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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
ACTION SPORT ATTRACTION: Local BMX star to race at home
TJ Lavin has waited 14 years to compete in a major event in his hometown so another seven months will not be too much to bear.
The 33-year-old BMX Dirt bike legend is eager for the prestigious Dew Tour to hold its season-finale Oct. 14-17 at the Hard Rock.
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Las Vegas Review Journal
The 33-year-old BMX Dirt bike legend is eager for the prestigious Dew Tour to hold its season-finale Oct. 14-17 at the Hard Rock.
"There have been some races here but nothing like the Dew Tour," Lavin said. "This is amazing."
Lavin, a Las Vegas native who has a BMX track behind his Southern Highlands home, competed in one of three Tour events last year but plans to race all four this year. Two events, including the June 25-26 opener in Boston, are limited to skateboarding.
His racing schedule was limited last year due to commitments to MTV, where he hosts "Real World/Road Rules Challenge." He arrived in Mexico City on Friday afternoon to host part of MTV's spring-break coverage in Acapulco.
"I love the X Games, but the Dew Tour is our premier series and it's bigger than the X Games."
This year's Tour offers a total prize fund of $2.5 million.
Another Las Vegas resident expected to compete is Australian Cam White, the 2008 BMX Dirt champion.
While Lavin and White will enjoy staying at home, others are eager to spend four days in Las Vegas as the Tour's annual banquet also will be held here.
"I love Vegas, so to be able to compete there seems almost surreal," said Ryan Sheckler, a three-time Dew Cup champion."
The Hard Rock event will include all six Tour disciplines: skateboarding (park and vert), BMX (park, vert and dirt) and freestyle motocross.
Each Tour event is televised live on NBC. Various segments also are shown on cable outlets. including MTV and USA, and in selected foreign countries.
The Dew Tour is the latest sports series to hold its season finale here, joining college basketball conferences, AMA Supercross, Professional Bull Riders and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
"Las Vegas has a long and storied history of supporting high-profile, season-ending championships," said Pat Christenson, president of Las Vegas Events. "This will be our first foray into championship action sports and a great addition to our roster of signature events."
Contact reporter Jeff Wolf at jwolf@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0247.
Las Vegas Review Journal
Skating Sell-Outs
Skateboarding is not a sport. According to some of the biggest names in skateboarding, like Mark Appleyard and Frank Gerwer, skateboarding is not even an "extreme sport." Skateboarding is an art, a subculture and a world of its own. It possesses many of the same traits as any sport or pastime but the tie that holds skateboarders together is a tight one. Well, at least it used to be.
In August 2007, MTV single-handedly broke down the skate world's barriers by airing the reality TV show, "Life of Ryan," a show that displayed Ryan Sheckler's oh-so-awful life and times growing up in Orange County - with more money than my family, grandparents and uncle put together - while he skateboards and travels the world for a living.
Boohoo.
As if the label of reality TV isn't misleading enough, the life of Ryan as depicted on the show is clearly far from reality.
I'm not going to say I like Ryan Sheckler because that would be a lie. I will admit that he is a talented skateboarder, and deserves what he has (at least when it comes to sponsors). But do I respect the guy? No way.
Ryan's oh-so-exciting life somehow gained the attention of hundreds of thousands of viewers throughout each season of his show's short career, leaving fans with one thought in their mind: "Skateboarding? Yeah, I could do that." Well, the joke's on you.
Meanwhile, the skateboarding world is blowing up online, in magazines, on blogs and elsewhere.
Sheckler and MTV were the talk of the town.
The real world adores skateboarders like Sheckler. He's been in everything from deodorant commercials to milk commercials. (Yep, he's one of the few to wear the milk mustache, skateboard in hand.)
But who cares?
Skateboarding isn't about being in milk commercials, or winning the X Games.
Skateboarding isn't about having your own TV show or about being famous.
Rather it is about the self-satisfaction of riding the board. It's about skating your surroundings - anything and everything.
I think it's sad that corporations such as MTV weasel their way into these kids' wallets.
What is even more depressing, though, is when your favorite pros change companies they have been on for years just to boost up that paycheck.
They gain money but lose respect.
From a fan's perspective, it's just how you look at it.
Skateboarding is branching into two major directions right now: you're either in it for the fame, money and sponsors who aren't even associated with skateboarding; or you're doing it for the thrill, passion and the feeling of bombing a hill at 6 a.m. to grab a cup of coffee.
