March 12, 2006
Clint, not Lutzka
Tampa Pro '06 is now history. Greg Lutzka took it. Jereme Rogers got second. Billy Marks took Best Trick and PLG took Vert. I'll have tons of video starting tomorrow. Most likely every day or so for the next few weeks.
March 5, 2006
Crossovers, Cars and Kids...Lasek Lets Loose
By Rob Brink
EXPN.com, April 2003
In May 2003, a story I did on Bucky Lasek ran in ESPN magazine. The original interview was much longer and ended up getting cut down a ton, so ESPN decided to run the full-length version on EXPN.com. Here's how it went:
The rèsumè of Bucky Lasek lists wins at every major skate comp in his 13 years as a pro. He's also a world traveler. He's funny. Consistent and creative are the words that stick. At home, he's Mr. Mom and right now he's refereeing a wrestling match between daughters Paris, 2 and Devin, 5. He wants to skate. He should be doing chores. He's getting set for the Global Championships. He was happy we called.
March 3, 2006
Almost Round 3
By Rob Brink
EXPN.com, February 2005
Here's an Almost Round 3 review I did for EXPN.com.
Editor's note: We here at EXPN.com are slowly coming out of our Winter X Games cocoon and know Round 3 has been out for a minute. But damn, if you haven't peeped this vid, then fix your skate-thirsty eyes below for a taste of the tech, then run out to your local shop and brag about the info you scooped on EXPN.com.
Anticipation for Round 3 has been building over the past year, beginning with a first-look at footage on a small television set at the Almost booth during the September 2003 ASR trade show in San Diego. Since then, we, the skateboarders of the world, have been taunted and teased with tentative release dates, promo DVDs, ads listing Rodney and Daewon's video tricks, and a barrage of Almost's riders in the skate mags. But the day has finally come—and it was well worth the wait.
March 3, 2006
What If?
By Rob Brink
EXPN.com, April 2005
For a few months in early 2005, I was doing long-form skateboard DVD reviews for EXPN.com. This review of Blind's What If? was one of them.
For Blind, a modern-day skateboard company, 13 years is a long time to go without making a video (okay, 11 years if you count 1993's nine-minute promo Tim and Henry's Pack of Lies). And living up to the kind of hype following their 1991 benchmark Video Days is a tough task.
March 3, 2006
Knowing that I fan out over Grant Taylor, a mysterious chap named Greg emailed me this video.
March 3, 2006
One of my more talented friends, Miss Shannon Hemmett, took this photo. It's my favorite and I own the only print (at least that's what she tells me) because I won it at an auction. Shannon shot the photos for my Michelle Pezel and Anti Social stories. Hooray for teamwork! You should give her work a peek.
March 1, 2006
Tale of Two Canadian Cities
By Rob Brink
The Skateboard Mag, April 2005
This is my first piece for The Skateboard Mag. More to come.
Toronto and Vancouver. Vancouver and Toronto. Two large, major Canadian cities. Two metropolises where skateboarding is quite popular. The difference is that I seem to know a lot more about Vancouver skateboarding than Toronto skateboarding. Why is this? I dunno. You would think, since I've been skating for sixteen years and grew up on the East Coast of the United States, that I might have acquired some knowledge of Toronto over time. But no. The shit is a skateboarding mystery to a Yankee like me. Even torontoskateboarding.com hasn't been updated since June! How am I supposed to know anything? What kind of representation is that?