videos
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Hometown Heroes Skate: Indianapolis 2011
Competition looked pretty stiff here at the Hometown Heroes stop in Indianapolis. Even during practice, there was no doubt that this would be a hard one to judge. At a glance you’d see any number of dudes hammering down tricks on one of the various handrails or hips on the concrete course.
The skatepark is embedded within a community center which hosts all sorts of other sports. Around the complex you’ll find basketball courts, workout areas, and a huge waterside into an olympic sized pool. This variety of extra-skateboard-activities allowed several random soccer moms and Nascar dads the opportunity to check out Hometown Heroes in it’s full glory.
In the comp we saw a lot of raw tre-flip skills from Grant Campbell. Grant had a flow and natural looking style that got him rocking and rolling into third place. The crowd was hyped to see Brandon Murphy land clean varial flips and a fakie 360 flip over the hip during the finals to clench himself the 2nd place trophy.
And coming in first was Daniel Taylor. With huge 360 flips down the gap and flowing and linking tricks together like nollie 270 heelflips and switch frontside 360’s over the hips, Daniel was a shoe in for the win.
Good looks on all the skating, and we will see Daniel in Los Angeles at the end of July for the HH finals.
Hometown Heroes Skate: Milwaukee 2011
Always good to head up to Milwaukee and see Neal and co. at 4Seasons skatepark. Everyone showed up and got down but in the end it was Shawn Turner taking away the number one spot. Even though Chicago got rained out (check the video below) Shawn still came out and skated and then drove up to Milwaukee to snag the win with a backside flip, the hard way, over the rail. Justin Somlenski snagged second, throwing a big frontside 360 and Brendon Murphy took third with a front smith to 360 shuv out on the bump to bar (insane).
Hometown Heroes Skate: Chicago 2011
Even though Chicago was rained out, the HH crew met up with Shawn Turner and had a little rain session at Wilson. Once everyone was warmed-up/soaked, the crew found a dry (or at least dry enough) spot to get some lines.
Hometown Heroes: Atlanta 2010
Hometown Heroes headed to Progressive Skatepark in Atlanta, Georgia where the owner, Steve, was very friendly and has quite an extensive board collection that you should check out if you ever stop by. Some skaters from Nashville even made the trip out to skate in the contest.
With his kickflip crook up the euro gap rail and feeble up the big rail, Kyle Regiscer took third place.
Second place went to Joey Pellegrino. His rail tricks were impressive including switch 270 front board and well-executed back smiths.
Hometown Heroes veteran, Solomon Mosley, was shredding everything in his path taking first place. Among the many tricks he did, Soloman landed a huge frontside flip up the double bank and switch crook and nollie heel noseslide down the hubba. He destroyed the rail with a kickflip boardslide to fakie, nollie back lip and nollie front board.
Black Box Session with Hometown Heroes
Black Box hosted us once again for our Finals weekend trip of 2010.
Hometown Heroes: Finals 2010 X Games 16
This is the moment we look forward to each and every year at Hometown Heroes: The Finals. It was our seventh year of the tour and our second year wrapping it at X Games.
The final ten warmed up right after Men’s Street went down. Dave Duncan and Shak got on the mic and announced 5 dudes to skate in the first of two heats. One by one, they took 1-minute intro runs, then two 12-minute jam sessions went down back to back.
Judging must have been a rough task because no one knew for sure who was going to win. The battle came down to Ke’Chaud Johnson and Julian Christianson, both previous HH Finals winners.
HH Finals: Downtown LA Sesh
After the elimination round, several of us hit the streets of downtown LA for a relaxing night sesh…it didn’t really turn out like that though.
Hometown Heroes: Finals 2010 Elimination Round
Hometown Heroes Finals Elimination: 34 guys going for 10 spots in the Finals
Pat’s Noseslide - A Close Call: Hometown Heroes 2010
Pat’s Noseslide - A Close Call: Hometown Heroes 2010
Hometown Heroes Los Angeles 2010
The last stop on the Hometown Heroes skate tour took place at SkateLab in Simi Valley, California right outside of Los Angeles. The historical skate museum there is amazing as well as the new setup in the skatepark. Be sure to check out SkateLab when you’re in Southern California!
