Ben's News

Flint Contest!

$750 first place prize?!?! Whoa! Check it out. Thanks for the heads up, Brett!

comments 5 Posted by Ben Williams on 6-27-2008 9:38 am

Rippin' in PH

There's been some rippin' goin on in Port Huron. Check out this sweet montage. There are also bunch of sick videos on The Crew's myspace. Check it!
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comments 0 Posted by Ben Williams on 6-23-2008 11:17 pm

HVR 2.0!!

Happy Go Skateboarding Day! Check out the footwork on that back smith up there. Good stuff indeed! Click on the photo for a montage of the session. They moved the ramp and made it a bit taller along with some gnarly extensions on the side. Definitely more rad for the gnar! Filmed by Mr. Buddy Evans.
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comments 1 Posted by Ben Williams on 6-21-2008 5:38 pm

Weekend

I've got some good news and bad news this week. The good news is that there was an extremely radical session at HVR 2.0 over the weekend. There were a ton of rippers there rippin! I have a bunch of footage and some photos to post but I'm having some computer problems so it'll be a couple days on the goods. There are some photos of the session that can be viewed here courtesy of Trevor.
The bad news is that Eric Sullivan took a pretty massive sack-of-potatoes Richter smash that resulted in a broken collar bone. So check back soon to see some footage and more photos of the event! Also, there's another sweet montage up at jerryfilms. Check it!

comments 9 Posted by Ben Williams on 6-9-2008 4:45 pm

jerryfilms

If you guys haven't checked it out yet, go check out Jerry Wilson's jerryfilms. Kudos to him! He just posted a sweet montage from a BBQ sesh the other day and there are several other goodies to check out. So go, do it!

comments 8 Posted by Ben Williams on 5-17-2008 12:19 pm

Couple Clippers

Here's a clip from the other day of skateboard riding. Filmed by Cpt. Levasseur.

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comments 10 Posted by Ben Williams on 5-8-2008 6:22 pm

I Know Him!

There's a sweet Justin Cefai clip up on The Skateboard Mag's site. He's part of this weeks Mag Minute and he totally kills it!

comments 1 Posted by Ben Williams on 5-5-2008 8:48 pm

Ludington Park

For those of you who haven't heard, there's a new park in the works in Ludington! Check out the sweet virtual tour here. Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Travis!

comments 9 Posted by Ben Williams on 5-2-2008 12:34 pm

Old Goodies

So I got the old desktop computer up and running again (my Powerbook is getting stuck pixel lines like whoa) and did a little spring cleaning. Here's a few fun little clips at a fun little spot in Flint from a couple years ago (look at Josh's hair! ). Keep checking back because I may post some more old randoms soon. Good thing we're not making a video anytime soon (or ARE we?!?!?).
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comments 45 Posted by Ben Williams on 4-11-2008 3:59 pm

Ann Arbor Park

Those of you in the Ann Arbor area (or anywhere else in Michigan for that matter) should check out the sweet Ann Arbor skate park website for all the latest news and upcoming meeting times. Let's get this thing built!

comments 33 Posted by Ben Williams on 4-10-2008 1:44 pm

Couple clips

Here's a couple clips that Buddy filmed but I stole for my column.
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comments 13 Posted by Ben Williams on 4-7-2008 7:05 pm

Go shovel!

That's right boys and girls, it's that time of year again! The time of year when I make a post telling all the little park shredder kids of Bay City to go shovel the skatepark so I don't have to. Go on, shovel!!!

comments 13 Posted by Ben Williams on 3-14-2008 10:08 pm

March!

It's good to finally see some pavement again. I'm looking forward to spring! Here's some randoms from yesterday. Enjoy!
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comments 10 Posted by Ben Williams on 3-13-2008 12:40 am

Clip!

We all went and skated a sweet secret indoor mini the other day. Got some footage, but I'm planning on going back again soon so I'm going to hold off on a full montage until I have some more footy. Check out this teaser clip of Adam in the mean time!
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comments 370 Posted by Ben Williams on 1-25-2008 1:16 pm

HVARRRRGGG!!!

For those of you who never got to experience an HVR session in person, boy did you miss out! HVR was the best backyard ramp in Michigan, complete with gnarly cement coping and great chicken sandwiches (thanks Tony ! ).
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comments 1316 Posted by Ben Williams on 1-10-2008 2:53 pm

Landslide Dec '07

Smalls, Josh and I went to Landslide a couple weeks ago over Christmas break. I really love that place. Good design, friendly locals and of course, the best 9 footer around! Check it out!
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comments 1184 Posted by Ben Williams on 1-8-2008 2:22 pm

I'm back!

That's right, I'm back. For real this time, too (I think). And guess what! I've brought Buddy with me; he's going to have his own column. I'm going to be honest here, I've been lazy. Really lazy. I've been skating and trying to keep up with everything and such, but I haven't been as productive lately (lately being the past year). So now that Buddy has his own column, he can help out too by updating all the time
with his random park rat clips and useless nonsense like I used to do. I'm psyched to be back again. Tell a friend!

comments 338 Posted by Ben Williams on 1-7-2008 2:50 pm