In Brittain’s Vault episode 8, The Skateboard Mag’s Grant Brittain revisits NorCal circa 1985 with a photo of Lance Mountain at Mike Chantry’s ramp during the Terror In Tahoe contest in July of 1985.
Follow the jump for a six-part video from the contest in all its 80s glory. [click to continue…]
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Yobeat follows Cobra Dog’s Cory Grove around Portland for the day and all we got was hungry.
[Link: Yobeat via 18th and Hoyt]
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Beginning tomorrow (Saturday, September 3, 2011) at 9 AM PDT the Maloof Money Cup DC will be streaming the entire event live on their Youtube channel.
Watch the best Pro and Am skaters in the world compete on a brand new concrete plaza built to last in the heart of D.C. The top prize for the pro division is $160,000.
This is so much better than having to wait three days to watch Street League online. Thanks, Maloofs. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
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Florida, Florida, Florida. Add Shane Lancaster, 19, of Keystone Heights to the list of surfers bitten by a shark while surfing Florida’s sunny beaches.
“The water was probably up to my belly button and I slid off my board. And as soon as my foot hit the sand, (the shark) grabbed ahold real quick and it was gone,” Lancaster said. . . “It wasn’t like I was screaming,” he said of the pain. “It was scary and shocking, that’s all.”
After a trip to the hospital and some stitches Lancaster was back home and feeling okay.
[Link: First Coast News]
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Add Andy Finch and Tommy Czeschin to the list of snowboarders who are following Louie “Tiny Dancer” Vito into the world of reality TV as the two shreds compete as a team in the CBS reality travel show The Amazing Race.
Here is their bio:
As members of the United States Olympic Snowboarding team in 2002 and 2006 respectively, Tommy Czeschin, 31, and Andy Finch, 30, have “years of experience knowing how to be focused and get in our zone,” Finch says. But they know their weaknesses. “Typical snowboarder – the book smarts part of it is probably going to be the hardest for us,” Czeschin says.
The season premiere is September 25, 2011 at 8 PM. And yes, this will be good.
[Link: The Amazing Race via People]
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Sometimes there’s nothing better to clear our heads on a Tuesday morning than a little hesh skate session from NorCal. The San Diego, California based Typical Culture site pulled this clip together from Toad & Salmon’s 7th Annual Chili Bowl contest at San Francisco’s Potrero del Sol Skatepark. Click the link for full results (including the Chili cook off).
[Link: Typical Culture via Skatedaily]
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Kelly Slater tip-toed through a minefield in the Billabong Pro Tahiti this week while top seeds blew out all around him: Joel Parkinson went down, Jordy Smith got crushed in a barrel, and Taj Burrow got beat. Meanwhile, Kelly kept finding high-point barrels where others weren’t looking and doing exactly what it took to slip into the final with Owen Wright, steal it from him on the inside, and jump right back to the top of the ASP World Tour ranking list.
“It’s one of those weird events where you have to scramble through the early rounds,” Slater said. “Every year at this event, there are few of the top guys that lose in the early rounds and you have to scramble if you want a result here. You have to be in tune with the tides, swell direction and everything to make sure you get those waves that get you the score.”
And, few are ever as “in tune” as Kelly. Follow the jump for the official word from the ASP and a video recap of the entire event. [click to continue…]
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Teahupoo on August 27, 2011 is being called ‘the “the heaviest day in modern surfing history” and Bruce Irons got this little taste for all of us. “Oh, whoa. I’m deep.”
[Link: Surfing Life via Volcom]
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Oakland and Emeryville skaters like Alex Fatemi saw all their work at The Spot destroyed as Caltrans brought in the bulldozers and removed their DIY skatepark citing the usual “liability issues,” according to a story on KGO.
There had been hope of leaving the spot open and perhaps working out a deal with Caltrans. But skateboarders say, with redevelopment agencies on the way out and the economy what it is, officials in Oakland and Emeryville were unable to come up with the money for the $5,000 per month lease that Caltrans wanted.
So another DIY park will revert to it’s previous life as a place for trash (both human and garbage) to pile up, and the skateboarders will be back out in the streets.
[Link: KGO]
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