http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=skaters Sat, 25 May 2013 23:24:51 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=skaters Thu, 23 May 2013 17:53:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=855_1369341531 Size13Films Size13 Films presents the debut documentary from Jacob Bexx. 'Saving Southbank - The Skatepark Chronicles' aims to raise awareness about the closure of Southbank Skatepark in London. For forty years, the undercroft underneath the Southbank Centre has housed generations of skaters and has seen some of the worlds greatest skate there. Talking with the skaters themselves, ' Saving Southbank...' documents a weekend dedicated to saving this historical skating landmark from closure. @size13films @jakebexx http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=855_1369341531 Size13Films Saving Southbank - The Skatepark Chronicles Southbank, Skatepark, Skating, London, Documentary, Size13 Films Fri, 10 May 2013 20:18:20 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f1c_1368230661 USMC5816 Before they discovered roller derby, their names were Kelly, Kristal, Jennifer, Amy, Sarah, Aiyana, Sylvia and Tricia. Now, as members of Pacific Roller Derby, which practices twice a week at Marine Corps Base Hawaii's G Street hockey rink, they are known as Calamity Crush, Loonatic Loocy, Cry-Sis, Faye Tality, Acute Mangler, C.C. Bang! Bang! and Tadbit Nasty. While on break during practice April 14, 2013, several of the skaters said they found out about roller derby by accident, watched a game and became magnetically attracted to the sport as participants because of its athletic and competitive demands. Loonatic Loocy, aka Kristal Loo, an occupational therapist from Waikele, said she loves roller derby because "it's always changing, and it's very challenging." A swimmer in high school, she started from scratch, having never previously put on a pair of roller skates. Cry-Sis, aka Jennifer Cabral, is a native of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and an Air Force spouse. She has two sons, ages 13 and 16. For her, roller derby is "the most energetic, selfish thing I have ever done for myself. I have split my time between my kids' soccer, karate (and) football, and I finally found something that energizes me. It's the most amazing thing I have ever done for myself." Faye Tality, or Amy Hughes, from Portland Ore., is in her second season with PRD. Her husband recently retired from the Army. A student at Leeward Community College, she said roller derby is "fun to watch, it's fun to play. There's a great sense of community and family that you get when you join the league." In all, about 50 women from across Oahu belong to PRD, founded in 2008 as Hawaii's first amateur women's flat track roller derby league. The league, which is owned and operated by its athletes, is recruiting new skaters as well as volunteers for non-skating or skating positions, such as referees. New recruits practice Saturday mornings in Hawaii Kai. Calamity Crush, aka Kelly Thune, an art curator in Honolulu, is in charge of training new recruits in the league. In her six years playing roller derby, "I've had so many injuries that I've actually grown into my derby name, Calamity," she said, smiling. Besides the typical bumps and bruises, she has twisted her ankles and broken her wrists. "It's a contact sport, so you always take that risk," she said. "But we train the girls to be able to appropriately fall to be as safe as possible in the pack. There are a lot of precautionary measures we take when we train so we're not creating dangerous situations. The new girls' training program exists so we can get them up to speed before integrating them into the rest of the league. They work on basics like stops, falls (and) how to safely skate next to somebody else." Spankin' Pickle, or Tricia Prestridge, a Navy spouse and native of Great Cacapon, W.Va., has been counting the days till her return to derby this week. She broke her right foot during practice in January. When she and her family moved to MCB Hawaii a year ago, "I saw (PRD) practicing on the base, and I thought, that's what I want to do, and it's been the love of my life ever since." Acute Mangler, or Sarah Michel, of Waikele, teaches high school math, covering topics like acute angles, which are angles less than 90 degrees. Michel said she met some of her best friends on her fIrst day of practice as a new recruit. "I've only been doing this for 11 months, but it has legitimately changed my life, in the way I see myself and the way I see what I'm capable of and the way I see what I deserve out of my life. I feel empowered." Taleisha Scott, a Navy spouse, serves as a bench coach in the league and is also a new recruit. A nurse by training who played softball and soccer in high school and college, she said roller derby is "a whole different level of competition. You've got to strive to be the best for yourself, but you also have to try to be the best, for your team, and it really matters." She added, "The best part is I can play this sport until I'm 60, if I want to, and there are skaters (who) are that old, nationally. You can skate as much as you want, as long as you want." C.C. Bang! Bang! or Army Staff Sgt. Aiyana Harris, is the league's most experienced skater. A nurse at Tripler Army Medical Center, she said, "Every time the Army (relocates) me, I try to find a league." She has skated with teams in her