Posts for February 2012
Grosso's Love Letters to Curbs
Posted Feb. 29, 2012, 4:59 p.m.
There's nothing more fun, casual and convenient then walking out your front door and skating a curb. That's why Jeff Grosso chose to end Season 2 of Love Letters to Skateboarding with an ode to curb skating, that from which all street skating was born.
"It's a right angle quarterpipe." Barker Barrett.
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Pink Motel Gets Shredded for Camfest
Posted Feb. 29, 2012, 4:46 p.m.
This past weekend the Legendary Pink Motel played host to The 4th Annual Camtest to help raise money for Dave Tuck who was diagnosed with cancer a couple months ago. Dave does the Van Wastell Jam every year out in Colorado. You can make donations at Caring Bridge.
Check out more photos on Thrasher's Burnout as well.
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Elijah Berle on TSM Lurkervision
Posted Feb. 28, 2012, 7:58 p.m.
Animal Chan caught up with Elijah Berle and Justin Regan at The Skateboard Mag's Year Best Am party to learn what their first skateboards were:
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Daniel Lutheran Mob Footage
Posted Feb. 28, 2012, 4:27 a.m.
Mob Grip put together some park footage with Daniel Lutheran and the Toy Machine guys to get you fired up:
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Cab & Pedro Win Bondi Bowl-A-Rama
Posted Feb. 27, 2012, 5 p.m.
Thousands of people crowded beachfront grandstands to watch the world’s best skateboarders compete in the eighth annual Vans BOWL-A-RAMA™ Bondi 2012.
Sixteen-year-old professional skateboarder Pedro Barros (BRAZIL) took out his third consecutive Pro title after a heated final that saw him using every inch of the bowl at full-throttle speed, busting everything from head-high stalefish 540s, to technical lip trickery like alley-oop frontside 50-50s around the tight corner, just beating an impressive Bucky Lasek (USA) and Rune Glifberg (DEN ...
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6 Bowl-A-Rama Videos & TWS Photos
Posted Feb. 27, 2012, 4:36 p.m.
The 8th Annual Bondi Bowl-A-Rama was a huge success once again with Pedro Barros and Steve Caballero taking top honors.
Transworld's Staff Photographer, Mike O'Meally, was on hand and shot a bunch of Bondi photos for TWS' website.
Over the course of the the days leading up to the contest Vans produced these five segments for you to enjoy. Here they are all in one place:
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Rowley & Caples Footage on Skateboarder
Posted Feb. 27, 2012, 3:30 a.m.
In the latest Straight to the Internet clip Skateboarder Magazine focuses on Oscar Meza and the Flip Skateboards team with cameos by our own Geoff Rowley and Curren Caples:
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Johnny Layton Week Ends: Five Favorites
Posted Feb. 24, 2012, 11:58 a.m.
"Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eye lashes
Silver white winters that melt into spring...these are a few of my favorite things!"
Everybody has got their staples, their favorite things they can't live without.
For Final Day of Johnny Layton Week we follow JLAY around
Long Beach to check out five of his favorite spots:
Video by Grant Hatfield
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Bondi Bowl-A-Rama is TODAY! Day 3 Footage
Posted Feb. 24, 2012, 4:17 a.m.
Today is actually tomorrow in Australia and that means we have less than 12 hours until the webcast kicks off.
Here's some footage from Day 3s lead up to get you in the mood:
Join Vans on Saturday, February 25 to witness the biggest names in skateboarding vie for their share of $80,000 AUD (more than $85,000 USD) as iconic Bondi Beach is taken over for the 8th year running by Vans Bowl-A-Rama.
The World’s top ...
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Johnny Layton Week: Acosta's Angles
Posted Feb. 23, 2012, 4:19 p.m.
At Vans we’re lucky to have two of the best in the business in filmer Greg Hunt and photographer Anthony Acosta helping us show you all the great skating our guys are doing for this upcoming Vans video. For the 4th day of Johnny Layton Week we dug through Anthony Acosta's archives for some of his classic shots of JLAY from over the years.
We were at Woodward for a week Johnny and Andrew Allen came. We had ...
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