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 [...]

ahhh, and again a couple of days late but I can’t help it if they don’t send me the info right? VOX Footwear is on tour right now in the States with Dan Drehobl, Jt Aultz, Peter Watkins, David Gravette and new rider Tyler Surrey. Check out the tour dates below…and keep up-to-date on the VOX [...]

I don’t know how long this took but it doesn’t really matter: Baker Skateboards has gone from a screensaver page to a full-fledged website which is straight to the point. Nice graphics, easy navigation with a blog / news section as well so no getting lost on this site. I personally like the horizontal scrollable [...]

Okay, let’s get this straight first. I’ve never been a fan of the so-called fashion with the saggy pant look. What’s that? You see these guys all over the place with their jeans, trousers, pants - whatever you call the piece of clothing covering human legs - hanging almost below their butt. I never got [...]

The world famous DIY skatepark Burnside in Portand, Oregon has been around for 18 years now and it is still a park many try to skate when they make it over to the west coast of the States. A very insightful video documenting the skatepark with the originators Kent Dahlgren and Sage Bolyard, local businesswoman [...]

I probably have just been living in some sort of hole in the ground for many years, missing out on smaller companies which make great gear supporting skateboarding the way it should be supported. So this morning I happened to discover the Cold War Skateboards website. They come from Portland, Oregon and have a very [...]