Skateboarding and more ….
On this rare leap-year Foto-Friday, come session with us at the Hood River Skatepark. Check out Chase, Mike, Isaiah and MC as they sample the varied terrain including the new super-8 cam bowl. Unfortunately, Wally was relegated to surfing the couch due to a nasty flu bug and missed the session. Hope your feeling better Tom.
Last week we did a fly-ins post and this week it’s all about fly-outs. Check out Grover, MC and Troy as they get their fly-outs out of their system during a recent session at Battle Ground. Warning old dudes on skateboards.
Here’s a little taste of the local music scene here in Portland. On this week’s YouTube Tuesday, we are featuring three bands that call our fine city home. Check out the musical stylings of The Thermals, Sunset Valley, and The Gossip after the turn. Our hope is that this post will be just the thing to bring Sunset Valley out of hibernation; you dudes have been in Blanketville way too long.
Well, maybe not President but being the featured Monday Cover skater is pretty darn close. It’s Mike Estes gettin’ his skate on at the new Hood River Super-8 Cam Bowl. Is he making some sort of political statement about feeble Republicans with that pachyderm on the lip? We’re not sure. Check out an alternate pachyderm-free cover of Mike after the turn….
Congratulations Mike!
Want to work on your 80’s launch ramp moves? All you need is a pool hip and a shallow end. Check out a sequence of Team Bacon’s Johnny Turgesen and his hip launch technique in the peanut at Glenhaven.
Looks like he cracked something in that last frame. Enjoy – EPM Out!
When it comes to naturals, Oudalay is one of them. Check out a couple of pics of Mr. Philavanh taking it easy at Glenhaven.
What’s a Fly-In? The opposite of a Fly-Out, of course. Check out some skaters getting some serious air as they ollie into the flow bowl at Battle Ground. At least two of these dudes are looking for fresh wood as a result of snapping their decks.
Last Saturday was February 16th. What’s so special about February 16th, you ask? Well, it’s the day two skate crews, one in the Southwest and the other in the Northwest, attempted to skate 16 parks in a single day. Get the scoop on the Southwest crew’s adventures over at Old Man Army; it was their big idea.
The Northwest crew focused their efforts on skateparks in and around Portland, OR. It was an exhausting adventure for sure and the concept proved to be more romantic than the actual implementation. Come along on the sixteen park tour after the turn….
What else can we say but “Here they are: The Sex Pistols.” YouTube Tuesday it up after the turn….
It’s that time of year here in Oregon where the weather gets nice for about a week or so and you think Spring is on the way. Forget it, it’s just a big weather pump-fake or in skateboarding terms, pump-fakie. This week’s featured Monday Cover skater, Randy Gawlik (aka Kilwag), took full advantage of the weather reprieve and called upon the lords of acid drop at the Woodland, WA skatepark.
Congratulations Randy!
