Vans Canada DIY Collab Projet45

Sep 21,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

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In my opinion Vans Shoes are the most supportive Shoe Company for all Canadian Skateboard Events right now. They’ve been pouring funds into all of the smaller skateboard events and collaborating with other people and companies left, right and centre. Vans have been around for a long time and you’re guaranteed that their shoes aren’t shit. I’m proud to rep them every time I put my shoes on in the morning, and I thank them proudly for everything they do for me.

DIY means Do it Yourself for those slow people. It’s funny that the more the community tries to shut skateboarding down, the more that the skaters just start building their own features. It’s been a trend for quite a few years now to throw some necessary concrete down where needed to make barricades, banks and other obstacles skateable, but then there’s other projects that are a little bit bigger. Ironically, with all the new Skate Parks popping up, there are still “Burnside Type Parks” being constructing.

By Skaters – For Skaters…

Mike Strato just shared this video recently

“Here’s some footy from the handing over of the cheque to the Project 45 guys from the proceeds of the Collab shoe. The Leeside event will happen on Sept 29th and it’d be great to see all the guys (and gals) who have contributed time out for the ceremony.”

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Razors are for Shaving – Not riding…

Sep 19,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Man, what the hell is going on in the world when the “Skate Parks” are polluted with Razors. I just can’t get it through my brain why people are into this, it’s like a combination of a BMX and a Skateboard built for people who are scared to try either one of those. I can’t hate on the kids that are out there riding these mini scooters, they’re just kids, but what about these guys that are grown men?? What are you guys doing? I mean, if you gotta bend over 90 degrees or more to stand on this thing, does it not occur to you that you’re to big for it??

The Scooter Kids are taking over in the skate parks, especially in Northern BC. They get in the way constantly, and the more of them that are there, the more risk we are all at for getting injured when we’re trying to get a line in through the pack. All we can do is hope it’s a fad that disappears. Sadly though, some of these dudes are getting really good at it which is going to make it stick around longer. You guys gotta recognize that skateboarders are the only reason that we have all these parks, and along with the parks, the progression of extreme sports has been happening constantly, hence why we have tons of bikers in our skate parks. X games, Dew Tour and so on has been collaborating the 2 for years. Even rollerblading and longboarding were involved at the beginning until they realized that they both sucked and nobody wanted to watch it.

Kids do me a favour while you’re still young and try to skateboard, or bike if you really feel the need for handle bars. Fold your scooters up permanently and put them in the closet for good. Don’t end up in your 30’s riding a razor, please…

Here’s a video that’ll make you ill

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Surrey YouthFest 2012

Sep 19,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Every year the City of Surrey celebrates the next generation of young adults with Youth Fest at the Guildford Recreation Centre. Lots of exiting stuff will be happening from 4-10pm this Saturday, September 22^nd, including Band performances, indoor and outdoor games, the Teen Dance, Breakdance Competitions, Ryan Brynelson Freestyle Demos, and of course the Skateboard vs. BMX Demo in the Bowl – hosted by myself Hippie Mike and featuring Andy Anderson and James Van de Kamp. This will be the final event at Guildford Bowl as it will be shut down and demolished in October due to the beginning of the construction for the new Lap Pool being built on to the Rec Centre. The street section will remain open and untouched but the bowl has to be removed and eventually will be replaced with some new features in the future…

Join us for the Demo at 5pm.

