Archive for the ‘Board Sports’ Category
The Best Foot Forward Europe Tour 2021 came to its grande finale: The Finals in Innsbruck on the 2nd of October! All winners of the 10 stops through 5 countries came together to battle it out for the big prize purse.
Tom Morey, who invented the Boogie Board in Hawaii, allowing belly wave riding, has died at 86.
Morey died on October 14 in Laguna Hills, Calif., from complications of a strike, his son Sol told The New York Times Friday.
“Tom Morey’s invention allowed more people to experience wave riding than any person in the history of surfing,” California Surf Museum President Jim Kempton told the Times. “It didn’t create radical surfing performances, but it was a really fun and simple way for people to understand wave riding.”
Morey used an electric knife and iron he’d borrowed from a neighbor to … More
Gliding up and down ramps and executing a 180-degree turn, Japan’s 81-year-old skateboarder says mastering new tricks as he practices at a local park makes him feel happy these days.
Yoshio Kinoshita picked up his first skateboard at a market selling unclaimed items that were left at a train station two years ago.
Though he had doubts about whether he could manage to even use it, he took a leap of faith and bought it at the tempting price of 800 yen ($7.15).
In the beginning he could only stand while holding on to the hand railings. But he soon got the hang of it and is now able to ride around the park with other skateboarders who are around a quarter of his age.