Posts Tagged ‘skateboarding’
An Extreme Sports Festival in Tynemouth – Xperience 09
Thousands of extreme sport enthusiasts and spectators from across Europe are expected to gather at this year’s Xperience09 Festival, in North Tyneside. The festival, which is in its second year, is a weekend of extreme sports action in Tynemouth on Saturday 24 – Sunday 25, October, 2009. We have reported on this already but thought [...]
Shaun White Skateboarding learns new tricks
When the Tony Hawk franchise imploded the critical acclaim for EA’s Skate should’ve given it all the opportunity it needed to monopolise the skateboard sim market. But no matter how well it reviewed Skate’s impact on the sales charts has been relatively slight. Rather than trying to muscle in directly though Ubisoft’s latest is more [...]
Pro skateboarder’s appearance gives sport local fuel
Ollies were all over, nosegrinding was a good thing and every so often a kid got hurt. Welcome to another day at the Chesley Skateboarding Park. Except it wasn’t just another day at the skate park. Saturday was special. How special? Fuel TV special. The network — an affiliate of FOX Television that specializes in [...]
When it was skateboarding for skateboarding’s sake
Back in 1975, photographer Hugh Holland was driving up Laurel Canyon when he saw a strange sight. Bobbing bodies off to the side of the road. When he moved closer, he realized that they were skateboarders using a drainage ditch that was mostly below street-level. Their figures rose and fell as they glided by. Holland [...]
Riding to the extreme
Scotty Brooke, 17, of McHenry has scars on his elbows and shins that he has collected from falls while skateboarding in different skate parks around the county. One scab he reopened while skateboarding at the McHenry Zone Skate Park in Knox Park. The blood is just a necessary evil that Brooke brushes off in his [...]
Extreme sports fans can see the world’s best
Thrill seekers are gearing up for the country's biggest action sports and music festival as Relentless NASS returns to the region today. The National Adventure Sport Show, now in its 13th year, is morphing into Europe's premier action sport event. This year the event, at the Bath and West Showground near Shepton Mallet, will boast [...]
The Rise of Snow Boarding
Everyone has surely noticed the way that snow boarding has been rising and rising in terms of popularity in recent years, and I am sure that it is not just me that's noticed. In the last decade snow boarding has went from skateboarding on snow, to the Olympics quicker than you one could ever imagine. [...]
Authorities: Man, 92, Says He May Have Struck Skateboarder
A 92-year-old North County man has been identified as the suspected hit-and-run driver whose car struck and killed a teenage skateboarder on a Vista street over the weekend, a sheriff's official reported Monday. Deputy Ed Macken said he was conducting traffic control near a memorial at the site of the fatal accident when the senior [...]
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