Ride’s season crowning event, The Shakedown at Snoqualmie jumps off tomorrow at the Summit at Snoqualmie. Rad ass features, a ridiculous rider list that includes E-man, Dan Brisse, Darrell Mathes, Dustin Craven, Forest Bailey, Lucas Magoon, Marc McMorris, Sebastien Toutant, Yale Cousino, and a bunch more plus a healthy emphasis on partying, the Shakedown is definitely one of the year’s raddest throwdowns. The Canadian version goes down at St. Saveur on April 2.
Omar Salazar and Nike SB threw a two day shredfest in the Bay Area this week to coincide with his new signature shoe drop. Rad Collector columnist Tracy Anderson was out west to skate Sac Town, BBQ with the Thrasher heads, tour Deluxe, and kick it with Omar, P-Rod, Koston, Stefan Janoski, Brian Anderson, Justin Brock and a long list of other SB shreds as well as to get the story about what it took for Omar to get his shoe turned into a reality. We’ll be dropping some rad videos shortly, for now peep a couple behind the scenes pics after the jump.
Amidst all the chaos of Vancouver, Nike 6.0 threw a mellow rail jam on the sun soaked slopes of Mt Seymour called Greatest Hits last weekend. With the ocean and the city skyline sparkling in the background, local Van shredders got to hit full scale recreations of the Red Ledge, Burlington Double Set, and a BC Electrical Box while Louie Vito, Greg Bretz, and Elena Hight got to have their first chill-out day on the hill all year. Here’s Greg and Louie as well as some of the action from the day. Read more on ESPN.
In what will hopefully be a mellower event devoid of trumped up scandals, Nike 6.0 is putting their recreation of the famed Burlington Double Set at Mt. Seymour to the test as part of their rad Greatest Hits program. Van locals as well as Pro/Olympians Greg Bretz, Louie Vito, and Elena Hight will be around to kick it and see what pops off on the set. Full info after the jump.
Chad Muska will be at Dave’s Quality Meats in NYC tomorrow to help promote the release of the new Supra Heartbreaker Skytop. How the hell they plan on getting Muska up and in the mood to sign shit by 11am is another story. DQM is located at 7 East 3rd street.
Last week we told you about the Hurley x Pendleton suare going down at Saturdays Surf in Soho to launch their new flannel Boardshirt collabo, now check out the nice video recap they made of the occasion.
Parts of the northern hemi are buried in snow right now while others are bare as a baby’s ass, and the southern hemi, well it’s summer there but still this Sunday, December 20 is World Snowboard Day. Being recognized by 127 resorts and mad cities around the globe, it’s gonna be a total shred takeover. Hit up their rad site for events in your area.
The last thing to come from the massive Tony Hawk Show x Quiksilver 40th anniversary jumpoff in Paris last weekend is this limited edition deck by Andre. Far doper than your average limited edition but still mass produced piece, these decks were hand painted by Andre on-site at the Grand Palais and were only available to people who were there. As long as Andre’s star continues to rise and Tony Hawk doesn’t murder anyone, or even if he does, these are gonna be worth some loot.
Between X Games and everything Danny Way does, it would seem that skateboarding could go no bigger. Well with Tony Hawk at the helm of the massive Quiksilver empire on their 40th anniversary you best believe, anything can and did happen. The preview shots we showed you did no justice to the scene at the Grand Palais once it was filled with funk of thousands of spliff rolling French people. Imagine the Smithsonian in Washington or City Hall in NYC mobbed with drunken shredders going off. That’s right you can’t, because it would never happen. But that’s the beauty of France, anything goes. The day started with a street contest dominated by Bastien Salabanzi followed by Eero Antilla, and Chris Pfanner but then quickly escalated into all out craze, first with a fashion show featuring 40 of Quik’s top athletes like Kelly Slater, Travis Rice, and Alex Olson, and then onto the main event. With Busy P on the decks, Tony, Sergie Ventura, Jesse Fritsch, Andy Mac, Sandro Dias, Jean Postec, Kevin Staab, and Lyn-Z Adams gave a once in a lifetime performance that included a rare 900 from Tony and Lyn-Z’s first ever McTwist. When the show was over, every major athlete in the Quicksilver organization and about 1000 lucky beautiful people and shred-heads got to party til almost dawn to the sounds of Mix Master Mike and the ambiance of a maison du burlesque. It was off the hook. Hit up ESPN Skateboarding for additional photos and video or stay here and hit up some more pics after the jump, either way is all good.
The Tony Hawk Show is only a few hours away and Paris is on fire like it’s the World Series and the SuperBowl combined. It’s crazy, everyone has skate fever and the venue is close to being the sickest of all time, for real. Check out these preview shots from the Grand Palais that illustrate just how bananas this thing is going to be. More after the jump.
