Ed Templeton is a legend and an icon. Those terms get thrown around a lot in skateboarding and, generally speaking, they're often misused. But in Ed's case, the labels are dead on. With nearly 20 years as a pro, a grip of amazing video parts, a thriving art career and an amazing board brand as his brain child, Ed is seriously the man.
Because Ed has been so influential and integral to so much in skateboarding, we're going to take an in depth look at him in the form of a feature article, photo galleries and one knock down, drag out video profile coming soon. We can't tell you much more than that. We can tell you that if you're a fan of Ed, you're going to be stoked. If you weren't a fan already, you're gonna become one. For now, here's a teaser to keep you salivating.
With the destruction of the legendary Wallenberg Four on the horizon, everyone came out to San Francisco on May 30 to rewrite this chapter of the skate history books. This meant some insanity, grips of people both known and unknown and unreal skating. Between Jake Phelps calling people out, bodies flew. And it's clear, that from 2004's Wallenberg contest to now, skating has progressed ... as you can see below. Check back throughout the weekend for updates and photos. It was nuts. Here are the results:
Nick Merlino - switch heel
Cody "Catfish" McIntyre - back bigspin
Chris Cole - back 360 2nd try, switch frontside flip
Lindsay "Juice" Robertson - back side 180 heel
Lizard King - ollie north, back 180 ollie north, ollie disaster
Andrew Pott - hardflip
Gir'ls Contest: Marisa Dal Santo - slide out Ollie for a bucket of chicken. She earned it.
Thrasher put on an awesome event, as always, and Zero, DVS and Quiksilver did well by taking part.
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