Big companies sponsoring big contests - that’s the name of the game since big business has discovered just how lucrative skateboarding can be to push the interest in products. This weekend will see a lot of big names in skateboarding landing in Berlin, Germany for the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds contest (along with some top BMX [...]

More contest news floating in today as I discovered that the OMSA pool warehouse which now has two wooden pools will be the place to be October 25th and 26th 2008. Two days of terror at the Düsseldorfer Factory / OMSA bowls starting at midday both days. Two starting groups are available, entry fees are 30 [...]

For the second year in a row the team behind the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds contest series will be returning to Berlin, Germany with the Street Session event featuring top names in street and vert skating (and some really good BMX riders as well) to skate it out in the wonderful city. Once again the event [...]

We reported about the quite cool downhill skater who was towed on to the German autobahn by a motorbike and cruised down a hill at 100 kmh blocked off from other cars by a team of helpers. Well it seems that the German police have been searching for him ans supposedly they found him. Mr. Sebastien [...]

Downhill skateboarding can be a load of fun, I used to do it a lot when I lived in the south of Germany. We drove up some larger hills in the early evening in a car and one guy drove the car down behind the people skating down the hill to give us light. So [...]

The guys from Opposide DVD magazine in Germany have always been really active in the skateboarding scene, pulling out one contest event after another which are street-based and laid back events. The Rhein Main Jam II is as it says the second one of its kind, taking place in three different cities over the entire [...]

A lot of good skaters have been on tour through Germany lately including the Matix team during the Grey Daze tour from Frankfurt to Berlin. Here’s the official news release plus some pics… Jesus Fernandez, JB Gillet, Mikemo Capaldi, Torey Pudwill, Danny Brady, Marty Murawski, Mike Anderson, Lem Villemin and Vivien Feil experienced the “Grey Daze” [...]

Danny Cerezini has been travelling through Europe the past few weeks, just coming off the big win at the Copenhagen PRO contest, chilling a bit at the Mystic Cup in Prague and hitting the BRIGHT tradeshow in Frankfurt plus the so-called Ghetto-Spot in Frankfurt. The relatively new German skateboard magazine ‘Place‘ sponsored several brand new marble [...]