Plans are underway to build skateboard parks in war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan. A Colorado entrepreneur is developing a skateboard park in Baghdad. Meanwhile, a group of Australians have built a skateboard school in...
Here's something to do while you wait for the fireworks this July 4th: search Flickr for "skateboarding". If you do you'll be rewarded with a flammer of fotos from all over the place.I found this...
On the one hand, skateboarding is illegal on Fredericton streets, but on the other, government there encourages carless transportation. A plucky skateboarder found himself caught in the middle of that contradiction...
The truth about what happened on Go Skate Day by Skylar NallsAugust 30, 2007 - ThursdayI am guilty of fleeing from a tyrannical, fascistic, oppressive officer of the Hot Springs Police Department. I say these words...
I don't know if teaching police officers how to skate will make them more cool, but it will give them the advantage in pursuit of perps who are trying to escape via half-pipe or stairway rail..."Police are being sent skateboarding in an attempt to cultivate a “cooler”...
ARSON, Calif. (AP) -- Jake Brown didn't feel his shoes pop off.
"I was already knocked out," he said. "The last thing I remember was thinking, how do I fall?"
He didn't recall anything else until he walked off the mega ramp about 10 minutes later.
"Walking off the ramp,...
UPDATE: The original copy of the video is for sale on ebay. According to Drew Irwin, one of the videographers, the tape up for auction includes all events leading up to the incident. Here's a link to the ebay...
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"Cop flips on kids for skating downtown in Hot Springs Arkansas. Jarad Graham, Drew Irwin, Skylar Nalls, Matt McCormack, Robbie Brindley, & Casey Canterbury get arrested."
"The only hitch seemed to be the main event. Early on,
the man-made snow -- actually more like a giant Slurpee -- caused some
problems: It didn't provide enough speed for the athletes on the in-run
to get enough lift...
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Lee Matasi memorial celebration at Leeside tunnel, by the PNE. Spoken word performers, beat boxers and boarders and artists will be among the folks gathering to honour the memory of Lee Matasi, a young man who was killed in December 2005 while trying to stop a...
If Salvador Dali had fashioned the moon, its surface might look something like the skate park in Sayreville, N.J. Undulating concrete bowls flow toward one another like bumping wombs. Ribboning "snake runs"...
"Inside his personal tour bus, a vehicle that will chauffeur him around Los Angeles while he plays games on a PlayStation2, watches video feeds of practice runs and listens to Led Zeppelin on the surround-sound...
"Celtic pride 34 has a dilemma, “would i wear, DS them or sell? I don’t sell but I need the money.”
Conflicting, emoticon-flecked advice flies thick and fast from other chat room users: “Decide for yourself ....