In short, The Mad Ones is a snowboard video features the antics of Forest Bailey, Forrest Burki, Patrick McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Wyatt Stasinos, Nick Russell, Kael Martin, Bryan Fox, Mark Landvik, Lucas Debari, Nick Ennen, Scott Blum, Dan Liedahl, Alex Beebe, Will Lavigne, Jamie Lynn, Sebi Geiger, Marco Feichtner, Atsushi Hasegawa, Kohei Kudo, and Austin Hironaka. A project by Liam GallagherThe Mad Ones was apparently “inspired by the Beat Generation and specifically the writings of Jack Kerouac.”
Better get a cup of coffee ’cause this one’s 53 minutes long. If you prefer old media a limited run of DVD’s will reportedly be available soon for $15 each.
The next time we’re asked “what’s wrong with today’s college students” we’ll point to this video of an entitled, bratty, obnoxious, rude, cargo-short wearing, flipflop sporting longboarder on his way to class. It is obvious that this kid should have been spanked as a toddler. Sadly, he’ll likely end up the CEO of a major corporation, because these are the skills American business seems to appreciate.
The Danny Way Waiting For Lightning bio-pic officially hits theaters (and digital downloads) on December 7, 2012.
Waiting For Lightning is the inspirational story of visionary skateboarder Danny Way. The film follows the journey of a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him fame and a lifetime of accomplishments. Way’s drive has no limits as exemplified by his creation captured on screen, a ramp of prodigious and dangerous proportions, across many cultural and ideological boundaries to attempt the impossible: jump China’s Great Wall on a skateboard. It’s a film about how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive the challenges life presents, and how high and far dreams can fly.
Here’s a little taste for everyone who missed the premiere.
Chicago skateboarding leader, mentor, and legend Reggie Destin died Saturday, October 29, 2012 from the injuries he suffered when he was hit and run down by a drunk driver in the early hours of October 19, according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times. He was 42.
On Saturday, just hours after Destin’s death, dozens of people — most of them skateboarders and many of them in tears — gathered at Uprise, a skateboard shop near the scene of the accident. The group of about 50 walked somberly to the 1700 block of North Milwaukee Avenue and placed a white skateboard — similar to a “ghost bike” left as a memorial to a slain bicyclist — at the site where Destin was hit. Flowers, pictures and other mementos were left at the memorial.
As might be imagined Hurricane Sandy is brining it to Long Beach, New York. A crew is out right now (October 29, 2012 11 AM EDT) doing step offs into bombs like this. Storm riders for sure. [click to continue…]
There’s really not much more to say about the first episode of Alana Blanchard’s new video show, other than Kauai is beautiful and Alana and her friends spend a lot of time in bikinis while cameras pan their tans.
Sure, the San Francisco Giants may have won the 2012 World Series last night, but the really big news in NorCal was the Downtown Throwdown. Okay. Just kidding. It looks like a few people showed up to see snowboarding on the streets of San Francisco. Yobeat was there. Here’s what they saw.
Snowboard trainers Mitch Tölderer and Bibi Tölderer-Pekarek show us how to get ready for the new winter season. Remember: “He pulls heezs heelz on zee germ bool az far to heez buttock as possible.” And ya dis not too hard for us. It eez too sexy!
Today O’Neill announced that it awarded one of its two 2012 Cold Water Classic wildcard spots to Jason “Ratboy” Collins. Did anyone doubt that?
“I’m super excited to get the wildcard. I knew there were a few people up for it,” said Collins. “It’s pretty cool for a local to get the opportunity to go out and surf against talent like Slater and Parko, guys you’ve looked up to. It’s also cool to see the event get upgraded, like it used to be. We used to get guys like Martin Potter, Tom Curren, everybody would come up here. But it’s been quite a few years.”
The other wildcard will be awarded in a 12-man invitation surf contest on October 31, 2012 featuring Nat Young, Bud Freitas, Noi Kaulukukui, Adam Replogle, Josh Mulcoy, Randy Bonds, Shaun Burns, Josh Loya and Jimmy Herrick, as well as, Johny Craft, Cory Lopez and Tim Reyes. The 2012 O’Neill Coldwater Classic waiting period begins November 1, 2012. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