hometown of Baltimore, Md., in Colorado and in Washington state. Tadbit Nasty, or Sylvia Flores, finds that the major appeal of derby for her is that it lets women step beyond the traditional roles and expectations placed upon them as wives and mothers. "Roller derby gives us a space to leave all that aside and get aggressive, competitive, and physical," Flores said. " http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f1c_1368230661 USMC5816 Rolling along with Pacific Roller Derby girls UCMC, MArines, Roller, Derby Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:55:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=063_1364237473 Rubicon_Cube - - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - - http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=063_1364237473 Rubicon_Cube Fat Landlord Tries To Evict Goon Skateboarders From His Building skaters,fight Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:17:23 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4bf_1361844976 DominationX Watch until the end http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4bf_1361844976 DominationX Old crazy lady hates skateboarders Skateboard, Skateboarding, Crazy lady, old ladies, skaters, cat lady, Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:41:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=611_1365406329 english-patriot33 http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/06/how-three-ontario-school-friends-grew-up-to-become-islamist-terrorists-in-north-africa/?utm_source=feedburner&amp; How three Canadians graduated from a rebellious high school friendship to the world of Islamist terrorism The distressed family of Ali Medlej explained the unexpected death of their son by saying he was killed in a car accident. The truth, as they - and the world - now knows, is more ghastly and perplexing: The young London man died perpetrating January's terrorist attack on an Algerian gas plant. The violent end of Ali Medlej, along with Xristos Katsiroubas, his chum from school whom he helped convert to Islam, came not in a car, but in the North African desert in an attack that left 37 hostages dead, most of them incinerated in an explosion that likely also purposely killed the Canadian attackers. That was their startling end. Now everyone, even those close to the young men, wonder where their dark odyssey began. While the geography is somewhat clear - from London to Edmonton to Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and, ultimately, to the ill-fated gas plant in In Amenas, Algeria - it is the psychological journey, from suburban rascals to jihadi commandos, that leaves friends befuddled. The men, along with Aaron Yoon, who was convicted in Mauritania last year of membership in a terrorist group, were all part of a larger group of friends, mostly Muslim, at London South Collegiate Institute, a high school in the southwestern Ontario city. The boys emerged from adolescence immersed in twin obsessions with Islam and hip-hop music. And if those influences offer a cultural contrast, the lives of the three men portray a similar duality, said family, many friends and former schoolmates, some of whom were close to one or more of the men since kindergarten. Ali, with most of those in his clique, for instance, devoutly attended prayers but also, while in Grade 12, got into trouble for taking a fake gun to a neighbouring school to settle a dispute with a student there, friends said. And although dying in a bloody al-Qaeda attack, in Grade 9, he once mocked the Taliban. Xristos, in turn, was a late convert to Islam after being raised in a Greek-Canadian Orthodox Christian home and, with the zeal of a new convert, announced he was to be called Mustafa. "Xris was a much more serious Muslim than Ali," said Justin VanderTuin, 24, who was on the high school football team with Ali. "Ali certainly was not. He was a kid who drank and smoked, but I never saw Xris with any of those things." And Aaron, a Korean-Canadian Catholic who also converted in his teens, under influence from Ali, shunned schoolwork and reading but ended up studying the Koran and Arabic at an Islamic centre in North Africa. "I was surprised when I read about Aaron studying Islamic texts - Aaron, study?" said a former classmate at Cartier Public School. "He could never even remember when Confederation was." The circumstances of these young men - who were in many ways ordinary and in others extraordinary - do not make for a clean portrait to be drawn; just as it makes it more important for investigators, and the community, to understand what went wrong. At the well-maintained, single-storey home of the Medlej family in a residential neighbourhood of southeast London, a distressed woman declined to speak to a reporter. At the used car lot owned by Ali's father, Wassim Medlej, who goes by the Anglicized name Sam Medley, a sign hangs in the window saying he would be back in 30 minutes, but he has not been seen for days, said those living and working nearby. A motion-sensor detects anyone approaching the door and triggers a loud, recorded message: "You are trespassing." The family wants privacy. Although Ali Medlej died in January, their grief is raw; the family was only notified last week by the RCMP that their son's remains were identified at the scene of the Algeria bombing. A family acquaintance said they explained their grief and shock by saying Ali had died in a car accident. Ali's