Watch a live webcast of the Vans Bowl-A-Rama Bondi today Friday, February 18th at 4:00 pm PST & 7:00 pm EST in the States to see the world’s best skateboarders battle it out for $60,000 cash (AUD) at Australia’s infamous Bondi Beach. Go here to see all the action.

In a bold move that is sure to ruffle some of the elite old feathers of the Olympic Commission, Terje Haakonsen and a battalion of riders today signed The Snowboarding 180 Olympic Charter in Oslo, Norway. Basically it states that unless current non-FIS slopestyle events will count towards Olympic qualification, none of them will participate in the Olympics if Slopestyle gets voted in. Read the full declaration after the jump.

Quicksilver and the ASP have announced that New York will be the 6th stop on the 2011 ASP World Tour. Long Island’s Long Beach will host the Quicksilver Pro New York from September 4-15 with the worlds best surfers competing for the million dollar purse. Now the East Coast isn’t known for its waves or cleanest water, but this is huge for the New York surf community to have the biggest pro surf event in the world right in its backyard.

Pro-BMX rider Nigel Sylvester and pro-skateboarder Stevie Williams, two of action sports most influential black athletes have joined forces to bring you The Takeover Tour. The traveling event will bring together the top talent in skate and BMX for a cross-discipline tour starting in the Summer of 2011. Peep their battle commercial and stay tuned for updates in the near future.

If you haven’t yet peeped the eight entries for the Real Snow video part challenge for Winter X Games 15, hit them all up after the jump. Our money is on Dan Brisse for sheezy, followed by Nic Suave with the strong second place. 3rd is pretty much anyone’s game. Vote here for your choice. Winter X jumps off on January 27.

Anti bro-brah Brasilian surf brand Weird held a contest last month with scores only going to air tricks and lots of heavy metal on the beach. Definitely not your typical event, but definitely fuckin rad.

Burton announced today that Mini will be taking over as the presenting sponsor of the Burton Global Open Series. Consisting of the European Open (January 8-15 in Laax, Switzerland), the Canadian Open (February 1-6 at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary), and the US Open (March 7-13 in Stratton, Vermont) the events will be used as a a marketing platform for the new Mini Countryman crossover SUV. Mini takes over from Volvo which had been the major sponsor of the series for the last several years.

The Shaun White and Oakley Air & Style wrapped in Beijing, China this weekend with the $100,000 going to young Canuck contest killer Sebastian Toutant. Toots grabbed the cash, the ring of glory and 1,000 TTR points after stomping a cab 12 double cork that beat out euros Seppe Smits and Elias Elhardt who took second and third respectively. Check out the winning run above and make sure to hit Andrew Guan’s column for tons of behind the scenes coverage from Beijing.

Its been a while but DVS finally dropped the edit from the CPH PRO that went down in Copenhagen earlier this year. Peep Torey Pudwill, Luan De Oliveira, Zered Basset, Lucas Puig, Paul Shier, Chico Brenes, Brad Staba, Matt Beach, Flo Mirtain, Shane O’Neill, Sean Malto, Grant Taylor and more.

Columnist Deka was out in Montauk this past weekend for the Vans Joel Tudor Duct Tape Invitational, a late season East Coast competition for only the most gnarly. Check out his sick gallery from the event here.