Ralph Rocha took third place after doing a nollie on the big gap to bank. He also did a nollie back lip the rail and switch tail down the hubba.
Jake Hill had a smooth style and was ripping everything. He took second place after landing feeble back 180 and a long nosegrind pop out on the spine. On the rail, Jake got kickflip front board and kickflip bluntslide.
Brendan Villanueva took first place. He did nollie smith and kickflip front board down the rail and hardflip down the gap. He even did a hardflip back lip on the 8 stair rail!
Hometown Heroes: X Games 2010 Spotlight
Our 30-second spotlight piece for the Jumbotron at X Games 16.
A quick glimpse of life on the road with Hometown Heroes. We made it to 38 stops in 23 states all across the country in 3 months. Skating spots and parks and throwing contests was just a piece of what it’s like to be apart of Hometown Heroes!
Hometown Heroes: Las Vegas 2010
Back in Las Vegas for the Hometown Heroes contest, we went to Skate City where our very own Will Pousant is a local. His fellow Hokum teammates were in the mix skating for their chance to qualify for the Hometown Heroes finals at X-Games.
Jacques Robinson had a nice style and choice of tricks. He ended up in third place after nollie flipping off the top of the quarterpipe to flat and back lipping the big rail.
Kenny Tanner was flying around doing airs and grabs all over the course, putting himself in second place. He did a front blunt on the bump to rail, tailslide down the handrail and even a backflip over the flybox.
Pip Meranto took first place after killing the course! On the bump to rail, he did back noseblunt, 270 lipslide, and frontside hurricane. He also did a nice hardflip over the pyramid.
Congrats Pip. See you at the Finals!
Will Pousant Broke Clint Walker’s Phone
Clint blamed Will for breaking his phone. “It was the funniest thing ever.”
Hometown Heroes 2010 in Phoenix
After a cross-country trek from Georgia to Arizona, we were ready for our second contest at Tempe Park this year. Many familiar faces were in the crowd including the winner from May, Isaiah Johnson, who took a slam early on in the contest.
Mark McCoy was killing it and took third place with tricks like heelflip front board to fakie on the bump to bar and shove lipslide down the 9 stair rail.
Donovan Nearing, who got third in May, ended up in second this time around. He did a nice kickflip noseslide and kickflip 50-50 down the small hubba and kickflip back lip on the bump to rail.
Nick Fiorini was destroying every obstacle and took first place. He was having fun on the euro gap doing tre flip tailgrabs and fingerflips. On the small hubba, he did a handful of good tricks including back tail shove, nollie frontside noseslide and nollie heel noseslide. To wrap things up, he tre flipped and nollie flipped the 9 stair in the final session.
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Hometown Heroes at Woodward Skatepark
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2. Jorge Moore
3. Matt Militano
Go Skateboarding Day 2010 in NYC: Hometown Heroes
NYC is always one of the most anticipated stops on the tour for the crew, with obvious reasons. We teamed up with Steve at 5boro again on Go Skateboarding Day, and we’re psyched that 5boro has partnered with HH the past couple of years.
Stacked with a picnic table on top, a crazy snake session on the pyramid at the Manhattan Bridge Skatepark is how it went down. Our crew killed the sesh with Clint landing back noseblunt, Ke’Chaud getting kickflip crooks and bs 360, and Will rolling out of a big bs flip. In the end, Piro Sierra won the comp with nollie crooks, smith fakie, back smith pop-out, nollie heel, back tail to flat and a bunch of other tricks with his lion’s mane.
Congrats to him, and happy Go Skate Day to everyone!
Hometown Heroes: San Francisco 2010
Sunday sesh at 3rd & Army. Hometown Heroes came back to San Francisco for yet another contest. Lots of tricks went down and so did a lot of people.
Top 3:
1. Adam Emery
2. Weston Sparks
3. Garrett Daly
http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Portland 2010
We went back to Department Of Skateboarding in Portland and had a great turnout. All the big Portland heads (and Seattle heads too) showed up for an amazing jam session comp. Mikey Colcagno, the Billups bros, Michael Patterson, Brian Baca, Bobby Groves, Jake Wood, Robby Repp, Gabe Luna, and many others, were trying to qualify for the HH Finals, and rep the City of Roses.
http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Seattle 2010
We stopped by the mighty Skatebarn for the first time ever, and it didn’t disappoint. The guys up here kill it and can skate whatever is in front of them. All-terrain is definitely a fitting word to describe them. Jason Singler had the best lines with a great variety of high-speed tech, ledge, and tranny tricks to take 1st place. Caleb Cole and Chris Jameson grabbed 2nd and 3rd respectively.
http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Indianapolis 2010
Rain skating for the love.
