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NICK DOMPIERRE JOINS DC SHOES AND APPAREL
DC is proud to welcome professional skateboarder Nick Dompierre to its footwear and apparel team. It takes just one look at this month’s cover of TransWorld SKATEboarding (June 2009) magazine to witness the raw talent Nick brings to the team.

“I’m excited to be a part of one of the most legendary skate companies of all time—on the same team as Danny, Colin, Kalis and everyone else; getting to shoot photos with Blabac—it’s pretty amazing,” said Nick. “Working with DC is giving some great opportunities, like building my first DC pro model shoe. I’m looking forward to a long future here.”

At only 22 years old, Nick just landed on his fourth cover, having now appeared on the covers of Thrasher, Slap, The Skateboard Mag, and most recently (and arguably the heaviest) TransWorld SKATEboarding. Add that to his long list of additional accomplishments, including his 2006 nomination for TransWorld’s Street Skater of the Year as an am, and it’s no wonder why skateboarders around the world are anticipating his latest video part in the upcoming Real Skateboards film.

“The dynamic that Nick’s aggressive style brings to the DC team is an amazing addition to our roster. He’s fast, raw and so talented,” said Ken Block, DC Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer. “We look forward to working with Nick.”

DC is excited to release to the world Nick’s intro part featuring unseen and new footage today at dcskateboarding.tv.

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MALOOF MONEY CUP ANNOUNCES TOP 36 STREET SKATERS
World’s Greatest Skateboarding Event to Showcase Most Impressive Group of Street Skaters Ever Assembled –Sheckler, P-Rod, Koston, Johnson, Reynolds, Rowley and more

The Maloof Money Cup the world’s greatest skateboarding competition airing on NBC and MTV2 this July ⎯ announces the top 36 street skaters who will compete in the 2009 event taking place July 10-12 at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., during opening weekend of the OC Fair.

Presented by etnies and Monster Energy, the Maloof Money Cup is the largest pursed event in the history of professional skateboarding with more than $450,000 in cash and prizes awarded in three professional U.S. Championship Competitions, including the Carl’s Jr. U.S. Pro Vert Championship, the Zoo York U.S. Pro Street Championship, U.S. Women’s Pro Street and the World Industries Amateur Street and Vert Championship. New this year, Tech Deck will award $10,000 to the skater with the “Best Trick” of the street contest.

“This is an unbelievable list of competitors,” said Joe Maloof. “We’ve got some of the most respected skaters in the industry, some who haven’t competed in years, along with some of the greatest contest skaters out there. We’re so grateful to the skateboarding community that has embraced us and worked with us to create something truly remarkable. This year’s event is really unprecedented in regards to the level of talent assembled and the course designs. It’s going to be a spectacular competition, and I hope it’s one that people will be talking about for years.”

TOP 36 STREET SKATERS*

Mark Appleyard

Brian Anderson

Zered Bassett
Silas Baxter-Neal
Brandon Biebel
Dennis Busenitz
Mike Mo Capaldi
Mike Carroll
Chris Cole
Nick Dompierre
Corey Duffel
Jake Duncombe
Erik Ellington
Chris Haslam
Bryan Herman
Nyjah Huston
Stefan Janoski
Marc Johnson
Josh Kalis
Terry Kennedy
Heath Kirchart
Eric Koston
Greg Lutzka
Sean Malto
Alex Olson
Chaz Ortiz
Peter Ramondetta
Andrew Reynolds
Paul Rodriguez
Jereme Rogers
Leo Romero
Geoff Rowley
Omar Salazar
Ryan Sheckler
Darrell Stanton
Braydon Szafranski

*12 additional Wild Card skaters TBA

SELECTION COMMITTEE
The 2009 skater selection committee included some of the industry’s most widely respected experts and pro skaters: Chris Cole, Jereme Rogers, Geoff Rowley, Erik Ellington, Paul Rodriguez, Adam Sullivan, Jimmy Astleford, Jim Thiebaud, Ryan Kingman, Remy Stratton, Dave Duncan, Don Bostick, Heath Brinkley, Rob Brink, Tim Gavin, Mike Sinclair, Seamus Deegan, Eric Stricker, Sam Smyth and Mark Waters.
Stay tuned for upcoming announcements including the 2009 Vert Skaters and the 2009 Course Design.

