Extreme Sports

Caleb Moore's X-Games death: ESPN's Tony Kornheiser thinks snowmobile event should end

Yesterday's death of snowmobiler Caleb Moore as the result of a crash at the X-Games in Aspen has led to grief on the part of his family and friends, as well as debate about his sport of choice. Among the most prominent critics of the event: Tony Kornheiser of ESPN, the network that sponsors the X- ... More >>

X Marks the Spot

Guess where I'm skateboarding near this old amphitheater

This week's submission comes from local Meta Skateboards rider JJ Jensen, (whom you've also seen in the teaser for Meta's forthcoming video "The Holy Crail" on this blog), and with the video comes a sweet skate swag package from Meta. If can you guess where Jensen is throwing down this backside 5-0, ... More >>

Guess where I'm skateboarding in this secret warehouse

For the third installment of "Guess where I'm skateboarding..." we reached out to a local skate company that wanted to showcase a few locals shredding a fresh spot. Now, you might have to actually be "in the know" in order to get this spot (if you can't read, that is), but it's guaranteed to get you ... More >>

Reader: Journalists are reporting on important things in dangerous environments -- you're whining about skateboarding

Britt Chester admits that he knew it was against the law to skateboard on the 16th Street Mall, so he wasn't surprised when officers told him to stop. What did surprise him was what came after that -- including charges of interference, a ridiculous mug shot, an overnight stay in Denver's new jail, a ... More >>

Tristan Minton on Saturday's Down to Skate film premiere

On Saturday, Denver-based filmmaker Tristan Minton is premiering his new skateboard film H-DTS Mile High Alumni: Down to Skate at the BOPPO Warehouse at 4120 East Brighton Boulevard, Unit B13 ($5 at the door, screenings at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.) The film stars Julian Christianson -- a Westword Best of ... More >>

I went to jail for skateboarding, and all I got was this sweet mug shot

Skateboarding shouldn't be a crime -- but it is in certain parts of Denver. And during my recent run-in with the Denver Police Department after I was caught skateboarding on the 16th Street Mall, I learned that not only do some cops hate skateboarding, they also hate being questioned about their exc ... More >>

X Marks the Spot

Photos: Cheapskates Action Sports Bar opens in Aurora

Action sports enthusiasts and culinary entrepreneurs Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson just kicked their business model into high gear. Eighteen months after opening Cheapskates Action Sports Bar in Arvada, Galbraith and Stinson now have a second Cheapskates location in Aurora. Curious to see what ... More >>

Waiting for Lightning's skateboard stories are full of 'big air'

Photos: Danny Cisneros sets unofficial world records for skateboarding...on his hands

On November 25, Danny Cisneros set two (unofficial) world records for doing a handstand on his skateboard. He traveled .8 miles, nearly doubling the previous distance record, and was clocked going 35 miles per hour -- establishing a speed record that had not yet been set. See also: - The latest ... More >>

Todd Fink of the Faint talks Danse Macabre and why he's avoided doing the dance of the dead

The Faint was one of the main bands among the small wave of underground artists that emerged out of the unlikely environs of Omaha, Nebraska, a wave included noteworthy acts such as Cursive, Bright Eyes and Azure Ray, all on the Saddle Creek imprint. The Faint was one of the flagship bands on that l ... More >>

Photos: Awesome skateboard art on deck for Saturday's 5th annual Bordo Bello

"There's something people just love about the skateboard as a free and expressive canvas," says American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Colorado president Elysia Sryiac, surveying more than 300 decks submitted for Saturday's 5th annual Bordo Bello art show and auction at Redline Gallery. "This wil ... More >>

Satellite Boardshop and Red Bull unveil video from Ride With Us Colorado Skatepark Tour

Boulder's Satellite Boardshop is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and this summer also marked the shop's seventh annual Ride With Us Colorado Skatepark Tour, which started back in May at the new Arvada park (a Westword Best of Denver 2012 winner) and concluded in August at the new park i ... More >>

Boulder pro Sonya Looney on posing for the sexed-up Cyclepassion calendar

"The human body -- male or female -- is a work of art, especially with athletes," says Boulder-based mountain bike pro endurance racer Sonya Looney, the latest local rider to strip down for Cyclepassion, the infamous German Calendar of International Cycling Stars often disparaged/celebrated as bike ... More >>

Ernie Torres for Real Skateboards: Pushing Colorado Since Day One

This summer the Real Skateboards team sent eight of its riders home to film love letters about the streets where they came up for the company's new "Pushing Since Day One" campaign. Our favorite of the bunch is, of course, this Colorado clip from Ernie Torres, who notes in his interview for the camp ... More >>

Julian Christianson is top-three finalist in TransWorld Skateboarding video contest

Local skater Julian Christianson -- Westword's Best of Denver 2012 Best Skateboarder pick -- has a knack for turning local contest honors into bigger opportunities. Last year his Hometown Heroes contest win in Denver earned him an invite to skate in the amateur finals at the X Games in Los Angeles, ... More >>

