http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f2892022a2f7950e1d32bb547
Santa Cruz X Pac Man
Filed under Uncategorized
NEW BONES BRIGADE SERIES 6 DECK COLORS LEAKED !!
Available for Pre-Order now at http://www.oldskullskateboards.com
Filed under Uncategorized
VANS PROPELLER LA PREMIERE DRAWS SKATE LEGENDS, PROS, AND FANS
Vans Propeller LA Premiere
The scene outside Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre last Tuesday, where the premiere for Vans Propeller was held to packed crowd of skate industry VIP’s.
Vans Propeller LA Premiere Draws Skate Legends, Pros, and Fans
Vans’ first-ever, feature length global skateboarding video, PROPELLER, saw its highly anticipated world premiere in Los Angeles last night, debuting to hundreds of passionate skateboarding fans in celebration of true skateboarding history. Making a grand entrance in the famous Vans Sk8-Hi car, Godfather of Vans Steve Van Doren proudly took the mic as he introduced the film alongside the illustrious Vans Pro Skate team, a momentous gathering of over four generations of skateboarding on a single stage. Resounding applause filled the theater throughout the showing, fueling the evening with sincere emotion and pride held by loyal fans, industry friends and families, legends, pros and the devoted Vans team. The festivities topped off with a lively after party featuring performances by Ray Barbee and Tommy Guerrero, culinary taste by Pizzanista!, tons of Vans giveaways, and the stars of the film mingling amongst the crowds. Vans embraces this milestone 49 years in the making, and last night’s epic celebration was the first of many to come.
The tour continues! PROPELLER makes its international film debut with stops in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada and Mexico. Local PROPELLER screenings are being hosted in select cities around the world. To find a local screening near you, visit VANSPROPELLER.COM to learn more about world premiere tour dates, theater locations, and ticket information, or check out our recent post with the Vans Propeller film tour schedule.
Vans is proud to announce the official worldwide release date of PROPELLER: A Vans Skateboarding Video available on iTunes beginning May 5, 2015. View more party photos on the Vans Skate Tumblr!
Every significant skateboarding video energizes the community by building on the legacy of its predecessors to drive progression – propelling skateboarding forward.
The first name in skateboarding footwear and apparel introduces its highly anticipated first-ever feature-length global skateboarding video, PROPELLER. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Greg Hunt and featuring full parts from some of the biggest names in modern skateboarding alongside appearances from legends and true pioneers, PROPELLER presents a sweeping snapshot of modern skateboarding that only Vans can deliver.
PROPELLER: A Vans Skateboarding Video will be available for download on iTunes worldwide (except mainland China) beginning May 5, 2015.
Learn more at VANSPROPELLER.COM
Filed under Uncategorized
Award Recipients For 2015 Skateboarding Hall Of Fame
Award Recipients For 2015 Skateboarding Hall Of Fame
April 22, 2015 By TWS
The International Assn. of Skateboard Companies (IASC) and the International Skateboarding Hall of Fame (ISHOF) are proud to announce this year’s Icon Award recipients for the 6th Annual Skateboarding Hall of Fame: Steve Van Doren, James O’Mahoney and Tracker Trucks. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame will be held during the IASC Summit on May 14 at the Westin South Coast Plaza Hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Created in 2009, the Icon Awards celebrate industry pioneers and cultural icons who have left a permanent imprint on the history of skateboarding and our culture throughout the years. The Icon Awards are voted on by the IASC Board of Directors.
This year’s Icon Award goes to three hugely deserving candidates:
Steve Van Doren
Steve starting working for Vans at the age of 10. The one thing that Steve’s father, Paul Van Doren, drove home with his kids: that to be successful, they had to be more passionate and work harder than their competitors, and no one has more passion and loves their job more than Steve Van Doren. As the vice president of events and promotions and unofficial ambassador of fun for Vans, Steve spends nearly 40 weeks a year on the road, including a grueling non-stop stretch each summer traveling with the 48-city musical sideshow, the Vans Warped Tour. Whether it’s a legends skateboarding competition, a concert at the House of Vans or a live mural painting, it is Steve’s calling to deliver events that the young at heart everywhere can enjoy. Through these events and his dedication, Steve continues to be a longstanding supporter of the skateboarding industry. His father’s philosophy was that it was the people who made Vans special, and under Paul’s leadership, that’s as true now as it was in 1966.
