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Battle at the Berrics 4 Championship Battle

Never under estimate a Canadian on Canada Day has been a theme at the final at the Battle of the Berrics 4 and this game is no different. In this game we have Toronto's own Morgan Smith vs PJ Ladd. Unbelievable game!! Thanks Morgan for all your hard work. Look forward to seeing your pro model soon. Awesome Job!!

BATB Finals - Morgan Smith vs Mikemo Capaldi

This battle was actually filmed on Friday but it features Canada's pride and joy right now, Morgan Smith. Morgan is the only Canadian left in the finals at the Battle at the Berrics Round 4 US vs Them. Check the video below to see what happens.

Morgan Smith Text yo Self

Checkout Toronto's Own Morgan Smith finding new lines at the Berrics with this weeks Text yoself beefo yo wreck yoself on the Berrics.

Morgan Smith Recruited

Toronto's Morgan Smith Recruited at the Berrics!! Morgan seems to land everything with ease all the time and has one of the best styles in the city. Congrats Morgan!!

Congrats to Minor Media!!!

Congrats to Minor Media from Toronto, Ontario on winning the YOUnited Nations on the Berrics. I see these cats shredding the streets all the time so they fully deserve this. Click here to watch the winning part.

$125 Ticket for Playing a game or sport in roadway

So It all began the other Friday when after a busy morning of work I went to grab a bite to eat. My usual pizza joint was packed, so I skated down to Queen St to grab a far less superior slice from another place. After getting my lunch, I skated along Queen St. then up my street. As I pulled up to the curb in front of my house I turn around and there was a bicycle cop asking for ID. "Did I do something wrong officer?" I ask. "Can't Skateboard on the street" she says, "It's illegal".

Remaining calm I ask her how this can be as I have skated in the city for almost 20 years and there has never been a problem. "Well I guess today is not your lucky day then" she says as she pulls out her ticket book. I continue to ask questions about why I would never heard of this or why would nobody have mentioned it to me before as I skate by cops all the time. To which her reply was "Well I guess you are just too dense to figure it out then. You skaters kids are all the same".

She kept on with her attitude and I told her she had no right to judge me or try to belittle me. She tells me she can do whatever she wants. I try to reason with her as she is writing up a ticket explaining that us going through this process is not fair as this is my means of transportation and nobody was put in harms way from me riding a skateboard on the street.

Turns out she had been following me from Queen St. and stopped me right as I was about to go in my house. She mentioned how I was all over the road on Queen St. I told her I was in the bike lane and she says "You couldn't have been in the bike lane on Queen st, because there is no bike lane on Queen St." "Well where do the bike go then?" I ask. "On the road" she says "to which my reply was "I was where the bikes go on the road then". "Well you cant be there" she says. Apparently skateboarders are supposed to skate on the sidewalk as I was told by this officer. Seems odd because when I got kicked out of a public park for skateboarding, they told me to skateboard on the street.

I ask her if this is the best use of her time considering there is a park close by where people smoke crack all the time, on my street cars often get broken into on the regular and shitty graffiti gets done in the alleys. She tells me to tell her where that is happening and she will check it out. Frankly that's not my job I told her and to spend 1/2 an hour chasing me down and giving me a ticket/lecture for me riding a skateboard on the street is pretty crazy.

So when she wasn't seeing it from a priority perspective I tried to explain to her how this was going to be a huge waste of tax payers money. I told her I am going to fight the ticket, beat it and continue to skateboard to work everyday I can for the rest of my life. This kind of ticket is going to make a judge angry as stupid stuff like this is what backlogs our court system. I know this as that is what the Judge said the last time I was charged for skateboarding on the street. "Failed to turn right when overtaken" was the charge last time I was taken down by 7 bike cops for skateboarding on the street. And that ticket was thrown out in a heartbeat. But that's another story...

So for a $125 ticket how much is it going to cost the city to deal with this? The officers time, a Judges time, crown attorney, bailiff and all the people and expenses incurred for me to get my moment in court, only to be thrown out. And if it isn't thrown out, I want to ensure that it costs the city much more that the ticket I was given.

