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thrash it thursday
Located in the heart of Downtown Detroit Red Bull Hart Lines, is an innovative new street skateboarding competition from the mind of Ryan Sheckler that features two distinctive lanes each with its own unique set of skateable features, as well as a first-of-its-kind timing element associated with each run. Hart Lines is a flagship event of the Red Bull Signature Series. Make sure you come out this weekend and check it out!
King of the Road is an institution in skateboarding. Started by Thrasher magazine in 2003, it's a demented, roving adventure that follows various skate teams across the country as they compete to accomplish a set list of tasks, some of which carry great risk of bodily harm, and others that don't involve skateboarding at all (but still might carry great risk of bodily harm). VICELAND has teamed up with Thrasher for the latest season, which will feature the Birdhouse, Chocolate, and Toy Machine teams hauling ass across America, throwing their bodies and whatever dignity they might have had into the wind for a chance to become the reigning King of the Road.
This weeks thrash it thursday spotlight goes to Zero Skate Co Cold War Vid. Just another gem of some of skateboardings best- thrashing there away across the world and taking on a ton of solid spots! And can you blame them? check this list:
Check the full video out here and enjoy!
Daewon is one of the few professional skaters taking Skateboarding down a completely unique and undiscovered rabbit hole. It shows that he really doesn't care about anything but pushing skateboarding as far down his own path and it's absolutely insane to me. I imagine the reason he uses the same board/shoes/beanie is the same reason Steve Jobs wore the same turtleneck everyday. One less thing to worry about to focus on his passion. It really perplexes me what drives Daewon to give his entire being into skateboarding when it isn't being asked of him. You just don't see many Pro's pushing themselves so hard for no monetary gain. While Tampa Pro/Street League is making skateboarding look more like Nascar...Daewon is always over somewhere else doing his thing (and by doing his thing, I mean doing things on a skateboard never before imagined) a true inspiration!
Honestly id be really concerned if you claimed to know anything about skateboarding but have never heard of Rodney Mullen. Growing up in a city without a decent skate park nor anything bigger than a home made quarter pipe, we basically grew an appreciation for street skating. Personally i was always terrible at tricks but I loved watching the magic flow from Mullen. He was always my pick on Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2,
Mullen pretty much wrote and re wrote the book on tricks that inspired the world. At 14 years old he straight slayed the reigning world champ at the Oasis Pro Comp which inevitably connected him to the freight train of talent in the 80's known as the Bones Brigade. So this week we give mad props to a legend. To a dude who inspired the world and young skaters everywhere, that you can do amazing things if you work hard enough. -Aren
We first heard about Sidewalk Magazine a few years back after a good friend of ours Morgan Summers started shooting for them. These guys have Nothing but good shit on a constant roll. They are really keeping skateboarding alive. Check out their website, follow them on fb, creep their instagram feed, spam and or repost their shit. You wont be dissapointed!
ok so we arent sure if many of you have ever seen this before! Mainly because it never made its way to dvd or blue ray! but this movie is twisted as fuck but its crazy good! Check out the trailer here!
Check this rad vid of the street skater Jordan Taylor
Ok we've watched his videos for years. But lets just take a second on the here and appreciate how Gou Miyagi is always blowing minds with his completely chaotic and random nay even unique style of street skating. He's on that level of early Rodney Mullen, people didnt know what to do with him or how to even judge him at competitions! You be the judge...epic or straight up madness!?
So there is always so much shit we want to show you guys all the time! One of Which we want to show off the amazing skate scene we have out here in Detroit! With all of our "Urban Decay" there is so much random shit to hit daily! Even better than that, we have awesome dudes who are constantly working on building bigger and better skate parks for everyone to skate! Check it out for yourself!
photo cred Joe Gall
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