My hero is a 7-year-old skateboarding prodigy from Los Angeles named Asher Bradshaw. Bradwhaw has been skateboarding for less than two years and he pulls stunts that I never could have imagined in my teenage skateboarding years. He’s sponsored by Streets of Venice Skateshop and SMA has even made a small custom deck for him. He’s already known throughout the world of skateboarding and has hung with some of the best in the world. There are even rumors that a full-length documentary about him is being made. Check out this video and see why.
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The Top Ten Discoveries of 2010
Last month National Geographic listed the ten greatest discoveries of 2010. Among them are an earthquake that shortened our day, a glimpse of evolution in action with a lizard species in which some members still lay eggs, while others have made the jump to live birth, a study that says black holes are doorways to alternate realities (seriously), and, my favorite, a super cute pink fish that walks on it’s hands along the ocean floor.
Canadian Ice Fisherman
Don’t know where the fish are? This is how we find ’em where I come from.
This Year Give a Gift to Somebody Who Needs It
Passports with Purpose is a global-minded charity rooted in the travel-blogging community that I am involved with. We are now three weeks into this year’s fundraising. Our goal: to raise $50,000 USD to build a village for members of India’s impoverished underclass.
Matt-Gibson.org Chosen One of the Top Twenty Travel Writing Blogs
Surfers Ride Record-Breaking 50-Foot Waves off the Irish Coast
Last week a group of surfers had the most intense rides of their lives on waves over 50-feet tall off the coast of Ireland, Galding reported yesterday. The waves were the biggest to recorded in Irish waters since 2005. The surfers rode the waves far from shore, presumably over a deep-ocean reef. Although there are a few surf spots around Ireland, nobody knows where the waves actually occurred, and the surfers, not surprisingly, aren’t telling anybody–they want to keep them to themselves.

