Gary Holl knows howto send out a press release, namely by including the flyer in addition to the same info in the body of the email, thus saving hapless web editors from the temptation of not bothering to type everything in themselves.

2nd Annual Board Rescue Skate Art Show Fundraiser
September 16, 2011
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Santa Cruz Boardroom 825 41st Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Featuring Artists:
Steve Olson, Lance Mountain, Jason Adams, Steve Caballero, Justin Forbes, Duane Peters, Jason Jessee, Lucas Musgrave, Todd Francis, David Hackett, Keith Meek, Kevin Walsh, Bryce Kanights, Mark Whiteley, Pat Ngoho, Cindy Whitehead, Desiree Ronald Astorga, Christian Cooper, Danny Sun, Erik Fieber, Chris Sprouls, Eli Atkins, David Swift, Chris Pastras, and Angela Stucky

DJ Ray Stevens II will be spinning tunes, check out the Artwork and purchase a Board Rescue T-shirt. Boards will be auctioned on Ebay all sales will go toward Board Rescue. Art Work will be In the window at the Santa Cruz Boardroom from September 16 – October 7th, Ebay Auction will end October 12th.

More Details: boardrescue.org – Facebook – Twitter

All Proceeds go to Board Rescue. Board Rescue’s mission is to provide skateboards and safety equipment to organizations that work with underprivileged and/or at-risk youth.

If you learned to rotate 90 degrees a year it would only take you eight years to master a 720, which works out fine for eight year old Evan Doherty. The video description says he landed the 720 on “vert” but he’s clearly way down by the seam on the transition. I’m clearly just kidding… This puts things like thefirst “street” backflip into perspective. This eight year old probably lives in Calif… what’s that? Oh yeah? Kansas… I wonder how long he’ll stick with it. Video after the jump.

This shot of Jeremy Tuffli taken by Garric Ray recently appeared in Skateboarder magazine:

I shot the photo of Jeremy on January 2nd and he did the trick in 23 degree weather! I think I spent a couple hours with a weed wacker to clean up the spot so you can see the drop as well. I still trip out that he landed the blunt fakie in the first place. Not sure if you’ve been to the St. Johns quarter pipe under the bridge or not, but you can get really hurt skating that spot if things go wrong.

You can check out the Shot of the Week, but I would stay here for enlarge-o-rama so you can see what’s happening. I need to get that incorporated into the SOTW.

This is a photo of the plexiglass cover of the Skate Ball ramp that resided at the Olympic Skateboard Arena in Crystal Lake, Illinois before it met it’s demise at the Rainbo Skatepark in Chicago, Illinois. David Dude was somehow able to rescue this at some point in time, even though he was a Dallas local that skated with the likes of Jeff Phillips, Craig Johnson, Dan Wilkes, Allen Guimond and Art & Steve Godoy. This looks awesome. Don’t forget to enlarge-o-rama.

This is a Grindline park in Laconner, Washington which is about a half an hour south of Bellingham. That’s Ted or possibly Fred on the backside boneless which was in fact a make, according to regular contributor John Aguilar. -Thanks! I saw pictures of a new Grindline park in Atlanta, GA (mainly in the street sections) that looked like it had some elements of a new direction for Grindline. Hard to tell from the tiny pictures though. Any of our Hotlanta readers want to scout it out?

These pictures of the Team Pain park in Arvada, Colorado are already a couple weeks old. Hell, it might even be done by now. Snake runs please me.

There’s a Frankie Hill interview of sorts over at Whatit.be. The ESL grammar is a bit distracting at times, but if you dig/dug Frankie Hill this is the latest bit out there, unless you head to Legion Skateboards.

[Board Graphic: Vaskateboards.com]

The Maloof Money Cup is leaving permanent skate structures on each stop of their tour. This facility is scheduled to be built in South Africa by California Ramp Works. The mini mega ramp isn’t going to stay, but the vert ramp and street course will remain. Interestingly enough, I recently heard from a contract employee of the Maloof Money Cup that they let a bunch of people go due to an alleged… money shortage. True or not, this is some good news for the South African scene. Between skatepark donations and alternative construction methods, this is like the arms race of arena skatepark extravaganzas.

Four screens used for printing skateboards, stretched with 225 count nylon mesh at 10 Newtons. The screen in the picture was actually used to make the board on the left. These things cost $55 new, I am selling them for $30 a piece or four for $100. They are all in very good condition. I’m unloading them because I’ve moved to aluminum frames that have slightly different dimensions and these no longer fit in my drying racks.

Contact: info at coldwarskateboards dot com.

I ran across you site through a google search for Fogtown skateboards; landing on your 2007 eBay post. I thought it funny that you mentioned seeing the ads in Thrasher and not knowing anyone who owned one. The attached shot is me (and friends) from around 1987 holding my Beast. I didn’t know at the time how scarce they were, nor did I know anyone else with one. Unfortunately, it went the way of so many decks; snapped on a bad landing while ollie-ing off the back of my brother’s ’77 Suburban.

Love the shirt on the guy in the middle. – Thanks to Darrell for writing in.