Big companies sponsoring big contests - that’s the name of the game since big business has discovered just how lucrative skateboarding can be to push the interest in products. This weekend will see a lot of big names in skateboarding landing in Berlin, Germany for the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds contest (along with some top BMX [...]

Weird a title like that, “The last November issue of SLAP Magazine out now!”…well, it’s true, only two issues left of the print version of SLAP and then they are going fully online. Company politics, financial difficulties, the unbelievably lucrative online market…umhhh, what? I haven’t noticed much about that and I don’t really know all [...]

Now this is really a goodie I found on the Slap Magazine site, nice one Mark! Wonder Woman takes off on a skateboard downhill after a car and the guys in the car are a bit nervous as she actually catches them by pushing mongo at the end of the pursuit and jumps them. Yeah, [...]

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 [...]

The Röksska Museum in Göteborg(Gothenburg), Sweden has an ongoing exhibition about skateboarding which lasts until November 2nd, 2008. Axel Torschmied from skateanddestroy.de sent me the info a while back but as it is still there for a couple more weeks, here it is for you. Here’s what the museum curators have to say about the exhibition [...]

I have been working on other parts of the site for the last few weeks so I missed out on a few of the rounds but the King of S.K.A.T.E. video contest is still going strong with 20 contestants left in the contest and this week Alex Mizurov comes back again to put the skaters [...]

The series continues and we present the Europeskate October 2008 Beauty of the Month, Anita! As this is a very well visited part of the site, we are looking for women interested in having a professional photographer take pictures of the posing with skate gear - if you are able to get to Hamburg for [...]

Some real good video work from the guys over at Post22 has hit the interweb with the latest issue 18 going up on their site. Starring in order of appearance: Tom Hyson, Anthony Alcantara, Drew Hanner, Cameron Keene, Sam Buxton, Lance ?, Jed Shooter, Chad Shooter, Julian Ethridge, Dirt Diggler, Durand Beasley. Watch the Post22 [...]