During a Quiksilver demo at Anaheim, California’s Downtown Disney at 6 PM Saturday, July 24, 2010 Tony Hawk slammed harder than he has in a long time. “Did a tailbone 5 & my foot was a little off, sent me into b/s revert (chicken-neck) to flat,” he said on Twitter. “Hit my back & head HARD,” he said.
The fall resulted in a trip to the UC Irvine Trauma Center, according to Tony’s Twitter feed.
Doctors there told Tony that he had a “Pelvic vertical shear injury” & a hematoma,” Hawk said on @TonyHawk. “All I know is: I can’t lift my legs & it sucks.”
A little later things were looking up. “Thank you for all the well wishes,” he said. “Hooray for morphine & fentanyl, big fan.”
We are amazed that Tony was able to walk back out on to the ramp, thank everyone for coming, and promo the rest of the guys in the demo as injured as he was. The man is all pro. All the time.
A second San Diego Bank was robbed last week by a man described as the “skateboard bandit,” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
An armed robber used a skateboard to get away after holding up a bank in Torrey Highlands Friday, San Diego police said. . . .Witnesses at Wells Fargo Bank on Highland Valley Place believed the robber was carrying a black pistol when he demanded cash from a teller, police said. . . Officers are checking the area for a white man wearing a black hooded jacket, jeans, a green bandanna and sunglasses.
A guy with the same description robbed a different San Diego Bank on July 12, 2010.
Can’t believe it has already been three years since Baltimore Police officer Salvatore Rivieri was caught on video jumping out of his golf cart and roughing up a 14-year-old skateboarder (click here for all the stories). Now, according to the Baltimore Sun, that officer has been “cleared using excessive force and discourtesy.”
A three-member police panel called a trial board held a hearing last week and found Officer Salvatore Rivieri guilty of failing to issue the youth a citizen contact receipt and file a report but not guilty on charges of using excessive and unnecessary force and uttering a discourtesy.
It is difficult to imagine a police officer be more discourteous to a kid, short of beating them, but apparently in Baltimore that’s perfectly normal police behavior.
Josh Kalis, Matt Miller, Marquise Henry, Evan Smith, and Wes Kremer go door-to-door on DC’s Pop-Up Tour. We’d go to our local shop to check ’em. Starts today at Bethlehem Skatepark in Pennsylvania.
A blue-collar skateboarder’s dream come true. . . apparently. Tools, beer, and boobs all thanks to Hubba Wheels. That girl looks thirsty. . . and hungry now that you mention it.
On Wednesday (July 14, 2010), when news began arriving that Mike Vallely was leaving Element Skateboards (and becoming one of the few objects to escape Billabong’s gravitational pull in recent weeks) we were too caught up in agreeing with Boil The Ocean’s take on the new company to get the official word from the man himself. And what a disservice that was. Here’s what Mike said on his blog:
You see, I still love Element and the people who I worked closely with there but unfortunately those people are ultimately powerless to steer the ship that is the conglomerate that owns Element. And it has become clearer and clearer to me that the parent company of Element is only looking to build their business and improve their bottom line on the backs of people like me. They can buy admiration but they can’t buy achievement. They can own skateboard companies but they’ll never be skaters. And this really bothers me. It bothers me so much that I can no longer give one ounce of my energy or another second of my time to their cause. Thus, I’ve started my own thing because I simply can’t and won’t be apart of their thing anymore.”
No one ever questioned Mike Vallely’s commitment, nor his ability to march directly into battle. We just hope he can liveBy the Sword, and not the other way around.
During his career artist Ari Marcopoulos has had the uncanny ability to roll in to the right places, with the right people, at the right times: always. He was with Andy Warhol near the end, assisted Irving Penn, shot the The Beastie Boys in the mid 80s, skateboarders in the late 80s, Terje Haakonsen and the snowboard heros of the late 90s. He helped with the creation of Frequency The Snowboard Journal, and directed Where The Wind Blows a tribute film to Craig Kelly.
Though Ari is always affable, we’ve never been able to get any kind of solid read on him. That’s why we we’re linking up this interview he did recently with Dossier Journal’s Elisa Lusso. Among other topics covered he mentioned the Internet:
The Internet allows for instant visual reference. It is a cool tool for communication. I guess we’re going to see more and more pixels. . . Every piece of information will eventually be on the Internet. Soon they’re will be no need for the press as we know it. . . Our minds are melting into the Internet, becoming like a hive mind. We should avoid that and stay individuals.
He also says that Terje Haakonsen was the most confident person he’s ever photographed. Click the link for the rest.
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