To hook up something dope for the kiddies, Red Bull got together with Shut for an ultra limited Red Bull Skateboarding deck. Limited to just a handful and available only as promo at Red Bull Skateboarding events, the deck makes its debut appearance at Manny Mania today. Get ready to throw some serious bows during the product toss to get one of these. Another look after the jump.
Element has released some images for their upcoming Fall 2009 footwear collection. A big collection with 18 styles and five subcollections: Earth Collection, Conscious by Nature, Make it Count, Future Nature and Power to the Planet, Element has pretty much all the bases covered. Check out models like the Tim Tim, Mike V 2.0, Darrell 2, Omahigh, and Halifax here. Some select detail views of the collection standouts after the jump.
NYC’s most anticipated event of the year is going off tomorrow. Yep, Back To The Banks is back. With most of the world’s pros in town for the non stop train of events this weekend, BTTB promises to live up to the legendary spot where its held, The Brooklyn Banks. Expect blood, blood, and more blood, and beer. Full info after the jump.
To get ready for this year’s Go Skateboarding Day on June 21, DC is sponsoring a Go Skateboarding Tour. Jumping off on June 8 in San Diego, DC Ams Greg Myers, Matt Miller, Marquise Henry, Evan Smith and Wes Kremer will be skating through California, Nevada and Utah, until they hit Salt Lake City for Go Skateboarding Day. Along the way, they’ll be filming for the DC Am video and linking up with local homies. For more info hit DC Skateboarding. Full tour stop info after the jump.
The big weekend in NY starts today with the 5Boro 13th Anniversary Party and Art Retrospective. Poppin off at the Red Bull Space, the 5Boro squad will be displaying every deck they has ever made, more than 250 in total, as well as videos of all past team skaters, and an art and photo retrospective featuring Nardelli, Uncle Geez, Raza Uno, Thought Ninjas, Grotesk, Robert Mars, PK, Michael Sieben, Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Christian Acker, Dylan Haley, Megumi Watanabe, Eddie Martinez, Sean Cronan, Allen Ying, Angela Boatwright, Ruby Lee, Lowrider, Stephan Marx, Allison Malecki, Ewok, Dave Reinbold, AKA, The CollaBros, Circus Media, Andy Madsen, Jimmy Gonzales, Karen Stern, Fletcher Ohmart, and Craig Metzger. Damn that’s a lot of heavyweights – plus there’s free Pabst! Full info after the jump.
Quiksilver’s got a rad new take on viral video with their new clip called The Spot. What begins as a normal Quicktime skate clip morphs unexpectedly into an all out assault on your browser by Tony Hawk, Reese Forbes, Alex Olson, Danny Garcia and Kyle Leeper a la Indian in the Cupboard. It’s great! Check the whole thing out here.
This Saturday, amidst the year’s most chaotic weekend of skate events in NYC, a more peaceful exercise will go down with the 3rd annual Legends Never Die run for Harold Hunter. Nike Sportswear is again hosting this run from their store on Mercer and finishing at Royale on 10th Street and Avenue C. A $20 donation gets you a ltd edition Harold Hunter DriFit, some food, and a warm fuzzy feeling inside knowing you supported a good cause and the memory of a legend. Full run info after the jump.
C1RCA continues to build upon their already sick squadron with the addition today of Walker Ryan. A NorCal killer, Walker’s welcome package includes a 16 page C1RCA Dialog interview and some new flicks and video. Check it all out here.
etnies and Monster put together this teaser to get hyped for this year’s Maloof Cup. Arguably street skating dopest “big event” the Maloof cup is bound to be even better this year with the benefit of having one under their belts. Via Shred or Die.
Kink recently sent Aaron Smith, Jay Roe, KC Badger, Chris Doyle, Darryl Tacco, Sean Sexton, and Tony Hamlin to Taiwan. From crazy crowded streets to parks to beaches with dozens of screaming teenage girls in matching outfits, this is not your usual edit scenery. Via VitalBMX