Showing posts with label skateboarding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skateboarding. Show all posts
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Sunday, September 14, 2025
a metaphor of life... Hard work, and a lot of failures, are required to succeed... Skater: Simon Thorpe, the photographer is Mark Carter
an interview with the photographer about how it was made, https://stoppress.co.nz/news/concept-bone-crushing-reality-how-colensos-mountain-dew-print-ad-came-existence/
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Hardest working skater there ever was, Jesse Arrowood, a land scaping skater from Santa Cruz. Respect! The 1st comment I see under the video, is a local bar owner, telling this guy, free beer for all the work!
With only 21,000 subscribers, his video still reached and was watched by 152 thousand viewers!
His efforts, like this video, to clean up a skating area, are in a series of videos he is calling Scape and Destroy
This video is off the 101 in Morgan Hill, South East of San Jose
Sunday, November 03, 2024
Roughly 200 athletes participated this past weekend in the world's largest skateboarding competition, at Encinitas Community Park, including 14-year-old Arisa Trew, an Olympic gold medalist who is visiting from Australia.
Over the years, Exposure Skate has offered free skate classes for young girls, taught by professional skaters and Olympians.
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Tony Hawk Recreates 'Central Park Mystery Skater' Photo From 1965, after some pretty impressive work to investigate this mysterious, dapper skateboarder from the mid-60s,
I posted about the photographer and his 1965 New York Central Park skateboard montage a decade ago https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-invention-of-skateboard.html
Friday, May 24, 2024
Even the police got tired of Karen
https://www.tumblr.com/iosonomer-blog/751347594016555008?source=share
https://www.tiktok.com/@millerjeremiah/video/7363764149857373483
https://www.tiktok.com/@millerjeremiah/video/7363764149857373483
either of these links give a better, color, version of a more complete video, and they end with more humor as Karen's bitching gets ignored by the cops, right to her face
Saturday, April 13, 2024
REM, a handheld "power stick" that works completely independent of the user's skateboard, might be a good alternative to electric skateboards
Currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, REM is being developed by Barcelona-based startup Limitless Propulsions.
Power is provided by a 44.4V lithium battery which is claimed to be good for a range of about 12 miles per charge.
Of course, if the battery runs out, the skateboard can still be used on its own. In fact, one of the big selling points of REM is the fact that it leaves the user's board light, sleek and unaltered, instead of being weighed down and cluttered with a motor and battery.
Monday, October 30, 2023
A Santa Cruz woman has been skateboarding for more than 50 years. Now, Judi Oyama is headed to the World Skate Games in Rome
Oyama just qualified for the World Skate Games in Rome next year, where she will be a member of the U.S. Slalom team.
“I was super, I guess surprised and excited,” she said.
Oyama is ranked second in the world in women’s slalom.
Oyama started skateboarding in her driveway when she was 13. And she admits in the '70s, she hit some bumps in the road. She was sometimes the only woman competing and was even shut out of competitions completely.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/santa-cruz-woman-64-world-skate-games/3340864/
“I was super, I guess surprised and excited,” she said.
Oyama is ranked second in the world in women’s slalom.
Oyama started skateboarding in her driveway when she was 13. And she admits in the '70s, she hit some bumps in the road. She was sometimes the only woman competing and was even shut out of competitions completely.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/santa-cruz-woman-64-world-skate-games/3340864/
Friday, October 13, 2023
Felipe Nunes of Tony Hawks skate team, is in a new Metallica video. WTF is he doing without an effing helmet?
it's mentioned in the podcast Tony does, in the interview with Weird Al, at 23:36 - 24:12
Friday, September 29, 2023
I don't understand how this could be effective, but, whatever... A group of women skateboarders in Bolivia has been using Indigenous attire to help battle discrimination. (By acclimating the perception of them to skateboarders? I don't get it)
Polleras are symbols of cultural identity in Bolivia’s countryside. The history of the voluminous, traditional skirts worn by Indigenous Aymara and Quechua women is complex: Dating to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, polleras were imposed by colonial rulers to reflect a style worn in Spain.
The skirts eventually were adopted as part of Andean attire, most commonly associated with cholitas—Indigenous women from the highlands. Polleras inspire cultural pride, but they’re also a reminder of rural oppression.
The skirts eventually were adopted as part of Andean attire, most commonly associated with cholitas—Indigenous women from the highlands. Polleras inspire cultural pride, but they’re also a reminder of rural oppression.
Now a group of women athletes in Bolivia has brought pollera fashion to the city, donning the skirts during skateboarding exhibitions to celebrate the heritage of cholitas and put a modern face on the ancestral garments.
“The pollera is associated with the countryside, with ignorant people without resources,” says Daniela Santiváñez, a co-founder of ImillaSkate, a skateboarding troupe that has made the skirts a centerpiece of its performances.
“The pollera is associated with the countryside, with ignorant people without resources,” says Daniela Santiváñez, a co-founder of ImillaSkate, a skateboarding troupe that has made the skirts a centerpiece of its performances.
