Doin’ the desert disco
Ahoy! Its time for another all hands on deck Weekly Wrap-up for May 14-20th 2016 designed to roll you through any shred desert that you may be experiencing. After you drink from these stoke springs, you are sure to be plenty hydrated to charge out on your own adventures of shreddy-fest destiny. Lets get to it!
Fantasy Football may not be your thing, but perhaps Fantasy Downhill Skateboarding is a bit more your speed. Landyachtz is offering you the ability to pick a team of riders entered in this years Attack of Danger Bay and upon completion of the event, the fantasy team with the most points will get hooked up with a sick prize package from Landy! Hurry the draft ends midnight on May 21st!
Coming in hot with a fresh new moving picture, the primates over at Loaded Boards put out a sick Raw Wednesday of Kalil Hammouri absolutely hammering a steep, windy one.
Bonzing Skateboards dropped this Welcome to the Team edit of New Mexico local Sean Stratmeyer. This is one of those names you will want to remember so when he blows up you can tell all your homies that you heard of him first.
A new initiative to encourage skateboarders to push their personal board boundaries was launched by Bustin Boards last week at Ditch SLAP entitled “The Skate Everything Project”. Check out the mission statement behind the movement as well as the first two winning video entries from the event here.
In an effort to bring back the hype behind a full length skateboarding motion picture that seems to have been redirected to the 15 second insta-banger, Adidas Skateboarding plans to release a flash screening for their new film, Away Days, for 24 hours only on May 29th.
Video of the Week : Tick Ditch 1st Annual Race 2016
By Minscum
Event News:
The IDF Sanctioned Mahackamack 400 is right around the corner with registration open to all current members. The event is scheduled for June 11-12th so mark your calendars!
Instagram Pic of the Week:
Photo: @sam.cold
Industry/Rider News:
The Muir Skate @Muircedes departed on a emprompto road trip out to Utah with the homies Max Ballesteros, Oscar Gutierrez, AJ Haiby, Ian Freire, and Adrian Cole. Follow the van or any/all of the riders on insta to keep up with all of the mobbing that is sure to go down.
Wheelbase Fam:
The Event Recaps of both the Catalina Classic and the Ithaca Slide Jam are live on the site as well as Yeehaw Pete’s newly published article, “The Land of 9’s and 10’s”. Make sure you check out these publications promoting a pure pursuit of the push life and keep your eyes peeled for more original content from all of us here at Wheelbase.
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