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Starting in the NorthEast, Eastern Boarder is running an event called King of the Worm. What is King of the Worm? It’s a scavenger hunt type contest in which you use your skate skills and city knowledge to earn points for your team. The team with the most point’s (and video proof) at the end of the week wins. It’s just like Thrasher’s King of the Road except it’s in Worcester and you can actually do it. The Eastern Boarder Site has more on the rules.
New Jersey’s Garden SK8 is hosting two days of amateur contests. All ages are welcome to compete in the street, mini, and bowl contests. Bring your own food…and they’ll grill it for you.
PITCREW hosts the ES Game of Skate in Fredrick, MD. 2pm signup, 3pm start time. Check the Game of Skate site or Call 301-698-1813 for more info.

Right now, there are two new clips up on the Stereo site; Clint Peterson skating at Pepe’s Auto and an extended cut of Ben Gore’s commercial that was shown on the Battle at the Berrics 2 a couple weeks ago.

Koichiro Uehara is the sole flow rider in Japan for 5 Boro right now and he’s been killing it for a part that’s coming out in a very anticipated Japanese video,
check the teaser here.
Meanwhile, back in the in U.S., The Hometown Heroes finals was held at the X-games set up in California today- Qualifying 3rd was non other than 5boro flow trash CJ DIXON from Florida. For more on Hometown Heroes, click here.

With Paul’s third signature shoe arriving in stores on August 8th. Make sure to spend a little time over at the Nike SB website where you can catch the web exclusive version of the “Today was a Good Day” commerical and behind the scenes clips from the shoot with Kobe Bryant, Koston, Ice Cube and Theotis Beasley.

The guys over at etnies have been kind enough to upload an entirely new part from Tyler Bledsoe. Grab a cold one and have a seat, this is one part that you won’t want to pass up.

Check out this clip of Saskatchewan skaters making proper use of skateboard down time.
Rack ‘em.

On July 30th, DC hosted an exclusive event featuring Peanut Butter Wolf at
The Standard, Downtown LA to kick off The Gold Standard 2009. In attendance
were over 300 industry influencers, including DC athletes Nick Dompierre,
Chad Cagy, Jolene Van Vugt, Ikka Backstrom, Kimmy Fasani, Aaron Bittner, and
Corey Bohan who made an appearance with Audrina Patridge.
Conceived by DC, The Gold Standard 2009 is a hosted hotel takeover held
during the 2009 Summer X Games, developed as a tribute to DC’s X Games
athletes over the past 15 years. DC, along with event partners Monster
Energy, Codemasters’ DiRT 2, New Era and presenting media partners FUEL TV
and TransWorld Media will occupy all 12 floors of the swanky hotel in the
heart of Los Angeles.
For the second year FUEL TV joined The Gold Standard 2009, bringing The
Daily Habit, a half-hour daily interview and variety show, on location to
the rooftop of The Standard Downtown LA where they filmed five episodes.
Each episode filmed today included interviews and footage with DC athletes,
as well as gave viewers an insider’s peek of The Gold Standard 2009
experience. DC week on The Daily Habit will air: Monday, August 17 to
Friday, August 21, 2009, airing weeknights at 9:00pm ET (6:00pm PT) while
re-airing later in the evening at 12:00am ET (9:00pm PT), and the following
weekday at 2:30pm ET (11:30am PT) and 5:30pm ET (2:30 pm PT).
For more information on The Gold Standard 2009 visit the DC’s Gold Standard site.

There was a time not long ago when East Coast skaters dreamed of moving West to California for either temporary or permanent residence to beat the cold and to be in the heart of the skate world. Now, it seems, the best getaway may be Portland, Oregon.
Today’s Wall Street Journal online has a feature story on Portland’s grand design to have a ’skatepark system’ which, by the time it’s completed in 2020, will include 19 parks throughout the city.

We were tipped off to this article that points to a the Reload bag company. It seems these bozos are producing bags that feature the artwork of Jim Phillips, VCJ, Alien Workshop and Neil Blender and giving them NO part of the almost $400 price tag. What?
From Neil: “That bag is a shocker. They’re using all kinds of graphics from companies.Vision? T.Hawk? Weird,wonder what can be done? Wonder if they even sold any bags, terrible looking items.”
So if you run across these and get tempted to spend a grip of cash (we hope you would notice how shitty they are)…don’t. Support the skate companies who support the artists, not biters.
UPDATE:
You may have noticed R.E. Load pulled the skate bags off their website. We received many emails from our friends in the Philadelphia supporting R.E. Load. So to be fair tclick here to read a statement we received from R.E. Load via email.

Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum is now a skate friendly environment with the addition of the new Tony Hawk figure.
Check out this clip from Shred or Die of Tony Hawk properly introducing himself.
Congratulations to Tony for becoming the first to pull off yet another sick trick.