Kia held the World Extreme Games in Shanghai China last week and despite the wacky name, its looks like it was a pretty rad event. Manny Santiago, Ryan Decenzo, and Tulio de Oliveira took the top three slots in the street course while local legend Li Zhixing took the overall best skater crown. Of course Andrew Guan was onsite, check his recap in photos and video here.
From volcanoes to whales to freezing dark water, there are a million reasons not to surf in Iceland but shit, if no one did it we woulnd’t have sick footage like this! Peep the highlights as Vincent Duvignac takes the overall and Chippa Wilson the best trick at what has to be one of the ballsiest comps in the world.
On one hand this whole Detroit PR campaign is kind of like, enough already, but on the other hand the D was one of America’s greatest cities and is currently in worse shape than most third world metropolises. Having said that, this video, and the campaign to bring X Games to Detroit is one of the raddest things we’ve seen in the industry in a while. It’s like, shit, what do they have to lose, and that’s some fresh American spirit. Put our names on the petition, we want to see X Games Detroit! #XG2D
Considering all of Europe was at war only 60 years ago, and North Korea is threatening to bomb the whole world right now, it definitely seems a little crazy that Rip Curl went with a “World War” theme for their “Alive and Kickin” European contest series. But it looks like a rad contest and shit, crazier marketing campaigns have been hatched so fuck it. The “Alive and Kickin” tour still has some stops left and ends at Avioraz, France on April 14, hit the jump for full details.
The Costa Mesa Damn Am was full of highlights this year but this crazy Fs 360 Pressure Flip down the 7 stair by 12 year old Rene Serrano was easily one of the sickest. Shot and edited by our friend Colin Clark. Peep the full final runs after the jump.
If you were on Instagram last night you know that Travis Rice and Red Bull’s epic contest Ultra Natural concluded yesterday with Austrian living legend Gigi Ruef taking the crown as best snowboarder in the universe. He was followed by Nicolas Muller and Bryan Fox who both rose to the top of a stacked field despite what everyone is calling “variable conditions.” Check out the full results plus some more unreal photos after the jump and stay tuned for “Ultra Natural” to hit NBC on your TV March 30th, 2013.
Next out of Aspen, Mark McMorris came out swinging and housed the slopestyle competition for his second gold in a row in that event. Attaining near Shaun White status with a highest-ever 98 points, the actual Shaun White came in 5th. Check it out.
Next up in X Games news, Candian Louif Paradis followed up his X Games Real Snow video gold with a gold in the real life version of the competition. That’s pretty chill. Up for grabs is the fan favorite award with Eeero Ettala and Frank April still in the running. Go here to vote.
The rad thing about X Games is that after months of hype, the actual games blaze by in one mega weekend. Starting our update on the winners, check out Torstein Horgmo’s switch backside triple cork, which he stomped flawlessly on his way to a gold medal. Mark McMorris and Stale Sandbech rounded out the top three.