And go to the Surrey Website for all the details

http://www.surrey.ca/youth/11710.aspx

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Ledge ‘N’ Dairy at Chuck Bailey

Sep 19,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

This Saturday, September 22, 2012 Olio, Color Magazine, Cons and Coastal Riders bring you the Ledge ‘N’ Dairy competition at Chuck Bailey Skate Park in Surrey. Starting at 1pm with $1000 in prizes to win, you don’t want to miss it

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Old Man – How I loved You

Sep 18,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Today, September 18, 2012, would have been my Dad’s 65^th birthday but we lost him suddenly back in April. Still none of us can get over the fact that he’s gone and of course that we didn’t get to say goodbye. He was the strongest person I knew and at the age of 34 was told that he had 4 years left to live. Proving everyone wrong he battled through for another 30 which made a huge difference in all of our lives, especially his children. We saw someone who lived every day in pain not let it bother him. He accepted his disabilities and diseases for what they were and continued to live his life in happiness, never complaining to anyone unless they forced it out of him. He taught me that nothing is able to stop you if you don’t let it, you just gotta fight on. And now I am the age that his life was changed forever and I think of my family and how much they would be affected if wasn’t around for them.

Thanks for never giving up Dad and giving me the childhood I deserved.

Here’s a couple songs that always makes me think of him and how much of an influence he was on me becoming the person I am today.

I love you, man. And I’ll be just an amazing father to my children as you were.

Old Man – By: Neil Young

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Father and Son – Cat Stevens

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Hippie Mike’s Tour de Surrey 2012 comes to a close

Sep 17,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

ell it was another successful year for Hippie Mike’s Tour de Surrey and it’s finally over. 9 years strong for this Series and sometimes it wears me out a bit, but I enjoy every minute while I’m there.

We mixed things up a bit and ended the year off at South Surrey Park which basically meant we would be ending the year off with an Andy Anderson Demo, since he was born and raised there and hasn’t placed less than 1^st place at that park in one of my contests in years. We started off with the Mini’s and they were all giving it there all. Jon Schrack was on a mission to win, but so were Parker Sherwin and Marc Melyukov. All 3 of these kids were stretching the limits of what could be done by kids 10 years old and younger, and they went even crazier in the Finals.

There were 17 Beginners waiting patiently to go for gold and 6 of them made it into the Finals. Top names of the day would be Kai Searle, Adam Lewis, Rob Schrack, Riley Allen, Cody Laing & Connor, followed closely by Zacc Lester and Justin Fiorante. All 8 of these guys dominated the Beginner Category with flip tricks, huge airs and big gaps, but only 1 could be King.

The Intermediates were kind of disappointing this time around. There were only 6 guys and not much got landed except by Mike Groves and little Luke Thodus. Mike tore up the quarter pipes and flat banks with some serious White Rock Loc styles and Lukey threw down some wicked ledge grinds and rail slides. Luke is only 10 and about 4 feet tall, so when he grinds the big hubba ledges no problem , it looks amazing. He also gapped out to 50-50 to the flat section of the triple kink ledge in his run and stuck it. He won.

The Ladies Category consisted of Carrie Williams and 2 girls I requested to participate, Sasha Clerihue and Deena Z. They both know how to skate around, just not really trick masters. Either way, we had a Ladies Category and no one got hurt. Better than nothing.

Then we got to Advanced. It was Dominic Devries‘s mission to beat Andy Anderson at his home park, but it’s always Andy’s mission to never lose, so it was definitely gonna be a battle. They both destroyed everything that no one else skates, the big rail, the kinked rail, the channel gap, spine and barricades. Both were unstoppable, but it was Andy’s game the whole time. Weston Granger also killed it and ended in 3^rd after the Finals. This guy blows me away every time I see him skate, so unique. He nosegrinded down the long hubba, did some airwalk late hand hardflip, and finished the Finals with an ollie up to gap tailslide ledge to ledge in the flat section. 4^th and 5^th were Giver and Jigga Jay, both skated awesome, both couldn’t keep up with the Top 3 during the Finals Jam.

Marilyn Herrmann showed up from the Surrey Food Bank to accept the donations and give a little appreciation speech. It was a slower year than most, but with all the kids going away on vacations and having to decide between 3 competitions to go to every Saturday we still did pretty good. In total for this year, we raised $280 and 300lbs of food. Great job guys!!

