If I’m not sure where else to put it then I’ll put it here.
Chances are that if you’re the average skateboarder, you don’t know much about politics, and even less about universal healthcare. If all you know is that universal healthcare means everyone has healthcare, then that sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? And chances are you could care less about how the government is going to pay for it. I mean, if…
Hey suckas, we’re on twitter @sublimited.
Hey Dennis, I don’t know who this Carrie lady is that you’ve hired to handle your public relations, but I think you need to sit down with her and have a little talk about this email she’s sending around:
Hi Joshua!
Check out this AWESOME skate video: Dennis Busenitz doing what he does best, landing so many tricks that…
As you may have noticed if you read this blog regularly, I don’t update it much. I happen to be kind of busy with things that actually make money. But this blog gets around 10,000 visitors per month and sometimes spikes as high as 20,000 in a month, and I think with a little work it could be getting…
Ah, now this is sad. A blight on our fair state of Utah. Apparently some poser skated by as a restaurant manager was walking a bag of bank deposits (i.e. cash) to her car, swiped the bag, and took off on his skateboard and hasn’t been caught yet. Per the report “Investigators say this is the first case…
Upon watching this, it occurred to me that perhaps the same way I was seeing this is how most people view skateboards–talented, but silly. And that was kind of depressing. I mean, what if most people out there in the world don’t see any difference between this guy and Koston?
This last summer I was out in the middle of Nowhere, Utah, for my wife’s family reunion, and we drove through the town of Altamont. Then I saw this closed down theater and thought it looked kind of cool so I stopped and grabbed some photos. Then I thought “Hey, this could be a cool location for the
Honestly, if you could go to a college named after a guy named Harvey Mudd, wouldn’t you? What if it were just down the street from legendary skate spots like Chaffey and Pioneer, not to mention Baldy? And what if they allowed skateboarding on campus?
Remember this video of a police offer choking a 14-year old girl? Then you’ll love this one too. Less violent, but still out of line. Watch to the end where the officer says “You got that camera on? Cause if I find myself on…” Classic.
To contact the police department:
Baltimore Police Department
242 W. 29th…
So I’m passing through Ohio and saw this in the Warren area. Is this some side business Mike Mo has, his new sponsor, are they giving him props for his Fully Flared part, or upon seeing this will he be filing a lawsuit claiming breach of trademark?
After lengthy hiatus, Post22 is back!
In case you haven’t noticed, this website has a section dedicated to linking to other skateboard related websites. The section hasn’t been updated for quite some time, and I’m looking for your help in getting whatever needs to be up there up there.
Just got this email:
“Can you let your readers know Cartoon Network is conducting another talent search for its show “Props” that showcases super-talented kids. One of the kids last year got a chance to surf with Andy Irons and skate with Bob Burnquist at his private skate park. We’re looking for kids of all talents ages 6-16. For…
If you run your own website, would you mind doing us a favor and putting a link somewhere on it, preferably the homepage, to Sublimited.net? It doesn’t have to be prominent or anything, just having a link from your website to ours will help us boost our search engine rankings a bit, which will help us attract more visitors…
UPDATE: ABC News report.
Hot Springs Arkansas Police Department
Phone: (501) 321-6789
Fax: (501) 321-6708
Chief of Police, Bobby Southard
Email: bsouthard@cityhs.net
641 Malvern Avenue Hot Springs, Arkansas 71901
If your email bounces back from the Chief’s email address, try some of the other city officers and the tourism bureau:
You how there are skaters that just don’t seem to be on the right team, and then they switch teams all along and you say “Ahh, that’s better.” Or sometimes they’re on the right team but then they move to the wrong one and you think “What are they doing? They just messed everything up.” Well, here’s my list:…
Yeah, lamest post ever, but I want that free iPod, and I bet you want it too.
This is about something you’ve probably heard of, may have participated in, or maybe you just thought it was a scam. I thought it was a scam, or at least something destined to fill my inbox with an additional 50 spam messages…
The difference between me and the 13-year old kids out there who are better than me is that the kids figure things out faster than I do. I’ve been skating for 20 years and I just figured out something that anybody who is good either does without thinking about it, or learned early on, which is that the secret…
A folded ankle is one of the most common injuries in skateboarding. I’ve probably had about 50 myself. I would always stretch out my ankles by standing on the side of my foot. I figured this would make me more limber and less likely to get sprains, some of which would put me out of commission for 2-3 months.…
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Anybody remember Daniel Gezmer’s skateboarding ballet from Powell Peralta’s video Public Domain?
