Bastien Salabanzi not only took off his shirt and won the Quicksilver Invitational, but he double flipped his way into my heart. He did a double flip front board down the rail, and put the final nail in the coffin with a cab double flip. Thanks Transworld. Social Bookmarking

Guys, if you are not married yet… this is who you should marry: Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins (yes, that is how you spell her name). She’s awesome. She became the first woman ever to do a mctwist. But guys, only give her a call if you can handle your girlfriend being a better skater than you… [...]

I called it… check my twitter account. Chris Cole won Battle at the Berrics 2. “He’s an angel with a skateboard”

Mike V. was arrested on November 19th for fighting in public… not surprising. What is surprising, is that it didn’t involve security guards or other jocks, it involved another father at a hockey game. They were fighting for gifts for their respective daughters (I’m not joking). I love Mike V. for many reasons, the fact [...]

From what I hear, Burton Snowboards owns Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex Bearings. They also own Gravis Footwear, which is a totally lame shoe company. This is all bad news. The good news? Habitat is starting a shoe division. Why? Nobody knows. How many successful board companies have a successful line of shoes? Answer: NONE! [...]

Theeve Trucks, a new skateboard truck company who for some reason uses the word ‘probably’ in probably every sentence they right. They also probably chose the most pirate looking team around with Garrett Hill, Dan Murphy, Gareth Stehr, Chad Bartie and Ben Raybourn… They could all be in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie [...]

There is no doubt in my mind, that P-Rod is the most beautiful piece of man out there in a world of skateboarding heshers. Not only does he have beautiful hair and big brown puppy dog eyes, but he is also one of the most successful skaters out there right now. Sponsored by Nike, PLan [...]

I had the pleasure of seeing Collin Provost rip up our Durham skate park a week or so ago. Seems like a nice kid, and he’s definitely a ripper. ESPN beat me to the punch and managed to get an interview with him while he was here in North Carolina. You can see the original [...]

It’s hard to hate on a guy as cool as P-Rod, but this certainly isn’t helping. P-Rod (of x-games fame) has an official “Paul Rodriguez Skateboarding Premium App”. It has such features as: 1. Pauls Twitter Feed and ability to view his TwitPics and Vids from within the app. (really? who cares?) 2. Exclusive Video’s, [...]

Zero released their holiday catalogue and in it are a few Keegan Sauder skateboards. Guess that means he’s gone all pro on us. Sellout anybody? All kidding aside, I hear he killed it in Zero’s video, “Strange World” (which I have not seen yet). Here he is skating in the Black Box Warehouse ironically listening [...]

I’ve been noticing Ryan Sheckler posting a lot of strange stuff on twitter, and on his facebook page lately. Last week, it was the announcement of his Ethika underwear line. This week, he posted this photo on Facebook. Really Ryan? A shirtless glam shot for Facebook? Really? What is the deal? This guy has over [...]

Jamie Thomas joined a new clothing company called Insight. It’s the right move for insight to get him on the team… he’s got the steez. They’re going to post a short video on the Insight website on Friday the 13th. No word yet if it is going to be a horror flick, or just a [...]

Congrats to Aussie Sammy Winter on making the team at Cliche Skateboards. Not sure about this guy, he lives in Australia, so that’s weird. If there is one thing that Canadians are cooler than… it’s the Aussies (and Kiwis). So I’m feeling mighty fine about myself right now. Seriously though, check him out, he’s rad [...]

The Berrics (Steve Berra) interviewed Vinnie Ponte (of 90′s skateboarding fame and fortune). It was interesting to see what skateboarders do after their moment in the spotlight… It’s not like skateboarding prepares you for the real world… heck, you can’t even claim that it teaches you teamwork like little league soccer does. But Vinnie obviously [...]

As far as MTV’s realty shows go, they all suck except one.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve watched my fair share of Run’s House and every time the Real World is on, I watch it too, but that doesn’t mean they don’t suck.  That is why it is so confusing to me that the Fantasy [...]

Young gun Collin Provost is officially on Toy Machine now. I’m mostly excited because that means I get to see him this weekend when they join us to open our new skatepark in Downtown Durham. Provost is now in cahoots with Josh Harmony, Diego Bucchieri, Billy Marks, Matt Bennett, Nick Trapasso, Austin Stephens, Johnny Layton [...]

When the skateboard clothing market is saturated, where does one turn to? UNDERWEAR! At least that is what Ryan Sheckler, teenage pro skateboarder and all around ladies man, is betting on. Geeze, I thought this kid had enough money already, let someone else have a chance!! Now I’ll never get to launch my line of [...]

Girl Skateboards has no shortage of rippers, now they’ve added someone that can do a back tail, kickflip out to backside lip…. whaaaa?? That’s insane. Congrats to Cory. via Crailtap and Skatedaily.net Social Bookmarking

For those of you who thought that Mike Vallely is lame because he only does old-school trickies, I present you Mike Vallely Vs Chris Cole: Battle at the Berrics 2. The rules of the game are bent for Mike to allow him to do his wierdo tricks, but if you skip ahead to 4:10, you’ll [...]

We all love Steve Berra and Eric Koston, so mad props to them for picking Chris Cole for the position of “Battle Commander”. Check out his new montage at The Berrics. It is a good pallete cleanser for the new Zero video “Strange World” premiering tonight in Encinitas. If Chris Cole wasn’t enough for you, [...]