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G Fab 5 Promo and Ian St. Aubin

Noah Tynes sent us over this remix of Ian St. Aubin's part from the Homegrown video as well as this promo for the fifth instalment of his GFAB videos which always feature some of the rawest skating in Toronto. If you haven't seen any of the GFAB vide ...

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Paul Machnau's New Board Sponsor

Paul Machnau has found a new home over at the newly re-launched board company Redstar. Check back soon for their website and announcements on other team riders.

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AM Getting Paid Halifax

The Halifax leg of the etnies AM Getting Paid qualifiers went off this weekend and luckily Curtis Rothney was there to capture the day in photographic form. Tons of shredding went down from everyone in attendance, but Alexander Mitchell managed to pu ...

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Matix Lord of the Lines Toronto

Matix's Lord of the Lines contest went down in Toronto yesterday afternoon despite some mid day showers. Luckily squeegees were on hand and the course dried up in time for Morgan Smith to take the contest. Following Morgan were TJ Rogers in second an ...

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PLG Mag Minute

The Skateboard Mag have posted their first ever vert Mag Minute courtesy of Quebec native PLG, click here to check it out. Keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming Late Summer 2010 issue for a full interview with Pierre.

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Vancouver's Kensington Park is Now Open

Vancouver's Kensington skatepark is now open and ready to shred thanks to the guys at Newline. There will be an official opening with a ribbon cutting and BBQ on Saturday, July 17th, so come out and check out of Vancouver's best bowls. You can check ...

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TO Manny Mania Results

Red Bull's Manny Mania continued to make its way across the country with its last stop before the finals in Toronto today. Brandon Bandula took the top spot, leaving manny-master Morgan Smith to take second and TJ Rogers a in a close third. Morga ...

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Montreal Lord of the Lines Video

Matix's Lord of the Lines went off in Montreal a few days ago with local resident Antoine Asselin taking home 1st place with Jeff Taillon and Alex Fauteux following him in 2nd and 3rd. Check out the video from the day courtesy of Frenchie and make su ...

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Machnau and Darkstar Part Ways

Darkstar announced today that Paul Machnau will no longer be riding for them. Keep your eyes peeled for our Late Summer Issue to find out what Paul has planned for the future.

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SK8 Skates Demo in Thunder Bay

SK8 Skates will be holding a demo at the Marine Skate Plaza in Thunder Bay on July 20th at 4pm. Come out and skate with the Sk8 Skates team or just sit back, enjoy some food and watch some shredding go down. Consult the flyer below or hit up Static B ...

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Amsterdam Am 2010

If you aren't able to make across the pond for this Weekend's Amsterdam Am contest, you can still watch live over the interweb if you're able to wake up early enough. The Volcom Europe Website will be hosting a webcast of the contest at the newly red ...

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Toronto DC Nationals

The Toronto leg of the DC Nationals Contests went down at the Ashbridges Bay Skate Park this past Saturday with tons of shredding from everyone in attendance. Last year's winner Ben Patterson proved once again that he knows his way around the Ashbrid ...

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Chaz Ortiz Vancouver Ambush

Gatorade and Zoo York pro Chaz Ortiz will be hitting up Vancouver and its surrounding areas to ambush their skateparks this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (July 9th-11th) so come out and skate with Chaz if you happen to be a local of or near: Metro Skat ...

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Anti-Social Clearwater Park Video

Check out this video of some of the Anti-Social dudes shredding the Clearwater Park.

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Ryan Smith's New Shoe Sponsor

VOX footwear is proud to welcome British Columbia native Ryan Smith to the team. Congratulations Ryan! Check out the press release below for full details.

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Red Dragon and Tiki Room Demo

If you're going to be in Regina, Saskatchewan this coming Friday, July 9th, be sure to stop by the Wascana Skatepark for a demo from the RDS team. The demo is slated to start around 3pm, for more info check out the flyer below or hit up the Tiki Room ...