“The worst enemy of skating is thinking. Any time you start thinking about anything, you should probably give up or stop because thinking is the worst thing you could possibly do while you’re skateboarding. It’s better to be as dumb as you possibly can while you’re trying a trick.”
This is one of the most insightful and true comments…
If you haven’t seen Todd before then you’re in for a real treat.
http://rebecca.hispeed.com/videos/toddvault.wmv (right click and download)
http://www.courant.com/news/local/northeast/hc-skategloss1127.artnov27,0,4048628.story
Air: A trick putting the skater in the air while grabbing the board
Axles: Metal shafts that the wheel and bearings spin around
Bail: To hop off the board under control
Read the article for more of the same.
“With videos like these around, skateboarding will never become an Olympic sport. You can thank us for that later.” Andrew Reynolds, talking about the Baker 3 video.
I couldn’t agree more. Why would any skater want skateboarding to become part of the Olympics? Respect? Money? Fame? Who cares?
Ever notice how some skaters always do the same tricks? I’m not just talking about Rodney or Daewon who always do amazing tricks that nobody has ever done before, I’m talking about the guys who are still doing the same tricks they did ten years ago. Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with that, you know? Stick with a…
Want some skateboard wallpaper / backgrounds for your computer desktop? Here are some links to the stuff:
I think I’m blogging too much, even though I’ve been lazy about it for the past few weeks. I also think “blogging” and “blog” are funny words, but I don’t know what else to use. I think I’m going to start blogging at less frequent intervals, like once a week or something instead of every day or twice in…
Everyone’s got their skate buddy, right? Those guys who are always hanging around in the videos, the guys who get the guest parts, right?
Well back in the day, there used to be some buddies that I never see hanging out anymore, so I wonder if they’re still friends, but just not as close of friends, or if…
This is a lesson to all the skaters out there who have a friend who is a better skater than you are or ever will be.
You’ve probably never heard of Guy Hartley. He’s a skater. He placed 46th in the 2002 Tampa Am out of 94 skaters (see http://216.26.171.157/spot/results_byskater.aspx?SkaterID=80&Descr=Hartley,Guy). According to that same page “hes good…
What do I do when I get the latest issue of Thrasher? I go through it and tear out all the porn and throw it away. I throw away the porn, not the Thrasher, that is.
You and I may have different ideas of what “porn” is. To me, porn is, at a minimum, any media designed to cause…
Here’s yet another one of those stories where I had a brush with greatness. When I started skating, Lance Mountain was one of the most popular skateboarders around. If Tony Hawk was the up-and-comer ala Paul Rodriguez then Lance was Eric Koston.
You’d think that growing up in Southern California I would have been meeting pros all the time…
What is it about kids and swearing these days? I was going to say “skaters and swearing” but I don’t think it’s just skaters. It’s little kids, big kids, adults, yo mama, bad actors with bad habits, drug dealers, the clergy, the layman, Captain Kirk, Brazilians, rappers, construction workers, felons, the executives at Enron, and a few other people…
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/30/features-quinones.php
Hmmm, a little article about Paul Rodriguez (senior) that ends up talking about Paul Rodriquez (jr., or the third, or something) a bit.
Here’s all the text from the article that relates to P-Rod.
But lately, it’s his son, Paulie, who’s been grabbing the headlines and breaking down barriers, as one of the brightest up-and-coming stars in skateboarding.…
You’ve all seen it. The kid at the skatepark who obviously can’t skate worth a fetid dingo’s kidney but who tries to act as though he normally lands everything. He rides up the bank, tries to do a kickflip at the top, doesn’t even come close, and then yells out a colorful metaphor and acts all mad.
No.
I’m not even that good, and yet I get asked this by little kids all the time. It’s not embarassing, it’s sort of flattering, but let me tell in some more detail why I’m not sponsored, and maybe why you’re never going to be sponsored either.
