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“Skater/Designer” Interview with Evan Tooley

JMA — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:49:20 +0000

“Skater/Designer” Interview with Evan Tooley

Hi Everyone! Today we bring you another “Skater/Designer” interview with Denver’s own Evan Tooley. Look for Evan shredding parks and pools all over Colorado…

Evan skating his own design

How old are you?
Twelve

Where is your favorite place to skate?
My favorite place to skate is Roxborough Skate Park, they have a tight pool and a nice flowy big bowl.

What is your favorite trick?
Right now my favorite trick is the tre-flip because I just got it down. My all time favorite trick is front side airs.

What do you like about skating your own design?
I like skating my own design because nobody else has it, its original and one of a kind. It is so much better than skating a mall shop deck that everybody else is skating.

Where do you get the inspiration for your designs?
My first deck has a drawing of me doing a front side air in a pool. I get the inspiration from some of my favorite tricks and I like skating pools. I also like to put LD underneath the trucks on my decks for good luck.

What is the favorite design that you have done?
A silver metallic background that has a repeating BoardPusher logo and a repeating skateboard with my name on it. I like it because the pattern fills up the whole board. I use a bright green color on a lot of backgrounds, it’s my favorite color.

What competitions do you have coming up?
Looking forward to the Boulder Halloween Havok. It is a fun comp and you get to wear a costume while you skate.

Who are your sponsors?
BoardPusher, Freestyle Watches, Go Pro Camera, and Monster Energy.

Check out Evan’s BoardPusher profile and YouTube channel.

http://www.boardpusher.com/Bp/?user=evan_tooley

http://www.youtube.com/user/nanybudy

Designs by Evan Tooley:

EFT7-Ply 100% Canadian Maple Skateboard Deck.

dimensions: 7.75 x 31.75 Inches

price: $N/Amore info

8 Inch Park Deck7-Ply 100% Canadian Maple Skateboard Deck.

dimensions: 8 x 32 Inches

price: $N/Amore info

Colorado g37-Ply 100% Canadian Maple Skateboard Deck.

dimensions: 7.75 x 31.75 Inches

price: $N/Amore info

BoardPusher is a proud sponsor of the Bordo Bello Skateboard Art Fundraiser.

Bordo Bello
Thurs Sept 30 6-10pm
Artwork Network
9th and Santa Fe, Denver
RSVP early. $15 in advance/$20 at the door
http://www.bordobello.com/

Denver Go Skateboarding Day 2009 Video Posted!

dpfbp — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:38:58 +0000

Check out the Denver Go Skateboarding Day Video from this year’s contest, featuring sick footage of the street and bowl comps. Get pumped and go skate (your own design, of course)! Music by Educated Figures.

Denver Go Skateboarding Day 2009

BoardPusher — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:29:33 +0000

Denver Go Skateboarding Day

Come join us on June 21st 2009 at the Denver Skatepark for a day of skateboarding and music. No better way to celebrate Denver Go Skateboarding Day.

5th Annual Denver Go SkateBoarding Day

BoardPusher — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:45:17 +0000

Denver Skate Day Flyer

June 21^st in Denver this year, skateboarders came out in masses to the Denver Skatepark for a long hot day of skateboarding, art, and music. There was the Biggest Fish In The Pond contests along with public art walls and live music.

Beginner and Intermediate contests were held in the morning in the main street course. Every year the level of skating improves, and this year was no exception, in all skill levels. Notable mentions go out to Lovis Medina who took the intermediate contest without even trying. Since when is a kickflip boardslide down a rail is an intermediate trick? And Ruben Vigil who had a solid couple runs to take the beginners contest.

The public art walls were a big success. Dave Sheets (resident BoardPusher artist) managed hordes of kids with paint markers and spray cans, a feat that can’t be claimed by many. The end result was worth all the trouble though. 8 different panels were filled with the most random stuff you could imagine, and remains a sort of artistic account of the day.

The Biggest Fish In The Pond Pro-Am contests, turned out to be a true battle of the locals. The contestants seemed pleased that all the pros that were in town that day decided to leave the contest alone. Despite being interrupted by the cops trying to shut down the event and the firemen having to pull a kid with a broken leg out of the peanut bowl, the contests went off smoothly. The street finalists even got an extended finals run while most of the event staff were dealing with the local law enforcement, giving all the onlookers a worthy show.

In the street course, 1. Julian Christianson ended up on top with an arsenal of tech tricks over the hip that even the best could have trouble rivaling, including nollie bigger spins and nollie 270 heels, with amplitude to spare. Closely followed by park resident 3. Lee Wilson, and the biggest kickflip of the day 2. Whyatt. The peanut bowl contest was an easy win for 1. Otto Pfanz followed by 2. Michael DeBuano with large frontside airs, and 3. Cameron Lawrence who skated twice as fast as anyone else. The toughest showing of the day goes to 10 year-old Evan Tooley who fell straight to his head twice in row into the deep end of the peanut bowl and didn’t even seem to mind. Keep an eye on that kid.

After the contests came to an end, the music turned up and the performances began. Two straight hours of underground Denver hip hop (Bionik Brown, Whygee, and EFK) in the middle of the park took the event into the night and ended a long day of fun. Make sure to come next year if you’re in the area.

For more info and contest results go to http://www.denverskateday.com.

This article appears in the Concrete Wave Noteworthy section of the Fall 2008 Issue. Click here for PDF.