You don't have to love vert to enjoy this video.
Mini Miller and friends tear apart the DC/Monster ramp in this FUN vid.
Zack not only takes after his Legendary pops in style, he also knows what skateboarding needs, as he highlights the artistry in skateboarding rather than the popular "skate stunts" that over saturate the internet. Vert is dead!
Check out his vimeo channel ZackMillerTV.
"VERT IS DEAD" ~ FOR FUN from Zach Miller on Vimeo.
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Skatepark Etiquette - BASICS with Spencer Nuzzi
Every time I hit skateparks(in da'burbs)during kid friendly hours, I spend quite a bit of time explaining to the young ones and/or their parents, about SKATEPARK ETIQUETTE. Some parents are so unfamiliar with any kind of etiquette that they look at me as if explaining in a foreign language. Well, I aint esplainin' no mo! I'm just gonna pull out my phone and show them this vid!
A Lewis Marnell Tribute - Ben Harper & Innocent Criminals
Ben Harper is helping to raise money for the family of Australian pro skateboarder Lewis Marnell, whose untimely death in January at the age of 30 left his family in dire financial straights. A lifelong skateboarding enthusiast and friend to skaters around the world, Harper has reunited with the Innocent Criminals for the first time since 2007 to re-record the song "Jah Work" from his 1997 album, "The Will to Live." The song will be available on iTunes April 30th, with all proceeds going to the Lewis Marnell family memorial fund.
Birdman on Indy!
Tony Hawk has gone full circle and is now back on independent trucks...
ride indy fuck the rest!
Bones Brigade - An Autobiography
Anybody else hyped on seeing this film? Search for Animal Chin was one of the first skate videos I seen as I begun my days as a skate rat. It was what I imagined a skate movie should be, awesome skateboarding, a plot line and a message. Search for Animal Chin was so influential to us, that we called our skate team - "Team Chin". I can vividly remember watching it over and over with my homies almost daily. If we were going to skate we would put it on to get inspired, if it was a rainy day, we would put it on to get inspired for when it got dry outside, if it was snowing, we would put it on to get inspired as we waited for the warmer weather to roll around.
It was the only skate video in my house that I would not let anyone borrow, if you wanted to watch it, then you had to watch it at my house! - I still own a the Betamax copy of it.
A documentary about my all time favourite skate movie is something I always thought would be awesome, but I never imagined it would be done, and to be directed by the man responsible for creating the original movie is beyond my wildest skate rat dreams ...
I think I'm going to round up those same homies, who are a lot older now, and have a reunion at the movie theater when this film comes to town.
It was the only skate video in my house that I would not let anyone borrow, if you wanted to watch it, then you had to watch it at my house! - I still own a the Betamax copy of it.
A documentary about my all time favourite skate movie is something I always thought would be awesome, but I never imagined it would be done, and to be directed by the man responsible for creating the original movie is beyond my wildest skate rat dreams ...
I think I'm going to round up those same homies, who are a lot older now, and have a reunion at the movie theater when this film comes to town.
T.O's last indoor skatepark?
The city’s last indoor skate park to close
CHRISTOPHER SHULGAN
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Gymbo Jak takes a pull from a tall boy of Milwaukee’s Best, then grabs his skateboard and heads into a graffitied, ramp-filled cavern set in a warehouse several storefronts north of Wellesley on St. Nicholas Street, an alley a half-block west of Yonge. Seconds later, Jak performs a neat kick-turn, a simple trick, except he’s poised eight feet up a wall, and unprotected by pads or a helmet. The combination of beer-drinking and padless skateboarding goes against the recommended practices in the skatepark’s waiver form – although that doesn’t mean much to Jak. He owns the place.
Not for much longer, however. Jak has been told he’ll have to close at the end of January, 2011, three months into the skate park’s thirteenth year, to allow the site to be prepared for construction. Like seemingly every other warehouse space in downtown Toronto, Shred Central is slated to be developed as a condominium.
Once it closes, downtown Toronto will be without a permanent indoor skatepark.
“It’s sad,” says Brian Peech, the publisher of SBC Skateboard Magazine. “Every skater in Canada knows about Shred Central. It’s a legendary institution.”
