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Adio Footwears Summer In The Streets Montage Vol. 1

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Take some time out to let some summer skating into your mind with some Adio Footwear skaters in this chilled out video.

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Real Street week 6: Bassett and Tave

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

After six weeks of weekly video insanity, we’re down to our final two skaters in the first-ever X Games Real Street competition: Zered Bassett and Tony Tave. It’s a classic East Coast versus West Coast skate battle, with Bassett’s skating soundtracked by the rattle of bricks under his wheels and Tave…

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Real x D*Face decks

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Real Skateboards has recruited the talents of UK street artist D*Face for a series of limited-edition decks.

The celebrated artist has designed three decks for team riders Peter Ramondetta, Justin Brock and Dennis Busenitz.

Each features some of the skaters’ favourite things including zombies, Darth Vader and Colonel Sanders.

As part of this collaboration, D*Face painted a replica of the Brock board graphics onto a quarterpipe in London and Brock himself flew over to skate it.

You can check out the video of this on the DLX website.

via HuckMagazine

Coastal Carnage 2010

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Just in case you didn’t catch it, The Coastal Carnage is happening August 6-8th in Huntington Beach, CA. We have some highlights up from last year as well as a glimpse at this year’s ramp. Practice starts soon. Stay tuned to see who warms things up.

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Paradise Wheels Team Announced

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Paradise Wheels announces their stacked team. Carlos Young, John Montesi, Matt Rodriguez, Mike York, Chris Senn, Sammy Baptista, Mike Peterson, Toad, Mike Rosa, Ryan Nix, Ron Allen, and Mike Daher.

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éS x Atiba Square 2

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Get a good look at the new éS x Atiba Jefferson Collaboration shoe and book and read the full press release. Just click through.

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Brett Prais Mag Minute

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Did Brett Prais just do a 77 stair backisde 50-50? Find out in his Mag Minute.

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NIke, DC, Atchley, Platform, Spitfire, Street League, and Birdhouse Videos

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Nike has part two of their Belco Or Bust Australian tour video. DC has videos from demos at Kinetic and Theory. Tribute has a welcome video for Brent Atchey. The dudes form Platform where lucky enough to get a session in at the Girl park. Tom Asta murders a set of stairs for Spitfire. Chris Cole and P-Rod do a demo for Street League at Microsoft. Birdhouse demos in Barcelona.

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Interviews and Announcements

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Tyler Bledsoe is now pro for The Alien Workshop. Kevin Long is on Ashbury. Brent Atchley is back on Tribute Skateboards. 48 Blocks has an interview with Dave Abair. Our own Grant Brittain gets interviewed by Jay Watson. Matt Mumford flashes back with Black Box.

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éS Val Surf Demo

Posted on July 26, 2010 with Comments Off

Start planning you weekend now for the Val Surf éS demo at SkateLab this Saturday, July 31st. Kellen James, Justin Eldridge, Josh Matthews, Stevie Perez, Tyler Surrey, Kelly Hart, Kevin Romar and Ben Reamers will be on hand for shredding, signing, and BBQ.

via TheSkateboardMag