Action Sports
The Arena Premiere @ U of U Fine Arts Hall...
It seems that the question for riders of our generation is: What to wear. Tight pants or baggy? Which school of thought do you associate with: tree-huggin’, g-thuggin’ or tight-pants, wide stance? How do you decide? The pros you look up to are a good indication of what size you buy your pants… … read more
Move Over Ronald, Keaton McDonald is the Real Burger King
With style so important in skateboarding nowadays, it’s great to see people out there still treating it like it’s supposed to be—fun. Before the fancy corporate sponsorships and all the jive that may come as we progress in this art, there was a simple reason (mentioned above) that we picked up this wonderful time-waster known as a skateboard. Keaton McDonald is one person out there who embodies this mentality. … read more
Jeremy Seegmiller: Too Hot to Handle
Last May, a small but dedicated group of friends and fellow shredders, including Jeremy Seegmiller and I, made the trek up to Mt. Hood. The plan was simple: shred, camp and rage, all while being as dirtball as possible. About two weeks into the adventure, things went terribly awry. A thirty-bomb of Milwaukee’s Beast, a can of white gas, and an unruly campfire later, Seegmiller was in the Portland burn center with second-degree burns covering most of his legs. … read more
Red Bull Rampage
Rolling up to the event, it appeared that some type of futuristic soldiers were hurling themselves down a mountain on two-wheeled gravity sleds. Then I realized it was the Red Bull Rampage—the premier free-ride mountain bike event in the world. Since 2003, Red Bull Rampage has been bringing riders from all over the planet to the southern Utah desert to ride a remote area near Zion known as Virgin, Utah. … read more
Jimmy Plants Corn and I Don’t Care
Everything you think you know about professional skateboarding is wrong. That is, unless you know James Atkin. James has been quietly ripping for a long time now. James has style and consistency that have never gotten the justice they deserve from footage and photos. But if you see James skate in person, it’s a whole other story. He has every trick you can think of on lock, can land all his bangers in lines and even Utah’s most famous pro told me he was envious of James’ flip tricks. … read more
F*#@ It Premiere @ The Complex 10.15.10
Forum knows a few things about diversifying their riders—and I’m not just talking about Stevie Bell. Forum’s new movie Fuck It brings something to the table for all types of shredders to snack on. More than any other movie that dropped this fall, Fuck It covered all the shred basics– urban jibs, massive park jumps and backcountry powder goodness.
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2010 Reel Rock Tour @ Tower Theater
On Wednesday September 29, 350 rock-climbing enthusiasts packed themselves into the Tower Theater for a showing of 6 rock-climbing films—First Round First Minute, The Hardest Move, Origins: The Hulk, Down and Out and Under, Fly or Die and the Swiss Machine. … read more
SCDG League Championships
Saturday was the end of roller derby season for Salt City Derby Girls. The league championship game was played by Death Dealers and the Leave it to Cleavers. The Cleavers, who have been the league champs two years running, were looking to make league history with their third win. … read more
Mountain Throwdown on 10.02
Saturday Oct. 2 was Utah’s first annual roller derby tournament, Mountain Throwdown. This is pretty big stuff. Utah is stepping up its roller derby game. The tournament was comprised of three of Utah’s four all girl roller derby leagues: Salt Lake’s Salt City Derby Girls, Ogden’s Junction City Roller Dolls and O-Town Derby Dames.
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HartBreaker: A Jon Hart Story
I’ve known Jon Hart for a little over ten years, since he was about fifteen. I recently met his mom for the first time and she wondered why we’d never met. He told her it was because he didn’t want her to know he was out skating with grown ass men when he was a teenager. Back in the day, Jon was this kid we all used to see at the St. George Skatepark. He had a mean kickflip even back then. Him and his buddies would go and skate all the old spots, like the Pine View High rail and the Dixie High big four/ledges. … read more