Ever wanted to lock up your skateboard to a bike rack after a roll to the store? Yeah, we never have either. But that hasn’t stopped San Diego, California inventor Tom Piszkin from coming up with the “Valet My Stick” skateboard lock, according to a story on First Coast News.
“Theaters don’t want skateboards in, restaurants don’t want skateboards in, a classroom gets cluttered with skateboards, so there are lots of places where they are starting to be restricted,” he says. . . Piszkin came up with the ideal solution. . . It’s like a bicycle cable lock, but with a loop big enough to go around the skateboard truck, or axle.
To quote the skater interviewed, “I never really actually thought about a skateboard lock.” And neither has anyone else.
Apparently, US Snowboard Team Alpine racer Vic Wild, 25, is planning to throw in the towel on the United States of America and race for Russia in the coming season, according to a story on Russia Today
Vic Wild, husband of Russia’s world champion in parallel slalom Alyona Zavarzina, has expressed a wish to compete for the Russian national team, says the head of the Russian skiing and snowboarding federation. . . “Currently we are preparing the papers to be admitted to the Russian citizenship. It’s hard to say now how long it will take,” Leonid Melnikov told the Sport-Express newspaper. “We are very interested in this athlete. He would add more competitiveness within the team. We know him as a professional and disciplined guy,” said Melnikov, adding that Wild has already begun learning Russian.
We guessing the US Team won’t mind all that much. Za vas, Vic.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 is shred movie night at the ThirtyTwo headquarters in Lake Forest, California. Ammo and Videograss’Shoot The Moon (click for the teaser) are premiering and there will be free food. What more can you ask for?
Ashbury has a new am. His name is Justin Fronius here he is in an edit by Working for the City’s Jon Stark. If we knew anything more about it, we’d tell you for sure.
In the running for irresponsible mother of the year is an Australian woman who towed her 14-year-old son behind her car until he was going so fast that he slammed hard enough to end up in the hospital, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Police said the the car made a right turn onto The Woods Circuit and the teenager became unsteady and fell onto the road. . . He was taken to St George Hospital with bruising, lacerations and soft tissue damage.
Well, at least her son didn’t die and she learned a little lesson about skateboard towing.
To those who thought the Quiksilver Pro New York would be a dismal, flat, failure this photo of Josh Kerr with his tail four feet out over Long Beach in round 1 is about as big a “I told you so” as Quiksilver’s Bob McKnight could have asked for. And with hurricane Katia powered surf set to build through Thursday it looks like New York could see some epic ASP World tour action after all.
Other than the waves there weren’t many surprises. Follow the jump for the full report.
It’s a set of shoe style we’ve never worn, but we know there are some people who’ll be after this limited edition Supra double pack featuring the Skytop II and the Society.
The uppers on both shoes are enveloped in varying shades of solemn, grey Nubuck, trimmed with black kidskin leather accents. Each style features a never-before-seen, single wrap, white honeycomb foxing, and a grey sole. Custom sock liners read, “Never Forget,” and each comes with an NYFD inspired hang tag. Only 413 pairs of each shoe were produced, and they are sequentially numbered on the interior of each shoe. Proceeds from the Commemorative Pack will be donated to charity.
The commemorative pack will be available at Suprafootwear.com and only nine shops worldwide. Follow the jump for more info. [click to continue…]
This morning we sent out a mildly insulting tweet to let our followers know that the Quiksilver Pro New York had indeed kicked off with round one action. We mentioned that the waves were what “one would expect in New York.”
We were kind of expecting some of our East Coast followers to be pissed. But no. As only New Yorkers can do they fell all over themselves explaining how todays waves were really good and that it’s normally much, much worse. @philoSURFical went as far as calling us “wave spoiled cupcakes.” Okay, NYC surfers. You win. You have the worst waves in the world.
Luckily for all of us, this week has been blessed by Hurricane Katia (which is backing off a little, but still a Category 3) meaning the waves will likely be truly world class great for the finals later in the week.
The day after Irene stormed through New Jersey (August 28, 2011) a few Belmar Beach surfers decided that they couldn’t just watch all those waves go by unridden so they did what any surf starved Jersey boys would do: they made a run for it.
