The Air & Style in Munich was held over the weekend with Peetu Piiroinen taking out the win throwing a cab 1260 mute and a frontblunt 270 down the rail for a 93.07. Seppe Smits took second with the same trick over the jump and a frontside noseslide pretzel on …
Sean Malto Park Session For Spitfire
Here’s a rad little park session clip of Sean Malto for Spitfire. The guy has got amazing style – check it out!
Extreme Sitting – Not Even Kidding
Jana, our fashion editor, just sent this to me over twitter… As a funny way to finish the week, I give you ‘extreme sitting‘. Apparently it’s all the rage in Germany – you can get different weight seats with different graphics and there is actually a DVD out. A DVD of people sitting. Yup.
Nitro Creates Epic Collab With Abarth
Just when you think the collab thing is about over, someone comes up with something rad to up the ante. Nitro has teamed up with the Fiat owned race car maker, Abarth, to create ‘Nitro powered by Abarth‘. There’s not a tonne of info in the video but you do get to see the Fiat 500 Abarth in action!
Ilvia Brand Launch Party
The guys behind Evie held a launch party for their new brand, The Ilvia Community, last Sunday. The guys have a history of creating great events and this one looked no different. In the email I got with the photos, the guys said, “With every little antic we get up to there is always an instance of the unknown, we never …
Hollywood’s Action Sport Success’ and Failures
127 Hours got a lot of its sports sequences right because it didn’t try and treat them as ‘extreme’ – there was none of the cliché catch phrases, metal music or other cringe-inducing elements Hollywood loves to throw into any sequence that hints at a surf, skate …
Mark ‘Gator’ Rogowski To Remain In Prison
Mark ‘Gator’ Rogowski, the notorious former pro that was jailed for 31 years after raping and killing a friend of a former girlfriend was denied parole on February 7th, 2011. In our interview with Tony Hawk, we spoke to him about Gator’s pending release, you can see …
New Lakai Commercial
Lakai have got a rad commercial out shot in Biebel’s World and featuring Guy Mariano, Marc Johnston and Biebel killing it. The clip is called ‘We Are Your Friends’ and was filmed by Federico Vitetta and Sam Newman. Enjoy!
Laneway Festival Photos
The Laneway Festival happened last weekend in Melbourne and featured the likes of Cut Copy, Chk Chk Chk and a tonne of other bands, most of which I’ve never heard of. Our friends at The Vine have a full review up (check it out here) but the reviews best line comes from …
Lewis Marnell On The New Nike SB Dunk’s
The Nike SB Dunk’s have been re-engineered and are looking pretty damn awesome… Lewis Marnell has given a quick video …
Skateboard Film Making Legend, Ty Evans
We posted the ‘In The Field’ interview with Greg Hunt back here – Joshua Zucker has now put down an interview with Ty Evans talking about skate filming. He talks a little about getting into filming and the importance of school in developing …
Billabong Air & Style Photos And Results
Here’s a little more info on the Billabong Air & Style which went down in Innsbruck last weekend. The event was won by Canadian Mark McMorris who pulled out a Cab 1260 Double Cork in the final to beat Peetu Piiroinen. The crowd were pretty damn stoked early …
Iikka Backstrom’s Latest Clip For DC Shoes
Iikka Backstrom’s got a rad clip up on DC’s Youtube channel. There’s no info on this clip so I’m not sure if it’s b-roll or was shot specifically just for this – either way, it’s worth a watch.
Brett Royden Clip For Third Chapter
The guys at Third Chapter caught up with Brett Royden and Blake Harris for an afternoon skate around Melbourne a while back. Here’s the clip – Enjoy!
Pop Magazine’s 2011 Sexiest Swimwear
It’s about time we put out 2011 sexiest swimwear guide online! Here’s the shots from issue 17 which featured the beautiful model Jordan giving us a peek at some of the hottest swimwear for this summer. Enjoy the photos!
