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The whole Natty Kon team is coming to Cali. Lock up your daughters.



Catch the RVCA team this weekend on its continuing 2010 Active Skate Tour.




Check all the info for Blueprint’s Make Friends With The Colour Blue tour, and buckle up for the premiere April 4 in London.

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Check out the video from the second stop in Element’s Make It Count International Contest Series, which took place at Modern Skatepark just outside of Detroit, MI. Levi Brown was on hand to award Gage Smith with a trip to the contest finals this summer. Skaters came from as far as New York to compete and the level of skating was incredible! Thanks to everyone at Modern Skate Park and all the skaters who ripped, next stop is Seattle, WA.

Results:
OVERALL CONTEST WINNER:
Gage Smith of Columbus, OH
BEST TRICK WINNERS:
Zone 1: 13 & under - Brandon Thomas
Zone 1: 14 & up - Gage Smith
Zone 2: 13 & under-  Ian Ellis
Zone 2: 14 & up- Kyle Decot
Zone 3: 13 & under-  Michael Mollahan
Zone 3: 14 & up-  Kenny Walsh
Next Event:
Seattle, Washington – Feb 20th

All dates can be found here.




DC announces the DC Tonik Drink Up Tour. Josh Kalis, Nick Dompierre, PJ Ladd, Ryan Smith, Lindsey Robertson, Wes Kremer, Matt Miller and Evan Smith will be touring Nor Cal between Feb 27 – March 7. At each stop DC will be giving out product, sign autographs, skating and giving away a limited number of DC’s new shoe – Tonik S. So mark it on your calendars, bring your board and skate with DC Team Riders.




GOODS & Habitat are putting on a demo at the Highland Skate Plaza this Saturday. Here’s some recent footage up on the Bellevue Skatepark Blog.


 Ed’s got yet another amazing art show opening February 26 at the Roberts and Tilton Gallery in Culver City, California. Stop by if you can.
Friday, February 26th, 6-9PM
Ed Templeton
The Seconds Pass
February 26th thru April 3rd, 2010
Roberts and Tilton Gallery
5801 Washington Blvd. Culver City





DC just put up the first installment of Kalis Files on 7zine. Check out Josh in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan where it all started.





Sid Melvin is now pro for Santa Cruz. Check out his surprise and introducing video right here.





Lee Dupont organized this fantastic photo show for a great cause. Come out and see your favorite photogs cell phone pics, and purchase them to help a fundraiser called Save Shreducation to help keep skateboarding programs in school. Check the flyer for all the info. It’s going down this Thursday, February 18th at The Saloon in Encinitas.




WeSC presents Leisurely Woodsman, an art show by  Clint Peterson this Saturday in L.A. Get there and get some.

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Catch the Habitat team later this month cruising through California from San Luis Obispo on down to SD.



Lee Dupont organized this fantastic photo show for a great cause. Come out and see your favorite photogs cell phone pics, and purchase them to help a fundraiser called Save Shreducation to help keep skateboarding programs in school. Check the flyer for all the info. It’s going down this Thursday, February 18th at The Saloon in Encinitas.

COWTOWN’S PHXAM PRESENTED BY VANS GOES JUNK JAM FORMAT AT PEORIA’S RIO VISTA SKATE PARK APRIL 10 & 11

Cowtown’s PHXAM Junk Jam looks to be a good time for all with skateboarders competing for over $8000 in prize money. Cowtown would like to welcome Vans as the headline sponsor and Skullcandy will be presenting $2500 for the best trick. Spectators will get a chance to win a one-year supply of Vans shoes and other cool prizes!
More than 100 skateboarders from across the globe will compete for more than $8,000 in cash and prizes at Cowtown’s PHXAM Junk Jam on Saturday, April 10 and Sunday, April 11 at the Rio Vista Skate Park in Peoria AZ.  The top 40 riders from the qualifying jams on Saturday will skate in the semifinals on Sunday and will be competing for cash purses of $3,000 for 1st place, $2,000 for 2nd place, and $1,000 for 3rd place. All riders will automatically be entered in the Best Trick contest to be held on Sunday after finals.  Skullcandy will award a $2500 cash prize to the skateboarder that lands the best trick.  Some changes this year are the jam format, 4 riders for 4 minutes, and lots of skateable junk throughout the course!
The first 500 spectators through the gates on Saturday and Sunday will receive a free gift bag with a PHXAM t-shirt, magazine, stickers, other freebies from our sponsors, and a ticket for the PHXAM Raffle.  There will also be tents and RVs from many of the skateboard industries top companies displaying their newest products, free giveaways, team signings, food and more.
Presale tickets will be available for each day at all Cowtown locations and online at cowtownskateboards.com for $5.
Visit phxam.com for all the details.



