A brand new site with a skateboard oriented blog and the announcement of Nick Trapasso as a new rider for the team - Converse is getting really serious again about it’s involvement in skateboarding. Not that they weren’t serious but this is an obvious move in the marketing department to let us potential buyers and [...]

Ready for another skateboard blast from the past? The Sneaker Freaker website has put up an interview with Tony Hallam who has an impressive collection of skateboard memorabilia (over 800 boards for example!). He talks about shoes of course and the companies that either stayed on through the years or those which just came and [...]

All courtesy of Transworld Skateboarding, here is a slideshow of some of the products you will be seeing in skate shops in 2009. Supposedly quite a few companies missed out on this year’s tradeshow but it’s something to look at…

Vans keeps bringing out those new shoe designs and lately - or for a while already actually - collaboration shoes with certain companies or designers have been coming out (I haven’t found any yet but maybe I should look harder or somebody should send some to Europeskate please! Size 41 will do fine, I have [...]

MACBETH Footwear seems to have some pretty good marketing people working for them as they have been able to attract the next top legend in skating after Pat Duffy, this time it’s none other than Matt Hensley who currently skates for Black Label and is part of the Flogging Molly band. After checking through the different [...]

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 [...]

More new shoes ready to slip over your weary feet, this time from the guys over at Supra Footwear. I personally haven’t had a pair of these yet and it would be pretty fun to try out the Skytop or Vaider releases to see how good they are to skate (even though I don’t [...]

Getting in line with an ever growing list of bands getting signature shoes, Revolution Mother (Mike Vallely’s band) has hooked up with Element Skateboards to bring out the Mike Vallely 2.0 shoe with the Revolution logo enbroidered on the side and the back of the shoe. Same shoe as Mike’s grey and red versions, they [...]