SAnta Cruz re-issues

Attack of the reissues

Collectors are probably bummed, but guys who just want to ride their favorite old boards again will be stoked, as long those old boards are some of these Santa Cruz re-issues slated to ship in August. These images are from SoCal Skateshop. Get in line now, these will likely sell out fast, and then we […]

Sweden and Japan

Japan and Sweden are…

Two countries that are alike in so many ways… at least if you are mostly going by the fact that I’ve never been to either, but that doesn’t stop me from being vaguely connected to people there through the magic of the Interwebs™. After the jump catch two videos sent to me through various global […]

Stoked auction

Stoked on this auction

There are a lot of charity board auctions these days, and they tend to get lost in the shuffle. I checked out some of the offerings for Good Wood and found several that I liked, not all limited to the one I chose for this post. Winner for the “Duh! Why didn’t I think of […]

JC Pennys

U got the look

U sho’nuf do be cookin’ in my book Your face is jammin’ Your body’s heck-a-slammin’

Gold plated skate rail, walnut launch ramp, bronze quarterpipe

I wonder if Sheckler has one of these?

Andrew Lewicki made some very fetishistic skate art objects, namely this gold plated grind rail and a walnut launch ramp. Said the tipster: “Even Norm Abram from The New Yankee Workshop would say ‘This is fucking gay!’” Well, I don’t know if he would use those words exactly… I’m not sure where in the price […]

Jake Brown eats it

Remembering Jake Brown (He’s not dead)

Just about this time last year everyone was freaking out over Jake Brown’s amazing escape from a potentially life ending or at the very least, life changing bail on the mega ramp at the X Games. Hard to believe he walked away from the slam heard round the world. Thankfully I’m not posting about the […]

Age defying gadgets on the Today Show

Age defying gadgets

So it’s 30 years later and the Today Show is still into skateboards. This time is from a recent segment on how to stay young. The video is embedded after the jump, but unfortunately there are nine minutes and thirty seconds of unrelated facial cream, fashion and stress management footage before you get to the […]

SOTW 7-21-08: Mark Conahan

SOTW 7-21-08: It’s deep. Very deep.

This week’s Shot of the Week features Mark Conahan in a photo that he says he’s embarrassed of, but shouldn’t be. When is two and a half feet below the coping still an admirable feat? When there’s another 8 feet below you and the transition is ridiculously tight. This is the horizontal crop of the […]

Skateboarding on the Today Show from 1977

Saturday Starrs #5: The Today Show – 1977

This week’s installment of Saturday Starrs is a 1977 Today Show piece on the new and booming skatepark industry. The report was filed by Irving R. Levine, and is about as dry sounding as it gets. It’s funny to hear about the owners of Skatopia expecting to take in twice the cost of building the […]