Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Most of us have a desire to create. Whether it’s creating something newly inspired in a sketchbook, or creating a new recipe the world has never tasted with your new Playdough set, it’s that inspiration and drive that makes the world go round. Without those ideas, this world would be ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The beginning of the day saw forty-eight surfers who attempted to move onto the next round but only sixteen of those forty-eight managed to move on through to the fifth round of the ASP World Qualifying Series Buondi Billabong Pro in Ericeira Portugal and that includes only four surfers who ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The perspectives on skateboarding and skateboarders around the world are all very unique. Sure many of us have similar ideals on why we skate, but the landscape changes when the landscape literally changes. Here in Southern California, we’re lucky enough to have great weather all year long while those in ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Yo Dawgzzzz! It’s that time again to meet at my second favorite mountain resort (my first is Santa’s Village) for the 5th Annual Hot Dawgz and Hand Rails at Big Bear Mountain Resort on Saturday September 20th. If you think that global warming would keep this event from happening for ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
I just wanted to take this time to share a little clip with you. Whoever designed this course did an amazing job. Whoever set up the live news broadcast did an even more amazing job because without him/her, we wouldn’t have such a wonderful clip to laugh at to start ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
The top forty-eight remaining surfers at the ASP World Qualifying 6-Star Boundi Billabong Pro in Ericeira Portugal saw three to four foot waves and posted great scores going for the valuable 2500 ratings points, which will go to the winner of the event. So it’s no surprise that the top ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
I’m sure a lot of you out there were psyched on having one of the masters of hessianism, Erik Ellington from Baker/Deathwish answer a bunch of questions via the Active Boardshop website. I know I was. That is why when I found out Active was setting up this once in ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Just when it looked like Shaun White was about to dominate the video game world with his snowboarding videogame, Destineer in conjunction with Absinthe Films is creating their own snowboard adventure game. And I think Shaun White is pissed! Actually no he’s probably not, I’m just trying to stir up ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Do you have what it takes to take on a guy like Danny Wainwright who holds the record for the highest ollie? Forty-four and a half inches he ollied. Check it. Or there is debate that a South American Peruvian fella named Jose Marabotto, who possibly holds the world record ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Man this guy is still sick. My earliest memory of his was telling the camera to “smoke up the sess.” I wasn’t sure what that meant back then and I still don’t know what it means. But the guy can still rip. He just recently took ...
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