Quick shralp around the park followed with a Chipotle feast.
http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Milwaukee 2010
Top 3: 1. Shawn Turner 2. Shane Browning 3. Miles Canevello http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Chicago 2010
The top 3: 1. John Ozzy Oskvarek 2. Shawn Turner 3. Steve Villarreal
We changed up the contest this year. We had sessions on three obstacles: the bump-to-flat bar, the pyramid and the stairs.
The flat bar sesh was intense! A few of the tricks that went down were: Kickflip front lip, bs noseblunt, front crook, nosegrind 180, fs blunt, bs tail, kickflip bs lip and noseblunt.
http://facebook.com/hhskate
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Hometown Heroes - Session at the Black Box park
After the Hometown Heroes finals at X Games, we loaded everyone into a bus and headed over to Black Box for a private session. We only had a couple of hours to skate, so the hammers were being dropped within moments of walking in the door. Thanks for the session.
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Hometown Heroes Skates Black Box Teaser
On Saturday, the day after the HH Finals, we hopped on a bus and drove down to Black Box. The trip there and back was hilarious and the skating at the park was insane. Gene made us a quick preview of what went down. Full edit soon to come.
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Official Hometown Heroes Trailer
Have you heard a story that someone ends with “you had to be there”...Take the 3 month journey with us across the country, skating great spots, throwing contests, meeting crazy people, picking up random dudes, and finishing at X-Games. This is Hometown Heroes.
2009 Hometown Heroes Finals - HHskate
The X-Games hosted the 2009 Hometown Heroes Finals! The crew of 35 that skated and hung out this weekend was amazing; 10 of those moved on to the finals.
The top 3 are:
1. Ke’Chaud Johnson
2. Julian Christianson
3. Chase Webb
It was a great weekend, thanks to everyone involved!
Hometown Finals Elimination at X-Games
2009 Hometown Finals Elimination at X-Games.
Top 10:
1. Ishod Wair
2. Ke’Chaud Johnson
3. CJ Dixon
4. Julian Christianson
5. Chase Webb
6. Tommy Werner
7. Kyle Walker
8. Daniel Lutheran
9. Nick Fiorini
10. John Oskvarek
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Hometown Heroes HH - Minneapolis 2009
Hometown Heroes arrived in the Twin Cities to kick off July. Thanks to 3rd Lair for hosting, there are always great kids competing and lots of talent! Here are the top 3:
1st Place: Jack Olson
2nd Place: Kevin Heger
3rd Place: Dan Coe
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Hometown Heroes Skate: Indianapolis 2011
Competition looked pretty stiff here at the Hometown Heroes stop in Indianapolis. Even during practice, there was no doubt that this would be a hard one to judge. At a glance you’d see any number of dudes hammering down tricks on one of the various handrails or hips on the concrete course.
The skatepark is embedded within a community center which hosts all sorts of other sports. Around the complex you’ll find basketball courts, workout areas, and a huge waterside into an olympic sized pool. This variety of extra-skateboard-activities allowed several random soccer moms and Nascar dads the opportunity to check out Hometown Heroes in it’s full glory.
In the comp we saw a lot of raw tre-flip skills from Grant Campbell. Grant had a flow and natural looking style that got him rocking and rolling into third place. The crowd was hyped to see Brandon Murphy land clean varial flips and a fakie 360 flip over the hip during the finals to clench himself the 2nd place trophy.
And coming in first was Daniel Taylor. With huge 360 flips down the gap and flowing and linking tricks together like nollie 270 heelflips and switch frontside 360’s over the hips, Daniel was a shoe in for the win.
Good looks on all the skating, and we will see Daniel in Los Angeles at the end of July for the HH finals.
