For the lastest dose, Tim Brodhagen keeps it all the way Brooklyn and drops into downtown BK’s Homage to talk to founder and owner Jose Portes. Portes drops knowledge on what it takes to open and run a successful shop, Homage’s skate team and involvement in local community, and what core means to him. Don’t miss it.
The adidas team came through NYC to skate Coleman Park this week so Tim Brodhagen headed down to catch up with Benny Fairfax, Dennis Busenitz, and Lucas Puig who murked the park along with Silas Baxter-Neal, Pete Eldridge, Nestor Judkins and a huge crew of NYC locals.
The 7th Red Bull Manny Mania Pro and Am finals went down at Coleman Park in NYC this past weekend with some of the sickest technical skating ever seen in one place. Check out the new dose as Tim Brodhagen talks to Joey Brezinsky, Torey Pudwill, Brandon Biebel, Derek Fukuhara and more about what makes Manny Mania so rad.
One of the best booths at Agenda this year had to be Chrome’s custom bag project where a talented Chrome seamstress walked you through picking out materials and then assembled a bag of your creation. Our own Tim Brodhagen was lucky enough to land one which you can see after the jump.
dose took it to Long Beach for Agenda and linked with Leo Romero to talk about his new brand Eswic and his new shoe with Emerica, the Troubador. Enjoy.
Converse blazed into NYC last weekend for the first ever “City Carnage,” a re-interpretation of their “Coastal Carnage” event series. Tim Brodhagen was there to catch Kenny Anderson, Rune Glifberg, Tom Remillard, Jason Jessee, Sammy Baca, Nick Trapasso, Eli Reed, Mike Anderson, Raymond Molinar and Julian Davidson enjoy the riverside radness of the bowl at Pier 62 skatepark.
In the latest dose Tim Brodhagen gets some time with Jim Greco at the 1 year anniversary party for the Supra store in SoHo. Between sets from DJ Premier and Party Supplies and appearances from NYC’s skateboard community, Greco unveils his new Supra pro model The Hammer and goes in on how he’s become as successful in the skateboard business as he has in skateboarding.
This week on dose, Eric Koston gives a firsthand look at his new 3 piece sunglass collection with Oakley and then gets into what it was like to get the Epicly Later’d treatment. As always, Koston is an interesting dude. Another look at the Frogskins after the jump. Hit Network A on Facebook to win a pair.
Every year, Go Skateboarding Day in NYC gets more insane and 2012 brought it to a whole nother level. Check out all the action as Tim Brodhagen talks to Eric Koston, P-Rod, Stefan Janoski, and Erik Ellington as well as locals Billy Rohan, Rodney Torres, and Luis Tolentino about what it’s like for skateboarders to take over the greatest city in the world.
When you hear that the entire Girl team will be skating anywhere remotely close to where you’re at, the question really isn’t if you’re gonna go, it’s how are you gonna get there? That’s exactly what Tim Brodhagen and the dose crew did when they learned that Mike Mo, Cory Kennedy, Sean Malto, Alex Olson, Rick McCrank, Guy Mariano, Brian Anderson, Jeron Wilson, Rick Howard and Brandon Biebel were hitting Baltimore for the Zumiez Couch Tour. In a word, it was rad! The Zumiez Couch Tour hits West Nyack New York tomorrow for Go SKateboarding Day with the Volcom team. Go here for all the details.
