Rune Glifberg took first place in the Quiksilver Bowlriders contest, making for a great month for Glifberg. He’s coming off a banner month with skate magazine coverage and now this! Rune Glifberg also won the event last year, ousting some heavy hitters in skateboarding. Quiksilver has been pushing their skateboarding division as of late, and this contest is definitely one of the better events that I’ve seen in a while. You can check out full photo galleries, videos, and more from the Quiksilver Bowlriders contest via tackyworld.com.

Heres a few skate shots taken over the weekend in Denver.

Joining the elite crew of stopping the information bandwagon, and hackers alike, Chocolate Skateboards has unleashed Chocolate Television. That’s right, Chocolate T.v. is full of videos and footage from the Chocolate Skateboards crew and more. To take advantage of this, you need a fast internet connection, and Flash Media Player isntalled and ready to go.
The only disadvantage to their television of skateboarding glory, is that you can not fast forward, rewind, or use any other major controls. That, and you can’t download the videos, but you could always subscribe to the Chocolate Skateboards podcast…now there’s an idea.
Check out Chocolate Skateboards Television via the Official Chocolate Skateboards Website.

Fallen Footwear has been promoting their latest video offering through their ads in magazines, online trailers, and teasers for a while now. Most of the videos are easily accessible, and a lot of media is still out there on youtube and other places. But to consolidate the effort of bringing quality video to you, they have launched a video gallery with their own media player.
Now you can get all the Fallen Footwear skateboarding footage onto your computer via the official Fallen Footwear website. The videos range from recent footage, trailers, teasers, to older footage, all in high quality streaming media. Not bad, not bad at all. Looks like Fallen Footwear might be trying to one up Lakai’s Fully Flared release, which recently won a Transworld Award for best video.
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For those of you that follow along print media, you may have noticed that the Transworld Awards happened this past weekend. The show went off, and the pro’s were all hyped as the honors went out to some unlikely and some obvious winners. I’m not sure if I agree with the Habitat team winning best team, but to each their own.
Mariano cleaning up was cool though, Congrats to the Comeback Kid!
Here are the rest of the winners for the Transworld Awards 2008.
BEST ROOKIE
Silas Baxter-Neal
BEST STREET
Guy Mariano
BEST TEAM
Habitat
BEST VIDEO
Lakai, Fully Flared
BEST TWO VIDEO PARTS
Stefan Janoski, Inhabitants & Nothing But The Truth

BEST TRANSITION
Dan Drehobl
BEST VIDEO PART
Guy Mariano, Lakai, Fully Flared
TWS READERS’ CHOICE
Guy Mariano
TWS LEGEND
Tony Hawk
Information src - [TWS Online]

Activision, producer of the Tony Hawk skateboarding series, is toying with the idea of using a motion skateboard-like motion-sensitive controller for the next 360/PS3/PC game.
That’s right, Tony Hawk is really pushing the envelope, trying to gain momentum against a major competitor in the skateboarding video game market. Remember EA’s Skate? Tons of people jumped shipped for the more simulation style skateboarding game, that was backed by a lot of skateboarders that were no longer relevant in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater universe. With Proving Ground not exactly selling as many titles as the previous games in the series, The Birdman went back to Activision with a new plan.
We are now seeing that the new plan apparently might include a real motion sensitive device that will let you skateboard in real time. This seems like a perfect fit for the Wii, but I’m not sure if they can get this motion thing down and still be good.
If you’re a skateboarder, you know that there is some skill involved with skateboarding’s even most simple of movies. If this new game is really going to break ground, they are going to have to make an ollie easier than the real thing, which will then make a lot of fat kids king of video game skateboarding, rather than skateboarding for reals.
Which makes me a little skeptical about this new height of skateboarding popularity. Sure, we have a lot of couch skateboarders, but this is going to bring in a new era of skateboarding, which we are experiencing mildly right now, where people that do not skateboard at all, are still buying skateboarding products, boards, and trying to “fit in”.
I remember the first time that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was released. The same thing was said about the game. I remember thinking the same thing I am thinking now about this latest news, but then again, I still got off the couch and I still skated. So maybe this isn’t going to do a whole lot more than what happened with me.
Who knows?
Info src [Crunchgear]

Been skating everyday after work, best thing to get you through the day. I have a few photos to share.
On Memorial day we were setting up at the Golden Mill which is a feed store in downtown. It’s not a huge spot but a good place to warm up. After about three attempts the cops roll in. Happy Memorial day. Two filmers, Ian and I were ticketed for trespassing. Which brought Ian to an  all time high of four tickets in one week. 