Hometown Heroes Skate: Milwaukee 2011
Always good to head up to Milwaukee and see Neal and co. at 4Seasons skatepark. Everyone showed up and got down but in the end it was Shawn Turner taking away the number one spot. Even though Chicago got rained out (check the video below) Shawn still came out and skated and then drove up to Milwaukee to snag the win with a backside flip, the hard way, over the rail. Justin Somlenski snagged second, throwing a big frontside 360 and Brendon Murphy took third with a front smith to 360 shuv out on the bump to bar (insane).
Hometown Heroes Skate: Chicago 2011
Even though Chicago was rained out, the HH crew met up with Shawn Turner and had a little rain session at Wilson. Once everyone was warmed-up/soaked, the crew found a dry (or at least dry enough) spot to get some lines.
Hometown Heroes: Atlanta 2010
Hometown Heroes headed to Progressive Skatepark in Atlanta, Georgia where the owner, Steve, was very friendly and has quite an extensive board collection that you should check out if you ever stop by. Some skaters from Nashville even made the trip out to skate in the contest.
With his kickflip crook up the euro gap rail and feeble up the big rail, Kyle Regiscer took third place.
Second place went to Joey Pellegrino. His rail tricks were impressive including switch 270 front board and well-executed back smiths.
Hometown Heroes veteran, Solomon Mosley, was shredding everything in his path taking first place. Among the many tricks he did, Soloman landed a huge frontside flip up the double bank and switch crook and nollie heel noseslide down the hubba. He destroyed the rail with a kickflip boardslide to fakie, nollie back lip and nollie front board.
Black Box Session with Hometown Heroes
Black Box hosted us once again for our Finals weekend trip of 2010.
Hometown Heroes: Finals 2010 X Games 16
This is the moment we look forward to each and every year at Hometown Heroes: The Finals. It was our seventh year of the tour and our second year wrapping it at X Games.
The final ten warmed up right after Men’s Street went down. Dave Duncan and Shak got on the mic and announced 5 dudes to skate in the first of two heats. One by one, they took 1-minute intro runs, then two 12-minute jam sessions went down back to back.
Judging must have been a rough task because no one knew for sure who was going to win. The battle came down to Ke’Chaud Johnson and Julian Christianson, both previous HH Finals winners.
HH Finals: Downtown LA Sesh
After the elimination round, several of us hit the streets of downtown LA for a relaxing night sesh…it didn’t really turn out like that though.
Hometown Heroes: Finals 2010 Elimination Round
Hometown Heroes Finals Elimination: 34 guys going for 10 spots in the Finals
Pat’s Noseslide - A Close Call: Hometown Heroes 2010
Pat’s Noseslide - A Close Call: Hometown Heroes 2010
Hometown Heroes Los Angeles 2010
The last stop on the Hometown Heroes skate tour took place at SkateLab in Simi Valley, California right outside of Los Angeles. The historical skate museum there is amazing as well as the new setup in the skatepark. Be sure to check out SkateLab when you’re in Southern California!
Ralph Rocha took third place after doing a nollie on the big gap to bank. He also did a nollie back lip the rail and switch tail down the hubba.
Jake Hill had a smooth style and was ripping everything. He took second place after landing feeble back 180 and a long nosegrind pop out on the spine. On the rail, Jake got kickflip front board and kickflip bluntslide.
Brendan Villanueva took first place. He did nollie smith and kickflip front board down the rail and hardflip down the gap. He even did a hardflip back lip on the 8 stair rail!
Hometown Heroes: X Games 2010 Spotlight
Our 30-second spotlight piece for the Jumbotron at X Games 16.
A quick glimpse of life on the road with Hometown Heroes. We made it to 38 stops in 23 states all across the country in 3 months. Skating spots and parks and throwing contests was just a piece of what it’s like to be apart of Hometown Heroes!
Hometown Heroes: Las Vegas 2010
Back in Las Vegas for the Hometown Heroes contest, we went to Skate City where our very own Will Pousant is a local. His fellow Hokum teammates were in the mix skating for their chance to qualify for the Hometown Heroes finals at X-Games.
Jacques Robinson had a nice style and choice of tricks. He ended up in third place after nollie flipping off the top of the quarterpipe to flat and back lipping the big rail.
Kenny Tanner was flying around doing airs and grabs all over the course, putting himself in second place. He did a front blunt on the bump to rail, tailslide down the handrail and even a backflip over the flybox.
