by The Editors on August 10, 2009
Between the X Games and a red carpet premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Tony Hawk flew to South Africa with The Laureus Sports Foundation for a two-night visit to the Indigo Skate Camp outside Durban. Here’s what he said on Twitter:
Amazing to see Zulu kids skating with no outside influences. . . These kids are fearless, and not jaded by the media’s interpretation of what’s cool. True passion. . . These kids have style for days. Isthumba, Valley of 1000 HIlls, SA. . . Goodbye, Indigo Skate Camp. You are proof that skateboarding can change the world. Great work Dallas.
Seventy hours of travel for 48 hours of sharing. Tony Hawk just doesn’t stop giving back. . . these kids will remember it for a life time.
[Link: @Tony Hawk]
by The Editors on August 3, 2009
Ryan Sheckler sat down with Sports Illustrated’s Arash Markazi for a Q&A this weekend at the X Games and here’s what he had to say about his fans and haters:
My fans are the best fans in the world and my haters are the biggest haters in the world, and I love both of them. I [frigging] laugh at the haters. I laugh at them. It’s the most funny thing to see them. I try to put myself in their shoes and look at someone that’s doing way better than me and making way more money than me and I look at them and I’m proud of that guy. I’m happy for them. But the haters that are sitting there, running their mouth and talking [trash], they’ve never had to work for anything. They’ve never had the pressure of 100,000 people watching them. They’ve never been in that situation. So go do something productive with you life. Leave me the [heck] alone; I’m doing [stuff]. I got things to do with my life.
For the rest of the interview click the link.
[Link: Sports Illustrated]
by The Editors on July 28, 2009
On Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Tony Hawk will be in Hollywood at the new location of Madame Tussauds‘ next to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for the unveiling of his new wax doppelgänger.
The wax palace opens Saturday and might be called a museum, but there is nothing quiet, staid, stuffy or old about it. It comes with all the trappings and 115 wax figures . . It’s an interactive bonanza. You can rub shoulders with figures, hug them, dress like them, take pictures with them, and sit or play with them.
Tony is quoted as saying he was “most impressed with the measurements that brought his scars to life in the wax.” Trippy.
[Link: Mercury News photo via @TonyHawk]
by The Editors on July 28, 2009
In mid September Tony Hawk will reportedly be joining Richard Petty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sugar Ray Leonard, Joe Namath, Jim Brown, Fuzzy Zoeller, Mike Ditka, Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture, and Dr. J (among others) to play poker in the Sports Legends Challenge at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort and casino in the Bahamas.
“With the addition of Liddell, Couture, Hawk and Messier, we will enhance the experience for participants and entice a whole new audience of sports fans to be part of this event,” Bibbero said. “We’ve had an unbelievable response to this first-ever event. The support from the sports, poker and fan communities reinforces our vision to turn the Sports Legends Challenge into a series of worldwide events.”
We might have a hard time turning down an invitation to hang out in the Bahama’s with those guys, too, and we’re not even into team sports. Civilians who would like to gamble elbow to elbow with their heros need only pay $3,799 a person.
[Link: Tournament Guide Mag]
by The Editors on July 21, 2009
There were rumors buzzing around last weekend that Bam Margera had been admitted to the hospital for an overdose. TMZ, the bastion of skateboarding rumor control has spoken to Bam and here is what they say is the real story:
We just spoke to Bam Margera who said he was rushed to the hospital Sunday after a four day drinking binge — not because of a possible drug overdose. . . The “Jackass” star blames the “4-day bender” on marital problems, telling us “I may get a divorce … booze helps.” . . TMZ also spoke to Bam’s mother — who told us Bam’s wife Missy called 911 because she was worried about his health after learning that he popped an Ambien during the drinking bender. . . Margera says his kidney and leg muscles were a mess from not eating or drinking enough water — but the hospital flushed out his system and he was released to his home after speaking to a psychiatrist.
Getting old must just suck.
[Link: TMZ]
by The Editors on July 19, 2009
The only thing better than a profile in a local newspaper, is a profile in a magazine that goes in most local newspapers in the world. . . like Shaun White’s profile in this weekend’s Parade Magazine. It features top secret insights into the extreme life for newspaper readers in the heartland.
White can hop on a snowboard, zoom down a steep hill, shoot off a ski jump, and simultaneously flip and spin while in midair—thus executing what is known in the swaggering parlance of his sport as a “backside rodeo 540.” That’s three 180s. Put him on a skateboard and he’s apt to perform similarly dizzying stunts in a vertigo-inducing half-pipe made of concrete or wood, showing reckless disregard for the integrity of his bone structure.
Dizzying, indeed.
[Link: Parade Magazine]
by The Editors on July 17, 2009
To help raise money for the The Tony Hawk Foundation Tony has decided to sell off his personal time to anyone willing to pay through the nose. It’s called the Tony Hawk Experience. Here’s what a $75,000 donation will get you (and three of your friends):
I (Tony) will pick you up at LAX in my 620hp Jeep SRT and we will visit cliché tourist spots (Hollywood sign, Sunset Blvd, Venice Beach, etc) with Tom Green on our way to the X Games. You will then have VIP passes to see any and all X Games events or just sit in the booth with me while I commentate the skating competition(s). Dinner with Tom Green and Shaun White at Sushi Nozawa, Matsuhisa or try some blowfish at The Hump… or we can get the true LA Paparazzi experience at Koi. This package also includes four signed complete Tony Hawk model skateboards. . . NOTE: must take place between July 30 – Aug 2.
It would kind of be fun to put together a group of the world’s most annoying kids and then buy them one of the $100,000 packages just to see it all on video. Because, it’s for a good cause.
[Link: Tony Hawk Experience via @Valerotti]
by The Editors on July 16, 2009
Bam Margera’s new video for the Finnish band The 69 Eyes and titled Dead Girls Are Easy will officially premiere on Playboy.com at 8 AM PST on Friday, July 17, 2009, according to a post on Blabbermouth.net.
Aimed at those sleazy online chicks with the looks that kill, “Dead Girls Are Easy” is a tongue-in-cheek power anthem that just begged for a video to complement it. The clip follows a coven of tight black leather-clad vampire vixens luring and converting the men with whom they come into contact. “It’s almost like vampires are taking over the world,” muses singer Jyrki 69.
Sounds like something that will go perfectly with our Friday morning bowl of Cheerios.
[Link: Blabbermouth.net]
by The Editors on July 6, 2009
Tom Jones, of the St. Petersburg Times recently wrote up a list of the ten most Influential sports figures of the last 50 years. We haven’t even heard of most of the guys on the list, but down there at the bottom of the list in a six-way tie for number ten is Tony Hawk. Here’s what Jones said:
Coming up with a list of 10 is impossible, so here’s a six-way tie for 10th. Among those are Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and, later, Michael Jordan for saving the NBA in the 1980s; skateboarder Tony Hawk for helping extreme sports join the mainstream; Nike founder Phil Knight for creating the most popular shoe and apparel company in sports; and the unnamed person who created the major sports story of our generation — the man or woman who introduced steroids to sports.
Aside from the steroid thing, not bad company. But then Tony is good that way.
[Link: The Post-Tribune]
by The Editors on June 25, 2009
Bad day in Tinsel Town. Michael Jackson has reportedly died of cardiac arrest June 25, 2009 just hours after Farrah Fawcett. Jackson was also photographed on a skateboard, though, honestly, he looks like he was having fun on the roll.
Between the X Games and a red carpet premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Tony Hawk flew to South Africa with The Laureus Sports Foundation for a two-night visit to the Indigo Skate Camp outside Durban. Here’s what he said on Twitter:
