Hosoi wins X Games 16 Skate Park Legends

Ok, I kept my eyes glued to the TV during X-Games 16 so I could catch all the skateboarding that they aired and had to put up with all the BMX and motocross...don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching the other sports, but I hate when they keep telling you that skatepark or skateboard street is coming up and really it's been hours since they starting telling you that skateboarding was coming up next...so annoying! So anyway, I don't think they actually aired the Skate Park Legends compitition but I was stoked to hear that my idol growing up won back to back this year! Yep, Christian Hosoi took the gold again! Now I'm going to go on a quest to find the footage!

Tommy Guerrero Feature at Color Magazine

Remember watching Tommy Guerrero skate down the streets of San Francisco in Future Primitive or listening to all his funny lines from Search For Animal Chin like "No way, he's got his own milk carton!" Well, then I bet you woke up this morning wondering what Tommy G has been up to lately, well I think we all know he is all about art and music and working behind the scenes over at Deluxe these days but here is a nice feature on him over at Color Magazine's website. Check it out HERE!

Chad Tim Tim's Brother Has A Blog

I was very stoked about finding this out after DJ Tim Tim (Chad's Older Brother) posted a comment on one of my blogs. To me, this is like a celebrity's brother commenting on my site. These pro skateboarders are celebrities to us non Pro Skateboarders. I remember back in the 80s, the Bones Brigade were all celebrities to me...in some sense they were bigger than life. Also guys like Christian Hosoi were just huge. I actually got to meet and shake Christian Hosoi's hand a couple years ago in Virginia Beach. I have to admit, I was very nervous...I idolized this guy for years....I also met Mike Vallely at a small concert in 2005 and Andy MacDonald at my local skatepark around the same time. I felt nervous and excited meeting all these guys that I used to watch on an almost daily basis trying to learn to skate like them, my idols.

So be sure to check out My Brother Is A Pro Skateboarder...I bet his blog will prove to be a very interesting look at what it's like to be the big brother of a pro skateboarder who also skateboards himself.

Hosoi, Cab, and Eddie Posing for the Cam

These are some big time legends of skateboarding here...we have Christian Hosoi (my childhood favorite), Steve Caballero, and Eddie Reategui (one of those hardcore Alva dudes! :)) Hosoi has been thriving since he was let out of jail quite a few years ago and became a Christian....it suits his name very well, don't ya think? :) Steve Caballero never stopped shredding - the man is amazing! Eddie Reategui has kept a foot in skateboarding since his hey days. Hosoi and Eddie were both in the 80s movie "Thrashin'" as part of the skateboard gang "The Daggers".

Refocusing Blog

Ok, since I am now going to attempt to operate two skateboarding blogs, I need to try and keep some sort of structure. So, what I am going to do with Still Skateboarding is make it about older guys and girls who are still shreddin! With No Comply News, that blog will just be about everything and anything skateboarding. Of course both blogs will have reviews of different products and services as usual to help pay the bills. :)

Got My First Domain Name!

www.stillskateboarding.com is all mine!!!

Okay, this is scary for me....I don't know why, but it is for some reason. I've finally purchased my own domain name. I figured I made enough money blogging now that I can spend the money on a domain name from the blogging and this should now open some more opportunities to make money since some places would not accept my application because my domain name had blogspot.com at the end of it...how annoying!

I feel like I should have purchased a domain name for my other blog http://nocomplynews.blogspot.com, but that page is actually ranked by google as a PR2 and I didn't want to lose that because with a pagerank of 0, you hardly get any opportunities to make money blogging. So that is the reason I decided to purchase a domain name for my unranked blog and I'll just have to work on it's pagerank now....wish me luck! :)

Michael Jackson skateboarding

I don't know the story behind this photo, but the man was talented with his feet! :) Plus, he had that song and album "Off the Wall"....hmmmm, ya know, the Vans slogan....The King of Pop may have had more ties to skateboarding than I realized! :) That board looks like the first one I ever stepped on as a kid. One of my first memories skateboarding was on one of those skinny plastic boards from the 70s and I was riding on one knee down my sidewalk, I hit a crack and did a nice face plant lip slide....I remember being just a bloody mess running to my mom crying....I was horified seeing my lips all bloody. I'm sure my mom was too, I wonder if she remembers that.