The action sports community is one that is inextricably tied to politics, and this election year it is critical that all you extreme folks make yr voice heard. We know that the current political environment is very confusing and intimidating: “Who practices voodoo? Which one of these yahoos fought a tiger bare-handed? Who is dropping a new album to coincide with Election Day?” Fear not, agr is here to tell you how to vote in November so you don’t have to think for yourself.
Skatedaily reports that Republican presidential candidateJohn McCain’s …

If generation eXtreme has learned anything from excessive consumption of Mountain Dew and television, it is this: things are much cooler when you are rolling around on wheels. This is the reasoning employed by Heelys.
 

Danny Way does some big jumps on his skateboard. But the problem with his technique is that it is too similar to actual skateboarding. It is like he is skateboarding, just doing everything bigger. While interesting, it is not zany enough to be considered eXXXtreme.
Skateboarding is coolest when: (a) in a video game, or (b) done …

Unfortunately, our aspirations of competing in the Olympics were thwarted once again. It looks like we will have to wait a while longer to take our place as the world’s greatest athlete in whatever-sport-we-finally-decide-to-do.
Seeing as we have been skateboarding a bit, we were planning on doing skateboarding. But skateboarding wasn’t one of the events! Our buddy Ryan Lochte wasn’t even allowed to take his skateboard over to China!
Oh well, we will just stick to our training schedule and Olympic diet. For our diet, we just looked at what golden boy …

agr has been busy squeezing the last bits of shreddin’ paste out of the tube that is our 07/08 season.  We are all about sloppy spring slush sliding, but we have been getting real anxious about that looming “final day”…real anxious.  Of course, the urgency that comes this time of year is experienced by snowboarders the world over, but we have a few more eggs in this basket.  Allow us to elaborate… 

At agr, sealing the lid on the 07/08 season has several serious implications: 
-We were supposed to get good this …

Despite the daily exchange of verbal blows  between the hesh and the fresh, there are still somethings that all snowboarders can agree on:
LNP (Laurent-Nicolas Paquin) rips.

But does he also rock? agr is currently investigating whether Mr. Paquin is also a member of the hipster-recommended and agoodreed indeed certified band HEALTH.

Can you spot LNP?
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HEALTH - Crimewave (via Stereogum)

HEALTH - Heaven (via Pitchfork.tv)…hell yea for ski jumping.
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So I was getting another tattoo on my forehead the other day, and guess who was having their names inked on their back….
lil’ punks…taught ‘em everything I knew.
…and Duncan Dogger taught this chump all his tricks.