Living in Dunedin I don’t get much chance to travel to Auckland, so my own spot guide is a bit lean on Auckland skate spots. I noticed on one of my favourite blogs, the 15KP blog, that the people at Cheapskates Khyber Pass have made a google map of some Auckland skate spots. Would make a good reference if you were traveling up to Auckland for the Girl Demo and wanted to hit up some Auckland parks.
With the Girl Tour hitting Auckland on the 19th of February I remembered I had some footage that I’d shot in 1994 of another Demo in Auckland when the World Industries Team toured. The venue that they held it in was a rollerskating rink.
The film Machotaildrop is directed by Corey Adams. He won a production budget of up to $1 million for making the Best Film of “The FUEL TV Experiment”. The film was called Harvey Spannos and was featured on FuelTV in 2006. There are a few other cool films that sound cool in this article that I found on Global Surf News, but are some clips I found on You Tube of Corey’s winning entry. Maybe another cool movie to seek out and watch.
A comedy shot in Vancouver, B.C. about a young boy’s discovery that his deceased father, a professional skateboarder in 1970, died in a tragic accident trying to ollie a shark pit. Upon discovery the young boy begins looking up to a professional skateboarder and will eventually have to choose between the fun of the board and the lure of cash.
Had a wonderful weekend in Christchurch. The New Zealand leg of Volcom’s Wild in the Parks was going down at the Washington Way Skatepark. Some pretty intense skating went down especially in the Open Section.
I remember the ads, but had forgotten how brutal it all was. I also remember how sudden it was, and how skateboarding fashion changed virtually overnight. I guess Rocco got in turn what he gave the established companies, once he became one of them.
I was watching this clip which is episode 2 of “Don’t fear the Sweeper” on the Nike Skateboarding site.
and I found this interview of Koston talking about his Nike fetish.
I am interested on what the first shoe Koston will have out on Nike will look like. I was a big fan of the Koston 1 when he was on éS, and I had lots and lots of pairs in lots of colorways. I am hoping it will be a simple shoe like that. That design was the best. I even had two pairs of the Koston 3s but I never really liked them that much, too much like a basketball shoe. When I look at his choices for his favorite Nike sneakers it scared me would his shoes on Nike be an offshoot of some of those whack shoes? I think he’s rolling in Janoski’s in the clip on top so I guess he’s choosing contemporary styles these days. He was hinting in the interview that his next shoes might be a modified Dunk Hi.
As the final part of the Skate 4 Cancer Tour of New Zealand from Auckland to Dunedin by Canadian skater Rob Dyer there will be a skateboarding comp at the Thomas Burns Skatepark in Dunedin on the 20th February 2010.
Bowl-a-Rama is coming to Waitangi Skatepark, Wellington. Friday 12th February 2010 at 5pm for the heats and Saturday 13th February 2010 at 5:30pm for the finals.
I notice there’s mention of Flat-a-rama at Bondi. “…for the uninitiated; you may initially see just another game of S-K-A-T-E but once you settle in you will realise this is more about the fun involved with having a skate with your friends than the limits of a trick comp.”
Had a look for Flat-o-rama on the web but just got a bunch of car racing crap and shifting flat stuff, mind you when I type bowl-o-rama in I get ten pin bowling so guess I’ll have to wait for it to appear on the web before I can tell what makes their game of S-K-A-T-E so different from others.
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