Action Sports Blog http://www.actionsportsnow.com/blog Your source for actions sports news, sales promotions, giveaways and more. Thu, 17 May 2012 19:48:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Road Trippin and Private Bowls with The Passion Crew http://www.actionsportsnow.com/blog/2012/05/17/road-trippin-and-private-bowls-with-the-passion-crew/ http://www.actionsportsnow.com/blog/2012/05/17/road-trippin-and-private-bowls-with-the-passion-crew/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 19:47:09 +0000 Brian Smith http://www.actionsportsnow.com/blog/?p=4510
The Passion Crew on the road finding the shreddiest of shred spots

The Lizard King’s Passion Trip entails a grand journey throughout California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico in search for the craziest private spots. The crew includes Don Nguyen, Thomas Bonilla, Richie Belton, Justin Figueroa, Jon Dickson, Neen Williams, Aaron Homori, Dennis Martin and Matt Mumford. The crew shows you what it’s like to live on the road and to camp out in nature in hopes to find the holy grail. Quite an amazing adventure they had in their shaggin waggin!

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John John Florence performs miracles and mysteries at the Nike Pro at Lower Trestles 

Winning nearly every heat throughout the entire Nike Pro, John John comes to a halt in the semi-finals against Glenn Hall. His performance was impeccable as he gracefully wiped out all of his opponents with ease and satisfaction. John John’s efforts will not go unseen for his talent and great attitude will bring him to victory in future events.



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Another glorious shred session in the mountains of Minnesota 

Wrapping up the day here at ASN we discovered a snowboarding session like none other with riders; Jake Olson-Elm, Brandon Larson, Krister Ralles, Austin Young and Cody Beiersdorf. Going to be thinking about this video all night!! Enjoy! Also, be sure to check out Powder Ridge’s website http://www.powderridge.com/ or Like them on facebook https://www.facebook.com/POWDERRIDGE?ref=ts.

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Kohl hunts down the gnarliest waves in Tahiti, Fiji, Hawaii and California. 

When it comes to finding the best swell, Christensen is a heat seeking missile. His long endured journey throughout the world to find the best spots has been leaked to the people in this video. This started out our hump day real nice like.

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A beautiful compilation of time-lapsed skateboarding 

This video captures the true essence of skateboarding and world that we do it in, a beautiful mixture of the two. The astonishing footage features; Dylan Reider, John Rattray, Shuriken Shannon, Jordan Taylor, and many more! Warning..this video contains epic shots and astounding cinematography, please use caution when viewing.

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From a very young age Kerley found his craft and has become a  world-renowned BMX rider.

After Kerley realized that there was world outside of racetracks he quickly became a freestyle BMX rider. His passion and heart-driven desires led him to become a professional BMX rider for Nike. Get to know Chad and watch him shred from skateparks to the street, he can do it all!!

 

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Sheckler Foundation’s “Skate For A Cause” at Etnies Skatepark of Lake Forest

It’s always enlightening to see people giving back to the community, this video shows just that and brings light to all who watch it. Some skaters in the video include; Aaron Astorga, Aiden Campbell, Adam Dyet, Alex Midler, Andrew Brophy, Billy Marks, Brandon Biebel, Bill Weiss, Colin McKay, Colin Provost, Dave Duncan, David Hackett, Devine Calloway and many more! Enjoy!

 

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Another day at the office for Connor Ferguson!

Name
Connor Ferguson

Age
17

Hometown
Red Lion

Nickname
“conman” or “fergie” depending on the person. Only a few people call me by my nickname.

Sponsors
Exist Skate Shop

Crew
The Exist Crew

Strongest Maneuver
I like to do kickflips, frontside flips, 360 flips, frontside ollies, and bonelesses.

Best contest results
I’ve gotten 2nd and 3rd place a couple times at contests at Reid Menzer Memorial Skatepark.

Best day Skateboarding
Any day that I wake up early and see that it’s nice and sunny out.

Best trip
I went camping once. It was so much fun, I would like to do it again.

Local hero
Wayne Hake, Mitch Rodowski, and John Shomper!

First board
A Birdhouse deck, blue thunder trucks, and generic wheels

When did you start Skateboarding?
When I was 10 or 11.

What’s the worst injury you’ve gotten from Skateboarding?
Rolled my ankle so bad it had almost no mobility for 2 months. Every time I tried to do flip tricks it hurt so bad until one day the pain magically disappeared.

What’s your favorite video?
There’s way too many videos to name, I love them all!

Recommended reading
Dan Brown or Stieg Larsson…..Thrasher of course.

Favorite music
I like all genres, except country,gospel, or christian music. Too many bands to list, I can’t think of all of them off the top of my head.

Best local hangout
Exist skateboard shop!

Best local food
mexitaly

Best local spot
Reid Menzer Memorial Skatepark!

Best local shop
Exist!

Wheels
I’ll skate any wheel, any color, 53 or larger

Favorite quote
“shop small, not mall”

Your worst habit
Sleeping in.

Want to drop any names?
My mom and dad! Jon Gordon, Justin Updegrove, Dylan Jeffers, Vince Ferraiuolo, Nick Tyyrell, Ivan Resnik, Andre Kunz, DJ Kile, J-Piz, Nathan Bowers, John John Rosemond, Andrew Straub, all my friends or anybody I can’t think of at the moment.

Breaking the law
In the town I grew up in, Red Lion, skateboarding was against the law so I always got into trouble for skating.

Biggest fear/phobia
I hate spiders and snakes. I used to have these dreams where I would be laying in my bed listening to music and all of a sudden a huge spider would crawl on top of me..freaky stuff.

Lesson learned the hard way
Lying to my dad..

If you could pick a super power…
I’d pick some type of healing power. That way whenever one of my friends or myself is injured, I have the ability to heal! That way we can always be having fun.

If I had one wish…
I’d wish for more street spots in York.

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Mauricio having a blast at his home spots in South Brazil. 

Hope everyone had a good weekend, now get back to work! …or watch this video with Mauricio Pedreira who is just being a boss and doing what he does best, shredding waves and training 100% strapless for the KSP Portugal 2012.

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Longboarding back to Texas, Snow Porn, Travis Grant, McCormicks, Nate Greenwood

Here at ASN we wish that it could be Friday everyday just so we can sit down and watch some sick youtube videos and then go grab a cold brew! We got some cool video’s for your viewing sensations on this beautiful day starting out with longboarding in the great state of Texas! Secondly we have the infamous Snow Porn featuring Burton riders; Alex Andrews, Danny Davis, Jack Mitrani, Jeremy Jones, Jussi Oksanen and plenty more! In the midst of all the commotion there rises a world champion, Travis Grant, who talks about his recent win at the 2012 Quicksilver Jamie Mitchell Survivor race. Next to last we have a sick video that will make you want to go wakeboarding in the first couple of minutes watching it!! Finally we take a look at Nate Greenwood, a skate video with the gnarliest street skate spots on the east coast. Enjoy all the video’s and your weekend , we certainly did and will!

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