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…

Hmmm, we could maybe talk about the name but with the number of new shoe styles and collaborations Vans is coming out with, it can proof difficult to find a name that will satisfy everyone. Not that the name even bothers me…yeah, whatever. Vans has been releasing their Fall 2008 Collection and the above named [...]

Switzerland will be the host for a few big European contests this month - more coming soon - and the brand new concrete skatepark in St. Gallen will be the place to be September 20th to battle it out for around 4000 Euros in prize money. On top of that Nixon will be giving away [...]

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 [...]

Heading over to North America again for this piece of contest news and the Vans Backyard Party 08 will be taking place September 20th in Quebec at the South-Parc skatepark - check the map below for more details. It is a Pro/Am mini ramp contest but the mini ramp landscape has been formed to look [...]

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 [...]

I popped over the the Antiz Skateboards website today and there’s a good little post about the HellFest 08, a heavy metal festival in France, which took place June 20th till the 22nd in Clisson, France. With a massive line-up of bands (Slayer was there, so that would have been good enough for me…really now, [...]

The Vans Europe team spent some time over in China in March and April of this year and they have put together 4 and half minutres of pure good skating so take a look at this and get some new ideas…great spots and some massive skating going on there. Featuring Flo Marfaing, Danny Wainwright, Kris [...]