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Corey Duffel, Nick Dompierre, and Chris Cole have all been confirmed to join the rest of the skaters at the Salt Lake City Dew Tour stop coming September 17-20. Catch it on TV or right here on skateboarding.com. And if you saw what we did with our Best Trick contest in Portland, you’re gonna want to make sure you don’t miss what we’ve got panned for SLC. It’s gonna be another epic one!


2009 VANS DOWNTOWN SHOWDOWN PRESENTED BY ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK COMING SEPTEMBER 26

Join Vans on Saturday, September 26 to see top pros and ams vie for their piece of $85,000, as the 5th Annual Vans Downtown Showdown invades Paramount Studios’ Back Lot. With top skateboard companies and their riders submitting design ideas for one of four custom obstacles to be built against the Brooklyn brownstone movie set, the Vans Downtown Showdown is always one of the most unique contests of the year.

Two Chances To Support Public Skateparks
Tony Hawk Foundation Brings Its Celebrity Stand Up For Skateparks Benefit To Beverly Hills And Las Vegas.

The Tony Hawk: RIDE Presents Stand Up For Skateparks benefit returns to Beverly Hills on October 11 to help the Tony Hawk Foundation bring free, quality public skateparks to low-income communities across the U.S. On November 7, the star-studded event then travels to the Wynn Las Vegas for its debut in the City Of Lights.

Now in its sixth year, Tony Hawk: RIDE Presents Stand Up For Skateparks is the Tony Hawk Foundation’s annual family-centric action-sports carnival, featuring games, activities, food, auctions, A-list celebrities, special musical performances, and a Vert Demo with Tony and a crew of top-pro skaters and BMX riders on Tony’s personal ramp. An established must-see event in Beverly Hills, this will be the first time Tony Hawk: RIDE Presents Stand Up For Skateparks comes to the Las Vegas Strip.

Joining Tony on the event’s Benefit Committee are Andre Agassi, Lance Armstrong, Travis Barker, Ron Burkle, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Eisner, Jon Favreau, Lorenzo Fertitta, Frank Fertitta III, Jeff Fine, Robin Greenspun, Mia Hamm, Mat Hoffman, Kathy Ireland, Bobby Kotick, Chuck Liddell, George Maloof, Andrew Pascal, Shaun White and Elaine Wynn.

Each Tony Hawk: RIDE Presents Stand Up For Skateparks event will include a special Pledge Drive to raise funds for the construction or improvement of a local skatepark in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas areas. Past recipients of Pledge Drive funds include public skatepark projects in Compton, California, New York City, and the military community of Tierrasanta in San Diego, California.

For more information about Tony Hawk: RIDE Presents Stand Up For Skateparks, or to purchase tickets, visit standupforskateparks.org.

DONATE: Text the word RIDE to 90999 to donate $5 to the Tony Hawk Foundation. Or visit our How To Donate page for other ways to contribute to our mission.

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Dave Chami’s favorite sequences of Stefan Janoski, Silas Baxter Neal, Fred Gall, Austyn Gillette, and more from the Habitat Northwest tour.

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This giveaway is serious! Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory and all of Rob’s sponsors are ready to hook you up. One grand prize winner will get a Rob Dyrdek skate setup (Alien Workshop deck, Silver trucks, Alien Workshop wheels), TransWorld T-shirt, a pair of DC Shoes and a one-year subscription to TWS. Ten runners up will get a copy of the Fantasy Factory Season 1 DVD.

Here’s what you gotta do to win: Come up with the most insane stunt Rob should pull next. Get creative and post your answer in the comment boxes below the Fantasy Factory trailer.

“On DVD now! Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory won’t find our skateboarding hero lounging around and scheming at the familiar Rob & Big house in the Hollywood Hills. Instead Rob is commanding operations in a massive, 25,00-square-foot industrial – and fully skate-able – warehouse and office complex near downtown Los Angeles. This is the new home of Dyrdek Enterprises, the veritable nerve center and hatching ground for all of Rob’s crazy schemes, business plans and uniquely ridiculous ideas. Rob is a hustler, with a laundry list of business ventures he’s trying to chase down. The MTV series Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory documents the ridiculous action and comedy that seems to follow everything he takes on. Get ready to experience Rob Dyrdek on a whole new level.”

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$lave just announced its premiere for its first video Radio-Television, September 11 in Vista, California. Details on tickets, etc below.


Shad Lambert splits time between Krew, Supra and the SkateboardMag—and he's down with all the Baker/Deathwish dudes, too—which makes for quite a supply of photos—just take a look at his site, shadlambert.com. So, it's no doubt his gallery's gonna have heavyhitters, like Muska, Furby, Spencer Hamilton and Gareth Stehr. Page through his gallery to see some of the sickness:

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O'Meally courtesy of Quiksilver

"Do you think this would look good in the gallery?" Alex Olson scopes a potential gallery piece. Kickflip.
Not only is Alex Olson unique in that he is the first son of a former pro skateboarder (Steve Olson) to go pro himself or in his style-oriented, flowing approach to skateboarding, but he just curated a show at the Quicksilver/Autumn pop-up shop/gallery. Noah Johnson caught up with him to learn more about the show, how it came about and Alex's current take on skating. See it here

XTREME SINGAPORE 2009 RESULTS

SKATEBOARD Final

Champion Juraimi( Singapore )BACK 2 BACK Sponsor rider

1st runner up Weerayut ( THAILAND ),

2nd runner up Padin ( MALAYSIA ).

