{"id":15993,"date":"2010-05-12T15:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15993"},"modified":"2010-05-12T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T23:31:40","slug":"jake-duncombe-stick-skater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15993","title":{"rendered":"Jake Duncombe: Stick Skater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/art-lead-stickskater-420x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/art-lead-stickskater-420x0.jpg','popup','width=420,height=297,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/art-lead-stickskater-420x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Art-Lead-Stickskater-420X0\" \/><\/a>Former Aussie skate filmers <strong>Ben Hazzard<\/strong> and <strong>Liam Stephens<\/strong> currently hold the number 2 paid app position in the <strong>Apple iTunes<\/strong> iPhone app store with their low-rez skateboarding game <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/stick-skater\/id367326781?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Stick Skater<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/digital-life\/games\/stick-skater-ollies-to-top-of-appstore-20100512-ux0e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We both grew up in Newcastle filming skate videos of local skaters, some of who have become world respected pro skater,&#8221; Hazzard said. . . &#8220;We modelled the skate animations on real skateboarders, and we specifically choose a particular pro skater, <strong>Jake Duncombe<\/strong>, who has a reputation for doing some of the best tricks.&#8221; . . Hazzard said the game allowed for many trick combinations. . . &#8220;While being a little exaggerated for entertainment purposes, they are still in touch with the progression of real skateboarding,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the coolest parts of the game is skating the famous spots including: the Carlsbad Gap, Hollywood High, Wilshire, and Love Park. We&#8217;re guessing this will be 99 cents well spent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Links: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/stick-skater\/id367326781?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Stick Skater<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/digital-life\/games\/stick-skater-ollies-to-top-of-appstore-20100512-ux0e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Aussie skate filmers Ben Hazzard and Liam Stephens currently hold the number 2 paid app position in the Apple iTunes iPhone app store with their low-rez skateboarding game Stick Skater, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. We both grew up in Newcastle filming skate videos of local skaters, some of who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16003,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions\/16003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}