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Spotlight on..
Shredder's Lair is a skateboard, apparel, and hardware goods company coming out of Lancaster, California. I caught up with CEO and co-founder Steve Hansen recently to get the low down on the company...
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Freestyle is dead..
Still not sure how a whole genre of a sport can just disappear, but there you go. Always seemed pretty amazing to me but had a certain air of eliteness that made it seem somewhat unnaproachable. And...
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Karma and AP
This one's been staring me in the face for some time now. Couple atv's and the impetus for Consolidated Skateboards, Karma Tsocheff and Alan Petersen. I might have had some beers tonight so I'll skip...
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Something in the water?
Recently I have found myself staring at a few pics in skate mags and thinking "how is that even possible?". After trying to find explanations through the use of fish eye lenses or new board...
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R.I.P. Tom Sims
Small blip on the ever-growing skateboard radar but we lost a soldier/pioneer in the world of skateboarding recently-Tom Sims. Anyone who was around when skateboarding was huge back in the 80's and...
View ArticleTop 5 "Comeback" tricks
1. no comply (43)..Kalis' call to put it to rest partway through a line is a solid indicator of how commonplace it is nowadays. Gotta love the no comply/tailslide to switch crooks combo. Never did get...
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Article 17
This post started off with an idea to put up the 101 ad with Gabriel...then realized that it's hard to mention him without also mentioning Guy, Rudy, and Paulo. Love these videos by Jacob43, aka Jake...
View Article#Prettysweet Predictions....
In the eager anticipation of the Pretty Sweet video that comes out next week I've been racking my brain trying to imagine who will have a part and what tricks are going to go down. After weeks of...
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More "Toonage"
. Better late then never.. had this one partially done then some technical difficulties put a spanner in the works.... ..hopefullly the inclusion of some Robert Williams art and covers should make up...
View ArticlePier 7 revisited..
While perusing the FTC site recently, I came across some great Pier 7 videos added by Brad Johnson on Vimeo. Although there seems to be a Tsunami of great stuff going down in skateboarding right now,...
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Article 13
Fast and loose style with a nice frontside 360...Danny Sargent. Oh how I miss the New Deal bright yellow ads..what a great company. Hope you have a great Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or...
View ArticleAnthony Pappalardo Interview (from 48 blocks)
Too good not to re-post. A look into the darker side of the skate industry; http://site.48blocks.com/anthony-pappalardo Thank you to 48 blocks for getting the answers out to many peoples' questions. If...
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Article 11
Just a little Brian Lotti before the weekend.. I have to admit that I never really "got" Planet Earth back in the day, but was always a fan of Lotti. The transition to Blind seemed a little odd but...
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Article 10
Got to admit, I know next to nothing about this cat except that he was affiliated with the Bones Brigade back in the day. Regardless this ad is pretty bad ass. ..and I knew that this Hawk board looked...
View ArticleFree Videos
I've been working on a new post for the last week (think: big) but am missing one magazine that will make it complete...so until I find it here are some free vids. Pretty weak, I know but maybe you'll...
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Big Time..
Some older and more recent Mega Ramp flicks. I still have a hard time getting my head around this thing. And trying anything switch?? Bomb drop from hell..it just occurred to me, I wonder if this...
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O.G. Blind Squad..
First time I'd ever heard of the term "stigmata". You can learn a lot from skateboarding.. Blind-era Jason Lee kickflip with a TG cameo.. Gotta' love the 90's.. no name of the skater, company or what...
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Century Club..
Post number #100.. glad I've made it this far. Rather than scanning and uploading a bunch of old stuff, I had to make a trip to the skate shop and figured I'd just post some photos that I took along...
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H Street Goodies..
One of my favorite skate photos/ads ever.. Damian Carbajal shot by Daniel Harold Sturt. Anyone know where he disappeared to? Had some great footage in not the new H Street video, and then...?Team...
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