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Vans Road Block Contest

This past Saturday Vans invited Antisocial, Coastal Riders, Underworld & BLVD skate shop to build a secret obstacle and then skate it in a best trick contest. Vans was offering 1000$ to the winner of each obstacle. The Vans Roadblock on Granville ...

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Matix/ DVS Team at the Fringe Skate Contest, Charlottetown, PEI

Charlottetown, PE -- Matix/ DVS Canadian team rider’s Russ Milligan, Mike McDermott, Jay Brown and Paul Liliani made the trip out to PEI last week to put on a few demos and guest judge a local skate contest at the Charlottetown Summer Festival' ...

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Dan Redmond Interview on skatenewspot

Ben Oleynik interviewed Penticton's Dan Redmond to see what he's been up to for the past year, which is now available for you to check out on skatenewspot with some sick photos to go a long with it. Click here to see it.

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Lee Yankou Think Ad

Toronto's Lee Yankou has this months Think ad, congrats Lee! If you happen to have missed Think's recent promo with Lee, you can check it out here.

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Ottawa Red Bull Manny Mania Video

The Ottawa round of Red Bull's Manny Mania went down on Thursday with lots of shredding and good times from all those in attendance. In the end, Mitch Barette was the one to take home first place followed by Curtis Whitaker in second and Mike Fyfe in ...

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Quik Canadian Tour Video

You've seen the blog posts and other goodies from the Quiksilver "Wish You Were Here" Canadian tour and now Quik has dropped a montage of the ripping their Amercian team got up to. Check below for footage from Omar Hassan, Riley Hawk, Kyle Leeper and ...

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First Pro Added to Selfish Skateboards

We got a press release from Selfish Skateboards announcing Brian Wenning as the first addition to the team. Scroll down for some words from Brian and Jereme via the press release and click here for to read an interview Chris Nieratko did with Brian a ...

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Sean Connery: Skate Grandpa?

Yes, you heard correct. Sean Connery has, in fact come out of retirement to play, or at least lend a voice to a skateboarding Grandpa in the new animated film Sir Billi. Check out the trailer and interview with Sean on the project below or head over ...

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Red Bull Manny Mania Recap

Red Bull kicked off their Manny Mania Qualifier contest series last week in Halifax and has since held the event in Quebec City, Montreal and Calgary and we have the results for you. Scroll down to see some photos from the four events as well as the ...

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RVCA North West Tour

The RVCA team will be making one stop in Canada at the Railside skatepark in Port Coquitlam, BC. Come out to 2300 Lions Way on July 20th at 3 pm for a BBQ and skate jam with Leo Romero, Keegan Sauder, Cory Kennedy, Austin Stephens, Julian Davidson, N ...

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Zoo York BC Tour

Zoo York's Chaz Ortiz and Brandon Westgate along with Canadian riders Robbie Pellack and Dan Redmond and Zoo York US flow rider Dave Willis will be doing 2 instore appearances and demos in British Columbia on July 7th and 8th. Drop by Underworld and ...

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New Vivo Headwear Rider!

We got a press release from Vivo Headwear announcing that they have added Wade Desarmo to the team! Full details in the press release below."Vivo headwear welcomes Wade Desarmo to the team.With the recent signing of Canadians top skaters Mark Appleya ...

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Antoine Asselin in Real HD Clip

The Berrics have a new HD clip of the Real team up on the site with a couple clips from Canada's own Antoine Asselin. Click here to check it out.

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Bowl Series 16 in British Columbia

The 16th Bowl Series will be kicking off this Thursday, July 1st at the Seylynn Bowl. The series will continue through July and August, hitting the Griffin and Whiterock skateparks and wrapping up with the finals in Whistler on August 22nd. Many priz ...

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Fringe Urban Zone Opens Today in PEI with Demos from the Matix DVS Team

Today marks the opening of the Fringe Urban Zone at Charlottetown Summerfest. The day will include demos from members of the Canadian Matix and DVS teams, featuring Russ Milligan, Jay Brown, Mike McDermott and Paul Lilani. You can catch the guys sk ...

