Josh's Articles
You've seen the video. Now have a glimpse of some behind the scenes pics from yesterday's am spotlight and the pro prelims. Enjoy.
Day one of the 2010 Maloof Money Cup was the chance for two pros to win a spot into the whole shebang. See who won and what other weirdness went down.
When you're stuck in a warehouse, it's hard to find ways to smile. So, I got in line with the feel etnies wanted to capture with a little trick called the Sick Kitty. Hopefully you'll understand when the issue drops in a few weeks.
An interview with the man that gave us the song for Ryan Decenzo's part.
Day 5 was the wrap up of X Games 2010 with the Women's Street competition, Legends competition, Park competition and also the Real Street results. Enjoy!
Day Four of X Games 2010 has held a first place Sheckler finish in Street, some rad skating and a generally smiley sentiment about the whole thing. Have a look for more.
Monster Press Release: Tonight Pierre-Luc Gagnon (PLG) made history by winning gold in Skateboard Vert and taking home Gold in Best Trick. Happening at the Nokia Center in downtown Los Angeles, tonight marks the first time a skateboarder has won X Vert three times in a row. When the pressure was on, PLG delivered late [...]
Day 3 wandering around with my Olympus included the park elimination, vert contest and vert best trick. Lil' Curren Caples pwayed wit his toys. He pway and have a wotta fun. And, Pierre Luc Gagnon went all "Oui" flip and won vert and best trick. Oui!
Day two inside the X Games with the Olympus Stylus Tough was full of action as the men's street eliminations went down, along with the big air. See the what went down.
We got the insider perspective of yesterday's X Games 16 warm-up ripping from David Gravette, Collin Provost, Ryan Sheckler, Johnny Layton, Mark Appleyard, Nick Trapasso, Taylor Bingaman, Pedro Barros, Chad Bartie, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain and Christian Hosoi with our Olympus Stylus Tough camera.
Garrett Hill's first Skate and Create was nearly ended by a super harsh slam. But, with the creative spirit that led to his joke band My Sinister Handshake and Blackbox's obsession with Chick-fil-A, he survived.
Fallen's cinematographer Mike Gilbert (maker of Mystery's Black and White and Ride the Sky) held it all together at Fallen's Skate & Create, but the frustration bubbles up, so I asked him after the fact, that things that he hated and didn't hate too much. Read on.
Few skaters deserve a shoe more than Torey Pudwill, especially after TWS' Hallelujah. So, DVS gave him one. Check the beer pong shoe release madness.
The BMX movie RAD had a huge influence on a generation. That generation happened to be a bunch of Fallen Footwear's riders. While stuck in the S&C warehouse, they used it as inspiration and got RAD themselves.
"...just me and my friends, really. I mean, I knew some pros, but I wasn’t watching all the videos or reading all the mags."
