by The Editors on September 26, 2013
Eighteen-year-old skateboarder Alexander Ciszerski died today (Thursday, September 26, 2013) in Queens, New York after the 2005 GMC box truck he was towing along side ran over him after he fell, according to a story in the New York Post.
Ciszewski . . . rode his skateboard up to a white 2005 GMC box truck around 11 a.m. and grabbed the passenger side of door as the vehicle headed east on 47th Avenue near 33rd Street in Sunnyside, cops said. . . Suddenly, Ciszewski lost control and fell under the back wheels of the truck, police sources said.
Anyone who has grabbed on to a car while skateboarding knows how quickly things can go wrong (click here for more examples). Our thoughts are with Ciszerski’s family and friends.
[Link: NY Post]
by The Editors on September 24, 2013
Curren Caples turns pro and Kelly Slater is involved. What? Congrats to Curren. The kid has been killing it for years. It’s about time. (Oh and that other ripper kid Louie Lopez has gone pro as well. Follow the jump for his edit with Tyler The Creator. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on September 23, 2013
Auby Taylor goes huge off a small stretch of concrete with Thunder trucks under his feet.
by The Editors on September 23, 2013
If you didn’t make it to Fallen Footwear’s Road Less Traveled premiere last weekend, don’t worry. Erica Yary and the Ride Channel was there to do it for you. And, chances are, she’s a little better a talking to all the right people than you are. She’s definitely better at it than we are.
by The Editors on September 23, 2013
Purdue University nuclear engineering student Joe Carabetta is one of growing number of Americans who apparently feel that exerting any physical power whatsoever to move his body through space is simply too hard. Why exercise when you can let the magic of electricity do the work for you? That may be one of the unstated reasons he and a friend created the Kickr electric skateboard, according to a story in USA Today.
Kickr is a modular skateboard attachment that has transformed Carabetta’s Original carving longboard into an electric board that can reach speeds up to 25 mph. The product name also is the name of the company. . . When you step on a custom throttle pad, the device sends a signal to the motor that spins the wheel. The motor assembly employs a truck axle to connect to the skateboard. The device can adjust to multiple wheel sizes.
Carabetta and his partner think they can sell the motors for $400 a piece and that’s much cheaper than a little rascal.
[Link: USA Today]
by The Editors on September 23, 2013
This whole “world’s largest” thing seems to be getting a little out of control. Now, an Australian developer named Brad Shaw is reportedly building a skatepark in Guangzhou, China that will be the largest in the world, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The 17,000 square metro park – about as big as four football fields – is being built on the grounds of a conglomerate of universities, the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, in the extreme sports area. . . It’s likely demand for the park’s facilities – which are free to use – will be high. The mega centre is home to 10 universities, more than 160,000 students and 20,000 staff, many of which are in walking distance of the facility.
Shaw’s company is called Sk8scapes, and from the looks of the parks he’s built in the past, this new one is a seriously ambitious leap. But hey, why not go big in China? They are manufacturing the entire world.
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
by The Editors on September 23, 2013
by The Editors on September 20, 2013
This little edit of the “S-Walker Board” it packed up to the windows with wrong. List them out in the comments if you don’t have anything else planned for the weekend. . .
by The Editors on September 20, 2013
Fifty-year-old skateboarder Bernard B. Hamilton was killed late Thursday night September 19, 2013 in Tannersville, New York after rolling down a hill through an intersection and directly into the path of a New York State Trooper’s cruiser, according to a story in the Times Union.
State Police said Hamilton was riding a skateboard in Hill Road when he rolled into the intersection with Route 23A and the path of a trooper’s car, which was westbound on Route 23A. . . Hamilton was declared dead at the scene.
The accident happened at 11:38 PM. No other information was released. Our thoughts are with Hamilton’s family and friends.
[Link: Times Union]
by The Editors on September 11, 2013
Z-Flex Skateboards and stylish men’s grooming products Uppercut Deluxe and collaborated on a skateboard that comes with two combs and some quality pomade.
“We are so proud to be able to collab with Z-Flex on this Mr Chipper Deluxe model. I remember one of the very first skate photos I saw as a kid was Jay Adams on a Z-Flex board which always sticks in my mind as pure and raw skateboarding; when style and attitude was everything! It’s so rad to come together and create this board years later to combine our passions of skateboarding and barbering in a slick and destroy model!”- says, Luke Newman, one of the founders of Uppercut Deluxe.
For the official word from Z-Flex and Uppercut Deluxe follow the jump. [click to continue…]
