As if we don’t have enough skateboarding going on this weekend, there’s also the 10th Annual European Skateboarding Championships presented by etnies in Basel Switzerland. We can all watch it live thanks to Freecaster starting Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 5 AM PST.
[Link: ECS Live on Freecaster]
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There is a lot of skate action going down this week that isn’t The Street League. What better time for Rob Dyrdek to kick down all the details on The Street League? And yeah, he’s pretty convincing.
[Link: Street League]
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It seems that having an iPhone app has now become one of the check-off items for every well run event. Many, like the US Open of Surfing, are discovering that simply having the app doesn’t mean that the proper info is being distributed on the right channels.
On the surface the free US Open of Surfing app (click here to download it) has everything that an event app should. The opening screen features the following menu: Live, Schedule, News, Videos, Photos, Results, Media, and Shop. Under each of those is another slew of sub menus.
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The Converse Coastal Carnage mini park at Huntington Beach is looking pretty smooth, no? Almost makes us want to fill the thing with water and start blowing up our raft. . .
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Whomever is responsible for staging the Maloof Money Cup and the US Open of Surfing on the same weekend, in the same county of the same state, during the same summer should seriously get their event planning heads examined. Skateboarding is fractionalized enough already without forcing people to make the daily run from Converse’s Coastal Carnage bowl on the beach at Huntington to the Maloof Street course at the Orange County Fair Grounds in Newport Beach.
But do it we must because the Maloof Money Cup starts today (watch it live on Fuel.tv beginning Friday) and Coastal Carnage starts Friday. We’re guessing none of this would have happened if Converse Skateboarding had simply sponsored the Maloof Money Cup. Maybe next year they can all get their dates in order.
[Links: Coastal Carnage, Maloof Money Cup, The Skateboard Mag]
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Camerabag.tv profiles skate photographer/videographer Patrick O’Dell of EpicallyLaterd and gets the straight up story on the man behind the lens. Don’t miss it.
[Link: Camerabag.tv via Altamont]
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Alexander Baer, a 17-year-old skateboarder from McHenry County, Illinois, died last Thursday, July 29, 2010 from head injuries he sustained from a fall while reportedly towing on his skateboard behind a car according to the Chicago Sun Times.
An autopsy on Saturday found Baer died of craniocerebral injuries from a fall from a skateboard and his death was ruled an accident, the medical examiner’s office said. . . Baer was near his home Tuesday at 3:50 p.m. on a skateboard being pulled by some type of rope attached to a vehicle, according to a release from the McHenry County Sheriff’s office.
Towing continues to kill unrestrained. . . and yet skate video continue to feature it. Strange, huh?
[Link: Chicago Sun-Times]
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This really is more of a personal reminder to ourselves than to anyone else (we’re getting pretty forgetful these days), but tomorrow the Agenda Trade Show kicks off its two-day run at Huntington Beach, California’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. As if you don’t have enough going on this week. . .
To whet your appetite for Agenda check out these photos from the January 2010 Berrics Agenda.
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Film producer Jimmy Hawkins, 51, and musician Gregg Cassity, 56, (both of Southern California) have a new event that is going to blow everyone away, according to a story in the Daily News. The men are owners of the National Association of Powered Skateboard Racing and they’re saying it’s the next big thing.
“Powered Skateboard Racing will be sweeping the globe,” Hawkins said in one of a series of bombastic e-mails promoting the sport. The two men and their roster of about 20 racers hope to turn this weekend lark for daredevil skateboarders into a professional sport by finding bigger venues and acquiring sponsors, equipment manufacturers and media attention. . . The result is the scene that unfolded Sunday at the Encino Velodrome when a bunch of dudes jumped on motorized skateboards and raced around the high-banked concrete oval in what is either the next hot sport or the latest example of California nuttiness.
We can already hear the organizer potential sponsor pitch: it’s Gen-Y’s own version of NASCAR. Loud billboards going round and round. Sounds like a great addition to ESPN’s X Games.
[Link: Daily News]
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Emerica finally drops their much anticipated Stay Gold on August 17, 2010 in Hollywood (of course).
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