Tony Hawk has been out on the road for the past couple days rolling out his newest video game Tony Hawk: Ride and its wireless skate deck controller. One of the places he stopped as at the Wall Street Journal in NYC where he ran into our favorite WSJ writer Conor Dougherty for an interview.
How does Tony think core skateboarders are going to respond to the game (which arrived in stores today)?
I think that if skaters just take an approach that this is a fun way to experience something else, then they’ll enjoy it. If they get on it and expect to do skateboard tricks, that’s not the approach. The movements that set your character into play are very subtle. Like an ollie [the basic skateboard jump] just takes a little kick up. A kickflip [where the board flips over] takes just a little kick up and twist to one side. In that sense, you can do more because it doesn’t take as much effort. But if skaters approach it like they really are skating, it won’t be as fun.
TJ Schneider is back for season three of The Snowboard Realms, which according to a post on Snowboard Canada, launched today. All it does is make us feel worse about missing opening day at Baker. If that was possible.
We’ve occasionally followed the story of surfing physicist Garrett Lisi and the unification theory he calls The Theory of Everything. Some say it is genius, others claim that it is purely junk science from a surfer who is good at math. We have no idea. . . but it looks pretty cool. Doesn’t it?
We have to admit, the logo of the Stan Evans produced women’s film Stance looks a little familiar, but the music is amazing, and we’ve got the entire movie here in a “not so exclusive” showing thanks to our friends at Snowboarder Magazine.
As they said:
Watch the highly anticipated all-women’s film project STANCE in it’s entirety exclusively right here. Featuring: Gretchen Bleiler, Hana Beaman, Kimmy Fasani, Lisa Filzmoser, Jenny Jones, Torah Bright, Raewyn Reid, and Molly Aguirre.
How would you react after a shark bit your board in half while you were sitting on it? This is how Eric Geiselman handled his interaction with what may have been a Great White while surfing near Santa Cruz, California on November 5, 2009.
Eric was out the back all-alone after his brother, Evan Geiselman, caught a wave in. Amidst the commotion, his foot hit the creature as he began paddling the remnants of his board toward shore. “It’s nuts to think how helpless you are,” said a rattled Geiselman to TransWorld SURF’sAaron Checkwood.
Nothing like kicking a shark while paddling half a surfboard back to shore. . .click here to hear Eric tell the whole story.
Probably not even worth mentioning, however, aside from Mad Men we don’t watch any TV anymore. That’s why we miss compelling shows like The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and guests like Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White. Click here for part 2.
This is one of the things that over-caffeinated sugar water money will buy you if you play your cards the way Shaun White plays them. Yep, we’ve been tricked into running another commercial and only got to see one double-double. Foiled again.
This winter Portland snowboarders who want to catch a ride to Mt. Hood Meadows can do it any day of the week for $10 round trip in eco-style thanks to Mike Parziale and the Grease Bus. But there is much more to this story as Yobeat.com’sJared Souney discovered in this video.
