by The Editors on March 17, 2009
We thought finding a follow-up to the DVS Battle of the Berrics was going to be tough, but with the DC x Berrics Project Granite it looks like Steve Berra and Eric Koston have a few more promotional ideas their warehouse turned web dominator, according to a post on The Skateboard Mag.
Once a week for three weeks PJ Ladd will do a ledge trick, you have to try and do the same, and then upload the video clip of yourself. There will be one winner a week and at the end of Project Granite a grand prize winner will receive a year’s supply of DC gear AND the actual ledge that PJ used to film his tricks.
Sounds like an interesting tweak on The Battle not unlike Quiksilver’s Race to S.K.A.T.E, albeit without the racing.
[Link: The Berrics via The Skateboard Mag]
by The Editors on March 16, 2009
Portland skateboarders Taylor Appelo, 20, and Clayton Hunt, 16, were waiting at the MAX line Skidmore Fountain station early Saturday morning March 14, 2009 when they got jumped by four men in their 20s, according to a story on OregonLive.com.
Four men, three of whom appeared to be in their mid-20s and one perhaps older, approached and almost immediately began making threatening statements, Hunt said. . . “They told us we walked into the wrong tunnel,” Hunt said, referring to the area underneath Burnside Avenue. . . One man “came up to me and told me and Taylor he wanted to lay one of us out on the tracks,” Hunt said. “He said he was drunk and looking for a fight.” . . . Hunt said he and Appelo started walking away from the four but they followed and one of them shoved Appelo, who bumped into Hunt. Both fell onto the track surface.
Both skaters ran but were followed and when Appelo turned to look back he was hit in the face and knocked to the ground.
“I saw him hit the ground really hard, face first,” Hunt said. “I saw a lot of blood everywhere. I saw his teeth on the ground. It was really scary.”
Appelo was taken to the Legacy Emanual Hospital & Health Center where he was treated for a jaw broken in three places, a broken rib, dislocated thumb, and multiple facial cuts. The police hope to review video footage from the station’s security cameras and will start their investigation today.
[Link: OregonLive via Skatedaily.net]
by The Editors on March 16, 2009
On the way home to Melbourne after winning the Oi Vert Jam in Rio De Janero, Brazil, new number one vert number Renton Millar got stuck in coach, according to a story in Australia’s The Age. But that was alright because he got to hang out with Tony Hawk.
“I’ve done quite a bit of flying,” says Renton Millar, “but I don’t know anyone who’s bettered that one. It was 55 hours. I got a bit of a dud ticket.” . . . “That guy really doesn’t have to work another day in his life, but he chooses to get out there and represent skating, put a smile on the faces of people who’ve loved him their whole life,” says Millar, who freely admits to being one such devotee since his first run at Bulleen bowl in 1987. On Saturday, he and Hawk skated impromptu demos in Frankston, then moved on to Prahran after rain intervened, and Hawk was still eager to go again after that too was rained off.
For the rest of Renton’s mainstream media profile follow the jump.
[Link: The Age]
by The Editors on March 15, 2009
Truckee’s Michael Goldschmidt, edged Matt Ladley to win the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix halfpipe at Killington on March 14, 2009. It was his first win of the season.
“I’m just so excited. I would rather win here in Vermont than anywhere else. It just feels great,” Goldschmidt said. “This win makes me feel really good. I’ve known that I could put together a run that could get me up there, and it feels great to have it come together and win it.”
Kelly Clark continued her dominance and Gretchen Bleiler got second. Follow the jump for the official word.
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by The Editors on March 13, 2009
There was a day when we would have let nothing stand between us and a Christian Hosoi, Steve Caballero & Tony Alva autograph signing in Littleton, Colorado. Sadly, that day was about 20 years ago or we’d be there this Sunday March 15, 2009.
[Link: Vans via The Skateboard Mag]
by The Editors on March 13, 2009
Pennsylvania skaters Adam Podlaski and his brother Jason noticed that a lot of perfectly good wood was going to waste when they and their friends would throw away broken skateboards. And that gave them an idea, according to a story on CBS3.com.
Adam said, “I approached Jay, and I was like, can you make me some furniture out of these things?” So Jason created the Deck Stool. “The design was really based on the way skateboards break,” said Jason. “A large percentage breaks at the truck, because they’re weakened by the holes that are drilled there for the truck. And then the rest break in the center. As you can see by the design, the longer ones become the legs, and the shorter pieces become the seats.”
Deckstools cost about $250 each, so at this point they’re a little more art than eco-furniture.
[Link: Deckstools via CBS3.com]
by The Editors on March 12, 2009
While in Lima, Peru shooting and filming some tricks in “a seemingly unsketchy area” filmer Mike Mansoori, photographer Oliver Barton got robbed at gun point of $13,000 in camera gear in “about 6 seconds” by the guy pointed out in the above photo, according to a story on the és blog.
While no one else in the crew is watching, the striped shirt lurker creeps up on Manzoori and the kid, pulls a gun, shoves it in Manzoori’s face and grabs the video camera. Like a cartoon…the kid gets up and runs so fast that one of his shoes falls off his foot and is left on the scene. Manzoori lays face down on the ground to get away from the gun. Just at this very moment, a black Toyota Yaris comes down the street toward the thief who’s running away from Manzoori, to the car, brand-new free high def video camera in hand.
It’s a reminder that in many places carrying around expensive camera equipment is like wearing a placard that says “Rob Me.” We’re so glad no one was hurt. Click here for Quicktime video.
[Link: és Footwear]
by The Editors on March 11, 2009
It’s a classic California skateboard success story: kid from Brighton, England moves to San Diego at 18 and freestyles his way into the position of skateboard industry titan. It’s the Don Brown true skateboarding story as told by Red Bull in their Red Bulletin.
“I was living in the moment,” he recalls. “I remember going to a contest in Huntington Beach one day, looking in my wallet and realising I only had a dollar to my name.” So, Brown took a warehouse job with Vision Skateboarding. After winning three consecutive amateur contests, Vision became his sponsor, eventually giving him what no other English skater before him had managed – a professional board model named after him.
That was only the beginning. In the early 90s Don joined Pierre Senizergues at Etnies and the skateboard footwear world was never the same again. Then again, neither was any industry event that Don attended, but we’ll keep those stories to ourselves.
[Link: Red Bulletin]
by The Editors on March 11, 2009
Quiksilver review their Q1 financials today, March 11, 2009 in a conference call that will be broadcast live over the Internet at 1:30 Pacific Time. The broadcast will be hosted at www.quiksilverinc.com and at www.viavid.net.
This maybe one of those calls we won’t want to miss.
[Link: MarketWatch]
by The Editors on March 10, 2009