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Winnipeg Etnies AM Getting Paid Qualifier (Now With Video)

The etnies AM Getting Paid Qualifier was in Winnipeg this past Saturday (June 26th) at the Forks plaza. This is by far the largest skatepark in Canada; you've got everything you could dream of to skate in one spot. All the local skaters are very dive ...

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Edmonton Etnies AM Getting Paid Qualifier

The first of the Etnies AM Getting Paid Qualifiers went down in Edmonton last Saturday hosted by Famous/Plush Skateshop. The day was pretty much perfect and tons of skaters from Red Deer, Calgary and Edmonton made it out to entertain the large crowd. ...

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Haslam Mini Ramp Interview

Globalskateboarding.tv have a sick video interview with Chris Haslam on skating ramps and filming the Cheese and Crackers video. Click here to watch it.

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Skatistan Go Skateboarding Day

For the second time ever, Go Skateboarding Day was celebrated in Kabul, Afghanistan. The event was a huge success with over 4 times the turnout as last years event. SBC Contributing writer Rhianon Bader was on hand to witness the event and has a writ ...

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Vancouver Go Skateboarding Day

We got some of footage of the Go Skateboarding Day festivities that went on in Vancouver this past Monday courtesy of Brian Caissie. Check it out. Go Skate Day - Vancouver 2010 from brian caissie on Vimeo.

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MTL Wild in the Streets Video

Brian "B-Shans" Shannon sent us a video of some of the action that went down during Emerica's Wild in the Streets that happened Monday in Montreal, looks like it was a good time.

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Ryan Smith Flashback

Zero Skateboards have a video and print retrospective of Ryan Smith's career thus far on their site in a feature called Flashback. The Flashback features Ryan's early interviews, magazine covers and his parts in Dying to Live and the DC video. Click ...

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Regina DC National Postponed

Unfortunately due to the recent bad weather in Regina, tomorrow's DC National Qualifiers will be postponed. The contest will still be happening a later date, which has yet to be announced. Check the DC Nationals blog for more details and be sure to c ...

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Gone Trippin'

Looks like Brad Sheppard, Brett Stobbart, Colin Nogue, Colin Lambert, Jordan Hoffart, Torey Goodall, Jess Atmore, Ryan Oughton, Alien and Sheldon Meleshinski will be hitting the prairies and doing some demos in Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Regina ...

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Edmonton AM Getting Paid Qualifier

The first of the Etnies AM Getting Paid Qualifiers went down in Edmonton last Saturday hosted by Famous/Plush Skateshop. The day was pretty much perfect and tons of skaters from Red Deer, Calgary and Edmonton made it out to entertain the large crowd. ...

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Red Bull Manny Mania Montreal

Be sure to stop by Le Taz skatepark for Red Bull's Manny Mania this Saturday, June 25th if you happen to be in the Montreal area. Show up at 3pm to enter the contest and have a chance at winning a trip to Vancouver to compete in the finals or just co ...

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Go Skateboarding Day BBQ

Thanks to all who came out to the SBC Go Skateboarding Day BBQ at the Baitshop on Monday, we had a great turn out and lots of good times were had. Here's some photos from the event shot by Cory Wilson and our senior photographer Geoff Clifford. Speci ...

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Zip Zinger Game of Skate

On Canada day Blue Tile Lounge will be holding a BBQ and Zip Zinger game of skate. There will be a regular game of skate for kids 12 and under at noon and the 13 and older game of skate which will be played on the Zip Zingers provided, will start at ...

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Edmonton Fundraiser and Contest

On Saturday, July 17th The Edmonton Skateboard Association will be holding their Chop Your Mop 4 Cancer fundraiser, BBQ and Best Trick Contest at the Callingwood Skate Plaza(17650 69 AVE NW). The event starts at 9 am with a bottle drive, followed by ...

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Daewon revisits Love Child

Daewon Song set out to re-create his part in the classic World Industries video "Love Child", but unfortunately fell a bit short. Instead he opted to film some new stuff. Click here to watch it.

