“How to Do a Backside 50-50 Grind on a Skateboard - Associated Content” plus 3 more |
- How to Do a Backside 50-50 Grind on a Skateboard - Associated Content
- Love + hard work = skateboard competition - San Jose Mercury News
- Graphic Novel Review: Tank Girl: Skidmarks by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo - Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Pool party, skateboard tournament this month in Oxford - Oxford Press
| How to Do a Backside 50-50 Grind on a Skateboard - Associated Content Posted: 25 Aug 2010 01:42 PM PDT Backside 50-50 grinds are one of the most simple grinds around. The trick is preformed just like a 50-50 grind but, instead of facing the ledge or rail, your back is up against it. A lot of people have a hard time  Step 1: Place your feet on the board the same way you would if you were setting up to do an ollie. Make sure that you have a fairly good speed going because medal and concrete usually don't slide with ease unless you have some. Step 2: Ride up alongside the ledge almost parallel to it. Ollie placing you and your board above the ledge wile straitening out so both your trucks land evenly. Make sure that you don't slam your trucks down on the ledge because doing so will not only mess the ledge up, but you won't go anywhere either. Step 3: If the above step was done correctly you should be grinding. Once you are ready to end the grind, just pop the nose of your board off and the tail will follow. This is the easiest step of all. The great thing about backside 50-50 grinds is that once you get them down, it easy to throw in shove-its or 180 ollies in and out of them. Also, this grind gives you a great feel for the world of other backside grinds because you get more comfortable with the feel of backside. Good luck, and happy grinding! 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 |
| Love + hard work = skateboard competition - San Jose Mercury News Posted: 26 Aug 2010 05:55 AM PDT Growing up in Pacifica, Sherry Akioka knew how important skateboarding is for the youth of the town. "Some of my first memories skateboarding were in Pacifica. Remember when Luckys was more of an indoor mall? I use to ride my skateboard as a little kid around the mall chasing after my brother. I've got a chipped tooth and a story to tell about skateboarding in Fairmont that I still tell to this day," she said. Now living in Oakland, Akioka, 34, is still an active skateboarder. She teaches an after-school skateboard class and her husband, Dayton, and three children are skateboarding enthusiasts. "I see often how exciting and fun, but most importantly rewarding, skateboarding is for kids," she said. When she learned in May that University of Surfing, an outfit that had run a skateboard contest for the last four years, was going to cancel this year's July 31 event at the Pacifica Skatepark, she thought the contest participants who were anticipating it were going to be disappointed. Since the big details -- insurance and city permit -- were already in the bag, she focused her attention on coordinating the event and soliciting donations. "I would say mid-June, I thought maybe it wasn't going to happen. It was a lot to do and consumed tons of my time that I volunteered for free and at that time without any call backs I thought it wasn't going to be worth it. But come the end of June, I wasn't going to take 'no' for an answer and came back twice as strong by placing more and more calls and just following up on every email and call I sent out. I wanted to focus on what was most important -- kids, skateboarding and, of course, Pacifica. I figured if we all realized how positive an impact this would have on the kids, we could definitely build something from there," she said.She secured donations from five skate companies and four food companies. A pro skater, Ron Allen, emceed the event. Pacifica's own, the world's youngest rock band, The Thrashers, performed. "All out of the kindness of their hearts, the support was overwhelming and humbling at the same time. Well, they did ask that we enjoy ourselves and have fun," she said. Nicole Aquisti, city of Pacifca recreation coordinator, assisted. The event turned out to be a fun and positive event for everyone. The 23 competitors, mostly from Pacifica, but some from the Bay Area and as far away as Vacaville, ranged in age from 4-19. There was a 6 and under group, beginner, intermediate, advanced, girls and masters. Adults joined the masters division. "There were no attitudes, just love and support for everyone there," Akioka said. "Skaters competing against each other no matter what age were cheering each other on. Everyone was having fun. Our non-profit event turned up to have such a huge profit, priceless even. We were paid back, ten-fold, by the smiles on all the kids' faces and excitement and most importantly the reward of hard work and practice being paid off by cheers and a shiny trophy. All the time I volunteered, all those emails and calls, even the rejection from some companies, were all worth it." Skateboarding has been a part of Akioka's life for a long time. "I have been around skateboarding since I was 5 when my aunt used to babysit me at her work, which was a skate/surf shop on Guam. I would sit on the huge Independent Trucks at first and roll around the floor. As I got older skateboarding was what I did with my brother as we explored the neighborhoods around Ptown. I was a bit of a tomboy. I then worked at various skate shops and snowboard shops in San Francisco and South City. I hung around a lot of skateboarders and it also turned out to be a requirement for the people I dated. Yes, my husband skateboards and now he skates with our 4-year-old daughter on his board, who is now learning to skateboard. I have taught all my kids how to kick flip while cooking dinner in our kitchen," she said. Here are the results from the competition. Six and under -- Tyler Bonner, first, Liam Cole, second,