The sunsets have been pretty good for the last few days so we decided to do some shooting around that time. We were a bit late but had a blast on this little known mini. It’s amazing to skate this ramp, especially once it starts to cool down.

The Bloodsucking Toy Machine skateboarding company is getting their crew in a van and moving up west through the coast. The west coast, and will be bringing the whole team this time around. They most likely will be using a lot of the stops for footage in their upcoming skateboarding video, and you can be a part of it. If you managed to catch them on their Lurkfest tour, then you’re going to be in for a good time when the Toy Machine skateboard team lands at local shops, parks, and more for signings and demo’s.

Just when you thought the internet provides free content via youtube and other locations, you hit a site that doesn’t allow you to share media. Such is the case with Bones Wheels, and their latest footage from Damn Am. Sure, they don’t want people pirating their footage or taking content away from their website, but come on…throw us poor skateboard fans a bone. (no pun intended) So to check out the footage from Bones Wheels and Dam Am you gotta visit the official Bones Wheels Company Website. I did manage to smuggle a screen grab, for you hackers out there.

The Silver Trucks crew have just released their third teaser trailer for their upcoming summer video. This video features the team doing a lot of talking, where as the other videos were just spots getting hit by one of the best teams in skateboarding. Check out the trailer below, and then hit the streets.

Ryan Sheckler is enjoying a nice mainstream push, and is crossing over from being strickly a skateboarder by occupation. We saw this happen to Tony Hawk, with his whole push towards being in commercials for Hershey’s, Dorito’s, and now with T-Mobile. Sheckler has been on a different path, and continually pushes skateboarding wherever he is, and while I am not the biggest Ryan Sheckler fan, he’s getting into places where skateboarders really never get exposure in.
Case in point; Ryan Sheckler in Men’s Fitness. He was named one of the fittest guys in America, and it’s no wonder. The guy is ripped, and is often a girls fantasy of what a real man is. (I’m going to get so killed for saying that) I say that only from my experience in a local Mall where rabid Sheckler fans were nearly causing a riot while he was signing autographs.
You can read his interview for Men’s Fitness online, or pick up the magazine in print format.

P-Rod has a new FKD bearings commercial up and running, so check out how they are wrapping up P-Rod into his own brand. The bearings aren’t that bad, and he does lay down a good line for this short thirty second spot. Check it out below:

Windsor James recently took the Black Box skateboard park by storm. Here are ten tricks from Windsor James. It’s a quick video, so if you have to, rewind it and play it again. The guy is solid, and lands some great tricks at the Black Box park.

Who said the industry was only in Southern California? Sure there are some heavyweights chillin in California, but Manik Skateboards is putting in motion a major attack plan to change the game. Here they are representing their home town with a skate demo at Innerspace in Seattle, Wa. Watch out for these guys, they are some of the best skateboarders in the Northwest and dare I say…anywhere.

Recent signee to Girl Skateboards, Mike Mo, really had his hands full with Eric Koston when they went for broke in this game of skate. You might be surprised by the victor, and it was filmed, so it will go down in history.

Element skateboards returns with Element Television Number 84, with footage from the Zumiez couch tour. Not bad, although I’m not a big fan of corporate skateboarding/surfing chains like Zumiez. But that’s just me…check out the Element crew, ripping it up for the Zumiez corporation.

Zoo York skateboards keeps on keeping on and in their latest podcast they take a trip to Atlanta for some skateboarding in the dirty south.

