Bonsor Loc’s – Doin’ Their Thing

Oct 25,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

In Spring of this year Sebastien “Fez” Tellez took over the old Push Skate Shop in Metrotown and renamed it “Have 2 Skate” Shop. Being right across the street from Bonsor Skate Park this shop always has a posse hangin’ out and Fez loves to film with his budds. Here’s a video from the summertime featuring Bonsor Loc’s such as Kodi Amohgraphix, Travis Emerson, Ryan Prasad and Protest Team Rider Brad “Fighter” Muscat, plus some more. There’s a bunch of stuff in this video that doesn’t need to be, and some that probably shouldn’t be, if you know what I’m saying. The good skating starts around 7 1/2 minutes in, and you should definitely give it a watch just to see a cop in full uniform bust a heelflip on someone’s board outside the shop.

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Charley Ford Fundraiser

Oct 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Another amazing skateboarder loses his life to the bullet. Why can’t we escape these guns?

Charley Ford was shot dead while sitting in a car in Compton over he weekend. Why I’m not sure, but either way it’s just another ignorant murder with an unnecessary weapon. Why must all of someone’s friends and family mourn and suffer because one person loses there respect for human life and shots another, and worse, right in front of a 10 month old baby….

Filmed by Nigel Alexander, Darren Munoz, Amir GT, Davonte Jolly, Mannie Escamilla, Marc Ohata and Mannie Salazar, this video was created by Charley’s Bro’s to showcase the man we just lost in the skateboard industry. It proves that he was super skilled and talented and could have ended up the next huge name of street skating. You can really see the patience he had when he does his tricks. A great Loss.

The video also has a huge purpose to try to raise funds for Charley Ford’s Mother who is suffering from Cancer, and now grieving the loss of her loved one while worrying about her own life. Please support this cause by watching the video and sharing it on Facebook.

And please, get rid of the guns….

R.I.P. Charley Ford

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Chuck Bailey Halloween Jam

Oct 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Another event at Chuck Bailey Skate Park hosted by Hippie Mike and the Chuck Bailey Youth Park Committee. This one’s easy. Show up in your Halloween Costumes and ride the park. Mike will be tossing out candy for tricks, costumes and style throughout the event. DJ Cuzo will be rockin’ the scary tunes and there will be a Grand Prize for the overall Best Costume.

October 29^th – 4-8pm

Rain or Shine

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Time to Vote – Store Wars

Oct 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Store Wars – one of the original Online Skateboard Contests presents yet another year of their Canada Wide Skate Shop vs. Skate Shop Video Contest. Shops from across the country submitted their videos one week ago and now it’s time for you guys to decide which one was the best. Hit up www.push.ca for all the details and to watch the vids. Support the guys you love (Hint Hint Coastal Riders…) but also make sure your not just favouring them, and really decide who you think deserves to win.

You have 2 weeks to vote and can vote once a day from your computer

http://push.ca/StoreWars/

A Quick Sunday Sesh with the Budds

Oct 22,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

With this weather going back and forth and being completely unpredictable we had to pick and choose where we were skating on Sunday. It was a toss up between Tsawwassen Skate Park or White Rock Res, so we chose the quieter one. Still a bit puddley when we first arrived but that was not issue for these Protest boys. It was Andy Anderson, Jordan Strong, Jaden Easton-Ellett and myself Hippie Mike just chillin’ at the Res. Andy and Jordan threw down a couple lines while Jaden and I stuck to what we do best and only rode the nasty obstacles.

Enjoy

13 Tricks – plus a couple more

Oct 22,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

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Here’s a video featuring “13 tricks with Will Cristofaro” that I ran across. This video is super sick filled with awesome spots that most people would be nervous to climb on. Edited by Benjamin Lachance for Universe Boardshop in Quebec – it features the talented skating of Jonathan Dawe, Alexis Martel, Jeff Denomme, Felix Boisclair, and of course William Cristofaro. What I really enjoyed watching this video is the obstacles they choose to skate. The tricks are bangin’ but I’m all about the creative spots that people lay those tricks down on. The more that street skating changes to keep skaters off the normal ledge and rail obstacles, the more creative the skaters get in what they look at as skateable and the cooler the videos end up being.

Great Job Guys. Keep those wheels rollin’.

