“Big Hair, Big Air and a Bigger Heart” – The Surrey Now

Jul 26,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

With Hippie Mike’s Tour de Surrey being such a popular and long running event I usually get approached by at least one local media outlet each year to discuss it. Last year I was on “Gen Y” which is a segment on the Shaw Cable show The Express. This year, The Surrey Now requested an interview. I was all for it, it’s a great way to let people know about the acceptance of skateboarding into our society now, and to promote the event in a positive way for those who might not know about it.

Here’s the article

http://www.thenownewspaper.com/sports/hair+bigger+heart/6991540/story.html

Don’t forget to come out to Fleetwood Park this Saturday, July 28^th to check out the event. This one starts early – 10am

Show Up Mike – Park Addition!! New Richmond Park

Jul 24,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

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Located on Granville Ave near No. 2 rd, beside the Thompson Community Centre, it opened on Go Skateboard Day, June 21^st, and although I wasn’t that hyped on it when I saw it, I figured I should film my 5 tricks there and add it into the mix for Show Up Mike. You can tell a new skatepark isn’t that awesome when you show up on a Friday afternoon 2 weeks after it opens and the only people in the park are 25 Asian Seniors doing the Cha Cha to Ricky Martin…

Either way, here’s my 5 tricks there – now go Show me UP!

Still 2 more months to enter your videos.

Protest Team Rider – Andy Anderson gets 2nd at Kensington!!

Jul 22,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Most skateboarders around the Lower Mainland know Andy Anderson by now, especially if they’re into Bowl Skating or from anywhere in Surrey. Andy’s one of those really young kids that is way too full of energy and has a bag of tricks bigger than Santa’s sack. He won the titles of King of the Bowls & King of Surrey last year at age 15. He shreds any transition, and loves that Kensington Pool. Making up for missing the session with Mike McGill there last Saturday Andy showed up at Kensington Skate Park today for the make-up contest put on by BLVD Skate Shop and Vans Off The Wall and got 2^nd place, winning $250!!

Way to go Andy – Protest Represent!

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Ryan Brynelson Makes Front Page News

Jul 20,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Here’s a photo that was on the cover of The Surrey Now (July 10^th, 2012) of Protest Team Rider,Ryan Brynelson skating Freestyle at the Surrey Pride Festival along with the blurb below his photo. No matter where this kid skates, people are instantly watching him, and wanting to see more. Way to rip it up Ryan!!

World-ranked freestyle skateboarder, Delta’s Ryan Brynelson, 20, was on hand at the Pride Festival in Holland Park on Sunday, showcasing a few of the high-skill moves that have catapulted him to the top of his sport.

Photograph by: GORD GOBLE, Surrey NOW

The rest of the article about the pride festival is below.

http://www.thenownewspaper.com/story.html?id=6907332

Ryan Brynelson Rips it

Jul 9,2012 / By Hippie Mike / 2 Comments

Well we sponsored the Surrey Pride Festival went as a vendor. There were tons of people there having a great time, it was super sunny and hot. The music was pretty good, I liked the first band – Goatface Killaz. They were pretty funny, and they were totally stoked when Ryan Brynelson walked up and threw down his board in front of the stage and started ripping it up Freestyle. Handstand kickflips, Pogos and Spins, and just Walking the Dog across the entire park, the crowd’s attention was suddenly turned to him and the band recognized it right away, calling him “Skater Guy” and giving him props over the microphone while singing their songs.

Ryan attracted many people over to watch him skate as he put on short demos throughout the day and lots of people were taking photos of him. I heard a lot of people talking about how amazing he was.

We showed up, me and Jaden sold some gear, and Ryan Brynelson ripped it. It was a good day.

Protest.

Protest Skateboards Blow Out Sale

Jul 6,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Jaden and Hippie Mike will be rockin’ out this Sunday at the Surrey Pride Festival at Holland Park. We’ll have the booth set up and we’ve got tons of products for sale. Ryan Brynelson will also be present to give freestyle demos.

Summer’s Here – Time to go “Tarpless!!”

