{"id":9607,"date":"2009-08-03T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9607"},"modified":"2009-08-03T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:05:22","slug":"skate-filmmaker-dies-after-downhill-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9607","title":{"rendered":"Skate Filmmaker Dies After Downhill Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/200-skater-200x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/200-skater-200x0.jpg','popup','width=200,height=301,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/200-skater-200x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"200 Skater-200X0\" \/><\/a>Australian skateboarding filmmaker <strong>Anthony Fricke<\/strong>, 22, was taken off life-support at the Gold Coast Hospital on Sunday, August 2, 2009, after head injuries suffered in an accident on Tweed Valley Way, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/queensland\/skating-stunt-tragedy-20090803-e6oo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police said Mr Fricker collided with a 28-year-old man as the pair were skating down a steep section of the highway, reaching speeds of 70kmh. . . The pair was with a small support crew filming a documentary <strong><em>Skate Australia: A Longboard Adventure Documentary<\/em><\/strong>. . . Mr Fricker had emergency neurosurgery at Gold Coast Hospital and was placed on life support. . . It was turned off yesterday morning, with his brother Ed and parents at his bedside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the story Fricke was the creative mind behind the website <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateaustralia.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skate Australia<\/a><\/strong>. Our thoughts are with Fricke&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the jump for the trailer for the film he was working on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/queensland\/skating-stunt-tragedy-20090803-e6oo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><object width=\"430\" height=\"320\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lq45zANmKVs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lq45zANmKVs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"430\" height=\"320\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian skateboarding filmmaker Anthony Fricke, 22, was taken off life-support at the Gold Coast Hospital on Sunday, August 2, 2009, after head injuries suffered in an accident on Tweed Valley Way, according to a story in the Brisbane Times. Police said Mr Fricker collided with a 28-year-old man as the pair were skating down a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9613,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions\/9613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}