Showing posts with label pool skating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pool skating. Show all posts

POOLING AROUND - LANCE MOUNTAIN

 Lance skates us through the past, present, and future of pool skating in this special edition of Pooling Around. Feat. Ben Raybourn, Brandon Perelson, Chris Russell, Kevin Kowalski, Brad McClain, and many more rippers...
Feat. Ben Raybourn, Brandon Perelson, Chris Russell, Kevin Kowalski, Brad McClain, and many more rippers.


thank you to theskateboardmag for the vid!

Santa Cruz: Blake Johnson - All Terrain Killah!

Venice Beach beast, Blake Johnson is a smooth operator and kills all terrains. Check out his Santa Cruz welcome video...

Vans Pool Party May 11th

> 9th Annual Vans Pool Party returns to the Vans Skatepark in Orange on Saturday, May 11.
 Pool Party will be webcast live at vans.com/poolparty


Lord Salba

Steve Alba turned 49 years old this past weekend and he celebrated by doing what he does almost everyday... Shred pools!


















As a young skaterat, Salba's ad's where taped all over my bedroom walls, he not only had style, but his graphics made the Santa Cruz ads something special to stare at on bad weather days.

Sometime in the mid nineties, I met him on van's warped tour. In those days, dudes like Neil Hendrix and Mike Frazier got all the attention from the screaming teenage skate rats, Salba was quite happy to just skate the vert ramp and go unnoticed, until...
That's until I realized that the dude standing next to me had a small eyeball ear ring. Shocked that Salba was standing right next to me, my mouth opened and blurred out, " hey dude, your Salba!" surprised that  I had recognized him,  he turned towards me, I could barely utter two words and couldn't believe the cool dude from the Santa Cruz ads was extending his hand out to greet me.
 I went home so happy that day, I had met a skateboard legend. He was the oldest dude on the vert ramp and his runs lasted minutes. On one of his marathon runs, a barely teen skate rat turned to me and asked me why this "old guy" was taking such long runs.  All I could reply was " Because he's SALBA, he rips!"

Vans Pro-Tec Pool Party 2011

I spent my saturday hanging with Nollie & stuck to my laptop, watching Vans Pro-Tec Pool Party.
 I enjoyed every minute of the 6 hour webcast. The pros were awesome & tore up the pool, but for me the best part of the event was getting to watch the likes of, Tony Hawk,Lance Mountain, Stevie Cab,Duane Peters, Salba, Eric Nash & the stylish Chris Miller, all rip better in their 40s than they did in their 20s.
You don't believe me? watch this vid...



Masters 
Name (Hometown) Purse 
1. Chris Miller (Del Mar, CA) $18,000
        2. Steve Caballero (San Jose, CA) $9,000
         3. Lance Mountain (Alhambra, CA) $5,000 

Acadias Own - the Grossman -

Vert Gods II - Jeff Grosso age 43


The first time I ever heard of this talented vert rider was when my homes Hernan  bought his Santa Cruz Coca Cola inspired deck. He showed up at my house one day, and with a smile from ear 2 ear he said..."look what i got, try it!"  I steped on the board and my view on skating changed. I realized that not all boards should be shaped the same, and different boards for different riders..

   A very short time later, started seing mr. Grosso in thrasher magazine, transworld skate mag and others, Santa cruz ads, Independent trucks ads, spitfire wheels ads, Wheels of Fire vid,.. Jeff was everywhere packin' a bag of stylish tricks!
Once you see this man's steez, you know, why anyone with a camera, wants to shoot him!
bat model


        


LOVE LETTERS- Mony Grind- Part 1 from Six Stair on Vimeo.

20 years later... still rollin' around


I love spending lunchtime at this place... in all types of weather.

 Just before lunchtime my phone rings, its Brad...
 Mr. McGinn is always up for a lunchtime session, even in the middle of winter with the ground coverer in snow.
 He tells me that he spent 3 lunchtime sessions diggin' out the bowl... and now, it was ready to be shredded.
frontside over roll in
backside tail or dropping in?

Ok! I'll be there in 10 minutes!
 - as I got my dog and gear ready, all I can think about was his dedication to the juice. Because while all his co workers where taking their one hour lunch break, stuffing themselves, Brad was hitting the hoof with a shovel, digging snow and heading back to work. All done,so that he could come back in a few days, and have his lunchtime face stuffing of gnar.

Once I got there.
 I could not believe, that the bowl was bone dry, because of rad brad's dedication.

 getting tips on how to carve the hoof's corner with style.
When you get the juice flowing, you don't feel cold - Brad floats a tuck knee


Peep this fs tuck knee! TRUE CANUCK STYLE!

These are a few pics of a few lunchtime sessions of the last couple of months.
The funnest sesh was this last one, there was snow everywhere, but the bowl was dry and the juice flow kept us warm.






Stylish Chris Miller

Vert Gods I - Chris Miller  age 42

Years ago, he made the decision to leave professional skateboarding, but he never stopped influencing the sport. Known for his fluid style and natural abilities, Miller, who turned pro in 1986, went on to create Planet Earth Products and then Adio Footwear of Carlsbad, delivering technical gear for the next generation of action sports athletes.




Stylish - 1st polecam shot







Chris Miller in his 40s & shreddin'