Vans Pool Party 2014

Vans Pool Party 2014:

Some crazy skating last weekend at the VANS POOL PARTY 2014 and some surprizes too.
The kids were on fire and totally taking over the Pro division, wow who would have thought that before the contest? The likes of Pedro Barros, Rune Glifberg, Omar Hassan, Giorgio Zattoni did not make it into the finals… amazing. Here´s some pics from the weekend more will follow in the next Bailgun issue coming soon!

Chris Miller 1st Place legends – when Miller stays on on his runs he is pretty much unbeatable at the Combi.
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Hosoi 3rd place legends – Christian had good lines some high bs airs in the corner pocket of the square, floted bs ollies in the round with one of the best styles in skateboarding.
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Eric Nash – he had some rad and solid runs but didn´t quite make it to the podium, he threw some high indy airs, inverts, egg plants, corner smith grinds and acid drops into the square.
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Brian Patch 2nd place Masters – Patch was shredding with fast lines loooong grinds, high airs stalled inverts and good lines.
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Tristan Rennie 1st place Pro – had a million tricks and lines and combined that to some winning runs.
Divebombing and indy air.
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Josh Rodriguez 2nd place Pro – he shredded the whole combi with speed, style, tricks and lines. Eggplant 360, fs bluntslide around the corner, front feeles around the corner, high airs and then some. Lien air.
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Josh Borden – smith grinding the round but also had a Mc Twist and Andrecht to fakie and some great lines.
Smit grind
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Tom Schaar was blasting high air all over he combi and also threw in some 540´s and 720´s. Stalefich corner.
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Pedro Barros did not make the finals…wow. But he still blasted some of the hiest airs – stalefish
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Chris Russel didn´t make the finals but he was shredding hard, he´s fast and has a rad bag of tricks with frontside boneless to frontside invert or fs boneless desaster about head high just being two gnarly ones.
This might look like your basic corner grind, but he´s going faster that most doing it.
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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
 

Brian Gaberman Photo Book Review

Check out this really nice photobook by Brian Gaberman.
A Life In Transition is a collection of some of his favorite photos taken over the last seven years while he was working working for Element Skateboards.
It´s beautifully crafted and features a selecttion of action shots and portraits, taken on different trips and adventures from all over the world.

You can get it here

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Concrete Shredding

Check out some cool videos shredding concrete:

Bridge to Bridge (Teaser) from Dreamland Skateparks on Vimeo.