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£1.7m Expansion Plan

Posted on August 2, 2010 with Comments Off

Arenaline Alley is bidding to become the largest skatepark outside the United States with a £1.7m expansion plan.

via Sk8uk.co.uk

Lasting Impressions from X Games 16

Posted on August 2, 2010 with Comments Off

After 4 days and 26 different competitions X Games 16 has come and gone. Downtown Los Angeles was once again filled with thousands of dirt loving, shower hating, beer guzzling, black-sock wearing boys in tight pants and girls in skimpy clothes screaming for Ryan Sheckler.

With the ringing in our ears still there, the memories of this year’s games are still fresh. Here’s what we’ll be talking about until X Games 17.

1. Where did all the big boys go? : More X Games..

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Face Time with Curren Caples

Posted on August 1, 2010 with Comments Off

Young Curren Caples reflects on the pressure of competing in the Skate Park event with a bunch of men twice his age and older. Krooked skateboard’s Mike Anderson’s little brother, Jake Anderson, chimes in as well.

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Ryan Sheckler is Golden Once Again at X Games

Posted on August 1, 2010 with Comments Off

GRINDTV NEWSWIRE via ESPN-Ryan Sheckler has won his third X Games gold, edging Nyjah Huston by less than one point as the clock ticked down on Saturday’s Super Final. Sheckler took the lead in his first of five runs, in what was essentially a warm up — albeit a warm up that included a kickflip backside boardslide on the rail, backside kickflip down the gap, a hugeswitch kickflip that he barely landed and a backside tailslide down the ledge that earned him a 90.33.

With skaters..

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