AIGA Colorado seeking submissions for fifth annual Bordo Bello skateboard art auction

AIGA Colorado, the local branch of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and Englewood-based BoardPusher Custom Skateboard Graphics have issued a call for artists for the fifth annual Bordo Bello skateboard art show and auction, a fundraiser for mentorship programs including the annual Robert Tayl ... More >>

With help from Pearl Jam, native American youth skate for their lives at ONE Gathering

Walt Pourier is the visionary behind the "ONE Gathering -- Skate for Life" event, which will ramp up Saturday at the Denver Skatepark. Drawing hundreds of young Native Americans from across Colorado and beyond, the Gathering will expose them to positive, community-building activities that celebrate ... More >>

Reader: Skatepark is so clean, Denver must have a conservative scene

In honor of Go Skateboarding Day, Britt Chester took his board out on the town last Friday for his weekly installment of Guess where? Which inspired one reader to suggest why the Denver skatepark looked so clean.

Go Skateboarding Day: 303 ways to skate down a set of stairs

Colorado skateboarders in Colorado don't need an official holiday to put wheels to pavement: after all, there are 159 skate parks statewide and eight more in development. But last Thursday's international Go Skateboarding Day celebration still made for a good excuse. The first video from the local f ... More >>

Five ways to celebrate Go Skateboarding Day in Colorado today

The International Association of Skateboarding Companies declared June 21 as "the official holiday of skateboarding" back in 2003, and there are hundreds of killer concrete skate parks across Colorado to help you celebrate Go Skateboarding Day today. Here's a quick roundup of events and places wher ... More >>

Mike Dion takes Reveal the Path mountain biking film on the road

"If you could ride anywhere in the world, where would you go?" became a central question for Mike Dion after the success of the Denver-based filmmaker's 2010 film, Ride the Divide. That question became the tagline for his next film, Reveal the Path, which took Dion and some of the world's top mounta ... More >>

Ryan Dungey, Jessica Patterson, Justin Barcia on top at Thunder Valley MX Park in Lakewood

Thunder Valley MX Park in Lakewood has become one the world's premiere motocross venues in recent years, and this past Saturday it hosted the Toyota Thunder Valley National, the third event in the 2012 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship series. Ryan Dungey (who also won the 2011 Thunder Vall ... More >>

A Great Skate

Crisis Skateboards shop team drops crisis-filled video trailer

Young filmmaker Blaine Davies's new trailer for the 2012 Crisis Skateboards team video nails the perfect mix of what everyone wants to see in a proper skate vid: It's a combination of equal parts mind-blowing, technical, holy-shit skateboard prowess and people wrecking themselves over and over again ... More >>

What type of Wash Park fitness weirdo are you?

It's pretend summer in Colorado! You know, that time of year (read: every single month) when it gets up to 80-plus degrees for a few days, long enough to make you forget that it's probably going to still snow-out your cousin's wedding in June? Last week, when we experienced one of those first gorgeo ... More >>

Royal Stain hits up Arvada Skate Park, a Best of Denver 2012 winner -- with David Reyes

The new Arvada Skate Park took Best of Denver 2012 Best Skate Park honors last month, and the more time we spend there, the more we love it. This edit from local filmmaker Tristan Minton, of Royal Stain Design, which features 303 Boards team rider David Reyes and The Denver Shop team riders Ryan Lyb ... More >>

Think Skateboards brings Business As Usual premieres to Broomfield and Boulder

Broomfield's Crisis Skateboards shop is hosting the local premiere of the new Think Skateboards film Business As Usual tonight at 8 p.m., at a free screening at the shop at 6821 West 120th Avenue. Can't make it? Boulder's Meta Skateboards is presenting the film tomorrow at 8 p.m., with a free showin ... More >>

Reader: Republicans can skateboard, too!

Skateboarding legend Stacy Peralta came to Auraria on Monday, where he talked about movie-making, skateboarding and politics, telling the crowd, "When parents tell me their kids are skateboarders, I tell them, sorry, your kids are Democrats." But Milton puts the brakes on that:

Stacy Peralta: "When parents tell me their kids are skateboarders, I tell them, sorry, your kids are democrats."

