Andy Anderson in Cloverdale

Jan 3,2013 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Andy Anderson, one of the most talented on the Protest Skateboards Team spends a day at the infamous Cloverdale Skate Park located on the Country Side of Surrey. This park is rough and tough, and is actually going to be removed next year once the New Cloverdale Skate Park is fully constructed and opened. The old park has been around since about the year 2000 and has always been a bit of a hit and miss spot. Some of the obstacles are really awesome and taught lots of today’s top amateurs, and even some of the local pros quite a few tricks, and then there’s the other obstacles that you look at, shake your head a bit and say, “What the F were they doing??”

Of course Andy Anderson picks all of those obstacles to skate so it’s pretty sick to see how he rips them up.

Andy Anderson – Old Cloverdale

Ollie North welcomes 2013

Jan 3,2013 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Some of Cloverdale’s Ollie North Skate Shop team showed up at Surrey’s best skate park Chuck Bailey to ring in the New Year on January 1^st, 2013 with a cold and nasty night session. The air was thick, the ground was slick, and the boys were layin’ down tricks.

Jordan Strong, Ryan Barron, Matt Cook, Shawn Beaupre, Mitch Salter and Shawn J – representin’!!

Coastal Riders Holiday

Jan 3,2013 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

David-Wayne Stevens and 116^th Productions released this awesome recap of some footage from some of the Coastal Riders Crew from 2012. The team is overly stacked so getting footage with these guys is easy, and add in Dave’s sick filming and editing skills, it makes for some quality viewing. Check out Mike Schulze, Dustin Locke, Andrew Classon, Magnus Hansen, Tommy Gudmunson, Scotty Tyson, Jordan Zazula, and more as they terrorize the streets of the Lower Mainland. Switch 360’s, huge kickflips, and some ledge tricks that are tough to name properly – give it a watch…

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Ty Williamson – Best of 2012

Jan 1,2013 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

It takes a lot of patience, dedication, and time to be a good filmer. Ty Williamson has been pumping out video edits all year and has come out with this compilation featuring some of his favourite clips from last year. A good filmer needs good people to film and he has that part taken care of. Then all it is is practise and experimentation. Everything that I’ve seen from him this year was worthy, can’t wait to see how he steps it up in 2013.

Here’s his Best of 2012 video featuring Gilbert Turenne, Adam Tickner, Blair Higginson, Keenan Hargrove, Andre Tsougrianis, Michael Segers, Ryan Prasad, Michael Nguyen, Brad Komar, Jason Wilson, Daniel Ruiz, Dylan Boyer, Casey Grainge, Ben MacDonald, Derek Oye, Tony Phan, Jordan Smail, Jackson Wakabyashi, Adrian Wnorowski, Dan Pageau, Dylan Ackimenko, Myself, James Benson, Michael James, Matt Latham, River Tavis, Dave Jonsson, Tom Korop, Lanny DeBoer, Jesse Holland, and Micky Papa.

Goodbye 2012

Jan 1,2013 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

At the end of every year I like to reflect on what happened and what needs to happen in the upcoming one. This year was full of mixed emotions for me. I read a post that Dan Pageau had posted recently about how 2012 was a solid year for him – got a new Pro model with Monke and opened up 2 Skate Shops “One Love” and just how he was down in the dumps and then life just turned around for him and everything is awesome again. This is what I’m really hoping for myself for next year, is just to have a full year of positivity. This year was very tough. Both my cats died at separate times and so did my Dad, and that crushed me, big time. He was everything to me, my strength, my power and my love, and I lost a lot of that when he passed away. Life was just hard this year and we fell into more debt, I closed down one of my businesses and depression was definitely existent in both mine and my wife’s minds every day. But when I look at all the good things I can’t complain forever – I got a partner to help me out with Protest and revamped the Team and the Website and now it seems to be taking off again, I have one of the cutest and smartest kids in the world who makes me laugh everyday and keeps me proud, I won a few contests and got a video clip on America’s Funniest Videos, I made tons of new relationships this year and I really got back on to my skateboard. I can’t wait for the New Year 2013 just so I can start off fresh from here. There are some seriously positive opportunities just waiting to happen in our lives right now and they will change everything if they do.

The one thing I always know I have is tons of great friends, and no matter what happens, or how shitty I feel, they are always there.

Thanks 2012 for helping me find myself once again – Now bring on something better…

Happy Halloween!!

Dec 31,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Strange time to say it, but it’s for a good reason. Anyone who was present at this year’s Leeside Halloween Jam has been patiently awaiting the Fun City Video by The Zenga Bros….

Well, here it is, full of chaotic tricks, crazy costumes, and a buttload of fireworks.

Adam Hopkins – The Ultimate Warrior

Dec 30,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

One of my personal favourite Local Skaters comes out with yet another video part for 2012. Ultimate Distributors, in association with Black Label, Bones Wheels, Bones Bearings and Concrete Skateboarding Magazine proudly present this edition of On the Reel featuring Adam Hopkins. Adam has been in the province of BC for about 4 years now and has made a big name for himself since his arrival from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Known by most for his unique and stylish vert and tranny skills, especially those padless 540’s, but also being known for killing it in the streets, Adam is a go-getter when it comes to skateboarding. He’s young, tough, determined, ambitious, innovative, and skilled. Put all that together and it equals amazing.

Once again – give it up for this year’s King of the Bowls – Adam Hopkins

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The End of the World is here…

Dec 22,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

The end of the skateboard video filming world anyway. Spencer Hamilton just raised the bar with a completely flawless video part for Expedition One releasing his new Pro Model. There’s not much to say about this part except – “Damn, Spencer Hamilton is sick!!”

Watch the part and buy his decks – support your local skaters.

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Protest Online Best Trick Contest Winner Is…

Dec 20,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

It was a great contest and I’d say majority of the tricks entered were definitely sick tricks. Some were big, some were tech, some were just weird, but all were awesome. You, the public, narrowed down the Top 10 by voting for your favourites, and then it was Team Protests turn to decide the winner. We narrowed it down to the Top 3 with Allen Handley’s Miller Flip over the fireplace at Chuck Bailey, Brendan Nielsen’s Smithgrind Hardflip on the ledge at White Rock Res, and Lanny DeBoer’s Frontside Kickflip 360 over a big wedge gap in the streets. All 3 of these tricks were super unique in their own ways but we were forced to choose just one. After lots of debate back and forth and asking the opinion of a couple outside sources it was confirmed…

Congratulations to Brendan Nielsen!!

The winner of the 2012 Online Protest Best Trick Contest!!

Brendan has won a huge Prize Pack containing:

A Protest – Hippie Mike Deck, an Old School Shaped Protest Team Deck, 2 Protest T-Shirts, a Trucker Style Protest Skateboards Hat, and a Custom Protest Skateboards Hoody.

Check out the winning trick

http://www.protestskateboards.com/online-skateboard-competition/brendan-nielsen-smith-hardflip/

and click here to see the rest of the entries that Brendan beat

http://www.protestskateboards.com/leaderboard/

Thanks to all that entered.