It’s the Cisco and Hippie Show

Sep 26,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

About 13 years ago I made friends with a little dude at Confederation Park that was always trying to impress me when I was there. His name was Cisco Gooding and he was only about 14 or 15 years old. I would always brush him off and tell him he was too young to hang with us, but one day after a lot of persistence I finally gave in. We started hanging out all the time and he would always push us older guys to skate harder, and we would always push him to learn more and more. Cisco was tiny at the time and eventually grew much taller than all of us. I helped him to grow into the man he is today. We drank a lot of Rum together, and we taught each other a lot about life. What I love most about Cisco is that he will skate anything with me. A true Protest Rider from day one, and a friend till the end, I’m proud to share this old teaser with you of me and Cisco rippin’ it up…

Extreme Sports Skateboarding

David Gonzalez is F#*king Insane!!

Sep 26,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Wow! What is there to say after you watch this part?

David Gonzalez just took everything that has been done on street rails to a whole new level. This video part is full of some of the gnarliest, most unbelievable rails you’ve ever seen, and he destroys them all. This is what happens when you get really good, really young, and then grow tall within your confidence.

Jamie Thomas, Ben Gilley, Daniel Haney, Chad Muska and Mark Gonzales are the owners of craziest rail spots – add David Gonzalez to the top of that list please.

Insane? Yes.

Crazy? Definitely.

Possessed to skate? God Damn Right!!

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/david-gonzalez-possessed-to-skate/

Hipster and the Clowns

Sep 25,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

This video was one of the Teasers I put together prior to the What the “F” Video so a lot of this footage got used in there. But there’s some older Leeside Clips from before it started getting built higher in there, and also a couple street spots that were really fun and don’t exist anymore. Definitely worth a peek.

It starts of with Clint Proulx shotgunning 5 Budweiser’s in a row on the ramp and then gets into the skating. Myself, Jeff Cole, Jon Irvine, Justin James, Carrie Williams, and a couple dudes who’s name I can’t remember – I’m gonna guess this one was 2008

check it

Extreme Sports Skateboarding

Holy Kwantlen Park Demo

Sep 25,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Ironically, if you’ve never been to Kwantlen Skate Park you’ll think these tricks were easy. But this is got to be one of the shittiest Skate Parks there is. The obstacles are built pretty good, but they never levelled out the ground, so you’re always going either uphill or downhill. It helps for some tricks but is a real bitch for others.

I’m always amazed if I drive by this park and see anyone there, nobody skates it anymore now that Chuck Bailey Skate Park is right around the corner. It’s also in a rough part of town. But every now and then one of the old locals will go back for a taste, and this time it was Peter Kelly taking Travis Emerson with him, and what a Demo.

Major technical skills comin’ out. Solid job Boys!!

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If you want to check out the park it’s at Old Yale Rd and 104^th Ave in Surrey, unless you’re scared…

Extreme Sports Skateboarding

The Dominator Breaks his Wrist

Sep 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

One week after being named The King of Surrey 2012, Dominic Devries snaps his wrist at CIBC Rail yesterday. This kid is one of the biggest names out here in the young guns age. He’s only 15 or 16 years old and skates like a madman, tearing up street obstacles. Solid flip tricks, rail tricks and sick style and control. He’s a Mega-Champ in my eyes.

We were supposed to meet up tomorrow to film his GLORY DAZE with Hippie Mike part. This is actually the second time it got delayed due to Dominic breaking his wrist, once right before summer and now this one, same wrist too. We’ll get’r done soon though.

Find him on facebook and send him your love.

Check the nasty footage of the break

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Then watch Dominic’s Summer 2012 video to see his skills in action

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Surrey Stu shows off in Scotland

Sep 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Protest Team Rider Stu Benoit had to head to Scotland recently for work and of course he hit up some Skate Parks while he was there. Here’s a quick clip of Stu showin’ off for 2 of his favourite types of kids – a Rollerblader and Scooter Kid

Nice!!

The Old Hippie Mike

Sep 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

You all know I’ve been on this scene for a long, long time. But some of you out there have only known me for a few years, so you might not know the old Hippie Mike. I grew up a full street skater since we had no skate parks unless we built them ourselves somewhere. So I had lots of flip tricks and loved drops and gaps. It was 2004 when I blew my knee and had to give up a lot of what I loved to do, but I never slowed down on my skating, I just changed up my style a bit and stopped doing big drops. When you see me now I’m usually cruisin’ some fast tranny lines or gettin’ tech on the quarter pipes, but this video takes you back to before I got hurt and was out in the streets all the time finding new spots.

I made this video for my Dad as a Christmas Gift in 2003. It was a montage from my skating from that year. Everyone knows I loved my Dad and I used to send him footage of my skateboarding all the time, I’m not sure if he even watched it, but I think he did. Either way, this one was for him.

