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Beginning Friday, April 18th, The DVS am team will hit the road for a 10 day tour of Northern California’s streets and parks and skate shops along the way. You can check out daily updated video footage, photos, and editorial of the entire tour at the DVS skate site to keep track of their progress.

All this week The Daily Habit are serving up some old school skate guests in what they are dubbing ‘Rad Week’. Go to their site for show times and/or check your local listings. Here’s a quick run down of the guests each night:
Monday – The Daggers (Dave Duncan, Christian Hosoi, Eddie Reategui). Musical Guest: Dr. Know
Tuesday – (SKATEDAILY’s own) Bryce Kanights, Ron Allen, Omar Hassan, Pat Ngoho. Special Guest, Kat Von D
Wednesday – Herbie Fletcher, Bud Llamas and Robert August
Thursday – Tom Knox and Matt Hensley with Musical Guest: Pennywise
Friday – Tony Alva, Tony Hawk and Kevin Staab. Musical Guest : Circle Jerks

While You Tube is the obvious and easiest resource to market your brand via video these days, there’s something positive to be said for a quality skate shop video that stands well above the low tech crowd. Case in point, Frederick, Maryland’s renowned skateboard emporium Pitcrew has just put out its full-length video titled Feels Like the First Time to showcase its squad of talented riders and a host of local spots. This is truly a feel good video produced by Pitcrew’s owners Malcom Bryan and Tim Reardon in association with their friend, ace lensman and editor Mark Nickels.
From the get go, the video is filmed with solid camera work and delivers some great parts with team riders Sammy Wientzen, RT Mulligan, Mark Weeks, Grayson Smith, Scott Lefever, Pat Smith, Paul McElroy, Tyler Tutfy, Benji Ross and Travis Pettit. DC locals Darren Harper, Bobby Worrest, Zach Lyons, and Jake Rupp also get in on the action and round out the 30 minutes of visual fireworks along with special guests that include a skater named Dusty Ditch.
Packed and stacked with solid music selection, clean and clever art direction, and a bonus section too, Feels Like the First Time could very well be the top shop video of the year. Get your hands and eyes on this video directly through Pitcrew. Guaranteed, you’ll be inspired by what you see.
- bk

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In yet another Crailtap Top Five list, Tim O’Connor gives a detailed, entertaining and, of course, hilarious list. Tim talks Pancho, New Jersey, past sponsors, the 80’s and so much more. Click away.

On the evening of April 3rd, Bobcat and Sleekstak.net present a benefit night of rock and roll in Seattle to support the ongoing efforts to expand and improve the Marginal Way skatepark.
Saturday, April 5th Dekline brings an afternoon of music, BBQ and a Game of Skate to Pacific Drive in Pacific Beach, CA. 1st place finisher wins a year’s supply of Dekline shoes!
Sun Diego and the SPoT heads are getting ready to unleash the 3rd annual Spring Break Yo’ Self skate jam on April 12th in Mission Beach, CA. Live Webcast starts at 5pm PST at 411.com. And since the renowned San Dieguito rail, Sports Arena double set and Rincon replicas have been properly put to rest with Sun Diego events over the past years, Big Bertha will make her debut in a couple of weeks to those that have the skills to give her a run for the money. With a prize purse of $25 large, we can expect an afternoon of heavy hits for sure.
In the meantime, check in on a recap of the action from last year right here.
On Thursday, April 24th prior to the annual Top Shop contest at the 3rd Lair skatepark in Minneapolis, the City team will be on hand for a skate demo and signing items of all sorts.

Check out this page dedicated to the new Fallen video, Ride The Sky. 30mb of trailer and a director interview ready to be clicked and enjoyed. Looks like premier dates are going to be announced soon.

News releases and electronic information confirm that Jereme Rogers and Momentum wheels have parted ways. Guy Mariano is once again back with Rudy on Royal trucks. NSS shoes has announced the enlistment of Chad Knight, Tom Knox, and Brian Sumner to its team. And although no official word has been distributed to media , but both Tony Hawk and Bam Margera are no longer included on the team roster at the Adio site. Their signature shoe models are gone as well. Is something more significant in the works?