It’s no secret that Ryan Decenzo has gone pro, so Red Bull sat him down to find out what his plans are for the not so far off future. Go watch the video on the Red Bull site.




The Flip site keeps the videos coming with this extra footy of Rodrigo TX. Go check it out.

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Check out all of the info for Arto Saari’s new shoe tour. Gravis will be hitting five cities and a bunch of shops.
Also, click this link for a new video with Arto and some of the team.




The third and final episode of Don’t Fear the Sweeper is now live. Picking up where we left off in part 2, the Nike SB crew finishes up business in New York and then heads to Pennsylvania and Miami with a final stop in Texas. Check it out here.




Peter Raffin, Elijah Berle, Silent Mike, Chris LaRue, Caswell Berry, Jamie Palmore, and Taylor Bingaman hit the streets of San Jose.



Antihero spends another intimate evening with the artist. Get to hate the artist all night. Antihero online catalog 2nd strike Now Live, plus the pfourth pfanner pfriday is up.




Passion, Satan and the Bullet: Lizard Supra Shoe Release


Let me get your picture…wait, one more.

Nope.

There we go. Frecks, Lizard and BB throw up for the occult and Lizard’s new shoe The Bullet.

Footsies is one of Lizard and crews’ stomping grounds and it was packed…After I took this, some guy was like, “You got a license for that flash?” Sorry everyone.

Flip flicks for Deathwish, while Braydon goes nomadic…savin’ money on rent.

Two of the LSDemons, Nuge and DJ Roy (not pictured Slash), held it down for the night. “You got any Wicked Lady?” Frecks might have been asking. But, who knows?

Desert Breeze? Guess who…Baca of course. Dude was bouncing around the bar all night, jamming to the tunes in his own headphones.

I don’t know why, but I found it interesting that a chunk of the Nike team was there. But, then again, everyone loves a party. The enigmatic Grant Taylor hides as Hassler takes a break from being his regular mellow self. Two different ends of the spectrum, but these dudes rip.

Thomas Bonilla hustled the pool table for a good chunk of the night.

Used to kick it with Natural Koncept’s Trevor Uriona back in Colorado. Trevor, mysterious girl and filmer/ripper extraordinaire, Lannie Rhodes, ham it up for the camera.

Not only did Pierre Luc Gagnon hold Lizard to his drunken word and make him skate the Mega Ramp, but his initials are tattooed on Lizard’s wrist. Of course he made it to his shoe release party.

Nike dudes, again…Clark Hassler and Wieger Van Wageningen pose with master lensman Yoon Sul.

It was right around the time I saw this girl in the distance and Frecks and I were like “Mar! [Marisa Dal Santo]“, that I realized it was getting late and I had to go home. Congrats Lizard!


Our own Mike O’Meally will have his photos he shot on the set of Where The Wild Things Are down in Australia February 20-21. The show coincides with Girl’s Outbackwards tour. If you’re down under, you won’t want to miss it.




Catch the Habitat team later this month cruising through California from San Luis Obispo on down to SD.

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So how did Lem Villemin get on adidas? Watch the interview below and find out. Now you know.




While on our TWS NorCal Tour, we got Jimmy Cao to sit down in front of our camera in the RV and answer some What’s Next? questions. Check it out.

Vans just launched a new, nationwide shoe customization contest, Vans Custom Culture. Vans is encouraging high school art classes across the country to register to participate. Registration begins 3/1/10.
The official rules and prize details are located at vans.com/customculture. Additional information, photos, and a discussion board (including FAQs) are available at http://www.facebook.com/vanscustomculture.



The Thunder Online Catalog 2nd Strike is now Live. Check out new trucks from Cole and Appleyard, plus watch Stump the Chief The Finale to find out which design from Stump the Chief got voted to win as Jamie Thomas’ new Pro Truck.




Tyler Price brings us the latest in a series of promos for the upcoming HYPE! full length video BELIEVE. If this is just a taste of what Tyler has been working on, what could he possibly be holding on to for the video?



Who doesn’t love them some Leo? RVCA got a new commercial with Leo with some hefty new footage. Check it.



Osiris welcomes one of San Jose’s finest today—Peter Raffin is on.



