Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts

7/2/15

Skateboarding Scenes From Old Movies: Hard Ticket To Hawaii


Between 1985 and 1998, filmmaker Andy Sidaris produced series of B-movies known as the Bullets, Bombs, and Babes series. All 12 movies focused on the adventures of a team of secret agents and were mostly filmed in Hawaii. The action scenes were silly and way over-the-top and the agents were always played by Playboy Playmates (who would always get naked).

Hard Ticket To Hawaii was released in 1987 and is the second film in the series. It features a skateboarding scene. The skater was played by professional skateboarder Russ Howell. Russ, who had started skating all the way back in 1958, was actually the first professional skateboarder. He had set some Guinness World Records, one for longest handstand on a skateboard (2 minutes) and another for the most 360s (163). In Hard Ticket to Hawaii, he gets to show off both of those moves.

All 12 of these films are in a DVD collection called Girls, Guns and G-Strings: The Andy Sidaris Collection (12 Film Set) And it's on Amazon for under $6. That's less than fifty cents a movie.



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6/25/15

Go Skate Day


Sunday, June 21, was International Go Skate Day. Venice Skate Park celebrated this day by hosting a Skate your Ass Off contest, raffles, product tosses, a Girls Bowl Demo and a row of vendor booths. Here's a collection of skate photos from International Go Skate Day at the skate park.




Haden Mckenna


Pauline Brannon




Joe Contraras



Hashtagging for free boards.




Haden Mckenna



B. Waters



Desmond Shepard



There's a lot more photos in the 2015 Go Skate Day Photo Gallery


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4/27/15

SUP: Andrew Prowd



Standup Paddleboarding with Andrew Prowd from Queensland, Australia.









SM Pier Paddle Registraion Open


The Tommy Bahama Paddleboard Race & Ocean Festival at the Santa Monica Pier on June 6th, 2015 is an annual all-day, family friendly celebration of decades of surf, paddleboard and lifeguard history.

The event benefits Heal the Bay, the 
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium and 
its public marine education facility. Heal the Bay will receive a portion of net proceeds from the event. Partake in the kids beach, ocean, waterway stewardship and trivia contests. Help raise money for Heal the Bay!

Tracing it’s roots back to the 1930’s Santa Monica Pier paddleboard races – some of the first in the world – this year’s event offers epic competition. Courses start and finish on the sand immediately south of the Pier.

Events
SUP & Paddleboard Long Course
Elite Long Course
2-Mile Fun Paddle
Paddlecross
One-Mile Ocean Swim
Youth 250M Swim
Lifeguard Dory Race

To sign up for this years races, visit the event's registration page:
Santa Monica Pier Paddle Race & Ocean Festival Registration

For photo and video coverage of last years races, click here.