Death is for me always something sad, when someone you have known, experienced something with or you just could relate to is not there anymore, at least physically. Ray Underhill passed away on Friday, August 1st, 2008 after several years of battling cancer. He was known for those of us who started skating in the 70s [...]

That’s right everybody…one of my favorite video productions will be back in September 2008 with a new series of videos getting behind the scenes and into the heads of well-known skaters with some intelligent questions and filming that takes on a different perspective. Here’s the “official” announcement - why try to put words in their [...]

The Maloof Money Cup (July 11th - 13th 2008) is causing a lot of big waves in the skateboard arena with the largest prize purse in skateboard history - $450,000 to be exact - $100k for first place pro street, $75k for first place plus tricked out SUV for first place pro vert and $25k [...]

It seems like a lot of contest organizers have packed in their events into a frame of two to three weeks in Europe so it’s a very busy time for contest skaters at the moment. From Friday 4th until Sunday 6th of July, the world’s top riders will compete for the record prize money of [...]

Over on the Transworld Business site there’s a two part article written by Adam Sullivan about Vans heading over to China to officially launch their brand. The article itself is more of a photo blog story but once you take a look at all of the pictures (hell, I like to see people getting paid [...]

The Maloof Money Cup team and REELcomp.com - a sports video site - have been searching for the past month for 4 amateur skaters to show their skills on video and winan all expense paid trip to compete in the Maloof Money Cup this July 11th - 13th. Well the wait is over and the [...]

I have always been really interested in checking out the newest skateboard products hitting the market and these days it is getting harder and harder to keep up-to-date with the many different companies grabbing for a piece of the skateboard market pie. Transworld Business has put together a very nice gallery of skateboard decks coming out [...]

The moves and changes in skateboarding seem to be flying in here pretty quickly in the last few weeks. I don’t know any background information about this one so take this one as a rumour for now but it seems Ethan Fowler is starting up a new board company under the name “Bummer High” after [...]

Keeping it simple today, here are the results for ya : BEST ROOKIE Silas Baxter-Neal BEST STREET Guy Mariano BEST TEAM Habitat BEST VIDEO Lakai, Fully Flared BEST TWO VIDEO PARTS Stefan Janoski, Inhabitants & Nothing But The Truth BEST TRANSITION Dan Drehobl BEST VIDEO PART Guy Mariano, Lakai, Fully Flared TWS READERS’ CHOICE Guy Mariano TWS LEGEND Tony Hawk

Reading, writing, breathing and consuming skateboarding daily really allows me to find out a lot more about the subject than is seen at the first glimpse. Of course, this is nothing new as with any subject matter, the more you deal with it, the more knowledge you acquire (or should hopefully). Not that a lot [...]