCDC skate shop got a smooth write up in the New York Times last Thursday (September 22, 2011) and we missed it. Owner Amy Gunther did it well.
If KCDC’s name is cryptic (Ms. Gunther wouldn’t say what it means), its philosophy is simple: Nurture the skateboarding community, and it will nurture you, a symbiotic relationship that has flourished since the store opened in 2001, when Williamsburg was not as hip, or as safe. . . “We’ve grown organically,” Ms. Gunther, 37, said. “Skaters who used to come here as kids 10 years ago come back as adults today.”
In the words of LA Reid: Amy Gunther is the truth.
We’re sure the US Goverment will find some way to militarize MIT student Charles Guan’sLandbearshark treaded all-terrain skateboard. We’re pretty sure he could put a rocket launcher on it, but it would still be nearly impossible to ollie.
From the photos it would appear that this BurtonAnalog & Gravis sponsored gathering was a pretty A-List. We know quite a few people who weren’t invited and couldn’t get it. . . click the link to check it out.
Proving that stadium rock action sporting is still not dead in Europe Zurich’s Freestyle.CH packed in 32,000 people on September 22-23, 2011 for a multisport hucking contest (featured here is snowboard semi-finals action).
Halidor Helgason won with snowboard big air with a Frontside Double Cork 1080° with Seppe Smits and Ståle Sanbech in second and third. Pierre-Luc Gagnon won the mega ramp skate event with a backside ollie three. Follow the jump for the skateboarding semi-finals video. [click to continue…]
Tack up 28-year-old skater Chris René as another in the long list of ridiculously talented Santa Cruz surf/skate ghetto addiction survivors. Only 70 days out of rehab René blew away the judges on Fox’s new reality singing show The X Factor with his own song Young Homie. Talking about doing Santa Cruz proud. . .
“We were notified recently of a skate park that was built with wood and concrete in one of the drainage canals that parallels Interstate 8,” said Caltrans spokesman Ed Cartagena. “Accidents can happen, so in terms of exposure to liability, we try to limit that by making certain locations illegal to place things.”
Nice to know that in this California State budget crisis that CalTrans has more than enough money to destroy skateparks up and down the Golden State. Someone’s priorities are obviously confused.
Nothing says skateboarding like a nice, smooth glass of Kenny Likitprakong’sHobo Wine. Will be interesting to see what Dylan Rieder and Thunder Trucks adds to the mix. Let’s just hope it’s not a cab.
Skateboarder Simon Brooks, a 19-year-old Southern Oregon University student was found unconscious in the middle of an Ashland, Oregon street Thursday morning September 22, 2011 at 2:15 AM according to a story in the Ashland Daily Tidings.
The initial investigation indicates Brooks suffered a serious head injury after he fell from his skateboard. He was northbound on North Mountain Avenue on his skateboard before the accident occurred and was not wearing a helmet. No motor vehicles are believed to have played a role in the accident, police said.
We’re not super informed on all environmental fronts, but there is something so simple, straight forward and pure about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s mission to defend ocean wildlife worldwide that we almost have to love them. If they don’t like what’s going on they go out and physically stop it.
DeKalb, Illinois’ Smalltown Skates shop owner Ariel Ries didn’t know what to do with all the broken skateboards that were piling up around her shop, according to a story in the Daily Chronicle. That’s when she says she thought of making jewelry out of it.
“I was really interested in the multicolored plies,” she said. “I thought, why am I not using this material?” Ries studied jewelry-making at Kishwaukee College, but there she used only metal materials. She started working with the wood from skateboard decks in April and has since accumulated about 200 pieces of jewelry. She said she’s spent at least 2,000 hours making jewelry since she started.
Sounds like it might be time to hire some third world laborers. . .
Williamsburg’s KCDC skate shop got a smooth write up in the New York Times last Thursday (September 22, 2011) and we missed it. Owner Amy Gunther did it well.