During the past three years, ImillaSkate has grown to nine skaters. Being an active member means weekly practice and shared respect for diversity and tradition.
The group is based in Cochabamba, but through social media it has garnered an audience well beyond Bolivia. ImillaSkate has more than 24,000 followers on Instagram, 8,000-plus followers on Facebook, and a YouTube channel where some of its videos get thousands of views. It also has a presence on TikTok, with about 4,500 followers.
Santiváñez notes that members wear polleras only for performances: “We do it as a demonstration, as a cry for inclusion.”
“We try to explain that this helps us understand our mothers, our aunts, and grandmothers,” Tacuri adds. For her, the stigma attached to polleras changed somewhat with the election of former president Evo Morales in 2006. Under Morales, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, voters approved a new constitution that formally recognized 36 Indigenous languages and also empowered the nation’s Indigenous people with rights such as communal ownership of land.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Vista, which skaters claim put skateboarding on the map, by creating megaramps in Vista, and developing the best skaters in the world - has passed a zoning permit that will fine anyone with a backyard ramp over 6 ft tall
The fee is for a permit regulated by the city.
The ordinance was passed as residents complained of ramps making a lot of noise.
Skating will also be only allowed from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
I see someone realizing that they can dig down into the backyard, and make a 20 foot tall ramp that only is 6 ft above ground.
Arguing for the new law and fine:
The husband called the ramp “absurdly large” and said it towers over his backyard, and his wife said there is a cheering section where spectators bang their boards in response to some skate tricks.
They also said they had asked their neighbor if they could have three evenings a week without anyone using the ramp, but he declined and said he was running a business teaching skateboard lessons.
And get this, the photo above? Is a backyard ramp. I shit you not.
The most renowned backyard skateboard ramp in Vista likely is Sloanyard at the home of professional skateboarder Elliot Sloan.
His private skateboard compound was the site of an X-Games competition last July.
When you have an X Games competition in your backyard, with the audience cheering? I am certain the neighbors aren't going to be cool with the party sounds, music on the PA, etc.
Friday, February 17, 2023
Kurt Cobain owned a hand-painted skateboard that pays homage to Iron Maiden, that Tony Hawk now owns, and is going to do something newsworthy with, next Monday to raise awareness for emotional health, and to help provide resources for those who are struggling mentally.
Kurt Cobain was an avid painter, and one of his most notable works was a hand-painted Jeff Phillips model skateboard that pays homage to Iron Maiden. Sadly, Phillips, who was a skateboarder, died by suicide in 1993 just three months before the Nirvana frontman took his own life. Since Cobain's death, the board has been passed on to different owners, with the most recent being Tony Hawk. The legendary skateboarder bought the piece of art at auction last year and has some special plans for it. He teased that he'll be using it to raise awareness for emotional health, and is going to share more details on Monday (February 20), which would've been Cobain's 56th birthday.
"I bought this skateboard at an auction last year. It is an original Jeff Phillips model, hand painted by Kurt Cobain in 1985. Two icons that had immense influence on their respective fields, both of whom passed away tragically and much too young. I even tracked down the original owner to understand its provenance," Hawk wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of the skateboard. "With the incomparable help of @dupedupe, we are hoping to make something good of this acquisition by raising awareness for emotional health, and to help provide resources for those who are struggling mentally. More to come on February 20 (Kurt’s birthday)."Monday, August 22, 2022
a tik tok video of you riding a skateboard in bliss, can make you famous, and appreciated
Nathan Apodaca went viral on TikTok for recording a video of himself skateboarding while drinking cranberry juice, and lip synching to Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams"
At the time of the video, Apodaca's car had broken down so he was forced to skateboard his way to work.
The 2020 video resulted in more than 86 million views, and catapulted Apodaca into the national spotlight, and the appreciation of Mick Fleetwood
That earned a him guest spot on the Peabody Award-winning show "Reservation Dogs" as Uncle Charley helping Young Bear on a roofing Job
Thursday, August 04, 2022
David Spade's 1st acting gig was as a skateboarder in a Police Academy movie, wearing the Bones Brigade logo on his shirt, stunt doubled by Tony Hawk
audio only of Tony talking about it
and David talking about it on his podcast with Dana Carvey:
Friday, November 26, 2021
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Saturday, July 24, 2021
cool video animation of BMX and skateboard tricks, enjoy, (warning about volume) by Bogdan Grishanov
for another "finger BMX": https://www.instagram.com/p/CRMtP8vFFmU/
see the video at:
https://www.facebook.com/Artdailyofficial/videos/362321308595753 or https://www.facebook.com/106082087832332/videos/343411377432734
if you liked that, here's one with a little more flair https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfgR8LhrzW/
from his Instagram of similar cool animation https://www.instagram.com/bogrishanov/?hl=en
for the finger scooter, take a look for a moment at the nice little video here
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