Posts for February 2012
Downtown Showdown Europe Part 1
Posted Feb. 13, 2012, 6 a.m.
Check out part 1 of Vans 2011 European Downtown Showdown skate event.
In this first episode, Offthewall.tv catches up with European skaters Ross McGouran,
Chewy Cannon, Chris Oliver, Guillaume Mocquin, Sam Partaix, Hugo Liard, Phil Zwijsen,
Dan Cates, and Nassim Guammaz as they describe the best and
worst of skating in London and introduce the Vans Downtown Showdown.`
FYI: We recently re-launched the Offthewall.tv website!
The new and improved site features an updated, easy-to-navigate layout with
improved search ...
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Daniel Lutheran Comes to An End With Acosta's Angles
Posted Feb. 9, 2012, 7:39 p.m.
What’s the old saying? Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% percent perspiration? Well, it’s pretty safe to say the way skateboarding is conveyed for visual consumption is 60% talent, 40% angles. 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. Because, let’s be honest, if a trick drops ...
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Daniel Lutheran Week Continues with Five Favorites Video
Posted Feb. 9, 2012, 11:12 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 Day 4 of Daniel Lutheran Week we get in the van and follow Dan Lu around
Long Beach to check out five of his favorite spots:
(Filmed & Edited by Grant Hatfield.)
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AVE's "Wheels of Fortune" from 411
Posted Feb. 9, 2012, 11 a.m.
Before the internet came along to provide us endless amount
of skate content there was a bi-monthly video magazine called 411
that was only available on VHS. And man, oh, man did skaters
wait in anticipation for the next offering of new footage.
It was the world's first tastes of new guys footage. As a rookie you'd
get what they called a Wheels of Fortune. Here's Anthony Van Engelen's:
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Daniel Lutheran Week Continues with Dial Up Memories
Posted Feb. 8, 2012, 7 a.m.
For as long as the world has been hearing about Daniel Lutheran they've been hearing stories about all the photos he carries around in his cellphone. He literally has thousands upon thousands of shots that he takes around with him at all times. We asked him to share a few of his favorites with us. We were going to call this The Lutheran Eleven but he just kept finding images that he was stoked on. Here are some of ...
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Slap's One in A Million Episode 3 Live
Posted Feb. 8, 2012, 7 a.m.
The 3rd episode of Slap's One In A Million was filmed in front of
a live audience at The House of Vans in Brooklyn, USA:
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Dollin, Crockett & Hassan in New Thrasher
Posted Feb. 8, 2012, 3:40 a.m.
The newest issue of Thrasher, with Jon Dickson on the cover has photos
of Omar Hassan, Dustin Dollin and a Firing Line with Gilbert Crocket.
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Pedro Barros Bowl Jam Footage
Posted Feb. 8, 2012, 3:38 a.m.
The Fight In Florida Bowl Jam too place last week and Pedro Barros annihilated it:
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Gnarly Gilbert, Allen, Chima & Pfanner footage for The Stage 4
Posted Feb. 7, 2012, 6:28 p.m.
The new Vans Stage 4 is basically the Captain America of skate shoes, scientifically engineered to be the the best skate shoe ever and boasting skateboarding's first-ever "vulcanized cupsole" with Vans' revolutionary new WAFFLECUP construction. This all thanks to the input of Gilbert Crockett, Chris Pfanner, Chima Ferguson and Andrew Allen. Watch the video, gasp at the skating and understand why the Stage 4 with WAFFLECUP technology will change the world:
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Daniel Lutheran Week Continues with Exclusive Interview Part 2
Posted Feb. 7, 2012, 12:20 p.m.
Back on December 6th, 2011 we officially announced Elijah Berle and Daniel Lutheran as our newest full-on ams after them putting in serious time and miles of shredding. It only made sense to introduce our newest web features using one of our newest guys Daniel Lutheran aka Dan Lu. Starting with Daniel we are introducing Rider’s Week with 5 days of all new, exclusive web content focusing on one specific dude.
Let's continue with the 2nd part of ...
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