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Torey Pudwill and Luan Oliveira were undeniable today. They placed first and second respectively and will go straight to the finals tomorrow. For the remainder of the 30 that made the cut and the past Tampa Pro winners (Koston, Trujillo, Busenitz) that will all be in the semis tomorrow, check SPoT’s results page here.
Stay tuned, our video footage will be up here SOON.

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Torey Pudwill

Sponsors: DVS, Matix, Skatelab, Bones Bearings, Venture Trucks, Primitive, Select Wheels, Plan B

This weekend if you’re at Tampa Pro and you plan on relaxing before or after the contest, make sure to pick up one of these DVS Grindtainers that will be floating around the weekend, free of charge. Torey and Zered will be certain to have some of these in their skate equipment bag.
If you’re a Team Manager and your top pro, whom has a 9 year six figure deal tweaks his ankle, be sure to break out your DVS Grindtainer and try to calm your nerves.
Here is a list of medicinal strains that work great for the DVS Grindtainer:
“Huckleberry Trainwreck” to dial in for practice.
“Blueberry coma” for the anti-social who likes to lurk behind the quarterpipe.
“Early retirement” is grown exclusively in Hawaii and if toked too much, it will make your hair turn grey..



Hometown: Simi Valley CA
Notes:

The Tiltmoders put another vid up on the tiltmode site of Zack Wallin skating in a little puddle. Have a look.





The practice at Tampa Pro went off with some of the contest killers you’d expect, like Ryan Sheckler, Andrew Pott, Nick Dompierre, Sierra Fellers, Chaz Ortiz and Greg Lutzka and some you might not expect, like Lindsey Robertson, T-Bone, Felix, Mario Saenz and Brandon Turner. See who qualified here and check the practice vid down below.

Have a look at this page on SPoT’s site to see who’s gonna be ripping today. Some surprises in there for sure. We’ll have a qualifier video recap up tonight.


Cowtown Skateboards and Vans Shoes are proud to announce, Bad Brains, The Goat and the Occasional Others, Bad Shit, and Via Vengeance to play at Cowtown’s PHXAM After party Saturday, April 10th. Tickets Available online at cowtownskateboards.com .





Black Label has made the move to Blitz Distribution. See how and why in its press release below.

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Agency Thursdays: From Isaac Randozzi
Ben Gore and Brian Delatorre
In: Caffeine Shakes





Our favorite shop in St. Petersburg, Florida, The Finest, is having a gang of events during the Tampa Pro weekend (March 11-13). Check out the fliers for the Osiris team signing (March 11), Blind team signing (March 10), Katch1 art show (March 13) and more below.





Thunder Trucks has a new video up today with JT Aultz. Check out JT KNOWS BS NOSEGRINDS filmed at the Rancho Penasquitos skatepark in San Diego, California.





This weekend if you’re at Tampa Pro and you plan on relaxing before or after the contest, make sure to pick up one of these DVS Grindtainers that will be floating around the weekend, free of charge. Torey and Zered will be certain to have some of these in their skate equipment bag.
If you’re a Team Manager and your top pro, whom has a 9 year six figure deal tweaks his ankle, be sure to break out your DVS Grindtainer and try to calm your nerves.
Here is a list of medicinal strains that work great for the DVS Grindtainer:
“Huckleberry Trainwreck” to dial in for practice.
“Blueberry coma” for the anti-social who likes to lurk behind the quarterpipe.
“Early retirement” is grown exclusively in Hawaii and if toked too much, it will make your hair turn grey..

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Larry talks about winning Tampa Pro, getting kicked off Girl, his new shop with Theotis, and more on this week’s Free Lunch. LP also breaks the world record for the highest ollie ever at 50″. Guest appearances by Tony Hawk, and Chris Cole. Stay tuned as Larry’s Nike SB Dunk will be released this weekend at Tampa Pro.




You can help out the state of Pennsylvania get a skateplaza!
Pennsylvania is trying to get a skateplaza finished, it’s entered in the Pepsi Refresh contest, and need votes to get $250,000 funding to complete this skateplaza. Heres the web site where you vote at.


It had been ten years since Jordan Hoffart unsuccessfully tried to varial heel the Carlsbad gap, and after he stopped by TWS last week and told us he wanted to go back and get it—and that he had it in three tries—we of course said, “Lets do this!” So on Saturday, right before San Diego got bombarded with another weekend of rain, we met up at Carlsbad, pulled out the camera, put $100 on the line, and he went for it. Did he make it? How many tries did it take him? Here’s how it went down…
P.S. Prepare yourself for our Carlsbad gap am contest on April 3rd. More info on that coming very soon…
Filmed by Chris Thiessen



On Sunday March 7, Nike SB threw a big skate jam in Omar Salazar’s hometown of Sacramento, California to celebrate the release of his new Nike SB shoe. So check out the shredding that went down in Sac the day before the big party in San Francisco. Skaters: Chris Nichols, Taylor Bingaman, Glenn Medrano, Rob Mason, Ishod Wair, Justin Brock, Paul Rodriguez, Mikey Burton, Daryl Angel, and Omar Salazar.
Filmed by Chris Ray & Matt Mullen. Edited by Chris Ray.