I hate to admit it, but Sheckler does love skateboarding. He is a professional, and deserves his title. I just don't agree with advertisements in skateboarding magazines showing a kid posing for the camera like a model, without a skateboard in sight.
Skateboarders used to make money by skateboarding - strictly and solely. They would take photos (yes, of them skateboarding), which would be published in skate magazines, and they would get paid for ads.
Most professional skateboarders in the 1990s and even into the 2000s lived in crammed apartments, with six or seven friends, skating to survive. They didn't drive around in Mercedes or BMWs, let alone shoot skateboarding ads flaunting them. A skateboarder's life was as raw and as exciting as you could imagine.
Unfortunately, this was before industry-heads realized they could make a few bucks to be corny and ride for sellout companies. Many of them jumped on that wagon without thinking twice, although a fair share of professionals and skateboarders of all ages remained humble, and underground.
MTV called Tim O' Connor, a pro for Habitat skateboards, more than three times to set up meetings and get a show started. He denied them every time.
That is exactly how it should be.
source:
The Telescope
In August 2007, MTV single-handedly broke down the skate world's barriers by airing the reality TV show, "Life of Ryan," a show that displayed Ryan Sheckler's oh-so-awful life and times growing up in Orange County - with more money than my family, grandparents and uncle put together - while he skateboards and travels the world for a living.
Boohoo.
As if the label of reality TV isn't misleading enough, the life of Ryan as depicted on the show is clearly far from reality.
I'm not going to say I like Ryan Sheckler because that would be a lie. I will admit that he is a talented skateboarder, and deserves what he has (at least when it comes to sponsors). But do I respect the guy? No way.
Ryan's oh-so-exciting life somehow gained the attention of hundreds of thousands of viewers throughout each season of his show's short career, leaving fans with one thought in their mind: "Skateboarding? Yeah, I could do that." Well, the joke's on you.
Meanwhile, the skateboarding world is blowing up online, in magazines, on blogs and elsewhere.
Sheckler and MTV were the talk of the town.
The real world adores skateboarders like Sheckler. He's been in everything from deodorant commercials to milk commercials. (Yep, he's one of the few to wear the milk mustache, skateboard in hand.)
But who cares?
Skateboarding isn't about being in milk commercials, or winning the X Games.
Skateboarding isn't about having your own TV show or about being famous.
Rather it is about the self-satisfaction of riding the board. It's about skating your surroundings - anything and everything.
I think it's sad that corporations such as MTV weasel their way into these kids' wallets.
What is even more depressing, though, is when your favorite pros change companies they have been on for years just to boost up that paycheck.
They gain money but lose respect.
From a fan's perspective, it's just how you look at it.
Skateboarding is branching into two major directions right now: you're either in it for the fame, money and sponsors who aren't even associated with skateboarding; or you're doing it for the thrill, passion and the feeling of bombing a hill at 6 a.m. to grab a cup of coffee.
I hate to admit it, but Sheckler does love skateboarding. He is a professional, and deserves his title. I just don't agree with advertisements in skateboarding magazines showing a kid posing for the camera like a model, without a skateboard in sight.
Skateboarders used to make money by skateboarding - strictly and solely. They would take photos (yes, of them skateboarding), which would be published in skate magazines, and they would get paid for ads.
Most professional skateboarders in the 1990s and even into the 2000s lived in crammed apartments, with six or seven friends, skating to survive. They didn't drive around in Mercedes or BMWs, let alone shoot skateboarding ads flaunting them. A skateboarder's life was as raw and as exciting as you could imagine.
Unfortunately, this was before industry-heads realized they could make a few bucks to be corny and ride for sellout companies. Many of them jumped on that wagon without thinking twice, although a fair share of professionals and skateboarders of all ages remained humble, and underground.
MTV called Tim O' Connor, a pro for Habitat skateboards, more than three times to set up meetings and get a show started. He denied them every time.
That is exactly how it should be.
source:
The Telescope
Monday, March 15, 2010
Tampa Pro 2010 Results
Posted by bk - March 14th, 2010 2:18 pm
The crews from SPoT, Fuel TV, Nike SB, TSM and all fans and skaters on the scene delivered another barn burner today to cap this weekend’s 6th Annual Tampa Pro. In the end, Paul Rodriguez took home his first-ever victory in Tampa and earned a lifetime entry into all future Tampa Pro events.
