Inaugural Colorado Downhill Skateboard Race Triumphs Over Inclement Weather
International field of professional skateboard racers converges on mountain road to battle the challenging course and Mother Nature
Forty-eight Downhill skateboard racers travelled from as far as the Czech Republic to participate in the first Buffalo Bill Downhill, held in Golden, CO, on May 9th & 10th. For many, the one-mile mountain course was demanding enough in itself, but rain and heavy fog on Sunday morning left some of the favorites watching rather than participating in the finals. The racers had Saturday to practice, develop their strategies, and test out their equipment. Few were prepared to deal with the next day's wet surface conditions and poor visibility.
Serge Berig is about to embark on an epic adventure. He's going to skateboard across the continental United States, using his LBL, his own leg power and dedication to the fight against breast cancer. He's got the route, he's going alone without support vehicles and he's going to be blogging his progress. Check out out and, in a few weeks (when he's desperate and reduced to eating Funyuns and scraps of hamburger left in truck stop dumpsters) toss him a few bucks using the link you'll find down below. Toss him a few more, and the excess all goes to charity.
Skate For The Twins
Hey guys. My name is Serge Berig and i've been an avid longboarder for close to three years now. I'd like to start off by telling you about what I have planned for this summer and the inspiration behind it. On May 22, 2009, I will travel to Annapolis, Maryland where I will embark on a 3500 mile journey across the country. I have partnered with the American Breast Cancer Foundation and will be fundraising for them, with a modest fundraising goal of $1000. The name of the trip is "Skate for the Twins". Along the way, I also hope to promote alternative transportation methods. My final destination will be San Francisco, California, where the adventure will reach its conclusion. Mark Dalmacio, from KickPushCure, might join me on the last stretch of the trip as well.
I hope to average around 45 miles per day, which means the trip will take around two and a half months to complete. The trip will involve camping whenever possible, and there will not be any chase cars or sag wagons. The trip is self-financed, meaning that my personal expenses will be around $2000 with food costs, motel stays etc... taken into account.
Attack of Danger Bay 8 is less than 2 weeks away. What started as an event with 12 riders and 40 spectators has exploded into the worlds largest longboarding festival. Spanning 6 days, with a cross-country push race, one of the biggest slide comps in the world, a Longboaridng parade, the longboard hockey championship game, head-to-head racing in Jakes Rash for Strikers cash, 3 nights of kick ass punk rock, the biggest race in the world, and now all being followed up with another world class race on Jake’s Rash.
Bricin Lyons, aka Striker, has been working his ass off to ensure everyone gets their mind thoroughly blown. Year after year he has devoted months to the planning and organization of this world class event, making sure it’s always better than last year. The planning process has Strike traveling to the sunshine coast every week, organizing volunteers, arranging the Campground, and among other things, talking with every neighbor on the DB race course. It’s a huge job to run an event of this caliber.
Attached is the photo of the Puerto Rico Downhill Team to represent our Island at Danger Bay in Vancouver, Canada between 14 to 21 May 2009.
The boys are the best downhill skateboarders the Island has to offer. They are equiped, pumped, and ready...
There is still time for sponsorships if anyone receiving this message is interested. For those of you on the Island media, please help us achieve maximum discemination and recognition for these athletes... They have worked arduosly all year long doing fund raisers such as car washes and collection drives to get the money to travel to Vancouver.
We wish them the very best.
The riders are from left to right: Juan Rodriguez, Ian Rodriguez, Kenneth Barreto, Jose (Cholo) Abrams, Jomar Guzman, Hernan (Pito) Velez, Luis (Guzmi) Guzman, and Clifford Deida.
Any questions can be directed to me at (787)955-5069
Once a season, usually in Spring, the publisher of Concrete Wave charters a jet from the Great White North, zooms down to SoCal, rents "something appropriate" with chrome rims and plenty of horsepower and then variously hits the links with the Corporate at Torrey Pines, rips Swami's with Breamo, skates Surf City with the Mad Professor and even drops in on meaningless hacks before scootin' on up to O'side to check in with Buddy before the run up to El Lay. We asked him to write it all down this time and this is what you get...
A Canuck in So Cal
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"What I did on my Spring Break."
Lunch in America's friendliest city.
Toronto. It's Michael Brooke here. It's been about a week since I returned to Canada from the trip to California and frankly, my head is STILL spinning! I managed to see a whole bunch of people and see some truly fascinating things. The surf trip didn't work out too well (hey, ask Pablo, he'll explain it better than I could) but for the most part, everything worked out amazingly well. I only got lost twice! Yes, even with ,my trusty GPS, stuff happens! Don't mess with Malakai or EBasil. They will hunt you down and kill you...if you don't buy them lunch! Which, I did right after I got off the plane in San Diego... at a nice restaurant with the odd name of "Jimmy Carters." Actually, this photo came about when I asked for more bandwidth.
Following are are some highlights from the rest of my trip...draw your own conclusions!
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