Posts Tagged ‘Rune Glifberg’
Rune Glifberg Pro Converse Shoe Release Party
June 15th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Converse Skateboarding team has attracted it’s fair share of top skaters to represent it’s skateboard team and Rune Glifberg is definitely a major bonus. With his incredibly smooth style on and off the board, he is just great to watch when shredding what ever obstacle is in his way.
For his Converse shoe release party, the legendary Pink Motel pool was put back into a state which let a beautiful pool come back to life. Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Dave Duncan and many others came around for some backyard pool fun!
» Check out the video action over on Thrasher Magazine!
» Transworld Skateboarding has some photo coverage as well
Vans Rockstar Pro-Tec Pool Party 2010 Results!
May 24th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
And there I was already getting video clips set up for the site and i haven’t even told you who won the darn contest. The oldies (and goodies!) kept the winning spots for themselves, here are the results a pre-contest video clip with a few of the top riders. Read more…
Rune Glifberg And His Home Improvements
March 10th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
If you are bored and want to make your house skateable, have a look at what Rune Glifberg did to his house the other day. Read more…
X Games 15 – all of the skateboard results
August 3rd, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
The X Games hit round 15 and it was yet again a huge event with loads to watch. In the Skatepark Finals Rune Glifberg came away with his second consecutive win in a row on the new course built just for the contest:
FINAL RESULTS:
1. Rune Glifberg
2. Andy MacDonald
3. Chad Bartie
4. Omar Hassan
5. Tony Trujillo
Omar Hassan definitely won the hardest slam award with this effort – damn man, and he got right up again!
In the vert arena Pierre-Luc Gagnon seems to be almost unstoppable with his fourth gold medal at the games and one does have to mention Andy MacDonald, the skate machine who has competed in every X Games competition since 1995…yeah, 1995!
FINAL RESULTS:
1. Pierre-Luc Gagnon
2. Bucky Lasek
3. Andy Macdonald
4. Danny Mayer
5. Alex Perelson
6. Bob Burnquist
7. Rune Glifberg
8. Sandro Dias
9. Rob Lorifice
10. Adam Taylor
And for the street skaters out there Paul Rodriguez came through with his repertoire of tricks to win the X Games street finals.
FINAL RESULTS:
1. Paul Rodriguez
2. Nyjah Huston
3. Adam Dyet
4. Rodolfo Ramos
5. Nick Dompierre
Volcom team tear up the Berrics
July 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Volcom team get united at The Berrics – check out the video featuring Dennis Busenitz, David Gonzalez, Aaron Suski, Caswell Berry, Lewis Marnell, Louie Lopez, Filipe Ortiz, Collin Provost, Ben Raemers, David Gravette, Rune Glifberg, Darrell Stanton, Cody McEntire, Luan de Oliviera and Mark Appleyard – yeah, what a combination of riders!
Quiksilver Bowlriders 2008 Finals Round-Up
June 17th, 2008 / 3 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Now how do you round up an entire weekend in one sentence? Let me try it out. Ummm, it was awesome! Yeah, that works. That’s when you can really use the cliche American word ‘awesome’. The Quiksilver Bowlrider 2008 final in Malmö, Sweden brought all of the good factors together and made it work. I’ll bring in the results first if you don’t want to read all of my ramblings! Go Denmark!!!
Pro Results
1. Rune Glifberg (DK)
2. Arron Hamoki (USA)
3. Benji Galloway (USA)
4. Andy Scott (UK)
5. Ross McGouran (UK)
6. Mathias Nylen (SWE)
Legends Results
1. Nicky Guerrero (DK)
2. Chris Miller (USA)
3. Pat Ngoho (USA)
Juniors (15 and under) Results
1. Alex Sorgente
2. Love Rydstem
3. Werner Sandoz
4. Fernando Bramsmark
5. Stephan Boussac
6. Filip Nilsson
But let me start from the beginning. My trip up there began in Hamburg, Friday June 12th, at a local train station called ‘Neuwiedenthal’ – never been there before so you don’t need to know it. Funnily enough, while I was waiting for Wolfgang Toth and Gerd Rieger (Bailgun.com) to pick me up, Arne from Boardstein Magazine (well known independent German mag) turned up as well so our car was ready to rumble with some experienced skate travellers.