For years, Jak’s indoor skatepark has been integral to the city’s skateboarding scene. The sport requires dry, flat surfaces – a rare commodity on Toronto streets from late November to mid-March, when snow and ice cover the ground and salt corrodes bearings and other metal parts. For most of its nearly 13 years in existence, Shred Central was the only place downtown where kids could go when the weather turned cold.
“It was a winter haven,” says Justin Bokma, 36, a Parkdale native who says he grew up at Shred Central, and who credits his frequent trips to the park with helping him to become a skateboard pro.
But the park’s value to Toronto skate culture exceeded its usefulness as one of the few snow-free places to skate in February. The skate park and its locals were the area standard-bearers for the sport’s alternative ethos, and its anarchic, anti-authoritarian sensibility.
“I visited it for the first time in 1999, just after I moved to Toronto,” says Mr. Peech, who grew up in Winnipeg and Calgary. “It was everything I imagined the city to be – kind of gritty and raw. It wasn’t vanilla or whitewashed. It wasn’t the sort of place parents would drop off their kids after school, you know, to let Gymbo babysit.”
Locals at Shred Central had a reputation as being a little older than at other parks. They swore. They drank beer, they skated without pads, and they barred BMX-style bikes and inline skates from the facility. As the years went by the downtown venue became known as the antithesis of the hyper-regulated suburban venues, with their brand-sponsored seating areas, and the parents monitoring their children’s every move.
“Jak and everyone else at Shred were actually really nice guys,” says Mr. Peech. “But the vibe there was always a little intimidating to newcomers, to the sort of young skaters who are just starting out. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be. You’re not supposed to feel comfortable when you’re a kid and you first go to a skate park. And then once you learn how to skate the ramps, once you’ve earned the respect of the people who hang out there – when you’ve gone from outsider to local – then it feels like it means something. It’s a rite of passage.”
The park’s culture flowed from the personality of Shred Central’s owner. Gymbo Jak, now 37, was from 1994 to 2007 the lead singer for the Canadian punk institution, the Dayglo Abortions. (“Gymbo Jak” is a band name he’s gone by for so long, he says, that he doesn’t disclose his real name.) Jak also had a background as an expert skateboarder thanks in large part to a pair of halfpipes he built at his parents’ farm in Nanaimo, B.C. Underneath one of the ramps, protected from West Coast precipitation only by a sheet of Astroturf, was a clubhouse where Jak hung out with his friends.
The atmosphere at Shred Central grew out of that same clubhouse culture. The park opened on Oct. 1, 1998, shortly after Jak first moved to Toronto. He opened the shop almost by accident. The venue originally was another skate park, called Rampsterdam, which the landlord had shut down because the rent was in arrears. When Jak came for a visit and happened upon the venue’s locked door, he called the landlord and sold the owner on letting Jak have the space for rent that was originally $2,000 a month. The name was a cinch – Shred Central is a Dayglo Abortions song, about a long-defunct Vancouver shop.
A realist about urban development, Jak always knew Shred Central’s site could be developed as a condo. And now it will be – specifically, Five Condos at 5 St. Joseph, a monster project that will see the five-storey warehouse demolished except for its street-facing facades, and replaced with a 45-storey tower that houses 493 units.
The nearest thing to Shred Central in the Greater Toronto Area is C.J. Skateboard Park and School in Etobicoke – a more youth-friendly establishment that operates clinics for beginners, and also allows BMX bikes and inline skaters. Meanwhile, park denizens portray the skate park’s passing as emblematic of a transition in skateboarding – the sport’s so-called “mall-ification.”
“The older generation grew up in a different environment,” Mr. Peech says. “Very few skaters today have been beat up purely because of the fact that they skateboard. That used to be pretty common. Nowadays, [skateboarding’s] just so normal. It’s popular, it’s safe, it’s on TV.”
Jak agrees. “We used to be considered vagrants, and now pro skaters are athletes who have personal trainers, who get paid millions.”
But if Shred Central’s passing is emblematic of skateboarding’s transition to the mainstream, it is equally emblematic of the passing of a grittier, less-regulated Toronto. Like Sam the Record Man, or 5ive, the gay nightclub, Shred Central harkens back to an era when Canada’s biggest city was a little rougher around the edges.
