The
Sideways Guide Blog |
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| Wednesday, March
2, 2005 9:14 AM: Killer Weekend! Snowskating @ Mountain Creek on Friday,
won my div @ the boardercross @ Blue Hills in Boston on Saturday, checked
out Waterville Valley's sick park on Sunday, more snowskating @ Stratton
Mountain on Monday, and 10 inches of March pow @ Hunter on Tuesday!!!! |
| Sunday, February
6, 2005 11:34 PM: I've posted a short film of the U.S. Snowboarding
Grand Prix Half Pipe Finals from Mountain Creek, NJ, from this past Saturday
night...shit was super sick, and you can check
this Quicktime clip (38 MB) if you gots the hi speed connection, or
this
one (13 MB) if you are still living in the dial up world (sucka!)... |
| Saturday, January
8, 2005 3:52 PM: Been some good snow here in the Catskills lately...Click
here
and here
for vids from Hunter and Plattekill, respectively (Quicktime
required and high speed connectchin recommended...) |
| Saturday, December
4, 2004 8:47 AM: Remember
when the jocks beat up the skaters? |
Thursday, November
11, 2004 8:32 PM:
Yesterday I drove down to Milford, Connecticut to check out the latest park
creation from
Breaking Ground Skateparks. I spent a good 6 or 7 hours observing them
as they worked, pouring the platforms around the park. I also chatted concrete
with Kyle, the rep from Beard Concrete, who was supplying BG with their
stuff. I helped out when and where I could, hosing off tools and even troweling
a little bit for my first time (on a manual pad- something that I couldn't
mess up too bad!)
I've spent the better part of three years bitching and barfing about nearly
200 skateparks on this site, yet I had never spent a day at a skatepark
job site - now I have - IT'S HARD WORK! The BG crew worked past dark, illuminating
the park with flashlights, truck lights, bobcat lights, and headlamps, continuing
to trowel the decks until they were smoother than a baby's ass. Some general
contractor who doesn't skate would probably have gone over it once and called
it a day before sunset, but BG put in the extra effort to make the entire
park perfect, and it shows. I was able to sweep up the bowl and take a couple
of runs, and that crete is sweet! (I was scared shitless though that I would
launch my board into the fresh pour!) It was a very cool experience - Thanks
to Sam, Lenny, Tom, Jeff, Noah and Gump! |
| Thursday, November
11, 2004 8:11 PM: Skateboarding
vs. Tennis, Round 2... |
| Thursday, November
11, 2004 7:43 PM:
Cartwheel or DIE!!!! |
| Thursday, November
11, 2004 7:06 PM: "Parks
and Recreation staff went out there trying to educate people, who crumpled
up the handouts and threw them on the ground, then started skating without
helmets." |
Thursday, November
4, 2004 7:51 PM: FUCK
THESE GUYS...
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Monday, November
1, 2004 7:37 AM: My god, is Madison Ave. retarded? Yes. yes they are...check
out this find from midtown Manhattan on Saturday...
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| Sunday, October
31, 2004 10:46 AM: The Westword Weekly Paper in Denver has
an article that you should most definitely read!!!! And make sure you
also click on the "skateparks" link in the first paragraph... |
Sunday, October
31, 2004 8:16 AM:
Well, resorts in California, Utah, and Colorado are already open, most with
kick-ass bases already established due to multiple early-season dumps...and
by the way its been raining here in NY...this is going to sound gay but
Fuel TV has been fueling
my preseason couch dreams...it seems like they finally got it right with
the "TV & board sports" thing: Bluetorch was their gift hint
that they were onto something, but then they fucked it up with 54321, which
was a stupid waste of time and money save for keeping Leeann in front of
the camera as much as possible...
Now this Fuel TV is worth the 6 extra bucks a month on the cable bill...they
show famous and not-so-famous skate and snow vids all the time, plus some
pretty sick original production content...and oh yes, some super funny self-advertisements... |
Tuesday, October
26, 2004 7:31 AM: Burton
Snowboards has a new custom board design program called Series 13, where
you can choose the guts of your board from selections from their existing
lines, then customize that shit with a number of graphic and color options.
It ain't cheap, but if you got the cash you can sport some flash...visit
Burton's Series
13 page for more info... |
Friday, October
22, 2004 12:41 PM:
My god, this
show is hilarious, no matter what you think of MTV and all its requisite
bullshit...
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| Thursday, October
21, 2004 8:38 PM: Skateboarding
vs. Tennis... |
Thursday,
October 21, 2004 8:11 AM:
 It dumped
on Tahoe! Four Feet Plus! |
| Tuesday, October
19, 2004 1:44 PM: I added full reviews and pics for Saratoga and Shelter
skateparks... |
Sunday, October
17, 2004 6:37 PM: Yesterday I took an upstate NY roadtrip...drove up
to Saratoga to find the skatepark closed, but the sick bowl
was dry as a bone. It was too good to resist, so I poached that bitch for
'bout a half hour, then jetted. Drove back south to Albany and
The Shelter Skatepark,
where along with a nice indoor park, they have the place decorated with
cool art up the yang! After, I cruised over to South Troy to try and find
the Burden Pond pool, but it was raining and I had no luck. Headed down
to Kingston and TSX Skatepark
for the Bodega demo for a little bit, where there was some
serious ripping going on. Lastly, I hit the Poughkeepsie
pool for a quickie before heading home for the night...and how was your
weekend? |
| Friday, October
15, 2004 2:46 PM: I just watched the new Burton Snowboards vid, The
Process 3. How was it? Read
the review here... |
| Thursday, October
14, 2004 4:38 PM: I am gonna sneak lil' treats into this blog every
once in a while...like
this one! |
| Thursday, October
14, 2004 2:28 PM: There's
a campaign up and runnin' to
save the Carlsbad, CA skatepark (the original one not the newer one),
which was built in 1976 and is apparently the oldest skatepark still in
existence in America... |
| Thursday, October
14, 2004 2:27 PM: I've
started a blog for this site...news, updates, and other garbage |
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