Hopeless Old Men On Skateboards reaches the mark of 50 comics. Here’s to 50 more! Head on over to MC’s house and give him more encouragement. Yes, this is another lame post to disguise a lack of recent updates.

MC’s roundup of declassified Hailey Idaho loop coverage.

No, it doesn’t. But try telling that to the kids at Beaverton Oregon’s skate park. These ramps were originally garbage picked, well donated by the X-Games. If you wanted to ride the vert ramp it usually meant you had to kick the kids off the flat bottom. These pics are from such a session, circa 2001. When the bottom rotted out of the vert ramp, local officials decided to replace it with more street obstacles made of concrete, even, I hear. Does anyone want to send in some pics of the new street developments? That would be great, mmm-kay? More after the jump.

Me take pretty picture. Nice. So far the only picture MC has declassified from the Hailey Loop of Death mission is this striking shot. Follow the link to see it in all it’s glory. It’s worth it.

Conspiracy has a new video out titled Saikou. Yeah, I don’t know what it means either, but we’ve got a review.

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.