Declan Vogel-Paul’s Breck 2011 Clip
I got sent this clip from 15 year old Buller local, Declan Vogel-Paul. He spent his summer in Breck and got a bit of footage – all put down in a season wrap clip. He’s got a shout out on his site for sponsors so if any of you team managers out there are looking for new talent, it maybe worth checking this out.
Scotty James Takes 2nd At Canadian Open
Scotty James has taken out second place at the Burton Canadian Open over the weekend. There’s no video highlight as yet – you can re-watch the comp in its entirety over at Metacafe though, check it out here. First in the mens pipe went to Kohei Kudo from Japan …
10 Greatest Skate And Snow Clips
This is the most argued topic in surf, skate and snow… What are the best parts ever created? As part …
Shane O’Neill For Skate Click
Here’s an awesome little clip of Shane O’Neill at Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory which was put together by The Skate Click. It was filmed in early February and contains a lot of the raddness you expect from the guy. Check it out!
Snowboard Realms – SIA And The Transworld Awards
The new episode of TJ Schneider’s Snowboard Realms is up. This time he is visiting SIA in Denver and hitting the Transworld Awards. He catches up with Travis Rice to talk about ‘The Art Of Flight‘ (hanging out to see the trailer for this) and presents an award. Enjoy!
ESPN Talks To Sean Malto
Sean Malto has given a quick ‘Face Time’ interview to ESPN’s Andrew Cannon where he talks about his up coming Girl/Chocolate video, how he’s going with his pile of cash earnt at Streetleague last year and potentially an Australian tour at the …
Forum’s 11/12 Graphics
I got this via Radcollector – here’s a couple of graphics from Forum’s 2011/2012 range. The base text is awesome – check it out below the cut. These guys are definitely doing some recognizable graphics at the moment.
Crailtap – Rad Raw Footage
I came across this rad raw footage from 2005 when the Lakai guys were creating Fully Flared on the Streetleague blog. According to the blurb with it, the clip features Mike Carroll, Marc Johnston, Biebel, Alex Olson, Rick Howard, Guy Mariano and more. Pretty amazing line up. Check it out!
Yvonne Strahovski For Issue 17
Here’s the full interview and an extra photo from our interview in issue 17 with the Australian born star of the hit NBC series, Chuck, Yvonne Strahovski. Check it out!
Shaun White’s X Games Gold Medal Run
You’ve probably all already seen this but just in case, here’s Shaun White’s gold medal run from the X Games… You get to be pretty amazed by how big he goes, and cringe at the commentator. Enjoy!
Two Weeks In Canada With Ben Alexis
This is a rad little clip Ben Alexis sent through of him and Maddy riding at Silver Star and Big White in Canada. Looks like fun – Check it out!
Shaun White Takes Out WX15 SuperPipe
The superpipe gold has gone to Shaun White with silver going to Scotty Lago (who’s jaw is still wired after his backcountry accident) and bronze going to Louie Vito. According to the ESPN report, White earned “a 97.33 — an identical
Will Tuddenham Interview
Will is a nice, quiet kid from Utah with an infectious smile and an even better attitude. I met Will and the Team Thunder crew through mutual friends on a trip to Utah one year. They took me in and showed me around the Salt Lake City …
Skullcandy Going Public
Skullcandy is looking to raise US$125 million through a public float according to this Reuters article. The company has been an amazing success to date with incredible year on year growth. There more information and some interesting reading on the Boardistan article over here.
Mikkel Bang Joins The Frends Crew
This is all over twitter this morning – Mikkel Bang has hooked up with the Frends crew over the weekend. Check out the welcome to the team clip above!
127 Hours Review
Imagine your life depended on your will to break the two bones in your forearm and then cut through the flesh, muscle and tendons using a cheap, blunt pocket knife. Think you could do it? The amazing new film from Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later) gives you a good look at what it would be like.
Jye Kearney On The Lift Line
Chris at Burton just sent this through – Jye Kearney has got a clip up on The Lift Line at …