Rock 'n Rons new wheels now available.

Rock 'n Ron's new wheels are now available to buy.Im tempted.
Get them here.

Some Vintage photos...Circa 1980

Jay Smith...one of the most stylist skaters ever..

This is my variation of the layback.I was Inspired by photos of Jay Smith doing his wayback layback in the sequence above,from Skateboarder Magazine sometime in 1979.
I called it the "wayback layback AIR"...I used to grab the board behind my foot to stop it flying out from under me,then one day after I had the trick wired,it happened....I started to get air.
I've never seen anyone do this trick even to this day.

This is what it looks like from the top of the ramp.

Rockin Ron is BACK with awesome new gear..

RockinRon is back with a new company called Ballistic Bearings
He has some nice new bearings too,reputed to be even faster than his old ones.
Rock n Rons BALLISTECH MISSILE Bearings---------- $38.50 a set

Ok here's the secret...Ron uses Paypal to take payments...
And Paypal is doing a promotion right now where you get a $15 rebate for any purchase over $30...

So act now and you can get a set of top class bearings for about the same price as some crappy "reds" bearings..

He also has some new wheels coming out..They look good and I probably will pick up a set to test out...101 a hardness and available in 60mm or 62mm..

Creature Skate Team were at Cocoa Beach Skatepark last night!

The Creature crew were in town filming for their latest DVD...Yeah and I hadnt got my camera with me last night to record the event ...bummer.Darren Navarette didnt skate because of an injured foot ,so he filmed.

So here's some footage of them from their homepage instead...

Surf Expo-Volcom "Acid Drop"Mini Ramp Contest 2007

This contest was insane..The riders did 3 runs in all.
The 1st was a skate "till you fall" run...
The 2nd was an "all out balls to the wall" ramp jam fora full 20 minutes!!
Everyone was skating at once..You had to be there to believe how crazy it was..I cant describe how close they all came to full on collisions but surprisingly this didnt happen.Check this movie(More movies added Below..Scroll down) for an example.
And to decide the contest the riders had to do a 3rd 1 minute run.At this stage ,everyone was worn out from the 20 minute jam but Rune Glifberg managed to muster up the strength to land a 540 Mc Twist off the crazy trapezoid like extension(with no pads whatsoever).He tried and failed it 3 times in all and still managed to "run it out".I have no idea how you run out of a 540 air but he somehow managed it .Then on his last try he landed it perfectly..At that, the crowd went crazy...But even this was not enough to secure Rune a first place.
Florida was well represented by Tim Johnson and Mike Peterson..Tim was doing 6 foot frontside stalefish airs everywhere and I think he deserved a better result than tenth.Mike skated awesome too.
Overall everyone in the finals were so rad ,I dont know how the judges decided on a winner at all.
Here are the results of the contest..
Volcom Stone's Mini Ramp Jam Pro Results:
1st - Kyle Berard - $10,000
2nd - Rune Glifberg- $7,500
3rd - Chet Childress- $5,000
4th - Ivan Rivado- $3,000
5th - Mike Peterson- $2,000
6th - Dennis Busenitz- $1,500
7th - Anthony Furlong- $1,000
8th - Alain Goikoetxea- $1,000
9th - Caswell Berry - $1,000
10th - Tim Johnson- $1,000

Chet Childress



Tim Johnson

Rune GlifbergGnarly Extension


More Movies From Expo:
One-Childress Wall Ride...
Two-Chaos
Three-More Chaos
Four-Sick Transfer