Saturday, September 26, 2009

Vans Downtown Showdown 09


Today the annual Vans Downtown Showdown went down at Paramount studios in Hollywood, CA. Live webcast via Fuel.tv gave everybody front row seats to the invite only event. Hosted by the Party Team from S.P.O.T., this years teams came through with some new inovative crazy obstacles.



Each skate team designs an obstacle in which everybody skates 30 minute sessions brutally slamming themselves all day long. The most brutal obstacle was the "one story" high set designed by the dudes at Black Label. This obstacle was literally one story high. It was the last obstacle in the competition and Billy Marks killed it with a double flip down. Check the webcast replay at http://www.fuel.tv/



Big props to 1st place winners Foundation. $30,000. Yeah.....

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Shoes with a Raw Vibe

From the company that I have the highest respect for and been a fan of since the early 90's (when I say fan, I mean decked out all day every day); OG Los Angelese apparel company Fresh Jive hits the market with a collaboration with the guys that revolutionized skateboarding and the skate shoe at Etnies in Lake Forrest on a stylish chucca style shoe called the Etnies Plus Fresh Jive.
The buttery ass shoe covers all the basis to bring out the "grown up" in you and is available in a black canvas and full-grain leather. A great collaboration from two legendary companies. Keep a look out for these on the shelves @ your local skate shops. More colorways please!
Check yo'self at and www.freshjive.com and www.etnies.com

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Syndicated

Skateboarding in the purest form. RIP Andy Kessler.



An epic pic. From the crew @ Syndicate. Get your roll on.

Monday, September 14, 2009

The Greatest Game of S.K.A.T.E Ever

If you skate then you know about the battle at the berric's game of skate. Last weeks battle between Zero's Chris Cole and Real skateboard's/Adidas superstar Dennis Busenitz was the most amazing/craziest/best game of S.K.A.T.E ever to be captured. The best that I had ever seen. Both these skaters are beasts!!

For those that don't skate and don't know what s.k.a.t.e. is. It's like playing horse in basketball, but only when one person does a trick, the other has to follow otherwise they get a letter. First with s.k.a.t.e loses.
You don't have to be a skater to be mind boggled off this video. Truely amazing.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Omar Salazar's Upcoming signature Nike SB promo

In an earlier post, I wrote about Omar Salazar being the next pro on Nike to be getting a signature shoe. A hightop hybrid type of shoe that I recently found out uses Nike's fly wire technology releasing in 2010.
In my opinion these are the nastiest pair of Nike SB's in a while. Lol. Seriously. Getting a shoe from Nike is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity and Omar came up with this? WTF? Check out the promo video featuring the the designer of the shoe, James Arizumi.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Koston's New shoe!!



But not from his new sponsor, Nike! As Lakai ltd footwear just released it's holiday 09 preview of shoes which include new colorways of the Lakai Koston 1 and a new Koston 1 Hi. Interesting considering he left Lakai this summer.



In addition to the Koston, here are a few new colorways of my favorite manchester selects and jericho shoes. Check out the whole holiday catalog at