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| Posted: 25 Aug 2010 02:15 AM PDT Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Collecting the girl's most recent four-ish mini-series, Tank Girl: Skidmarks (Titan Books) is a rude and ruddy exercise in comic book mayhem that's enjoyable even through a half-assed "preposterous" ending. I reviewed the first issue of this series as a floppy comic and was pretty much on board for all the cheerfully heartless ultra-violence then, but once writer Alan Martin and artist Rufus Dayglo more fully inserted a comic book version of the late, great Dee Dee Ramone into the plotline, I was thoroughly hooked. Best "real-life" guest turn in a comic since a thinly disguised Don Rickles popped up in the pages of Jimmy Olsen. The toss-it-all-against-the-wall plot concerns our heroine's participation in an Outback crossing race called the Watermelon Run, a take-no-prisoners race where "The only rule of this race is there are no rules." ("Seriously?" our girl replies. "That old cliché is the best they could come up with?") TGirl is in the contest to win the money for a pricey operation on her old school chum Barney (yes, we get an amusing flashback to our punkette heroine's school days). Her accident-prone friend is lying comatose from a skateboarding incident, so our heroine, accompanied by her mutant kangaroo companion Booga, plunges into the race with her tank's drive shaft held together by a pair of cheap plastic knickers. Through the race our duo comes up against a variety of pop icon-y figures: an Aussie ladies' man resembling Burt Reynolds, a trio of shapely lady detectives recalling Charlie's Angels, plus a gibberish spouting billionaire in a monster mask and Star Wars-inspired helmet. Beaucoup demolition and flying body parts follow, but Tank Girl keeps her eye on the prize, even if scripter Martin doesn't keep his on the story. Dayglo's art builds upon original co-creator Jamie (Gorillaz) Hewlett's nicely, though his vision of TGirl is slightly less grubbily punky than Hewlett's. The mini-series is printed in color, though the collection also features two separate shorter entries in mechanically toned black-and-white. These two outings prove even more outlandish (in the first, the Tank Girl strapped for cash in "Skidmarks" suddenly has the wherewithal to erect an amusement park in her name), but, then, you don't come to a work like this for serious consideration of the post-Apocalyptic condition. You come for the panels of severed heads with dismayed comical expressions on their faces. 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 |
| Pool party, skateboard tournament this month in Oxford - Oxford Press Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:22 AM PDT 1:14 PM Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Labor Day Pool Party: Noon to 3 p.m. Sept. 6, Oxford Municipal Pool. It's the last day of the summer season at the pool. Play games and win prizes. DJ John will be playing all your favorite tunes. Pay general admission or use your pool pass. Community Yard Sale Rescheduled due to Rain: Stop by the community yard sale from 8 a.m. to noon Sept. 18 at the TRI Community Center, 6025 Fairfield Road. Skateboard Tournament: A skateboard tournament will be held Saturday, Sept. 18, hosted by Oxford Parks and Recreation. There are three categories: beginner, intermediate, advanced. G-Rides will once again be on hand to judge the contest, sell gear and award the prizes. A DJ will keep the music going all afternoon. Helmets are required. The competition will begin at noon. Register and warm-up from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Registration is free. For more information, call (513) 523-6314. Officials Needed: Officials are needed for flag-football. Must be at least 16 years old. Apply at the TRI Community Center. Games will be Monday and Tuesday nights at Oxford Community Park. Youth Basketball League: Oxford Parks and Recreation will be accepting registrations for the youth basketball League. Boys and girls grades first through 10 are invited to participate. Evaluations will be in October (all players will be placed on a team). Practices will begin after Thanksgiving and games will begin Jan. 15. Instructional league (first/second grade) practice/game times TBD. Register at the TRI Community Center by Oct. 9. A $10 late fee will be assessed to all late registrations. For more information, call (513) 523-6314. Call the Oxford Parks and Recreation Department for more information on these and other programs: (513) 523-6314. 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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