Stacy Peralta -- legendary professional skateboarder, founder of the Powell Peralta skateboard company, documentary filmmaker and commercial advertising mogul -- visited the Auraria campus yesterday to speak with students on the art of being creative. "When kids tell me their kids are skateboarder ... More >>

Five reasons to go see skateboard legend and filmmaker Stacy Peralta today

Stacy Peralta, a '70s-era skateboarding legend in his own right -- and co-founder of the Powell Peralta Bones Brigade skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill and dozens of the top pro skaters of the '80s and '90s -- will be the feature ... More >>

Skater Stories

Colorado skaters, filmmakers, skateshops put their heads together for Malfunction

Collaboration is the new competition, and eight of Colorado's coolest local skate shops and skateboard brands are banding together in an unprecedented partnership to release Malfunction, a new video from filmmakers Brandon Greer, Corey Miller, and Travis La featuring skaters James Batcheller, Dan Hu ... More >>

Fort Collins' Launch: Community Through Skateboarding hosts Create A Skate workshop

Launch: Community Through Skateboarding​If you -- or your kid -- have been dreaming of making your own custom skateboard decks, don't miss this week's three-day Build Your Own Skateboard Workshop at Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden Street, starting on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 p.m. The $60 w ... More >>

Paraplegic skier Josh Dueck learns Sit Ski backflip at Woodward at Copper

Salomon Freeski TV's clip of paraplegic skier Josh Dueck hucking the first-ever Sit Ski backflip has us as stoked as any other trick we've seen filmed this season. Dueck -- formerly a competitive freestyle skier before a T11 spinal chord injury in 2004 -- won bronze in the Mono Skier X event last we ... More >>

X Rated

The Art of Winter, SIA and the Winter X Games take over Colorado

Recent powder dumps across the state couldn't have come at a better time: This week the entire snow sports industry is in town for its annual SIA Snow Show confab at the Colorado Convention Center and related Mile High Snow Fest events all over town, all the top pros are in Aspen for the Winter X Ga ... More >>

The ten worst skateparks in Colorado

The November issue of Thrasher included the results of a contest in which the magazine had asked readers for the worst skateparks in their towns for a list titled "Certified Piece of Suck: Doo-Doo Skatepark Construction." One of these pieces of suck is located in Colorado.

Slam! Greatest misses from Royal Stain, Never Summer, No Love Skateboarding

If your favorite part of any skate or snowboard video is seeing people fall down and get hurt, then we've got a treat for you: This week, we found three locally-produced clips full of brutal bails, courtesy of the new Royal Stain H-DTS Down to Skate promo, Never Summer Smash! (a compilation of great ... More >>

Skating the suburbs: New skateparks set to open in Thornton and Westminster

Right on the heels of the really-fucking-big-deal opening of the Don Anema Memorial Skatepark in Northglenn -- which rivals (if not outdoes) the Denver Skatepark for biggest park in the state -- come two more hot skate spots in the northern suburbs: the Trail Winds Skatepark in Thornton, set to open ... More >>

In Colorado, it's boarding season all year long

​We've been getting ahead of ourselves with all the recent snowboard video premieres going down -- and opening day still at least a month away at most Colorado resorts -- but some of our favorite local film crews have been reminding us of an important fact: It's still skateboarding season. Aft ... More >>

Ten best features at the new Don Anema Memorial Skatepark

Dylan FergusonThe number-ten feature at Northglenn's new skatepark.​Situated in the far corner of the E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park lies the new Don Anema Memorial Skatepark. Commissioned to Team Pain Skateparks, a company known for its innovative and strategic skateparks, the park was designed ... More >>

Angie Arrington of 5280 Fitness will kick-fit your ass to a better ski season

Britt ChesterAngie Arrington of 5280 Fitness, in front of the center's Bruce Lee mural.​What has been the former home for a six-foot skateboard mini-ramp, a thrift shop and the coolest garage sale you've ever seen now houses 5280 Fitness. Located in the neighboring building of Thrifty Stick Bo ... More >>

Launch: Community Through Skateboarding Creative Center coming to Fort Collins

​Launch: Community Through Skateboarding and the proposed Launch Creative Center in Fort Collins are ready to drop in, thanks to money raised at the All Hands On Deck art show and a fully-funded Kickstarter campaign that concluded last week, surpassing its fundraising goal by more than $1,000 ... More >>

All Hands On Deck auction to benefit Ft. Collins' Launch: Community Through Skateboarding

​Andy Weiss (former owner of the Market Skateshop in Fort Collins), Alison Alter (an art teacher at Fort Collins High School), and Justin Hocking (co-editor of Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write From the Deep End) called in some favors and brought out some heavy hitters for tonight's All Hands ... More >>

Grand opening of Trestle Bike Park at Barnum Park North delayed to August 6

​Commuters passing Federal on 6th Avenue on their way into Denver may have noticed construction on what is shaping up to be an epic new mountain bike and BMX skills park, designed by Gravity Logic and pro rider John Cowan. The park will be operated by Winter Park's Trestle Bike Park crew in pa ... More >>

This weekend in stoke: Top five ways to work out and work it out

​Gimme a Breck! The Babes in the Backcountry babes are leading by-women/for-women mountain bike skills clinics today at 10 a.m. as part of the Breck Bike Week festivities (meet at the Expo village at Blue River Plaza, $35 suggested donation). Afterwards, the International Mountain Bicycling As ... More >>

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