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- Top Three Backpacks for Girls - Associated Content
- X Games: Barros, 15, wins Skateboard Park gold - CNN Sports Illustrated
- Pedro Barros, 15, takes gold in Skateboard Park at X Games - USA Today
- Skateboarding retail industry comes together in 2010 with ASR and Crossroads deal - Examiner
| Top Three Backpacks for Girls - Associated Content Posted: 03 Aug 2010 08:20 PM PDT It's August and that means back-to-school. Choosing a sturdy, comfortable backpack for girls can be daunting. There are so many to choose from and many can be very pricey. Below is a reference list of features to look  Color and Durability Young ladies may prefer light girlie colors, but it may not always be the best choice. Backpacks get thrown, dragged, plopped on the ground, sat on, and many times carried over one shoulder. Darker colors will show dirt and wear less. Sturdy zippers with pulls are great. A padded back panel gives support and adds comfort. Shoulder straps should be padded and adjustable to fit your child. Compartments with zippers or dividers are important to help the student keep things organized. Top three picks for elementary girls Back to School backpacks. The first is Dakine Girls Wonder Pack, the backpack three-color options available charcoal, black or navy. There are four front panel choices, Pacific Stripe, Plush Plaid, Twilight Plaid or Westwood Plaid, made of 600D Polyester. Features of this bag include, small pouch for sunglasses or other small items such as cell phones, keys, text phones, etc., mesh side pockets, and a convenient bungee storage on the front to hold a jacket or other items. It also comes with a skateboard strap if your child scoots to school. The price point is $23.90 and usually ships within one day from Rocky Mountain Trail. There is no sales tax charged outside of Colorado. The Children's Place offers an all-season water resistant polyester backpack with reflective piping. The bag has a top grip handle making it easy to pick up from the floor. The bag has a denim padded back panel and has padded shoulder straps, which are adjustable. This pack has a nice roomy lunchbox storage compartment with mesh side pockets. Colors include black, rouge, and white, all patterned. The item is rated 4.8 stars on the website. The bag sells for $15.50. Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| X Games: Barros, 15, wins Skateboard Park gold - CNN Sports Illustrated Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:00 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An X Games dominated by age and experience finally got a dose of youth on closing day. Fifteen-year-old rookie Pedro Barros beat 37-year-old veteran Andy MacDonald to win Skateboard Park on Sunday at a games previously dominated by repeat winners and older athletes. Skateboard Park was designed to allow young skaters versed in street style to compete with the older riders of vert ramps, and this year's finals went just according to plan, with all the competitors either teens in jeans or pad-and-helmet-wearing thirty-somethings. Ryan Sheckler was the youngest winner of this event at 13 in 2003, but the Brazilian Barros becomes the first athlete who wasn't born when the X Games began to win a gold. He used a combination of stunning 540 airs and grinding slides on the elaborate course at the L.A. Live complex in downtown Los Angeles to reach a final score of 86 out of 100. Barros said it was "sick" to win gold in his first X Games. He didn't think youth was overtaking age in pro skateboarding just yet, but didn't deny that his youthful exuberance helped. "We're young, so we get more energy," Barros said of the teens in the final. "We just get more hyped up." MacDonald won silver with a score of 81 and 17-year-old Kevin Kowalski won bronze with a 78. Earlier in the competition an even younger face, 14-year-old Curren Caples, wowed the crowd and appeared to be on his way to gold. Weighing 75 pounds with a face that looks closer to 10, Caples inspired Justin Bieber-like screams from young girls in the crowd throughout his seemingly effortless runs that included a 360 frontside air that he had failed to land several times in practice. But Caples fell frequently, couldn't find his rhythm and was clearly frustrated in the final jam session. Youth got a boost earlier in the competition when Rune Glifberg, the 35-year-old favorite and defending champion, failed to make the finals. Also Sunday, Travis Pastrana won his second gold of the games with a win in Moto X Speed and Style, an event that combines the speed of motocross