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    ‘Skateboarding not a sport but a lifestyle and part of me’

    By on Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 | No Comments

    Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) – Choi Jae-seung is a household name among skateboarders. The 22-year-old’s mind-boggling tricks and perseverance caught the attention of many skateboard aficionados on YouTube in 2009. As the first Korean rider to be sponsored by Austrian drink company Red Bull, Choi wants to help popularize skateboarding in Korea. “Compared to the [...]

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    Tony Hawk’s First Skateboard Will Be Put In Smithsonian Institute

    By on Saturday, June 15th, 2013 | No Comments

    Tony Hawk will officially become an important part of American history, as the Smithsonian Institute is set to display the icon’s first skateboard. The legendary skater posted the news on his Twitter account: I will be donating my first skateboard to the Smithsonian June 22 during the #innoskate event. Event info: http://t.co/MDRYTUTAZg — Tony Hawk [...]

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    Police put brakes on rocket-powered skateboarder in outback Qld

    By on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 | No Comments

    A man has been issued with a ticket for riding a rocket-propelled skateboard on the main street of a western Queensland town. Police in Barcaldine, east of Longreach, spotted the skateboarder on Oak Street about 10:00pm (AEST) on Saturday. District officer Inspector Michael Fawcett says the man was not wearing a helmet and officers were [...]

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    Council dumps skateboard ordinance … again

    By on Friday, June 7th, 2013 | No Comments

    June 7, 2013 Watson: ‘A lot of discretion’ involved Having voted against a town ordinance banning skateboarding on Mammoth streets just two years ago, the Town Council was back at it Wednesday, June 5. The issue re-emerged after council member Jo Bacon read a recent newsletter from the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority (CJPIA), which [...]

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    Additional Arrests Made In Connection With Skateboard Assault

    By on Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | No Comments

    HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Authorities Friday said at least two other juveniles have been arrested in connection with the severe beating of a 25-year-old man in Huntington Beach. A press release issued by the city of Huntington Beach Police Department says one of the suspects was arrested on Thursday on a probation violation. Officials expect [...]

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    Bob Burnquist wins sixth career Skate Big Air gold

    By on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | No Comments

    BARCELONA, Spain — Bob Burnquist has now won a total of 24 X Games medals after beating out Mitchie Brusco and Elliot Sloan in the Skateboard Big Air finals on Friday at X Games Barcelona. The win puts Burnquist even with BMX legend Dave Mirra and ahead of snowboarder and skateboarder Shaun White for the [...]

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    1 injured, 1 arrested in skateboard towing incident

    By on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 | No Comments

    A 20-year-old Valencia man faces a felony count today for allegedly towing his 19-year-old friend on a skateboard behind his car and crashing into a curb, injuring the friend, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. Both young men had been drinking, the spokesman said. Dakota Miller was in stable condition at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial [...]

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    Skateboard Park Opens in Gold Hill

    By on Sunday, April 28th, 2013 | No Comments

    GOLD HILL, Ore. — The Gold Hill Skate Park is now open. The town held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the occasion this morning. The park is a memorial to Tom Fish, a Gold Hill native and skateboarder who died of a drug overdose four years ago. His ashes are mixed into the concrete [...]

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    Franklin Pierce student dies?following skateboard accident

    By on Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 | No Comments

    RINDGE – A Franklin Pierce University student injured in a skateboarding accident earlier this month died of pneumonia over the weekend. Jamie Mayer, 19, of Coventry, R.I., suffered a traumatic brain injury after he and another Franklin Pierce student crashed into each other while skateboarding on campus April 8. “We had two who were skateboarding [...]

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    Singapore’s No.1 skateboarder Farris Rahman is a different kind of daredevil

    By on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 | No Comments

    Farris Rahman makes the leap from tearing up the streets of Singapore. (Photo courtesy of Red Bull Content Poo … Is skateboarding a sport? Farris Rahman thinks so, and he has the pedigree to show. The 18-year-old Singaporean first got on a skateboard at four, started competing at six, has clocked countless local and global competitions [...]

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