Torx Trux have a “captive nut” built-in so assembly is a one hand operation. Not really sure why no one has done this before. We kind of wish our Indys had this baseplate feature.
[Link: Torx Trux via Design news]
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According to a story in Englands Telegraph more and more dads are taking their kids to the skateboard park and then, rather than just dropping them off, they’re dropping in.
Skateboarding may still have an edgy attitude, but it is now able to attract similar numbers of participants to traditional ball sports. The perfect time, then, for those children of the 1970s and 80s to get back on their boards. And in many cases it is the Rad Dads who are now getting those closed skateparks rebuilt. . . When I was young the only place we had to skate was a disused tennis court,’ says Christian Stevenson, 43, from the Sussex village of Cuckfield. ‘I didn’t want that for my kids, so we looked into getting a village skatepark made.’ Paid for by grants and local fundraisers, the Cuckfield Bowl, as it is known, opened in 2009.
Funny. This is going to make kids who really want to rebel sign up for Little League, just to piss their parents off.
[Link: Telegraph UK]
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Boil The Ocean, a blog that has a much more serious skate shoe fetish than we ever will, questions Sole Technology’s “hiatus” of éS today in a post titled Who Killed éS Footwear?
As one of those people who skated in Accels or derivatives like the Square One more than any other single shoe over the past 10 or 12 years, I mourn éS, though partly it’s out of confusion as to how the company with the little tilde thing wound up on the chopping block as opposed to others shopping for some pro-backed identity in an overcrowded segment.
But the bigger question the writer asks, and one we’ve often had about Sole Tech in general, is this: “might things have turned out differently if Pierre-Andre had cut Koston in via an equity stake?” Click the link for the rest. . .
[Link: Boil The Ocean]
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In a review of magazine advertising for the first half of 2011 (January through June) the The Association of Magazine Media is reporting that business is slightly up compared to 2010. But only by 1.3 percent. In the action sports magazine space*, however, Transworld Media is pulling through with gains much higher than the average on every title except Skateboarding and Wakeboarding.
Here’s how the titles look in order of performance based on total advertising pages sold in first six months of the year (click here for past reports):
2011 2010 %Chg TRANSWORLD MOTOCROSS 500.22 440.49 13.6 TRANSWORLD SURF 407.77 372.29 9.5 TRANSWORLD RIDE BMX 130.25 120.41 8.2 TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING 351.08 337.17 4.1 TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARDING 432.24 463.30 -6.7 TRANSWORLD WAKEBOARDING 205.86 222.48 -7.5
*Transworld Media is the only action sports publishing company whose titles are tracked by The Association of Magazine Media’s Pub PIB.
[Link: Association of Magazine Media]
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Over the weekend the Caffeinated Corn Syrup Tour stopped in Portland, Oregon and the skateboarding went a little like this: P-Rod won the street skate event (see his run above), and Bucky Lasek won the pro bowl.
Follow the jump for the official street and bowl results. [click to continue…]
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Today, Sole Technology owner Pierre André Senizergues, called Shop-Eat-Surf (apparently it’s his favorite shopping, eating, and surfing blog) and told them that he is officially “putting éS on hiatus.” Which is a nice way of saying putting the footwear brand out of its misery.
Sole Tech will deliver éS product through Spring 2012. Then the brand will go on “creative retreat,” Pierre said. . . “At the end of the day, it’s about being ready with the dynamic of economy, being focused and pushing what’s the best,” he said. “And what needs adjustment, you put back in the garage and retool it before relaunching it at the right time.”
Well, that’s one down. Wonder which brand will be the next to “take a break”?
[Link: Shop Eat Surf]
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Ben Marcus, the author previously known to Boardistan.com readers as “The World’s Best Surf Writer,” has written a 256-page book on skateboarding titled: The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, and The Gnarly. The Skateboard includes a complete history of skateboarding from crate scooter to the present time.
In writing the book (which features photography by Lucia Griggi) Marcus interviewed nearly everyone who had anything to do with skateboarding over the past 70 years, and while print space is limited, the stories that made it to print is impressive. With the exception of a flopped and spun photo of Tony Hawk on the third page we’ve enjoyed every page we’ve looked at. The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, and the Gnarly would be a welcome addition to anyone’s skateboarding book library.
Mr. Marcus will be signing, The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, and The Gnarly on Saturday, August 13, 2011 from 4 to 7 PM at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, California. The signing will be in conjunction with the opening of a new exhibit titled, Clay to Urethane: Skateboard Transitions 1965-1975 curated by Tracker Trucks founder Larry Balma.
Skaters scheduled to attend the opening on Saturday include: the Logan brothers, Steve Cathey, Denis Shufeldt, Frank Nasworthy, Gregg Weaver, Chris Yandall, Dale Smith, Jim Goodrich, Eddie Katz, Buddy Carr, Doug “Pineapple” Saladino, and more.
The California Surf Museum is located at 312 Pier View Way, Oceanside California.
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Confession: we’ve skipped out on every single opportunity we’ve had to attend the Vans Warped Tour. Apparently, in contrast to Blink-182, we actually could “wait for the summer and the warped tour.” Seventeen years, as it turns out (sorry Steve Van Doren).
Yesterday, however, thanks to the All Girl Skate Jam (pictured above), we found ourselves in Carson, California for the fifth to last stop of the 2011 Vans Warped Tour. And, we’re happy to report, the kids are alright.
Follow the jump for some photos. . . [click to continue…]
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Already Been Done has a great Dave Carnie story titled Rob Dyrdek and the World of Mainstream Skateboarding which Carnie talked Street League with Rob. Here’s a bit of it:
The first season of Street League was, at times, painful to watch. I wasn’t the only person to liken it to watching golf. Nieratko thought it looked like kids playing on a slide. “They slide down, then they run back to the top, and slide down it again, then run back to the top…” I sometimes see a combination of freestyle and jump ramps when I watch it. Rob himself even admitted that the first season was “slow as fucking shit.” Is this how skateboarding is going to be perceived?
Click the link to read the rest because, as usual with Carnie stories, it is real and insightful. And those are two words we rarely use in connection with skateboard media.
[Link: Already Been Done]
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Tony Hawk has a new line of 2 and 4 GB Birdhouse flash drive decks available at Staples, according to his twitter feed. They cost $10.99 for 2 GB and $12.99 for the whole 4 GB. Click here to buy some.
With that Converse Coastal Carnage best trick win yesterday, he probably has enough case to buy a couple.
[Link: @TonyHawk]
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