James O’Mahoney
James O’Mahoney has been a major influence in surfing and skateboarding over the last six decades. He founded both the United States Skateboard Association and the later World Skateboard Association. Additionally he was the publisher of Skateboard in 1975, which became the first skate magazine of the modern era. James also organized the infamous Signal Hill Downhill races of 1975-78 and 2004’s Highest Wall Ride competitions. Both of the aforementioned events were the first of their kind and were sanctioned by the Guinness Book of World Records. As a sponsor he supported a numerous other early contests, and his Skateboard Magazine team included such legendary individuals as Tom Sims, Russ Howell, Leroy Grannis, James Cassimus, Laura Thornhill, Kenny Means, Waldo Autry, Steve Monahan and Gordy Lineman. O’Mahoney’s photographic skills have been featured in Newsweek, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and on CBS Sports. James founded the Santa Barbara Surfing Museum in 1992 and became the WSA West Coast Surfing Champion in 1993.
Tracker Trucks
Tracker set the bar in skateboard truck design in 1975 that everyone followed – and still do – the Tracker truss design and four hole mounting pattern is used by almost every truck company on the market. Tracker Trucks was designed by skateboarders, R&D’d by skateboarders and has always given back and supported skateboarding every step of the way. This year marks a big milestone for Tracker Trucks, as they celebrate the company’s 40th anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, they are publishing a book called TRACKER- Forty Years of Skateboarding History, it’s 400 pages filled with just about every iconic skateboarder.
Read more at http://skateboarding.transworld.net/news/award-recipients-for-2015-skateboarding-hall-of-fame/#slT3GHH3e1lbk0E5.99
Filed under Uncategorized
Discoveries: Skateboarding Hall of Fame a nostalgic ride
04/11/2015 5:00 PM
SIMI VALLEY
You cannot fake nostalgia. Or, at least, I can’t. My acting skills aren’t so well honed that a stab at expressing faux enthusiasm would not come off as anything but artificial. But I tried – really, I did – to share Todd Huber’s zeal for all things skateboarding, as he led me past wall-upon-wall of vintage decks and trucks and 60 years of skater swag at his Skateboarding Hall of Fame & Museum.
Dude, a Bruce Logan trading card from the ’70s. … Check out this Jay Adams Z-Flex deck. … And here’s that ’65 Patti McGee Life magazine cover, the one where she’s doing a handstand in white capris?
Impressive in scope and volume, this repository of a once-outlaw but now mainstream sport. But, sorry, I just wasn’t feeling it as Huber, collector and curator of the vast warehouse that doubles as an indoor skate park, held forth. In fact, all those über-cool photos of lean, tanned and shaggy-haired guys doing kick flips only reminded me of every kid who beat me up in junior high. Images of Farrah-era skater chicks in short-shorts and Vans and sporting feathered coifs represented every girl who never looked my way in the school hallways.
But then Huber led me upstairs, away from all the autographed professional memorabilia (from Stacy Peralta to Tony Hawk, and the Dogtown and Z-Boys), to the really early days of sport, the 1950s and early ’60s when it was dismissed as a faddish activity, a la Hula Hoops.
There, encased in lucite, was a copy of the first skateboard I ever owned. Come to think, the only skateboard I ever had. Huber was prattling on about vintage scooters, precursors to skateboards, but I was only half-listening. My long-term memory had been reawakened, and I was transported back to my short-pants days in Danville, the Bay Area ’burb in which I dwelled far too briefly before my parents made a pogrom to Southern California.
