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New Adidas Skateboarding 2010 Site

Posted on December 30, 2009 with Comments Off

Not only does Adidas have a newly designed skate site up starting today, but they have their new line of shoes and a gangster-a** video of the team skating San Francisco (did someone say Tim O’Connor rebirth?). Be the first to see it.

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Turd Merchants of Death Review

Posted on December 30, 2009 with Comments Off

This is a review of Meta skateboard’s newest Zombie movie-slash-skate video epic “Turd Merchants of Death,” but before I start I want to make it clear: Local videos are a whole different bag of worms (”PJ Ladd’s Wonderful Horrible Life” and a few others exempted). I know this, because while skateboarding on the large industrial scale likes to show only the best-est people in the most prettiest format at the greatest-est spots, local videos are a little more endemic&#151they might not suit all the…

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Good Video Vibes

Posted on December 30, 2009 with Comments Off

Whether you’re back at work and just waiting for the New Year to come, so you can enjoy another holiday, or you’re just sitting around until school gets back in session, you’ll need a little something to fill the rest of your break with. So, here you go…Kincade #31 explores Austin Stephens’ lil’ DIY skatepark. A Fourstar “Few Hours in the Life” of Brian Anderson has some smooth shredding from the Gentle Giant. The Etnies crew have some fun at Joe Red’s local park here. Pete Eldridge has been staying…

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The Finer Details: McCrank’s Latest Ad

Posted on December 30, 2009 with Comments Off

As a young kid, I’d always look at ads and wonder what my favorite pro skateboarders did that day. What lengths did they go to in order to get their trick? Did they slam a bunch? Where was the spot? If somewhere exotic, I wanted to know what it was like around those parts. Years later, éS’s master of content, Mr. Brink, has taken that approach with Rick McCrank’s latest ad. Read the interview here about frontside 50-50 backside 180ing out of massive ledges, McCrank’s ankles, his propensity for Le…

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Stereo Keeps the Holiday Spirit Alive

Posted on December 30, 2009 with Comments Off

For those of you feeling the Christmas spirit wane, some still remains in this clip of young Josiah Gatlyn shredding the streets of Miami. I guess it could have been a litte more convincing with a beard and some snow…or a massive belly, but all those things probably make hardflipping much harder than it already is. Keep the spirit alive, at least 1:17 more.

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Tom Penny’s Extremely Sorry

Posted on December 30, 2009 with Comments Off

There’s an overall feeling, looking back, that Tom Penny really hasn’t done that much since the “Etnies Hi-5″ era, but that would be really incorrect. Yes, he definitely went AWOL around 2001, so instead of a part in “Menikmati,” he had a hodgepodge of old clips. So, in his absence from stupid amounts of year-round coverage in magazines and whatnot, there was a collective perception that he hasn’t been doing anything. But, if you look at his parts in “Sorry, “Really Sorry or the most recent “Extremely…

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Vote For The Chief’s Next Truck

Posted on December 26, 2009 with Comments Off

Well, the inaugural edition of Thunder’s “Stump the Chief” a trivia game where Jamie Thomas is asked questions about himself in the efforts of eliminating as many of the band trucks from the pool of possibilities. Now, it’s your turn to vote. Which of the truck above (minus one that wouldn’t fit in my screen grab) will be the next Jamie Thomas signature truck?

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Adidas Skates The City Of Angels

Posted on December 26, 2009 with Comments Off

L.A. is one of my favorite cities in the world, and the skaters that make up the Adidas skate team are some of my favorites to watch. The Gonz, is always being The Gonz, reminding us all that skateboarding is as much an art as anything else. Silas was last year’s Thrasher magazine “Skater of the Year,” enough said. Then there’s Busenitz, who’s always killing it faster than anyone. Check out this little vid of team Three Stripes getting their Los Angeles on:

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Puff, Puff, Give With The Stoned Ones

Posted on December 26, 2009 with Comments Off

Yo, pass that shit. Cough. No, it’s not that kind of puff, puff, give. Well, it may have been inspired by that behavior, or even though while partaking. Anyway, it’s a jacket, that’s all. And a pretty cool one at that. It’s brought to you by Volcom, and it’s great for the skater on the run. It’ll keep you warm, is pretty stylie and stuffs into it’s own pocket forming a small pouch that you can store anywhere. Don’t take my word for it, I don’t particularly like the cold, so I rarely go anywhere that is cold, but I know one person who’s for sure has a couple. The camping, mountain lion hunting extraordinaire, Mr. Geoff Rowley himself. Check out the video:

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Romano x Etnies x Thunder

Posted on December 26, 2009 with Comments Off

A little over a year ago skateboarding lost one of it’s youngest and most special rippers. Johnny Romano was somebody to look up to on and off a skateboard. The 10 year-old handled himself like someone years his senior on a board, and when it came to his battle with cancer. Skateboarding has not forgot about it. Jake Phelps has always made sure the Thrasher contingent threw in their alliance. Then there’s the annual Johnny Romano Skate Jam. And now, the Etnies x Thunder x Romano collaboration.

“This shoe, what it stands for, and how it came about is a perfect example of the effect Johnny Romano had, and will forever have, on skateboarding.

Johnny was a 10-year-old skater form Galveston, Texas whose love of skateboarding and courageous perseverance through his battle with Leukemia captured the hearts of the entire skateboard community worldwide. He never wanted to be known as ‘Johnny, the skater with Leukemia.’ He was simply Johnny the skater and we all followed his journey with our hearts on our collective sleeves.

A few months after Johnny lost his battle with Leukemia, Sean Malto and Mikey Taylor approached me with an idea to do something with Thunder and etnies to pay tribute to Johnny, as well as raise money and awareness for the JOHNNYKICKSCANCER Foundation that the Romano family founded. The result was the etnies/Thunder RVL as well as a matching colorway Thunder truck.

Johnny may have lost his battle, but he won the war. His memory and his impact on all of us in skateboarding will live forever. Thank you to everyone who was there for the journey and thank you to everyone who keeps it going.
This one’s for you Johnny. We miss the f—k out of you.”

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