Hosoi, Cab, and T-Mag Posing for the Cam

These are some big time legends of skateboarding here...we have Christian Hosoi (my childhood favorite), Steve Caballero, and Tony Magnussen (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! Tony Magnussen still enters contests and I know he took 1st place in the Soul Bowl for 2007 and I'm sure he has been in many contests since then. If I remember correctly, Hosoi and T-Mag 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.

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Tony Hawk Skates with the Zulu

Straight out of being a comentator at X Games 15, Tony Hawk flew to South Africa on the outskirts of Durban and discovered a skatepark in believe it or not, a Zulu village! "No Way! He's got his own milk carton!" :) LOL. Hawk is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy and was on hand for the launch of a partnership with Indigo Youth Movement, as part of a larger project to help young people in rural communities develop life skills and confidence through skateboarding. Ya gotta love that man! :)

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