Some pretty heavy Hawai’ians at last fall’s ASR Show were carrying around what looked like a SUP paddle with a wheel on the bottom instead of a blade.
It was a Kahuna Big Stick. And it is endorsed by Buttons Kaluhiokalani. Now, it appears that Surfer DudeMatthew McConaughey has picked up on it, according to a story on Celebuzz.
The actor/surfer dude went for a ride using a wheeled stick to balance himself and go even faster as zipped along the sidewalk, accompanied by his dog BJ.
Maybe the Big Stick is the secret to Hollywood abs.
We’re not exactly what you would call huge Nitro Circus fans, however, there are occasions when Travis Pastrana pulls off some cool stuff. Like this Big Wheel backflip at Bob Burnquist’s house spotted by the ever vigilant Kilwag at Skate and Annoy.
Having hung out at the top of that drop-in we can tell you this is way more messed up than it looks on video.
Athletes scheduled to compete are UFC veterans Kit Cope and Danny Abbadi and pro skateboarder Jason Ellis in his MMA debut. . . . MMAFighting.com will host Affliction Entertainment’s stream of the event at 7 p.m. PST.
Is Jason Ellis actually going to fight? Or is he just going to heckle his opponent to death? Either way, Lil’ Jon is going to perform afterwards.
Matix (which seems like a really new company to us sometimes) is releasing a book to celebrate 10 years in the action sports clothing business. It’s called This Is Progress and features the work of: Daewon Song, Marc Johnson, Rick McCrank, Rudy Johnson,Mikey LeBlanc, Reda, and many more.
The house in Karuizawa, Japan is called Shell, and it was designed by a Japanese architecture firm called Artechnic. . . Approaching the house. Anybody remember the elliptical transition fad on vert ramps?
We’re kind of surprised that Pierre Andre doesn’t have something like this hiding in the hills above Sole Tech.
You just never know the truth these days. According to a video posted on Thrasher Magazine’s website, Editor Jake Phelps says he “was fired yesterday” by High Speed Productions. Here’s what he had to say on the video clip:
Well I guess the who’s hated list that caused a lot of shit. But I got fired yesterday, I guess I’m going to have to keep skating more. . . . I don’t hate anybody. And I love everybody. Let’s all just keep skating. . . . If you have some more questions to ask me maybe I’ll tell you, we’ll go in a van on the road somewhere and I’ll tell you some funny stories and that will keep you occupied. . . . I’ll keep my own opinions to myself. I’m not a jock. I’ve done a lot of drugs. I’m just a regular guy and like I said, “The Truth Hurts.”
Though we know a lot of people who would celebrate Jake Phelp’s firing, we’re not going to start putting our party kit on just yet. . .
Rick Fork, a.k.a. Rick Froberg was a quiet guy with a devious sense of humor when he worked in the back room at Transworld Media. But all that changed when he got on stage with his bands Drive Like Jehu, Pitchfork and Hot Snakes.
The contrast between the two was shocking and we never could figure out how all those heavy sounds could came out of such a thin, quiet, honestly nice guy.
Froberg’s art shares some of the same qualities as his music—it’s bold, skilled, sinister and primal, yet intelligent, referential and nuanced. He genre-hops with ease; from digital drawings to acrylic paint to heavy ink and back again, creating stark images of character collages, WWII-era comic figures and Dali-esque cartoon landscapes.
Filter magazine checks in with Froberg in an interview about art, music, and the realities of getting paid.
NHS management breathed a sign of relief when the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to postpone by one year a new federal law that would have required products made for children 12 and under to be tested for lead starting Feb. 10, 2009.
But that relief came after NHS’s owner Richard Novak had already laid off 17 employees because of sagging sales and worries about the new regulations.
A victory for good sense,” said Tim Piumarta, director of research and new product development at NHS, a Santa Cruz company with sales of $23 million a year. “This untenable legislation, as it was written by non-scientists in Congress, threw the entire global product supply channel into mass confusion.”
NHS and many other companies will now have a year to work out the lead details before complaining about it again next year.
This is old and we think we ignored it the first time around but, hey look, an inflatable longboard that rolls up and packs away when it’s deflated. At least it will float when we throw it in the ocean in disgust.
Some pretty heavy Hawai’ians at last fall’s ASR Show were carrying around what looked like a SUP paddle with a wheel on the bottom instead of a blade.
