09/27/09 Nate Linford entered his first PRO Bowl event at this years TBM World Cup stop at Lake Cunningham Skate Park in San Jose, CA. There were 8 heats of 6 - 8 pro's per heat and when the dust settled Nate Linford ended the day in 7th Place! Congrats to Nate and all of the riders, fan and companies that helped put on such an incredible event!! Tim Brauch we will never forget you!!! 09/26/09 Drake Riddiough finished in second place in the grom division by beating out 65 other riders that entered! Congrats Drake on another TBM win!!! 07.15.09 Tom Schaar along with a handful of other top AM's were invited to compete at this years Maloof Money Cup VERT Contest. We spoke with Tom about the ramp and the perks of being listed as one of the TOP VERT AM's at such a young age. This year the combination of the Mini Mega Ramp and an X-Games styled VERT Ramp was going to offer the riders and fans something new to the world of VERT riding. Tom Schaar loved the new set-up which gave him his first real taste of the Mini Mega Ramp Big Rail that proved to be allot of fun. Check out one of Tom Schaar's runs at the Maloof Money Cup. 06.17.09 Tom Schaar was invited up to the ECCO CUP in Santa Rosa over the weekend to demo the Mini Mega Ramp with pro riders like Bob Burnquist, Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Lincoln Ueda, Buster Halterman and many others. This was Tom's chance to get in a few days of practice with the pro's before the Maloof Money Cup in July. Tom was on fire pulling backside 360's over the gap and closed the weekend out with a 180 to fackie over the gap and then pulled a less twist on the 20' quarter pipe! Nate Linford finally got his chance to make the 35 foot drop on the Mini Mega Ramp and never looked back. Nate said that on his way to the top of the platform he ran into Bob Burnquist who gave him some advise about dropping in and that was all the guidance he needed to make the drop. By the end of th weekend Nate was landing backside airs, ollies and his signature kickflip indie air over the gap! Special thanks to Jeff and his crew over at Mega Ramp for hooking up the Half Pint Team with this incredible opportunity to ride the Mini Mega Ramp!!
05/05/09 05/01/09 04/10/09 02/09/09 02/04/09 01/02/09 10/20/08 10/01/08 09/28/08 More to come as we are busy editing photos and videos for the site!
09/26/08 09.01.08 We are stoked to announce a new GROM SQUAD Team Rider from Florida named Patterson Mohrman ! This little guy made a name for himself at the 2007 King of the Groms Championships by being the youngest ripper to advance to the finals.. Patterson has been ripping it up on the East Coast skating out of Neptune Beach, Florida. Patterson took 4th place in a recent skate contest in Atlanta Beach that was put together by the crew at Skatelab.. He will be heading up the newly formed "Grom Squad Team" of riders that will be made up of the youngest rippers on the planet! Congrats Patterson for making team and welcome to the HPS family!
08.30.08 Tom Schaar just returned from the Dew Tour stop in Portland Oregon and from the looks of it he had a BLAST! According to Tom he was able to learn how to roll in using the gigantic roll in which then blasted him 7' + into the air! Yes that right we said SEVEN FEET on this pro vert ramp in front of crowd of over 5,000 people! Yeah, he landed it and was able to claim biggest grom air. Way to go Tom and thanks again for showing the old guys that GROMS RULE!
08/25/08 Cody Chapman has moved over to ride on the flow program for Santa Cruz Skateboards and Independent Trucks. We were SUPER stoked to see Cody get the big local Santa Cruz hook-up as his Dad (Chappy) used to ride for Santa Cruz Skateboards way back in the day as well. Looks like C-Note is following in his dads footsteps so be sure to congratulate him next time you see him clacking an Ollie to Tail in a mini bowl near you!
