When you hear that the entire Girl team will be skating anywhere remotely close to where you’re at, the question really isn’t if you’re gonna go, it’s how are you gonna get there? That’s exactly what Tim Brodhagen and the dose crew did when they learned that Mike Mo, Cory Kennedy, Sean Malto, Alex Olson, Rick McCrank, Guy Mariano, Brian Anderson, Jeron Wilson, Rick Howard and Brandon Biebel were hitting Baltimore for the Zumiez Couch Tour. In a word, it was rad! The Zumiez Couch Tour hits West Nyack New York tomorrow for Go SKateboarding Day with the Volcom team. Go here for all the details.

As they continue on with DLXmas, video #2 comes from Thunder and features Rick McCrank breaking down his mastery of pivot to fakies. Of course, it’s all about the trucks.

éS launches the latest installment of their timeline website today with a trip back to the glory days of 1998 when Kerry Getz, Rick McCrank and Brandon Turner first started running things. Peep the archives here.

Somehow, éS was able to get visas for Mike Anderson, Justin Eldridge, Danny Garcia, Kellen James, Rick McCrank, John Rattray, Rodrigo TX, and Bobby Worrest and will be taking them through Europe next month to seek and destroy. The “To Europe With Love Tour” runs May 30th through June 12, stay tuned for recaps of the carnage.

éS has a dope new feature up with Rick McCrank giving the story behind his latest ad which was shot at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris during the Great éScape Tour this summer. Amongst other things, Rick drops science on why he doesn’t rock shoelace belts anymore. Read the whole thing here. Peep the ad after the jump.

Towards the end of this summer, éS took Mike Anderson, Bobby Worrest, Rick McCrank, Danny Garcia, Rodrigo TX, Justin Eldridge, and John Rattray, linked them up with Euro team riders Javier Sarmiento, Ricardo Paterno, Gauthier Rouger, Sven Kilchenmann, Andi Welther and Stephan Günther and had them rip a four country path of destruction through Europe. The Great éScape, as it was called, has now been turned into three video edits, the first of which drops today. Parts two and three will drop December 7th and 14th respectively.

Ahh August, perfect time for a trip to Europe. All the Euros are on vacation so the pubs are empty and the lonely and bored waitresses dream of nothing else but a motley crew of skateboarders coming in the door and sweeping them off their feet with their drunken scumbag antics. éS knows the deal and so is sending Mike Anderson, Bobby Worrest, Rick McCrank, Danny Garcia, Rodrigo TX, Justin Eldridge to Europe from the 26th of August until September 7th. They’ll hit the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and France and will announce a new team rider somewhere along the way. Bon Voyage! Full tour info after the jump.

Red Bull Skateboarding sent Chris Nieratko, Quim Cardona, Ron Deily, Zered Bassett, Rick McCrank, Mike Anderson, Scuba Steve Chalme, and Tum Yeto’s Tod Swank on a skate mission to Cuba to be amongst the first to shred the island before the gringo flood gates open up and ruin everything. You know that’s gonna be one hell of a trip. Check out the story with photos by Bryce Kanights here. Via SkateDaily.