Apparently, Element is taking Go Skateboarding Day pretty literally. On June 19, 2009 Billabong’s skateboarding brand Element made some “cuts” to their work force and gave a few people a little more go skateboarding time.
We’ll have more information as it becomes available.
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At a Father’s Day celebration June 19, 2009 at the White House Tony Hawk just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put his board down and roll the halls. Now his pictures and Tweets are world news. Tony is surprisingly tripped out a little by it. Here’s what he said last night on Twitter.
watching Nightline right now and they just showed my Twitpics from the WH on the preview. Life gets stranger and more fun every day.
Yes it does. For more of that click here to watch his Nightline episode from ABC News.
[Link: Associated Press and @TonyHawk]
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Clyde Singleton is announcing at the Kona Fantasy Cup Team Challenge which begins tonight at midnight in celebration of Go Skateboarding Day. And that was enough reason for the Jacksonville.com to run a full profile on the man.
In the insular, image-conscious world of skateboarding, Singleton is something of a celebrity lightning rod – a magazine columnist, a blogger, a video producer, a contest emcee, a satirist, a spokesman, a personality, all brash and provocative. . . Singleton admits that being notorious is pretty strange. “People think they know you. They think I like chicken. They think I speak really broken English. That I can’t skate. That I don’t skate. That I don’t like white people.” That’s all wrong – except for the part about chicken.
It gets better from there. . .
[Link: Jacksonville.com]
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June 21 is Go Skateboarding Day, but we’re thinking it would be a good idea to get a run at it and skateboard everyday until then and be ready:
Skateboarders everywhere will show their love and support for skateboarding by holding fundraisers, contests, protests nad demos. They’ll skate across cities, gather in skateparks, stream into their local skate shop and some will even revel in the solitary act of skateboarding alone at their favorite spot, all bringing together the skateboarding community in the grind heard around the world.
Check out the GoSkateboardDay.org website for the official countdown clock and complete listings of event around the globe (all on an interactive Google Map). Or click here for some GSD trivia with The Skateboard Mag. Or click here to see what the pros are doing (according to Fuel TV).
[Link: Go Skateboarding Day]
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Great overview of urban skateboarding, cops, and specifically Philly’s Love Park in a great story by Catherine Caperello in the Philadelphia Weekly, titled: Enemies of the Skate.
Ever since skateboarding was banned from public places in Philadelphia back in 2002, the rules of the cat-and-mouse game between cops and skaters has been simple: The cops come and the skaters run. In the past, when skaters were apprehended, officers just removed the bolts from the wheels, preventing the owner from riding. Sometimes cops would break the boards or make a kid do a trick to get their board back. Worst-case scenario, skaters were arrested or ticketed or verbally reprimanded.
Nocturnal’s Mark Brandstetter weighs in as do Michael Rankine and Jason Klotz. Check it. . .
[Link: Philadelphia Weekly via Club Mumble]
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We’ve got to wonder what NBC/Dew Tour has planned with this latest announcement: Adio Footwear founder Chris Miller has just been named Chief Creative Director of Alli’s digital, consumer product, and creative functions according to a Tripp Mickle story in Sports Business Daily.
Chris is the perfect person for the job. We just hope he can survive the realities of dealing with television networks and the people who run them. That is one tough crowd.
[Link: Sports Business Daily]
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Just got a message from Felix Arguelles saying that Jereme Rodgers is no longer with the Famous Stars and Straps company.
” Famous stars and straps is releasing Jereme Rogers from their skateboard program. F.S.A.S. would like to thank Jereme for the positive contributions to the brand and wish him luck in his future endeavors. “
Luck in future endeavors? We think he’s going to need a little more than luck.
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We will always love Black Label. How could we not?
[Link: Black Label via @skateboardmag]
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Looks like all the boys are going to be out pushing their product for this one. June 27, 2009 looks a little like this at the new CCS store at 1416 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA:
From 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM there’ll be an autograph signing from the Emerica team, and loads and loads of giveaways. . . . From 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM they’ll be an all-out CCS Skate Jam featuring a bunch of CCS Team Riders including Rick Howard, Sierra Fellers, Corey Duffel, Jerry Hsu, Heath Kirchart, Brandon Westgate, and Scott Decenzo. In addition to our favorite rippers, they’ll be pros from a bunch of other teams floating around in the mix. Don’t be afraid to work up an appetite because the Vans BBQ will be blazing up burgers and dogs that’ll be free for the taking. Swing through, skate, meet your favorite pros, come up on free stuff and visit the shop for goods like Jerry Hsu’s newest shoe, Justin Eldridge’s Jaw Breaker Deck, Leo Romero’s RVCA jeans and a boatload of other product backed by the best freakin’ riders in skateboarding!
Maybe retail will survive in the hands of the etailers. . .
[Link: CCS via The Skateboard Mag]
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Phew! Looks like that fight a.k.a. “beef” between Terry Kennedy and Bow Wow regarding Rev. Run’s daughter Angela Simmons is over, according to an interview on Broccoli City TV reported on Ballerstatus. And we are so thankful for that. Here’s what TK had to say about Bow Wow:
“I never known the n****. He was trying to go around and get information from other n****s to see what type of n**** I was,” T.K. explained. “I guess everytime he’d bump into somebody and ask them about me, they’d give him the history on me. After that, he ended up trying to call me saying ‘I ain’t got nothing against you, it’s all love.’ I hate to tackle the situation, but he’s a coward.”
It’s good to keep all these rap wars straight.
[Link: Ballerstatus]
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