5th Annual Skateboarding Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Yesterday the 5th Annual Skateboarding Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held in Costa Mesa.
with the following 2014 inductees:

1960s – Gregg Carroll
1970s Era One – Jim Muir
1970s Era Two – Steve Olson
1980s Era One – Lance Mountain
1980s Era Two – Natas Kaupas
1960s Women – Laurie Turner DeMott
1970s Women – Ellen Oneal Deason

It was a realy nice event with a lot of cool stories from the all the legends.
A good history lesson. And maybe we´ll see some European skaters getting an award someday…

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Some historic stuff on display
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Dave Hackett
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Grant Brittain happy with his well deserved award
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Steve Alba and Stan Hoffmans son introducing the Pipeline Skatepark
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Stan Hoffmans son with award
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Stan Hoffman and Grant Brittain
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Fauso Vitello
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Laurie Turner Demott
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Gregg Carroll´s dauther read the speach her dad wrote for his induction before he passed away.
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Ellan Oneal Deason
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Ellan Oneal Deason happy with her award
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Geln E. Friedman and CR Stecyck introducing Jim Muir
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Jim Muir proudly holds his award
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Steve Olson didn´t need his reading glasses he went for the shades instead
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Dave is stoked for Olson
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Lance Mountain friends from Skate City days John Lucero, Hagop Nagarian and Jeff Grosso
singing a song for Lance. Where´s Neil?
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Lance Mountain and his award
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Skip Engblom introducing Natas Kaupas
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Natas and Skip
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Thanks to Josh Friedberg, Erika Klein and Jim Gray.
More info about the Skateboarding Hall of Fame here
 

Zine Check – Skate Fate

If your´re interested in making zines and some skateboarding history this one is for you.

Featuring full-length interviews with skateboarding icons Neil Blender, Steve Caballero, Steve Claar, Bill Danforth, Claus Grabke, Jeff Grosso, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi, Marty Jimenez, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Corey O’Brien and Gavin O’Brien, Chris Miller, Stacy Peralta, Rob Roskopp, Billy Ruff, Skate Rat, John Smythe (Craig Stecyk), Tod Swank and Kevin Staab.
Add some really cool cartoons by Neil Blender, lots of photos by Grant Brittain and Tod Swank
and you have a great insight of skateboarding in the 80´s.

Check out and order your copy over at BLURB

Made For Skate

Jürgen Blümlein of the Skateboardmuseum send me the brand new 2nd edition of the Made For Skate book.
The book shows the history of the skate shoe from the begining to today with great photos of well worn shoes and stories from world’s leading skateboarders past and present, including Stacy Peralta, Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Natas Kaupas, Pierre André Senizergues, Don Brown, Claus Grabke, Tim Gavin, Mike Vallely, Ed Templeton, Chad Muska, Arto Saari, Adrian Lopez and Paul Rodriguez, together with leading shoe designers and artists including James Arizumi (Nike SB), Brian Reid (Osiris), Jeremy Fish, Andy Howell and Todd Bratrud.
This is definitly worth checking out and also available for your ipod etc. but it´s much nicer to have real book in your hands of course.