11 yr Old Wheelchair Athlete, 1st time dropping in.

11 year old wheelchair athlete Jaylee Dutcher drops into the bowl for the first time at the Venice Skate Park, during the Life Rolls On They Will Skate Again event. With some encouraging words from her idol, Nitro Circus star Aaron Wheelz Fotheringham, and her father standing by below, she successfully overcomes that fear of dropping into a bowl for the first time.


Video of the entire They Will Skate Again event will be online soon, subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updated on when it goes live. Last year's videos are on our channel.


You can follow Jaylee on her Facebook page:

Jaylee Dutcher

LRO Wheelchair Rail Jam

Once again there was a Rail Jam at the end of Life Rolls On's They Will Skate Again event. But unlike last year's Rail Jam, which was an spur-of-the-moment session on one of the sketchiest makeshift ramps ever, this year a real ramp was brought out and it was made an official mini contest in the They Will Skate Again schedule of events for the day.

The contest was held in the standard jam format, where all the competitors just went when the wanted as many times as they felt like, and at the end, the judges would pick who had the best overall hits on the rail.







Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham's 180 over the rail was the trick that basically crowned him the contest's champ.






A ton more photos in the Rail Jam Photo Gallery.



Currently editing the video footage of the Rail Jam, it will be online soon, subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updated on when it goes live. Last year's Rail Jam Video is on our channel.


Also, check out Adaptive Skate Clinic portion of They Will Skate Again, and Life Rolls On's They Will Surf Again:

Vintage Skate Stuff: : Val-Surf 1988 Fall/Winter Catalog

Part 5 of a look into a collection of various skateboarding memorabilia from the late 1980s and early 1990s.



This is a mail order catalog that Val-Surf sent out sometime in the fall of 1988. Val-Surf is the first Mail Order Service in the Industry, sending out catalogs since 1963.








That comic book "Road Rash" (listed above for $2) will be scanned soon.


There were coupons on the back cover that were cut out and used.


Previous entries:
Part 1: Vintage Skate Magazines, Catalogs, & Newsletters Overview
Part 2: California Cheap Skates Catalog
Part 3: H-Street Newsletters
Part 4: 1987 Hosoi Autograph

Snap The Gap

Dashawn Jordan

Snap The Gap presented by Supra went down outside the Agenda Trade Show on Wednesday. It was a tricks-for-cash contest, with $2500 in cash being given out. Tricks were done over a a replica street gap that CA Skateparks built outside the Long Beach Convention Center.

With the distance of the gap set at 8-feet, the contest got under way. Skaters started charging the gap, every trick landed by someone earned some cash.

Dane Vaughn







After a good twenty or so minutes, a lot of cash was given out and it was time to start the longest ollie part of the contest started. The was widen to 12-feet, then 14-feet, then 15-feet. When it got to 16-feet, only two skaters were able to clear it, Quel Haddox and Dashawn Jordan.

Transworlds Top 5
These skaters score an extra $100 each ontop of of the cash they already grab for the tricks they landed.
1. Dane Vaughn: Frontside flip, kickflip nose manual, switch backside heelflip, switch inward heelflip, nollie 360 flip, kickflip manual 180 out, 14-foot kickflip.
2. TJ Rogers: Switch bigspin, switch frontside 360, nollie backside heelflip, nollie heelflip.
3. Nick Merlino: Switch kickflip, nollie kickflip.
4. Blake Carpenter: Switch 360 flip first try.
5. Mason Silva: Backside 360 ollie.


More photos in The Agenda Photo Gallery

Vintage Skate Stuff: 1987 Hosoi Autograph

Part 4 of a look into a collection of various skateboarding memorabilia from the late 1980s and early 1990s.


Click here for a full size scan

This is a photocopied picture of Christian Hosoi that was given out at a Jimmy'Z demo at Val Surf in North Hollywood, CA back in the summer of 1987. It's from a Jimmy'z ad that was in one of the skate magazines, Val surf put their business card on it and made photocopies of it to give out. These were given out for Hosoi to autograph. Hosoi did sign this one, and as with most of his autographs back then, he added the year. After being proudly displayed for awhile, this photo ended up stashed in a Thrasher Magazine that was tossed in a box with other old skate mags and stored away for two decades.

