Category archive: Action Sports
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When you think just how far skateboarding has evolved the past 40 years, you can’t NOT think about the skaters who helped get us there. Take Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, for example at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in the Spring of 1985. This is nearly 30 years ago, people!! And just as the…
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OMG, you’re Losing Speed!! We all know how it goes. One day you’re surfing like little Robbie Machado in the 90s, and the next day like a Turtle crossing the road. Nothing causes a session burnout like going slow on a wave. It’s happened to us all. We flip the board over and examine the…
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Volcom’s Wild in the Parks is one of the coolest skate programs in all America, so it was pretty cool when Red Bull contacted Volcom to award one of their Wild in the Parks skaters an all expenses paid trip to compete in the Red Bull Phenom event at X-Games LA. Wild in the Parks…
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Aaron Chang. What a legend!! He is one of the most accomplished surf photographers of our time. His surfing works have been published in books and magazines all over the world. He is a teacher, a student and a very well traveled soul. He’s been shooting the surf since the 1970s and has evolved as…
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As we round the halfway mark of Summer 2013, surfboard shaping legend Doc Lausch fills us in on exactly what we should be doing before the end of the season…. By Doc Lausch 1. Take a surf/camp trip at least twice a year…. mandatory. 2. Build a quiver with the goal of having a board…
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When Newport’s Andrew Doheny aka “Droid” was young he used to ride grommet boards. And when he stepped up in size, most of his old boards went to other groms around the neighborhood. Like this old board that ended up under the feet of Newport grommet Strider Snead several years ago…. But we recently reunited the…
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Cypress, CA (August 19, 2013) – Vans, the original action sports footwear and apparel brand, kicked off its east coast surf, skate, BMX, art and music showcase today at the 51st Annual Coastal Edge East Coast Surfing Championships (CE-ECSC) presented by Vans. The festival spans eight blocks of Virginia Beach sand and includes multiple events…
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If you’re interested in taking up a new Action Sport to meet people who like the same thing, or you want to join a worldwide movement, you might want to avoid these sports. Not only are these four action sports on the fringe of the fringe, but their waning popularity could cause their extinction. By…
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The Billabong Pro Tahiti is happening right now as we speak, or type … Round 1 is in the water and the surf is a little on the small side. Still, there are some epic little tubes being ridden and we’re sure the guys will be going off all day. CLICK HERE for the Live…
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Normally we don’t do video of the day stuff, but we’ll make an exception this time considering John John Florence is the next Kelly Slater. Take his surfing in the Billabong Tahiti Pro recently … while Slater made the final, and retains the World Title points race, John John showed us all why he is…