Wuss with a gun starts some skate harassment before getting beat down by skateboarders. Chubby, no – fat kid teaches you how to ollie. Happy endings for everyone.

From Seth Levy, while on a road trip to Oklahoma. The most fun thing to do at the eastern Oklahoma welcome center on I-40. Blowing it out y’all! Enlarge-o-rama.

People who skateboard on ramps are called “vertical skaters.” People who skateboard on anything they can find are called “street skaters.” And people who ride on flat ground only are called “freestyle skaters.”

Freestyle skaters are usually the most graceful. They do handstands, jumps, spins, and twirls, often performing planned routines set to music. They are the “ice skaters” of skateboarding.

More Skateboard Action from Carl Warren. Thanks human! Enlarge-o-rama! Who is that dude?

Previous installments:
Six – Five – Four – Three – Two – One

Pro

1st Benji Galloway
2nd Steve Panero
3rd Chris Russel

Masters

Lance Mountain
Mark Partain
Mark Scott

Ladies

Julie Kindstrand
Priscilla Lee
Nora Vasconcellos (?)

Full results are up at World Cup Skateboarding

1st – Kevin Kowalski
2nd – Mason Huggins
3rd – Jeff Manson Josh Mattson

I wasn’t paying attention to the Masters results, But Lance Mountain and Buck Smith were in there, probably Jason Parks too.

UPDATE: Results courtesy of SkateDaily.net

1st – Buck Smith
2nd – Lance Mountain
3rd – Mark Partain

Ladies

1st – Julie Kindstrand
2nd – Nora Vasconcellos
3rd – Priscilla Lee

GO211.com is doing a live webcast at the Trifecta. Coverage should start at around 12:00 Pacific Standard, according to their man on the scene Mike Estes. You can catch it on their Oregon Trifecta 2009 page. GO211 wins the award for most un-targeted advertising. I got interstitial video ads for dishwashing soap and the U.S. Army before I could watch the Trifecta teaser. On a side note, I’ve heard multiple tales of people heading out to Lincoln City only to find a crappy sign that says “Trifecta Cancelled.” Nice. See ya there!

First person to spot Kilwag in the webcast and leave a comment here with what I’m wearing will get a free T-shirt.

From the annals of YouTube, home movie footage of a 1985 Del Mar contest with runs from Christian Hosoi and Tony Hawk. Someone’s parents must have had some dough, because the camera had sound too. One funny bit, the crowd goes nuts for two consecutive head high airs, but then almost falls silent when Hosoi only goes chest high on the next wall. It was impossible to get a good still capture from this footage.

– Thanks to JF Fullum for the inadvertent tip.

Reader Bill Morgan sent in some pics of his DIY project. It started as a quarterpipe painted to look like concrete. It sits in his rather short driveway, but there’s a hell of a lip where the driveway meets street. So what’s a skater to do? How about poring a nice little micro transition to make the approach work without having to ollie it? And while you’re at it, why not put some thin set on the rough patch of street? You’ve go to be in good with your neighbors to get away with that!

I don’t know who this Franklin Mint Blog guy thinks he is, but he’s trampled all over about a weeks worth of posts for me in this entry called Skateboard Mania. He’s got the standards like Farrah, Skateboard, the movie, and the Wonder Woman episode. There’s the less known Stacy Peralta on Charlies Angels, and the even more obscure Jodie Foster movie Foxes, that has some skateboarding in it. He’s got the whole Sneakers and Lace Skateboardin’ USA album ripped from vinyl and ready for download. Well Mr. Smartypants, you missed something. Jodie Foster actually released a pseudo disco single where she kind of talks over a backing track. It’s pretty schlocky, but she mentions a skateboard in it. In any case, he did come up with a old picture of Brooke Shields lounging on a skateboard. I tip my hat to you. Excellent post. Be prepared to spend some time at the Franklin Mint Blog.