The board in question was a 2-foot slab of varnished plywood with clay wheels, utterly generic other than what was imprinted on it: “The Willie Mays SAY HEY Skate Board,” with the smiling visage of my baseball hero at the nose and a baseball at the tail, the image thankfully unsullied by sandpapery grip tape.
No worries: I won’t go all Proustian on you, other than to say that, at that moment in the museum, I got it. I understood why Huber, lifelong skater and skateboard fan, spent more than six figures hunting down items of historical import, once going so far as to rent an RV and drive from Alabama to Kentucky, yard sale to yard sale, in search of deals.
He eventually noticed I was standing stock still, laser-focused on the Willie Mays board. I snapped out of it, apologizing.
“No, no,” Huber said, “No worries. That’s what’s great about the museum. People like you come in. They go nuts. Let me tell you about that Willie Mays board. They only sold it for one year, and they only sold them in Macy’s in the San Francisco area, only available in Nor Cal. They are pretty valuable now.”
Cringing, I asked Huber just how much my long-lost board sells for now.
“A lot,” he said.
(Side note: An online search showed the Say Hey skateboard selling for $550 on eBay, $999 on www.1stdibs.com. Pardon me while I weep.)
Huber nodded, knowingly. Hankering for his youthful possessions is part of what led him to start collecting in 1990, opening the indoor park and museum in 1997 and branching out and adding the Hall of Fame in a back room in the early 2000s.
“When I was a kid, I didn’t treat my stuff too good, and I wanted it back when I was an adult,” said Huber, who’ll turn 50 soon. “So I sought out these boards. My personality is, like, I’m an all-or-nothing dude. I’m not just going to go, ‘OK, I got the board I had as a kid. I’m done.’ No. I’m going to get all of them. Passion? No, obsession is more like it. Really. I was a smoker, and when I quit I needed a hobby. I had all this extra energy and time. I’m serious. When you’re smoking, you’re just doing nothing, standing there. I had like three, four hours a day to fill. At the time, in 1990, no one else was collecting skate stuff. At first, they were easy to get.”
But then skateboarding’s popularity swelled once more, thanks to the ESPN-driven X Games and telegenic stars such as Tony Hawk and Bob Burnquist and the hit 2001 documentary “Dogtown and Z-Boys,” that brought renewed interest to pioneers such as Jay Adams, Peralta and Tony Alva. Huber loved the flick – he has signed movie posters and many of the featured skaters’ decks adorning the walls – but he laments its residual effects.
“It sucked for the guys like me, already into it,” Huber said of collecting. “Made it too popular. It raised the prices. … Guys in their 40s now are looking for their old stuff. I see them here all the time. They get nostalgic. A lot of them have money, so it’s harder for me to get stuff. In the (front hall, floor to ceiling with boards) I never paid more than 20 bucks for any board. Some of them are worth a thousand bucks (now). The Dogtown ones, the Albas and Z-Flex. This one here is Jay Adams’ (board), you know, who passed away last year. People love Jay Adams.”
Huber prefers not to sully the purity of his pastime with talk of money. But, when pressed, he estimates he’s spent more than $100,000 in purchasing memorabilia.
“We were just on this Canadian show called ‘Extreme Collectors,’ and they appraised the whole collection at 550 grand,” he said. “So I did pretty good, right? But that’s not why I did it. I did it because I was a skater. … I don’t sell self. But there was this one guy (who) offered me three grand for a board that I originally got for free. It was an Alba board. I took the money and bought a whole bunch of other boards. It’s like, sell one, buy 400.”
Much of the “stuff,” as Huber calls his collection, is not that valuable, except as a sort of time capsule for the late 1960s and ’70s. There’s a cheesy poster of the “Charlie’s Angels”-era Farrah Fawcett balanced on a wooden board, hair unmoving. There is the cover of the first issue of Quarterly Skateboard magazine (1965) and the first cover of its resurrection as SkateBoarder magazine (1975). There is a fetching photo of Hall of Famer Ellen O’Neal Deason, rocking the Dolphin short-shorts, doing an Ollie while riding on a beach boardwalk. There is the famous image of Adams in a drained swimming pool.
