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TUNES TO SKATE TO!

Interview, 10 things you didn’t know about him and more!!!

Competitions…..2 Music……….3 Celebrity Section: Ryan Sheckler!!!! „..6 Tricks………..9 Fashion……….10 Book of the Month: Lord of the Flies!.„12

Place: United States, live Oak Kb Park Date start: 31.08.2010 Date end: 01.09.2010

Anyone can participate in this competition, from 14 years old till 21. Several sponsors

will be there, looking for new talents- don’t miss it!

To Sign up for this competition or to find out more information go to

www.skatecomp.com

If you become one of the best skaters, someday you will appear in the following

ranking.

The ranking "Best Pro Skaters" is a ranking of the best Pro Skaters based on championships and participation, age, ability, years skating, among other factors. The ranking is composed as follows:

1. Rodney Mullen (USA) 43 years - 1025 pts. 2. Tony Hawk (USA) 42 years - 1000 pts. 3. Daewon Song (South Korea) 33 years - 561 pts. 4. Tomás Rivera (Chile) 27 years - 329 pts. 5. Bob Burnquist (Brazil) 31 years - 325 pts. 6. Greg Lutzka (USA) 24 - 293 pts. 7. Bam Margera (USA) 27 years - 280 pts. 8. Ryan Sheckler (USA) 19 years - 257 pts. 9. Steve Caballero (USA) 43 years - 255 pts. 10. Tony Trujillo (USA) 25 years - 241 pts.

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Music has everything to do with skateboarding - every skater has his or her own favorite songs and bands that help them to get stoked up to try stuff and to get into the mood for skateboarding. Here are some of the best bands to listen to while you skate.

1. CKY CKY - for "Camp Kill Yourself". CKY is famous for their music and videos. 2. MXPX MXPX has been on the scene for what feels like forever. Everybody loves these guys and their music is great for skating, and doing anything else extreme. A few songs for skateboarding are: "Middle Name", "Punk Rawk Show", and "Running Away".

3. The Offspring The Offspring has a huge pile of great music to get your blood pumpin'. Some favorites for skateboarding are: "All I Want", "One Fine Day", "Come Out Swinging", and "Falling". But there's plenty more… 4. Dogwood Dogwood is one of those bands that not everyone's heard of, but that is really really good! Dogwood is moderately heavy, but fast. It should keep your energy going. Some of the Dogwood’s songs for skateboarding are: "Building a Better Me", "The Good Times", and "Never Die". 5. NoFx : They are also one of the favorite bands to skate to for many riders - if you haven't heard 'em, check them out. You can also try Rancid.

6. Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly Both of these bands are Irish punk bands, and they rock to a ridiculous degree. If you are looking for something different to get pumped up to, try these songs: from Dropkick

Murphys, try "Captain Kelly's Kitchen". From Flogging Molly, try "Seven Deadly Sins". 7. Fall Out Boy, Punk and Pop-Punk Bands like Fall Out Boy (Emo bands, or bands that play stuff that's a sort of mix of rock and punk) can have good rhythms to get you into the flow of skating. If you want something with a little more of a punk feel, try Green Day, Goldfinger, Bowling for Soup, Simple Plan, and Blink 182. These all have wildly different sounds, but can end up under the "punk" or more likely the "pop-punk" heading.

8. Slick Shoes - Sum 41 Slick Shoes has also fast music, the mix makes a great sound for sustained listening and skateboarding. Try the song "Pretend to Be the Same" to get an idea of what they sound like. For heavier music try Sum 41 - "My Direction", "The Hell Song", or "No Reason" are all great songs with a good fast beat for skateboarding. 9. P.O.D. POD is perfect for heavier, thicker, more soulful riding. Not the best for thrashing - better for late night cruising, chillin’, dealing with the weight of the world. Try the songs "Anything Right", "Sleeping Awake", "Alive", or

"Boom". 10. Everything Else... Compiling a list like this is tough - there are so many other good bands out there for skateboarding. Here are a few more, check them out and see what you think: Pennywise, The Adicts, Linkin Park, Dr. Octogon, Thousand Foot Krutch, Deltron 3030, Ace Troubleshooter, 7 Seconds, Sepultra, Prodigy, Avril Lavigne…

The month’s most voted celebrity was Ryan Sheckler!!!

Birthplace: San Clemente, California, USA

Birthday: 30th of December

Age: 20 years old

Sponsors: Etnies, Oakley, MTV and its current sponsor Red Bull.

Hobbies: He likes to spend time with his friends and take them to all his competitions. He also loves travelling with them.

He also likes to play with his younger brother Kane, to go shopping and to practice new tricks with his brother Shane.

*If you want to know more about him you can watch his reality show on MTV “Life of Ryan”.