This week we’ve got Cooper Wilt flying out of his Pro Spotlight in our April 2010 issue that just went on sale yesterday. Click on the image for the desktop-sized version, then drag to your desktop or right click to save it.





Red Asphalt, the new video from Metro Skateshop premiers at Brenden Theatre on 3-24-10 7pm. Admission is 5 bucks.
1985 Willow Pass Rd. Concord, California 94520. Edited and filmed by Alex Kissinger, Jesse Gale, Vincenzo Barkasy and Gary O’Connor. Full parts from Corey Duffel, Matty Hunt, Chris Jatoft, Greg Millions, Paul Seaholm, Daniel Dubois, Taylor Kennedy, Raymond Steffani, Shawn Lloyd.



Check the new Toy Machine Video Drone from Snowbird City.





DC’s 7Zine just posted a new Mike Blabac Gallery titled Panoramania. If you aren’t familiar with 1000 words, it’s a feature on 7zine where Mike has voice overs of his favorite photos, in this case its his favorite Panoramic photos.




After 10 years, Josh Stewart’s seminal classic Static 1 will finally be available on DVD on April 1. It will include Cigar City and Rising as well as director commentary. More info at theoriesofatlantis.com.
Catch a trailer here.




Well what are you waiting for? Download the Gold Wheels Mixtape hosted by Stevie Williams and DJ Fu right here.





Check out Ambiguous’ videos of its team spending a weekend up at Woodward.




Matthew Chai is the winner of last week’s Christian Hosoi Weekly Giveaway. He’ll be getting the one-of-a-kind autographed New Era we had made for the presenters of last year’s TransWorld Awards. Congrats for truly embodying Holmes’ flair.

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Sidewalk is back with another Through The Eyes Of online. This time with Blueprint’s Neil Smith. Spend a day with Smithy as he shows you around his abode, partakes in a bit of remote control car racing, and hits up various London spots with Karim and Jak Pietryga.



Catch up with PLG showing you a pretty spicy vert lip trick. Courtesy of Osiris.

Osiris: PLG Switch 270 K-Grind to Fakie Trick Tip

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PLG Switch 270 K-Grind to Fakie Trick Tip

Last night in San Francisco, California, Nike SB threw a rager for Omar Salazar and his new shoe. It was held at the Mezzanine club and had a fantastic outer space theme: the catering was done by martians, the photos of Omar on the walls were in 3-D, and psychedelic bands like Earthless rocked the crowd. Nike SB has a sweet micro site where you can learn more about the shoe, and we have a nice write up and photo gallery here.
Photos by Chris Ray.




CCS recently spent a day in New York City with team rider Brandon Westgate. Gates took them to the Zoo York headquarters to peek at his new Institute line before popping into the CCS offices to check out his catalog cover and new ad that drop this spring.
Check the vid and enter to Win a Westgate Prize Package.



DC Shoes announces it’s South East Tour featuring Nick Dompierre, Lindsey Robertson, Marquise Henry, Matt Miller, Evan Smith and Wes Kremer. Tour starts Monday, March 15 at Westside in Florida and ending in North Carolina at Vertical Urge. Check the tour stops and if you’re near-by, drop by and skate with DC Team riders, and get some stuff signed and get free stuff.
For more infor check out DC’s 7Zine.







Check out the newly-revamped éS website at eSskateboarding.com. New team, new times, new domain and a fresh push forward.
The new éS Skateboarding website features:

• Mike Anderson interview (Behind the Ad)
• Mike Anderson video part (2 minutes)
• New Team and bios
• éS in Denver (Fall 2010 catalog shoot)
• éS team interviews in 5 parts (QuéStion Time)
• éSpanol Tour documentary (3 Part - 20 minute video)
• Spring 2010 products (In stores now)
• Simplified format
• Daily news updates
• Exclusive éS website features updated regularly

From skating the shop handrail in an ad to a full-on skate contest, a simple idea grew into the FTC For The Cash contest, held last week in San Francisco. With some of the best skaters there for the one-day-only invitational best trick contest, a massive crowd of legends and skateboarding’s best looked on. The skating went down entirely in the shop with the crowd out back watching live on TV screens. When it was all done, Peter Ramondetta came away with first place and $5000, Ishod Wair got second and $3000, and Evan Smith took home third place and $1000. At the end, they took it all down and had the shop running like normal the next day.
(photos by Ando)






Target announced today that it will debut of a new line of skate-inspired Shaun White footwear, in addition to his exclusive apparel line and video game. The footwear line will hit stores this fall.
Target announced today that it will debut of a new line of skate-inspired Shaun White footwear, in addition to his exclusive apparel line and video game. The footwear line will hit stores this fall. More info on Shaun White can be found at TWSnow.com.
“MINNEAPOLIS (March 8, 2010) – Target announces today the launch of Shaun White Shoes, an exclusive collection, which will debut nationwide in early fall 2010.  An expansion of Target’s strong relationship with Shaun White, the line will feature skate-inspired shoes for boys and young men.

