Missed this jewel of a video some how – featuring Rick McCrank, Silas Baxter Neal, Cairo Foster, John Rattray, Keegan Sauder, Chris Haslam and Kenny Anderson as the group attempt a self-sufficient skate tour, cycling and camping around New Zealands north island. The whole video clip has a great feeling to it – makes you want to grab your things and go!

Elwood Clothing recently put members of their team into a bus and toured the east coast of the USA with Dan Drehobl, Kenny Anderson, Silas Baxter-Neal, Guru Khalsa, John Rattray, Vincent Alvarez, Dan Plunkett, and Nate Broussard ripping up loads of spots – enjoy over 10 minutes of video proof of another fun looking tour ride!

» check out the Elwood Clothing site!

The Battle At The Berrics 2 is moving forwards and the people have chosen the contestants for the second round of this pretty mad contest. And the skaters are:

Mark Appleyard
Dennis Busenitz
Chris Cole
Jimmy Carlin
Gilbert Crockett
Nick Dompierre
Corey Duffel
Cairo Foster
Josiah Gatlyn
Kerry Getz
Kelly Hart
Chris Haslam
Rick Howard
Stefan Janoski
Josh Kalis
Cory Kennedy
Terry Kennedy
Lizard King
Heath Kirchart
Greg Lutzka
Guy Mariano
Silas Baxter Neal
Torey Pudwill
Lucas Puig
Peter Ramondetta
Paul Rodriguez
Geoff Rowley
Daewon Song
Braydon Szafranski
Jamie Thomas
Nick Trapasso
Mike Vallely

And if you can’t read, here it is in video and spoken word:

…drum roll, Silas Baxter-Neal! Thousands of votes later he was chosen among many others to carry this prestigious award (at least among skaters…) and December 12th, 2008 will see a bunch of pro skaters getting together to celebrate this talented guy. Have a look below at the speech made by Phelps and some of the great skating Silas lays done. He’s got the style, tricks and speed, no doubt about that!

Probably one of the most talented and hyped skaters of the year 2008, Silas Baxter-Neal has been turning quite a few heads among fellow skaters and in the industry. He was crowned Transworld’s Rookie of the Year 2008, had an 18-page interview in Thrasher Magazine, took the covers of several top skate magazines and has been showing his skill on video (Sessions 4 and Toebock).

Things are looking up for Silas – turning pro for Habitat and now he made the move to the adidas skate team. Hope to see a lot more of this guy in the future and I am sure we will. Here’s the Welcome to the adidas team video:

- check the adidas interview page with Silas Baxter-Neal

The new Elwood Clothing video just went up yesterday September 2nd and I have to say this video features some of the best skating I’ve seen in a while. Not that I was really surprised considering that the following skaters have parts in it: Kenny Anderson, Dan Drehobl, Silas Baxter Neal, Anthony Pappalardo, John Rattray, Vincent Alvarez, Nate Broussard, Marquise Henry and Guru Khalsa.

Watch the video below or watch the high-quality version straight on the Elwood Clothing website.

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