Posts for March 2012
PHXAM This Weekend
Posted March 27, 2012, 4:31 a.m.
Cowtown's 11th annual PHXAM Skateboard Contest is this weekend. The contest will take place at Desert West Skateboard Plaza, in Phoenix AZ, on March 31st and April 1st.
Come see the top Am's in Skateboarding compete for the $3000 first place prize. Pre-sale tickets are available here for $5. The first 500 people through the gate each day will receive a gift bag with a 2012 PHXAM t-shirt, magazine, stickers, and and other miscellaneous skateboarding goods.
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Vans Video Update from South America: Part 1
Posted March 26, 2012, 6:38 a.m.
A new international filming mission has begun. A five man crew of Tony Trujillo, Chima Ferguson, Daniel Lutheran, Johnny Layton and Chris Pfanner along with Greg Hunt, Cody Green and Anthony Acosta just embarked for South America yesterday. Straight off a 15 hour flight to Chile, directly into an autograph signing at an "extreme" mall. The place had a skatepark, wave machine and nothing but shops that sold stuff that was "extreme." A bunch of kids came out and got ...
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Caballero in Bones Brigade Tribute on TSM
Posted March 26, 2012, 5:52 a.m.
The Skateboard Mag posted a tribute video to the Bones Brigade along with a Grant Brittan slideshow with Steve Caballero and the gang.
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Andrew Allen Week Day 5:Acosta's Angles
Posted March 23, 2012, 11:44 a.m.
The relationship between a skater and his photographer and filmer is a unique one and it can make or break a career. Many times the best tricks have been discounted because of shitty angles, with no fault to the skater. 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 ...
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Andrew Allen Week Day 4: Five Favorites
Posted March 22, 2012, 1:45 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 fourth Day of Andrew Allen Week we follow Andrew around San Juan Capistrano to check out five of his favorite spots:
Video by Grant Hatfield
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Geoff Rowley Talks Football
Posted March 21, 2012, 12:52 p.m.
It's not uncommon for skateboarders to have interests outside of skateboarding. If life was one-dimensional it would become dull. Liverpool-born Geoff Rowley was bred on football (or soccer as it's known in The States) even before he discovered skating. Recently, one of our best skate writers, Seb Carayol, who you might know from his amazing blog ode to skate graphics past, Memory Screened, sat down with fellow football fan, Rowley, and got the scoop on the similarities between ...
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Andrew Allen Week Day 3: Andrew's Anti Hero & Spitfire Ads
Posted March 21, 2012, 1:31 a.m.
Welcome back to the third day of Andrew Allen's Rider Week at Vans. In case you missed the first days, yesterday was an Exclusive Interview with Andrew and the first day we collected all four of Andrew 's major interviews from the past couple years. Today we take you back in time once again with all of Andrew's Anti Hero Skateboards and Spitfire Wheels ads with some added commentary by Mr. Allen.
That spot is in East LA ...
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Andrew Allen Week Day 2: Exclusive Interview
Posted March 20, 2012, 1:43 a.m.
Welcome back to the latest installment of Vans Rider Week. This week we focus on The Mayor of San Juan Capistrano, Anti Hero pro, Andrew Allen. A few months back Andrew had to get his ankle scoped due to a major slam on a hubba and has been sidelined since. Thankfully, when we caught up with him for this exclusive interview he was back on his board and back on the road with his Anti Hero teammates heading to Texas ...
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John Cardiel Cruises LA for Chrome
Posted March 20, 2012, 1:34 a.m.
The third episode of Chrome Bags' Cardiel series is up and has John whipping around LA, hitting up pools and other hijinx set to the Knight Rider theme:
And be sure to check out O'Meally's photos from John's bike show at Six Stair Production on Transworld's site.
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Josh Borden on Thrasher
Posted March 20, 2012, 1:30 a.m.
Thrasher's site has a new Santa Cruzing clip of the Sante Cruz team featuring our own Josh Borden:
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