Agency Thursdays: Spot Fixin’ with John Lupfer
Another Thursday, another clip. This week takes a look behind the scenes as Lupfer fixes up a rugged looking San Diego spot, feels it out for the kill, and does his best to ignore a not so supportive fellow San Diegon onlooker. Enjoy the ride and see you next week world.

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Hear Mark Appleyard talk about the last ten years in his own words. Mark’s interview is laid over his stylish i.e. part from 2000. Read more in our February 2010 issue that’s onsale now.

Video by Jon Holland & Greg Hunt. Voiceover editing by Chris Thiessen.



A huge congrats goes out to Mike Anderson and the birth of his beautiful baby girl, Lyla. Cheers!





The Maloof Money Cup is expanding to three contests this year, the first of which will be in New York City this June. Read on for the details.
Joe and Gavin Maloof, who own the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, said Tuesday they will hold Maloof Money Cup New York on June 5-6 at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, featuring a street skateboarding competition. The winner will earn $100,000.
The Maloofs have agreed to donate the $1.8 million, world-class skate park they will build for the competition to the city of New York through the City Parks and Recreation Department’s “Adopt-A-Park” program. Joe Maloof said the cost of the skate park will be defrayed by contributions from sponsors Vans and Monster Energy.
The Maloof Money Cup will return to Southern California for the third straight year, featuring street and vert competition, from Aug. 4-8 at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.
“I always felt the most important thing was to start in California, where it was born,” Joe Maloof said. “We’ll always stay in Orange County and the L.A. area. That will always be No. 1. However, we needed to get an East Coast presence. It’s a privilege to get into New York. It’s not easy to have an event in New York.”
The New York competition will include a wild-card contest to give local skaters the opportunity to compete against the top pros in the industry. Pro skaters Chris Cole and Geoff Rowley, New York skating icon Steve Rodriguez and Joe Ciaglia of California Skateparks will lead the design of the street course. The New York prize purse is nearly $250,000.
The Maloof Money Cup Orange County will expand to five days.
Invited pros include defending champions Cole in the street competition and Alex Perelson in vert. The 18-year-old Perelson won last year’s vert after becoming just the fourth person to land a 900 during a competition.
The Maloof Money Cup Orange County pays out nearly $500,000 in cash and prizes, with $100,000 going to the street winner and $75,000 to the vert winner.
Maloof said the competition will expand to South Africa in 2011.
“I think this thing has evolved from a small skateboarding camp to a major skateboarding event,” Maloof said. “It’s going to expand opportunities for skateboarding around the world.”


 Just posted a new Thousand Words feature on the 7zine site. Thousand Words is Blabac’s feature on the site where he posts a gallery and either himself or the person in each photo tells a story behind it. This time, it’s an all-Kalis gallery.




Expedition made it official today—it’s Miller time. Peep Matt’s What’s Next? right here and his welcome video at the Expedition site.

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The GOAT & The Occasional Others are releasing their NEW Album - The GOAT Speaks, this Friday night at 3 Clubs in Hollywood, CA.


The evening’s festivities will also commemorate the launch of the new GOAT x Emerica collaboration shoes hitting your local skate shop now! The best part? The GOAT will be shredding live, and YOU are invited!
Here’re the details:
21& Over
Friday, February 12th
Three Clubs
1123 Vine Street
Hollywood, Ca. 90038
Show Starts at 9PM
Now that you’ve got all the details and your plans for Friday night are set, The GOAT is hooking you up! Special from the band, they are giving you a FREE DOWNLOAD of a song from their new album: http://thegoatmusic.com/
Check out The Goats video, Billy Goat:


Birdhouse Team and friends sesh the vert ramp on a rainy day. Featuring: Elliot Sloan, Lyn-Z Adams, Jean Postec, and Bucky Lasek.




Please join Altamont Apparel Ltd. Spring 2010 contributor, Tim Kerr for his curated show, Truth – A Kill Soulless Bullshit Happening opening party this Saturday, February 13 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. At Family Gallery in Los Angeles and runs through March 10, 2010.
Altamont is honored to release the first book of art from Tim Kerr entitled Your Name Here on the occasion of this event. Special limited edition 10” vinyl Altamont EPs featuring new music by Tim Kerr will be available as well.
Truth is a mixture of work from influential artists such as AJ Nesselrod, Todd Swank, O, Mike Watt, Tim Kerr, GSD, Craig Jackman and many more. With live musical performances by No Age and Mike Watt featuring Tim Kerr, plus an Old Time session with Tim Kerr and Triple Chicken Foot.