Chocolate Skateboards has been on a roll this year. With most of the guys representing in the Lakai Video, a team that consists of skater of the year, former skater of the years, and so much talent, its no surprise that this video comes out free and blows minds! Chocolate skateboards in Easy Steady…a free video. Sorry for the write up…I’m tired.

We had previously mentioned that Tony Hawk was pimping out a sidekick with the help of T-Mobile, and today, word has become truth, as there are pictures and statements by Tony himself, citing that he loves the Sidekick and is proud to be a part of this “revolutionary” transmission.

Not bad, but will Tony Hawk’s sidekick be able to overcome the new Iphone that is supposedly coming out later this summer?
Further more, do skateboarders really care about their phones enough to back Tony Hawk? Or is this just a push towards further publicizing the Hawk name…as if he needs more non-skate publicity.
Whatever the case is, The Birdman is a legend and this phone can be a good thing, if it’s solid.

First and foremost, Sean Malto is now riding for Girl Skateboards as a professional! Secondly, he’s been ripping it up for a long time, and here’s a quick video from his session at Steve Berra’s skateboard park. It’s quick, but it’s good! Kid’s got some major skills.

I didn’t know the Birdman was still relevant in skateboarding. Sure, he did help reinstate vert skateboarding for the X-Games, and he has been doing work with Birdhouse skateboards, and a few commercials here and there, but overall, I haven’t really heard or seen anything major from Tony Hawk in a while.
Until this morning, when Crunchgear announced that Tony Hawk will have a limited edition Sidekick coming out sooner than later.
Wait…is the Sidekick still relevant?
Tony Hawk’s still a highly demanded famous person, even if he has retired from skateboarding as a whole. Then again, there is the boom boom huck jam tour coming through a town near you.

Analog Clothing has released some footage of their voyage through Japan. Analog has been really making some moves as far as skateboarding clothing is concerned, so it’s no surprise that their team made things look really easy on their trip through the land of the rising sun.

Fallen skate shoes took a trip to Mexico and had a rip roaring time, and here’s some throwaway edits from their latest dvd Ride the Sky.

The guys over at Strange Notes have released some bonus footage from last years Damn Am contest, not bad for bonus footage.

Like the banner above states, leave a comment below and you will have a chance to win this rad skateboard from Lost x Birdhouse Skateboards. Who knows, this thing could be a collectors item some day.
We are looking for the most creative comment on why you want to win this board so if you don’t bring your A-game, chances are you’re not going to win. Get crazy, get creative, have fun, and start typing…. GOOD LUCK!
Contest ends on June 2nd!
 

Lakai recently came through the Northwest with the Zumiez Couch tour, but before they landed that gig, they were trippin in Malaga and here’s part 1 of their footage.

Girl Skateboards just came through the Northwest on the Beauty and The Beast tour and here are all the links you could possibly want to see or read. There are videos, photos, and all sorts of media from this highly publicized event. I actually missed the tour, due to previous engagements, but heard that all that went down was just insane, and I’m sure the footage will be collected for a Girl Skateboards dvd down the road.
Crailtap: The latest video, video 2, video 1, Koston’s photos, Carroll’s photos 1, Carrol’s photos 2, Spike’s photos
Thrasher: Orcas Island, Portland - The Department, McMinnville, Lincoln City, Time Trials
Etc: O’Dell’s photos, another Department video
Links,Info src - [Skatedaily.net]

Here’s a short clip from Listen skateboards involving a little mini-ramp action. Not exactly going big, but a lot of fun if you ask me.

Ah yes, Hawaii, land of beauty and pork. Not exactly what you would think of first when thinking about Hawaii, but I love their pork down there. I went once, and had an all you can eat experience that has never been matched since. I could have closed the place down, but I was so full….and well….nevermind. Here’s a video of the DC skate crew hitting Hawaii; those lucky dudes.

I know, I know, I’m late on posting this by a long shot, but it’s still relevant. The DC Nationals video from last year, is here. DC Skate Shoes’s DC Nationals skate contest. Not bad, not bad at all.