Video Skateboard – Dew Tour Portland Skateboard Vert – Fresh off his X Games gold in the vert ramp, Pierre Luc Gagnon, has followed it up with a win at the Wendy’s Invitational in Portland. It was the second stop of the Dew Tour and PLG dominated with multiple 720s, and flip tricks on almost every wall in between.
Bottom Line: 3D adds a little something extra to this movie-length advertisement for X Games.
Only in the loosest sense is “X Games 3D: The Movie” an actual movie. Essentially a promotional film for extreme action sports and ESPN, the network that developed the sports franchise, the footage hits theaters with the added attraction of 3D.
3D does lend an exciting new dimension — yes, let’s use the word — to this death-defying sports competition with its jaw-dropping stunts. Enthusiasts, most of whom are young men, will jam theaters during the film’s one-week engagement. But it’s hard to imagine anyone else, other than willing dates, being interested.
After shooting something like 50 hours of 2008 X Games events …Â Details
Dew Tour athletes routinely perform jaw-dropping tricks because they love the sport. But as professionals, they also do it for the money.
Some of the 150 competitors in Portland for the past few days make a fabulous living, most of it coming through endorsements, exhibitions and business ownership.
The Dew Tour’s prize purse is $2.5 million, including year-end bonuses in 2009, and few are getting rich off the contest earnings. First prize in each discipline in Portland is $15,000, but most of the athletes will collect a check for less than $1,000.
At the top end of the earnings pile is skateboard sensation Ryan Sheckler, who earned …Â Details
The second event in the 3rd Annual Supergirl Jam takes place on Wednesday, August 19, at Woodward West action sports camp in Tehachapi, California—the Supergirl Pro-Am Jam Skateboard Street contest. The Pro-Am Jam is the new contest added this year to the Supergirl Jam, the action sports industry’s only large-scale, all-female action sports competition and lifestyle festival, featuring more than 100 female pros in surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and inline skating. Designed to support female empowerment, creativity, independence and strength, the Supergirl Jam provides these young ladies with a platform on which to showcase their skills and infuse the action sports industry with new talent. The Supergirl Pro-Am Jam lends itself specifically to that goal.
Not only is a prize purse of $7,000 up for grabs at the Supergirl Pro-Am Jam, the top amateur will receive entry into the Supergirl Jam finale event at Venice Beach on…Â Details