racing with the tricks of freestyle. Pastrana beat Nate Adams in the head-to-head final heat to win the gold using his racing skills instead of his more vaunted freestyle abilities. "I knew Nate had bigger tricks, so I said 'I'm just going to focus on the speed,"' Pastrana said. Despite the two golds the four-day festival was something of a disappointment for the X Games poster-boy Pastrana. He failed to make the finals or the medal stand Saturday in either of the two rally car events, the sport that in recent years has become his main focus. And his last minute opt-out with shoulder trouble from Moto X Best trick meant he didn't set an X Games record by competing in five events as he had intended. Before Barros' win, most events at X Games 16 saw professional, perfectly executed performances but predictable winners and an absence of new faces. Jamie Bestwick won gold in BMX Freestyle Vert for the fourth straight year. Pierre-Luc Gagnon won his third straight gold in Skateboard Vert and added another in Best Trick. Daniel Dhers won his third gold in four years in BMX Freestyle Park If anything these X Games were more memorable for things that happened outside the competition: • Pastrana's just-for-the-heck-of-it double back-flip after he had already claimed gold in Freestyle Moto X on opening night. The move that was so groundbreaking for Pastrana four years earlier now was tossed off almost casually, with a smile. • Bob Burnquist's repeated attempts, after the ESPN telecast was over and most of the crowd had left the Coliseum, to land an unprecedented 900 on the mega ramp in Skateboard Big Air, risking serious injury just to complete a trick. • Constant tributes to Mat Hoffman, the BMX pioneer who was flying his bike to ridiculous heights years before the X Games brought money or glory for doing such things. The film telling his story, "The Birth of Big Air," premiered at the games, and briefly put Hoffman back at the center of the action sports world. • Double gold medalist Tanner Foust and all the other finalists doing doughnuts and making dust clouds at the end of the first-ever SuperRally racing competition. "Oh my God that was fun," a gleeful Foust said afterward. "It's basically like the coolest video game ever." It's as though he were writing the X Games' new slogan. Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Pedro Barros, 15, takes gold in Skateboard Park at X Games - USA Today Posted: 01 Aug 2010 09:20 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — An X Games dominated by age and experience finally got a dose of youth on closing day. Fifteen-year-old rookie Pedro Barros beat 37-year-old veteran Andy MacDonald to win Skateboard Park on Sunday at a games previously dominated by repeat winners and older athletes. Skateboard Park was designed to allow young skaters versed in street style to compete with the older riders of vert ramps, and this year's finals went just according to plan, with all the competitors either teens in jeans or pad-and-helmet-wearing thirty-somethings. Ryan Sheckler was the youngest winner of this event at 13 in 2003, but the Brazilian Barros becomes the first athlete who wasn't born when the X Games began to win a gold. He used a combination of stunning 540 airs and grinding slides on the elaborate course at the L.A. Live complex in downtown Los Angeles to reach a final score of 86 out of 100. Barros said it was "sick" to win gold in his first X Games. He didn't think youth was overtaking age in pro skateboarding just yet, but didn't deny that his youthful exuberance helped. "We're young, so we get more energy," Barros said of the teens in the final. "We just get more hyped up." McDonald won silver with a score of 81 and 17-year-old Kevin Kowalski won bronze with a 78. Earlier in the competition an even younger face, 14-year-old Curren Caples, wowed the crowd and appeared to be on his way to gold. Weighing 75 pounds with a face that looks closer to 10, Caples inspired Justin Bieber-like screams from young girls in the crowd throughout his seemingly effortless runs that included a 360 frontside air that he had failed to land several times in practice. But Caples fell frequently, couldn't find his rhythm and was clearly frustrated in the final jam session. Youth got a boost earlier in the competition when Rune Glifberg, the 35-year-old favorite and defending champion, failed to make the finals. Before Sunday, most events at X Games 16 saw professional, perfectly executed performances but predictable winners and an absence of new faces. Jamie Bestwick won gold in BMX Freestyle Vert for the fourth year