DC have announced the addition of Tommy Fynn to the Australasian team. The team incliudes Marty Girotto, Kieran Reilly, Jake Hayes, and Bugs Fardell. In the release, Fynn said, “I’ve always been really …

I’m a little late on this one but Street League stop 3 for 2012 went down in Arizona over the weekend. Breaking Nyjah Huston’s winning streak, Paul Rodriguez took the $150k on the day beating out Chris Cole, Ryan Sheckler and …

The photos from this event tell a far better story than I can about this event. Third Chapter held their winter launch last Friday night and as predicted, things got pretty loose… I don’t know what to say – check the photos …

The crew at Holiday Skateboards headed west recently and here’s a bit of park footage from the trip. The clip features Beacho, Gus Faithfull and Jack Bridges having a roll in Goondiwindi. Check it out!

This was sent to me by our friend Si – it’s three and a half minutes of raw footage from Gilbert Crockett’s Workshop Life Splice clip. It’s an awesome watch …

In what maybe the last skate part released by Zoo York, Chaz Ortiz’s video dropped over night. Filmed and edited by U.B. Umali to a killer Kanye track, the video is damn good and you can see why Ortiz is on a Gatorade bottle. The guy definitely has skill.

Bowl A Rama have announces a NYC stop for the comp. Happening on Saturday October 6th at Hudson River Park’s Pier 62 Skatepark the event has a $50k prize purse and is sure to attract the usual high level of talent. You can …

There’s not much to say about this – just a super fun clip from Stacks featuring Sebo Melo. Enjoy!

On June 21st, Go Skateboarding Day, Emerica took Bryan Herman, Andrew Reynolds, Jerry Hsu, Brandon Westgate, Ed Templeton, Collin Provost, Figgy, Trevor Colden, Leo Romero and a couple of thousand of …

Etnies have released a rad clip for Jose Rojo’s shoe. The narrator tells me that Rojo’s shoe is perfect for archery, golf and flying model airplanes – the clip finishes with a couple of minutes of killer skating… And dancing.

Third Chapter have got their winter 2012 launch coming up in Melbourne – if you made it to their last launch at The Vineyard, you’ll know these things get loose. Check details on the night below.

I’m a few days late on this one but if you haven’t seen it yet, it is definitely worth checking out. Posted on the Berrics the five and a half minute clip is called QUIK (and is supported by Quiksilver). It features Austyn Gillette and was edited by Colin Kennedy. There’s some pretty amazing film work in here …

Patrick O’Dell has given Eric Koston the Epically Later’d treatment and the teaser is out. This should be good – can’t wait to see it.

I got shot this clip this awesome clip earlier today of Madars Apse. I don’t think I’ve heard of the guy before but he has one hell of an ollie on him …

I got sent this amazing clip from a friend in the office. It’s not the most mind blowing skating but it is shot and edited amazingly. It features Firdaus Samsudin and was edited and filmed by Juffrie Friday. They shot it in Singapore’s CBD which looks …

Nyjah Huston must be running out of room to store his winnings after raking in another $150K for the win and $15K for best trick at Street League in Ontario, California. In the finals he was going trick for trick with Chaz Ortiz, Sean Malto and Luan Oliveira …

Austrian pro Philipp Schuster has built this amazing skate villa just outside one of my favorite places in the world, Salzburg. Created from a derelict hunting lodge and decorated with curved skateable surfaces, feature walls and some pretty cool ornaments, it looks like it was something to …

Okay, if you haven’t seen it yet, you need to go here and watch the final battles from BATB5 which went down last weekend. While in some ways, it wasn’t the result I wanted to see, I was still absolutely stoked and amazed with the level of riding. Shit is getting crazy. Take 15 minutes out and enjoy them all ASAP.

This weekend (June 15th and 16th) is stop two for season 2012 of Street League. It is being held in Ontario, California and you can see the course plans in the image above. Stop one was narrowly taken out by the 2011 champ, Nyjah Huston who took home US$160,000 for the win. A win at stop two could see him over $300,000 richer for the season. Details over here and local (Australian Eastern) broadcast times are below.

