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Guru Khalsa Habitat Video Part

Posted on February 3, 2010 with Comments Off

Habitat Skateboards have released a video part for their recently turned pro rider Guru Khalsa, head over to Habitats website…

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Make Friends With Marty Blueprint Promo

Posted on February 3, 2010 with Comments Off

Blueprint Skateboards have released the welcome video for Marty Murawski the new addition to their team, titled Make Friends With…

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First Drafts Of The Roc City Skatepark

Posted on February 2, 2010 with Comments Off

The first conceptual renderings of the proposed Rochester, New York skatepark are available to view at the Roc City Website. These are just the intial drawings and not the final product. Keep dropping into the site for updates and feel…
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Pop’s Props In The Philly Daily News

Posted on February 2, 2010 with Comments Off

Thanks to the efforts of the crew at Exit Skate Shop and the community of Philadelphia, Pop’s Playground opened last year and the once neglected lot in the Kensington section of Philly was transformed into a perfect little D.I.Y. skate…
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Win A V.I.P. Trip To The 2010 Tampa Pro

Posted on February 2, 2010 with Comments Off

FuelTV wants to send you and a friend to Florida for the 2010 Tampa Pro Contest to be held at The Skatepark of Tampa. Head over to the FuelTV site and register today to win the trip plus other prizes…
via Skatedaily

Matt Rodriguez In The Cutts

Posted on February 2, 2010 with Comments Off

‘In The Cutts’ kicks off episode 7 with a visit to the home of Matt Rodriguez for a peek of his new ipath shoe, a bit of acoustical freestyle and a backyard that is shaping up to be a transition…
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Vert Attack IV Contest Finals Videos Turn Up

Posted on February 2, 2010 with Comments Off

Just what I’ve been waiting for – footage from the Vert Attack IV final runs showing the vert carnage!

UPDATE Tuesday, February 2nd: I can’t embed the videos!!!!! So head over to these links to watch the videos courtesy of 2FUN.se

» Vert Finals part I video
» Vert Finals part II video

Here are the results for you from this European vert meet-up with 67 skaters participating (sounds like a record to me or when have you last had a vert session with over 60 people!), the youngest skater was 10 and the oldest 48 years old! At the end of the day Andy Scott took the cake, here’s the rest of the results and then sit back, get something to drink/eat and enjoy the vert skateboarding for the next 30 minutes!

Final Results

1. Andy Scott
2. Jussi Korhonen
3. Nicky Guerrero
4. Sam Bosworth
5 – 12. Adam Halvorsen, Jake Anderson, Oskar Gydell, Alex Hallford, Thomas Kring, Mattias Svensson, Sam Beckett, Anders Tellen.

Best songwriter: Patrik Bergholtz “The Vert Attack Theme Song”
Vertskater of the year in Sweden: Mattias Svensson, Halmstad, Sweden
Best 40 +: Anders Tellen, Germany
Best junior: Matthew Carlisle, UK
Best woman: Rebecca Aimee Davier, UK

via EuropeSkate

Tuesday videos

Posted on February 2, 2010 with Comments Off

Some days it seems like there’s nothing new on the Internet. You surf through webpage after webpage looking for stuff to glob on to just as dinosaurs like your parents used to surf through TV channels looking for something good to watch. Not today though. Today the Internet is chock-a-bloc full of new video clips from some of the best pros in the game. First we’ve got our boy, Element pro Levi Brown along with his friend and roommate, Powell am Dallas Rockvam walking you through a fairly unique day…

more at espn

Girl skatepark winter edit

Posted on February 2, 2010 with Comments Off

Crailtap have released some park footage that Girl Skateboards accumulated over the last few months at their Torrance headquarters.

The video features many from the Girl team including head honchos Rick Howard and Mike Carroll.

This puts the average tea break to shame.

via HuckMagazine

Gypsea Tour Premiere At Crossroads

Posted on February 2, 2010 with Comments Off

Cliché will premiere their latest Gypsea Tour video at Crossroads this Wednesday, February 3rd at the Crossroads Trade Show. The Gypsea Tour will air on Fuel TV starting February 5th at 8:30PM. Until then watch the teaser.

via TheSkateboardMag