Chris Henderson has decided to drop his current line-up of sponsors including HPS, Skateboards.com and Santa Cruz Skate Shop. Chris is says that he thinking about a few different companies but has not made any set decisions as to what board company he will ride for next. Chris was stoked to be a part of the HPS team for the last two years but has decided to mellow out on competitive skateboarding and wants to ride for himself and the crew of ladies that can be seen following him around. You will be missed brotha! 05/31/08 05/08/08 05/07/08 Caedyn Curto went under the knife to get a broken bone in his wrist fixed once and for all. We spoke with Caedyn his operation and he says he is ready right now to go skate but will have to wait until his doctor gives him the green light. Current News Current News Caedyn Curto enters his first Damn AM Contest at Volcom and places 38th out of 96 riders in day 2 of the street qualifier rounds. Caedyn Curto is the first of the Half Pint Team Riders to step up into the Damn Am series and killing it! Check out Caedyn Curto's profile on the Damn Am website. Click here for more photos of Caedyn Curto at the Damn Am Volcom event. 2008 UPDATES Check out the HPS 2007 & 2006 NEWS archive!
TIM BRAUCH MEMORIAL WORLD CUP BOWL EVENT
Tim Brauch Memorial Website
TIM BRAUCH MEMORIAL STREET CONTEST - UPDATES
Nate Linford pulled a 6th place win in the sponored AM street event and placed in the top ten in every event this year!
Tim Brauch Memorial Website
TOM SCHAAR @ THE MALOOF MONEY CUP
TOM SCHAAR & NATE LINFORD RIDE THE MINI MEGA RAMP!
Check out Photos from the event on the new Half Pint Skateboards FACEBOOK page!
DRAKE RIDDIOUGH JOINS THE EPIC SKATEPARK TEAM
Drake Riddiough is proud to chosen to ride for the NEW Epic Skatepark up in Rocklin, CA. According to Drake this is one of his alltime favorite indoor parks with everything from street, mini ramps and of course a sick bowl! When your planning the next skate trip to nor-cal be sure to put Epic Skatepark on your map cause cause the place is sick~
Link to Epic Skatepark
TOM SCHAAR ON DISNEY'S NEXT X SKATE SHOW
Tom Schaar will be featured in the new tv show called NEXT X on the Disney XD network next month! The show premieres Monday, June 8 (7:04pm, ET/PT)
Link to Disney Press Release
DRAKE RIDDIOUGH @ EPIC SKATEPARK ON FOX40 NEWS
FOX40 NEWS did a live broadcast from the new EPIC Indoor Skatepark in Rocklin, CA on Friday and Drake Riddiough was invited to the park for the early morning session. Special thanks to EPIC Skatepark and crew!
Link to the FOX40 EPIC Skatepark Interview
TOM SCHAAR ATHLETE OF THE WEEK - FUEL TV
Tom Schaar and Christian Hosoi are featured on FUEL TV's
Weekly Update TV show this week riding the MINI MEGA RAMP
at ASR Tradeshow in San Diego! Congrats again to Tom Schaar for
being Fuel TV's Athlete of the week!
Link to the FUEL TV Interview
HALF PINT VIDEO IS LIVE!
Check out our latest video featuring Nate Linford, Caedyn Curto,
Tom Schaar, Drake Riddiough and Josh Douglas!
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Download MOV File to iTunes - iPod Touch & iPhone 40MB
YOUTUBE VERSION
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Looks like we are all set for the new year and we are stoked to get things rolling later on this month with some new team rider videos! Yes that's right we have been filming, filming and more filming and cannot wait to unleash the HPS video stream to a computer near you! haahaaa Be sure to check out the new iPhone App GoLearn Skateboarding featuring Nate Linford in the Trick Tips section!
Oh yeah and get ready little groms cause we have teamed up with Skateboards.com and King of the Groms to bring you live Internet streaming from the KOG Championships next month from 3rd Lair!
NATE LINFORD INDEPENDENT TRUCKS FLOW?
After the TBM event Nate Linford was approached by quite a few companies that wanted him to ride their products and when the dust settled Independent Trucks was at the top of the list! Nate was stoked to get put on the Flow Team for Independent Trucks as they are all he rides! Nate was like a kid in a candy shop when he got to do his walk through at the Independent Warehouse where they loaded up a shopping cart full of Indy goodies! We would like to Congratulate Nate and say thanks again to the guys at NHS for hooking him up!
