Jacko's News Stories (16)

Everybody knows how RAD the live video feed was at Newtons, well now you can watch all the action race by race, round by round of the entire event.

Point your browser at the Hopkin Youtube Channel for all the live feeds juiced up with new rider information and data. We are slowly editing it all together with proper titles and…

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Kelly

The Wild WIld West Outlaw was a huge success. So stoked to see heaps of riding coming out and stepping up their game. I saw a huge improvement in a lot of riders, the biggest of which was Shane Dennehy. He's been in the scene for a while now, quitely popping up every now and then but this weekend i really saw him stepping…

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scarce details right now, just talked with Bow on the phone. Kelly killed the juniors and took first place!

 

Opens was:
1- James Kelly

2- Andrew Chapman

3- George Mackenzie

4- Brendan Davidson (junior winner for Brittania and Vernon)

 

Little shitty poof Kelly is on fire! Next stop, Maryhill. Looks like we might have an Australian taking the junior world champs this year! Kill it Kelly! 

 

Hopkin Skate seems to be the local hangout for all the grom skaters these days, we have seen numbers rise dramaticly every month with more and more kids getting stoked on longboarding. Every school holidays the shop is jam packed with kids frothing on the skate gear, meeting up for sessions and just general stoke. There are so many kids around the Sydney area ready to shred these days it's not funny. Kam and myself have put together a few ride days in the past few…

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Words by Tony Graves, Photos by Trav Horsfall (Heelside Magazine)

The Eastern Suburbs of Sydney are a sprawling expanse of Steep urban streets. This was the setting for Gabe gwynns Beasturn Suburbs Sunday Freestyle jam. 20 Riders attended keen to shred the eastern suburbs like it's never been done before.

The format for the competition was open slope-style, each rider had roughly one hour of riding to pull off the biggest slides, steeziest tricks and impress…

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Photo: Sanchez Gogh

For those of you who don't know, Adelaide is home to some of the raddest hills in Australia. The city itself is small, flat and quiet, but on the outskirts of the city it's not hard to find some gnarly, fast, windy hills that are now attracting downhill skateboarders from all over the country.



On the weekend of the 1st of October 2010, SAGRA (South Australian Gravity Racing Association) hosted… Click here for the full story

i saw this on the ExtremeSportVeko website...

Asphalt boarding has never been more popular. A total of eighty athletes wanted to compete in the longboard competition this year.





Unfortunately there were only 64 spots available. But the guys in their black leather suits were more than happy to see so many eager contestants. Cedric Cornell has been skating since he was eleven years old. Now he’s 43 and still… Click here for the full story

Jackson Shapiera:

The first time i visited adelaide was in 2008, i went down to check out the scene and ride some of the hills they had down there. What i did not expect to find was a landscape filled with so many hills of all different types, all quiet with barely any traffic and just begging to be painted with lines of urethane. There was so much potential for downhill skateboarding in this city that i made it my goal to keep… Click here for the full story

It was a warm and sunny day on Sydney's Northern beaches, perfect… Click here for the full story

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This little article got lost in internet land for some time but we finally dug it up:

“Draggin Jeans at Newton’s Playground”



Draggin Jeans was proud to be a part of this year’s Newton’s Playground.



Invited to help resurrect the event by the guys at ASRA and Hopkins Skate, Draggin Jeans happily threw its support behind the downhill skaters of the future, sponsoring the Junior World Championship… Click here for the full story

K-Rimes - KILL SWITCH



The Killswitch says it all. The brainchild of Kevin “K-Rimes” Reimer is finally out and ready to steal your time, your urethane, and your minds. With years of experience riding downhill and a sharp mind, Kevin has taken the time to think about each and every movement you make when riding downhill, and how a board could make those maneuvers easier through being positively “locked in”. Ergonomics were the name of the… Click here for the full story

Race Report: The Graveyard Call Day 1

Written by Marcus Rietema

Friday, 24 July 2009

Course described as the world's best!

Jackson Shapiera rounds the final corner toward the finish. Photo Marcus Rietema



Argonay, France- Many riders didn't know what to expect when they traveled to Argonay, France for the Graveyard Call. After all, the race was a replacement event after Almabtrieb was canceled and some… Click here for the full story

On Saturday, February the 21st ASRA President Haggy Strom and myself got up before dawn to embark on a reconnoissance mission to the victorian alps to scope out and skate some of the best mountain roads this country has to offer. After months of talking about what roads were possible to skate we finally decided its time to go down and actually check it all out.

We flew down to Albury, hired a car and began the drive down towards Mt Beauty and… Click here for the full story

ok you shredders its almost time for the race season and we really need to get some ozzies out there and ripping it up. i wanna know whos keen to head over to danger bay? There are 3 races on at that time, danger bay is the 14th may till the 18th, then there is another race in Pender Harbour (where DB is) called Jakes rash, which is a sick run full of sweeping turns on smooth as hell pavement on the 20th, then the next weekend on the 23rd-24th will be the britania beach "gold rush". all 3 races… Click here for the full story

On Friday night, in the heart of the city of Sydney, the Sydney City Bomb Squad hosted the first annual Cannonball Run. This race is more of an 'urban assault', which consisted of pushing through busy streets and negotiation of the right line through packed traffic of not only pedestrians but also peak-hour traffic.

The race started on the corner of Oxford st and Centennial Park and saw about 25 keen skateboarders ready to unleash hell through… Click here for the full story