BFD Skate's Blog – September 2009 Archive (5)

Some of the biggest names in BMX and Skateboarding including Morgan Wade, Bucky Lasek, Bob Burnquist, Dennis McCoy and Jamie Bestwick turn up in this video supporting "Roll Anything Day" on October 10th. Turn off your engines, and, well, roll anything… Continue

Skateboarding suffered another huge loss on Wednesday Sept. 23, 2009 with the passing of Transworld Skateboarding Magazine editor Eric Stricker.



Skin Phillips, TWS Editor-in-Chief posted the following message last night on the magazine's twitter feed:

"Eric Stricker, the Editor of Transworld Skateboarding has passed away. He was a good friend, a great editor, and a fighter.R.I.P.-skin"



Magazines and videos are the foods that have always kept skateboarding progressing… Continue

In 2002, PJ Ladd's Wonderful Horrible Life brought the world some breakout video parts from some Northeast rippers like Ryan Gallant, PJ Ladd, Jereme Rogers, and a young lady named Alexis Sablone.



Alexis' part shocked a lot of people into the reality that there could be other "real street" skaters besides Elisa Steamer, and that they could throw down the same kind of big tricks the boys could. She landed Am spots on the Firm and éS… Continue

There's nothing like grinding real pool coping. The sound, the grind itself... metal coping on a ramp just doesn't feel the same. A few months back we had a post which showed you How-To Build a Quarterpipe. YoBeat recently put together a video with Ben Gustafson from Salt Lake City, who shows you how he made the pool coping for his… Continue

Jared Souney shot some street photos in Portland with Ben Graham including the 50/50 and nosepick above. Ben's an up-and-coming street skater from Montana who moved out to Portland to skate, and hold together Portland's "Call Before You Dig" program.…

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