Grantland put me onto this one… Apparently Dyrdek took offense to a clip put together by Daniel Tosh on Tosh.0 lampooning Fantasy Factory. This beef has roots that go back to the beginning of Ridiculousness, which Tosh (and a few other people) claimed was a straight rip of Tosh.0. The clip is actually pretty funny but I can understand why Dyrdek wouldn’t be too …

Rodney Mullen has given a TED talk at USC. His talk was called ‘How Context Shapes Content’ where he talks about things like being ‘skate famous’, where kids go nuts when you’re in the park but no one knows you five minutes down the road. He also looks at the similarities between the hacker and the skate community. Definitely worth a watch, check it out below.

Almost has released their “5-Incher” video today (June 4th). It’s available on iTunes over here. The film features Chris Haslam, Daewon Song, Lewis Marnell, Cooper Wilt, Willow, Youness Amrani and more. Check the teaser below.

I got this via the social media blog, Mashable. Here’s a few unusual flat ground tricks filmed on the Redlake N3 high speed camera at 1,000 frames per second. It’s pretty rad to see. I pulled the trick list from …

Trevor Jacob stopped off at Woodward Pensylvania while he and a friend were skating across America (as you do). While there he thought giving a double back flip, or a double cork onto the foam resi-ramp might be worth a shot and he managed to nail one. Pretty impressive. The actual trick has come up for debate – ESPN reached out to …

Here’s Ben Nordberg stylish full length part for Flip, Gravis and Analog.It was filmed by Russell Houghton, Ewan Bowman, Greg Hunt and Greg Poisionner with the edit being done by James Gardner. Making it look easy.

It’s a bad news week for skating. In addition to the news of the loss of DVS and Matix, it looks like Zoo York is not going to resign any rider as they come out of contract. Chris Nieratko has done an interview with Zered Bassett over at ESPN. Bassett has been with the brand for a decade and has just found out that he won’t be doing another board for them. In the interview, they talk …

There’s not a lot I can say about this … An epic commercial for Lakai featuring Sebo Walker. Enjoy!

Nyjah Huston has won the Kansas City Street League stop stomping a kick flip backside nose blunt on the Big Section rail scoring a a 9.1 and finishing the day $150,000 better off. He saw off stiff competition from EU Selection winner Bastien Salabanzi, Chaz Ortiz, P-Rod, Chris Cole, Ryan Sheckler, Sean Malto and Mikey Taylor in an impressive finals. Check the highlights clip below and a breakdown on the scores below that.

Mashable had an article up yesterday about how the new Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD will have additional downloadable levels and Hawk is letting the facebook fans decide which levels they want to see available. The game features seven levels from the first two iterations of the game and the fans can decide which levels from the third game that they’d like to be made …

Danny Way’s ‘Waiting For Lightning’ premiere happened in Melbourne last night and it looks like it was an incredible night. Initial reviews for the film are saying it is absolutely amazing. The photos show a room full of good dudes – have a flick through. There’s like a million shots but there’s some gold as the night goes on. Looks like there will be a few people in pain this morning.

Riley Blakeway has released this epic clip called Dolphin Days. It features Chima Ferguson, Bo Reid, Rhino, Josh Pall, Jake Hayes, Ryder Lawson, Sammy Winter and Bjorn Johnston and would have to be one of the best local clips I’ve seen recently. I don’t want to hype it too much so settle back and enjoy. Best two minutes and six seconds you’ll have today.

This weekend is the first stop for the 2012 Street League season and it’s happening in Kansas City. It will be broadcast live on ESPN2 as well as a live webcast happening on Streetleague.com. I’ve converted the timing below so you can see the local Australian broadcast times (these are all EST). Beneath that is a clip of Street League founder Rob Dyrdek performing a feat more …

This weekend is stop on of Street League 2012 in Kansas City. In the lead up, the guys have released a commercial featuring the EU Selection winner, Bastien Salabanzi. It’s only two tricks but it is pretty impressive. Below that I’ve posted Bastien’s EU Selection video shot at the DC Embassy in Barcelona which scored him a place in the comp …

Danielle Ruiz has been announced as the newest team member of the Street League Dime Squad (the cheerleader girls). As part of the announcement, they released the below clip… Am I the only one who flinched when they first started spraying the energy drink around? I thought for sure that the next scene would be a hazmat team …

The first Street League stop for 2012 is happening in Kansas City on May 19th and the new course for the stop has been revealed. There’s quite a few changes to the comp this year – for those that want to really understand the format and sequence, I’ve laid out the steps below from prelims to finals, and how the scores will accumulate over the weekend. The biggest …