Final Results
1. Paul Rodriguez – $20,0002. Nyjah Huston – $15,000
3. Keegan Sauder – $10,000
4. Peter Ramondetta – $5000
5. Ryan Sheckler – $4000
6. Torey Pudwill – $3000
7. Luan Oliveira – $2000
8. Danny Fuenzalida – $1500
9. Greg Lutzka – $1000
10. Chaz Ortiz – $1000
11. Dennis Busenitz – $1000
12. John Rattray – $1000
Best Trick
1. Matt Miller – Backside noseblunt slide – $30002. Torey Pudwill – Front feeble up the a rail, shove it out – $2000
3. Seirra Fellers – Nose manual nollie flip out – $1000
Be sure to follow up with full results and recaps of the action over at the Skatepark of Tampa site and check back with Fuel.tv for an upcoming show on the 2010 Tamp Pro.
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3.14.10 TAMPA PRO 2010
Shuriken Shannon and Chad Bartie both made it down to Tampa this weekend for the contest and both advanced to the semi-finals. Unfortunately that was as far as they would make it. Photos to come. Here is the top 10.
- Paul Rodriguez
- Nyjah Huston
- Keegan Sauder
- Peter Ramondetta
- Ryan Sheckler
- Torey Pudwill
- Luan De Oliveira
- Danny Fuenzalida
- Greg Lutzka
- Chaz Ortiz
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Tampa Pro qualifying round
Tampa Pro Qualifier
Check out footage from the Tampa Pro contest's qualifying round with Paul Rodriguez, Chaz Ortiz, Torey Pudwill and more in this exclusive video by RB Umali.To almost nobody present's surprise, Torey Pudwill blew past all of his competition Saturday and qualified in first place just ahead of Luan Oliveira. Pudwill's first run was flawless and included tricks like a backside lipslide up and across the hubba ledge that everyone else was busy going down. The day seemed to belong to Pudwill even before he took his runs. Many of his new Plan B teammates including Colin Mckay, Ryan Sheckler and Pat Duffy sported T-shirts with a giant picture of Pudwill's face on them to informally announce his arrival onto the elite squad.
Torey Pudwill was by far one of the most fun people to watch all day. This Smith was part of a flawless run.
Although he qualified second, Oliveira had the crowd's rapt attention as well. Tampa being the first pro contest for the rookie, it sure didn't seem that way. Oliveira has nearly a home court advantage since he won Tampa am on the same course just a few months ago and won it the year before as well. Oliveira pulled some crowd pleaser tech moves including frontside 360 heelflips down the Tampa street course seven-stair. The top five were rounded out by Sierra Fellers, Paul Rodriguez and Nyjah Huston. Huston, the young dread newly at the helm of his own board company I&I, had a flawless run though perhaps not as technical as some of his peers who placed higher.
Rookie pro Justin Brock tossed these steezed out 360 flips over the pyramid every try. And yes, this is a make.
Torey Pudwill and Luan both receive "Golden Ticket" buys straight into tomorrow's finals. Fellers, Rodriguez, Huston and Sauder will join the 25 other qualifying skaters in the semi-finals as well as previous Tampa Pro winners who get an automatic buy into the semi-finals [that list includes Gershon Mosley, Kyle Berard, Dennis Busenitz and Eric Koston]. Semi-finals begin Sunday at noon and with the amazing caliber of skating seen so far, things should get very interesting.
The skaters that qualified for the semi-finals are as follows:
1. Torey Pudwill 2. Luan Oliveira
3. Sierra Fellers 4. Paul Rodriguez
5. Nyjah Huston 6. Keegan Sauder
7. John Rattray 8. Chaz Ortiz
9. Tyler Hendley 10. Fabrizio Santos
11. Peter Ramondetta 12. Matt Miller
13. Rodil Jr. 14. Robert Lopez Mont
15. Chad Bartie 16. Ryan Sheckler
17. Billy Rohan 18. Andrew Pott
19. Danny Fuenzalida 20. Stefan Janoski
21. Chad Fernadez 22. Milton Martinez
23. Anthony Shetler 24. Shuriken Shannon
25. Danny Cerezini 26. Sammy Baptista
27. Mike Peterson 28. Chris Troy
29. Neverton Casella 30. Justin Brock
Paul Rodriguez pulled this switchstance backside tailslide in both of his nearly flawless runs.
source:ESPN Site
Friday, March 12, 2010
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