in a row. Pierre-Luc Gagnon won his third consecutive gold in Skateboard Vert and added another in Best Trick. Daniel Dhers won his third gold in four years in BMX Freestyle Park If anything these X Games were more memorable for things that happened outside the competition: —Travis Pastrana's just-for-the-heck-of-it double back-flip after he had already claimed gold in Freestyle Moto X. The move that was so groundbreaking for Pastrana four years earlier now was tossed off almost casually, with a smile. —Bob Burnquist's repeated attempts, after the ESPN telecast was over and most of the crowd had left the Coliseum, to land an unprecedented 900 on the mega ramp in Skateboard Big Air, risking serious injury just to complete a trick. — Constant tributes to Mat Hoffman, the BMX pioneer who was flying his bike to ridiculous heights years before the X Games brought money or glory for doing such things. The film telling his story, "The Birth of Big Air," premiered at the games, and briefly put Hoffman back at the center of the action sports world. — Double gold medalist Tanner Foust and all the other finalists doing doughnuts and making dust clouds at the end of the first-ever SuperRally racing competition. "Oh my God that was fun," a gleeful Foust said afterward. "It's basically like the coolest video game ever." It's as though he were writing the X Games' new slogan. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more. Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Skateboarding retail industry comes together in 2010 with ASR and Crossroads deal - Examiner Posted: 30 Jul 2010 04:29 PM PDT Retailers of skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding-related products worldwide have been flocking to the ASR (Action Sport Retailer) trade show for almost 30 years. It is the industry one-stop shop for the season's new boards, trucks, wheels, shoes, apparel, eyewear, accessories, and everything in between. Although the show has made cameos in other cities and venues throughout its history, the San Diego Convention Center has been the site of choice for the event, where manufacturers of all kinds of merchandise load their booths with products and welcome merchants to fill out sales orders. While the show is a type of gauge of business within the industry, it is not all work and no play – on the contrary. There is always some skate competition on the program and, as early as 4PM, numerous exhibitors begin serving drinks and cocktails to select guests in their own booth. Others have bands playing, or girls in bikinis – whatever it takes to draw attention. 2010 was no different… Well, maybe a little. Another retail show, the skateboarding-only Crossroads, joined forces with ASR and gathered an extra cluster of brands right across the street, on the parking lot of the Petco Park stadium. Crossroads is the growth result of professional skater Jamie Thomas' Black Box Distribution open houses, which were held in its headquarters in Carlsbad, CA. With a relaxed atmosphere and outdoors vibe, the show proved popular with many skate brands that had felt marginalized at the other larger, multi-sport trade show. In 2009, Crossroads began to overlap the ASR show calendar dates and this year, both teamed up with goal of creating the best possible retail show for the skateboarding industry. The partnership deal is good for both 2010 shows (the next show is scheduled for August 13-15). This year, Crossroads featured over 100 brands, free Wahoo's for lunch, free drinks and a sizeable street course. At any rate, there were plenty of action on both shows. On day one of the ASR show, Volcom shelled out $10,000 for the best trick on various sections of the mini-ramp. For overall ripping Brad McClain took home $800. On the barrier David Loy won $1,500 for his frontside blunt on barrier and lipslide from barrier to lipslide on the extension. And on the Volcom Stone, Shawn Gutierrez grabbed $1,500 for his frontside 5-0 off the Stone. Crossroads closed out with a bang as Nyjah Huston took $3,000 topping Chris Cole and Nick Molino in the best trick contest. "My favorite trick was the nollie heel noseslide because I usually don't land that first try," said Nyjah Huston. "Battling with Chris was cool, man. He's a great guy and an amazing skater so it's great to be up there with him." The shark ramp and sword rail each took on a 30-minute jam session where Cole landed an array of tricks for second and $2,000. Check out the videos of both contest below and the slideshow at the bottom with more images of the events.
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