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Another Build at Leeside

Oct 22,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

October 20^th, 2012 – A full crew of hard working skaters showed their faces, and their muscles yesterday at Leeside Tunnel to help build on once again. Another 2 sections were concreted on the big corner pocket quarter and then another section was added in to the long side quarters, this one creating a sick hip. Led by Baxter and Scottish Andy, the crew greeted the concrete truck at 1:30pm and started pushing the the mix down the chute to the boys at the bottom who filled up buckets and wheelbarrow loads for about an hour. It’s definitely getting crazier at Leeside. Way to work together as a team and Git ‘R Done.

I’m not completely sure when the next build will be but the next event is an easy one

Halloween Night – after 6pm

Get rid of the Guns

Oct 20,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

What is wrong with this world that we are still accepting the fact that it’s okay to have guns around. We are not warriors fighting for survival and trying to take over each others land. We don’t need to hunt and kill animals for survival. So why are these weapons still so accessible?

I picked up the newspaper off my porch this morning and the cover said, “Border Guard shot in neck will recover…” Wow. We live in Canada and we have to worry about people trying to shoot there way across the border, what is wrong with people? Some poor dude goes to work on a Tuesday and gets shot in the neck for it. As far as I knew we actually have gun laws in this country that make it illegal for people to carry them around in streets, unlike the United States. So how come I know of 3 totally unrelated stories that involved guns that all happened around here on Monday and Tuesday of this week? And I don’t even watch the news. We need to discourage weapons. What the kids don’t understand is that carrying a weapon for protection is gonna get them killed. Or they’re gonna take someone else’s life and pay for it the rest of theirs.

I’ve had 3 friends die to the gun, none of who deserved it at all – Rachel Hunter, trying to stop an argument outside a bar; Chris Whitmee, taking a piss beside the wrong person who someone tried to assassinate; and Lee Matasi, chased down the street for voicing his opinion and being ignorantly shot straight up in the head. And do you think any of these people who committed these murders were punished enough, or even at all for some cases? And what about the families of these innocent victims? What did these incidents do to them and to their lifestyles? Why do we still have these guns?

I just don’t think it’s fair to any of us civilized people to have to worry about dying to a bullet at any given moment wherever we are. This is not a knife or a club where the person has to come near you to hurt you, these are guns, that shoot death across the sky.

We don’t need them…

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Guildford Bowl’s Final Breaths

Oct 18,2012 / By Hippie Mike / 1 Comment

Well, there you have it – the existence of the Guildford Bowl has reached it’s final moments. I got an anonymous tip that the crane was there jack-hammering the bowl out this morning so I rushed over to get a couple photos. It was definitely true, and by noon today, the bowl will be completely destroyed.

This is not the first time part of a Skate Park has been taken out in this area. New Line has removed pieces of certain Parks for Revision and Facelifts, and that’s sort of what this is, except the putting it back together part is gonna be delayed until 2014 which sucks. But when the skateboarders get these parks handed to them without having to do any work for it, I don’t think they can complain to much. It’s a different world now and we are totally spoiled with skate parks and at least the City of Surrey acknowledged the fact that they didn’t want to get rid of this one, they just had to. That’s why half the park will remain, and the rest will eventually be replaced.

Thanks for all the good times Guildford Bowl, you will be missed.

For those who didn’t catch it the first tome around, here’s the footage from our Final Film Session there September 29^th, 2012

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Finally a Skateboard Video that features Skateboarding

Oct 18,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

It difficult for me to watch a lot of the Skate Videos that come out now a days because there’s hardly ever any actual skateboarding in them. I mean some filmers are starting to get creative with their intros and outros but when it’s the persons part, it’s just bang, bang, bang, trick after trick. What ever happened to that part where people had to actually skate, and push.

Ethan Craig just released a solid video about a day of skating with Will Blakley downtown Vancouver. It’s awesome for a few reasons:

Ethan pulled out one of the old style Hi-8 cameras to film with. The footage is grainy, and the audio sucks, just the way it used to be.
It shows what a street skater goes through during their normal day of just skating through the city. Lots of interactions with random people, some positive and some very negative.
It lets people see what skateboarding is really all about. Just cruisin’ through your neighbourhood, knowing all the bumps, cracks and funky obstacles like the back of your hand. And just having fun.

I wish the kids of today understood what it’s like to live on your skateboard and not get a ride to the skate park and back, but to just skate wherever you’re going that day and find the path that suits you best.

Thanks Ethan and Will for a great video sparking lots of memories for us older skaters, and hopefully showing the young guns what it’s all about. This video is so “Early 1990’s Style”, the only thing missing is Colin McKay and Rick Howard in Plan B shirts….

You gotta check it

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