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 [...]

The Volcom Wild In The Parks European Championships took place just this past weekend (October 4th, 2008) in Amsterdam with a lot of good action and top skating taking place. Unluckily Danny Leon had a bad fall and had to be taken to the hospital. Vladik Scholz thought to have had broken his leg [...]

Just as if I knew what the outcome of the contest would be…didn’t I say regular was going to win? Okay okay, I am biased and according to what I’ve been reading across the web the entire contest was so close at the end the judges could not decide which team won so what better [...]

It stands 2 to 2 in the ultimate skate battle between goofy and regular riders (sorry you goofy riders, but regular is the way *hehe*) . Starting today, October 2nd 2008 until the October 5th riders from both stances will be skating against each other to find out which side will go in the lead. For [...]

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 [...]

One of Europe’s largest skateboard events (along with several other action sport events) will be taking place this upcoming weekend (September 26th - 28th) in Zürich, Switzerland. The video masters of live coverage from Freecaster.tv will be there yet again to let those of us not able to make it watch the action from our [...]