“It sucks, obviously,” says Jak, whose dedication to the sport of skateboarding as well as his skatepark is reflected in the fact that he sometimes did odd jobs to make rent. (In fact, once, he participated in medical trials at the pharmaceutical company, Biovail for the cash.) “At first when I opened this place, I thought I’d be happy if we made it to 13 months. I’ve seen lots of kids grow up here.”
“Probably, we’ll have a party,” he says, sitting behind the counter in the shop’s ante room, and taking a pull from his can of Milwaukee’s Best. “Then I have to go out and get a real job. It’ll be nice to not have to work weekends. But I’ll miss it.”
Many others will, too.
Special to The Globe and Mail
Not for much longer, however. Jak has been told he’ll have to close at the end of January, 2011, three months into the skate park’s thirteenth year, to allow the site to be prepared for construction. Like seemingly every other warehouse space in downtown Toronto, Shred Central is slated to be developed as a condominium.
Once it closes, downtown Toronto will be without a permanent indoor skatepark.
“It’s sad,” says Brian Peech, the publisher of SBC Skateboard Magazine. “Every skater in Canada knows about Shred Central. It’s a legendary institution.”
For years, Jak’s indoor skatepark has been integral to the city’s skateboarding scene. The sport requires dry, flat surfaces – a rare commodity on Toronto streets from late November to mid-March, when snow and ice cover the ground and salt corrodes bearings and other metal parts. For most of its nearly 13 years in existence, Shred Central was the only place downtown where kids could go when the weather turned cold.
“It was a winter haven,” says Justin Bokma, 36, a Parkdale native who says he grew up at Shred Central, and who credits his frequent trips to the park with helping him to become a skateboard pro.
But the park’s value to Toronto skate culture exceeded its usefulness as one of the few snow-free places to skate in February. The skate park and its locals were the area standard-bearers for the sport’s alternative ethos, and its anarchic, anti-authoritarian sensibility.
“I visited it for the first time in 1999, just after I moved to Toronto,” says Mr. Peech, who grew up in Winnipeg and Calgary. “It was everything I imagined the city to be – kind of gritty and raw. It wasn’t vanilla or whitewashed. It wasn’t the sort of place parents would drop off their kids after school, you know, to let Gymbo babysit.”
Locals at Shred Central had a reputation as being a little older than at other parks. They swore. They drank beer, they skated without pads, and they barred BMX-style bikes and inline skates from the facility. As the years went by the downtown venue became known as the antithesis of the hyper-regulated suburban venues, with their brand-sponsored seating areas, and the parents monitoring their children’s every move.
“Jak and everyone else at Shred were actually really nice guys,” says Mr. Peech. “But the vibe there was always a little intimidating to newcomers, to the sort of young skaters who are just starting out. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be. You’re not supposed to feel comfortable when you’re a kid and you first go to a skate park. And then once you learn how to skate the ramps, once you’ve earned the respect of the people who hang out there – when you’ve gone from outsider to local – then it feels like it means something. It’s a rite of passage.”
The park’s culture flowed from the personality of Shred Central’s owner. Gymbo Jak, now 37, was from 1994 to 2007 the lead singer for the Canadian punk institution, the Dayglo Abortions. (“Gymbo Jak” is a band name he’s gone by for so long, he says, that he doesn’t disclose his real name.) Jak also had a background as an expert skateboarder thanks in large part to a pair of halfpipes he built at his parents’ farm in Nanaimo, B.C. Underneath one of the ramps, protected from West Coast precipitation only by a sheet of Astroturf, was a clubhouse where Jak hung out with his friends.
The atmosphere at Shred Central grew out of that same clubhouse culture. The park opened on Oct. 1, 1998, shortly after Jak first moved to Toronto. He opened the shop almost by accident. The venue originally was another skate park, called Rampsterdam, which the landlord had shut down because the rent was in arrears. When Jak came for a visit and happened upon the venue’s locked door, he called the landlord and sold the owner on letting Jak have the space for rent that was originally $2,000 a month. The name was a cinch – Shred Central is a Dayglo Abortions song, about a long-defunct Vancouver shop.
