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.

Last 3 Standing – Protest Best Trick

Dec 19,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Alright the team has narrowed it down to these Top 3 Tricks

Congratulations for making this far.

The Winner will be announced tomorrow – December 20, 2012

Gonz is God

Dec 19,2012 / By Capn Old Ballz / No Comment

‘ve been watching skate videos since the bones brigade were formed ( mid-80’s) I love to watch the progression of skateboarding happen right in front of my eyes. I still watch a couple of video parts per day and I’m always thinking about skating. In my opinion the best skate video part of all time is Mark Gonzales part in Blind – Video Days. This part has it all. Never been done before street tricks( at the time) vert, mini and handrail tricks. There is a reason why The Gonz is a legend, the dude was way ahead of his time. When you watch this part remember it’s 1991! Look at all the switch and nollie tricks he does. His style is effortless and second to none. Game changer right here…

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Protest Best Trick – Top Ten

Dec 18,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Okay here’s the list of who made the Top Ten in The Best Trick Contest

In no particular order

Time for the Team to make a decision on the winner. It will be announced this Thursday.

Memories of Summer

Dec 18,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

As the snow starts falling today and the rain has been nonstop for over a month we are all in need of some good summer love. Since it’s a long while away it’s great to have a video like this come out and get us exited for what we got too experience this year. One of my favourite days of the year every year is Canada Day – July 1^st. Hundreds of amazing people gather every year on this day and skate Seylynn Bowl for the kickoff of the annual Bowl Series and just hang out.

Steve Denham, Jonny B., Steve Lange, Cuz, Mike Strato, Andy Anderson, Adam Hopkins, Hippo, Bushman, Eve, Dave Boyce, myself (Hippie Mike), and so many more who you are pretty much guaranteed to see every single year. It’s a great time and a great party and tons of awesome skating is sure to go down.

Here’s a Rolling Podcast Video recap of 2012 Seylynn Bowl Series. Late as always, but this year, I’d have to say Perfect Timing!!

Enjoy

If the world’s gonna end – we’re goin’ out in style

Dec 17,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

They say that December 21^st, 2012 is going to be the end of the Earth, that all hell is going to break loose and meteors are going to fall from the sky and kill us all, demolishing the planet we live on. I say bullshit…

In all the years I’ve been alive there have been many times where we are told the whole world is going down. And no one even cares about this prediction, they’re all non-believers. Sorry Mayans.

My favourite threat like this was the Millennium when all technology was supposed to fail us and we were all going to be helpless for weeks and months if we weren’t prepared. Oh we prepared alright, by going to Barbados where we could warm and relaxed and make sure we would enjoy ourselves if we couldn’t utilize technology to survive. Oh no, please don’t trap me on this beautiful island where we have plenty of natural substances and just enough people to share them with. But unfortunately the reality I believed was true and we still had a plane to catch on January 2^nd. Now the earth is going to explode? Sure.

Either way I’m going to prepare to go out in style like always.

Join me for the end of the earth on December 21^st – 4-8pm at Chuck Bailey Skate Park where I will be dressed as Santa Claus handing out gifts to everyone who shows up for a session in the park.

Rain, Shine, Snow, Meteors…. Don’t matter.

Travis Emerson is really good

Dec 14,2012 / By Protest Skateboards / No Comment

Here’s a quick video filmed by Dominic DeVries of Travis Emerson shredding up Chuck Bailey for a half an hour. Travis puts down a couple tricks in this little edit that are effortless for him but practically impossible for most other people. This kid is very unrecognized for how talented he actually is and I hope someone blows him up huge soon. Chance Skateboards is hookin’ him up at least.

Super tech, super chill, super awesome – Travis Emerson

Fandangle Blunt to Seran Wrap??

Dec 11,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Jaden Easton-Ellett, my partner in crime…

This kid’s still only 18 years old and proven himself quite the man lately, but one of the things I will always recognize about Jaden is how he loves to invent new combo tricks. Back when Jaden was younger and skated a lot more he would dominate in lots of contests just because of his creativity and crazy mentality. He loves to go for it and do things that make you do a double take and ask – “What the hell was that?”

Here’s a new one from Jaden Easton-Ellett that I had never seen done before

Fandangle Blunt to Seran Wrap

Schpeels on Wheels

Dec 10,2012 / By Capn Old Ballz / No Comment

When I first started skating in the 80’s wheels were mostly 60mm, 95a, conical shape and some kind of neon color, usually pink. That was basically the 80’s in a nutshell and skateboarding was no exception. I loved the shapes and colors of wheels back then but things were changing, wheels were getting smaller. In the late 80’s when street skating was about to blow up a 57mm thinner harder wheel was becoming the norm. By the time the 90’s were in full swing wheels were becoming ridiculous and so were the pants. Wheels were like bearing covers, they were terrible and if you rode anything bigger than a 52mm you must have been a vert skating jock! Big wheels were not cool. By mid 90’s things evened out, 52-54mm were deemed acceptable by the skate world, no colors though and all the same shape! Probably the same shape wheel you are riding now. If you had colored wheels you were very different. This thought blows me away, how could wheels be the same shape for so long? Nobody seemed to care or notice? I certainly didn’t, until they started selling re-issue old school wheels. Powell Peralta was one of the first companies that started selling re-issues. G-bones and rat-bones were some of the best wheels ever made. These wheels were more for cruising though. The reason wheels haven’t changed much is because a huge amount of tricks incorporate some kind of slide, this is why the durometer of wheels are generally 99a-101a being the hardest. A popular durometer for cruising is 78a. Still that’s no excuse for wheels having the same bubble shape for so many years. I’m happy to see some really different wheel shape, colour and durometer coming out, it keeps skating refreshing and fun.

Don’t be afraid to make your skate set-up your own, try new things. Design your own board graphic or do some kind of grip tape design. Try a wider board or softer wheels. Be you, have fun and keep shredding.

– The Captain

One Fuckin’ Love!!

Dec 6,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

I apologize for the language but God Damn, did you check out this latest teaser from One Love Skateboard Shop? Ty Williamson out with some of the most talented dudes around right now all representin’ for One Love – Lanny DeBoer, Micky Papa, Jesse Holland, Jason Wilson and the man behind it all Dan Pageau. It’s a one day session at Mackin Park and the homies were definitely Mackin’!! Phat gaps and tech tricks, you know that’s what you’re seein’, and then Micky takes over on the handrail Street League style…

Just watch it

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