I was riding the bus in Austin, when I started seeing skateboarders out my left window. I noticed they kept coming so picked up my phone ran to the other window and started recording. Southbound off of Congress. About halfway through you see a whole bunch of skaters hitching a ride on a cop car. I ran out if room on my phone but they kept coming down for a good 10 minutes. Congress was totally shut down. It was pretty awesome. In celebration of Go Skateboarding Day!
Rounds 4 and 5 featured some of the most impressive performances of the year so far due in part to near perfect conditions at Keramas. Standouts include Joel Parkinson with a perfect 20 heat score, Josh Kerr, and Julian Wilson.
Take three parts equal love for shooting photos, editing video, and riding bikes. Next toss in that nagging impulse to do something different, even if it requires hours of torturous work, and this video is what you get. In case your eyes deceive you, this is a stop-motion video. Every frame of the video is a photograph, the rider and the bike laying posed on a concrete floor. The ground and trees were later drawn on each photo with a digital pen. Weeks of planning, thirty-five hours of photography totally 1000 pictures, followed by fifty long hours at the computer editing photos, audio, and video. 10,000 minutes of combined work for a two minute video? All worth it if it puts a smile on your face and sparks some creativity in your mind. Thanks for watching.
The Oakley Pro Bali, Event No. 5 of 10 on the 2013 ASP World Championship Tour (WCT), resumed competition today, completing Rounds 4 and 5 in excellent six-to-eight foot (2 – 2.5 metre) barrels at the primary venue of Keramas.
Taj Burrow (AUS), 35, current ASP WCT No. 4, opened up this morning’s proceedings with an excellent 18.30 out of a possible 20 heat total, weaving through a number of impress forehand barrels to advance directly into the Quarterfinals.
“I’m pretty happy to skip that next round,” Burrow said. “The last few events I got stuck … More