Owners of the land that housed Memphis, Tennessee’s Al Town DIY skatepark who were worried about the large turn-out for Go Skateboarding Day on June 21, 2010 decided instead to shut the place down, according to a story in the Commercial Appeal.
But on June 21, you didn’t have to be a skateboarder to notice something special about Al Town: the “No Trespassing” signs and police cars that showed up just in time for international Go Skateboarding Day. . . Al Town had been shut down.
The City of Memphis has money set aside for a skatepark, but as happens all over the world, they can’t seem to find the right place for it.
The 2010 Amsterdam Am will be broadcasting live on the Internet Saturday and Sunday July 10 & 11, 2010 beginning at 4 AM PST on the Volcom Europe website. Waking up early and tuning in is a hell of a lot easier than attending live, but no where near as much fun.
Follow the jump for full event schedule and photos of the almost completely redone Skatepark of Amsterdam. It looks pretty amazing all empty and quiet. [click to continue…]
This is one of the few times we actually feel sorry for the security guard. After this video going out to the world he was suspended from his job and hasn’t had steady work since, but we can’t help but laugh as he blasts his golf cart straight into a wall.
For more on the story from Community College of Allegheny County and a few words from the guard click the link.
It is true that Don doesn’t go out much and spends that vast majority of his time hunched over his desk working on something for a client or his own insanely detailed pieces. Over the years his work has become smaller, not in scale but in the finite spaces within each painting. It has become sharper, that’s not to say he has been sloppy; quite the contrary. It is the over all look of his more recent imagery. This mural typifying this new phase of his career. I can’t wait to see what he does next.
After all his talk about how competitive skateboarding has never been done correctly, it was a bit of shock to find out on Friday, (July 2, 2010) that Rob Dyrdek had signed a two-year DC/Monster Energy Drink Street League deal with ESPN, the company many blame for doing things wrong in skateboarding for years.
In an interview with ESPN/Action’s Micah Abrams (Dyrdek is already working the hype machine) Rob explains exactly why a long-term television deal is important for skateboarding and the Street League.
I want to build an elite property, and TV is a part of that. It needs to be built with partners who believe in the long term; it couldn’t just be someone who wanted to put it on TV. That’s why I chose a multiyear deal as opposed to just going out and getting the thing on TV.
Read the rest of the interview for the details of P-Rod and Chris Cole not appearing in the X Games, but skating on ESPN for the Street League. The ESPN TV deal seems a little messy, but guess those are the kinds of deals to make if the goal is turning skateboarding into Supercross? One one thing we can be certain of–Dyrdek will get paid.
Click the link for the interview or follow the jump for the entire Street League/ESPN press release.
On June 12, 2010 a 17-year-old Nova Scotia skateboarder allegedly grabbed on to the side of Toyota RAV 4 towing along while another 17-year-old was behind the wheel. Now, nearly a month later one teen is dead (the skateboarder died on June 23, 2010 from serious head injuries) and another is charged with criminal negligence, according to a story on CBC.ca.
“We know that the person that was on the skateboard was somehow clinging on to the vehicle and at some point in time an incident took place and the person on the skateboard must have fallen,” MacDonald said Friday.
After all this it is amazing to us that skateboarding videos still show skaters getting towed into things.
Leo Romero and the RVCA team is headed to the Great Northwest. Show up, say hello, and mention how much you like his denim. Then again, we just may do it ourselves.
Walker Ryan and friends had a pretty rough go tonight (June 28, 2010) at The Shuffl Video premiere in San Diego. First, they could only invite 160 of their friends, then before they could even show the video the manager of the Pearl Hotel called the cops.
“We had too many people in here,” one bar tender said. “They were over-running the place. There was a crowd out front, people were sneaking in through the kitchen, the back door, and coming in through the windows. So we’re clearing the place out.”
Not that the final Shuffl video edits were even done. While the cops were flushing the crowd from the poolside bar downstairs, the finishing touches were being applied to the video upstairs in a hotel room edit suite. After most had left the hotel quieted down, and within minutes up came the title credits and an applause from the thinned out crowd.
It was well worth the wait. The Shuffl video features standout parts by David Cole, Austin Kanfoush, Walker Ryan, and Tom Remillard and included loads of cameos (check it out and you’ll see what we mean).
As soon as last credit rolled the cops strolled back in and pressed everyone out the front door a second time. It was nice to see our tax dollars going to help hotels regulate their own tiny bars.
Watch The Shuffl Video when you can and follow the jump for more photos.
Walker Ryan’s video joint the Shuffl Video will be premiering in San Diego on Monday, June 28, 2010 at Point Loma’s retro-modern swanky Pearl Hotel, according to a post on The Skateboard Mag.
There is a limited capacity for this showing, and tickets will be exclusively available at certain shops in the San Diego area. The second premiere is going to be held at Utility Boardshop on Thursday, July 1st at 7pm. Everyone is welcome to that one!?
The Shuffl features Austin Kanfoush, Dave Abair, David Cole, John Lupfer, Paul Sewell, Ryan Harris, Walker Ryan, and Tom Remillard. Bring some inflatables and watch it from the pool. Show starts at 8 PM.
