VertandStreet.com’s skateboarding blog

 Rob Nelson of eastcoastaholic.com got all his stuff stolen yesterday (Sep. 18). He replaced his home page with the information he wishes the thief to read. I found this interesting and sad at the same time. Interesting in the fact that Rob is using the power of his website to let everyone know, he saw the theif and knows he’s local. It’s sad because Rob busts’ his ass to report on the local scene on the east coast and is a great guy. I doubt he cares as much about his gear as he does about the content stored inside of it.  So if you have any information please call Rob (number is on the screen shot) or post here.

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 Just thought I would pass along a couple of sick skate videos from Strangenotes.com.  I’m sure most of you know about the StrangeNotes DVDs and their web site. Creature has a new DVD coming out soon called “HESHLAW”  so check it out along with a David Gravette Strangnotes’ “Checkin’ In” video after the jump.  David Gravette rips street, stairs, pools, and skateparks just the same.

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If you have yet to check their blog out I suggest you do so. These are the guys that create the “Skatebook“. And they just consolidated all their videos into a single blog post/player so you don’t have to jump all over their blog to find the good stuff.

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 This is some pretty amazing slow-mo footage of random dudes skating steps at 120 frames per second–compare that to a normal SD/HD camera at just shy of 30 fps. They are being filmed with a “Red One” HD camera. It’s a cheap (relatively speaking) pro HD camera.  Just the camera body retails for around $17.5K. The price will go up once you add lenses and accessories. Yeah, that’s cheap considering other pro HD cameras at 5 to 10 times that price.

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“Vert is dead” and so are PCs. Really?  We’ve all heard the news that vert is dead, street is where it’s at but I say “Is it”?  Skate whatever you want. Saying something is dead doesn’t make it so as Dave and Ashley’s new creation prove the contrary thanks to photos provided by Rob Nelson over at eastcoastaholic.com.

Dave and Ashley are working on a huge vert bowl in the yard just NW of the OBX.  They finished a 20′ wide flat-wall section and decided to have a party and get their vert on with some friends and family.

Dave with the lien-to-tail (photog: Rob Nelson)

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Found this (don’t ask me how, I just stumbled upon it on cskate.com). It’s from a company called “SoCo Clothing” and they seem to sponsor Tim Johnson. Some of the spots I recognized were Dunedin, FL, Matt’s mini contraption in Isle of Palms, SC, Orlando City Skatepark, and The Hanger Bowl in Charleston, SC., and Kona. Some sick skating going down in this so check it out after the jump.

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This Dwindle Distribution video about thier new wood shop (“DSM”) is making the rounds. It’s also upsetting in a way. Why?  Well, it looks like this is a Chinese (or Asian) factory. Every worker is Asian, It’s definitely not in the US since I didn’t see a single Mexican.  

If you were ever interested in how a board is made (yeah, I know you think you know, but you probably don’t) this is a must watch. Pay close attention ot the way Dwindle modified their presses to make sure each board has the same tail/nose kick and concave (starting around the 4 minute mark)

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Found at ton of photos (literally)  over at the skullandbonesskateboards.com forum by slob-air.  This dude took photos of just about everything there–including cops checking out a longboard.  Be sure to check out all the hand-painted boards, old skool boards, the mini-ramp, Natas and Salba, and expo chicks. 

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 ”able1039” responded to my YoutTube video: “Wanchese, NC Skating with Science and Jesse” with this video of Dave “Science” Maxwell ripping in 1993. Dave was ripping curbs, mini-ramps, flat-ground, and vert (as usual). It’s now 2008 and it seems this guy hasn’t slowed down a bit.

from the YouTube Response:

David Maxwell aka Science Fair

Well I finally dusted off an old VHS tape from 1993 and crudely transfered it to digital. Basically, I pointed my camera at a television and filmed it. Anyways, I wanted to share this footage of David Maxwell with the world wide web.I grew up knowing him and looking up to him. The dude was a fucking legend to me. I noticed that there was no good footage of him on the internet so DAMN IT! I’m putting it out there myself. It needs to be done. part 1 of 3

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Sibbarp Skatepark, Sweden’s newest park has nothing over 4′. At first you would think it would be a kiddie-style/only park-it’s not. There are some cool features inside this park like some round wall with a boulder-thingy in the corner (guess it mimmicks steps),  different types of vocanos, spines, ledges…just watch the video and you’ll see (after the jump) .  Word is you can cruise around the entire park without pushing (now that’s my kind of park). 

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The folks over at Illusion Labs are touting this as the first tru multi-touch game for the iPhone.

From the looks of all the screen shots there’s no person skating. Why is that? Because it’s a “finger board” game (check the video after the jump) –pretty cool if you ask me. If I owned an iPhone I would probably get this when it becomes available in the iPhone App Store in October.

From their site:

 Yes, it’s official! Illusion Labs brings you the world’s first true multi-touch game for the iPhone. The board is controlled by using finger gestures similar to the legs and feet of a real skater.

The dynamic and innovative controls together with the game being built on a high quality physics engine gives the players a high degree of freedom to come up with their own tricks.

Following our Game 2.0 philosophy the games comes with an online level editor open to the community to create and publish their own skateparks.

Touchgrind will be available in the iPhone App Store in October.

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 Got the night footage edited and up on vimeo.com. Lot’s of locals (NC types) ripping along with the Emerica dudes.  Good times for sure and I hope the “Showdown” will be as good or better.  Keep an eye out for the daytime session video (should be up today).

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