Curren Caples turns pro and Kelly Slater is involved. What? Congrats to Curren. The kid has been killing it for years. It’s about time. (Oh and that other ripper kid Louie Lopez has gone pro as well. Follow the jump for his edit with Tyler The Creator. [click to continue…]
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Auby Taylor goes huge off a small stretch of concrete with Thunder trucks under his feet.
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If you want to know how the 10th Annual Hot Dawgs & Handrails at Bear Mountain went down and how Tommy Gesme won then whole thing, then check out Mary Walsh’s story on Snowboardermag.com. It’s good.
[Link: Snowboarder Mag]
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If you didn’t make it to Fallen Footwear’s Road Less Traveled premiere last weekend, don’t worry. Erica Yary and the Ride Channel was there to do it for you. And, chances are, she’s a little better a talking to all the right people than you are. She’s definitely better at it than we are.
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Purdue University nuclear engineering student Joe Carabetta is one of growing number of Americans who apparently feel that exerting any physical power whatsoever to move his body through space is simply too hard. Why exercise when you can let the magic of electricity do the work for you? That may be one of the unstated reasons he and a friend created the Kickr electric skateboard, according to a story in USA Today.
Kickr is a modular skateboard attachment that has transformed Carabetta’s Original carving longboard into an electric board that can reach speeds up to 25 mph. The product name also is the name of the company. . . When you step on a custom throttle pad, the device sends a signal to the motor that spins the wheel. The motor assembly employs a truck axle to connect to the skateboard. The device can adjust to multiple wheel sizes.
Carabetta and his partner think they can sell the motors for $400 a piece and that’s much cheaper than a little rascal.
[Link: USA Today]
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This whole “world’s largest” thing seems to be getting a little out of control. Now, an Australian developer named Brad Shaw is reportedly building a skatepark in Guangzhou, China that will be the largest in the world, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The 17,000 square metro park – about as big as four football fields – is being built on the grounds of a conglomerate of universities, the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, in the extreme sports area. . . It’s likely demand for the park’s facilities – which are free to use – will be high. The mega centre is home to 10 universities, more than 160,000 students and 20,000 staff, many of which are in walking distance of the facility.
Shaw’s company is called Sk8scapes, and from the looks of the parks he’s built in the past, this new one is a seriously ambitious leap. But hey, why not go big in China? They are manufacturing the entire world.
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
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Jupiter, Florida surfer Brandon Dugan didn’t let a little shark bite on his left arm slow him down, according to a story on WPTV.com. Nope. He just rolled with it and didn’t even need help from rescuers.
When they arrived, Brandon Dugan was out of the water with lacerations on his left arm. One of his friends drove him to get stitches and by the afternoon was back to work at Locals Surf Shop in Jupiter.
Seems like sharks a just a nuisance in Florida.
[Link: WPTV.com]
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Chris Mathis has been bumped up to official AM from the WRLD flow team and from the looks of this little edit it’s about time.
[Link: World Industries]
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This little edit of the “S-Walker Board” it packed up to the windows with wrong. List them out in the comments if you don’t have anything else planned for the weekend. . .
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Fifty-year-old skateboarder Bernard B. Hamilton was killed late Thursday night September 19, 2013 in Tannersville, New York after rolling down a hill through an intersection and directly into the path of a New York State Trooper’s cruiser, according to a story in the Times Union.
State Police said Hamilton was riding a skateboard in Hill Road when he rolled into the intersection with Route 23A and the path of a trooper’s car, which was westbound on Route 23A. . . Hamilton was declared dead at the scene.
The accident happened at 11:38 PM. No other information was released. Our thoughts are with Hamilton’s family and friends.
[Link: Times Union]
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