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ESPN and Disney to Present X Games 3D the Movie

First Sports-Based Feature Film in Digital 3D Highlights

ESPN and Disney will release the first sports-themed 3D film this summer with a special, limited one-week theatrical run starting August 21. ESPN Films will produce and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures will distribute X Games 3D the Movie nationwide into digital 3D theaters around the country. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Steve Lawrence (Down the Barrel), the film will use groundbreaking digital 3D techniques to immerse sports fans into the world of action sports and its top stars. Iconic action sports personalities chronicled in the film are: Shaun White, Travis Pastrana, Danny Way, Ricky Carmichael and Bob Burnquist.

Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group, said, “There is absolutely no sporting event better suited for the Digital 3D medium than X Games. ESPN continues to break boundaries by using digital 3D to put sports fans literally in the center of the action: preparing to launch down the big air ramp with Danny Way, racing downhill on Shaun White’s snowboard and flying through the air in Travis Pastrana’s Rally car. And Disney is proud to add X Games 3D the Movie to its robust, industry-leading slate of 17 other upcoming Disney Digital 3D£ releases.”

The full-length feature film will capture the drama and spectacle that play out every year at the X Games events and will also tell the stories of the featured athletes showing the sacrifices they make in pursuit of glory and progressing their sport on the industry’s biggest stage.

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Girl Skateboards teamed up with Product (RED) again this year to produce some boards with a portion of the proceeds going to help people in need. Peep Andy Jenkins handywork and Mike Carroll’s mastery of the skateboard here.


Vans just finished up the first half of a major overhaul it have planned for its skate site.

The format and look are still the same, but it’s now chock full of photos and all new interviews with the entire team, including Trujillo, Dollin, Rowley, Van Engelen and Layton. Stay tuned for bigger changes to skate.vans.com later this year.

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K5 Game of Skate Results
Sun, fun, and some amazing skating went down at the annual K5 game of skate in Encinitas, California.
With over 50 entries, the competition was fierce. Here are the final results:

Junior Class
1. Will Fyock
2. Brendon Villunueva

18 and up Class
1. Taylor Smith
2. Brandon Keavy
3. Will Fyock

Best Trick Contest
Brandon Keavy—manual to impossible out on the up box.
Join us for the K5 Poway Game of skate, Saturday June, 20th!


Danny Way, who started on the pole position in Saturday’s Toyota Grand Prix Celebrity Pro and lead the celebrities the entire race, crashed in the final lap with a little help from the That’s So Raven’s Raven Symone. Famous barney Keanu Reeves ended up winning. Read on in the Long Beach Press Telegram.

“I got robbed,” said the skateboarding great, who will certainly take some heat from fellow X-Gamers and previous Pro/Celebrity Race winners Bucky Lasek and Dave Mirra. “I worked hard to get the best lap. It’s not my fault that effort was taken away. Everyone knows if she didn’t crash that I would have won.”

Other drivers said: “That’s racing.”


Sole Tech chief Pierre Andre chatted with the LA Times recently about eco-friendly technology, recycled materials, and all things green. Click on it for an educational read.

“If I can have a company that can work on the green model,” he says, kicking back on a couch crafted from discarded skate decks in the Lake Forest offices of Sole Technology Inc., “it might inspire other companies and we’ll have a green revolution—like the Industrial Revolution, but only with everyone trying to reduce their carbon footprint.”


After 3 years of support, Supra Footwear welcomes Vancouvers’ own Spencer Hamilton to the Am Team.

When asked about Spencer, Antwuan Dixon had a few words of his own, “Yeah you already know who this is, this Antwuan man and I’m gonna be talking about my boy Spencer. He’s from straight Vancouver, Canada
where the weed is legal. Basically my boy got some talent. He’s a cool dude, he’s hard on a skateboard, and he let’s the good times roll if you know what I mean. Plus he vibes with everybody and ain’t nobody got any bad vibes about him, you know what I’m sayin’? He’s down with cool people and cool people are down with him. So, I just want to say we all know you got talent, you’re my homie, and all I can say is congratulations!”


Who do you think should win best skater of 2008/09? From January 2008 to April 2009 and everything in between—who killed it the hardest? Vote now and see who wins at the 11th Annual Transworld SKATEboarding Awards.

E-mail twshasmail@yahoo.com with THE SKATER’S NAME IN THE SUBJECT LINE. The winner will be announced at the awards show on June 12, in Hollywood, California. This prestigious award is based solely on the votes of the readers! So vote now!

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Sk8mafia Am Video Premiere Photos

I don’t have to tell you the house was packed with pretty much every skater in SD. Last night the La Jolla Museum Of Contemporary Art, which probably hasn’t had a skate video premiere since Plan B’s Virtual Reality, held two capacity crowd showings of the full-length Sk8mafia video. You can probably guess who had last part, and he didn’t disappoint. After all was said and done, many people claimed some of the gnarliest footage in the video may have belonged to Jamie Palmore and Brandon Turner (who, by the way, is out of the cage and was in the theater). The Friends section is nice and long and the soundtrack has plenty of classic California gangster rap. Be sure to stick around after the credits for an introductory part of new guy Marshall Heath. Oh and today there is a massive skate jam down at Memorial Park.

2009 Shanghai KIA X Games Asia

The city of Shanghai will once again host KIA X Games Asia, Asia's premiere action sports competition, as it returns to China for the third consecutive year -- celebrating 11 years of Asian X Games events.

This year the event will showcase more than 200 of the best action sports athletes from more than 20 countries and five continents in world-class competition in the sports of Skateboard, BMX, In-Line Skate and Sport Climbing. New to the Asian X Games, this year's event will also feature a Moto X Big Air demonstration. Televised live from Shanghai's KIC Jiangwan Stadium, X Games Asia will air May 1  May 3 on ESPN Asia networks and will be organized by sports broadcaster ESPN STAR Sports along with the Shanghai Media Group and Shanghai Sports Federation. The event will also be shown on ESPN International networks in Latin America, Australia, Middle East and Africa.

"We are thrilled to be back in China, and look forward to delivering another exhilarating event to action sports fans in Shanghai," said Rick Alessandri, senior vice president, X Games Franchise. "We are excited to work closely with KIA Motors to continue this tradition of bringing world-class action sports competition to China."

This year, competitors can look forward to an increase in prize money for the event, and Skateboard, BMX, and In-Line participants for the street discipline can also expect a new course design that will resemble real street conditions.

The KIA X Games Asia has earned a strong global reputation with a significant increase in awareness about action sports in the region. Last year's event was enthusiastically received by the Shanghai community and broke attendance records with more than 52,800 people passing through the gates of Yangpu district's KIC Jiangwan Sports Center — an increase of more than 55% from 2007.

The Games are bolstered by the addition of a new Silver Sponsor in Mountain Dew and the elevation of Apparel sponsor Pony to the Silver category. New brands like Doritos and Cold Stone have also picked up sponsorship packages. And ESPN has entered in to a collaboration with licensing agent IMG for the launch of an X Games consumer products line planned for later this year in China.

Leading up to this year's event, KIA X Games Asia 2009 kicked off with a three-city, eight-stop roadshow tour in December and will finish at Shanghai's Wanda Shopping Mall April 25-26. The roadshows include demos in BMX freestyle and In-Line skate, musical performances, entertainment acts, prize giveaways and an interactive mini-skate park for spectators to test their skills.

Event Partners
The event is proudly sanctioned by the Chinese Extreme Sports Association and is organized by ESPN STAR Sports, the Shanghai Media Group and the Shanghai Sports Federation. The Shanghai Yang Pu District Government is the event's Special Organizer and the Shanghai Sports Competition Management Centre is the co-organizer while the Shanghai Extreme Sports Association is the supporting organizer. The KIC Jiangwan Sports Center is the official venue.

Details and a list of scheduled athletes for KIA X Games Asia 2009 will be forthcoming on http://www.kiaxgamesasia.com/ for the public and http://www.espneventmedia.com/ for media.

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Red Bull's Manny Mania returns to New York on June 7th for the invite only pro contest then hits the road for am contests all across the country.

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You've seen it on the Lakai site , on Crailtap and four pages full of message board, but it's hard to believe. I still don't believe it, even after Crailtap's Aaron Meza e-mailed me back "He gone..."

I followed up by e-mailing Kelly Bird and he wrote me, "It's true. Not sure what he's doing, but it's definitely not another company under Podium. It should all air itself out over the next couple days," and followed up by writing, "Sort of happened quickly, but will create a better situation for both Lakai and Eric going forward. We're all friends at the end of the day." I'm still incredulous, but I guess we'll have to wait to hear what happens over the next couple days. Berrics shoes?—Josh Brooks

P.S. If this news makes you feel sad, go here to see the dude from Eastbound & Down use skateboarding to never become a slave (poached this off the Lakai site, but, still, it's hilarious).