Wednesday Wipeouts

Another photo set of surfing wipeout shots, courtesy of
These wipeouts were caught at Topanga, Sunset, and Venice beaches.














Previous Wipeout photo sets:
Skateboarding Wipeouts
Winter Swell Wipeouts
February Wipeouts
Some January Wipeouts
December Wipeouts
November Wipeouts
Halloween Wipeouts
Santa Monica Wipeouts
Venice Beach Wipeouts
Venice and Huntington Beach Pier Wipeouts
Santa Monica Paddle Board Race Wipeouts
First Wednesday Wipeouts Set

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Video: Go Skateboarding Day Ladies Demo

Video of the Go Skateboarding Day Ladies Demo at The Venice Beach Skatepark. Check out the previous blog post for the photos.

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Video: Skate Your Ass Off Contest

Here's a video recap of The Go Skate Your Ass Off Contest at The Venice Beach Skatepark. Check out the previous blog post on the contest for a photos and complete recap.

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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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Curt: The Story Of Surfing's Oldest Grom

CURT is a short documentary about 50-year-old competitive surfer, Curt Harper. Diagnosed with autism as a child, Curt faced many challenges growing up, but one thing that came easy was his love for surfing. Over the past 21 years, Curt has become a beloved fixture in the Southern California surf scene, having played an unlikely, yet vital role in the growth and development of multiple generations of groms.

Video: O.G. Jam

Here's a video recap of The Old Guys Jam at The Cove Skatepark in Santa Monica. Check out the previous blog post on the contest for a photos and complete recap.

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Skate Your Ass Off Contest

UPDATE: Video of the contest is now online, click here.

The Go skate your Ass Off Contest took place at the Venice Skate Park on Go Skateboarding Day. It was a best trick and a "first-one-to-land-a-trick" type of contest, similar to last month's Jay Boy Classic Invitational Cash Grab , where a tricks are called out and the first to land each trick it wins the prize for that specific trick. Unlike the Jay Boy contest, this one wasn't held in the pool, it was held in different parts of the park's street section.

Once the contest officially began, all the skaters lined up ready to hit the first section. Eric Tuma Britton got on the microphone and started mc'ing the event, calling out a specific trick and the prize that the first person to land it will get. Hats, t-shirts, & skateboard parts were the prizes. But once Tuma announced the name of the first trick and its prize...

everyone started charging the steps to be the first to land the trick, which led to..

a lot of slams, near-misses, and a couple direct hits.

This crazy free-for-all was pretty fun to watch. And once someone nailed the trick, Tuma called out a new trick and everyone would start charging the steps again in order to be the first to land that one.

One of the girls from the Girls Demo joined in, Courtney Akita, from Silly Girl Skateboards, held her own in the contest, landing several flip tricks and...

missing some.

This went on for awhile, lots of tricks landed and prizes given out.

Then it was time to relocate to the next area,...
which was the handrail, where it became the best tricks win stuff part.

Grinds down the rail...

Kickflips over the rail...

and more.

There was also the occasional board that accidentally got shot into the crowd...

Luckily, thanks to the quick ninja-like reflexes of several of the spectators, no one got hit with a flyaway board.

Then over to the smaller rail and steps for the last part of the contest.





And this is Lance (on the right), from Venice Originals, who organized this contest.
Don't recall who won what, as way too many skaters winning stuff. Lance has it on his list though...

There's a good 100 photos in the Skate Your Ass Off Photo Gallery, couldn't put them all in this blog post. Check them out in the link below:


Video of the Skate Your Ass Off Contest has been uploaded. .


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