A realist about urban development, Jak always knew Shred Central’s site could be developed as a condo. And now it will be – specifically, Five Condos at 5 St. Joseph, a monster project that will see the five-storey warehouse demolished except for its street-facing facades, and replaced with a 45-storey tower that houses 493 units.
The nearest thing to Shred Central in the Greater Toronto Area is C.J. Skateboard Park and School in Etobicoke – a more youth-friendly establishment that operates clinics for beginners, and also allows BMX bikes and inline skaters. Meanwhile, park denizens portray the skate park’s passing as emblematic of a transition in skateboarding – the sport’s so-called “mall-ification.”
“The older generation grew up in a different environment,” Mr. Peech says. “Very few skaters today have been beat up purely because of the fact that they skateboard. That used to be pretty common. Nowadays, [skateboarding’s] just so normal. It’s popular, it’s safe, it’s on TV.”
Jak agrees. “We used to be considered vagrants, and now pro skaters are athletes who have personal trainers, who get paid millions.”
But if Shred Central’s passing is emblematic of skateboarding’s transition to the mainstream, it is equally emblematic of the passing of a grittier, less-regulated Toronto. Like Sam the Record Man, or 5ive, the gay nightclub, Shred Central harkens back to an era when Canada’s biggest city was a little rougher around the edges.
“It sucks, obviously,” says Jak, whose dedication to the sport of skateboarding as well as his skatepark is reflected in the fact that he sometimes did odd jobs to make rent. (In fact, once, he participated in medical trials at the pharmaceutical company, Biovail for the cash.) “At first when I opened this place, I thought I’d be happy if we made it to 13 months. I’ve seen lots of kids grow up here.”
“Probably, we’ll have a party,” he says, sitting behind the counter in the shop’s ante room, and taking a pull from his can of Milwaukee’s Best. “Then I have to go out and get a real job. It’ll be nice to not have to work weekends. But I’ll miss it.”
Many others will, too.
Special to The Globe and Mail
WHO IS COLD JUICE
Vanderhoof Skatepark but the locals call it, Da Hoof!
Built in 2004, Da Hoof is the absolute best transition found anywhere in Ontario. This bowl is perfect. The City of Toronto assembled a skatepark building dream team to build this bowl. Who was called to build this perfect skatepark?
Eric Munier - undisputed master of concrete.
Jim Barnum - design god.
These two are the best of the best, Toronto wanted one thing from these guys – simple – a “world class” skatepark. A park that would stand out on the world stage, that would be the envy of skaters everywhere else. It is pretty much all transition at the hoof, there is a small street setup - ledge, hubba, gap, funbox thingy….. nothing crazy, a good practice area for those working up to the bowl, or an area for the tech dogs to do their thing. For most, it’s all about the bowl.
One of the most inspiring things about this place is the community that has come together around it. There are four distinct generations that rip this park to shreds. There are not many things better than hanging out at the hoof on a summer day. - Hugh Newman, Skaters Inc.
Its something you gotta see for yourself!
Built in 2004, Da Hoof is the absolute best transition found anywhere in Ontario. This bowl is perfect. The City of Toronto assembled a skatepark building dream team to build this bowl. Who was called to build this perfect skatepark?
Eric Munier - undisputed master of concrete.
Jim Barnum - design god.
These two are the best of the best, Toronto wanted one thing from these guys – simple – a “world class” skatepark. A park that would stand out on the world stage, that would be the envy of skaters everywhere else. It is pretty much all transition at the hoof, there is a small street setup - ledge, hubba, gap, funbox thingy….. nothing crazy, a good practice area for those working up to the bowl, or an area for the tech dogs to do their thing. For most, it’s all about the bowl.
One of the most inspiring things about this place is the community that has come together around it. There are four distinct generations that rip this park to shreds. There are not many things better than hanging out at the hoof on a summer day. - Hugh Newman, Skaters Inc.
Its something you gotta see for yourself!
WHO IS COLD JUICE?
-----> We are not kids anymore, but we still skate with the same spirit ! Cold Juice a.k.a OLD JUICE is a collective of riders who enjoy life by riding a skate/snow/surfboard, its all about juice you get from riding!
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