I announced all the winners and gave out plaques to the Top 3 in each Category. I announced the Most Improved Skater of the Year which was Aiden Eastman from the Mini’s, and handed over the King of Surrey Trophy to the Dominator himself Dominic Devries. He won 3 out of 5, placing 2^nd in both the others. Dominic is one of my favourite kids to skate with and to watch progress. He kills it wherever he goes and can skate everything, which is awesome for someone who’s only 15 years old, plus he’s super humble and appreciative. Can’t wait to see you in X Games some day buddy….

Results:

Mini: 1. Jon Schrack; 2. Parker Sherwin; 3. Mark Melyukov; 4. Aiden Eastman; 5. Lukas; 6. Bryce

Beginner: 1. Kai Searle; 2. Adam Lewis; 3. Connor; 4. Cody Laing; 5. Rob Schrack; 6. Riley Allen; 7. Zacc Lester; 8. Justin Fiorante; 9. JR Barron; 10. Khalid; 11. Josh Lewis; 12. Desmond Fisher; 13. Chandler; 14. Jake; 15. Bachouch Michael; 16. Alex & Matthew Lalim

Intermediate: 1. Luke Thodus; 2. Mike Groves; 3. David; 4. Mathew McCauley; 5. Yubo; 6. Jackson Hawthorne

Girls: 1. Carrie Williams; 2. Sasha Clerihue; 3. Deena Z

Advanced: 1. Andy Anderson; 2. Dominic Devries; 3. Weston Granger; 4. Michael James (Giver); 5. Jay Mykyte; 6. Allen Handley & Travis; 7. Brad (Fighter) Muscat & Cole Thodus

Most Improved – Aiden Eastman

King of Surrey – Dominc (The Dominator) Devries

So that’s it for the 9^th Annual Hippie Mike’s Tour de Surrey. Thanks for everyone who showed up at any or all of the events, and thanks to all the sponsors that make these fun times possible:

Protest Skateboards

Coastal Riders

Amix Recycling

Vans

Our beach Studio

Folk Skateboards

Royalty Shop

West 49

Have 2 Skate

New Line Skate Parks

Surrey Food Bank

BLVD

Anti Social

Monke

The Dry Spot

Ollie North

Ultimate Dist

Centre Dist

Time Bomb Trading

S&J

Faceshots

Supra Dist

Dc Shoes

One Love

Mosaic Skateboards

Chance Skateboards

Element Skateboards

Thunder Trucks

Independent Trucks

DGK

Analog

Autobahn

Sour Skateboards

www.skateriffraff.com

Chocolate Skateboards

Gravis

Hard Times

Hubba Wheels

Bones Wheels

Girl Skateboards

Spitfire Wheels

RDS

Fallen

Axion

Circa

Almost Skateboards

Kutwax Klothing

DVS

Axs Gear

Kitsch Skateboards

ATM Skateboards

Lakai

Matix

LRG

Meridian Golf Par 3

www.ijailbreak.com

MCW Custom Woodworking

Woodsmith Custom Cabinets

Ear Goggles

and The City of Surrey

For those that notice there are no photos in this story, my camera went missing after the contest. If anyone has information please contact me through the site.

Thanks

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Damn, I got Shown Up…

Sep 15,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

3 solid months the Show Up Mike contest ran for, and there was definitely times where a lot of people were on the site to vote. September 11^th, ironically, was Judgement Day and the man with the most votes at 305, was Sean Lowe.

Sean only entered the one video filmed at Kensington Skate Park, but it was all he needed. With some super technical talents he wowed the voters into checking out his vid and pushing the Thumb’s Up button. I met up with Sean on a busy street corner to hand over the prize money and get his opinion of how the contest went and what winning the $500 felt like.

Hippie Mike: First off Sean, congratulations! How does it feel to finally win the Grand Prize after all this time of wondering?

Sean Lowe: Feels good, have to have a little celebration tonight.

HM: What did you think about the Show Up Mike Contest overall?

