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

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

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Dork Trick Tips #6: Airwalks. Big up yo self Tony Hawk!

dork-trick-tips-airwalk So there seems to be a lot of talk about what is and what isn’t a dork trick nowadays…. I guarantee you 10 years ago if you did an airwalk, you would get beat down by thugs wearing Osiris D3′s. Now, it seems they’re in style again and I have to agree that it’s a pretty gnarly trick, especially when dudes like Lizard King do them down Wallenberg in San Francisco. So maybe it’s a dork trick, maybe it

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FLY Mondays #10

Boss-Love-Park-Shanghai Boss, running game at Shanghai’s OG spot, Love Park. If you come here you better have some good pedestrian dodging skills because it’s right at the entrance to a Metro station. LIKE A

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X Games Asia 2009…Street Finals

X Games 2009 Here’s the montage of the final runs from X-Games Asia 2009. A montage of all the police and security guards is coming soon…no tricks, but lots of rasclatt screwfaces. In order of appearance: Dayne Brummet, Andy Macdonald, Fabrizio Santos, Juergen Horrwath, Tyler Hendley, Carlos de Andrade, Tomas Vintr, Danilo de Rosario, Austen Seaholm, Rodolfo Ramos

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Fly Mondays #5

johnny-tang-hardflip Somewhere in China….I’m 90% sure this was filmed by Tommy Zhao

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X Games Asia 2009

Thanks to ESPN Star TV I was able to film at this years Kia X Games Asia in Shanghai. There were 2 main differences between X-Games in Asia compared to North or South America: 1) Music Instead of the typical punk/hip hop there were consecutive acts of Chinese Synth Pop. Not only did this keep any punky/gangsta thugs away, it also scared away pretty much everyone else from the main stage. 2) Security There must have been 200+ cops, security

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Best Board Graphic of 2009.

So I know we’re only half way through the year, but this board graphic is seriously some next level shit. I don’t care what the rest of the year brings, this is officially the number one board. Do you have the cajones to ride it? Probably not, because you’re hella weak. This is on the same level as that “Jew-Lien” Stranger board that came out last year

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Fly Mondays 2

The other Johnnie Tang, repping Hong Kong with a tre-flip into a crazy thin bank. johnnie-tang-tre-flip

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Fly Mondays

Johnny Tang and the crew at Fly Skateshop/Gift Skateboards/Cart Wheels in Shanghai are busy filming for their video dropping in October 2009 and they’ve donated some throwaway footage for your viewing pleasure. Because it’s some ill stuff I figure lets make this a weekly thing until the video is done. Fly Fridays may sound a bit more slick but I really couldn’t be bothered to wait until Friday…so first up is Toronto’s Johnny Tang himself, not to be confused with

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Shanghai, seen. aka, Update #420.

There’s a lot going on in Shanghai right now, so plenty of updates for your bad self. The Asian X-Games are in town, so I’ve got some good footage of what went down on the street course coming soon, 3 new Dork Trick Tips are on the way, an interview with Johnny Tang is about to go down along with some footage from the FLY skateboard team’s trip to Beijing. Check back on the regular, content is flowing like a

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