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10 Clips with Micky

Micky Papa recently hit up the Syndrome training facility and filmed this 10 tricks clip on the hubba with Alexis Mairena. Click here to watch it. Ten Clips with Micky Papa at Syndrome Park(Hubba) from austin mayer on Vimeo.

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Howard's Favourite Canucks

Rick Howard takes a minute to answer a user submitted mini top 5 on his favourite Canadians over at the Active rideshop site. Click here to check it out.

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Quiksilver Team Demo at the Beach Skatepark (Ashbridges)

If you live in or around Toronto and have not yet made plans for Go Skateboarding Day this coming Monday, June 21. or even if you have, brake them and join the Quiksilver skate team at The Beach Skatepark (Ashbridges). The team will be arriving at t ...

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AM Getting Paid Edmonton Qualifier

Reminder to all in the Edmonton area that the Etnies AM Getting Paid qualifier will be happening this Saturday at the Callingwood Skate Plaza(check events page for map). Be sure to come out and compete or just to chill out and witness some rad skatin ...

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Go Skateboarding Day BBQ After Party

Just a reminder to anyone that will be in Toronto on Monday, June 21st for Go Skateboarding Day that we will be having a BBQ at The Baitshop around 7pm after the demo at Ashbridges Bay. So come on out, skate some mini ramp and grab some burgers and h ...

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Elwood Best Contest Ever Winner

Congratulations to Tucker Choromud, the winner of our DIY Best Contest Ever that we held with Elwood Clothing in our Spring 2010 issue. Along with some help from his brother, Tucker built an impressive 12 ft tall vert ramp with a loft structure to pr ...

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Derek Swaim in Kamloops

Kamloops local Derek Swaim has a new clip on the Supra Dist. site of him skating the park and a couple spots around town. Click here to check it out.

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Transworld Hallelujah Premier

Transworld will be holding a Vancouver premier for their new video, Hallelujah in a few weeks. If you happen to be in the area on July 3rd, stop by the Vogue Theater at 7pm to see some shredding from Canadian Ryan Decenzo as well as, Torey Pudwill, T ...

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Montreal Wild in the Streets

If you happen to be in Montreal this weekend, you will definitely want to head over to the Tam Tam on the corner of Ave du Parc and Mont-Royal street on Sunday, June 20th at 2pm. For the second time ever, Emerica will be holding their Wild in the Str ...

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Lord of the Lines Video Contest

If you aren't able to make it out to any of the Lord of Lines contests over the summer, you can still be involved in their online video contest. Film the best 3 trick line you can on any obstacle you choose, upload the footage to youtube or vimeo the ...

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Coastal Riders vs. Underworld

Just a reminder that the Coastal Riders vs. Underworld Game of Skate for Charity will be going down at Strathcona skatepark this Saturday, June 19th at 1pm. Come out and watch the flatground battle between some of Vancouver's best and enjoy some free ...

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1 of 1 Project

The 1 of 1 Project is a custom art show spearheaded by Chris Watchorn. With the help of Vans and a collection of artist from across North American, Chris had 30 pairs of canvas white Chukka's turned into works of art, which will be available for purc ...

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MTL DC Nationals Results

Some of Quebec's best were out in full force this weekend at the Montreal stop of the DC National qualifiers, probably in part to DC holding it's King of series in Montreal this year. However, it was Etienne Dumais who managed to put himself above th ...

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Josh Evin R.I.P.

Premium Wood Pro Josh Evin has been presumed dead after a motorcycle accident near Nelson, British Colombia. Police are presuming Josh and a passenger collided with a concrete barrier and were thrown into a hydro canal next to the Kootenay River. The ...

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Game of Ledge Results

The annual Game of Ledge went down in Vancouver this past weekend and for the second year in a row, it was won by Magnus Hanson. Following Magnus was Desmond Hoostie and Spencer Hamilton, who took home second and third place respectively. Nate Roline ...

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New Joe Buffalo Footage

We came across some new footage of Canadian legend Joe Buffalo ripping up a park in Calgary with a couple clips from Dustin Henry.