As Sweden is reknowned for its expensive alcohol, we hit the ferry’s shops to get some cheap booze and ended up taking something like 8 to 10 crates of beer with us (should I mention that we already had other liquor in the car? Hmmm, wasn’t this a skate trip?). With this additional weight, we got the car down a few inches lower and arrived in Malmö at the Stapelbäddsparken skatepark in the early afternoon. Just to make sure you understand, the park itself is big already and with all of the grandstands, tents and things going on, this was one big event for Europe! So once we got in, got our accreditation etc. I started just to understand how many amazing skaters were actually going to be at this event. So we watched a lot of the guys take the park apart and while taking some pictures we somehow (I don’t know how to be honest…) hooked up with Reese Simpson and Ben Schroeder (!!!) and later we all headed to the parking lot where we basically had a pretty funny party with the above mentioned and guys like Jimmy the Greek, Magnus Olson (man, I’m bad at names, please correct that one!) and tons of others. Great way to start the contest. And no, we didn’t hit the ‘Amore’ party with the Nike SB shoe launch – it was hotel, in the room, hit the bed and conk out for me. I don’t remember much but luckily I woke up not completely painted up with markers and ready to go the next day.
We started the day off with Axel from Skateanddestroy.de who lives up in Göteborg, Sweden (to be honest, I didn’t even know he was the guy who runs the website until later that evening!) who showed us a DIY looking park being built in Malmö as well which was halfway finished and looking really fun! Only small transitions, loads of bumps and hips and a pretty large area located in a park right by the beach! These Swedes just do it right. After chilling there for a while we headed back to the park for another full day of insane skating. I may be some skater wimp (I don’t really think so..) but I still don’t understand how these guys just all skate without any pads, doing transfers into 8 foot deep transitions over a 14-foot distance or McTwists in the deep-end of the main bowl…so be it, it is damn gnarly! And Dave Duncan talked the entire weekend, MCing the contest and the statement of the weekend has to be “criss-crossing craziness” which always was spoken when the jam sessions went off and they did go off. Being a lazy bastard, I decided to let the others be media crazy with their cameras, boxing each other out of the way to get the best photo spot while I relaxed with many others in the grandstands enjoying the beverages, exchanging thoughts and shouting our respect out to the skaters. A very good laugh it was indeed! The band Concrete SS is also worth mentioning, they ripped out some good tunes and you always have to love those bands wearing pulled up white socks and masks – nice one!
Back to the parking lot for the second evening and this is when Wolfgang Toth, a legend here in Germany just about, just about went insane. If you don’t know him, he has the most incredible laughing fits and once he gets started he can’t stop. Add some (or a lot) of alcohol and you have a dangerous combination. I think he laughed for 45 minutes straight (I’m not exagerrating here, it was nuts!), rolling on the floor, throwing beer a people and getting beer poured all over himself. By that time we had attracted pretty many people who were all enjoying the “Hamburger” show, sharing drinks and many laughs. Thanks to all of you, it was great again. I stuck Wolfgang in a taxi later and that was about it for the evening.
Sunday, final day. What can I say? We hung out with guys like Christian Hosoi, Pat Ngoho, Benji Galloway, Nicky Guerrero and many, many more. Talked old stories, laughed and enjoyed another day full of great skating. Nicky Guerrero is just plain amazing. He rips like he hasn’t gotten a day older than when I first saw him back in 1986 at an indoor halfpipe contest in Konstanz, Germany, respect! And just to mention two others – they were all great – Arron Hamoki with his wealth of tricks and the blunt to kickflip fakie on the big wall: no words necessary. Mathias Nylen just shredded the place and his several attempts to transfer into the big bowl – insane!
Here’s a list of other sites with loads of pictures, videos and more, enjoy and get there next year: you won’t regret it!
Quiksilver Bowlriders 2008 finals schedule
June 11th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Updated June 12th: I corrected the title – I wrote 2006 ibefore, duhhh! Sorry about that. Getting ready for one of the biggest events in Europe this year, here’s the schedule for the Quiksilver Bowlriders 2008 finals which is taking place yet again at the Stapelbäddsparken skatepark in Malmö, Sweden. And don’t worry, if you can’t make it the entire contest will be available as a live webcast, video on demand highlights and podcasts. Yes, skateboarding has grown up in the last few years!
It’s a packed program with the last qualification taking place tomorrow, June 12th and then the Junior, Pro and Masters contests will take over the park. A best trick contest is being sponsored by Suziki and the winner gets a brand new motorcycle as well! And mixing it just right there will be live music and – how could it be better – for the football fans the European Championship game between Sweden and Spain will be shown as well on Saturday evening. Should be good!
To get all of the information, make sure you check out the Quiksilver Bowlriders site, especially the link Bowlriders Magazine on the bottom right side of the screen. There you can find all of the information you need about the contest and even some about Malmö itself.
