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And since we’re on the Asia/Pacific Nike SB tip…

SOTI — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:38:10 +0000

Here’s my former next door neighbour/homie Zac McKay repping the Australian side of Nike SB. Zac is renowned for picking up multiple girls in a week (or 24 hour period), breaking into my house at 5am to say hi and have a toke, and generally killing it on a skateboard when he feels like it.

Gift Skateboards and Nike SB: All Wrapped Up

SOTI — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:00:05 +0000

All Wrapped Up ghetto quality version

The FIRST full length skateboard video out of China!~ It just got premiered on December 25th, 2009….so have a look at this bootleg and go and buy it as soon as you can find it in North America. You’ll definitely want to see the Johnny Tang (from Toronto) and Johnnie Tang (from Hong Kong) parts. Great job by Tommy Zhao with the filming and editing, check out his blog, Zhaopower.

“Your going to jail, bitch!” The Johnny Tang interview

SOTI — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:50:44 +0000

Johnny-Tang-interview

Originally from Toronto, Johnny relocated to China about 5 years ago. He’s the Nike SB China team manager. Unlike many fat and old TM’s, Johnny still rips and rides for FLY skateshop, Gift skateboards, Nike Sha-Bi and Cart wheels. Johnny’s greatly missed in Toronto, but you can see why he doesn’t plan on leaving Shanghai any time soon, 70 cent 1.5L beers aside.

Nike SB is prounounced “Nike Sha-Bi” in China, which apparently means “Nike Pussy” (not as in cat..)*

At least that’s what Lyn told me. Can anyone confirm this one? Email me.

*UPDATE* Just got an email from Allie in Hangzhou, China. Turns out sha-bi means “stupid twat”. Excellent.

Dork Trick Tips #3: Shuv Late Flips

SOTI — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:24:52 +0000

It’s a double dose for this weeks DTT and is hosted by Nike SB China’s TM the honourable Johnny Tang and fellow Nike team mate, Boss. Johnny’s explanation for the backside shuvit lateflip goes quite a bit more in depth than Boss’ frontside shuvit lateflip, but both will no doubt enlighten you to the ways of this epic shuvit variation. Enjoy.

Dork Trick Tips 3 Shuvit Late Flips

Check back soon for an interview with Johnny Tang, and also coming soon is an interview with one of the original riders for Chocolate Skateboards. I don’t want to give too much away but it’s not Shamil, Gabriel or Daniel…keep guessin’ fool!

Johnny Tang at SMP

SOTI — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:03:48 +0000

Toronto’s legendary Johnny Tang defected to Shanghai 5 years ago, and after spending a bit of time here I can see why: Short winter, TONS of scooters and motorcycles to skitch ,more spots then a sickly redheaded stepchild…and Club Babyface. Well, maybe not so much Club Babyface.

Check Johnny hitting the step-up at SMP Skatepark here: Johnny-Tang-SMP

Johnny is the Team Manager of Nike SB in China and is sponsored by FLY clothing, and a bunch more that I forget, so I guess I’ll be updating this post soon with some proper links. Pardon my r-tard-ness.