DVS just launched a new campaign called Use Your Shoes.
It’s encourage the skaters out there to send in videos demonstrating how they use their shoes. Pretty simple.
Here’s the link to its site with the contest rules, etc.

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We would need to add a hot model, buckets of paint and maybe a dog dressed up like a cat to make Dane’s 360 flip into an Insight ad, but it’s still real sick (photo: Dave Chami).
Breakout Dane Burman just got on Insight, the company I love unconditionally for their fanciful ads alone, so we caught up with him about his move…
You’re officially on Insight. You were on Fallen Apparel, but now you’re just wearing the shoes. Let’s pretend that Fallen and Insight were two different people. Could you describe the personal qualities of each person that made you want to spend less time with Fallen and more time with Insight?
I left Fallen apparel because I ride for Fallen shoes. I need to spend my time with more than just one friend. I can’t hang out with my old mate Fallen all the time, although he is very nice to me. Mr. Insight came along and he offered me a whole other world of things to do and mischief to get into, so now I have a new friend to kick it with.
Insight ads are known for being very unique. They’re not just skate tricks, they’re like art projects. So, I’m going to present two ideas I had for Insight ads and I want you to tell me which you would rather do and why.
1) You have to skate a round bar bent into the shape of an infinity symbol. The photo will be shot from above and the cement ground will be littered all around with home phone receivers and their cords. You will have to wear one of those baby harnesses on your front and inside will be a “little person” that looks quite similar to yourself. He will be faced toward you, so that you are looking directly at him while you do your trick. Then, you will have to 50-50 around at least half of the infinity symbol round bar.*
2) You’re dressed in a full body suit fashioned from pieces of a computer and you are nosegrinding down a tree that is set up over a pit filled with the kind of ceramic bric-a-brac that old people always have in their house. It’s raining.**
I think I’d have to go ahead and say I want to be stuck on an infinite 50-50. It’s one of the only tricks I feel comfortable with and I love the feeling of grinding. And, I wouldn’t mind finding and knowing myself either. Can I keep the mini me in a jar afterward?
You had a breakout part in Zero’s Strange World. Did you know you were going to get a part?
Umm, that’s a funny story. I’d spoken to Jamie [Thomas] on the phone and via emails and he’d convinced me to try to save some money up to get out to the States and try to film some tricks and see if I could get anything good enough for one of the montages in the video. Then, I won this competition and bought my ticket. When I got there I just begged to go out skating and filming every day. Every time I’d get a trick I’d just joke around and say, “Log that into the computer for my part” and Greg [Robinson, the old Zero TM] would always go, “You’re not having a part…ha ha.” Then, once I’d gotten a few tricks I started asking [Ben] Gilley if I could share a part with him ‘cause when I was a kid, it was Gilley that made me wanna jump on the rails. So, I would’ve been hyped to have a part with him. Then, by the time I’d spent like nine months in the States I had a few minutes of footage and I ended up with my own part. I had to go home about a month before the premier in the States, due to Visa problems and I missed the world premiere.

Who did you watch it with in Australia?
I went to the Australian premiere here and just had a mellow night with some friends—didn’t really have the best night, but whatever.
You ended up skating to “The Masque” by The Dark, but initially you wanted to skate to the Ghostbusters theme song. In hindsight, would you really have wanted to skate to the Ghostbusters song, or was that just to be a smart ass?
I really wanted to skate to Ghostbusters. But, then I saw Mark Suciu skated to it and he’s way better than me, so it kinda blew it out for me. But, then I wanted to skate to “Gimmie that Nut” by Eazy-E. I threw a few other song ideas at Jamie, too, like some Nick Cave songs and stuff, but nothing really seemed to fit. Then, Jamie emailed me, like three days before the premiere with that song. I was pretty over choosing songs, so that one sounded cool. I think it turned out pretty cool.
Do you have any projects coming up? Any other weird song ideas for those future video parts?
Well, I got nothing really. I’m filming for a few homey videos back here. Fulfill the Ook and Heavy Stats. I guess we’ve got a year for the next Zero video, so I wanna get another part together for that, too. I’m sure if I put my mind to it, I can think of more shit songs for Jamie to say no to.
You’re known for walking the line of amazing/annoying/awesome/unbearable/loveable asshole. What do you think is the best thing you’ve done that you intended to do to piss people off? What do you think is the worst thing that you’ve done that you intended to do to help someone else out?
Well, I kept up with some pretty harsh stuff about Garrett Hill’s sister when I saw how good she looked from a picture on his phone. I was saying some mean shit about her, about vodka and being tied up… and he was none to happy about that. He was so none to happy that he stabbed me in the arm. It was all in good fun and it was probably called for. Garry and I are still mates. That was one of the better things I’ve done to piss someone off. Ummm, I…ohh the other day I tried to hook my friend up with this girl and he got all angry at me about it. She was a sprouter too, but he’s really shy, so he didn’t like me putting him on the spot. But, yeah, he was pissed, even though I was trying to help.
*Significance: the universe is merely an infinitesimal string of humans trying to find themselves by communicating with the outside world, in vain (i.e. the phones not connected to a base), when, in fact, a “little you” is directly in front of their face…skateboarding.
**Significance: Will technology allow us, as humans, to advance (signified by your awesome nosegrind over the chasm) or is it only bullshit bric-a-brac that we collect, which is leading to the death of our planet…skateboarding?