June 12th – Bowlriders qualification
12.00 – 12.45 Dj Skovy
13.00 Qualification first round
15:30 Qualification quarterfinals
16.30 Liveband – Headless Marines
17.30 Qualification semifinals
18.30 Qualification Final
19.00 Prizegiving Qualification
19.15 Skatemovie
20.00 Closing VIP
June 13th – Bowlriders final
12.00-13.45 Dj Skovy
14.00-18.00 Pro First Round
18.30 Liveband – The Tremolo Beer Gut
19.30 Suzuki Poolsession
21.00 Closing VIP
June 14th
11:00-13:45 Dj Rasmus Schack, (Midweek Breaks CPH)
11:00-13:45 Junior session – Qualification
14.00-15.30 Pro Quarterfinals
15.30-16.15 Liveband – Concrete SS
16.30-17.45 Masters Qualification
18.00 Sweden vs Spain European Championship Soccer
21.00 Closing VIP
June 15th
12.00-13.45 Dj Skovy
13.00-13.30 Junior Session final
13.45 Junior Prize giving
14:00-15.00 Liveband – Special guest
15:00-16:00 Pro Semifinals
16:30-17.00 Masters final
17.30-18.00 Pro Final
18.10 Masters prize giving
18.20 Pro Prizegiving
20.00 Closing VIP
21.00-24.00 Last dinner/afterparty Amore
Pro-tec Pool Party 2008 results are in
May 19th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Here are the final results from the Pro-tec Pool Party 2008. Parts of the webcast should be appearing on the skateboard.com website as of Tuesday, May 20th. I’ll keep on top of it as the pro qualifications action was already top notch skateboarding to watch. Way to got Rune and Chris, constant winners of this competition! And thansk to Skatedaily for posting the results….
Pro
1. Rune Glifberg $25,000
2. Omar Hassan $15,000
3. Bucky Lasek $7,500
4. Bob Burnquist $3,000
5. Benji Galloway $2,000
Masters
1. Chris Miller $10,000
2. Steve Caballero $6,000
3. Nicky Guerrero $3,000
4. Eric Nash $1,000
5. Lester Kasai $500
Ladies
1. Mimi Knoop $4,000
2. Julie Kindstrand $2,500
3. Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins $1,000
4. Allysha Bergado $650
5. Amelia Brodka $350
Thrasher/Vans “Block$ for Buck$”
Longest Boardslide Contest
1st Steve Caballero 18 blocks $1800
2nd (tie) Eddie Reategui 15 1/4 blocks
2nd (tie) Steve Steadham 15 1/4 blocks
No results in yet from the Pro-tec Pool Party 2008
May 18th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
…and I have been scouring the Interweb for a bit today. Damn! From the rumours i did find it looks like it was the same three top pros as last year (Rune Glifberg, Bucky Lasek and Omar Hassan) but possibly not with the same spots…I’ll stop while I’m ahead and here’s a video of the pro qualifying session with some skaters a lot of us don’t even know about who rip the shit out of this really beefy pool.
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4th annual Pro-tec Pool Party with Vans webcast
May 14th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
This upcoming weekend the 4th annual Pro-tec Pool Party will be taking place at the recently remodeled Vans Skatepark in Orange, California with 40 top pros, masters and ladies skating against each other to take a part of the $90,000 prize purse. The bowl setup is a tough one – it’s an almost exact replica of the Upland Combi bowl which had some victims in it’s day.
For those of us who can’t just jump on a plane and get a ticket to watch it in person, we can catch all of the action with the live webcast right on the Vans.com website Saturday, May 17th starting at 1:00 pm to 9 pm (I’m guessing that is Pacific time so do your math to find out when it is showing on your computer!) And while you are watchign you have the chance to win a guitar signed by all of the winners and win two passes to the Vans Warped Tour.
Expected Riders Include:
Pros — Rune Glifberg, Bucky Lasek, Omar Hassan, Bob Burnquist, Benji Galloway, Bruno Passos, Josh Borden, Lincoln Ueda, Sergie Ventura, Nolan Johnson, Remy Stratton, Jimmy the Greek
Masters — Chris Miller, Steve Caballero, Jeff Grosso, Lance Mountain, Steve Alba, Lester Kasai, Ben Schroeder, Buck Smith, Micke Alba, Mike Barnes, Tony Magnusson, Pat Ngoho, Steve Steadham
Ladies — Cara-Beth Burnside, Lyn-Z Adams, Mimi Knoop, Julie Kindstrand, Jodie MacDonald, Apryl Woodcock, Holly Lyons, Heidi Fitzgerald, Nicole Zuck, Cressey Rice, Amelia Brodka, Annie Sullivan
Judges — include Christian Hosoi, Steve Olson and Bryce Kanights
Last year’s winners:
Pro — Rune Glifberg
Masters — Chris Miller
Ladies — Cara-Beth Burnside
September 4, 2010: Ana Garcia
September 3, 2010: sky cottle
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
