Christian Hosoi hangs out at Santa Cruz Skate Shop A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Christian Hosoi on 102.5 KDON's The Morning Madhouse for the Tim Brauch event (which he took 1st place by the way) and we kind of hit it off. Yesterday, I got a text from my boy Barry at Pocket Pistols that Hosoi, Chris Hammrock, Chicken and a few am's were floating through Santa Cruz and wanted to drop by Santa Cruz Skate Shop to say whats up, sign some autographs and eat some food. About 3pm Hosoi and the crew pull through after skating the Santa Cruz Skate Park for a couple of hours so we proceed across the street to Hank's to get some grinds and a coffee at the Verve right after. I have to admit its a bit surreal to be having chicken strips then a coffee with a legend like Hosoi...but those are the perks of being in this business. Back at the shop people were already buzzing about Hosoi being in the area and boards start being flung under the mighty sharpee. While that was going on I was chatting up Chris Hammrock (also a Pocket Pistol team rider) about the new websites Hosoi had going on, new technology he was implementing to get the word out that Christian Hosoi was back with a vengeance. Of course, I felt obliged to show him a few tricks that I had up my sleeve and proceeded to show him Skateboards.com TV channels that we use when we are Live Streaming and my Nokia N95 Mobile Streaming . Once Hosoi saw this we did a little impromptu interview for Skateboards.com TV and blasted it out for the world to see.
Overall, Hosoi is a legend...there is no debating that if he hadn't fallen down the skateboard world would have seen Christian Hosoi video games and the like...BUT..he would have never found GOD and his love to help him along and guide him. I like the Christian Hosoi I see in front of me now...SKATE OR DIE!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:42 AM
10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial contest Day 2 at Lake Cunningham Day 2 of the Tim Brauch was held at Lake Cunningham Skate Park in San Jose and court was held for the World Cup of Skateboarding and the legends came out in force. First off, Lake Cunningham Skate Park is probably one of the best parks I have seen in a while, with over 68,000 square feet its a dream come true. Legends, Pro's and young upstarts were no shortage at the 10th annual Tim Brauch Memorial contest coupled with the World Cup of Skateboarding you can guarantee some serious bowl skating was going down. You can click here for Tim Brauch Memorial Bowl results. Duane Peter's, Christian Hosoi, Steve Caballero, Jimmy The Greek and many more were walking around and going big in the bowl. In the end it was Christian Hosoi edging out Steve Caballero in the grandmaster division winning $600, with Duane Peters bringing up 3rd place. In the locals division Skateboards.com/Santa Cruz Skate Shop/Half Pint Skateboards rider Nate Linford
took 1st securing him a spot to skate against the Pros taking 12th overall while Benji Galloway came in 1st place, Tim Johnson 2nd and Joshua Sandoval of Deville wheels skating to 3rd. with over $5000 in prize money, there was allot of good skating and happy pay days. Of course no skate event is complete without an Animal Chin sighting...
Labels: christian hosoi, duane peters, jimmy the greek, lake cunningham skate park, santa cruz skate shop, sessions, skateboarder, skateboards, skateboards.com, skull candy, steve caballero, tim brauch
Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:06 PM
10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial contest at Scotts Valley Skate Park What a beautiful day for a skate contest, Tim would have approved. Its hard to believe it has been 10 years since we lost Tim Brauch, luckily his family has coordinated with Sessions every year to bring the skate community out in force to the Scotts Valley Skate Park to compete for braggin rights. The day was mellow, people were skating, eating hot dogs, downing free Red Bull's and watching the kids battle it out to be this years winner of the Tim Brauch 10th annual memorial contest in their respective category. Heavy hitters from all over the state came into town to test their lines against one another. Tommy Werner was dropping hammers consistently in his runs, leaving everyone with gape mouth as he landed trick after trick flawlessly. Here is some video from the day with Skateboards.com team rider Knox
Sessions always puts on a great event with kids leaving with way more swag than they could ever imagine, skating all over the place and having a blast. With today's events over and tomorrow happening at Lake Cunnigham with the likes of Christian Hosoi, Steve Caballero, Screech and many others shredding the bowls at California's largest skate park totalling over 68,000 square feet. Skateboards.com will be there filming it live on Skateboards.com TV. Once we get the winners of today's event we will update it here. Meanwhile enjoy some pics of the days event. Special thanks to sponsor's Sessions, Red Bull, Dragon Optical, Skull Candy, Wahoo's, Vans, Etnies, Foundation, Thrasher, Slap, FuelTV, DaKine and Bones. If you want to learn more about the Tim Brauch memorial fund "Official Press Release" click here.
