While the pain remains the same, these slow motion slams actually look extreme artistic. It’s a ballet of bummers. A symphony of slams. A festival of failure. A party of primos. And it’s likely that you’ve seen this all before. Time for another look.
[Link: Gawker]
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It should be no surprise to anyone who saw Tom Remillard (above) rolling the Converse Coastal Carnage bowl over the past three days that the San Diego skater would be nearly impossible to beat. His smooth, effortless flow at speed is unmatched on this terrain and is reverts out of the cradle and the deep end were just crazy. And that’s the truth.
Here’s how the rest stacked up after Sunday’s (August 7. 2011) final jams on the sand in Huntington Beach.
Bowl
1. Tom Remillard – $15,000
2. Pedro Barros – $12,000
3. Curren Caples – $8,000
4. Tony Hawk
5. Ben Hatchell
6. Ben Raybourn
7. Robbie Russo
8. Kevin Kowalski
9. Kalani David
10. Andrew Langi
11. Josh Mattson
12. Div Adams
13. Christian Hosoi
14. Kyle Berard
15. Lance Mountain
Best Trick
1. Tony Hawk – $2,000
2. Ben Hatchell
3. Milton Martinez
4. Aaron Homoki
5. Ryan Reyes
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After four hours of non-stop ripping in eight chaotic heats of Converse Coastal Carnage skateboarding, the judges did the nearly impossible job of cutting the field of 40 down to the 12 skaters who will compete in the finals.
Here’s who made the cut:
1. Ben Hatchell
2. Robbie Russo
3. Curren Caples
4. Kevin Kowalski
5. Tom Remillard
6. Pedro Barros
7. Div Adams
8. Kyle Berard
9. Ben Raybourn
10. Josh Mattson
11. Kalani David
12. Andrew Langi
And yes, we would have liked to have seen Patrick Ryan in there. Maybe next year. Click here for the complete results from the Skatepark of Tampa.
The Converse Coastal Carnage finals will be live online today at 4 PM PST (7 PM ET). Click here to see it live. For the complete qualifyer
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[Link: Skatepark of Tampa]
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Click here for a complete photo gallery of day 1.
When the Agenda Show opened at Huntington Beach, California Hyatt Hotel yesterday (August 3, 2011) it didn’t take long for the place to fill right up. And that didn’t seem to bother show co-founder Aaron Levant all that much.
“Even in the first two hours it was packed everywhere we went,” Levant said. “The valet filled up and there was no where to park. We’re having some logistical problems like that, but they’re good ones, just because there are so many people here. We’ve been getting compliments all morning. It’s good show.”
Levant brought the show back to Huntington Beach after a January show in Anaheim because there’s just nothing like the synergy created by the US Open, Huntington Beach, and being right in the middle of it all.
“This is our third year in a row that we have coincided with the US Open,” Levant said. “The US Open has a lot of energy. And the two things together has an undeniable draw for someone traveling from across the country or across the world. They can come out to Agenda, get business done, hang out at the US Open. See the contest. See the free concerts. I think that whole synergy together is kind of undeniable.”
While the space in Anaheim was larger, Levant was able to bring close to 350 brands back to the Hyatt thanks to a temporary building called The Pavillion. “We really wanted to come back to Huntington for the summer with the US Open and the whole vibe here,” he said. “So that’s why we had to build that whole zone, because we just maxed out the space here.”
Not a bad problem to have, actually.
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Time to roll back down to the Crossroads for skateboarding’s most fun trade show and best trick contest. Show runs August 5 – 6, 2011 at Black Box Distribution located at 2777 Loker Ave W, Carlsbad, CA 92010. Click the link for more info.
[Link: Crossroads Retail Show]
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Skater, musician, and graphic designer GSD (Garry Scott Davis) is one of the most influential skateboard chroniclers of the modern era.
Through his seminal zine Skate Fate (which he published by hand from 1981 to 1991) GSD uncovered, interviewed, and dissected the icons of skateboarding as no one had before or has since. Now, Garry has collected the best of Skate Fate into one volume that makes the genius of the zine even more obvious.
The Best of Skate Fate is a mega-thick, 320-page, stark black-and-white book bursting with the most crucial content culled from the pages of nearly all 76 issues of this legendary zine. It’s delivered to you fresh from the pre-computer era, when pens, pencils, paper, glue, tape, triangles and T-squares were the tools of the trade. Scanned directly from the original master layouts, it all looks better than ever!
The Best of Skate Fate is available for purchase online now for only $16.95. Click here to buy it now, or wait for the hardcover version which GSD says is coming soon. Follow the jump for all the details.
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Absolute Distribution has picked up the plastic fantastic Penny skateboards and is releasing them August 15, 2011 in North and South America. Follow the jump for all the official details. [click to continue…]
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Apparently, Disney’s little extreme-TV faux sporting show went down over the weekend in Los Angeles and reportedly ended up a little like this: Shaun White won vert, Nyjah Huston won street (of course), Raven Tershy dominated the park, Silas Baxter-Neal won the video street contest, Marisa Dal Santo won women’s street, Ryan Decenzo won the Game of Skate, and Bob Burnquist stomped big air.
Follow the jump for the extended results. [click to continue…]
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