Posts Tagged ‘Tony Hawk’
Quiksilver And Transworld Skateboarding The Program Part 2
December 11th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
The Quiksilver / Transworld Skateboarding “The Program” video series continues with part 2 featuring skating from Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Omar Hassan, Justin Brock, David Clark, Kyle Leeper, and Austyn Gillette. This time around the mountain and wave logo gets some transitions and a bank. Justin Brock wins for me with a trick at the end plus a frontside stalefish in the tightest transition.
Theeve Trucks Adds One More To The Team
December 9th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
The list of top skaters joining the Theeve Titanium Truck team just doesn’t seem to end and the newst addition just confirms it: Johnny Layton has now joined the roster and skates along with Tony Hawk, Matt Mumford, Garrett Hill, Dan Murphy, Gareth Stehr, Chad Bartie and Ben Raybourn. Now I’m really looking forward to see which international riders get hooked up. Here’s a video clip from last year showing some of J-Lay’s board skills…
Tony Hawk RIDE T-Shirt Giveaway Contest Until December 4th
November 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Attention all of you video game fans – with winter knocking on the door we all can expect to be stuck indoors a bit more often and what better way to take advantage of this time than getting yourself a copy of the latest skate video game – Tony Hawk:Ride! It’s something I know I’ve dreamed about when I was younger but it was like Star Trek technology – would you ever have thought that you could actually control a video game with a controller shaped like a skateboard?
Sounds more than cool to me and we’ve been hooked up with 5 Tony Hawk: Ride t-shirts to give away to 5 lucky winners running up to the official release of the game, all you have to is answer the following question after clicking the link below:
Theeve Trucks Team Adds Tony Hawk And Matt Mumford
November 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Theeve Trucks which have been making quite a few big waves with the announcement of their new team members continues to do just that with their two newest additions: Matt Mumford and Tony Hawk. They join team mates Garrett Hill, Dan Murphy, Gareth Stehr, Chad Bartie and Ben Raybourn. As my curiosity about how the trucks actually skate is growing, I already contacted Theeve Trucks about testing but – understandably – they’ve got loads of work at the moment so I’ll keep my fingers crossed about getting to test them some day soon.
» check out the Theeve Trucks website
Vert demo at the Cologne Games Com 2009
September 9th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Decided to sleep in a bit today which means I got up at 8 instead of 6 in the morning – yeah, the early bird bla bla…you know the story. Doing my morning check of the various social networks, I found a video post from German vert/bowl skate rat Anders Tellen which catches some of the action at a vert demo during the Cologne Games Com 2009 in Germany with Tony Hawk, Juergen Horrwarth, Sam Bosworth and Renton Millar (filmed By Bob Joosten) – Hawk again doing the marketing tour for the latest video game RIDE.
Tony Hawk and Andy MacDonald with incredible vert doubles
August 2nd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Vert skating has grown quickly in the last years with ramps growing ever higher, getting new parts added on, turning into mega ramps with the dimensions of ski jumps and tricks going beyond what I ever thought could be possible without killing yourself in the ramp.
Tony Hawk and Andy MacDonald were filmed doing doubles in the vert ramp and this is yet another proof for the exponential growth of vert skills that continues to go on. The double invert and the flip-throw-in-the-board (any name ideas for that trick?) are just again making me look pretty dumb at my monitor again and again. Damn good skating here, enjoy!
Top old school vert video from 1986!
June 17th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
What a way to start the day with a time warp back to 1986 and a video of Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Claus Grabke, Chris Miller, Lester Kasai, Mike Mcgill and Lance Mountain ripping a vert ramp in the EXPO Radical Moves video. I had just started skating vert and ramps a year before that and Claus Grabke won the first vert contest I had ever seen on the ramp I always skated. Ahhh, memories…over 20 years later and I still skate worse than the skating shown on the video. Well okay, take a look at the names – no shame in that!
The commenting in the video is priceless – Steve Caballero was fined 200 bucks for almost causing a riot *lol* – fantastic!
Skateboarding time-warps back to the 80’s
December 7th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Not all of the skate news has to be about another street competition, another huge gap jump, another mega-industry sponsored, sold out arena filled with families who would usually go watch a baseball game. And that’s good that once and a while a good idea still comes through and turns to reality.
So what the heck am I rambling on about? This past Friday and Saturday, December 5th/6th 2008, the Quiksilver All Day All 80s Vert Challenge took place in Huntington Beach, California which had a bunch of old vert skaters meet up and ride on 80’s boards AND a typical vert ramp built in 80s style. Now I bet a lot of the people reading and coming back to the Europeskate site have not grown up riding on boards which all had different shapes, which were a lot wider, which had real tails, rail guards and a bunch of other accessories which just are not needed / wanted anymore.
Just like Tony Hawk himself says, it was a lot harder to ride these boards and do the tricks in the ramps back then. I won’t say I miss it now, but it was a lot of fun and it’s good to see thes pro riders getting together to relive the “good old times”. I’ll put up the results once I get them…
March 18, 2010: jekimigh
March 7, 2010: austin hughes
March 7, 2010: TNT Skateboarding
March 6, 2010: alex