Sean: I thought it was cool, I liked the concept of it. I don’t know, it’s a fun way to have a competition where it’s not like Head to Head but it’s more people voting on it. I thought it was cool like that, I liked that concept.

HM: How did you hear about the contest and what made you enter?

Sean: Well I saw you at Centre Distribution when I was picking some stuff up there, and I don’t know, who doesn’t like money, really? So that’s pretty much how it went down.

HM: If there was another version next year, would you enter it again?

Sean: Yeah I’d be down for sure, yeah it was fun. I enjoyed it, got to hang out for a day and skate, that’s always fun. And yeah for sure I think I’d do it again.

HM: Well thanks for entering this year Sean and Congratulations again and have fun with that 500 bucks

Sean: Oh you can believe I will (laughs)….

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Hippie Mike’s Re-Sheet the Ramp Fundraiser

Sep 14,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

It was just like old times, the way we used to party in our yard, except there was a full on Ramp Contest happening. The weather was a little shafty so all the people that said they were coming who had never been to my house before must have thought it would be cancelled, when in reality, the whole point of the contest was to raise money for new masonite and another new tarp to keep us dry all winter. The beauty of my ramp is we float the tarps like a false roof and skate hard when it rains out here. So as soon as the drizzle started the tarp went up for the rest of the day.

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There was only about 50-60 people that showed up to party, some of the usuals, and some that even I hadn’t seen in a long time – Russia, LegenBarry, Homer and the Pimpin’ Kings to name a few, so I already knew it was gonna rock. We started warm up around noon, and threw the best trick early because that obstacle wasn’t covered from the potential rain. It was a normal Hippie Mike obstacle, just a straight up nasty tombstone built out of a fridge and a monster truck tire, no big deal…

This thing was tough to skate, maybe the toughest obstacle built in the yard so far. I tried filming on it on Friday and only hit 2 tricks, and they would be considered basic on anything else. Eve struggled for rock & rolls the whole time, Jigga Jay stuck down a couple for him. Cisco did a frontside rock but had to grab it in and Andy landed the most but still couldn’t get on top with trucks. Russia went hard at it the first attempt and actually shot himself over the whole fridge into the tree roots, but he came right back and kept givin’er. He was the only one who was getting’ trucks on this thing. Russia battled it out hard and finally won with a feeble stall. That’s how god damn hard this thing was to skate. Good efforts form everyone there, Russia took home a complete new outfit donated by legendary Moses Itkonen – DVS Shirt, Fallen Pants, Shoes and RDS Hat. Not bad for a guy that hadn’t stepped on a skateboard for about a year and a half.

We let the dudes warm it back up on the fresh masonite mini while the Pimpin’ Kings rocked out hard for almost an hour on my roof. I’ve had these guys play at so many of my contests and I always say the same thing afterward – “Best Small-Man Band I’ve heard”. And I’m not saying their midgets, they just only have 2 band members, Chris Burnstad on Drums and Chad Whittingham on Guitar, but they threw in a sick Bass player named Mike Currie to bring extra power and sounded awesome. Every time someone drove down my street they would stop and stick their head out of the window to get a good taste of the tunes. Sick set boys, glad I could reunite you for a banger show, everyone loved it.

The keg was getting emptier and the burgers were getting scarce so it was time to start the Ramp Contest. Only 9 entries, but they were all destroyers. I split it into 2 heats and each heat got 3 minute rounds for the guys to throw down as much as possible and try to make it into the finals. It made good cause for lots of snaking and barging from everybody to try and get more time in the ramp, especially in Round 3. There were a few times where I saw 3 people on one piece of coping at once, no mercy. 49 year old Barry Blatter was the Barge Master for sure never losing a battle that he dropped in for and even smashing his face fully off the flatbottom at one point and just getting up, licking off the blood dripping from his nose and dropping right in again for more. Andy Anderson was crowd favorite of course completely annihilating the entire ramp like he knows how with a zillion tricks. Jeff Cole was another one who throws down the tricks you’ve heard of before but never seen, and he was showing them to ya, Fighter did every Judo Blunt combination imaginable, Eve Feaver put his 40 year old bones on line with handplants, nosepicks and huge airs over the hip, and Giver even Gaver, hitting up the whole ramp fast and frontside and even bonelessing in off the side rails. It was insanity.