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Baconator Food Coma Extras

In our last issue, long-time SBC contributor Rich Odam escaped the Canadian winter and got in some skating by heading down to Carlsbad and renting a house with Chad Dickson, Mitch Barette, Sean Lowe, JS Lapierre and Matt Canadien. Good times were had ...

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Go Skateboarding Day After Party

What better way to spend Go Skateboarding Day than BBQ'ing and skating with the Quiksilver team? If you’re in Toronto on June 21st make sure to hit the Skate Plaza at Ashbridge’s Bay in The Beaches from 2:00pm to 5:00pm to skate with Dann ...

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Vans Road Block Contest

If you happen to be in the Vancouver area on Saturday, July 3rd make sure to stop by Granville Street as Vans will be holding their Road Block contest. Boulevard, Coastal Riders, Underworld and Anti-Social have all been invited to build an obstacle a ...

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Fringe Urban Zone at Charlottetown Summerfest

The Fringe Urban Zone is returning to Charlottetown Summerfest in PEI, featuring a brand new Skatepark design (see the layout below). The Matix/DVS Canadian team will be on site for the duration of the festival doing demos on Wednesday, June 30, Thur ...

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Calgary Qualifier Results

The first stop of the DC National's Qualifier wrapped up this weekend in Calgary. It looked like the contest would have to be post-poned due to rain, but the skies cleared and tons of ripping went down from everyone. In the end, Shaun Heathers took h ...

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Addition to LOVE skateboards

Toronto's Nathan Olokun is the newest team member of LOVE skateboards. Scroll down to see his welcome clip.

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Lord of the Lines Dates Announced

The cities and dates of Matix's Lord of the Lines contest have been announced! If you happen to live in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal start practicing those lines as there is a combined total of $10,000 for the pri ...

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Matt Miller Contest

To celebrate Matt Miller turning pro we are holding a contest with Expedition. Thanks to Matt and Expedition you have a chance to win a Matt Miller "Bomber" deck and Goalie Mask T-shirt! All you have to do is:- Follow us on twitter(here) and- Simply ...

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The Dimestore Video

If you haven't checked out The Dimestore Video out of Montreal yet, now is your chance as the Dimestore dudes were kind enough to post it for free on their site. Click here to check it out or here to order a physical copy for only $12 with shipping.

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Retro Hoffart

Jarvis Nigelsky has Jordan Hoffart's old part from the Substance Skateboarding video from 2001 up on his youtube page.

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RDS 2010 Catalog

RDS apparel's Summer 2010 catalog is now up on their website for your viewing pleasure. Click here to check out all the latest gear from RDS.

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Rodney Torres Retrospective

Ben over at skatenewspot recently sat down with New York OG Rodney Torres to talk a little bit about his past, present and future which you can now read in interview form with some rad photos to go along with it. Click here to check it out.

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DC Dompierre Micro Site

DC Shoes have launched a micro site to go along with the release of Nick Dompierre first pro shoe. Click here to visit the site and check out a timeline of Nick's skate career as well as a video and photos from Nick's new ad.

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Newline 2010 Summer Update

The folks at Newline Skateparks were kind enough to pass us along this update of what skateparks they'll be working on this summer and things look to be pretty promising. Completion of Kensington skatepark (East Vancouver)-6100 square feet-main focus ...

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2 Canadians now on Think

Street Corner Distribution seems to have pulled the plug on City Skateboards and shifted the team over to Think. Along with picking up former city riders Dave Bachinsky, Josh Matthews, Jeremy Reeves and Russ Milligan, they have also added Toronto's L ...

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Andrew Pommier and Adidas

Andrew Pommier recently did some work with Adidas that is now being displayed in the store front's of Adidas' core accounts across Canada. Check out Andrew's website for pictures of the display at Underworld in Vancouver.

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SITKA Sponsor Me Contest

SITKA, the Victoria, B.C. based skateboard company is currently holding a contest to find a new team rider. The winner will receive a 1 year sponsorship of boards and clothing from SITKA. To enter, post your sponsor me video on SITKA's facebook page ...