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unusual facts about skateboard



AKA: Girl Skater

The documentary follows Dave Carnie (from Big Brother Skateboard Magazine) as he leads pro skaters Amy Caron, Vanessa Torres, Monica Shaw, and Jaime Reyes on a tour of Australia, visiting a variety of skate parks and tourist attractions.

Alex Chalmers

Chalmers is known for his love of Coca-Cola, claiming to drinking anywhere from 6-12 cans a day in Flip's skateboard video Sorry.

He has done skateboarding stunt work in such films as Freddy Got Fingered starring Tom Green, and can be seen in skateboard videos such as Flip-Sorry, Tony Hawk's Great Skatepark Tour, and in the White Album, a documentary about the professional skateboarder and snowboarder Shaun White.

Anthony Furlong

He began the year by placing third behind skateboard legends Bucky Lasek and Bob Burnquist at Tampa Pro.

Bonfire Pipe to Pipe

The skateboard contest takes place down the hill at Windells Camp near Welches, Oregon.

Pipe to Pipe is a snowboard and skateboard contest sponsored by Bonfire Snowboarding and Windells Snowboard Camp.

Bucky Lasek

Lasek made a cameo in the low-budget 2003 movie Haggard, in which he hands a skateboard to Bam Margera while he runs from the villain Hellboy.

California Free Former

(Original and reenacted footage from the Free Former World Skateboard Championships was prominently featured in the feature film "Lords of Dogtown.")

Color magazine

Color Magazine, a skateboard lifestyle culture quarterly published in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

D*Face

He credits this to Henry Chalfant's coverage of subway graffiti in New York City in Spraycan Art and Subway Art, later as a teenager skateboarding and in particular Thrasher magazine's coverage of skateboard deck graphics led his interest in stickers and the DIY mentality associated with skate and punk fanzines.

Eric Swenson

Born in San Francisco, Swenson was the chief skateboard designer for the Independent Truck Company which he co-founded with skateboard entrepreneur Fausto Vitello in 1978.

Erik Ellington

Ellington cofounded the skateboard deck brand Deathwish with professional skateboarder Jim Greco in 2008 and, as of 2013, the two partners continue to co-own the company.

Gareth Roe

His company sponsors the RoeRacing Slalom Skateboard Team, which includes Michael Dong, the 2003, 2004, and 2005 World Cyber Slalom Champion and Judi Oyama Women's Slalom World Champion in 2003 and number one Women's Masters Slalom Champion for 2005 and 2006.

Harrow Skate Park

Its pool design was based on the keyhole pool at Skateboard Heaven in Spring Valley, California.

LOVE Park

Ricky Oyola and Roger Browne, Fred Gall and Matt Reason were early Philadelphia skateboard pioneers who began to explore the space.

Macbeth Athletics

Macbeth Footwear is a company created by Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus from the platinum selling punk band Blink 182 and Jon Humphrey, a former concert promoter and vice president of the skateboard company Adio Shoes.

Matthew Flinders' Cat

It records the relationship between a homeless former lawyer and alcoholic, and a young skateboard riding boy with a troubled background, who slowly bond over tales of Matthew Flinders and "Trim", a cat who travelled with him on his voyage to explore Australia.

Peggy Oki

She was on the original Zephyr skateboard team also known Z-Boys.

Per Welinder

Per Welinder was a stunt double for some of Michael J. Fox´s skateboard scenes in the classic 1985 time travel movie Back to the Future.

Peter Ramondetta

He eventually became known as the "local hero"—a title earned after skateboarding at Tulsa's famed downtown Bartlet Square, with Kerry Getz, Elissa Steamer, Brian Anderson, and Ed Templeton, following a skateboard demo held by the Toy Machine team.

Phineas and Ferb: Ride Again

It continues with the two inventor brothers, Phineas and Ferb, making another four big projects, including a rockin' skateboard course and a spaceship.

PJ Ladd

In addition to professional skateboarders Arto Saari, Levi Brown, and Tom Karangelov, Ladd is a team member of the inaugural "NB#" ("New Balance Numeric") skateboard team that is owned by the New Balance shoe company.

RESFest

The first year’s program featured work from pioneering music video and motion graphics studio H-Gun Labs, England’s design collective Tomato, digital designer Nick Philip and filmmaker Spike Jonze, whose early skateboard short films were screened.

Ronnie Creager

Creager was sponsored by Tensor, the skateboard truck brand founded by skateboard pioneer Rodney Mullen—Creager released signature truck models with the brand.

Scot Breithaupt

In 1978 at the track in Carson, California, called the Runway because it was next to the skateboard park, Breithaupt ran NBS-sanctioned races.

Shooting Action Sports

The book features tips and tricks from shoots around the globe; from Vans skateboard and snowboard events to behind-the-scenes shoots on Rob Cohen's action blockbuster, xXx, starring Vin Diesel.

Stansbury Park, Utah

The parks throughout Stansbury Park include baseball diamonds, soccer fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, play areas for children, skateboard park, and an astronomical observatory.

Sylvester Jr.

He appears as a boss in the third world in the video game The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, riding his skateboard.

Tea for the Voyage

During the summer of 2007, the band's track "Toast" was used by skateboard company Concrete Wave as the theme for their 2007 Evolutions DVD.

Tom and Jerry: The Movie

Eventually, Aunt Figg and Lickboot end up with their 1955 Austin-Healey 100 stuck in the mud on a farm, and once they get out, they destroy a bridge by dragging their pet dog Ferdinand's skateboard across, causing Applecheek to fall into the river and crashing into Kiddie and Squawk.

World Industries

In 2007, Whyte House Productions released The Man Who Souled the World, a documentary about Steve Rocco and the creation of World Industries, as well as his other skateboard related companies and ventures.


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