This is going to be one packed article for you and yes, since I don’t work for big skate companies and fly around the globe to be able to film stuff, Transworld Skateboarding is the place to go for videos from the formally known as the 12th annual Texas Skate Jam now renamed to Johnny [...]

Quiksilver is teaming up again with Stockholm’s indoor skatepark this coming Saturday, November 15th 2008 for a vert invitational contest on the beautiful looking halfpipe. Here’s all the info straight from the vert.nu website (cheers Dave!): Entry charge 50 skr (about 5€) (all times are approximate) 12:00: skate park opens 13:00 - 14:30: Check your self in for the [...]

And again we are teaming up with the Hamburg company “Rockers Harware” to give away yet another deck for those of you who leave a message in a specific thread on the Europeskate forum. So you are either already signed up as a user or just sign up right now. Here’s what you need to [...]

Almost forgot to put this piece of contest news in here for you - the final stop of the AST Dew Tour through the United States takes place starting today, October 16th till the 19th 2008 in Orlando, Florida. Ryan Sheckler, who has won the entire event three years straight looks to make it 4 but [...]

DC Shoes is heading to Los Angeles this coming Saturday, October 18th, 2008 for the second time after hosting DC King of contests in New York, Barcelona, and Sao Paulo. This year two real Los Angeles street skating spots will be ripped in just one day: Lockwood and Belmont. Again, the DC skate team will [...]

The results are in for the 2008 Vans Downtown Showdown and the BLIND team took home $30,000 for the best team, Jani Laitiala $10,000 for best pro and Jamie Tancowny $5,000 for best am…a video of the practice is also available but I haven’t found anything else just yet. FINAL RESULTS (thanks to Skatedaily.net) Top Pro Jani Laitiala [...]

I just happened to find the Red Bull Shoot To Thrill video contest site this morning and it is full of short good skate videos. The video contest is presented by Color Magazine, a Canadian skateboard magazine which I actually just heard of today as well. Another one for the link list… There are a few [...]

Last year’s Vans Downtown Showdown contest was even rad to watch just as a video, that’s a contest I would have loved to watched in person. The Creature helmet structure was insane and the harm it caused to some of the skaters was more than impressive. The 2008 Vans Downtown Showdown is going down Saturday, October [...]