DLX Demo at Skatelab in Simi Valley, CA on Monday February 15th from 1-4PM.
Dennis Busenitz, Peter Ramondetta, Frank Gerwer, JT Aultz, Ernie Torres, Mike Anderson, Peabody and more.




Click on over to the Pig Wheels site to check out a series of Nick Trapasso photos from Crossroads. Write in your own captions and win Nick’s new wheel.

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This year’s Crossroads retail event has been bumped up to its new and improved location next to Petco Park in downtown San Diego. This location is optimum for guests of ASR so they are able to interact with the skaters who all dipped on the trade show. There’s one more day, so if you have a chance to make it out today, do it.

For this Crossroads Best Trick finale, Black Box surprised the crowd with a bloody sword in place of a standard handrail, complete with “There Will Be Blood” painted on the landing sheets of plywood. Nick Merlino, Robert Lopez Mont, Timmy Knuth and many more were coming in hot, but it basically boiled down to Chris Cole and Nyjah Huston. In the end, Nyjah was chosen as the champ and got a nice handful of three grand in cash. Cole got two for second.



Pulled up to a great view of San Diego Padres stadium.


This was the first thing I saw when walking in the show. Danny Scher interviewed by Tosh Rice.

Dane Vaughn and The Biz about to put in some work for Gold Wheels.


The tranny obstacle on the course.

You should plan on seeing some heavy tricks like this going down on the tranny obstacles.

All sorts of kids were shralping the shark. 5-0 over a bunch of potential Crocodile Dundee necklaces.

Here is the other section that will be ripped to shreds.

Anthony Schultz was hanging out at the event with a freshly chopped haircut. Say good bye to the curly locks.

Remember when these guys were all on the same team? Well, here they are, years later, skate owners and gurus. Jim Greco, Erik Ellington and Jamie Thomas reminisce.

Bizarro Greco seemed quite enticed by real Greco, even making awkward circles around where he was sitting, as if the more he did it, the better his chances would be to meet real Greco. But, alas, he nervously retreated. Better for us all, since the universe implodes when dopplegangers meet. It’s a fact.

Deathwish was showing off some really cool new black light special board graphics. Get the Slash board while its still available.

This dude showed up and put on a freestyle show, perhaps inspired by such greats as Rodney Mullen, Don Brown, Daryl Grogan, Pierre André Senizergues, etc. That’s incredible!

Dane Vaughn and his good homie Apollo Cutts from Sacto. Check Apollo’s site. Hes got some sick interviews with Sacramento legends including John Cardiel.

The back of this truck was a great booth For Deathwish and Shake Junt, it needs no set up or take down at all. Just drive in and drive out.

Del the Funky Homosapien took a moment to rest for the concert he played at the Osiris party later in the night.

SKATE-MAAH-FIAHHH! Former New Deal pro and Westside Skateshop owner, John Montesi, shows Jamie Thomas how to show the mafia some love. That S can turn into a Z in no time and don’t nobody know what the Zk8mafia is.

Steve was feeling real good about handing out lighters to little kids.

Here is the view of Petco park from inside the show.

Those quirky guys with their inventions were there, too. Did you know that Sector 9 is the biggest skateboard company in the world? Jamie Thomas told me. Crazy, huh?

The new issue of TransWorld was there. It has tons of great content. Get your hands on it now.

Hubba…making teenagers skate with boners since 2005 or so. I happened across a slew of people watching this Hubba model skate. She could do fakie shovits, but nobody seemed to be looking at her feet.

Here is one more thing you need to get your hands on. This photo is for Blair. Keep the trim coming at all the skate events. Too much fun.

There will be blood…oh yes, there will be blood. Tune in for the footage or pics of people skating the sword.