The judges, Jay White and Brad Milburn did not want to be judges anymore, but I fed them more 311 Lager and we went over by the wood shed to discuss who was making finals.

Cisco Gooding did a lot of switch and techy tricks but didn’t pull through to Finals. Allen Handley threw down a bunch of dirty manoeuvres that others do not understand, but didn’t make the Finals. And Fighter did not make the Finals…

That left the infamous 5 – Andy Anderson, Jay Mykyte, Eve Feaver, Jeff Cole and Giver (Michael James), plus Barry who got the buy in for being the most hardcore without a doubt. It was a 20 minute, straight up, Battle – for $200. Shit went down, chaos everywhere. Jeff, Giver and Eve were all missionning hard throwing every trick they knew how with pure old school styles and skills, and Andy was in his usual “I can land anything I try” mode, but the eyes were on the Jigga, Jay Mykyte. Big Flip tricks, fast grinds and solid tech tricks left right and centre. Every one of them was touch every square inch of the ramp, the hip, the inner kink the decks, the rails, everything. And the more time that ran down the more snaking that went on. Finally right near the end of time, Jay climbed up onto the top railing behind the platform and tried to Tail Ollie over the deck into the ramp. Like true skaters, everyone kept skating but giving him the opportunity to try again and he stuck it down 4^th try. Contest over. Jigga wins the cash!!

It was an insane event, and it wasn’t over yet. Nothing ends retardedness like a Barefoot Best Trick Contest. Only Cisco, Fighter, Allen and Ryan Barron wanted in. Cisco had it right from the start with a frontside 50-50 around the inner kink to nollie 270 in, only to have it stolen from him by Allen at during the final minute with a tailstall fingerflip disaster. Took home a pair of Fallen Shoes, some funky Shorts, and a Protest Deck. If we had known Cisco had already drank 12 beers at that point we might have let him have that win, damn.

Thanks to all that came out, we raised lots of funds and had a great time. Thanks to my Chef Bogdan, my Bartender Deena Z, to everyone that came out and supported, and of course DJ Cuzo. Until next year, that’s the Jam…

Results:

Jay Mykyte – $200
Eve Feaver – $40
Andy Anderson – $20

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Hippie Mike’s Tour de Surrey Grand Finale

Sep 13,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Don’t forget about the Grand Finale of the 9^th Annual Hippie Mike’s Tour de Surrey happening this Saturday, September 15^th at South Surrey Skate Park 14601 20 ave.

As always it will be an awesome event with tons of kids, families, and hardcore skaters that want to win prizes. Every year the competitions get crazier and crazier and the kids get better and better. This will be the first time we ever close down the Tour de Surrey in South Surrey. Be prepared to stay the entire day, as Mike will announce how much food and money we raised for the Surrey Food Bank, and will wait right till the end to hand out the prizes at the Grand Finale, and all the rippers that place Top 3 will receive plaques, The Most Improved Skater will be announced, and so will this year’s King of Surrey. I wonder who they are.

Only one to find out – be there…..

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Last Try Tuesday In Surrey??

Sep 13,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Gotta love seeing the local boys gettin’ footy, Langley/Surrey loc’s and Coastal Riders Team Members Dustin Locke and Jordan Zazula represented for Color Magazine’s Last Try Tuesday recently at Fleetwood Skate Park. Both hitting a nasty Nollie Crook back to back down the red rail, they proved that they are both still amazing. Then they showed off a bunch more tech tricks that they’ve had locked down at Fleetwood for years….

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