-Videos are starting to come in for the second annual Skate and Create and so far, it looks like its gonna be a doozy. First up is DVS with their submission, titled/themed "Wood". Truly dazzling.
If you have never heard of this series, I strongly recommend that you youtube "skate and create" and work your way through all of the entries from last years contest. It is one of the best things to happen to skateboarding since viva la bam went off the air.
-Crutchskate. If it were up to me, this would be called a cripflip to boardslide. Respect.
-Some next level dorkskating, courtesy of shred dudes Halldor and Eiki's collab blog
An excellent blog that also brought back some memories by digging up this gem
-One of the better installments of an excellent new series of new lakai commercials. Hilarious. Check out "Floating Camera" also.
The OG thrasher one is on the top. But you already knew that right? A for effort guys. For more UO douchbaggery check out urban counterfeiters
-The year was 1978. 80's hair metal was about to rip out of the womb where it had been incubating in small clusters since the mid 70s. Dokken, Ratt, Whitesnake and probably a few more bands with ümlats and double consonants were born. Maiden had just recorded their first demo. Crüe was rising in popularity faster then the drug, swimming pool and vomit induced body count of their musical predicessors. And in Bloody olde England, people were fuckin' riding skateboards.
-On that note, I present the Skatar-
-Mullen still skates? Who knew. No offense but does anyone care?
And last but not least, check out the "Ollie Buster". Jump to around 1:34 to see how much this thing rules. And by rules, I mean sucks more shit then a metaphore for sucking shit that I can't even come up with.
Previous Thrashin Thursdays HERE and HERE or click THIS for more assorted skatery. Go skate.
East Coast rail monster Lucas Magoon suffered a traumatic head injury while skating, and is currently in "serious, but stable condition" in the ICU at Reno Health Hospital in Reno, Nevada. According to an anonymous comment on Boardistan, "...he is not in a coma he is responding to his neurological tests. Also as of this morning he is off the breathing tube."
Stay up gooner
In other bummer shred news, strong rumors are flying about Eesa closing up shop. Hope everything works out dudes.
"If skateboarding was a town, this guy was its mayor. Andy Kessler, one of the good ones, died yesterday apparently of a wasp sting that led to a heart attack. This was a great dude, NO ONE could say anything wrong about this dude. He was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, skater in New York City, holding it down, real since the 70's. Andy will be seriously missed by many including myself."
Shred City is your first successful drop in on a mini ramp. It is the feeling of the stomp after nailing a back lip on a rail after eight heartbreaking attempts. It is a night of cheap whiskey and good stories with your crew around your kitchen table. It's skating mini until it's too dark to see and headbanging at a metal show even when there's only fifteen people there. It's PBR tallboys for two dollars a piece at the bar and early summer cliff jumping into freezing water. It's the fork holes in your leg you don't know how you got and the girl in your bed whose name you don't remember. It's a local skate art opening with free box wine and the success of distracting security while your friend gets the shot. It's the artistic inspiration you get from a freshly uncapped can of spray paint. It's a car full of your homies, blasting your favorite mixtape. When you are in these moments--the ones you live to create and remember, you are in Shred City--time slows, nothing else matters, and you're complete because of the experience. A new clothing brand from Burlington, Vermont that fits you in every epic moment of your life.
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