Ended up finding this when pulling out the old collection of skate magazines a few weeks ago. Brought it to the Agenda Trade Show to show to Christian. Caught him outside and he immediately recognized the shot.



"Backside 360 Judo Air!", he said, "My signature sure has changed a bit since then." as he updated the old photo with a new autograph and the current date.

Hopefully, I'll have him sign this photo again in another 20 years.

Click here for a full size scan

Previous entries:
Part 1: Vintage Skate Magazines, Catalogs, & Newsletters Overview
Part 2: California Cheap Skates Catalog
Part 3: H-Street Newsletters

Agenda Trade Show

The Agenda Trade Show is where the skate, surf, and skate & surf lifestyle companies go to show off their new goods to the retail shop buyers. The show is held a few times a year, twice in Long Beach, in January and again in July. the following are photos from yesterday. We were also here for the show back in January, click here for the blog post.

Dusters skateboards Booth.

GoPro's booth.

Showing off their newest soon-to-be on sale camera: GoPro HERO4 Session

Here it is with the new Kung-Fu grip mount. This is going to be excellent for those boxing match POV shots.

Plus, a few Gopro accessory companies were on hand with various creative mounts for Gopros.

Over at the Vans' booth, while business was being handled inside the booth, outside the booth Steve Van Doran was cooking up waffles for everyone.

Steve is always happy.

Zoo York booth.
At the Uppercut Deluxe/Z-Flex booth, skate legend Eric Dressen fresh from getting his hair cut by Shane Nesbitt.
"When we are kids or adults alike, there are always people we look up to for one reason or another, could be basketball players, baseball players, musicians, politicians, dancers or in my case, skateboarders. One of the guys in looked up to as a kid was Eric Dressen, dude had the best style, indelible fluidity, and an uncanny ability to wiggle through the streets on a skateboard. Today for whatever reason, he decided to come get his haircut by me and it was an absolute honor. When you finally meet someone you have held in such high regard for so long and they are everything you had expected and more, it makes the wait well worth it. One of the most humble, down to earth, righteous brothers I have ever met. Good times Eric and man, it was a fucking honor." - Shane Nesbitt

Speaking of Dressen, here's some of the new Dogtown decks with his old graphics.

Jim and Mike Muir in the Dogtown Suicidal booth.

New Dogtown wheels with names and graphics of streets in Santa Monica

The H-Street booth displayed some re-issue classic decks.

and some new ones.

A few months ago, we scanned and posted some old H-street newsletters from the early 1990's ( check out the high resolution scans in this blog post ). We brought this 1993 H-Street newsletter to the H-Street booth for Tony Magnusson to check out.

Deathwish decks..

Mobile surfboard making trailer?

This dog was just so happy to be there.

Samoan tattoo legend Su'a Petelo creating artwork for a longboard at the KahunaCreations booth. Did you know that Kahuna Creations invented the patented land paddle in 2006? Land paddling is the ultimate cross trainer to paddleboarding. Kahuna Land Paddling combines the smoothest riding longboards with world class land paddles. Did you also know that you can save 15% at KahunaCreations.com with promo code: STOKED.

See told you, check out KahunaCreations.com.

Selfie time!!!!!!! Famous Stars & Stripes booth girl Sydney likes to update her social media throughout the day.

A lot of sock companies nowadays.

Some new decks with classic graphics.

The famous Jim Phillips Screaming Hand was walking around.

Playboy clothing was there with a booth.

What happens when you don't have someone watching your booth.



Nice Sector9 board.

Salesman at work.

Sometimes, the simplier booths are the most interesting.


There was also some skating going on outside the convention center. Next blog post will have that. Several more photos of inside the show in the gallery: Agenda Show Gallery

Meanwhile, some other stuff of interest: