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After ten years as a skateboard company, Habitat has branched out into footwear releasing six new kicks (four are below) and a new team consisting of Guru Khalsa, Marius Syvanen, Austyn Gillette, and, Alex Davis. Take a look and let us know what you think.

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THE TRICKS WERE STOMPED AND ONLY ONE WAS LEFT ON HIS BOARD!
éS Game of SKATE Amateur World Championships Recap

The éS Game of Skate Amateur World Championships is a wrap. Diego Najera, from El Centro, Calif., flicked his shred stick to edge past last year’s winner, Carlos Lastra, from Long Beach, Calif., and Brian Peacock from Wilmington, Del. to take home the title of éS Game of SKATE Amateur World Champion. The éS Game of SKATE tour consisted of more than 12,000 skaters from over 100 cities in more than 25 countries around the world, and everything came down to Diego Najera’s last trick– a bangin nollie double flip that took out Carlos Lastra. Diego’s last buttery trick earned him a year’s worth of éS footwear and apparel, $1,000 worth of Skull Candy gear, a blingin Nixon Ceramic Player watch and two year subscription to TransWorld SKATEboarding Magazine.

In addition to the éS Game of SKATE, a new concept was added to the festivities called the “Tricktionary.” This gave all skateboarders a chance to film any trick of their choice with their own unique style. éS will pick the cleanest variations of each trick and put the how-to videos in the first-ever flat-ground “Tricktionary” on the éS Game of SKATE website. There were plenty of popped tricks filmed ranging from switch hard flips to Fakie Full Cab Flips. Check the éS Game of SKATE website in the coming weeks at eSGameofSkate.com to see all the variations.


The Foundation team is Live From The Road! Email in your questions, secret spots, love, phone number, gossip, hate or anything to keep us going while out on the road in North Carolina. Sierra Fellers, Angel Ramirez, Gareth Stehr, David Reyes, Abdias Rivera & Nick Merlino all hope to cross paths with you while we are Live From The Road.

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Collin Provost has bloomed from a little short-haired lanky guy to a bigger, long-haired lanky guy over the past five years and seems to have grown apart from the Element Skateboard image, which makes his most recent switch to Toy Machine even more fitting. I caught up with him to ask about how the change went down, how things ended up with Element and what it's like to be on Toy with Ed Templeton and the rest of the crew. Read this exclusive interview about Collin's recruitment as Toy's newest Loyal Pawn

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A snapshot of the California Heritage Museum's skateboard exhibit.
Skateboarding is a relatively new past time, when you compare it to the history of some activities. But because of the speed of progression, in those 60 some years, there are tons of events and progression that fit into the 60 some years since a load of surfers took the wheels off of skates and nailed them to a piece of wood. Last night, the California Heritage Museum opened a show of skateboards from the 40s until now. On the walls, you can see how boards have become a sort of symbol of the state where they originated and witness the evolution of art, from standard logos to the point that boards have reached today—veritable works of art. The collection is a consolidation of various separate collections and has amazing sites to see.

Our contributor, Micah Abrams, was able to snap some photos of the walls at the event, before being told that no photos are allowed. It's not much, but it's a taste of some of the history. If you are around Santa Monica, take a stroll through the walls and walls of history, at 2612 Main Street in Santa Monica.

The show also features work by C.R. Stecyk III, Glen E. Friedman, Craig Fineman, Wynn Miller, Kevin Ancell, Wes Humpston and more.


The beginnings of a cultish past time. I doubt anyone who made these boards back in the days could imagine what people are doing on skateboards today.

The seventies brought some innovation from the boards of the 40s. Weird shapes became the norm.

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New York City's premiere skateboard brand has come together with one of New York City's original MC's for a very special deck collaboration. In their December holiday product release, Zoo York will drop limited edition Rakim decks to honor one of the godfathers of hip hop. The limited edition decks will come packaged with Rakim's brand new album "The Seventh Seal" which drops in stores and online November 17th. The dekc will be available through the Zoo York and Rakim websites.

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The Quiksilver Tony Hawk Show Arrives In Paris November 20-21 To Kick Off Quiksilver’s 40th Anniversary Festivities

Over 30 Global Quiksilver Surf, Skate and Snow Athletes Will Join the Celebration including Reese Forbes, Danny Garcia, and Alex Olson.

Quiksilver announced its 40th anniversary celebration in Paris, November 20-21, 2009. The event will feature two days of skateboarding, music, art and fashion at the historic Grand Palais–culminating in a Saturday night finale featuring The Quiksilver Tony Hawk Show, followed by a concert with Dead By Sunrise (Chester Bennington of Linkin Park with his newest band) and a late night with DJ Mix Master Mike.

This will be the first action sports event ever held inside the Grand Palais, with the largest vert ramp ever built in Europe and an immense street course open to skaters of all ages and skill levels—free of charge–for the entire two days. And a Street Contest Invitational will feature a prize purse of 20,000 Euros. This is a rare and unique chance for pros and locals alike to skate inside one of the city’s massive historic monuments—for the last 109 years its held boxing competitions and horse racing but never before has it been open to skateboarding.

In addition to the insane roster of Quiksilver athletes, The Tony Hawk Show is bringing friends such as skaters Andy MacDonald, Kevin Staab, Sandro Dias, Jean Postec, Sergie Ventura, Jesse Fristch, and four of the biggest names in international skateboarding will be our very special guests: Christian Hosoi, Daniel Cardone, Javier Mendizabal and Omar Hassan.

The weekend’s events also include exhibition areas for art, music and cultural events. Special guest and renowned graffiti artist André will be transforming giant ramps into unique art, giving the public the exceptional opportunity to watch the notorious artist at work. Quiksilver has also assembled a 40 year fashion retrospective inside the venue.

Entrance is free to the public for the daytime events (10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.). Saturday night’s performance is a ticketed event for 40 euros. For ticket purchase information and a schedule of events, please visit: quiksilverlive.com.

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Billy Marks caused quite a stir with his part in last year's Fallen footwear video "Ride The Sky." After that accomplishment and the promotional tours that followed, Marks didn't slow down for long logging tricks at The Berrics for his Battle Commander segment that turned some heads once again. Some time between all that he managed to become a new father as well. Now he's already deep into filming for the next Toy Machine project. How does one man with such a great moustache do so much? Marks' good friend Mike Sinclair caught up with him to find out what his rollercoaster life has been like lately and just what he would do if he ever became truly rich.

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In anticipation of our world premiere of Globe’s United By Fate 6 here on skateboarding.com on November 18, here is a sneak peek behind the scenes in the mysterious warehouse with David Gonzalez, Louie Lopez, Jake Duncombe, Mark Appleyard, Chris Haslam, and Ryan Decenzo. Peep the UBF 6 trailer here. Mark Appleyard & Louie Lopez Q&A Part 1 & Part 2.

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Insight proudly welcomes Jamie Thomas to the team. As a skateboarding icon with over 15 years as a professional skateboarder Insight is proud to have Jamie along for the ride. Thomas will work closely with Insight designers to develop a personally inspired and tailored capsule collection to be released early 2010. Look for footage of Jamie in the Insight short film, Repeat After Me; I am Free, launching this Friday November 13th, 2009 via insight51.com. There is a teaser for the video there as well.

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Indy air—Duane Peters invented the Indy grab and Christian Hosoi took it to the 2009 Rumble in Ramona. When you have a backside air that's as stylish as Hosoi's, it doesn't seem out of place for a clean, highly devout person like him mixing with the seediness that was the Rumble. It kind of makes him untouchable. That backside air of his is legendary.