Archive for January, 2010
Posted on January 8, 2010 with Comments Off
If you were as high as Tyler Bledsoe, skating might turn into little more than a spiral of smoke, which you could bend and move around your finger as you swipe at it’s stream…or, maybe it’s way less poetic than that. Maybe he’s just so high that he’s not cluttering his mind with the extraneous thoughts that plague the rest of us. Who knows? But, whatever he’s doing, Bledsoe makes difficult skateboarding look like someone doing a playful jig. Watch him dance in Fourstar’s all-Bledsoe edit of the…
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New York style merchants Mighty Healthy have just dropped a new edit featuring team rider Joey Johnson.
Joey can be seen cruising the streets with effortless steez and killing everything in his path to a nice summertime hip hop jam. Holla!
Just think, Californian natives are currently walking the streets, carefree, in nothing more than jeans and a T-shirt while we poor Europeans are sporting layer upon layer simply to avoid hypothermia.
Makes you sick to your stomach, doesn’t it?
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Good memories of Curtis Hsiang (1963-2000) from Max Schaaf at 4Q.
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We will be awarding our Year’s Best Am along with the Damn Am of the Year and more at this year’s Amateur Awards. It’s all going down Wednesday, February 3rd, 7PM at Tum Yeto HQ in San Diego. The event is free, open to the public, and all ages. Click through to see the other awards and all the info.
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Satori has devised a way of using your old wheels to make new wheels thus saving a little bit of the planet. Read all about it here and big ups to Satori for caring about our impact on the planet.
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Jimmy Carlin answers 10Qs. Zero checks in from the road. The BBC checked out the Uganda skatepark.
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Tilt Mode has a Ben Raemers birthday day video. The Skate Spot has a Trung Ngo video part. German video magazine, Place, just put their seventh issue online. Stereo has throwaway clips from Cesar Fernandez.
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Chris, Van, Andrew, Jamie, Joe, Anthony and Massimo. I was there too, I took the picture.
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We take a look at innovative trucks available on the market to try and get an insight into what the future holds.
Tensor Magnesium
The first one to look at is the Tensor Magnesium trucks of which there are two sub-trucks; slider and response. The core aspect of these trucks, the magnesium construction, is 25% lighter than an industry standard truck. I managed to compare a set of these magnesium trucks to a set of Venture Raws which are what I normally skate and the weight difference was instantly noticeable from handling the trucks. The Tensor Magnesium trucks retail for £50 which admittedly is £16 more than my Ventures but I think it’s worth it. The difference between the Slider and Response sub-types are as follows:
| Response Magnesium |
Slider Magnesium |
| Redesigned bushing seat for responsive turning |
Durable slider piece for longer slides |
| Lower pivot cup for sharper turning |
Lower kingpin prevents snagging |
| Lower kingpin prevents snagging |
Stable interlocking bushing reduces wheel bite |
Venture V5
It seems the most common aspect in skateboarding at the moment is being able to shed weight while maintaining strength. The new Venture V5’s promise to do this using two techniques and some precision crafted forged steel.
The first thing they’ve lightened is the baseplate, as you can see from the image it’s been slimmed down this not only sheds weight but also relieves pressure from the truck. Secondly a hollow kingpin made of reinforced steel.
Much like the Tensor’s these trucks retail for about £50, my only concern is the fact they’ve made the kingpin hollow. I may be wrong and the new reinforced steel may be as strong as any normal kingpin but I’ve had to change kingpins before (it’s not fun) and by making a kingpin hollow increases the chances of snapping in my eyes.
Independent Stage 10
GUARANTEED FOR LIFE!! Now there’s a quote you don’t see everyday in the world of skateboarding but it looks like the guys at Independent have gone all out on these trucks. Here’s an extract from their site explaining the construct of these trucks ‘Forged Stage Tens feature Forged aluminium baseplates, 356 T6 aluminium Hollow Body hangers, 4140 chromoly steel axles with reduced length rolled threads, grade 8 kingpins, and high-rebound cushions’. I’ve always been a fan of Independents durability when it comes to trucks and my last pair lasted much longer than I expected. Like most truck companies they’ve reduced the size of the kingpin to reduce the chances of you hanging up. They’ve used a lightweight aluminium baseplate which seems like a sound idea, I think the only part of this truck that causes some concern is the fact they’ve hollowed out the hanger.
Thunder Hollow Lights
The last instalment in this rundown of new and innovative trucks comes from Thunder trucks. Two things have been done to these trucks to make them lighter and the clues in the name for the major change they have made. Like Venture they have hollowed out their kingpin’s to shed weight also they are using an aluminium baseplate all this for an average retail price of £50. This makes the truck a lot lighter than previous models however my concern still remains about hollowing out the kingpin, maybe they’ll prove me wrong??
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After having one hell of a year – including winning the Tampa AM for the second year running and producing one of the standout sections from Flips recent video Extremely Sorry, Flip have decided to promote Luan to the ranks of professional. Congrats Luan!
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