“Over the past eight years, we have had the chance to work with Shaun on a variety of different projects, including his apparel line, video game and philanthropic partnership with Target House,” said Troy Michels, Target Lifestyle Marketing.  “We are proud to continue this partnership with the addition of Shaun White Shoes.”
The collection of shoes will be designed by Shaun in collaboration with his brother, Jesse, and will feature styles influenced by the professional skateboarder’s lifestyle.
“It’s been a lot of fun working with Target for the past few years on my clothing line,” said Shaun.  “I’m excited to have the opportunity to bring some authentic skate shoes into the mix.”
Starting this fall, Target guests can find Shaun White Shoes alongside Shaun’s clothing and the exclusive version of his video game, Shaun White Snowboarding, at Target stores nationwide and on Target.com.
About Target
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,740 stores in 49 states nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education. Today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week.”
More info on Shaun White
More info on Shaun White’s skate shoe line

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CCS recently spent a day in New York City with team rider Brandon Westgate. Gates took them to the Zoo York headquarters to peek at his new Institute line before popping into the CCS offices to check out his catalog cover and new ad that drop this spring.
Check the vid and enter to Win a Westgate Prize Package.


The ever-expanding Ashbury team just got another am-dition. Watch Louie Lopez’s welcome video below with a guest appearance from Theotis Beasley.


ERGO WELCOMES CHAD BARTIE TO ITS TEAM
ERGO is proud to welcome Gold Coast native, Encinitas transplant, and skate veteran, Chad Bartie, to its team.
“Chad is an amazing skateboarder to watch – we are psyched on his style and know that his versatility and creative energy will have an incredible impact on our program,” says ERGO VP of Marketing, Pete DiSpirito.
Bartie will prove to serve as a catalyst in raising the bar for the rest of the ERGO team with more than a decade as a professional skateboarder under his belt.  His attitude is also inspirational as he humbly says that his biggest career accomplishment was having turned his passion, skateboarding, into a living.



You can’t keep Skate Sauce CEO Amrit Jain out of the editing studio. Here are three new and not-so-new edits for you to spend some time on:
Screwed n chopped ft. Jimmy Cao, Jamie Palmore, Vincent Alvarez & Friends:




The new independent video from San Diego’s Cameron Sanchez, OVERdose, is public and FREE on its website, overdoseskate.com. Check it out to see full parts from Spencer Nuzzi, Taylor Shuffield, Chris Henry, Alex Pedrosa, Taylor Orman, and more.





Check Anthony Shetler breaking down the Game Of SKATE he’s doing with Solstice Skateshop.




Autobahn Wheel Company is proud to welcome Daniel Espinoza to its team.





Catch Dan Murphy, Nick Merlino, new guy Elijah Berle and more. Details below.
Foundation site.






Flip is very happy to announce that Ali is being released from jail on March 12th! Stay tuned form more Ali updates coming soon. Check Ali’s new Extremely Sorry trailer right here.





Here’s your chance to ask Andrew Reynolds that burning questions you’ve always wanted to. Go here, and fire away. Also, scroll down to catch a brand profile with Andrew and Justin Regan at Altamont.

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Our friends at DVS and almost blessed us with this clip of the ever-unfadeable Daewon Song “dorking around” at the DVS skatepark. Good lord, if this is dorking, what’s he got in the can for the almost video? Prepare to have your face melted.
Filmed & edited by Jon Fitisemanu.



The full-length video of the Creature and Sk8mafia boys in paradise jumped off yesterday, and there were a grip of sequences, too. But we just had too much good stuff. Here’s another batch of sequences of David Gravette, Wes Kremer, and Marius Syvanen at the Black Pearl skatepark in Grand Cayman.
Photos by Blair Alley

David Gravette, one foot transfer.

Wes Kremer, wallie to feeble grind.

Marius Syvanen, nollie crooked grind.

David Gravette, kickflip footplant.

Gravette, footplant fakie.

Marius, backside 180 fakie five-0.

Gravette, wallride to spine grind.

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Our homey and contributing photographer Yoon Sul (if you can’t remeber his work, here’s a little reminder) has just launched his new Web site with all kinds of photographic goodness. Don’t be a dickhead and go check it out.