10. In 2010 he participated in the film “Fairy by accident” as the professional hockey player Mick Donnelly. 9. Ryan appears in an episode of “What’s New Scooby-Doo?” 8. He appears in the video game “Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland” as one of the professional skaters you can choose in the classic mode. 7. He appears in the 2k9 NBA basketball game in “NBA Blacktop” on the team of celebrities.

Now we are going to

tell you the things you

should know about his

life to be the best fan.

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Ryan talked to “Free Style” and told us lots of things about himself, his career, his life, his fans and much more in an exclusive interview!!

Where have you been skating the most lately? “Anywhere where it’s not raining. I skate my local park, backyard park, flat street, and then we hit the local cities whenever possible. I’m really working on a lot of things. “

“I have always admired Mullen, Creager,

Thomas, Hawk...and that list hasn’t changed...”

6. He appears in an episode of True Jackson in VP. CHANNEL!. 5. He drives a black Ferrari F430! 4. In 2006, he won the Global Assault in Australia and finished fifth at the Tampa Pro in Florida. 3. He turned pro in 2003 after winning the X Games, Gravity Games, Vans Triple Crown and Slam City Jam. 2. In 2008 he won the X Games in Los Angeles. It was the third time he participated in this championship. 1. He started skating when he was about 6 years old, he started practicing about 22 hours a week, practicing his tricks and creating new ones, like the Sheck-Lair, that were improved day after day in the little skate park built by his father in his backyard.

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What country that you’ve been to has the goofiest people and culture? “Oh man...parts of Europe I guess. The people aren’t goofy but the culture takes

some getting used to. It takes me a while to get used to the food, most of all.

Everything else is cool.”

What was it like to have the MTV crew at your place for the Cribs thing? “MTV was a blast. All the workers were really cool and we had a fun time filming

that.”

Tell us about your set up:

Board: 7.5

Wheels: 49mm

Hardware: Shorty's or anything I can get

Trucks and size: Tensor Low’s

What were the last few CD’s you bought, stole, or borrowed?

“Bought: Best of Jack Johnson

Stole: My dad’s “everlast”

Borrowed: REM Greatest hits”

Which pro skaters did you look up to when you first started skating and

which do you look up to today?

“I have always admired Mullen, Creager, Thomas, Hawk...and that list hasn’t

changed. I hang out with P-Rod, Rogers, Chris Haslam, Creager, Mullen, Arto,

Rune, and Bastien. I look up to all of them.”

What's you favorite stuff to skate on? “Street...ledges and flat ground.”

What's your favorite place to travel? “Australia”

What's the weirdest thing a female fan has ever asked of you? “They ask to marry me and stuff it's a little awkward.”

Have you ever dated anyone famous? “I hung out with AJ for a while.”

What actress would you date if you had the chance? “Jessica Alba.”

The tricks of the month are the

followings:

It consists on rotating the table 360 along the axis of the skate in the direction of the heel of the foot (backwards). It's a complicated and frustrating trick when learning. You have to fall lots of times to learn the kickflip, but at the end it’s definitely worth it.

It consists on the same moves of the kickflip, except that the table rotates in the opposite direction (in the direction of the fingers) and is executed by sliding the heel towards the concave of the table.

This time, to choose the book of the month we decided to ask a famous skater’s opinion, Greg Lutzka

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“My favorite book is Lord of the

Flies by William Golding.

The book is amazing, it’s full of

adventures. I loved the

freedom the children had on

the island. I was hooked on the

book from the beginning; it is

unputdownable because the

story is full of twists. It is just

outstanding!” Greg Lutzka

John Easton (06/12/10 at 12:13 pm)

“In my opinion William Golding, does a great job

in describing how humans would be forced to

fight between reason and instinct as they try to

survive in an uncivilized place. He states that since

each person has an evil nature, the crimes

committed are not the society’s fault, or anyone

else’s but their own and that in situations like

getting stranded on a desert island makes the evil

come out, turning into a beast.”

Davis Honeyfield (06/04/10 at 9:03 am)

“The novel Lord of the Flies is full of symbols.

Golding expresses his message through many

symbols, mostly about human race, that

appear throughout the book; each element

Golding includes is there because of a reason

and that is what I liked the most. It is one of

those books that you must read.”

Simon Roberts (06/21/10 at 7:34 pm)

“I loved this book, it is one of my favorites, I can visualize all of the adventures the boys had and all the extremes situations they had to face. Some parts remind me when I am riding and I feel full of adrenaline, like the kids in the book that sometimes didn’t know how to react to the different events. Through the novel, the boys on the island experience conflicts between civilization and savagery, good vs. evil, order vs. chaos, and reason vs. impulse. I really recommend this book as a coming – of – age novel, especially for teenagers.”

What is it about?

A plane crashes on a desert island carrying a group of boys. At first, they are very excited because there are no adults on the island, they are free to do anything they want and everything seems to be perfect, like a paradise. But then they realize that the island is not as good as they thought, it hides a lot of secrets and it reveals many problems and customs that the society has. Choose wisely, read it!