Sentences with phrase «skateboard team»

Prior to real estate Mike was a professional skateboarder on the Pepsi Skateboard team from 16 to 21 years old.

Stacy Peralta focuses on the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skateboard team, a group of teens who drew on the fluid moves of surfers as they carved up the asphalt waves to create a style that was improvisational, revolutionary, and the essence of cool.

Or maybe that's just the clumsyexpository dialogue: «Hey, I think we should start a skateboard team, man,» says one shirtless, long - haired dude to another.

by Walter Chaw Because Catherine Hardwicke never met a rack zoom she didn't massage or a hard - luck adolescent's lament she didn't exploit, seeing her as a match for Stacy Peralta's semi-autobiographical account of the Zephyr skateboard team's halcyon days doesn't require that much of a squint.

The responsible one with the job in rundown Venice Beach circa the early -»70s, he «ain't no pirate,» says surf shop owner Skip Engblom (Heath Ledger, doing Val Kilmer on lots of ganja), who decides mysteriously one day to sponsor a competitive skateboard team with ringers Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch) as well as a bunch of other kids the film doesn't have time for.

Documentary from Academy Award ® nominee Don Burgess exploring the origins of skateboarding culture, through the lens of the 1965 Palisades Skateboard Team, who reinvented a childhood hobby into a sport, bringing it to the vanguard of popular culture.

«Out of all the parks in the area it's one of the best,» said Randy Korwin, an employee and member of the skateboard team from Bad Boyz Toys, an Orland Park sports shop.

The Epic Skateboard Team, which has been in existence since the park opened, recently added a scooter team with three riders that have their own team manager to help coordinate entrance and travel to competitions.

Not exact matches

In January, the program graduates its inaugural class of four teams, whose creations include a biosignal - tracking wristband; an impact - monitorinwg mouthguard that can help athletes avoid aggravating head injuries; a tracking device for skateboards; and a robotic toy that teaches kids as young as 4 to code.

«The quarterback of the football team likes rap, he also goes to [electronic music festival] EDC, he skateboards.

Camping, outdoor activities like skateboard and rock climbing, boy's clubs and organizations, martial arts, robotic building groups, computer clubs, math teams, chess teams, groups that collect and play magic cards, mechanic classes, just to name a few.

«It's much more dangerous riding a bike or a skateboard than playing youth football,» said Maroon, who is a consultant to the NFL's Head, Neck and Spine Committee and the Pittsburgh Steelers» team neurosurgeon.

The team of three is trying to escape the single player on their skateboard while dodging the obstacles thrown at them by the single player.

Directed by Stacy Peralta, a member of the legendary Zephyr Skating Team that almost single - handedly defined the modern X-Game at the 1975 Del Mar Nationals Bahne - Cadillac Skateboard Championship, Dogtown and Z - Boys accomplishes several tasks at once, evoking the ethic that captured the imagination of American punks, portraying the dangers of stardom, and telling a rags - to - riches fable about how boys (and a girl) from the wrong side of the tracks sometimes make good on their own terms.

After students have a short conversation about how easy the test was, they can move on to even more important conversations about the interesting book they just finished, why their favorite football team will win on Sunday, or maybe even the mayor's support of their plan to build a new skateboard park.

Most pieces have been 1:1 scale, but he's also produced smaller works of late, building a 1:6 Toyota Celica Mk7 on skateboard wheels for Mai Ikuzawa, daughter of Le Mans and Formula 2 racer and team owner Tetsu Ikuzawa.

So it's not surprising that the Chevrolet stunt team would want to try out it's own set of skateboard antics after Dyrdek's kickflip.

Combatants throw glowing dodgeballs to one - hit - kill their opponents and complete team objectives, using a wide variety of powerups and trick shots — all with skateboard - style movement and a pulsing dance club aesthetic.

The team of three is trying to escape the single player on their skateboard while dodging the obstacles thrown at them by the single player.

Robomodo — the team behind the disastrous skateboard peripheral entries in the series — have taken their third crack at revitalization with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, a remixed high - def amalgam of the first two Tony Hawk titles.

The wall comes with «detachable benches made from uncut skateboard misprints, whose arrangements will be managed by a team of spritely «pool boys» wearing uniforms made by, who else, American Apparel,» Anderson reports.