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?

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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 St.
Baltimore, Maryland 21211-2908
questions@baltimorepolice.org

However, it's probably better to contact their Civilian Review Board. But don't just send them angry emails. Remember, you're not complaining about them, you're complaining TO them ABOUT the police officer.

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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?

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After lengthy hiatus, Post22 is back!

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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.

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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 more info, email props@megtv.com."

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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 and such.

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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:

hscvb@hotsprings.org
pege1947@aol.com
direlainejon1@sbcglobal.net
srsmith12003@yahoo.com
sable@hsnp.com
td7965@aol.com
kmyers@cityhs.net
balbright@cityhs.net
jlawrence@cityhs.net
jwallace@cityhs.net
gharman@cityhs.net

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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:

1. Mikey Taylor - On Alien, should be on Girl.
2. Darrell Stanton - On Plan B, should have stayed on REAL.
3. Pat Duffy - Went to Plan B from World--good move.
4. Fabrizio Santos - Went from Shorty's to Creation. Another good move.

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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 per day, but apparently it's all legit. I even found an article in Wired Magazine about it.

Here's how it works in a nutshell...

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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 to doing flip tricks well is rolling your ankle before the kick.

To illustrate, open your May 2006 issue of Transworld to pages 108-109. I want you to take a close look at the third frame of Silas Baxter-Neal's nollie 180 heelflip. Notice how his left foot is rolled completely to the side in preparation for that flick that spins the board?

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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. A few years ago I talked to a physical therapist and found out I was 100% wrong.

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Our feed is now run through FeedBurner. If you are signed up for our feed, please switch from whatever it is you've got to http://feeds.feedburner.com/sublimited instead. Thanks.

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Anybody remember Daniel Gezmer's skateboarding ballet from Powell Peralta's video Public Domain?

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"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 I've heard about how to be a successful skateboarder.

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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)

More Todd Falcon videos here.

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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.

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"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?

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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 winner if you've got one, right? Here are some lines, or just individual tricks, let's see if you can guess who they are:

1. Frontside 360 ollie, 180 nose grind on ledge, switch backside 180 heelflip, inward heelflip, frontside 270 nollie heelflip over a hip. Now if that were really a line he probably would have done some trick before or after the inward heelflip, but I couldn't think of anything that would have resulted in him turning his board 180 that was also typical of his lines and would fit there, but you get the idea.

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Want some skateboard wallpaper / backgrounds for your computer desktop? Here are some links to the stuff:

Adio Footwear Wallpaper

eS Footwear Wallpaper

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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 one day. That way people who only visit once in a while won't miss all the stuff that's been posted and archived since the last time they visited...oh, who am I kidding, nobody visits this site anyway...

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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 they just drifted apart, or if they don't like each other at all. Kris Markovich, Jeremy Wray, and Jason Dill.

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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 @ sk8ing but not in looks" which could be true, but I'll leave the judgement on that to the ladies. Guy also happens to be one of the skateboarders I went to high school with. But he wasn't just any skatebaorder, he was the best skateboarder I ever knew well.

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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 sexual arousal. That means porn doesn't just mean naked people, because anyone who's looked at a National Geographic knows there are naked people out there who you'd prefer put some clothes on.

Speaking of National Geographic, there was this kid I knew in sixth grade named Keith Barry. His nickname was "nature bear" for some reason. One day another kid said "Hey Keith! Didn't I see you on the cover of National Geographic naked catching a salmon or something?" I thought that was pretty clever for a sixth grader.

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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 and would be over it, but I wasn't. In 9th grade meeting a pro seemed as unlikely an occurence to me as it would have been to someone in North Dakota.

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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 too.

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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. Young, good-looking (no scars or, knock on wood, broken bones), stylish and smooth, Paulie has the whole package. Media and sponsors have noticed. He graced the cover of Thrasher magazine, was featured in the debut of ESPN's action-sports magazine, EXPN, and made an appearance in Warner Bros.' 2003 film Grind. He's also the first Mexican-American pro skater to be sponsored by Nike, which has a line of skateboarding shoes called "P-Rods." Silver Trucks, Mountain Dew, Hubba Wheels and Boost Mobile also sponsor Paulie. Being a professional skater has been good to him--he drives a black Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen (recently featured in Dub magazine) and owns a Mercedes CLK, which his girlfriend drives. Oh yeah, he has his own house in the west Valley.

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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.

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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.

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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 name for me for at least a decade, and yet until I read his interview I didn't really know much about him.

What was enjoyable about his interview in the September '05 issue of The Skateboard Mag is that it was different. I've been reading pro interviews for about 20 years and I've never read an interview quite like this one.

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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?

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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 skaters. There may be some correlation there we should study...but I digress.

I considered calling the title of this post "Skateboarding is the best sport" but I didn't feel I could back that up with evidence because "best" is such a subjective term that it could never be proven one way or the other. Then I thought about all the people who refuse to call skateboarding a sport, and they say it with a smirk as though anyone who does call it a sport must be an idiot because a skateboard is just a toy, you know, like an action figure. Then I thought about how I'm not sure I like calling skateboarding a sport, because after all, I wouldn't want skateboarding to be in the Olympics or be associated with things like tennis or football, not that there's anything wrong with those activities, but skateboarding is on a whole different level.

So the title is what it is because I felt it was adequately inflamatory, and because it lends itself to being proven by evidence.

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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 reason is because I was probably a major annoyance in his life.

This is probably not the Eric Nash I'm talking about. But this is.

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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 own tastes lie with the slightly baggy pants because I have thighs that are as big as tree trunks, so anything less than baggy would make me look like I was wearing a pair of Wranglers.

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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.

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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 sounds fine, but soon after that is where I start to disagree with Gary Collins, who I'm sure I'd get along with just fine as long as we didn't start talking about politics.

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Napoleon Dynamite wearing a KR3W t-shirt at the MTV awards, I'm guessing. Interesting.

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You ever notice how our sport, hobby, activity--whatever it is, is different than most in that we're doing tricks? In most games you score points or something. Actually, maybe that's not entirely true, except with major sports. Ice skating, gymnastics, diving--those are all sports that involve tricks, aren't they?

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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 give up? Everyone has their own opinion, as do we here at Sublimited. We also have some skateboarding injury statistics you might find interesting.

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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 good stuff to keep it entertaining.

Skaters for Public Skateparks. A forum for those of you interested in public skateparks and getting them built right.

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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 having fun but would prefer to stay out of the limelight. If that's the case, more power to 'em. But for the rest of us, there's no denying it would be nice to see more footage of some of our favorites.

If, like Professor Frankenstein, you could call any of our fallen kindred back from the grave of relative anonymity and give them back their superhuman powers to create great video parts, who would it be? Here's my list, in no particular order.

1. Guy Mariano
2. Brian Lotti
3. Rudy Johnson
4. Natas Kaupas
5. Jovantae Turner
6. Gabriel Rodriguez
7. Ron Whaley
8. Tim Gavin
9. Chris Miller
10. Matt Hensley
11. Paulo Diaz
12. Ocean Howell
13. Marcus Wyndam
14. Pat Brennen (whoops, guess this won't be happening, RIP)

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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 more photos of myself back then I'd probably make more fun of myself.

What I've noticed that I think is curious is that it seems that for the most part, the kids who are really good don't dress the part.

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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 article on Villa Villa Cola and it's gotten me to thinking about the whole topic.

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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.

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Is there any finer designer than Evan Hecox, son of a winer-diner former miner?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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