NW largest ALL FEMALE skate competition
December 13th at Skatebarn in Renton, WA.
All ages, all abilities
Skate clinic for beginners
$300 cash purse for advanced
Ramp Jam (Gentlemen welcome!)
Live art and live music
Gals coming out from Vancouver BC, Oregon, and California (including X-games medalists).
Pre-registration and more info available at www.skatelikeagirl.com. Flyer after the jump.

A couple weeks ago I mentioned that the old Australian pro Tony Hallam had a web site that was chock full of images of his massive skateboard history collection, but it was missing some images. It looks like everything is back in place, so this is the official invitation to check out Tony Hallam Skateboarding. The images above are from one of his traveling exhibitions. That Vision vert ramp setup is perfect. I especially like that one mannequin is in mid-bail. Tony’s site is expansive, so be prepared to spend some time there.

Remember when Wisconsin boy Zach Kral destroyed that pasty faced Dutch kid’s old world record? Well, some other kid beat him again, and I kind of lost interest in the whole thing. That is, until Zach broke it again last week (on his 14th birthday) at the 4 Seasons Skatepark in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I love the midwest (as long as I’m not there in the winter) and this was as good an excuse as any to re-use a good graphic. The new record, according to the folks at Guiness is 1,546 consecutive kickflips. Under their rules, no body part can touch the ground at all. Dang, I should have lumped this together with the other Guiness record post. Everyone seems to be slow in updating, even his father!

Finally checked out Canby skatepark yesterday. It was a nice afternoon and the locals were ripping. It’s all small and kinky and I didn’t stay long but it seemed like it could be fun.

In Brazil, Danny Way broke his back on the Megaramp. He will recover, of course, because all Megaramp competitors are actually time traveling cyborgs built by Skynet. Watch the video after the jump. It’s not in English, but really, it’s more entertaining this way. Speaking of entertainment. Rob Thomson now holds the world record for Longest Journey by Skateboard, clocking in at 12,159km, or about 7,500 miles. It’s confusing though, because the “journey” took place in different non-adjacent locales and had periods of weeks in between legs. Sounds more like a record for the biggest lapse of judgement by Guinness officials. Maybe they cut him some slack due to the unsual circumstances reported by One India:

The strangest food he tried was horse-penis salami in Kyrgyzstan, which he said tasted “like the smell of a sweaty, old, dirty horse.

Uh yeah. Go figure. You can read all about it in his forthcoming book about the experience.

We’ve got some shots of the newly finished Dreamland creation in Harrisburg, Oregon skatepark courtesy of Ryan Hass. It’s a 10,000 square foot facility, which is roughly three square feet per citizen of Harrisburg! It’s set to open on Sunday December 7th at 2:00pm. The location is on the south side of Smith Street, between the fire station and 6th Street.

The day after Thanksgiving is supposedly the biggest shopping day of the year. The day we all pull together to support the American retail industry. Naturally, it has become a rallying point for cranky anti-consumerists who set up Buy Nothing Day bent on spoiling everyone else’s fun – unless of course, you enjoy being anti.

Last year we did a Cannonball Run and called it Buy Nothing Skate Everything Day. We have no formal plans to follow it up but you never know. This year we have a couple of new local spots. That could jack up our numbers in less time.

I’m on the road with the family for the holiday. That’s why you’re not seeing the regular amount of activity here. For our readers outside of the States, we’re celebrating the memory of the white man spreading small pox to the indigenous population of North America, otherwise known as Thanksgiving. We cook and eat turkeys to commemorate it. Here’s what I came up with, old photos of an Emerica tour in Turkey from Skateboard Europe. If you want something more up to date, check out Skateboarding Turkey. I couldn’t find pictures of a turkey on a skateboard, there’s a video of a chicken on a skateboard after the jump. I know, it’s not the same thing. I’ll be back in time to se the Hanson Brothers.

Did you catch this on the Huffington post? He’s the right age for vert skater. Turns out he is not an active skateboarder according to the Wall Street Journal. I need to hit up Skate Daily before I get all involved making a funny graphic.

This week’s Shot of the Week in snot really as old as it looks. It’s a shot of longtime Florida rider David Bonnell at the Nort Port, Florida skatepark, taken in 2000 or 2001. He’s rocking re-issue gear from the late 70’s, although those pads might be vintage 80’s. Combined that with a roll a film that had “stored” in the trunk of my car for several months, and you get something that looks a period piece. David is one of those guys that never put the board away and always stuck with it. I met him when his wife bought a board from me over eBay. I was going to Florida and sent him an email asking where the skateparks were. Turns out he didn’t live far from where I was visiting. I think he lives in Texas now, and might even be building swimming pools. Check out this weeks Shot of the Week. I’ve also got a feature on the trip that I posted in 2004. So much has changed since then.