On November 3rd, New York’s skateboarding community came
together to benefit the victims of the WTC disaster. The event
was held at the water-soaked (rainstorm) Millennium Skate
Park in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. But the skaters stayed true to
their city by getting down on their hands and knees with mops,
brooms, and even paper towels to dry the place out. Among
skaters Tony Cox, Pat Smith, Akira, Dan Pensyl, Mike Nalls,
Paul McElroy, and Tino Razo were some local rippers who played
no small part in raising over $35,000. Even though the event
is over, the work is not. If you would like to help, you can
make a donation at http://www.helping.org/wtc/ny/nystate.htm.
WTC benefit T-shirts are available for purchase at http://www.soletechnology.com/wtc/
(all proceeds will benefit Sept. 11th victims fund).
Keep your TVs tuned to Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Foundation’s
world’s biggest skateboard will be featured with Tod
Swank, Josh Beagle, Marc Gariss and Matt Barker poppin wheelies
and other fun believe it or nots that can only be done on
the one and only world’s biggest skateboard.
After five years as a pro rider, Brad Scheuffele has been
named Sales and Marketing Manager of Millennium Three Snowboards,
Chorus Snowboards and Premier Snowskate. Big deal, it’s
not like he gets to be the gossip editor of a magazine.
There’s little doubt the jibbing craze got its start
on the icy slopes of the East Coast, and now, a little Jersey
resort that is taking the next step. Mountain Creek will be
home this year to the country’s first total jib park.
The new Santa Cruz Jib Park will be located on a full-length
trail and will feature more than a dozen new custom curved
rails, kinked rails, rainbows, flat rails and mailboxes and
a 60-foot roller coaster rail which will be located on a separate
trail.
Eastern Edge Magazine is releasing (or has released by the
time you read this) Iron Curtain a short film by John Cavan
and Gregg Francke. The flick takes an inside look at the East
Coast snowboard scene. Shane Flood, Ross Powers, Jaime Macleod,
Colin Langlois, Nick Francke, Mutty, Mike Baker, The Grenade
Glove Army and countless others travel and ride through one
of the best winters this coast has seen in quite some time.
The 2002 Miss Reef Calender is out, just in time for the holidays.
“The centerfold shot is very, very nice,” said Jeff
Cutler, marketing director for Reef. Translation: thongs galore,
and not much else.
Bootleg Boards have arrived loaded with plenty of colorful
eye candy. In fact the boards are so pretty, you should go
out and buy two, one to hang on your wall and one to maybe
ride occasionally. And since spreading dirty little rumors
is what we do here at The Dirty, we’re going to tell
you to keep a look out for new Santa Cruz team members.
Speaking of new Santa Cruz conspirators, Alex Moul has joined
the team. His reward: his own “Addicts” pro model.
In the mood for a nice yellow cold one? Independent Trucks
and Santa Cruz skateboards will be dispensing the bubbly barley
soda at the 2002 Tampa Am Contest (Skate Park of Tampa). So,
whether you’re a raging alcoholic or you’re just
plain thirsty, follow the signs to the “Beer Tent”
and do away with those pesky brain cells.
Skateboarders want pink. According to Krux, Streetplant Pink
is the first colored truck to outsell one with a polished
mirror finish. I guess its true what they say: pink is the
new black.
Most say freestyle riding is the future of snowboarding, others
insist it’s only a phase. But the nay-sayers are going
to have to concede for now. Boardercross has been replaced
with the first ever Slopestyle event at the 20th Annual U.S.
Open Snowboarding Championships at Stratton Mountain, VT.
Dave Downing, Jussi Oksanen, and Shaun White are kindly donating
their expertise to the design of the course. If The Dirty
doesn’t do it for you and you simply must get more information,
go to www.opensnowboarding.com.
Bob Klein of BK Sports is snatching up the best riders in
the industry for representation like Wal Mart snatches up
towns. Here’s his list of “clients” half of
which are viable Olympic candidates: Danny Kass, Tom Gilles,
Elan Bushell, Andy Finch, Brandon Stieg, Jason Borgstede,
April Lawyer, Zach Diamond, Mark Schulz, Matt Shrive, Terry
Kidwell and Media Personality: Kris Jamieson
Here at Heckler we have a new Red Bull refridge in the office
which is in continual use and always empty, no wonder why
on the web we can’t slow down and find a few of our fave
companies either. Here’s URL dislexia at it’s best:
Mike Hatchett (of Standard Films) www.neocomm.net/~mhatchett
(note links to Nascar).
Poorboy Wax: www.poorboy.com (surf it when mom and dad aren’t
home).
Remember Hooger Booger Snowboards? www.hoogerbrugge.com (A
cool artsy site)
Craig Kelly? Try www.craigslist.org
(S.F. personals for a laugh. Good deals on various used stuff
too.)
http//:modart.com (Shrimp management software?)
OK, here’s the correct URL’s for the above mentioned… Poorboyusa.com, www.modart.com,
www.standardfilms.com,
Hooger Booger is gone.
Craig Kelly doesn’t have a site but has photos up at
Trans-snow.com.
So back in Mid-November the weather was chillin like the inside
of the hot stove in the kitchen cooking that Thanksgiving
turkey and people were jumping the gun to Mammoth as a massive
LA exodus headed up for a jib contest and at the same time
expecting powder or the legendary huge super pipe parks. Unfortunately,
they only got a few inches of manmade and S turns into dirt;
with only a party with local music and the postponement of
the jib event; we’ll keep you posted though. Fact is
there was natural snow but the 60 degree temps melted everything
out from Mammoth to Tahoe. You were bummed unless you’re
Scotty Wittlake or Paul Laca and you saved for the summer
to do an unusual and underground early season trip to the
Chugach Mountains in Alaska via rental car. While you’re
reading this who knows what weather is happening but last
I knew the east coast was having a mid-winter Indian Summer
and the west got half the winters normal coverage in a one
week period. Ouuuch!
Word has it Dave Sypnewski is looking for employment away
from his team management responsibilities at Burton. Did they
shit a brick when he turned all his expense reports in at
once? All possibly totaling in the region of 20 Grand?
Remember when your mom told you nobody likes a tattle tale?
IT WAS ALL A LIE! They just told you that so they could do
naughty things around you without anyone else finding out.
If you heard a rumor, or you got the gossip, we want it. We’ll
believe you, we’re very gullible. Help us help you…send
it to scat@heckler.com.