Pip Meranto took first place after killing the course! On the bump to rail, he did back noseblunt, 270 lipslide, and frontside hurricane. He also did a nice hardflip over the pyramid.
Congrats Pip. See you at the Finals!
Will Pousant Broke Clint Walker’s Phone
Clint blamed Will for breaking his phone. “It was the funniest thing ever.”
Hometown Heroes 2010 in Phoenix
After a cross-country trek from Georgia to Arizona, we were ready for our second contest at Tempe Park this year. Many familiar faces were in the crowd including the winner from May, Isaiah Johnson, who took a slam early on in the contest.
Mark McCoy was killing it and took third place with tricks like heelflip front board to fakie on the bump to bar and shove lipslide down the 9 stair rail.
Donovan Nearing, who got third in May, ended up in second this time around. He did a nice kickflip noseslide and kickflip 50-50 down the small hubba and kickflip back lip on the bump to rail.
Nick Fiorini was destroying every obstacle and took first place. He was having fun on the euro gap doing tre flip tailgrabs and fingerflips. On the small hubba, he did a handful of good tricks including back tail shove, nollie frontside noseslide and nollie heel noseslide. To wrap things up, he tre flipped and nollie flipped the 9 stair in the final session.
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Hometown Heroes at Woodward Skatepark
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Go Skateboarding Day 2010 in NYC: Hometown Heroes
NYC is always one of the most anticipated stops on the tour for the crew, with obvious reasons. We teamed up with Steve at 5boro again on Go Skateboarding Day, and we’re psyched that 5boro has partnered with HH the past couple of years.
Stacked with a picnic table on top, a crazy snake session on the pyramid at the Manhattan Bridge Skatepark is how it went down. Our crew killed the sesh with Clint landing back noseblunt, Ke’Chaud getting kickflip crooks and bs 360, and Will rolling out of a big bs flip. In the end, Piro Sierra won the comp with nollie crooks, smith fakie, back smith pop-out, nollie heel, back tail to flat and a bunch of other tricks with his lion’s mane.
Congrats to him, and happy Go Skate Day to everyone!
Hometown Heroes: San Francisco 2010
Sunday sesh at 3rd & Army. Hometown Heroes came back to San Francisco for yet another contest. Lots of tricks went down and so did a lot of people.
Top 3:
1. Adam Emery
2. Weston Sparks
3. Garrett Daly
http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Portland 2010
We went back to Department Of Skateboarding in Portland and had a great turnout. All the big Portland heads (and Seattle heads too) showed up for an amazing jam session comp. Mikey Colcagno, the Billups bros, Michael Patterson, Brian Baca, Bobby Groves, Jake Wood, Robby Repp, Gabe Luna, and many others, were trying to qualify for the HH Finals, and rep the City of Roses.
http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Seattle 2010
We stopped by the mighty Skatebarn for the first time ever, and it didn’t disappoint. The guys up here kill it and can skate whatever is in front of them. All-terrain is definitely a fitting word to describe them. Jason Singler had the best lines with a great variety of high-speed tech, ledge, and tranny tricks to take 1st place. Caleb Cole and Chris Jameson grabbed 2nd and 3rd respectively.
http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Indianapolis 2010
Rain skating for the love.
Quick shralp around the park followed with a Chipotle feast.
http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Milwaukee 2010
Top 3: 1. Shawn Turner 2. Shane Browning 3. Miles Canevello http://facebook.com/hhskate
Hometown Heroes: Chicago 2010
The top 3: 1. John Ozzy Oskvarek 2. Shawn Turner 3. Steve Villarreal
We changed up the contest this year. We had sessions on three obstacles: the bump-to-flat bar, the pyramid and the stairs.
The flat bar sesh was intense! A few of the tricks that went down were: Kickflip front lip, bs noseblunt, front crook, nosegrind 180, fs blunt, bs tail, kickflip bs lip and noseblunt.
http://facebook.com/hhskate
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Hometown Heroes - Session at the Black Box park
After the Hometown Heroes finals at X Games, we loaded everyone into a bus and headed over to Black Box for a private session. We only had a couple of hours to skate, so the hammers were being dropped within moments of walking in the door. Thanks for the session.
