BAMBOO vs MAPLE skateboard stress experiment

http://www.spiralthreads.com/index.php?cPath=48Skateboarding is the number1 cause of deforestation in North America.It takes 60 years for a maple tree to become mature enough to make skateboards.Bamboo is a grass and can grow up to two feet a day.The more you cut down bamboo, the more it grows back... plus the skateboards are unbreakableVideo Feat: Alun Chops Evans, Slaine Browne

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The documentary biopic of Danny Way's 20-year skate career will premiere at SXSW

The new documentary will have plenty of early teenage photos, video and audio of Way along with more recent footage and interviews

How do you capture the true essence of a skateboarding legend who brought us the MegaRamp, pulled a 360 over the Great Wall of China, launched into a vert ramp from a helicopter, or dropped from the Hard Rock Hotel Guitar 82-feet above the Vegas Strip? Not sure, but we'll get our chance to find out how director Jacob Rosenberg portrays Danny Way in the new feature-length documentary "Waiting for Lightning." The highly anticipated film about the life of pioneering skateboarder Danny Way..