I could just pay the ticket and be done with it, but now it is a matter of principal. Somebody needs to talk to these cops that hand out these quota filling tickets as there are bigger problems to deal with. Toronto is pretty much the hub of Canada and our city does so little to support skateboarding it is ridiculous. But that is another story...

Mark Appleyard Battle Commander

Toronto's own Mark Appleyard gets his butteryass hustle on at the Berrics. Click here to go there now...

Ontario Represent!! Vote for Minor Media on the Berrics

Congrats to the Skaters at Minor Media for being selected for the YOUnited Nations on the Berrics.

Vote for them today!!

New SBC Skateboard Site

The folks at SBC Skateboard have revamped their website to make it easier to browse the vast amount of content they have. Click here to visit their new site

DUNBAT Feature

DUNBAT has become a house hold name in southern Ontario. Designed and built by Rob Poyner, DUNBAT is the only wooden City of Toronto run park. Every year Rob changes a park obstacle or two, keeping it fresh with the trends, and to accommodate locals as best he can. There are lights until eleven and in the heat of the summer the night sessions are banging. All the crews and peeps show up to get their skate on and if you’re lucky enough to be there you can catch a sick session every night. These night sessions have inspired Leigh Lichacz to film this DUNBAT feature. This is a little Piece of Peace. Skate for life!

Brandon Del Bianco from Prodome

Here is a sick clip of Toronto's Brandon Del Bianco. This guy is killing it these days.

Video courtesy of SBCSkateboard. For more about skateboarding in the Canada visit www.sbcskateboard.com

Where Canadians Skate in the Winter

Here is an interesting little gem I found on Youtube showing some of Toronto's Underground Path system. Wanna see your video on this site? click here

Vote for Calgz Locz on the Berrics

Canada Represent!!! ... Go to the Berrics and vote for them here

Midnight LumberJacks

The second video from Change Skateboards and Chris Quick.

Video courtesy of SBCSkateboard. For more about skateboarding in the Canada visit www.sbcskateboard.com

New Updates

Over the past few months we have been upgrading our systems to make this site a more useful guide to skateboarding in Toronto. Some of our latest updates include better park and store profiles. Click on the links to check it out. More stuff coming soon...

Danny Way on Letterman

Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day to all you Americans out there!! So we have just changes the news items on this site to more of a blog type thing so you can leave comments. Hope you like it. Cheers

Happy Canada Day!!

Happy Canada Day from everybody here at TorontoSkateboarding!! Hope you have a good one and get outside to skate cause the weather is great!!

Hogtown launches new website..... finally.

It appears that Toronto's oldest Skateshop has finally updated their site to keep with the times. Check it out at www.hogtownextreme.com it looks pretty sweet.

Go Skateboarding Day!!

Happy GoSkateboarding Day!!! Remember to get out there and hit the streets. At least once. Even all you old thirty plus skate dawgs out there like me ... lol... Skate or Die Fuckers!!!!

SBC Skateboard Lauches New Site!!

It looks like the peeps over at SBCSkateboard.Com have revamped their site. The new site is a big improvement over the last site and there is lots of great content on there to keep you reading for a while.

So Hip it Hurts launches new site

So Hip it Hurts have launched a new site to reflect the massive overhaul they have done on the store. Checkout the new site at www.sohipithurts.ca, both the site and the new renovations at the store look awesome. If you are ever in the Queen and John area I would recommend stopping by the store.

Dunbat is coming back!!

I skated by Dundas and Bathurst today (AKA DunBat) and it seems that the park is coming back together. Much thanks to Rob Poyner for putting this whole project together and giving all the city heads a place to skate in the summer. Building all this shit aint easy and he could always use some help. If you aren't working or don't have anything else to do, go lend a brother a hand. I'm sure he would appreciate it. This park is not something that should be taken for granted and we need everybodies help to keep it rolling for years to come.

New GoSkateboarding.Ca site up!!

Today S & J Sales, one of Canada's oldest Skateboard Distributors launched a new site. Check it out at www.goskateboarding.ca, there is lots of great new content and videos to checkout.

John Cardiel on the Epicly Later'd show

There is a sick video interview with John Cardiel on the Epicly Later'd show on VBS.TV that is definitely watch worthing. Talks about some of the Gnarliness this dude has been through over the years... Yet another skater to come back from a broken back. Awesome. Click here to check it out