Category: Skateboarding
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Destroy Yourself for Icelounge.com
Before social media became an addictive digital wasteland lurking in our pockets, one would have to get their social dopamine by computer. Tweens during this pre-smartphone era had their ADHD satiated by MySpace and Xanga. But if you were a part of the skateboarding subculture during 2005 – 2006, you may have spent your adolescent…
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Quick Hits: Ernie Torres & Clint Walker
A few months back I interviewed Ernie Torres and Clint Walker for an article about growing up skateboarding in Oklahoma. The article was originally intended for Jenkem, but things did not end up working out. Here are the interviews in their full glory. Enjoy. Ernie Torres: What were your experiences like growing up and skateboarding…
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Vans Skate Team: New Brunswick, NJ
Last Friday the Vans team rolled through New Jersey and put on sick demo for the locals. There was also a photo exhibit for Michael Burnett at NJ Skateshop. I only got photos of the demo and nothing else because I’m a combination of stupid and lazy. Highlights from the demo include Dill’s self-deprecating commentary, AVE giving…
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Growing Up Skateboarding in Oklahoma
Like most flyover states, Oklahoma is seldom penciled into people’s travel itineraries, and, with exception of an occasional tragedy or weather event, rarely receives national attention.
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Dark Side Skates Video Archive
Fortunately during the Dark Side Skates era there were cameras and filmers to capture a lot of the skateboarding and the shenanigans that involved the shop riders, friends of the shop, and the locals/regulars. The following is all of the footage from the shop computer. Some of it has been seen, some of it has not.…
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Coterie
My good friend, Levi “Gil” Gleghorn, just released a new skate video from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Check it out!
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Dark Side Skates Was Not Your Average Skate Shop
“What’s a blumpkin?” “It’s when a guy takes a shit and a girl gives him a blowjob at the same time.” “That is so disgusting.” “Yeah, well…do you wanna do it or what?” Believe it or not, this is not a piece of bad dialogue from a bathroom themed porno. But instead is an actual…
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Arctic Jams, Slam Section, The Goat, and My 23rd Birthday
Back on July 21st the Baker team stopped in NYC while on their 2015 Summer Tour (which was weirdly presented by Scion but I won’t get into all of that). After they skated and did a signing at KCDC Skateshop, the team had themselves a nightcap and put on a few shows at the legendary…