Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
While you and the rest of the country are about to freeze your arses off because winter is just around the corner, the people of Sao Paulo Brazil (and Los Angeles) are living it up with some of the most beautiful weather around. You may not have known this but them ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Danny Way has crashed on the MegaRamp while performing in Brazil for an event. SkateDaily found the report from Brazil, where Bob Burnquist, Way and others were in town for a contest going down this weekend.
As you can see in the video below, Way didn't land cleanly after clearing the ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Skateboarding which is a multi billion-dollar business and requires finite recourses needs to evolve its industry if it wants to be ahead of the game. While sports like snowboarding, and surfing, and HEELY, are taking advantage of today’s innovative technology, skateboarding is content with using the same old boring wood ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Often times most athletes should stick to what they know best. Their transition into a different sport can hinder the development of their careers. Just look at Jordan going into baseball. He could have easily won at least one more championship. Or in the case of Oscar De La Hoya. ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
PLG in the finals. cr. AST
It was supposed to be easy for Bucky -- he was first in the points standing and needed a first or second-place finish (depending on where everyone else placed) to win his third Dew Cup. Instead, he fell and ended up in last place, opening ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
When Bob Burnquist was sitting down over a decade ago watching Danny Way and Colin McCay as wet behind the ears teenagers on Plan B’s very influential first video “The Questionable Video”, I highly doubt he ever imagined he would be in a band with one of his idols. ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Skate Vert podium. cr. John Swenson
It took four years but Andy Macdonald has finally won an AST Dew Tour event, taking the Skate Vert finals at the Toyota Challenge in SLC on Sunday.
Macdonald edged Pierre-Luc Gagnon by a quarter-point to take the win, throwing a monkey wrench into the Dew ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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Pierre-Luc Gagnon found some redemption Saturday at the Wendy's Invitational in Portland OR, after a tough showing last month in Cleveland's Right Guard Open but it was veteran Bob Burnquist who ended up taking the top spot. AST Dew Cup points leader Bucky Lasek had a tough day, coming in ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Last year the world could stop talking about the Skateboard Big Air contest because of Jake Brown's incredible slam. This year, the conversation will be about the battle between Brown, Danny Way and Bob Burnquist for the title with Burnquist making an amazing comeback to win on the final run ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Shaun White | cr. AST
Shaun White followed up a strong second-place finish at last week's Maloof Money Cup with a win today at the 2008 Right Guard Open in Cleveland, the second stop of the AST Dew Tour.
White fell on his first run but scored a 90.25 on his second ...
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