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Hometown Heroes Skates Black Box Teaser
On Saturday, the day after the HH Finals, we hopped on a bus and drove down to Black Box. The trip there and back was hilarious and the skating at the park was insane. Gene made us a quick preview of what went down. Full edit soon to come.
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Official Hometown Heroes Trailer
Have you heard a story that someone ends with “you had to be there”...Take the 3 month journey with us across the country, skating great spots, throwing contests, meeting crazy people, picking up random dudes, and finishing at X-Games. This is Hometown Heroes.
2009 Hometown Heroes Finals - HHskate
The X-Games hosted the 2009 Hometown Heroes Finals! The crew of 35 that skated and hung out this weekend was amazing; 10 of those moved on to the finals.
The top 3 are:
1. Ke’Chaud Johnson
2. Julian Christianson
3. Chase Webb
It was a great weekend, thanks to everyone involved!
Hometown Finals Elimination at X-Games
2009 Hometown Finals Elimination at X-Games.
Top 10:
1. Ishod Wair
2. Ke’Chaud Johnson
3. CJ Dixon
4. Julian Christianson
5. Chase Webb
6. Tommy Werner
7. Kyle Walker
8. Daniel Lutheran
9. Nick Fiorini
10. John Oskvarek
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Hometown Heroes HH - Minneapolis 2009
Hometown Heroes arrived in the Twin Cities to kick off July. Thanks to 3rd Lair for hosting, there are always great kids competing and lots of talent! Here are the top 3:
1st Place: Jack Olson
2nd Place: Kevin Heger
3rd Place: Dan Coe
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Hometown Heroes Skate: Indianapolis 2011
Competition looked pretty stiff here at the Hometown Heroes stop in Indianapolis. Even during practice, there was no doubt that this would be a hard one to judge. At a glance you’d see any number of dudes hammering down tricks on one of the various handrails or hips on the concrete course.
The skatepark is embedded within a community center which hosts all sorts of other sports. Around the complex you’ll find basketball courts, workout areas, and a huge waterside into an olympic sized pool. This variety of extra-skateboard-activities allowed several random soccer moms and Nascar dads the opportunity to check out Hometown Heroes in it’s full glory.
In the comp we saw a lot of raw tre-flip skills from Grant Campbell. Grant had a flow and natural looking style that got him rocking and rolling into third place. The crowd was hyped to see Brandon Murphy land clean varial flips and a fakie 360 flip over the hip during the finals to clench himself the 2nd place trophy.
And coming in first was Daniel Taylor. With huge 360 flips down the gap and flowing and linking tricks together like nollie 270 heelflips and switch frontside 360’s over the hips, Daniel was a shoe in for the win.
Good looks on all the skating, and we will see Daniel in Los Angeles at the end of July for the HH finals.
Hometown Heroes Skate: Milwaukee 2011
Always good to head up to Milwaukee and see Neal and co. at 4Seasons skatepark. Everyone showed up and got down but in the end it was Shawn Turner taking away the number one spot. Even though Chicago got rained out (check the video below) Shawn still came out and skated and then drove up to Milwaukee to snag the win with a backside flip, the hard way, over the rail. Justin Somlenski snagged second, throwing a big frontside 360 and Brendon Murphy took third with a front smith to 360 shuv out on the bump to bar (insane).
Hometown Heroes Skate: Chicago 2011
Even though Chicago was rained out, the HH crew met up with Shawn Turner and had a little rain session at Wilson. Once everyone was warmed-up/soaked, the crew found a dry (or at least dry enough) spot to get some lines.
Hometown Heroes: Atlanta 2010
Hometown Heroes headed to Progressive Skatepark in Atlanta, Georgia where the owner, Steve, was very friendly and has quite an extensive board collection that you should check out if you ever stop by. Some skaters from Nashville even made the trip out to skate in the contest.
With his kickflip crook up the euro gap rail and feeble up the big rail, Kyle Regiscer took third place.
Second place went to Joey Pellegrino. His rail tricks were impressive including switch 270 front board and well-executed back smiths.
Hometown Heroes veteran, Solomon Mosley, was shredding everything in his path taking first place. Among the many tricks he did, Soloman landed a huge frontside flip up the double bank and switch crook and nollie heel noseslide down the hubba. He destroyed the rail with a kickflip boardslide to fakie, nollie back lip and nollie front board.
