PAUL RODRIGUEZ / FRENDS / LYN-Z ADAMS HAWKINS HANG WITH THE STARS, PART lus OLYMPIC HALFPIPE A SLEDDER’S (TRAVIS PASTRANA, P NEW ENERGY DRINK THE MONEY ISSUE JAMES STEWART) GET PAID SHOWDOWN 2 IT’S A SHOCKER! PAGE 8 ESPN.COM/ACTION SPRING 2010 KENKEN BLOCKBLOCK IS ON A RROLLoll NEXT UP: WORLD DOMINATION SPRING 2010 X SPOT 14 THE FAST LIFE 30 PAY? CHECK. Ken Block revolutionized the sneaker Don’t have the board skills to pay the 6 MAJOR GRIND game. Is the DC Shoes exec-turned- bills? You can make an action living Clint Walker and Pat Duffy race car driver about to take over the anyway, like these four tradesmen. rally world, too? 8 ENERGIZE ME BY ALYSSA ROENIGK 34 3BR, 2BA, SHREDDABLE POOL Garth Kaufman Yes, foreclosed properties are bad for NOW ON ESPN.COM/ACTION 9 FLIP THE SCRIPT 20 MOVE AND SHAKE the neighborhood. But they’re rare gems SPRING GEAR GUIDE Brady Dollarhide Big air meets big business! These for resourceful BMXer Dean Dickinson. ’Tis the season for bikinis, boards and bikes. action stars have side hustles that BY CARMEN RENEE THOMPSON 10 FOR LOVE OR THE GAME Elena Hight, Greg Bretz and Louie Vito are about to blow. FMX GOES GLOBAL 36 ON THE FLY: DARIA WERBOWY Freestyle moto was born in the U.S., but riders now want to rule MAKE-OUT LIST 26 HIGHER LEARNING The supermodel shreds deep powder, the world. Harley Clifford and Freeskier Grete Eliassen hits the books hangs with Shaun White and mentors Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins BOBBY BROWN’S BIG BREAK as hard as she charges on the slopes. kids. Do you think we have a chance? The freeskier’s Winter X hits COVER: CARLOS SERRAO; THIS PAGE: ATIBA JEFFERSON ATIBA THIS PAGE: SERRAO; CARLOS COVER: 11 SCRATCH Scott Murray BY TIM STRUBY INTERVIEW BY TIM BRODHAGEN have led to a platinum season. EXPN MAGAZINE 5 SURE SHOTS Clint Walker and Pat Duffy give new meaning to the term “base jumping.” The street skaters tore up Camp Pendleton—a 125,000-acre Marine Corps base 38 miles north of San Diego—for an episode of Fuel TV’s build- and-ride show, Built to Shred. Riding in an area where old tanks, transports and artillery wait to be spruced up for the base’s museums, Walker (far left) rips a crooked grind on a forklift while Duffy treats a howitzer to a bean plant fakie. Who knew a busted Jeep could be the best seat in the house? PHOTOGRAPHS BY DESIREE RONALD ASTORGA EXPN MAGAZINE 7 THE LOOK When it came to the label, Kaufman wanted it “simple, recognizable and not too busy.” He suggested a “Snowmobile Xing” traffic sign, like the one tattooed on his inner biceps. One of our EXPN designers used that template and color scheme as a guide for AS SLEDDER GARTH KAUFMAN LEARNED, ALL IT TAKES the Electricity logo. TO MAKE A GOOD ENERGY DRINK IS A Great STORY. While lying in a creek last spring, partially paralyzed for a few THE PHILOSOPHY moments after being struck by lightning, pro snowmobiler Kaufman wanted a drink Garth Kaufman didn't imagine that anything good would come that would get him pumped of the incident. But it did. Kind of. When we heard his story, we and supplement a training naturally wondered: What does a guy who gets zapped drink to regimen that includes boost his energy? Turns out, Kaufman didn’t have a drink sponsor. weightlifting, road-bike So, along with the folks at the Louisville-based beverage company training and pre-event Pro-Liquitech, we decided to help him create one of his own. To focus exercises. “A big part kick off the process, Garth sent us a list of everything he likes of what I do is breathing (and hates) about current energy drinks. Then Pro-Liquitech exercises, holding a position sent samples to Kaufman at home in Driggs, Idaho, so he could for several moments,” he find a flavor, color and formula that were up to his standards. says. “I wanted something Finally, EXPN helped design a slick label, and—voilà!