Congrats Kat Badass Skatemom

Congrats BASM Kat Folsom for the great article in Girls Who Ride Magazine. Kat a mom and ripping skater. Thank you to Cindy Whitehead of "Girl is not a 4 letter word" for collaborating with my Badass Skatemom brand. You are the ambassador of women and skateboarding for sure. You are always pushing forward and speaking out for all women and girls when we get pushed down and get little coverage in the media.

Girls Who Ride Facebook

Women skateboarding Can you Kickflip

"Can You Kickflip?" a documentary about female skateboarders. from alex white on Vimeo.

Photo Shoot at the Santa Cruz Skatepark today

Zach sneaking a run in before the rest are over the fence with the gear.


Lucia shooting Zach Wormhoudt at the skate park named after his father. Rain cleared up and the park had dry spots.


Zach grabs my camera and shot me getting photographed. The wave was a big project and a big part of 2006-07. What was really weird is while we were waiting for the crew to show up Larry Crocker drove by and waved. He is the one that sand blasted the wave with Diamond D Concrete.



After spending 2 1/2 hours stuck at my house in Aptos due to a Sheriff road block at the only road into our neighborhood waiting for the SWAT team to come extract a neighbor who had baracaded himself in. Which caused my kids to missed their dentist appointment with Garrett Kubota at 2:00. (Had a really good excuse.) Ben Marcus emailed about meeting to shoot with Zach Wormhoudt at the Santa Cruz Skate park. Ben was just leaving from shooting Novak and Doug Haut and NHS crew. (Jeff Kendall, David Freil, Bob Denike, Tim Piumarta OG.) with photographer Lucia Griggi. How could I get to the park in 45 minutes. Well I called around and got my mom to come meet me across the field on Haas Drive. As I'm walking to meet her I notice no police road block and get back in my car and head for the park. Called her thanked her a million times over and got to the shoot in time. Ben showed up a few minutes later. Kids were skating in the wet park. One police car did a drive by a few minutes later another comes through the parking lot. Sees us and keeps driving. He then stops at the curb with his lights on and talks to the boys in the park. Zach shows up then Lucia and Jason. After the others clear we jump the fence and do the shoot. The photos might appear in the new skateboard history book with the Tony Hawk, Cab, Blackhart, Olson, The Z-boys, Logans, and many other historic skaters. I know that the Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation will for give us for barging it will be worth it down the road.

Photo shoot for Skateboard History book

Despite the rain yesterday we found a dry spot at the Lake Cunningham skate park and once that was rideable it seemed the park started drying up pretty quick. Lucia Griggi shot Rick Blackhart in the Pipe, Gary Holl by the backside of the cradle. Looks like a concrete sphere and Cab at home since his son was sick. I got a fun pick but it won't make the book as I've just been the conduit for a bunch of skaters like Keith Meek, Mike "Smiley" Goldman, Don and Danielle Bostick of World Cup Skateboarding.
Check a few picks out on Ben's site. Some great stuff.
There are a ton of skaters that made a difference to skate all over the World in every nook and cranny. We skate because we love the sport. I'm looking forward how many of us will be the first generation of skaters that will be the over 50 skaters. NOT the same age growing of generations of the past.

Skater for Life!

Big Thank you too the sponsors that support my racing!

Raced Ella to get to Lynn Kramer the 7x World Champion who won all three events.


Hybrid qualifying run with Lynn.


A big Thank you to the companies that support my skateboard passion.

NHS
Roe Slalom Skateboards
Khiro Skateboard Products
Skate Designs Inc.
Abec 11 Wheels
Independent Truck Company
Pleasure Tool Bearings
Sockguy
Oakley Eyewear
Element Shoes
DC Shoes
Giro Helmets
Powerbar
SkullCandy


I was sponsored by Van's, Offshore Clothing, Rector, Independent Trucks, Santa Cruz Skateboards, NHS back in the day. I just realized that I have not paid for any skate shoes since the late 1970's along many other skate items.

Word to the wise. Never burn a bridge because one day you may have to cross the same bridge.

Photos: By Steven King July 18 - 19, 2009

Hood River Oregon Seismic World Championships of Slalom Skateboarding.
Placed second in the tight and forth in the hybrid. Took a fifth overall only entered two of the three races. Skipped the GS this year.

Seismic Slalom Skateboard World Championships 2009 Women's Semi-Final

Racing against young ripper Ella Roggero from London England.
Downtown Oak Street Hood River, July 19, 2009. So much fun. I'm 34 years older skating as fast as I can.

Found friend on Myspace after 29 years!

I got a great email through myspace from a old friend from 1979 this morning! Her son had friended me and he showed her a pic of us skating on the Northshore that was in my photo album. We both skated back in the day and did a short stint with "Skateboardmania" the ice follies of skateboarding where I met Duane Peters and a few other notable skaters. We lived in Hollywood for 3 weeks in the Holiday Inn off Hollywood Blvd. 10 days in LA and a week on the Queen Mary so we could practice in the Long Beach Arena before hitting the road in the 7 bus 1.2 million dollar show. Long story short the head director was having an affair with the Lakers and LA forum arena and he shut us down. Went home waiting word of show start it never happened. Went to Hawaii for 5 weeks and ran into Kerry who was hanging out with her sister on the Northshore. Dano a professional surf/skate photographer from Santa Cruz was based on the Northshore for the winter surf wanted to do a photo shoot with us. We poached Rory Russell's ramp at Pipeline and then did some random hill runs with Dano sitting on the hood of the old rusted out car.

Great to see she is still living there and writing books. Very cool.