Black Box Session with Hometown Heroes
Black Box hosted us once again for our Finals weekend trip of 2010.
Hometown Heroes: Finals 2010 X Games 16
This is the moment we look forward to each and every year at Hometown Heroes: The Finals. It was our seventh year of the tour and our second year wrapping it at X Games.
The final ten warmed up right after Men’s Street went down. Dave Duncan and Shak got on the mic and announced 5 dudes to skate in the first of two heats. One by one, they took 1-minute intro runs, then two 12-minute jam sessions went down back to back.
Judging must have been a rough task because no one knew for sure who was going to win. The battle came down to Ke’Chaud Johnson and Julian Christianson, both previous HH Finals winners.
HH Finals: Downtown LA Sesh
After the elimination round, several of us hit the streets of downtown LA for a relaxing night sesh…it didn’t really turn out like that though.
Hometown Heroes: Finals 2010 Elimination Round
Hometown Heroes Finals Elimination: 34 guys going for 10 spots in the Finals
Pat’s Noseslide - A Close Call: Hometown Heroes 2010
Pat’s Noseslide - A Close Call: Hometown Heroes 2010
Hometown Heroes Los Angeles 2010
The last stop on the Hometown Heroes skate tour took place at SkateLab in Simi Valley, California right outside of Los Angeles. The historical skate museum there is amazing as well as the new setup in the skatepark. Be sure to check out SkateLab when you’re in Southern California!
Ralph Rocha took third place after doing a nollie on the big gap to bank. He also did a nollie back lip the rail and switch tail down the hubba.
Jake Hill had a smooth style and was ripping everything. He took second place after landing feeble back 180 and a long nosegrind pop out on the spine. On the rail, Jake got kickflip front board and kickflip bluntslide.
Brendan Villanueva took first place. He did nollie smith and kickflip front board down the rail and hardflip down the gap. He even did a hardflip back lip on the 8 stair rail!
Hometown Heroes: X Games 2010 Spotlight
Our 30-second spotlight piece for the Jumbotron at X Games 16.
A quick glimpse of life on the road with Hometown Heroes. We made it to 38 stops in 23 states all across the country in 3 months. Skating spots and parks and throwing contests was just a piece of what it’s like to be apart of Hometown Heroes!
Hometown Heroes: Las Vegas 2010
Back in Las Vegas for the Hometown Heroes contest, we went to Skate City where our very own Will Pousant is a local. His fellow Hokum teammates were in the mix skating for their chance to qualify for the Hometown Heroes finals at X-Games.
Jacques Robinson had a nice style and choice of tricks. He ended up in third place after nollie flipping off the top of the quarterpipe to flat and back lipping the big rail.
Kenny Tanner was flying around doing airs and grabs all over the course, putting himself in second place. He did a front blunt on the bump to rail, tailslide down the handrail and even a backflip over the flybox.
Pip Meranto took first place after killing the course! On the bump to rail, he did back noseblunt, 270 lipslide, and frontside hurricane. He also did a nice hardflip over the pyramid.
Congrats Pip. See you at the Finals!
Will Pousant Broke Clint Walker’s Phone
Clint blamed Will for breaking his phone. “It was the funniest thing ever.”
Hometown Heroes 2010 in Phoenix
After a cross-country trek from Georgia to Arizona, we were ready for our second contest at Tempe Park this year. Many familiar faces were in the crowd including the winner from May, Isaiah Johnson, who took a slam early on in the contest.
Mark McCoy was killing it and took third place with tricks like heelflip front board to fakie on the bump to bar and shove lipslide down the 9 stair rail.
Donovan Nearing, who got third in May, ended up in second this time around. He did a nice kickflip noseslide and kickflip 50-50 down the small hubba and kickflip back lip on the bump to rail.
Nick Fiorini was destroying every obstacle and took first place. He was having fun on the euro gap doing tre flip tailgrabs and fingerflips. On the small hubba, he did a handful of good tricks including back tail shove, nollie frontside noseslide and nollie heel noseslide. To wrap things up, he tre flipped and nollie flipped the 9 stair in the final session.