Jun 29,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

One of the moments I long for all Winter every year is getting the tarp off my ramp. It’s a luxury to be able to float a tarp over the ramp all winter so that we can skate it any time we want but it’s two completely different worlds – tarp or no tarp. When the tarp is up, it feels more like you came out just to skate, not to hang out, and you skate more like you’re on a mission. When the tarp isn’t up, you’re surrounded by the beauty of nature and the atmosphere seems way more relaxed and you just skate to have a good time. Plus everyone can actually see the ramp from anywhere in my the yard and we don’t all have to crowd into the floating fortress. We had a good chunk of the Protest Team come out to enjoy the first tarpless skate session, Jordan Strong, Cisco Gooding, Brad Muscat, Jeff Cole, Jaden Easton-Ellett, Andy Anderson, and of course myself and Carrie were both there since we live here.

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I love where I live and the fact that we can even have this funky mini-ramp and make tons of noise all the time with no complaints from anyone.

Skate to live – live to skate.

Summer’s finally here, tarp’s finally off. It’s gonna be a beautiful Summer.

Bow Down To Your Kings!!

Jun 14,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Finally, I hooked up with Andy Anderson to hand over the King of the Bowls Trophy. This trophy is a historic piece of art which was just constructed this past year to display all the winner’s names from the past 17 years. It took a lot of custom work by Eve Feaver, Don “Bushman” Wilson, and Kate McTavish (Pixie) to create, and this trophy will be passed on gracefully from King to King each year from now on. Andy Anderson, the youngest of all the Kings at the age of 15 when he won the title, was totally stoked. Finally he gets his trophy, but only gets to hold on to it for a couple months, as the next King will be announced on August 19^th at Whistler.

Bow down to all your past Kings…

Bowl Series Kings:

John Railmondo 1995

Ben Couves 1996

Alex Chalmers 1997

Gary Harris 1998

Jeff Logan 1999

Dave Priest 2000

Steve Lange 2001

Steve Denham 2002

Johnny “B” Byers 2003

Eve Feaver 2004

Dave Boyce 2005

Danny Hagge 2006

Dave “57” Krystof 2007

Don “Bushman” Wilson 2008

Don “Carver” Hartley 2009

Rob Rickaby 2010

Andy Anderson 2011

Who will be the 2012 Champion?

Will Andy be the first to claim the crown twice?

Or is that even allowed?

Only 1 way to find out…. Go to the events.

Seylynn Bowl – July 1^st

Griffin Bowl – July 15^th

White Rock Bowl – July 29^th

Squamish – August 18^th

Whistler Bowl – August 19^th

There’s A New King In Town

Jun 13,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

Andy Anderson – I say his name a lot on this website, for many reasons. So Andy was the man last summer, and at the age of 15 years old, won the prestige title – “King of the Bowls”. In order to win this title, you have to dominate 4 competitions over a huge number of very experienced competitors at all the old school bowls – Seylynn Bowl, Griffin Bowl, White Rock Bowl and Whistler Bowl. Andy was finally crowned King of the Bowls about 2 months ago but still had not received his trophy. The trophy was being constructed by Eve Feaver, Don “Bushman” Wilson, and Kate McTavish (Pixie), who each spent a lot of time hand carving, hand painting, shaping metal, and etch burning all the previous winner’s names in the base of the trophy, going all the way back to 1995.

I finally got the trophy to give to Andy and planned to meet him at Bonsor on Sunday to skate. Andy forgot to show up, and didn’t know I had the trophy, so I gave it away to my son Kaelen instead. Sorry Andy.

Give a huge round of applause to your new 2011 Bowl Series Champion, by default…

SHOW UP MIKE – The Countdown Is On!!

Jun 10,2012 / By Hippie Mike / No Comment

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The dates have been set:

Video Submissions and voting begin on June 21^st, 2012

You will have 2 months to submit as many videos as possible, with the cut off deadline date at midnight – August 21^st.

Voting will continue until September 11^th

Winners will be announced at Hippie Mike’s Tour de Surrey’s Grand Finale at South Surrey Youth Park

September 15^th

GRAND PRIZE of

$500

** There will also be 1 winner for each skate park included that will win a Protest Skateboards T-shirt **

Don’t miss out…

Click the promo flyer in the bottom right corner for more details

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