Now that Rob Dyrdek has tightened down Street League Skateboarding’s contract skateboarders (what is this the WWE?) it’s forcing us to look at the lists and decide which roster of skaters we’d be more interested in following (not to say you can’t follow both tours).
Alex Olson, Andrew Reynolds , Anthony Van Engelen, Arto Saari, Austyn Gillette, Bastien Salabanzi, Brandon Westgate, Brian Anderson, Bryan Herman, Chris Haslam, Chris Pfanner, David Gravette, Dennis Busenitz, Garrett Hill, Geoff Rowley, Grant Taylor, Greg Lutzka, Justin Brock, Leo Romero, Lizard King, Sierra Fellers, Tom Asta, Tony Trujillo, and Vincent Alvarez.
Amazing skateboarding will go down, but don’t Grant Taylor, Greg Lutzka have prior commitments?
In conjunction with the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’sArt in the Streets show (which runs until August 8, 2011) the Levi’s Film Workshop is presenting a retrospective of skateboarding films along with a panel discussion featuring; Spike Jonze, Stacy Peralta, Lance Mountain, Ed Templeton, Greg Hunt, Ty Evans, Rick Howard, Aaron Meza, and Tobin Yelland.
Noted photographer and producer Patrick O’Dell (Epicly Later’d) will present a special compilation of seminal skateboard videos from the 1980s to today. The screening will be followed by a conversation with legendary skateboarders and filmmakers
This is a great chance to hear from the people responsible for creating skateboarding visuals for the past three decades. Skate Video Night is free and open to the public and goes down at 8 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in the Vista Theatre at 4473 Sunset Blvd, LA, CA 92007. Click the link to RSVP.
Each time we link up a Signal Every Third Thursday video we swear it’s going to be our last one, but Dave Lee and the crew keep coming up with the goods.
This month Paul Schmitt and Terry Kidwell build an original horizontal lam Kidwell Model–just like back in the day. Mike Ranquet even makes a guest appearance.
Is it possible to build a snowboard in a garage? Sure. Especially if it’s Paul Schmitt’s.
Skater Tim’s Okasaki’s mom is totally convinced that he is gay, and she decides to turn it into a business.
“I even came up with my catch phrase,” she explains. “I’m Gay! Which I got Tim to say at any skateboard competition or to the media. Tim really got into it. I also came up with ‘skateboarding gaystyle.’ That was more of a business decision. I wanted to kids to become familiar with the phrase “gaystyle” because that’s when I started my company Gaystyle Enterprises.”
This is reportedly a sketch from a new comedy show called Angry Boys by Australian comedian Chris Lilley. Just watch it. . . we’re still laughing.
When Sole Technology founder Pierre Andre Senizergues first arrived in America with his products one of the first things the local marketing professionals tried to tell him was that he would not be successful marketing “skateboarding boots” in the US. He was reminded that skaters wore sneakers or Vans and that he should immediately drop the word “boot” from his marketing materials.
The appearance today of the new, limited edition (500 pair) emerica Heath Kirchart Shifter HK boot would suggest that Pierre still loves nothing more than giving America a skateboarding boot.
“These are four original series that continue to attract loyal audiences for us at FUEL TV,” says Shane Coburn, FUEL TV Director, Development and Current Programming. “The programs deliver compelling characters, intense situations, frenetic action, and irreverent humor, making them all time-tested fan favorites.”
We’re looking forward to watching at least three of them when we’re at our parents house, because they still have cable. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
This is probably more than anyone ever wants to know about a tight, kinked, and ugly backyard pool in Sydney, Australia. But aside from the annoying narration it’s an entertaining 26 minutes of skateboarding, art, and nudity. . . apparently.
With the stability of their financial empire in question and their plans to move and/or sell the Sacramento Kings NBA team it would seem that the Maloofs would have bigger things than skateboarding on their minds. But when the whole novelty of their skateboarding event hinges on “money”, then the prize purse is pretty important.
“The skating population has grown tremendously in Washington D.C. and right now it lacks the number of skate parks needed to support this growth,” said Joe Maloof, founder of Maloof Money Cup and owner of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. “Our intent is to build a skate park for the community like we did in New York City. We’ve been in talks with a number of cities to host Maloof Money Cup and figured what better place to expand in 2011 than our nation’s capital.”
It didn’t take The Street League’s Rob Dyrdek long to respond to the Maloof ante up with a prize purse boost of his own pushing TSL’s purse up to $1.6 million, according to a story on MSNBC.com.
“You have to understand that despite what it looks like from the outside looking in, street skateboarding is 80 percent of action sports,” Dyrdek said. “There’s 15 million participants in action sports, and 10 million of them are street skaters. It has its own self-sustaining market where it never really needed mainstream contests. But now it’s sort of this dance, which really comes between Street League and Maloof Money Cup, where they came in as I was developing this, and then that just sort of drove it up, which I think is incredible for the sport.
Incredible for the sport? We’re not so sure. Seems what would be better for skateboarding would be for everyone to work together toward one unified street skateboarding title. But then, Dyrdek and the Maloofs would have to work together. And it doesn’t seem that either enjoy sitting back while someone else makes the decisions–especially with so much money on the line.
Nothing like a little b-side footie from new shoe dude Braydon Szafranski. Right? Don’t ever think this whole “skateboarding superstar” thing is easy. It’s not.
Now that Rob Dyrdek has tightened down Street League Skateboarding’s contract skateboarders (what is this the WWE?) it’s forcing us to look at the lists and decide which roster of skaters we’d be more interested in following (not to say you can’t follow both tours).
