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Grant Brittain will be a guest instructor at Camp Woodward’s Digital Media program August 14-20.

Posted on July 31, 2011 with Comments Off

If you can make it to Camp Woodward East during week 11, I will teach you everything I know about magazine photography in Woodward’s Digital Media program. You also might get your photos published in the Skateboard Mag, last year’s shooters did.Here’s a commercial that my son Sage shot.

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Shaun White strikes X Games gold in come-from-behind performance

Posted on July 31, 2011 with Comments Off

Shaun White came into the X Games sporting a new mustache and goatee, enhancing his rock star persona, and left with a shiny gold medal to hang around his flowing red locks and neck.

Having unleashed a dizzying array of acrobatics on his final run during Saturday night’s Skateboard Vert final, while trailing longtime rival Pierre Luc-Gagnon, White drew a score of 93.00 to pull ahead. PLG fell after dropping into the ramp as time on the jam session expired, and White erupted in..

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Nyjah Huston becomes youngest Skate Street Champion in X Games history

Posted on July 31, 2011 with Comments Off

Nyjah Huston,16, continued his dominant season by becoming the youngest gold medalist in X Games Skateboard Street history. Huston defeated a stacked final including former record holder for youngest gold medalist, Ryan Sheckler.

Earning a silver medal in 2009 and 2010, Nyjah was determined to win gold. “It’s the best feeling ever and my best win ever,” said Huston. “After getting silver for the past two years it was a built up feeling that I wanted to get that gold–there’s..

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X Games 17 – Bob Burnquist Takes Gold In Skateboard Big Air

Posted on July 30, 2011 with Comments Off

Usually I try to keep most of the updates lower key but I have to admit that I am again and again amazed about this Mega Ramp. The size of everything involved is just unreal.

Bob Burnquist yet again puts his skills and his backyard Mega Ramp practice facility to use at the X Games 17 Big Air competition and comes away with the win with two really insane tricks back to back. Adam Taylor came in second and Edgard Pereira grabbed the bronze position. Watch the runs from the top skateboarders right here. What ever you think about these types of contests, this is where the level of skateboarding has arrived at today, really incredible that nothing seriously bad has happened yet.

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Europeskate Music Tip – Paintscratcher

Posted on July 30, 2011 with Comments Off

Yes, this is the type of music I really like – Paintscratcher have brought out their new video for “I Live in a Fucking Trashcan.” What a name for a song, 10 points guys! The band is the new project from members of Destroyer Destroyer and Mammoth Grinder and here’s that promised video. Yes, good songs can be under 2 minutes long

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Jason Jesse And Santa Cruz Head Towards Oregon

Posted on July 30, 2011 with Comments Off

Jason Jesse always has something up his sleeve which makes you look a bit closer – and he does like those fireworks and guns. Mix in some Santa Cruz team skaters and a trip up towards Oregon with some good concrete parks and you’ve got a volatile video mix!

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Phil Zwijsen On A Street Mission

Posted on July 30, 2011 with Comments Off

Saturday afternoon and after a morning mini ramp session I’m happy to that my inbox is full with news, videos and basically loads of people getting in contact. Our mate Nick Geboers from LateFLIP sent over this video with one of the top European skaters, Phil Zwijsen, out on a street skate mission.

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Marek Zaprazny Rip Clip

Posted on July 30, 2011 with Comments Off

Slovakia must have some good skate spots because Marek Zaprazny’s Rip Clip just blew up

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Bob Burnquist reclaims X Games gold medal in Skateboarding Big-Air

Posted on July 30, 2011 with Comments Off

The spotlight was on 14-year-old Mitchie Brusco during Friday night’s X Games Skateboarding Big-Air competition, but it was Bob Burnquist who stole the show and reclaimed a title held for the past two years by perennial rival Jake Brown.

Burnquist, 34, who hobbled into the Los Angeles event with an array of injuries, took the lead on his second of five runs by performing a switch 180 over the 70-foot gap of the MegaRamp, then sticking a double-grab 540 he performed 20 feet above..

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X-Games Skatepark Winner: Raven Tershy

Posted on July 30, 2011 with Comments Off

Raven was a little nervous, for his first X-Games contest. But it looks like he calmed his nerves and took the win casually.

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