On September 25, 2010 Rob Dyrdek wrapped up the first season of Street League at Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack Arena with Australian Nike SB rider Shane O’Neill taking the top spot. With a third place finish Nyjah Huston grabbed the overall title and the $20,000 diamond encrusted Nixon Watch.
It was a solid ender for events that have garnered mixed reviews. While no one can deny that Street League put down some of the best competition street skateboarding on record, many who have tried to watch the Street League TV shows (us included) have been shocked by how clinical the events come off looking in the absence of a jam format. Watching skateboarders do one trick or one line one at a time and then waiting for a score can get tedious very quickly. But we’re confident Rob Dyrdek will have no problem fixing all this for next year. The guy is the master of delivering exactly what people (and sponsors) want.
Final Results
Street League #3
1. Shane O’Neill
2. Chris Cole
3. Nyjah Huston
4. Chaz Ortiz
5. Ryan Sheckler
6. Paul Rodriguez
7. Greg Lutzka
Today the final Street League Qualifiers of the season are going down at The Thomas & Mack Arena in Las Vegas and tomorrow a champion will be named. What better way to prepare for the finals than to catch event 1 and 2 online. Both the Arizona and SoCal stops of Street League are now up on the ESPN/Action site. Check out stop one above, or click here for stop two.
We just can’t get enough of Shaun White around here and that’s about to change because Ubisoft, the makers of Shaun White Skateboarding, has just announced that Shaun’s game will soon support stereoscopic displays on 3DTVs, according to a post on Gamasutra.
Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the title will use Sensio 3D technology, which Ubisoft last used in last year’s release of Avatar: The Game. . . “The gaming experience is very sensitive to image quality, and we know from past collaboration with Sensio that the company’s Sensio 3D format delivers the highest-quality images,” said Shaun White Skateboarding Executive Producer Patrick Naud.
It will be great to see that rich, thick, forest of red hair flowing right out of the TV as Shaun shreds past. Wonder if Shaun will do some signature Oakley 3-D glasses to go along with it?
Nokia (the other phone company) started out bringing skateboarding video games to the street or is it vice versa via their Push Project. Now they’re doing the same this with snowboards through a partnership with Burton Snowboards for Push Burton.
Beginning in 2009, Nokia’s Push project has been working on a small scale to integrate sensors onto skateboards, collecting motion data about tricks and movements the skater is making while riding. This data is pushed wirelessly to a Nokia phone carried by the rider, where individual tricks are collected, analyzed, scored, and potentially tracked onto a game-like interface. Nokia is now working with Burton Snowboards to produce this platform on a larger scale to turn snowboarding sessions into connected games.
Not really sure what the application is, but it is reportedly launching in 2011. Maybe this will get a few kids (and bloggers) off the couch. If only there was an iPhone app for this. . .
LA’s Project Space (a collab art space between Arkitip and Incase) is hosting and opening reception tonight (September 23, 2010) for Ari Marcopoulos’ new collection of photographs (and book) titled Now Is Forever.
Now Is Forever is a travelogue of previously unpublished photographs from around the world. Premiering for the first time at Project Space will be Moroso Crew, a 60-minute cinema vérté documentary Marcopoulos shot in 1992 on illegal drag racing in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Cohl Orebaugh, 14, of Liberty Lake, Washington is reportedly the new Guiness Book of World Records record holder for “most blunt to fakies” in an hour (794), according to The Spokesman-Review.
I thought I did pretty good,” he said. . . Orebaugh said he exceeded his expectations when he completed 794 blunts and fakies in an hour at Pavillion Park in Liberty Lake. He expected to do around 500 of them.
It is difficult to believe that it was only a year ago that news began getting out that Transworld Skateboarding Editor Eric Stricker had died. Guess when you miss someone it seems like they’ve been gone so much longer than they actually have.
We didn’t hang out with Eric, travel with him, or spend the kind of time that so many in the skate industry did, but every single time we saw him we left happier and more stoked on skateboarding than when we’d arrived. Whenever we had a stupid skateboarding history question or a “what’s the story behind this guy” query, Stricker always, no matter what deadline he was on, took a minute or ten to give the answer or tell the story. It was almost as if he wasn’t doing it for us, he was doing it for skateboarding. He wanted to make sure the stories all got out correctly. Which is what made him such a great magazine editor.
Today our thoughts are with everyone who had the gift or being close to Eric. Especially his family.
When the bloated former pop singer Britney Spears goes shopping for a new skateboard she heads straight to her local mall and drops in on Zumiez, according to a story on People.com.
Britney Spears had an active afternoon with her boys Preston and Jayden: The trio headed to the Westfield Topanga, the pop star’s neighborhood shopping mall in Canoga Park, Calif., where Spears stopped into Zumiez, a snowboarding and skateboarding shop.
The blingineers at Nixon have created an extremely icy timepiece for the overall winner of Street League which will be named in Las Vegas on September 25, 2010.
The Champion will be awarded a one-of-a-kind Nixon 5130 Ceramic watch adorned with 12.76 carats of diamonds.
For those who believe wearing their fortune on their wrist is the best idea ever, it doesn’t get much better than this.
Broadcast Wheels have released their new FW2010 catalog and placed it on their website. Make no mistake, we’re not really sure we why we even like this stuff. Maybe it’s because their filmer wheels have the words, “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” on them. Go figure.