NATE LINFORD WINS THE TIM BRAUCH BOWL CONTEST
We are stocked to announce that Nate Linford took top honors in the Local Division of the Tim Brach Contest at Lake Cunningham Skate Park! Nate pulled it out in the final seconds of the heat with a kick flip indie air that sent the over 300 person crowd into a frenzy! Nate was on fire and ended up moving into the Pro Division where he blew out half of the crowd and ended the day in 12th place!
HALF PINT TEAM PLACES IN THE TOP TEN
The Half Pint crew came to the Tim Brauch Memorial Street Contest ready to skate and that's just what we did! Drake Riddiough age 9, Tom Schaar age 9 and Josh Douglas age 9 all competed in the 12 and under street division place in the top ten! Drake Riddiough ended up sneaking into the 3rd position with some huge airs and of course nailing the legendary Stello Gap! Josh Douglas ended up in 7th place which baffles us and everyone around the park that watched him nail every trick in his run! (Better luck next time Josh!) Tom Schaar made the drive up from Malibu just to ride in this TBM event and was stoked to ride the SV park and see his nor-cal buddies! Tom ended his day by taking the number ten spot by blasting some HUGE frontside and backside airs in the J-Bowl!
Special shout out to Alex Midler for sweeping the Grom Street comp with his kick flip board slide down the rail!
HALF PINT & KING OF THE GROMS II
Half Pint Skateboards is committed to working with outstanding organizations that get behind the Skate Grom movement like the King of the Groms Contest Series! Mark and crew out at 3rd Lair have stepped it up this year to include 4 qualifier rounds that will held all over the US and of course the championships which will be held at 3rd Lair Skate Park in Minnesota. Half Pint Skateboards and our team of skate groms are stoked to be a part of the KOG series for the second year in a row! We will be looking forward to seeing you at Woodward West and of course our favorite indoor park Skatelab in Simi Valley home of Tom Schaar!
Stay tuned for more updates as we are heading ou to the Tim Brauch Memorial Contest in Scotts Valley and the bowl jam at Lake Cunningham!
NEW GROM SQUAD TEAM RIDER
TOM SCHAAR GOES BIG AT THE DEW TOUR
TEAM RIDER UPDATES!
Chris and Pierce Brunner have flown the Half Pint nest to join a new grom team that Powell is putting together in So-Cal. They will be joined with the likes of Isaiah Johnson who used to ride for HPS last year and also moved over to Powell. We wish the Brunner boys
the best of luck as we know they will continue to rip it up no matter who they are riding for (CONGRATS)! Look forward to seeing you guys on our next So-Cal trip!
HALF PINT SKATE BBQ AT LAKE CUNNINGHAM SKATEPARK!
Chris Henderson, Drake Riddiough and Nate Linford attacked the new Lake Cunningham Skatepark in San Jose California on Saturday as the rest of the HPS crew cooked up over a 100 dogs on the grill! Special thanks to the park for letting us take over for the day and special shout out to all of the kids we met throughout the day! Photos and video coming soon!
TOM SCHAAR LANDS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE LOCAL NEWS PAPER
Tom Schaar graces the front page of the Malibu Surf Side News Paper for an article about their 6th Annual Spring Break Skate Competition! Click here to check out Tom Schaar in the news article.
HALF PINT TEAM RIDER INJURY REPORT
Drake Riddiough had a bad crash into another skater in Sacramento while getting ready for the last Nor-Cal CASL Comp. As a result of the slam the little guy spent a couple nights in the hospital getting checked out while the Doctor's ran tests on him and everything came back great! The last report from the Riddiough camp is that Drake is doing just FINE and is back on his board with the doctors blessing!!!
**NEWS FLASH**NEWS FLASH**
Our very own Tom Schaar has joined the Skatelab "Lab Rats" Team and has pulled the youngest spot at next weeks Tampa Pro / Am Vert Comp in Florida. If you don't already know the name Tom Schaar you will soon because he is the youngest blastingest vert ripper AM rider period... Congrats Tom and go show them how the groms do it!
DAMN AM VOLCOM CONTEST
HPS TEAM RIDER UPDATES COMING IN THIS WEEK!
Sorry to say that we have been away from the computer for the last couple of months skating our brains out! We have tons of contests, sessions and team rider updates coming out later this week as we are digging through 700 photos and pages and pages of TR submitted updates. Stay Tuned!