As he led me, room to room, junior-high-age kids started filing in for after-school skate sessions. If they noticed the scores of boards hanging from the walls and rafters like salamis, they did not acknowledge them. Their eyes were trained on the ramps and rails.
“Maybe it’s a way for parents and kids to bridge the gap,” Huber philosophized. “I see families come in to skate and the mom goes, ‘I had this deck when I was your age,’ and maybe the kid gets into it. But most kids really don’t (have a sense of skateboarding history). I just gave a tour to 8-, 9- and 10-year-olds today. They don’t care. They wanted to go out and play around out there.”
Just give the kids a few years, or decades. They’ll be back, and they’ll be pining for that lost board, searching for that buried childhood memory
Filed under Uncategorized
Street League Skateboarding is Proud to Announce the Dates and Locations for the 2015 SLS Nike SB World Tour! Find Out More Below!
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
Filed under Uncategorized
Tony Hawk Wins Masters Bowl !
Filed under Uncategorized
Afghan Kids Take to the Rails as Skateboarding Takes Off
From NBC News
http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=x_lon_skateistan_150204
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, skateboarding was forbidden. But today more and more kids there are all about the pastime that has them railsliding, goofy-footing and getting air.
Skateistan, a nonprofit, encourages children to skateboard as part of their studies and believes that the sport can be a means of empowerment. That includes girls and women, who make up 40 percent of the students in the program, ranging in age from 5 to 25.
It’s a far cry from the Taliban — and a welcome wave of carefree fun for boys and girls whose everyday life is still one of grinding poverty amid violence. With Skateistan, the grind is done with a skateboard’s deck, wheels and trucks as they kickflip (spin), carve (skate in a long gliding arc) and fakie (skate backwards).
— Nikolai Miller and Jack Rees
First published February 4th 2015, 4:21 pm
Filed under Uncategorized
Skater legends inspire locals at El Gato Classic
Dave Nyczepir, The Desert Sun
Palm Springs Skate Park had the air of an amped up high school reunion Friday night, because that high school would’ve been attended by skateboarding legends of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.
Brought together by Palm Desert local Eddie “El Gato” Elguera for his first-ever El Gato Skateboard Classic Competition this weekend, household names like Tony Hawk, Alan Gelfand and Brad Bowman could be seen at the park throughout the day.
A “Revolutionary Era of Skateboarding” art and photo show kicked off the skateboard contest series created by the two-time World Champion skateboarder Elguera, featuring the work of photographer Jim Cassimus of SkateBoarder magazine fame and drawing a crowd of hundreds between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
“These guys, they love being here because skateboarding is a community,” said Elguera, Red Bull in hand. “I could be at a bowl and some 8-year-old comes up and we have something in common.”
Not far off was Dale Smith, the coach who helped work out several of Elguera’s classic vert tricks like “Elguerial” — a cutting-edge “fakie flip” when it was pulled off in May 1979.
Surrounding the legends were skateboarding paintings, drawings and Cassimus’ photos from the classic Gold Cup Series age of the sport.
“I haven’t seen some of these guys since I photographed them 25 years ago, and they come up and I hardly recognize them,” Cassimus said. “Hopefully these photos of the pioneers of modern skateboarding will show kids the history of the sport before they were born.”
Friends Eddie Ortiz, 15, and Brandon Gutierrez, 14, stood with their boards at the edge of the skate park, surveying the action in and around the flow bowl.
Neither had seen so many skaters turn out for a park event.
“There are a lot of legends around,” Ortiz said. “I met Eddie and Tony this morning. Everybody was stoked to see them.”
Julius Moreno, 16, of Palm Springs dreams of becoming a professional skater.
He’s placed decently in the few amateur events he’s competed in.
“This is crazy,” Moreno said. “I’ve never skated with a pro before.”
Filed under Uncategorized
OLD SKULL SKATEBOARDS 