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Imagine being able to grind to the fridge over the sofa before ollying onto the kitchen table and then skating up a wall…all without your mum telling you off.

Etnies clothing mogul and former pro-skater, Pierre-André Senizergues, has made every teenage boy’s dream a reality with his ‘PAS’ house, a paradise that’s totally designed for skateboarding.

The 48-year-old is currently having the 2,200 square foot home built in Malibu   …  Pictures and more

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Paige Duke, one of three Sprint Cup models whose job it is to meet and greet fans during NASCAR events, has been fired from Sprint after nude photos of her popped up on the Internet.

Duke, a Clemson University graduate, took the photos for her then-boyfriend six years ago.

Sprint cited an infraction of the “morality clause”   …  More

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There was an extra special holiday event this weekend at the Kings Shops in Waikoloa. The Eddie Aikau Restaurant & Surf Museum opened its doors to a huge crowd on Sunday evening. The new attraction is named after the legendary big wave surfer and Hawaiian lifeguard. He was lost at sea in 1978, paddling out to find help as a crew member aboard the capsized Hokule’a voyaging canoe.

Present for Sunday’s opening festivities were pro surfers  …  More

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Deadly attacks are rare, but watch out for fins on these shorelines.

By the time a lifeguard got to him, it was too late. Stephen Schafer was kitesurfing 500 yards off an unguarded part of Stuart Beach, in Martin County, Fla., last February when he was attacked by a swarm of sharks. “He got bit after he presumably wiped out, a very serious bite,” says George Burgess, director of theInternational Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Schafer was rushed to a local hospital, where he died of his wounds.

While shark attacks are rare, they’ve been on the rise, with 79 attacks in 2010   …  More

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