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Nike SB has avoided the hassle of security guards and skate stoppers in order to bring you this solid mix of footage from their mini European tour over this past summer. It kind of makes you want to jump across the pond doesn’t it?

We wanted to alert the skateboarding community of an Ebay online auction where all proceeds are going to the wonderful family of Johnny Romano. Local Tampa Bay artist Chad Cardoza created his own version of Jeremy Fish’s 2008 Tampa Pro turtle trophy, where throughout the event this past spring the turtle chilled in the pro shop and it was signed by most all of the pros who showed up to skate.
Some of the notables who have signed the turtle include professional skaters: Ryan Sheckler, Bam Margera, Paul Rodriguez, Tony Trujillo, Mark Gonzales, Omar Salazar, Stefan Janoski, Mike Peterson, John Rattray, Brain Anderson, Nick Dompierre, Bobby Worrest, Adam Dyet and many, others.
Bid on a piece of skate history where the monies are going to help out a great family of a kid who touched all of our hearts.

Flip skateboards has just posted a new teaser to “tease” you with visual stimuli for their much anticipated video, Extremely Sorry. You can check it right here and soon enough, you catch up on all things Flip via their very own blawg.

10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Bowl Contest
Lake Cunningham Skatepark – San Jose, CA
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Final Results
Pro
1. Benji Galloway
2. Tim Johnson
3. Josh Sandoval
4. Sergie Ventura
5. Josh Balogh
Masters
1. Christian Hosoi
2. Steve Caballero
3. Duane Peters
4. Jason Parkes
5. Greg Aguilar
6. Steve Alba
7. Josh Nelson
8. Mitchell Mendez
Women
1. Julie Kindstrand
2. Megan Brown
3. Annie Sullivan
4. Amiee Jay Papelera
5. Lexi Barclay

We’ve received the official word from Stereo that a mutual parting of ways with Daniel Shimizu has recently occurred. Sources close to us confirm that the former sound agent is to be linking up with Ethan Fowler’s Bummer High.

A trio of skaters have recently joined new wheel teams and programs and we thought you should know what’s up. Willy Santos has hooked up to ride for the Satori Movement, the Northwest’s bowl buster Johnny “Mud Butt”Turgeson officially rolls the Bones with style, and Lance Mountain keeps the underground lit like a legend on Spitfires. Roll on.

The Fourstar team is getting ready to drop in and blow out four locations in October with their Tribe Called Mapquest tour.

Hey kids, do you buy your decks and shoes from catalog giant CCS? Well, now you’ll be buying them from Foot Locker. The huge mall based shoe store is looking to “expand its offerings in the skateboarding apparel category” and has agreed to buy CCS for a cool $102 million. Not exactly chump change. We guess it will be a small price to pay in order to “help broaden its appeal to teenaged males”.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, PLEASE support your local privately owned skate shop. If and when skateboarding becomes anything less than a target market these shops will still be there supporting the scene. We’re guessing the 63 year old Foot Locker CEO who makes $1,500,000 a year couldn’t care less.

What a better way to spend a portion of your Saturday than to check in with skateboarding’s legendary professional and original style master Steve Olson. Check out these videos and get schooled fool!

“Find your passion and follow it.”

At home sharing stories of his skateboarding life and his art.

Shredding the Lakewood skatepark in 1978 to “Skateboard” by Jefferson Starship