Steph Gilmore was taken to hospital after being hit in the head twice outside her home on NSW’s far north coast. According to the article, “The 26-year-old intruder is thought to have attacked Gilmore as she walked up stairs leading to her unit in Tweed Heads …
Kevin Pearce Update: Released From Hospital
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything on Kevin Pearce’s condition but the release yesterday is good news! KP …
Jake Burton Recovering From Serious Illness
Jake Burton is recovering from a serious illness diagnosed right after the Burton Open back in March. He suffered from Miller …
Rome’s FIND in Kazakhstan
Rome has released the first section in their three part film, Find. Featuring LNP, Ozzy Henning and Ian Boll travelling to …
Actions REALized X Green Day
Real Skateboards has got together with Green Day for a collaboration to benefit the Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland. In a program named, Actions Realized they are …
RIP Snowboard Pioneer Tom Sims
Snowboard and skateboard legend Tom Sims passed away on Wednesday night at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. He was 63 years old and suffered a cardiac arrest. Sims created his first ‘skiboard’ in 1963 during his 7th grade wood shop class – he is also credits with creating …
Unusual Flat Ground Tricks At 1,000FPS
I got this via the social media blog, Mashable. Here’s a few unusual flat ground tricks filmed on the Redlake N3 high speed camera at 1,000 frames per second. It’s pretty rad to see. I pulled the trick list from …
Kevin Pearce and Danny Davis For Issue 19
Over the last couple of years there have been two stories that have captured, united and dominated above all others in snowboarding. Two serious accidents just prior to the Vancouver Olympics, taking out two medal hopes for the U.S. and the subsequent recovery of both those guys have been followed intensely. Kevin Pearce and Danny Davis have come to be more than just two pros – they’re a rallying point for the …
Burton NZ Open Coming August 9th
Burton NZ Open is happening in six days (August 9th) at Cardrona. This is the ninth year for the event and it kicks off with the Men’s and Women’s Slopestyle Pre-qualifiers and Qualifiers on the afternoon of the 9th, qualifiers on the 10th, semi’s on the 11th and finals on the 12th. Half pipe starts August 12th with the finals happening on the 13th. The conditions up at Cardrona are looking good today – over a …
BigHugs Kidney Mash Clip
BigHugs have released a clip of them shredding Chrales Beckinsale’s work at Thredbo over the last couple of weeks. The clip is dedicated to Louis Macindoe who is stuck in hospital at the moment and features Pete Long, Jared Dean, Reid Mathieson, Matt Wrobel, Daniel “Harry” Crean, Travis Pastrana (in bootleg form) and All Aussie Macca. Get well Louis!
Swiss Tourist Skate Melbourne’s Burnley Tunnel
Swiss tourist Dominic Emmenegge took a run at skating through the 3.4 kilometre long Burnley tunnel this morning. It ended in comedy with trucks baring down on him and eventually a bit of a stack… Hence the bandaged hands. After leaving hospital he said, “I will never do it again, please all the guys out there, don’t do it, it’s crazy!” But I believe the smile on his face in the photo tells a different story. Right now I’d say he’s trying to avoid …
Art Of Flight Aspen Shoot And Injury
Travis Rice is working hard on the final few shoot for his next release, Art Of Flight. Recently, the crew hit a closed section of Aspen to fire up Brain Farms absolutely awesome arsenal where they had plans to get some bangers from the likes of Scotty Lago, Danny Davis, Jack Mitrani and Luke Mitrani. Apparently there’s a 90 foot kicker they’re going to be hitting – I’d love to be there for it! More on that …
The Rob Blog: 13 Stitches
Just had a crazy couple of days… Started with Jan and I taking on the 15 cheeseburger challenge we both nailed it but felt pretty sick afterwards. Then yesterday we went out shredding and I tried to hit a natty feature but missed the landing and kneed my self in the face. I thought I had broken my jaw but after going to the hospital …
The Rob Blog: Air and Style
No excuse for this late post, I have been sitting on the couch resting my ass for the last few days. Maybe it’s because I struggle to get much done when Alice isn’t around. The Air and Style was the biggest event I have ever done and with the best riders in the world, so it was a scary week. The jump was …
A Bad Day For Scotty Lago
Scotty Lago is unlikely to make X Games at the end of the month after a bit of a mishap… By mishap I mean he was hitting a jump that took a week to build and was sending them 50 feet in the air. On his third attempt at a switch double backside rodeo 1080, he landed a little short on the rotation and broke his jaw …
In The News Feat. Victoria’s Secret 2010
In the second installment of the returned ‘In The News’ we have Ricky Gervais, the hacking group Anonymous, the first Red Epic, a bad ass drunk Serbian who took out a killer shark and the 2011 Victoria’s Secret parade photos… Enjoy!
Help A Brother Out
Phil Maclarn at Balmoral Boards has had some bad luck. He broke his back in a fall in France. He’s …
Tony Hawk Suffers “Pelvic Vertical Shear Injury”
Okay – I’m a little late on this but I caught on Tony Hawk’s twitter yesterday the fact that he …
2010 Burton Cattlemans Rail Jam Wrap And Photos
Well it’s Sunday night and it’s all over. The 2010 Burton Cattleman’s Rail Jam was a smash. Some big tricks, some never seen before tricks, and a new winner. By now you probably already know who won, but just in case here we go again. First place went to Tom Pelley …
Torah Bright Reported Injured & Out of X-Games 14
ESPN is reporting that Torah Bright crashed and injured herself during her run in the SuperPipe at the X-Games in …
Danny Davis suffers “serious back injury”
UPDATE: Transworld have said that the incident which caused the injury was “a non-snowboard related accident”. More from Transworld here. …
Kevin Pearce Update
Just a quick update on Kevin Pearce’s condition … Everything is moving in the right direction. According to the press …
Back 12’s
Riding a perfect park today with De Campo. The park and weather was amazing so I decided to start working …
Antti Autti Injured – Olympics in doubt
Antti Autti has suffered a pretty gnarly injury whilst riding the Copper Mountain Pipe on December 7th. In his words, …
Videograss Premiere Photos
So last night was the Australian Premiere for Videograss held at the always friendly Trigger Bros store in St. Kilda. …
In The News
Teen in Hospital After Riding Flaming Skateboard – Funny as this story is, it only get’s better when the paper …
Lucas Magoon Suffers Head Injury
According to ESPN, Lucas Magoon is currently in Intensive Care at Renown Hospital in Reno, Nevada. He reportedly suffered a …
Rob Dyrdek Has Stomach Pumped
In what is purely a celebrity gossip update, TheSuperficial has a few photos up of John Mayer dragging Rob to …
Steve-O committed: On suicide watch
Steve-O has been committed to a mental hospital by 7 of his friends. Reportedly suffering from Bi-Polar which was exacerbated …
Andy Finch’s Dad Shot by Police.
This kind of thing is never good… Olympic snowboarder Andy Finch’s Dad has apparently suffered a series of flashbacks causing …
Warning about POP stickers
About 18 months ago we had some pretty expensive POP stickers made in Utah. You might have seen them around, …
Jake Brown X-Games Stack
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/KBvCrSjpx9I”][/gv] I know we’re the last news outlet on this… But we’ve been busy OK. Sydney skater Jake Brown …
Bad News
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/WEoviATnMDA”][/gv] Skatedaily.net reported this morning that 2005 Slam Skateboarder of the Year, Shane Cross, passed away in a motorcycle …