sister, who is a local star soccer player, recently lamented to friends how much she missed her brother. Originally from Beirut, Lebanon, the Medlej family is not well known in the community, said a Lebanese woman arriving for prayer at the London Muslim Youth Association this week. "I've been around here for 30 years and I've never heard of them, except now in the news," she said. But former classmates remember Ali. He was known as dynamic, loud, often funny but also remembered for slamming his fist into a locker in frustration and for being physically intimidating. One classmate recalls Ali acting out a scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Grade 10 English and turning it into a mock fight to the amusement of the students, although the teacher was unimpressed. When the class wrote their literacy test, Ali couldn't be bothered to read the instructions and just wrote an unrelated essay on gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur. Several students described Ali as a bully - one calling him a "wannabe thug." "He was definitely a bully in the sense that if he thought you were weak, he didn't respect you," said Mr. VanderTuin. But Devon Abrahams, 24, remembers Ali interceding when a classmate was being picked on in 2006. "Ali stopped him," Mr. Abrahams said. "Ali was a good guy, stood up for a friend of mine, got high marks in school but hid it from his peers." Several classmates said Ali was smart but liked to hide it. "He could be kind of an ass sometimes," said Osrenko Jovic, a Western University business graduate now running his own company. "It depends who he was with. It depends which crowd it was. "I just don't know what the hell happened, to be honest," he said. "When we all left high school, that's when he started to change." Xristos Katsiroubas' religious roots are clear from his given name, which is the Greek word for Christ. He converted to Islam about 2004 and shunned his name, introducing himself as Mustafa. "I think his mom was concerned about the people he was hanging out with, namely my group of friends, but they weren't radicals, just troublemakers I guess," said a man who was best friends with him since elementary school. Like some people interviewed, he did not want his name published and associated with terrorism. "I think he started going to the mosque because he was close with Ali. I think after a little while he felt at home there. "It was a thing for a lot of my friends to go to the mosque together. I think Xris just went along one time and eventually decided he liked it." I was surprised when I read about Aaron studying Islamic texts - Aaron, study? The group, however, showed little ambition about the future. That, more than the group's growing interest in Islam, became a wedge between himself and his friends. "I wanted to move on to bigger and better things and they weren't interested in doing much with their life," he said. The conversion of Aaron Yoon, now 24, came as a surprise to his family, but seemed to bring him a measure of calm, his brother said. He planned to attend a London Catholic high school, although he eventually linked up with Ali and Xristos at South Collegiate. He was an indifferent student with a propensity for silliness, said a former elementary school classmate. His conversion, however, seemed to ignite his academic curiosity. The three, despite the diverse backgrounds, were part of a clique dominated by Muslim students of Middle Eastern descent, part of a subtle racial division at the school, a classmate said. "They had their own little group. I was more at the side of the school with all the skaters and jocks. All the 'inter-racial people' were at the front of the school - that's where they hung out." Mr. Jovic said of Aaron: "He was always smiling, always a nice guy. Apparently he started changing as well after high school." The end of high school did not move the boys into higher education. Instead, they embraced their religion more publicly: Ali started wearing traditional Islamic garb after high school and Xristos started growing a beard. In 2007, they moved to Edmonton in search of work, but ended up in trouble there, the CBC reported. Their landlady ended up evicting them from a rented condominium for causing damage, including breaking windows and punching holes in doors. Even worse, court records indicate they and another friend from London were convicted of stealing groceries in March, 2007. (London police currently have an arrest warrant for that friend, Benjamin Thomas, 24, for failing to comply with conditions for a shoplifting conviction in the Ontario city.) "Ali was insistent that we rent them a place because they were in a bind. I kind of felt like helping them," CBC quoted their landlady as saying. Afterward, they travelled to Morocco and made their way to Mauritania. At least one of them, Aaron, pursued studies there and investigators suspect the others may have found their way to an Islamic school or centre that facilitated their entry into a jihadist group. Aaron went in 2010 to study the Koran and Arabic, his brother said. He was reunited with Ali and Xristos in Morocco, he said. Aaron lost contact with his two friends in 2011 when he was arrested in Mauritania for involvement in a terrorist group. However they were attracted to North Africa and however they financed the trip, it was a journey from which Ali and Xristos would not return. Jean-Luc Marret, a senior fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Strat'egique, a Paris-based public policy think tank, said some Islamic schools in the area serve as recruiting grounds for armed Islamist factions, but the process is informal. "What you call a madrassa can be a very mainstream organization, but with one individual inside doing radical proselytism," he said. "You need to have the chance to meet someone, then convince him about your motivation without being monitored by the police." Recruits might arrive with an introduction from someone trusted who vouches for them. It would not be unusual for armed groups in the region to welcome foreign recruits, he said. The region's most powerful armed faction, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, had been trying to internationalize recruitment. A key question for the RCMP is whether someone facilitated their connection to that school. If so, was that person in Canada or elsewhere? And did these young men go to study and only then get drawn into armed conflict, or did they go there with the intent of joining the fighting? The group behind the attack in Algeria was led by the Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who had allegedly split with the AQIM and formed his own militia, The Signatories in Blood. They allegedly trained in Mali and then travelled east, skirting the borders of Mali and Niger before crossing into Algeria from Libya. The attack began on Jan. 16 when 32 gunmen stormed the In Amenas gas plant and began executing some of the 800 hostages. Witnesses recalled seeing a blond-haired, blue-eyed attacker who spoke perfect English - a description that fits neither Ali or Xristos. While the majority of hostages were freed, 37 foreign workers and a local were killed, as well as all but three of the terrorists. After Algeria's prime minister identified the attackers as Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Malian, Nigerien, Mauritanian and Canadian, the RCMP dispatched its Disaster Victim Identification team, the same unit that helps identify bodies after natural disasters. By late March, the RCMP had identified two of the bodies at the siege site as Ali and Xristos. Testing is continuing to determine whether any of the other attackers were Canadians. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=611_1365406329 english-patriot33 Canadian terror suspect in prison islam, terrorsts, canada, cancerous islamic disease, Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:06:43 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27f_1362088251 papagiorgio200 For all the older Christian skaters. (Posted by: Religio-Political Talk ) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27f_1362088251 papagiorgio200 An Old &quot;Truth&quot; Skate Vid Truth, Skateboarding Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:37:15 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a58_1323005652 stfu_donny A bunch of people stop skaters from skating on private property. It gets hilarious towards the end when the old dude starts running. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a58_1323005652 stfu_donny <span class="highlight">Skaters</span> get chased off the block skaters, chased, out, off, the, block, neighborhood, funny Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:39:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=78a_1254198733 biggles9 36 Skaters Make Downhill Neon Video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=78a_1254198733 biggles9 36 <span class="highlight">Skaters</span> Make Downhill Neon Video Game with Freebords Skaters,Neon Video, Game, Freebords Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:59:47 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=39f_1359974835 Aussie Bet the cops wondered how to book the speeding offenders when they process the images .... should make a great "wanted poster" ..... these kids must be pushing some decent speed. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=39f_1359974835 Aussie Longboard <span class="highlight">Skaters</span> Spooking the Speed Camera longboard, skaters, spooking, speeding, speed, camera, spoofing, tricking, skate, downhill, skate, board, skateboard, Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:17:05 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=572_1343491516 brrrtmn Action at 1:55, Auckland New Zealand http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=572_1343491516 brrrtmn Security guard attacks <span class="highlight">skaters</span> and breaks board security,guard,hates,skaters,breaks,board Sat, 05 May 2012 08:13:10 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b2b_1336219759 dkast A fat mexican bully bites off more than he can chew and gets his ass kicked http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b2b_1336219759 dkast Fat mexican bully pulls a gun on <span class="highlight">skaters</span> and gets his ass kicked bully,beating,fight,mexican,skaters Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:49:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b82_1334366603 shlee420x not what you expect to happpen on a day out skating, but in this turn of events, these people work together.....kinda. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b82_1334366603 shlee420x Kids Locked In A Car, In Direct Sunlight...<span class="highlight">Skaters</span> To The Rescue. kids, locked, in, car, in, direct, sunlight, skaters, to, the, rescue