jackass archive – the drop in
The majority of the core production crew on jackass—Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Rick Kosick, and myself—all have roots in skateboarding. Johnny Knoxville … not so much. Perhaps the only semblance of a toehold he may have on it is the fact that he once wrote articles for Big Brother skateboard magazine and performed feats of idiocy for its videos, one of which did in fact involve a skateboard. Other than that he can’t roll more than a few feet before twinkle-toes loses it. To Knoxville’s credit though, this bumbling inability didn’t deter him in the least from attempting the one true rite of passage that all skateboarders must eventually face one day: dropping in on a vert ramp. The result wasn’t pretty—it’s not much different than someone attempting to jump off a 12-foot high roof and hooking a foot in the process—but really damn funny. He almost bounces! What’s lesser known about this stunt, though, is that it was first filmed in 1999 for the Big Brother skateboard video boob and following Knoxville’s drop-in, which was sure to end in tragedy, Dave Carnie was to walk up with a taser and zap him while he’s rolling around in pain. Carnie did just that, but didn’t fully grasp the instructional beforehand and fired one of the darts straight into Knoxville’s throat. Whoops! Boy, was Knoxville sure pissed about that one…
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A Shredordie.com webisode of Free Lunch, featuring Tom Green.
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Bam Margera and Wee-Man join Mark Gonzales in a day playing with his skate wheel creation on jackass.
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A retrospective look at the covers of Big Brother skateboard magazine, edited by Lauren Graham.
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I remember the first time the X Games hit the Providence, Rhode Island, scene in 1995. Only it was known as the Extreme Games then—an eye-rolling buzzword quickly (and smartly) shunted aside for the less shrewd corporate marketeers on Madison Avenue to pick up on and employ in their billion dollar advertising tirades
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a jackassworld x-games playlist
With the smell of sweat-soaked pads wafting through the Los Angeles morning air, we’re more than happy to jump and fuck the shit out of a hot Google keyword. So here’s a playlist of X-like encounters from jackass, Wildboyz, and Nitro Circus with a variety of past and present X-Games contenders and legends like Tony Hawk, Mat Hoffman, Travis Pastrana, Jake Brown, Bob Burnquist, and Bucky Lasek. From monkeys, chickens, and cavemen to loops, launches, and megas, this playlist has something EXTREME! for everyone—including the infamous urethra shot heard round the world. Slim Jim not included. (more…)
The very first Big Brother skateboard video, Shit, featured a quick clip of a guy named Socrates Leal bailing out of a backside 5-0 on a very waxed up ledge in Los Angeles.
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Legendary BMX rider Mat Hoffman invited Rick Kosick to come out to Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, CA, to preview his new attraction, "Mat Hoffman's Danger Defying Daredevil Show". If there's anyone who would know how to set something of this caliber up it would surely be Mat
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Up until the other day I never realized how much shit is seriously clogging up the pipes of Interweb servers worldwide. I mean this literally, of course, because with just one innocent Google search it becomes awfully apparent how hugely fascinated everyone is with poo. Just how big is it? Bigger than God!
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Legendary skateboarder, artist, and human being Mark Gonzales turned 40-years-old on Monday, June 1st. This is of particular interest to me, because I too turned 40 this year and Mark was featured on the very first copy of Thrasher Magazine that I bought in 1986 when I started skateboarding.
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