WORLDWIDE SKATEBOARDING

Transworld Awards 2009

Thanks for the free tickets Fitz!

Tony Hawk back on Adio? No Koston yet? Why is the line always soo long?

You Will Shroom Jereme!

Our good friends from YouWillSoon in Canada contacted us last night with a link to this online LA newspaper article. After we did some research we found a similar article on another LA base website, which made us believe it’s could be true….

While reading trough the whole article you wanna believe it’s a joke. Either way, I hope you laugh as hard as we did…. Seriuosly, what is skateboarding coming to???

Skateboarder ’sorry’ for naked rooftop incident
By Larry Altman Staff Writer

Professional skateboarder Jereme Rogers said Wednesday he was sorry for disturbing his Redondo Beach neighbors this week when he “ate some `mushrooms’ and bugged out,” preaching naked on his rooftop.
Rogers, a high school dropout who attributes his skateboarding skills to God, was eventually grabbed by police officers and brought down from his precarious perch. “It obviously was not an everyday experience,” the 24-year-old athlete said. “It was a very out-of-body experience. I’ve never had an experience like that.”

Rogers pulled off his boxer shorts about 6:40 a.m. Monday and climbed onto the roof of the two-story house he shares with roommates on Havemeyer Lane and Goodman Avenue. “It was obviously something I shouldn’t have done,” Rogers said as he rolled a marijuana joint in his bedroom. “It was just something that happened.”

Redondo Beach police Lt. Jim Acquarelli climbed about 20 to 30 feet to the roof, where he found Rogers yelling and screaming. Acquarelli said Rogers’ roommates told him that he had ingested the hallucinogenic drug. Rogers ran back and forth around the roof’s perimeter, sitting down at the edge with his back to the street. Rogers never tried to jump or talked of suicide, but he came very close to falling. “He never lost his balance,” the lieutenant said. “The potential was there for it. If he had taken a few negligible steps to the right, that would have impeded his balance and would have led to his demise.”

Rogers, who is religious and often talks about spirituality, said in the interview that he was preaching to the neighbors and talking about God. “I literally was walking on the edge,” he said. “They said my balance was amazing.” Acquarelli said he read some of the tattoos on Rogers’ body and used the words to try to draw his interest. Rogers has “In God I Trust” tattooed on his neck and similar tattoos on his body and arms.

The police officer told Rogers he was a Catholic high school teacher, talked about spirituality and success, and drew Rogers’ attention. He got closer to Rogers and two other officers moved in and grabbed him. Rogers was taken to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center for 72-hour observation. He was not arrested but possibly could face charges later.

Rogers, a native of Boston, was voted TransWorld Skateboarding’s 2006 Rookie of the Year.
His sponsors include Billabong, DVS, Royal Diamond, Modern Wheels, Monster Energy Drink and Boost Mobile, according to a profile on about.com’s skateboarding page. (they forgot our beloved Famous Stars And Straps, red)

“Jereme Rogers is a self-taught, highly driven skateboarder,” wrote the author, Steve Cave. “He pushed himself into being good enough to ride with the pros, and he still pushes himself today to become the best park rider around. And he’s doing it. Jereme Rogers’ style is strong and fluid, and loads of switch tricks mixed in.” The article said Rogers dropped out of high school to pursue skateboarding, and is a very outspoken Christian. “In interviews he has no problem talking about how he got his skill in skateboarding from God, and then dropping an F-bomb.
Jereme Rogers has a clean image and is a role model to skaters all over the planet.”

Rogers did not smoke the joint in front of a reporter. He said it is well known among his fans that he is a user.
“Yeah, I’m rolling weed,” he said. “I have a medical card. I’m a weed smoker.”

Jesus fucking Christ? Are you serious? Sober Mind Power my ass! And then to think kids would look up to him ‘as a role model’???

Today the article showed up on numerous skateboard websites, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.
Famous Stars an Straps skate TM Felix Arguelles wrote on his Twitter “Why do skateboarders have so much balance on a board and so little in life sometimes… May someone greater than us bless you Jereme, Felix”
I’m really wondering who was with Jereme when it happened….

I hope FSAS will do a shirt for this act of Jereme…. Here’s my idea:

Most intelligent comment of all time

Very rarely we get decent comments on our posts.
Recently, the Blind video review got more reviews then ever! Seems that my original and sometimes critical (or lame, you name it) writing and the fact that I totally forgot to mention Ronnie Creager woke up some people. It almost beat the number of comments on the Die-Vie-eS post from way back….

