After a bus load of tourists completely littered up the skatepark in Queenstown, New Zealand 13-year-old Hori Mains would not let that aggression stand.
As the bus tried to pull away, he walked out in front of the bus, held up his hand Tiananman Square style and told the bus driver to have the people pack their trash.
Hori believes he clearly annoyed the tourists but is proud of his actions and hopes they will now think twice about being litter bugs. . . . “Everyone knows not to put it on the ground, just put it in the bin … easy,” says Hori.
JKL Worldwide Inc., a talent agency based in Tarzana, CA has filed a “fraud and breach-of-contract suit” against Rob & Big star Christopher “Big Black” Boykin.
According to the suit, Boykin was impressed by the work the company had done for the show’s skateboarder co-host, Rob Drydek, so he asked them early last year to help him with his own career. . . . With JKL’s help, Boykin, 36, entered into a new deal for the show’s third season “which significantly increased the monies he was paid the previous two seasons,” the suit states.
The raise was reportedly $163,750 more than the year before and JKL wants their piece of it.
In the new season of the Sundance Channel’s innovative, vodka-sponsored interview show IconoclastsTony Hawk is paired up with Swinger’s and Dinner for Five creator/director John Favreau.
Participants for Season Four are: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson; fashion designer Stella McCartney and artist Edward Ruscha; skateboarder Tony Hawk and filmmaker/actor Jon Favreau; political humorist Bill Maher and music industry executive Clive Davis; tennis champion Venus Williams and musician/producer Wyclef Jean; and actress Cameron Diaz and architect Cameron Sinclair.
The Tony Hawk/Jon Favreau episode airs Oct. 30 at 10 PM ET/PT.
The San Diego law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has “formed an “action sports” practice to provide legal services to surfers, skaters, snowboarders and others who are starting their own companies.
Attorneys in the San Diego firm’s new practice area — many of whom participate in the sports themselves — will work in collaboration with other practice groups, such as business, intellectual property, tax and estate planning, product liability, real estate and labor and employment.
Men’s Fitness recently did a short interview with Shaun White asking probing questions like, “What are the most played songs on your iPod,” and “How do you mentally prepare for contests?” But the funniest part was the photo that ran with the story.
The guy has long red hair, skinny jeans, and Shaun’s Target collection t-shirt, but something just isn’t right. Guess that’s what happens when you let jocks do the photo editing.
We’re hoping the skaters of Perham, Minnesota are just playing some punk rock jokes on their city council because if they are it’s hilarious. After holding a contest to name their new park it came down to their two favorites: “Oompa Loompa Factory” and “Kowabunga, Dude.”
Following a ten-minute discussion the name “Kowabunga, Dude” was chosen and skateboarder Brendan Lauer won a “certificate for a free t-shirt.”
“Atrocious” and “horrible” were the reactions to the name “Kowabunga” by Councilmember Harriet Mattfeld. . . “In the long run, I think they’re going to be sorry they named it that,” said Mattfeld at the August 11 Perham City Council meeting.
This may be the one time we’re going to have to agree with a City Council regarding a skateboard park.
Troubled Utah mom Alicia Blood (who might not look too bad with a little makeup) is in court because she allegedly hit her 16-year-old son in the head with his own skateboard and then tried to run him down with her car.
Witnesses say the mother, Alicia Blood, and her 16-year-old son were arguing at a Tooele skate park last Tuesday when she hit him in the head with his skateboard. . . . They called police when they say the teen tried to leave and the mother got into her car, drove over the curb and chased the boy across the grass. . . . Police say she hit the boy with her car, got out and yelled at him again, then drove away.
She is being charged with “aggravated assault and child abuse.” Looks like the kid won this argument pretty handily.
We know we said we weren’t going to discuss the X Games, but then we saw this on You Will Soon regarding Tony Trujillo’s bronze medal in Super Park.
Personally I’d like to congratulate Tony not so much for a bronze medal in X Games Super Park, but just for being so fucking awesome. You got the rest of the guys in there sucking their energy drink’s sponsors dicks with full print Monster shirts and Red Bull new era hats, and then you got this fucking skid slashing the park in a spray painted t-shirt. Not just that, but he may not have done the sickest tricks of the day, but he was schralping the hardest.
It’s refreshing to hear the simple truth everyone once in a while, isn’t it?
We didn’t watch any of the X Games and had no plans to even mention them, but Danny Way on Late Night with David Letterman is just too good to pass up.
After a bus load of tourists completely littered up the skatepark in Queenstown, New Zealand 13-year-old Hori Mains would not let that aggression stand. 
