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Sunnyvale Ca Skatepark 10 year Anniversary Jam!

admin — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:51:28 +0000

May 4th 2013 12pm: Sunnyvale Skatepark 10 Year Anniversary Jam presented by Sunnyvale Skate Supply and Red Curbs!

FLASHBACK! Milpitas Ca. Skatepark circa 1995

admin — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:21:56 +0000

Milpitas Ca. Skatepark was opened around 1995 in Gill memorial park and was around for less than 2 years, not related to the skate park of the 70s-80s and way before Vans park in Milpitas (RIP!!). This park was a small flat-ish cement park with 4 main street style features. To this day I’m still confused as to why they closed it and how it even came to be. What I do know is that all the locals sessioned the hell out of it’s hip and ledge, the bank to stairs and the 2 giant speed bumps. Here’s some pics of Doug Shoemaker, Eddie Ruiz and William Nguyen doing what they did on the regular at Milpitas, and that was kill it. More to come and maybe some video footage from the skate park and the good times had there while it lasted. -Jones

Skatevirus Shop NOW OPEN!

admin — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:45:12 +0000

Located inside San Jose Bicycles at 565 Tully Rd, Skatevirus Skateshop is Now Open! Inventory is light but is building each week. We are a quick skating distance from Stonegate skatepark!

14th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Bowl Contest

admin — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:49:03 +0000

14th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Bowl Contest, September 22, 2012, LCRSP San Jose Ca.

words and photos by Jones…

Its amazing, everytime I come to the Tim Brauch memorial contest there’s always rookie pros ripping, a girls division thats shredding, the groms division blows my mind and a few new masters come out to rip in the bowl contest. I feel so lucky to just ride my bike from a few miles away to witness some world class skateboarding in a contest in the Memory of Tim Brauch. I love it. And its unbelievable that its been going on for so many years now, almost just as unbelievable that Tim has been gone that long. This contest shows how strong his spirit lives on in everyone that attends, whether to skate or just watch and whether or not they new Tim or didnt. It truly is amazing.

I got to the comp a little late this year as I’m usually there all day talking to friends, taking photos and skating around the park somewhere in between. Really stoked to not have missed the pros and the masters division finals. The masters division went off just before the pros. It was down to Cab, Hosoi, Hedges, Partain, Elguera and McGill. So awesome to see these guys come out to the contest for the first time or year after year and rip it up for old and new school skaters watching in awe of these legends. Steve Caballero ruled the entire bowl again for first place, Eddie Elguera came to town for second (do you remember his ripping parts in the H-Street videos?), Mike McGill pulled his Mctwist for the delight of everyone’s anticipation and took third, fourth went to Christian Hosoi who strung together some nice airs and his signature layback grinds, Mark Partain cruised with such nice style in the bowl for 5th, and Jeff Hedges came home with sixth and left us some super flapped tuck knee inverts to remember.

At the end of the day the Pros went off in the finals and it was great seeing Nor-Cal locals Brad McClain, and Josh Mattson come back to skate in the comp. Hey Raven, where were you?? Mike Brookman, Josh Rodriguez and Sky Siljeg came too and ripped it for the top three.

Thank you skaters who rode in the bowl contest and thank you everyone who skated the next day in the street contest at Scotts Valley. I’m thinking there should be a masters division for the street contest, bring out all the older guys, who new and skated with Tim Brauch back in the day, to skate against each other in a “local” comp. I think that could be pretty sweet! I would totally enter that!

“Chili-Bowl 8″ SF Potrero Bowl Contest, 8-25-2012

admin — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:58:53 +0000

“The City is trying to shut us down, so clean up the park afterwards!” were words announced to the crowd of about 400 people attending the Chili Bowl 8 contest in SF. It has become a fairly well known bowl contest over these years, but the skate park and surrounding park area can get pretty trashed, so hopefully people helped clean up afterwards. Anyways…there was serious ripping going on from each mini-generation that seems to come of age to compete in Potrero’s cement bowl. Dont have the results just yet, but will add them asap! For now here are some pics…as usual! -Jones

UPDATE: I dont agree with these results, they have me scratching my head! Don’t get me wrong, all these guys tore it up at one point or another! But what gets you better placing? Your so called “run” or the chaos of the “deathmatch” jam????? I would have given Chris Russell(Reynolds?) first place, he flew in his run, flew in the death-match and pulled alot of tricks that were big…including that huge frontside boneless which I thought was the biggest one…anyways…

Mens final results: 1st Raney Bares 2nd Eddie Moreno 3rd Jerry Gurney, Womens final results 1st Mimi Knoop, Masters final results: Jeff Hedges

Thrasher video link HERE…

SF: “Chili-Bowl 8″ Potrero Skatepark Contest 2012!!

admin — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:26:37 +0000

August 25th 2012, 12 noon

Its that time of the year again in SF for the “Chili Bowl” contest at Potrero Skatepark!

The Bloodwizard site or fb page has up to date/more info….

DERBYQUE! Thursday the 21st: Go-Skateboarding day in Santa Cruz!

admin — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:37:15 +0000

June 21st 2012: Go Skateboarding day in Santa Cruz at Derby park…yep its a “Derby-Que”! Sponsored by Skate Works and Consolidated…

“Never Forget” Skatejam 2012: Sunnyvale Skatepark June 16th

admin — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:09:45 +0000

After a long hiatus the “Never Forget” Skatejam is back! Started in 1999 when Tim Brauch passed away it had been going strong for years. This years will be at Sunnyvale Skatepark June 16th 2012. “Never Forget”!

Skatevirus.com Old School Deck/Completes Collection…

admin — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:20:37 +0000

A juicy pic of about 60 old school 70s and 80s completes from the SKATEVIRUS.COM Skateboard collection. Soon one day to be on display….somewhere.

NEVER FORGET!

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:58:16 +0000

On May 9th 1999 skateboarding lost a great soul & San Jose lost a sk8board brother. Never forget Timothy Michael Brauch twitter.com/sk8virusdotcom…

— Skate Virus (@sk8virusdotcom) May 10, 2012