I don’t know where this photo came from. I found it by searching on Google images and it was on some Russian website. Excelsior to whoever took it.
In the world of skateboarding you can come to know somebody through the industry media, and yet not know much about them at all. Josh Kalis has been a household…
Ever had an argument with a friend over whether being tall or short helps you be a better skater, or even do certain tricks better?
Admit it, if you’ve ever been one of those people to put down skateboarding it’s because you don’t understand it. Now that’s a bit foolish, isn’t it? You wouldn’t say that algebra is stupid just because you didn’t get good grades in it, would you? Well, maybe you would, if you’re the type of person who would rip on…
I already told you all about my limited interactions with Ben Schroeder. And someday I’ll have to tell some stories about Jeff Grosso and Lance Mountain. Now in the case of Ben, Grosso, and Lance, they probably don’t remember me at all. But there’s one pro skater I’m positive will never forget me, and that’s Eric Nash. The…
In the August issue of The Skateboard Mag on p. 188 skateboarding’s answer to Robin Williams, Clyde Singleton, makes some disparaging remarks about skateboarders who wear tight pants.
Personally, I don’t have much of a problem with skaters wearing tight pants. I think it’s just as funny as skaters wearing super baggy pants. My…
I got my copy of Skateboarder Magazine, August 2005 issue, today. I just read the Andre Genovesi interview. I’m always on the lookout for stuff about Brazilian skateboarders because I lived in Brazil for two years when I was 19-20 years old, and I loved the place.
Ok, I just read this one pager on page 30 of the last issue of SLAP magazine and I’m going to vent, because that’s half of what having a blog is about. You can say whatever you want and even if no one listens at least you feel better.
The page is entitled “Join the SLAPMAG Skate Army”. That…
Great, this post got erased somehow. But I’m still leaving it up here. That’s how dedicated I am. I don’t let old posts die ignominiously.
Parents want kids to wear helmets and all sorts of protective gear when they’re skateboarding, and while younger kids will usually do what their parents say, there’s an age when kids start taking their pads off once their parents aren’t looking or just openly refuse to wear them.
Should all skateboarders wear pads all the time? Should parents just…
I’ve been getting around to several message boards lately and decided to create a small list. If you know of any others feel free to submit them as comments to this post.
Skateboard Rumors. Strong as…oh my. Good heavens. Anyway, it’s one of my favorites. Very active, lots of good comments, lots of junk comments as well, but enough…
Everyone likes a comeback, as long as it’s a real one. Some comebacks in recent skateboarding history seem to have been relatively short-lived. Henry Sanchez comes to mind. The guy is incredible but it seems like he came back for about a year and then disappeared again. Now maybe all these guys are still out there killin’ it and…
Now before anyone thinks I’m ripping on kids who sport the latest fashions and styles like they’re a model instead of a skater let me say that I’ve done it too. I’ve worn huge shorts, huge pants, beanies, caps, big laces, and all that stuff. I’m not going to lie, I’ve dressed that way and if I had taken…
When I grew up girls didn’t skateboard. It’s not that anyone was discriminating against them, there weren’t any girls trying to skate to discriminate against. I remember one ad, a Powell ad I think, that had two girls in it, but that’s about all I remember. This is circa 1989 or so.
But I just read this…
Have you ever done a search on Google for the word “skateboarding”?
It’s sort of interesting what you find. The results can change from day to day depending on how Google changes the algorithms they use to determine the rank of any particular site, but nevertheless, it’s interesting to see what rises to the top.
Looking at this poster of Chris Cole tre-flippin’ Wallenberg that came in the new Thrasher, it makes me think about how no matter how much you think skateboarding has peaked out and there’s nothing left to be done, there’s always someone who will come along and do something you never even thought was possible.
It’s interesting…at least to me…that as time passes different skateboard companies take their turn as the best and biggest company out there. Let’s take a trip down memory lane.
For some reason I started out skating mongo. I’m not sure why, it just happened. Maybe it was my “friends,” maybe it was something going on at home, or maybe it was just me.
Styles, fads, fashion statements…whatever you want to call them, most of the good ones used by the sub-30 types were started by either skateboarders or people in prison. Don’t try to deny it, you know it’s true. I was there, and I’ve got evidence.
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