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Stereo skateboards has just announced the addition of two new riders. Pro Raymond Molinar and am Tony Karr have joined the team where they'll be welcomed by the current Stereo roster including pros Clint Peterson, Danny Supa and Benny Fairfax as well as legends Jason Lee, Chris Pastras, Chris Miller, Matt Rodriguez and ams Josiah Gatlyn, Ben Gore, Dyson Ramones and John Lupfer.

In the new catalogue which announces the new riders, notably absent from the Stereo roster are longtime riders Olly Todd and Danny Renaud.

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The good folks at enjoi skateboards have welcomed a new addition to their fun loving and orange ad having family. Brittain's Ben Raemers is the new am on the team bringing solid all-terrain skills to the table and a creative style to boot. Raemers is also riding for Duffs shoes (so you know he's Louie Barletta approved), Volcom and independent.

Raemers joins Louie, Clark Hassler, Cairo Foster, Jose Rojo, Wieger Van Wageningen, Caswell Berry, Jerry Hsu and Nestor Judkins on the enjoi team. All of the enjoi riders have tricks or full parts in the Tiltmode "Bonus Round" video. And Raemers has a welcome to the team video that you can view in the new online catalogue. Take a minute to get to know Ben Raemers.

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Here’s the official winning video entry for Skate & Create II from etnies. See the photos from The Legend Of Boxton Square in our October issue and for more photos and videos from 2009’s Skate & Create contest, click HERE.

Intro by Terry Snyder, etnies Art Director
We aired out a lot of ideas leading up to S&C, but it was Mike Manzoori’s dream sequence storyboard filled with a cardboard city that had us sold. It fit what we wanted to do visually—the photos and video would be equally striking, and it was “do-able.” The props were lightweight, mostly recycled, the unknown obstacles could be styled to match our set, the video had a beginning, middle, and end, and it was guaranteed to be unique. The stage was set.

Enter Sean Malto… the perfect person to carry out the lighthearted storyline. The story actually starts at TransWorld’s warehouse when he receives a package and finds himself getting sucked into Boxton Square, a cardboard dream city full of places to skate. It was a labor of love for all of us, and it shows through in the photos and video. We couldn’t have asked for a better video director and crew, photographer, set designers, support staff, or team of skateboarders. Everyone ripped.

etnies Teamriders: MVP Sean Malto, Kyle Leeper, Mikey Taylor, Tyler Bledsoe, Davis Torgerson
Directed and Edited by Mike Manzoori
Concept and Creative Direction by Sharon Tomlin
Supervising Art Director Terry Synder

XTREME SINGAPORE 2009 DAY 2

XTREME SINGAPORE 2009 DAY 2.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SKATE COMPETITION .SINGAPORE.

XTREME SKATE PARK OFFICIALLY OPENED.

SINGAPORE: The new S$8 million extreme sports facility at the East Coast Park has officially opened for daredevils to hone their skills on wheels.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong launched the Xtreme SkatePark and the inaugural extreme championship on Saturday.

80 participants from seven countries in the region are taking part in the two-day competition from August 29 to 30.

The skatepark located at the East Coast Park's energy zone is Singapore's first and only international standard competition facility.

And it is the result of an idea put up by young people during a consultation exercise in 2004.

Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said: "This also represents a transformation of our attitudes as Singaporeans. We used to be very risk-averse. If anything goes wrong, we look for someone to blame.

"This is part of a transformation of attitudes that in life you choose the level of risks you are happy with. Pursue your dreams and go all out and do your best. This also shows the coming of age for sports in Singapore."

The government said it would provide the necessary infrastructure to help Singaporeans realise their interests and talent.

Over the next few months, the National Youth Council will be hosting a series of programmes at the Xtreme SkatePark and they include extreme sports clinics for those who want to hone their skills on extreme skating. - CNA/vm

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The Flip Extremely Sorry World Premiere is showing on September 16th, 2009 in Orange County, CA. There will also be regional premieres across the U.S. with an international video premiere world tour, following the world premiere. DVD copies will be available on sale shortly after the premiere. More info coming soon…

Check out the Extremely Sorry webpage at flipskateboards.com for video trailers and info about the soundtrack.

Geoff Rowley answered YOUR questions about Extremely Sorry here.


SHUT UP AND SKATE!
It’s official Chris Troy is the newest pro for the Label! Chris has been with Black Label since he was 14 years old and has paid his dues through blood, sweat, and tears! With a bangin’ part in the new Black Label video “God Save the Label” the choice was clear. Welcome to the pro team Chris, you earned it!
You can now see Chris’s full length part from the new Black Label video God Save the Label online at the all new blacklabelskates.com


You probably heard this story by now, but one of our fav site, wwtdd.com, has a hilarious take on it:

“Seeing bears scale walls on ladders puts us one step from living in The Golden Compass, where armored bears form an army of indestructible killing machines, but at least their discovery of this Rosetta Stone, the key to unlocking new ways to catch and eat us, was a random accident that couldn’t be avoided.

‘A bear that got stuck in a skateboard park climbed up a ladder to make its escape. The animal had been stuck in the sunken skating bowl overnight and could not get up the steep-sided concrete walls on its own. Officials in the town of Snowmass, Colorado lowered down a long ladder, which the bear walked across before heading back to the woods. The bear was uninjured by its experience.’

Well Jesus don’t teach the bears how to climb ladders! We need those walls, to separate the bears from our succulent arms and legs. What’s the second part of your plan, coat doorknobs in honey