This article was originally static HTML. Original comments can be found here. 2008 Oregon Cannonball Run – By Conahan: Posted 2-22-08 2008 Oregon Cannonball Run You know how visiting museums is an ordeal because there is just so much stuff to look at? If you go frequently and just look at a small section or a single painting you don’t get so wiped out. The cannonball run is silly and wasteful but it has its appeal, You go to a park, take a few runs, make a few tricks and then hit the road again. It makes more sense if you are visiting spots where you’ve already spent hours and will likely visit again. Expectations are low so if you can get a few good runs in, it’s not so hard to move on. You can always go back another day. On a real road trip, I’d want to spend more time at each place.

The InterWeb is cool, but print zines are cooler. Although it’s about hundred times easier to make a print zine in the digital age (especially with photos,) it’s still quite a bit of work. When you factor in the cost the project gets to be less appealing, especially if you want to distribute a lot of copies. Every once and a while I get the urge to make another print issue of Skate and Annoy. My biggest problem with print issues is that I’m always waiting for some event that I want to put in it, and I keep adding pages as I go along. – “Man, I gotta include this too!” Pretty soon they become these massive projects that approach the size of a phone book. And then it becomes a major expense to print them unless you know someone at a copy shop (I don’t) or you can go out and sell adverts (I don’t want to.) In the end they either don’t get made or else only a few copies are printed. I salute those of you who actually pull it off, but for the lazy, busy, and budget constrained, the micro zine is a viable alternative. I’m not…

2007 2007 ASR with OMA – By Mike Furst: Posted 8-26-07 This article was originally static HTML. Original comments can be found here. 2007 ASR with OMA The Old Man Army crew decided to take off for a weekend to go down to San Diego to see what all of the hoopla was about at the ASR show. We also wanted to see a few of the people that we deal with in the industry who would be there as well as to see what new stuff people were doing in the industry. The only other thing on the agenda was to get a couple of pictures of the kooky skateboard gadgets for the Skate and Annoy crew.

2007 Brookings Weekend – By Egbert: Posted 8-23-07 This article was originally static html. Original comments can be found here. Brookings Weekend So a couple of weekends ago Dave Vieira, Pete Panagakos, Jeff Fryer, and myself set out for a little 3 day weekend trip to beautiful Brookings, Oregon. Our plan was to skate, drink some beer, and for me to shoot a machine gun in Eugene.

2007 Oregon Trifecta – Backyard Tobin’s Bowl – By Kilwag: Posted 8-22-07 This was an old static HTML article that has been restored here. Original comments can be found here. What do you do when your pro contest get’s rained out in Washington? You move it to someone’s back yard in Oregon! Maybe that’s what you get in the first place for holding an event called The Oregon Trifecta in Washington. Oh man, this contest was sooo badass! You shoulda been there! Actually, I wasn’t there until the last three minutes. After two and a half days I was pretty much over it, so I went home to hang out with my family. Good thing Shawn Reinert was there or there wouldn’t be any pictures to post. Shawn works at a photography equipment store you know, so he started messing around with long exposures that picked up multiple flashes from other cameras. The results are way out there. Not always the best for showing you what was going on, but interesting nonetheless, and you are going to sit there and expand your tiny little minds by and looking at them anyway. What I did hear was that there were very…

Bellingham Washington Skatepark Additions – By Kilwag: Posted 8-20-07 Want to comment on this article? This post was originally static HTML. Original comments can be found here. Bellingham Washington Skatepark Additions I got a bunch of rainy photos from John Aguilar and some words from Dan Hughes. Hughes will have pictures up eventually. I’ll link to them when he get’s them up. These are Dreamland addtions to an existing skatepark built by someone else.

2007 Oregon Trifecta in Battle Ground Washington (?!) – By Kilwag: Posted 8-17-07 This was an old static HTML article that has been restored here. Original comments can be found here. First up, let’s address the fact that the third day of the OREGON Trifecta was held in Battle Ground Washington. I can’t blame ’em, cause Battle Ground is a stellar skatepark, and It’s only officially been open for a few months. I heard there were plans to hold one day in Vancouver Wa next year. Another great spot for a contest, but it’s not uhm… not in Oregon. As long as they don’t change the name to the Northwest Trifecta. Day three of the Trifecta has traditionally been a bit more mellow a lot of the time. Both spectator and contestants seem to be a little bit burnt out by the time Sunday morning rolls around. This year on the drive out there, things did not bode well as rain drops were hitting our windshield occasionally, but you never know out here, sometimes these things blow over and dry up quickly. Not seeming too concerned about the weather, the event got a late start again. Duncan kept offering more…

This was an old static HTML article that has been restored here. Original comments can be found here. 2007 Oregon Trifecta at Portland’s Pier Park- By Conahan and barely Kilwag: Posted 8-16-07 MC: The first thing I thought when I heard Pier Park would be one of the stops on the Trifecta was, “No way I’m getting in that bowl with five other guys.” Dreamland’s 20 foot diameter full-pipe and 11.5 deep bowl with tile and pool-coping is big and fast and a collision in there would be no joke. The second thing I thought was that if I wanted to be the second guy over the mouse hole, I was going to have to get it done before the Trifecta. The format was changed for safety. One rider would go at a time in heats of six. Both the Women’s and Grand Masters’ divisions were limited to 15 minutes of warm up and scored on the best of two competition runs. Skaters who didn’t show up early were pretty much skating the bowl cold. It was definitely safer, though it was going to be tricky to get through the field before dark. Pier has no lights. The women’s division…

This was an old static HTML article that has been restored here. Original comments can be found here. 2007 Oregon Trifecta in Lincoln City – By Conahan and Kilwag: Posted 8-15-07 Lincoln City is the Grandaddy of Dreamland Skateparks. The oldest section has a great horseshoe layout with potential for amazing transfers. It is also rough due to age and the sea air but it is still a fun place for a contest, Dreamland perfect but also gnarly as hell. There were a few standouts in the women’s division. Some good airs and a few really skillful miniramp riders along with some good crashes. Annie Sullivan, Nicole Zuck and and Amelia Brodka were battling it out. A lot of the women were doing aerials and grinding the hell out of the bowls and working the spine. Annie Sullivan won but fell right at the end and broke her arm, bad luck, she was ripping. The Grand Masters division is a fun part of the Trifecta because you never know what famous ripper from your childhood will be there. Pat Ngoho and Chris Cook and Jim Gray have been coming up for years and Duane Peters, Steve Alba, Steve Olson, Steve…

Bay College CAD Design Class Tackles World’s Biggest Skateboard. Photos by Jeremy Brock This article was originally static HTML. Original comments can be found here. You have to feel bad for Australian Grant Hicks. No, not because he’s related to Taylor Hicks (He isn’t) but because his reign in the sun was short. Here’s a guy who was thumbing through his Guinness Book of World Records, saw Tod Swank’s record and thought “I can break that easy enough.” Unbeknownst to him, some students at Bay College in Escanaba Michigan were already at work eclipsing his record. Tod had his run, and it was a good one that lasted about four years, and he got some press out out it. Grant’s record looks like it’s going to last about five months, because on April 17 the Bay College CAD Class is going to submit their gigantic skateboard that measures in at 31 feet long, a full 11 feet longer than Grant’s, and almost 20 feet longer than the Tumyeto group.