Two very cool skate films are being shown this weekend in San Diego:
The new Chris Mulhern video, THIS TIME TOMORROW, makes it’s debut in San Diego this SUNDAY evening at 7pm at the Blue Foot Bar. Screening will begin promptly at 7pm and then play once or twice more over the course of the evening. Starring Curtis Rapp, Rory Milanes, Steph Morgan, Dave Caddo, Lucien Clarke, Devon Connell, and Jimmy McDonald. It’s a bar so it’s 21+, but it is a free screening. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT SKATEBOARD FILM MAKING!
MONDAY March 8th at the downtown public library, it’s a free screening of BEAUTIFUL LOSERS starring Ed Templeton, Thomas Campbell, Aaron Rose, Chris Johanson, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson, Barry McGee, Mike Mills, Geoff Mcfetridge and others. This is an all ages event. free and open to the public.
In the 3rd floor screening room. This screening is in conjunction with the library’s ongoing MONDAY night movie series that has been running since 1984.





Check out the smoothest of the Frenchman, JB Gillet, with his new Gold Wheels commercial.

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Our friends at DVS and almost blessed us with this clip of the ever-unfadeable Daewon Song “dorking around” at the DVS skatepark. Good lord, if this is dorking, what’s he got in the can for the almost video? Prepare to have your face melted.
Filmed & edited by Jon Fitisemanu.




Omar, Paul Rodriguez, Stefan Janoski, BA, Justin Brock, Grant Taylor, and more will be in Sacramento, California on Sunday, March 7th for a demo celebrating Omar’s Nike SB shoe at the B Street Skatepark. Check out the attached flyer for all the details.
Shoe preview photos in the Gear Blog here.






Elwood officially welcomes Dan Plunkett to the team with this video.





LRG’s first full-length video is set to premiere March 31 in L.A., California. Peep the trailer right here.





The Tiltmode Army put up a remix of Halba’s Bonus Round part on the TMA site.





Peep the flier below for info on the Lurk Hard premiere going down March 6 in Sacramento, California, and again on March 12 in San Francisco.





IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, March 5TH, 2010: Billabong International Limited today announced it has entered an exclusive 10-year agreement to license the California-based skateboard brand Plan B. Plan B will operate out of the Element headquarters in Irvine, CA

Element’s Founder and President Johnny Schillereff said “The Billabong group’s unwavering support has helped Element blaze the trails we’ve always dreamed of. Plan B is iconic and deep within the fabric of skateboarding and we couldn’t be happier to unite with them.

Professional skateboarders and team riders Danny Way and Colin McKay will continue to ride for and own Plan B Skateboards. Vice President Tom Jones will continue to oversee the brand and team which includes Paul Rodriguez, Ryan Sheckler, PJ Ladd and Pat Duffy.

We are very excited to bring the Plan B family to The Billabong group and form this new skate distribution group with Element,” says Colin McKay. “Billabong and Element clearly understand brand building. Danny, the team and I couldn’t be happier with the opportunity to leverage their strengths and help Plan B reach its full potential.”

Element and Plan B products will be available through Branch Skateboarding Distribution. For dealer inquires and general information please call:

Branch Skateboarding Distribution

1(866) 927-5283

branchdistribution.com

All the Krüe members of oceaNSide have been heavily updating the site. There are tons of goods to check out on this site. If you want peep it.
here is the lastest installment of Krue’s digi cam video that turned legit HOOD LIFE. NSKRUE.COM




Find some old school 3D glasses, look what’s coming this summer—KROOK3D. Check out the first trailer with Mike Anderson right now.

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This month’s Roger Of The Month are Tim and Eric (of Beez fame). Doesn’t make sense? Doesn’t have to. Check the video below.

Peter Raffin is the newest recruit on Osiris. Check out his welcome video below.


We caught up with Black Label’s East Coast beast on our NorCal Tour. Find out what’s next for Ben, especially what book he’ll read next!
Filmed & edited by Chris Thiessen.


The Converse enclave has its very own skatepark. See Cons riders Eli, Angel, Kenny, Anthony, Raymond, young Tom and friends roll in the wooden monstrosity. Click on the picture below to see the shredding.



Globe just posted a remix of Mark Appleyard’s old Digital part. Take a walk down memory lane and check it out.



This Thursday, Stereo unveils some of the first returns from Raymond Molinar’s recently completed RV tour through Arizona, New Mexico, and Las Vegas. The first rewards come in the form of Ben Gore battling a bump to bar Sammy Baca brought the crew to on the outskirts of Las Vegas, Nevada. You’re in a tight spot, Amigo.

 

The RVCA team is heading East bound and down this month. Catch them at the dates and shops below.




Thunder has a new video up today. Check it out Mikey Taylor Knows Frontside Crooks.