Anyway, today when we checked our email we saw a very thoughtfull comment. One that was not about my penis size, my mom, a bad disease or something totally irrelevant to the post.

So sit back, open your mind and enjoy!
Good to see that there are skateboarders out there that can think about something else then a free pair of shoe or the next joint….

“Look at the direction the skate industry is moving. The skate industry today isn’t some untarnished archetype of subculture. There are countless appropriations of skate culture dominating the mainstream media and unfortunately what has been developing in the main realm of skate industry since the early nineties (Girl and all to come out of that collaboration) is losing out to big companies like Nike.

But here is the hammer, skateboarders make the culture.
When the big companies are all owned by corporate heads, the culture they have appropriated will secede from their operations. Thats not to say they will fail, just that what they sell won’t really be skateboarding anymore but an imitation that the masses will gobble up.

It is on the heads of the skateboarders to keep their culture alive and right now we are obviously facing a change.
Girl was started by skateboarders burnt out on the industry, set out to keep skateboarding fun. Money isn’t everything, look at the Z-boys. Some crazy motherfuckers from a slum in California who played a huge hand in shaping modern skateboarding.

Go out and skate, be a part of your local scene and rip, be innovative.”

Thanks to whoever commented this for their contribution.
That’s it for today. Don’t stop skateboarding…..

Fuck the Holland tunnel?

Thanks to Twitter we found out that Shad Lambert went t-shirt shopping with Antwuan Dixon in New York. Not sure if they got this shirt, but I like it.

Only thing that really stood out was the ‘fuck the Holland tunnel’.
I never knew there was a Holland tunnel? Or is it a disease? Like a carpal tunnel?

But thanks to Wikipedia we now all know….
The Holland Tunnel is a highway tunnel under the Hudson River connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey at Interstate 78 on the mainland.
Unusual for an American public works project, it is not named for a government official, politician, or local hero or person of historical interest, but for its first chief engineer.
Begun in 1920 and completed in 1927, the tunnel is named after Clifford Milburn Holland (1883 - 1924), Chief Engineer on the project, who died before it was completed.

What about Ronnie Creager???

Geez, what was I thinking? I even posted the whole team flyer so I could remind myself who was in the video….Pfffff, and then I forget the guy who has been riding for Blind for more then 10 years or so! That’s really bad!

I really need to step up my ‘review-writing-game’…. Maybe I should bring a little notebook and pen next time? Or talk into one of those nerdy tape recorders? Or maybe type some stuff into my Iphone…. but you know how it goes; skateboard video premiere, sausage fest pur sang, hundreds of skateboarders there from all different companies and places around the world. You say hello to a few, talk with a few, drink some beer, get bounced around while waiting for a free beer, lurk around, you know, the skater life…. it never ends huh?

Anyway, I forgot to mention Creager. I dig that guy. It’s not that I left him out on purpose….
First of all the song. I’m pretty sure it’s the Tears for Fears song ‘everybody wants to rule the world’. It reminded me of his Trilogy (World Industries video) part from the mid 90s where he used the Eurythmics song ‘Sweet Dreams’. That video is probably my most watched skate video of all time, and that song fits that part very well. Pretty sure there’s tons of skateboarders out there that think of Creager’s part while at a bar or a club, while the rest of the people there miss out.

There’s not too much I recall of Ronnie’s part 5 days after the premiere, but he did do his signature switch hardflip in the massive Phoenix (Arizona) ditch (the one that Thrasher had a whole check-out about recently). Since Ronnie lives in Arizona these days (and not in Orange County anymore) he did have a lot of tricks on not-so-blown-out spots.

I heard or read somewhere that Blind will be posting all the parts on their website soon, but I’m not 100% sure on that. This video has been rather under-hyped than over-hyped, which is a good thing these days. It does mean that not every person or website knows too much about the details… Just asked if your local skateshop has it in the next few weeks to come, and watch it there.

Just like I did in the mid 90s with the Trilogy video (before I got my own copy). Here’s that part of Ronnie Creager again. Enjoy….. and sweet dreams!

PS. For all the euros that are curious: there where no EU teamriders in the (main?) video….