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Alex Davis On Habitat
Habitat welcomes Alex Davis to the team with one of the better welcome videos in recent memory.
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The Skateboarder's Journal - Lives on Board
The Skateboarder's Journal - Lives on Board is a 333 page book full of stories written by skateboarders at all levels. Get the hard cover or soft cover here.
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NYC, RB Umali, 10 Deep, and Toy Machine Videos
Bressler has a quick sick NYC montage. RB Umali has another Canon 7D test video. The 10 Deep crew went to NYC's Chinatown park. Toy Machine comes through with Logan Kincade #30.
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Tony Hawk Foundation Announces Grant Recipients
The Tony Hawk Foundation Board of Directors has announced the recipients of its Fall 2009 Skatepark Grant Awards, as well as a special allocation to match, dollar-for-dollar, donations to the Watts Skatepark project in Los Angeles. Read More...
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Crailtap, Roger, NYC, and Real Videos
Crailtap has a trailer for Beauty And The Beast Two. Patrick Franklin is the new Roger of the Month. Bill Strobeck has a new clip of recent NYC skating. Real has Justin Brock's first pro interview.
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Win Ride from Steve Nesser
Steve Nesser and Adio are giving away Tony Hawk's Ride video game to one lucky parson who can answer their trivia question.
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This Time Tomorrow Website
Chris Mulhern just launched a website for his new video This Time Tomorrow. There are tons of things to see including a new montage, interviews, premiere dates, as well as old videos including each part from Few and Far Between.
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Vans X-Mas Party
Vans hosted a Christmas party in Hollywood last night and it was pretty epic. At the party was a theatrical version of Point Break with Andrew Allen taking the leading role of Johnny Utah. It's kind of hard to explain how it went down exactly, but here's some photos and a video. Read More...
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Mo vs. Franz...
I documented a heated game of 21 between MikeMo and Tyler Franz this evening. Mo ended up taking it, but it was close.
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Shitty Fundraiser for DIY Skatepark, Shitside (St. Louis)
Randy Ploesser is organizing a shitty event to help raise money for St. Louis's DIY skate park under the Kingshighway viaduct (at Southwest and Kingshighway). This spot is known to many as Shitside, in reference to the famous Portland skate park that was built under similar conditions called Burnside. There will be boxes, rails, and ramps for skateboarding at the fundraiser, but anything that rolls is welcome (excluding bikes). There will be drinks available at the St. Louis Skatium bar and a large raffle giving away lots of product from all of the event’s sponsors. There will also be organized games of S.K.A.T.E. with half of the money pool going to the winner and the other half donated to helping Shitside. Come join the party and help make a great spot even better. What else do you have to do on a Tuesday night? Read More...
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Merry Deathwish Skatejam: this Saturday (dec. 19th)
Come join the Baker, Deathwish, & Shakejunt possie for the first annual Merry Deathwish Christmas Skate Jam this Saturday December 19th at Lafeyette Safe Zone Skate Plaza. Shred, witness destruction, & see if Santa Clause has any new face tats. If you don't live in the greater Los Angeles area, check back on Monday for some festive holiday coverage. Map Here
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Tribute Takes Portland
Tribute Skateboards has posted each part from their latest video Tribute Takes Portland. Mikey Chin turns in quite a performance and got a pro model for his efforts.
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DVS, Flip, Shred or Die, and Spanish Videos
DVS has a creative new commercial. Flip has more Luan from Tampa. Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen talk at Shred or Die. Dogway Media has a sick montage with well known Spanish rippers. Bart Jones gets wild on a recent AZ trip.
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Eli Goes Pro
Eli Reed has been bumped up into the pro ranks over at Zoo York.
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Phillip "Pip" Meranto Rip Clip
Do you remember,Pip's Mag Minute, when we first launched these videos? Well he's back and hasn't stopped ripping since. Let the Ripping continue.
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Olly Todd and Thiebaud are POETS
not until yesterday did i know that Olly Todd fancied himself a poet. Thiebaud though, he's always been one of my favorites. Here's some excepts from his 1991 book, DO THE DISTANCE, and some downloadable MP3s, as read by me.
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RVCA Signing Friday
Leo Romero, Kevin “spanky” Long, Josh Harmony, Austin Stephens, Ed Templeton, David Reyes, and Julian Davidson will be at the RVCA signing this Friday, December 18th at Pac Sun at The Block at Orange.
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Habitat, Stereo, Crail Tap, and Pott Videos
Habitat spent a snowy day at Southside Skatepark. Spend Agency Thursday with Ben Gore in San Francisco. Tony Ferguson and Tim Gavin take a seat on the Crail Couch. Andrew Pott at the sick looking new Hollenbeck Skatepark in LA.
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Free Lunch With Fred Gall
Fred Gall comes in hot with a ten minute long Free Lunch.
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Beautiful Losers on Netflix
Beautiful Losers is on NetFlix now for DVD and streaming, so throw that in you cue.