—Garth’s that would give me energy, Electricity was born. (In a limited run, at least.) -JACK NEUDORF be nutritious and help me stay mentally focused.” THE FORMULA Kaufman says the moments THE TASTE before he was blasted from Kaufman liked the raspberry his sled were “the most taste of another energy focused and adrenaline- drink but was specific about filled” of his life. That’s quite not wanting either an a statement from someone “artificial sugar taste” or a who makes his living racing a “jitters-and-crash” feeling. THE COLOR 450-pound sled at speeds Pro-Liquitech consented At first, Kaufman wanted over 65 mph. So, in addition and suggested using real the drink to match his to using components like sugar instead of the orange racing gear. But taurine, caffeine and B sucralose found in many when he saw a sample of vitamins, Pro-Liquitech diet drinks. The result was an electric-green dye, his created a “neurostimulant both tasty and, at 100 mind was made up: “It blend.” That mixture consists calories a can, satisfying. reminded me of the color of, in the words of technical of the lightning that day.” director Kate Ratliff, “DMAE (dimethyl aminoethanol), a naturally occurring substance that reportedly boosts the production of chemicals that carry messages between THE NAME brain cells and muscles, and This one was a no-brainer. choline bitartrate, a nutrient Just take what ran through needed to produce acetyl-­­ Garth’s veins and add it to choline, a major memory his name. Besides, Garth’s neurotransmitter.” Whether Electricity definitely rolls all that science results in an off the tongue better than adrenalized state of intense Temporary Paralysis. focus remains to be seen. Think you deserve your own energy drink? We can’t help you there (though Pro-Liquitech can!). But come up with your own name and concept for a drink and we’ll award our three favorites a case of limited-edition Garth’s Electricity. Shoot your ideas to [email protected]. KAUFMAN GARTH COURTESY A brooklyn duo PuTS A FrESH SPIn on THroWbACk dECkS. It would not be easy for, say, a court stenographer to combine his trade with a love of skating. A painter, though, is another story. Three years ago, Brooklyn- based artist Brady Dollarhide, a casual skater, teamed with friend Moose Huerta, an ex-pro surfer, to begin making skate decks based on the shapes and vintage art of the boards they rode in the ’80s. “They started off as commuter boards,” says Dollarhide, 35. “But then we started scouring old skate mags and videos to find shapes to reproduce.” Instead of using big machinery, like other IMAGE deckmakers, the duo crafts boards with hand tools. Dollarhide’s studio is filled CONSCIOUS with everything from Bart Simpson-style small boards to oversize pool decks. But the two have learned that even if a board looks killer, it may not ride that Dollarhide (in There's no disputing way. “Some shapes need serious updates to make them viable for street checkered shirt) that New York City skating,” says Huerta, 31. By now the pair has found the sweet spot between and Huerta use a has long had one of the form and function, though models like “Fishburger,” “Iced Coffee” and “Rice & jigsaw to cut an most influential skate outline for a new scenes in the world. Beans” (above, and at bit.ly/bradyd) still have a cruiser feel. They’re cheap, too, board. The next Want proof? The new since the two give the boards away to friends instead of selling them. And that step: use a rasp to book Full Bleed has three never goes out of style. -MAX KLINGER hone the edges. decades’ worth of iconic photos—like the late Andy Kessler zipping through Manhattan— from more than 40 skate photographers. Look COURTESY GARTH KAUFMAN GARTH COURTESY and learn. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS SHONTING EXPN MAGAZINE 9 ES Imag MAKE-OUT LIST Y tt gE l/ ’CAUSE ACTION-SPORTS STARS E HAVE CELEB CRUSHES TOO! 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