http://www.champeen.com Welcome to Skateboarding ... Now Go Home Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:33:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Head over to EXPN.com for a great interview with one of our favorites, Brian Anderson. BA discusses some of the legendary contest runs he's had, Brian Lotti and where he learned 360 flips, the difficulty of pulling off a hockey jersey as cool gear, shooting guns, street pirates and of course ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/11/26/ba-at-expn/ Just announced ------ Thrasher magazines' Skater of the Year for 2008 is Silas Baxter-Neal. CONGRATS SILAS!!! photo: O'Meally http://www.champeen.com/2008/11/21/thrasher-soty-2008/ I didn't attend, but a friend stopped by. Took place today in the Lower East Side. More photos here. http://www.champeen.com/2008/11/01/start-shredding-the-news-new-york-city-rooftop-skate-contest/ We're unabashed Gonz fans here at the CHMP, but we've (or at least I've) been consistenly let down by the sneakers he's designed for adidas. Simply put, it just looks like he's trying too hard. That is until I saw these Doleys. I know I'm probably a few months behind the curve ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/23/mark-gonzales-finally-got-the-sneaker-thing-right/ This weekend, I caught NBC's and USA's coverage of the street and vert finals in the 2008 Dew Tour finals in Orlando, Fla. Here are a few scattered thoughts on the whole proceedings: -- The "play-by-play" guy was less than stellar. In fact, he sucked. Badly. He didn't know much about ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/23/thoughts-on-pierre-luc-gagnon-and-chaz-ortiz-winning-the-2008-dew-tour/ A whole slew of new material coming from the FLIP crew recently. The 'Flip Feast' is soon to be visiting a town near you, if you live in the southwest of this here US of A.  Coming this November Lance Mountain, Rune Glifberg, Mark Appleyard, David Gonzalez, Geoff Rowley and ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/17/flip-skateboardsextremely-sorry/ About a year ago I posted a video of Robbie Russo skating the flip out of a pool (it originally ran on Thrasher). It's gotten over 10,000 views and is filled with comments like: "how does a kid get so much style at such a young age" and "the future ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/17/robbie-russo-just-might-save-skateboarding/ Michael Brick has a feature in today's New York Times about the life, and death, of Van Wastell. It's a solid read, maybe a tad overdone at times, that touches gingerly upon the issue of pro skateboarders' party-hearty lifestyle and whether it puts them at risk. In death, he has drawn ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/17/new-york-times-pays-homage-to-van-wastell/ There's something about skateboarding on natural surfaces that I've always found highly watchable. From Jeremy Wray's part in "One Step Beyond" to Rick McCrank's chilly steez in "Menikmati", I've always been intrigued by the concept of piloting urethane on grass, dirt, snow, and what have you. Well, Krooked upped the ante ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/14/ryan-holloway-shreds-the-forest-in-new-zip-zinger-wheels-commercial/ Vans  Downtown Showdown happened over the past weekend.  I didn't view it live so I'm settling for the great vids over at the Skateboard.com. Four different team's were asked to create and construct their representative obstacle.  The teams that were asked were:  Girl - '3 Pump Dump', Foundation - 'Lunar Eclipsey ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/14/vans-downtown-showdown-aka-look-at-creatures-five-points-of-evil/ Way back in 1992, Spike Jonze made his music video debut as co-director of Sonic Youth's 100% video.  He and Tamra Davis interspersed shots of Jason Lee, Guy Mariano, and Spike skating around the streets of LA with shots of the band playing live.  He would soon go on to ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/09/skateboarding-music/ Late on this one too....but i'm pretty excited about this HD reissue of a modern classic in Skate Cinema.  3 Disc Box set - 1 Blu-ray disc, 2 SD DVD discs + some extra stuff I'm sure. I know we give a lot of love and coverage to Lakai here on ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/09/lakaifinal-flare/ Nike Skateboarding has put together a nice little promo site for the new collaboration (re:  SHOE) between these two legends.  I'm always stoked to see the name Lance Mountain, and to see that C.R. Stecyk is the other designer involved...it almost certainly guarantees some love from me. Although they consider it ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/09/lance-stecyk/ Head over to Alien Workshops newish site AWS FILMWORKS to catch a few glimpses of what should be yet another interesting release from the minds in OHIO. Riders to be included are: Heath Kirchart, Josh Kalis, Anthony Van Engelen, Mikey Taylor, Omar Salazar, Dylan Rieder, Jason Dill, Steve Berra, Rob ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/08/alien-workshopmindfield/ This classic full-pager ran in Transworld back in February of 1986. I'm sure it ran elsewhere as well. You can say all you want about the relevance of there not being a board -- or the act of skateboarding -- in this ad, as well as what role the party-hard, pro-skater ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/07/random-old-school-ad-jeff-phillips-tracker/ Wanted to spread the word that -Chocolate Skateboards Art Director- Evan Hecox has just made available his most recent art print through Arkitip.  “Chinatown Numbers” is a 16″ x 20″ screenprint, has an edition of 200, and is $125. I'm always interested when I see Evan's name attached to a project.  ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/07/evan-hecox-chinatown-numbers/ Another oldie but goodie...(didn't see Randy post this one)...revealed a few weeks ago. Transworld Skateboarding's first ever Skate and Create video contest was won by the talented team over at DVS.  Over the course of nine days Andrew Brophy, Zered Bassett, Keith Hufnagel, Daewon Song, and Torey Pudwill all made the ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/07/dvs-skate-create/ Few weeks late but........Dutch Artist PARRA has gotten together with everyone's favorite ENJOI skateboards for this series of pro models. Among the riders represented are:  Louie Barletta, Cairo Foster, Jerry Hsu, Caswell Berry, & Wieger Van Wageningen.  Particularly feeling the Wieger graphics myself (far right), maybe it's the Smiths lyric.  Any ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/07/parra-enjoi/ Hello, hello...First post here on the Champ.  Just wanted to make myself known. Rdizzle and myself will be trying to bring our many years of on board experience and taste making to this here interweb. We have some differences in focus, but it's still all love for the stuntwood.  I'll do ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/10/07/intro-duction/ I'd imagine these team reels are flooding the nets like mad, but here's Plan B's coverage of P-Rod, Sheckles and Sherm at the Maloof Money Cup ... And for posterity's sake, here are the final results: Street: 1 Paul Rodriguez 2 Nyjah Huston 3 Chris Cole 4 Ryan Sheckler 5 Darrell Stanton 6 ... http://www.champeen.com/2008/07/21/plan-bs-coverage-of-maloof-money-cup/