Filmed on an old Hi8 Video Camera, it’s a little pixely but definitely worth a watch. Get to know the Hippie Mike you might not have had the chance to meet in the past, a drinkin’, lovin’, Happy Hippie who had lots of talent, determination and heart

Final Jam at Guildford Bowl

Sep 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

As far as I’ve been told, the construction of the Olympic sized Lap Pool at the Guildford Recreation Centre begins the first week of October which means we only have 1 week left to skate the Guildford Bowl so get out there and make use of the short time that remains. The Bowl has to be removed because the corner of this new Lap Pool building is going to land right in the centre of the Bowl. The rest of the Park with all the Street Obstacles will still be open, but the construction fence surrounding the Bowl will go up soon and the destruction of the Bowl will follow shortly. It’s a real shame but there’s not much we can do about it. At some point when the construction is complete, they will be building something else in the remaining area where the Bowl was. It’s only going to be about half the square footage of the original Bowl. I’m liking the idea of a sick concrete mini ramp with lots of features and extensions. Something unique that we don’t have everywhere else. Any suggestions for what you want to see constructed there send them my way and I’ll pass them on to the City of Surrey’s Planning Department.

So for the sake of the few people that actually called Guildford Skate Park their Home Park at any point in their lives, let’s hook up for one more solid film session and make some memories

Ledge ‘n’ Dairy Love

Sep 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Another great event at Chuck Bailey Skate Park. It’s awesome how many different types of contests have been held at Chuck in the past year and a half since it opened. This was another first, and I’m sure it will happen again next year because it was definitely a success. Lots of rippers there from all over the mainland, but mainly Surrey, Langley, Delta, Tsawwassen. 3 Best Trick obstacles and then the ledge battle, with over $1000 to give away.

It started in the deep end of the bowl, and shit was goin’ down. Fighter hit a solid invert revert, Allen Handley was droppin’ Miller Flips, I saw someone bust a switch Judo Blunt, and Hashbrown battled hard for a Blunt Kickflip, which he unfortunately didn’t land. Andy Anderson took the $100 in this one with a Frontside 5-0 across the whole wall 270 out. Yeah Andy!!

On to the Channel Gap, or as some call it, The Chimney. Magnus Hansen was killing this thing with every trick imaginable both directions and I think he won it but I’m not sure. There were so many amazing tricks that went down over that thing. The ones I remember were Back Tailslide Revert, Miller Flip, Kickflip Fakie, Alleyoop Back Smith. It was sick.

Then we moved to the hip to hip. I personally got things started with a Halfcab Kickflip, and there was a ton of tricks to follow both directions. My favs I saw were Bigspin Tailgrab, Fakie Inward Bigspin, Nollie 360 Heelflip and Hasbrown’s Miracle Flip. I think he might have taken the prize money on that one, but I know Magnus was really close to hitting a 540 Nollie Heelflip. MC Cyrus Thiedeke really wanted to see that one and kept pushing Magnus for more tries. So close buddy.

Last event was on the flat ledges and this was where you skate until you miss a trick and then you’re out. Once it’s down to 3 skaters, the judges would decide who won by the Best Tricks that those 3 had landed. There was about 50-60 people to start, and some of the big timers went out early. Dustin Locke, Shawn Beaupre, Brendan Neilsen Tommy Gudmunson, Matt Cook didn’t make the cut. Magnus Hansen was right there till the end, and definitely threw some of the most tech tricks, but your Top 3 ended up being Dominic Devries, Trevor Greig and Jorden Murray. They all got money, but Jorden won.

At the end the judges decided who was the Top Skater of the Day, and they had a bit of an issue picking just one. It came down to Andy Anderson and Magnus Hansen, but since Magnus didn’t particpate in the Bowl Section they gave him $100 and Andy took home $200. Way to go Andy, Protest Represent!!

Thanks to Cons, Coastal Riders, and Color magazine for puttin’ it on…

Youth Fest Demo – Guildford Bowl

Sep 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Another classic Youth Fest Bowl demo, but unfortunately, the last one. That’s right, I mentioned it before, the Guildford Bowl has to be removed to accommodate the construction of the new pool attached to the Rec Centre. So that made this Bowl Demo that much more special.

It was the Skate vs. BMX Demo with Andy Anderson and James Van de Kamp leading, and me Hippie Mike on the mic. Ryan Brynelson was also there doing Freestyle demos throughout the building. Everybody just rode together in the Bowl having a good time and then at 6pm we started the battle demo. Each Captain chose some Team members from the people that were present and they rode in 10 minute heats getting cheers from the crowd to see who was most loved. The skaters by far were getting more cheers but the Bikers had the most excited females. Lots of good tricks and smooth flow from both teams, and Andy and James were great leaders.

Thanks to everyone for coming out, and glad the skaters prevailed. I had a great time hosting the event, and throwing bananas… You had to be there.

Skate Team

Andy Anderson
Allen Handley
Brad Muscat
Riley Allen
Josh Lewis
Adam Lewis

BMX Team

James Van de Kamp
Kyle Lee
Wade Danchuk
Tyson Casey