Topher Kaufin shredding prone through the streets of Calcutta. Photo: Vin Dahloo.
Welcome to our last Weekly Wrap-Up news collection of 2016 and featuring various skateboarding selections from across the community of keep on pushin’. Please enjoy, spread the shred, and have a helluva Happy NEW YEAR!!!!!
Now that that is outta the way let’s start things off with our friends Amanda Powell, Dane Webber, and Bixby Powell-Webber spending a day in desert on their way back from Mammoth. Skating and van-life ensued.
Warning, this is not a video, but it is cool because Huck Magazine just published a collection of what they suggest are the best skate stories of 2016. It’s def worth a peep.
Bucky Lasek. Yeah, watch Bucky skate better than anyone and everyone, ever in his new Thrasher part.
Gershon Mosely is one of the most gifted & monkish skaters of the 90′s street era. He’s still ripping hard and living in Kansas City, and making videos fusing his self-filmed skateboarding with political and social commentary via textual, audio, and video grabs from various sources.
John Benton flew down to L.A. a couple of times to hang out with The Friendship Skateboards dudes and they ended up filming him and ended up with enough for a part! Dude rules.
Loaded Boards ambassadors Marco Sandoval and Yahzper Maldonado get their symmetry on via their Tan Tiens in this new video.
Video of the Week : RANGER
by Wheelbase LLC
Event News:
“Street Lounge Productions is proud to introduce the first-annual Maryhill Windwalk: a music and gravity sports festival happening throughout Labor Day weekend (September 1-3, 2017). “
Golden Gate Park Race is coming in hot: January, 21, 2017. Always a good weekend in SF with the Bonzing family.
Instagram Pic of the Week:
@bonzing “Sean Stratmeyer - @dipsybogart takes “skate everything” to heart and blasts a slob footplant at a BMX track.”
Photo: @deadbear13
Rider/ Industry News:
The International Downhill (skateboarding and luge) Federation is having it’s 2017 Board Member elections. For more info on all that click here:
#WheelbaseFam Specific News:
ASPHALT BARREL is our new follow-run series. Here’s the first iteration featuring Mason Chiaramonte
Also, don’t miss DEACAY featuring the DH shreddings of Chase Hiller:
Stickers, stickers, sticikers!!! HERE!