Looks like I might have to add a loop category. As I type this, MC from Antigravity Press is probably still driving back from Hailey Idaho where he was part of Mark Scott’s entourage involved in the process of setting up and witnessing his attempt to loop the Hailey full pipe. This year he built an extension to try and get some extra speed. Word is he ended up carving into instead of hitting it straight and wasn’t able to carry the speed, basically doing the same thing that Zac McKenzie did in the much smaller Reedsport, with the exception of no broken jaw. Red is nursing an injured back but it doesn’t appear to be overly serious (?!). I don’t want to say Oregon’s less publicized version of Bob Burnquist is crazy, you’ll have to judge for yourself. I’m sure he’ll love that comparison… Top left is a cellphone pic from MC of the extension. The right side is wide angle shot of the pipe. It’s not a funnel like Reedsport, the lens just makes it look that way. I’d check SkateHailey.com for more possible coverage, as well as Antigravity Press when Mark get’s back.

He lives. More details from Port Orford Oregon field correspondent Shoey about the loop mishap.

He’s Zac “The MAC” McKenzie from Port Orford. He’s sixteen and destroys everything. He broke his jaw in two places, got a concussion and scored some groupies from the show. He’s all healed up now and back to throwin 3 foot frontsides in the deep end. Everyone give a big hand to the kid from OREGON !!!!!!!!!!!!

Photos by Abe Lambright. Check out an animated image of the fall after the jump.

Do not adjust your TV sets. This is not an eBay report. This is a new graphic er, uhm, appropriation of the old Nash graphic circa 1960…? Of course it’s totally self serving, but not quite for sale yet so there’s no point in linking. No matter who made it.

The Didjits did indeed, rock the nation. This was from their only Champaign Illinois appearance after their reunion for the Touch And Go 25th anniversary show. The crowd packed the High Dive even though it was an early show. Instead of the crowd feeling threatened, which was a common occurrence at early Didjits gigs, everyone seemed to be in awe that they were witnessing the Didjits again, on their home turf, and possibly for the last time. This is part one of two installments.

I had some fun here even though the inept builders of this skatepark in Champaign Illinois applied the Jersey Barrier theory of transition to these bumps in the street course. Could have been awesome, but once you get over your initial reaction to wretch, you can actually have some fun on these bumps. I almost broke my arm being a smart-ass by trying to hit all the bumps one after another. More after the jump.

One good Devo post deserves another. The Wipeouters are described as a reformation of a pre-Devo garage band, although you have to take that with a grain of salt because those guys tend to make up a lot of their historical information. Juice Magazine did a piece on them around 2001, which appears to have been when they peaked. Yesterday’s Devo video got me interested, so I dug up this Wipeouters video for Twist-N-Launch on Youtube, complete with a skateboarding little person.

Classic Devo and classic skateboarding, circa 1980. Maybe the first music video to feature skateboarding if you don’t count Skater Dater. The DVD compilation The Complete Truth About De-Evolution has been out since 2003, so it’s not surprising that this clip turned up on You Tube. Peep it via Earth Patrol Media, who had the good sense to spot this. Yes that’s Stacy Peralta up top. Some other pros are in it as well, but I can’t remember who.

What is this countdown to GSD on the new Foundation web site? Is it some sort of cryptic announcement about the inventor of the boneless one? (Yes, the correct name actually has two words..) Can anyone shed some light?

While we’re on the subject of video slams I might as well post this one for you which comes courtesy of Foundation Skateboards newly redesigned web site. Foundation has been at this web thing for 10 years now, and they are proud of it. The vid has a lot of Internet famous footage of wacky extreme sports slams and other people just being idiots. Good for a laugh.

Ouch. Last year I covered this event. This year I just kind of forgot about the Concrete Rodeo contest series, probably because they didn’t ask us to sponsor it. I did hear a rumor that some guy fell from the top and got hurt… bad. Well Billy Runaway of Addikt Skateboards has posted a link to the video clip on his blog. The clip is hosted on a site called Slam310.tv who must have hired high school kids to program it since the site doesn’t work with Safari, and it’s just a Flash interface. He’s also got a link to a vid of Packy making the loop. Just like he did here.