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- Supergirl Jam offers up snowboarding, skateboarding and inline skating Sunday at ... - Los Angeles Times
- How to Do a Hardflip on a Skateboard - Associated Content
- Skateboard Art Exhibition Benefits Children’s Skateboard park in Afghanistan - PRLog (free press release)
| Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:15 PM PDT Venice Beach will be the site Sunday for the Supergirl Jam, the next event of the 2010 Supergirl Jam series, with top female skateboarders, inline skaters and snowboarders (yes, snowboarders) competing for a portion of the $36,000 total prize purse. Athletes will hit the slopes, made possible by 80,000 pounds of man-made snow being brought to the beach, to compete in the snowboarding rail jam. Two-time defending champion Laurie Currier will be on hand to defend her title, facing other top boarders -- including former event medalists Chanelle Sladics and Leanne Pelosi -- determined to thwart a three-peat. In addition to snowboarding, the event will feature top skateboarding and inline skating pros competing on a custom-built street course designed to challenge their board and rail skills. This year's Supergirl Jam Skateboard Street contest welcomes the return of the 2008 Supergirl Jam skateboard champion, Lauren Perkins, who was injured in 2009 and didn't compete. Perkins will attempt to recapture the title that Amy Caron claimed last year, also facing tough competition in the likes of 2010 X Games medalists Leticia Bufoni and Alexis Slabone. Among those riding the rails in the Supergirl Inline best-trick contest will be 2008 Supergirl Jam inline champion Chynna Weierstall, No. 1-ranked Fallon Heffernan and the legendary Fabiola da Silva, whose seven X Games gold medals make her a serious contender at every contest. Co-sponsored by ASA Entertainment and Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Comics, the Supergirl Jam is the industry's only large-scale, all-girls action-sports competition and features more than 100 of the world's top female action-sports athletes. "We are very proud to present the Supergirl Jam for its fourth year," said Karen McTier, executive vice president of domestic licensing and worldwide marketing for Warner Bros. Consumer Products. "It's an honor to once again provide an opportunity for these young women to take center stage and be applauded for their talent, dedication and inspiration." Additional competitions are being planned and will be announced at a later date. Admission to all of the Supergirl Jam events is free. Event schedule: 9 a.m.: Registration9 a.m.: Skateboarding practice 11 a.m.: Inline best-trick practice 12:30 p.m.: Inline best-trick final 12:30 p.m.: Snowboard rail jam practice 1:30 p.m.: Snowboard rail jam prelims 1:30 p.m.: Skateboard street practice 2:15 p.m.: Snowboard rail jam final 3:15 p.m.: Skateboard street prelims 4:30 p.m.: Skateboard street finals -- Kelly Burgess Photo: Calgary's Leanne Pelosi rides the rail in the 2009 Supergirl Jam snowboard rail jam contest in Venice Beach. Credit: Supergirl Jam This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| How to Do a Hardflip on a Skateboard - Associated Content Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:43 PM PDT Hardflips are considered a pretty advanced trick so if you are unsure or uncomfortable attempting this maneuver, don't. With that said, make sure that you have a good understanding of the shove-it and the kickflip  Step 1: Believe it or not this trick particularly is difficult to do when you aren't moving so get a good roll going. Position your feet just like you would if you were attempting a shove-it. Step 2: Now that your feet are positioned correctly, pop the tail of the board up vertically while simultaneously kicking slightly with your front foot and turning your body. Spread your legs so the board flips in between them. Make sure that you jump as high as you can so the board doesn't make contact with your legs. Step 3: The board, if done correctly, should flip once vertical and once horizontally. Right before the board hits the ground catch it with your feet and bend your knees. Step 4: Brace the impact of the fall and straiten out. Hardflips can be one of the more difficult tricks to learn but they are very much a crowd pleaser. Practice first going slow and gradually start picking up more and more speed and in no time at all you'll be doing it over sets. Good luck and happy skating. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2010 01:20 PM PDT PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 19, 2010 – More than 50 of skateboards will be on exhibit at the Red Bull Loft Space on Friday 20 August 9 pm to midnight to benefit Skateistan, a unique nonprofit organization that teaches girls and boys in Kabul, Afghanistan to skateboard. The exhibition follows an online auction with eBay from August 20-30, 2010, and will raise funds for the year-old organization. Contributors include renowned Islandic artist Olafur Eliasson, New York's up and coming Ernesto Burgos, as well as NYC skateboard artist Shai Dahan. Tickets can be purchased at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/122922 Skateistan is Afghanistan' s first co-educational skateboarding school. The school engages 300 internally-displaced youth in urban Afghanistan through skateboarding, and provides them with new opportunities in education, increased access to health services, and youth-led cultural activities. Students are aged 6 to 16 and come from a wide spectrum of Afghanistan' s diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The curriculum integrates skateboarding instruction with classroom lessons in healthy habits, civic responsibility, information technology, the arts, and English and Dari languages. One of the poorest countries in the world, Afghanistan has few recreational or extracurricular education opportunities for children. Opportunities for girls are still especially limited- they are not allowed to ride bikes or fly kites. Skateistan aims not only to provide these children with much needed recreation, but also to equip young men and women with the skills to lead their communities toward social change and development. The Skateistan facility has two class rooms, provides access to Acer laptops with high-speed internet, photography and drawing classes, CPR training and environmental health lessons. Skateistan started in a non-functional Soviet-era fountain back in 2007 and was officially established as a local Afghan non-profit in June 2009 by Australian skateboarder Oliver Percovich. His team worked with children across downtown Kabul and an orphanage on the city's outskirts before they raised funds to construct a 5,287 sq. ft. indoor sports facility, Afghanistan' s largest. The land was donated by the Afghan National Olympic Committee and the park opened in November of 2009. Funds for running and developing Skateistan are raised from donations and from fundraisers held around the world organized by a network of volunteers. Fundraisers in Copenhagen have received several awards as outstanding socially oriented cultural events. The fundraiser at the Red Bull Loft is the first Skateistan fundraiser to be held in New York. A documentary on Skateistan (Skateistan - The Movie) will be released at the Sundance film festival in 2011 detailing the construction of the school, achievements of its students, and what it's like to grow up in twenty-first century in Afghanistan? . Skateistan is a registered non-profit organization in the US as well as in Afghanistan, Australia, Germany, and Denmark. Please see: http://us.skateistan.org Skateistan is Afghanistan' s—and the world's—first co-educational skateboarding school. The school engages growing numbers of urban and internally-displaced youth in Afghanistan through skateboarding, and provides them with new opportunities in cross-cultural interaction, education, and personal empowerment. Our students come from all of Afghanistan' s diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. They will not only develop skills in skateboarding and skateboarding instruction, but also healthy habits, civic responsibility, information technology, the arts, and languages. The students themselves decide what they want to learn—we connect them with teachers who will enable them to develop the skills that they consider important. Since Skateistan has been active in Kabul, we've seen that Afghan youth of all ethnicities, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds love to skateboard. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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