Don’t ever think that being a pro skater is easy money. Corey Duffel pays his dues.
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Tony Hawk discusses how he got started, his break with Per Wilander and how he learned to say, “No.” In a Inc. magazine How I Got Started feature.
When we first started, I was doing all the marketing and all the promotional materials myself. I was OK at it, but I wasn’t the most qualified person. Finally, one of our team members said, “Your ads aren’t very good. You’re better at skating. Why don’t you let me take this over?” . . . So I took a step back from the business and focused on skating. I stopped being so involved in the day-to-day operations and became more of an adviser. The company was growing, and everything was working out pretty well. But all that changed when we started to move outside of the skate world.
For the rest of the story click the link.
[Link: Inc.com via SkateDaily]
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Kilian Martin goes through a lot to get us all to watch him work his flatland freestyling. Is it working? We’re not sure.
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Scott Hultgren the design mind behind the Valhalla Design & Conquer agency has created an action March Logo Madness grid to find the best action sports /youth culture logo of all time, but he needs you to vote to make it happen. Here’s how he describes it:
That’s right, just like the basketball tournament but different. The voting will be open for a week, at the end of the week the votes will be tallied and the winner will go on to the next bracket. At the end, the designer of the winning logo will be able to claim he is the world champion of the logos and may receive a prize of some sort.
For the first round match ups click here. In the skateboarding category Independent and Thrasher go up head to head in round one. Man, that’s a hard decision to make. Check back each week as the winners go head to head in the next round.
[Link: We Design & Conquer] [click to continue…]
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Wall Street Journal writer Conor Dougherty looks into the new realm of private skate parks in a story titled, I Say, That’s One Gnarly Grind You Just Executed, Aging Skateboarders Join Exclusive Venues to Avoid Those Darn Kids. In the story Dougherty covers the Dark Arts Blood Bowl in Minneapolis (with Jef VanSyoc), The DonutHill Project in Omaha (with Kevin Wilkins), and the DOS Bowl in Portland (with Ken Dahlgren).
The DonutHill Project, a key club in the Omaha area, has a general rule that only skaters can come as guests: Don’t bring lurkers who only want to hang out. . . They also have a “kook list” of skaters who aren’t welcome. . . “It’s kind of for the people who made it happen,” says Kevin Wilkins, a DonutHill key holder and editor of The Skateboard Mag. “If you run it any other way, you jeopardize what you built.”
Backyard ramps and parks have always been pretty hidden and exclusive, it’s nice that everyone is beginning to share the expenses in a more much official way.
[Link: The Wall Street Journal]
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If we had an excuse for this late post we would have included it right here, fool. But we don’t got none, homie. Word.
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NHS CEO and President Bob Denike is taking the whole Jeremy Scott fashion rip off of Jim and Jimbo Phillips up a notch by sending out an email asking for everyone to help “spread the word.”
It’s obvious to us, the Phillips family, the fans of Jim Phillips Sr. and Jimbo Phillips, and fans of the brand Santa Cruz Skateboards, as well as many in the global skateboard and skate art community that there is clear and obvious infringement by Mr. Scott. We are discussing this with our legal team to determine our next steps. . . I hope that Mr. Scott sees that his actions have hurt and affected many people, including the Phillips family, and that he has also severely damaged his own reputation. It is not too late for him to do the right thing, as an artist and creative person, and fix his error in judgement.
Click here to check out the book Scott reportedly used as “inspiration” for his collection, or for the official word from Denike, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Transworld Skateboarding has named Bones Brigade legend Tommy Guerrero the winner of the 2013 Legend Award and will bestow it on him during the 15th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards in Hollywood, California tomorrow night (Wednesday, February 27, 2013).
As a top shelf member of the Bones Brigade during the height of the ’80s boom, Tommy basically became the face of “streetstyle” at a time when that very concept was about to turn skateboarding on its head. Born and raised in San Francisco, Tommy put the city’s now infamous hills and unique terrain on the map for skateboarding. His part in Powell Peralta’s 1985 video Future Primitive was not only revolutionary, but hugely influential to the sport of skateboarding. As the first official “street pro” in skateboarding, Tommy’s free-flowing improvisational style and creative use of the San Francisco concrete, set the stage for modern street skating.
For the official word and all the details, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Every year Vans holds a bowl contest in Australia’s Bondi Bowl and every year (for the past four, at least) the contest is won by Vans sponsored skater Pedro Barros. It would appear that no one skates the bowl better. Those who came close included Bucky Lasek in second and Rune Glifberg in third. Follow the jump for the official word from Vans. [click to continue…]
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We’ve ignored Adam Miller’s skateboard to skateboard circus trick backflip for a while now, but when Ad Age decides to call this 15 second edit out as the “lift” Tony Hawk’s Ride Channel needed we just couldn’t pass it up any longer. Turns out this board-to-board stunt is the Ride channel’s “most view video with 2.5 million views.”
A second Miller video, one that shows the skater practicing for the trick and falling repeatedly (a.k.a. a “slam video”), is the channel’s trending video this week with more than 300,000 views. Those videos helped Ride, which is backed by Tony Hawk, capture the No. 7 spot on our YouTube Tracker as well as the designation Biggest Mover of the Week. The channel views grew by 399% over last week.
You see where this leads, right? More whack edits of amazing circus stunts. Yay!
[Link: Ad Age]
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