Labels: christian hosoi, Micah Szoke, santa cruz skate, scotts valley skate park, skateboards, steve caballero, tim brauch
Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:26 AM
2008 Battle Of The Shops and ASR San Diego
Ahh, ASR San Diego...the memories of scantily clad women (some shouldn't), high fives and hand jives with all your bro's, stupid security people that flex on little kids and product scavengers that go from booth to booth in hopes of free product from struggling companies. Did I mention that jail is always an option in San Diego as well? Anyhow, this ASR was extra special as we were broadcasting live from an undisclosed location inside of ASR through Skateboards.com TV, Josh "MadMan" Mattson winning the Transition for the 3rd time at 2008 Battle Of The Shops hosted by Automatic magazine, cruising the floor with Animal Chin and checking out all the after parties. First off the LIVE Broadcast through Skateboards.com TV both with our stationary cam and mobile cam view went off well as we had well over 1000 people watching out for pro's, bro's and ehemmm...well you know the rest. While I walked around streaming from my N95 phone catching random pieces here and there like
Too $hort from Oakland in the Famous Stars and Straps booth and Battle Of The Shops coverage. Make sure you join up over at Skateboards.com TV to get alerted when we go LIVE. 2nd day of the show we teamed up with Animal Chin..
yes you heard it right Animal Chin..
we found him..in my youth I often wondered what would happen if I actually found Animal Chin and what I would do...so when we he came into our secret location at ASR San Diego, all I could do was follow him around for the rest of the day. Animal Chin and our crew went from booth to booth as he cleaned up time after time. Did I tell you he makes the best fortune cookies in the world? Now the best part of ASR...2008 Automatic Magazine's Battle Of The Shops held this year at ASR San Diego California.
We had our Skateboards.com/Santa Cruz Skate Shop team in place, the only Skate Team to travel from Northern California and compete against the likes of Active Ride Shop, Pacific Drive, Val's Surf, Pharmacy Board Shop and 15 other high brow shops. This was our 3rd year showing up and dropping hammers with our riders Brandan "B-Lo" Howard, Nathan "Knox" Forson, Micah "M-ZO" Szoke and Josh "MadMan" Mattson. Right out of the gate, M-Zo was laying it down in the Technical division with guys like Willy Santos standing by watching the pressure was on, next it was Brandan Howard and the Double Set after flinging his body down and taking a bad stack the Transition was next.
Josh "MadMan" Mattson was defending champion 2 years running and people were gunning for him. Curren Caples and David Loy tried and died..the MadMan was on fire using the whole ramp and skating like a possessed man in search of redemption. Last but not least, Nathan Forson was on tap to take on the Rail division with guys like Marquise Preston, Andrew Pott and Andrew Elliot charging. In the end, our Skateboards.com/Santa Cruz Skate Shop Team walked away with an 9th overall and Josh "Madman" Mattson once again took the Transition event with a 1st place making it a 3-PETE at the Automatic Magazine's Battle Of The Shops 2008.
After winning the $500 first prize, The MadMan clearly stated he was up for a dinner at Dick's Last Resort
and contemplating his next fishing pole purchase. Overall this was probably the best ASR San Diego show I have had in two decades. Not sure what's next but make sure you stay tuned as you never know what hot mess we will be serving up to you next.
Labels: ASR San Diego, Automatic Magazine, Battle of the Shops, Branden Howard, Josh Mattson, Live Oak Skateboards, Micah Szoke, Nathan Forson, Shop Contest, skateboarding, skateboards
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:58 AM
LABOR DAY BLOWOUT!!
