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The Northwest’s Power Rider Wheels has officially joined forces with OJ Wheels. Both urethane brands have their squads busy working on videos and tearing up concrete terrain all over the planet. Commanders Mark Scott and Alex Horn are indeed pulling a dynamic duo situation on the stunt coordination efforts, so stay tuned!

Hats off, high fives and congratulations all around to our friend and renowned skate photographer Joe Brook and his lovely wife Kara on the birth of their son yesterday. Archer Henry Brook came into the world at 7.7 lbs and 19.5″ long and word has it that the kid is already being schooled by his dad with the “film versus digital” discussion.

Saturday’s 6th annual Chill Bowl event heated up a large “grass roots” gathering of skate-starved spectators at SF’s Potrero Del Sol skatepark with Brad McClain taking charge of the graffiti-bombed stuntwood bowl with power lines and power moves, Pat Black showing how it’s done in the mix of masters and Leah Taylor holding it down for the women. David Andrade’s “Sweet Heat” recipe earned him twelve month’s worth of bragging rights until next year.

Final Results
Men
1. Brad McClain
2. RJ Barbaro
3. Eddie Moreno

Masters
1. Pat Black
2. Chris Cook
3. Alan Barclay

Women
1. Leah Taylor
2. Mimi Knoop
3. Leticia Bufouni

Groms (13 & Under)
1. Shane Sullivan
2. Rye Beres
3. Griffin Clingman

Chili
1. David Andrade – “Sweet Heat”
2. Geoff Federoff  - “Meat Mitts Con Carne”
3. Sean Sanford – “Verde’s Not Dead”
Honorable Mention – Trixie and T bird -”Waylons War Cry Chili”

Stance has officially launched The Uncommon Thread site online today. Headquartered San Clemente, California, peep a sneak preview of their colorful new line of socks on OG renegades like Duane Peters and Jason Jesse, and current hellion Lizard King; as well as up and comers such as Tom Remillard, Nick Garcia and Ishod Wair.
The new skate sock line celebrates the inevitable mis-match with their Mix Match and 3 of a Kind collections, and takes another step of creative expression with their Artist Series of functional foot warmers. For superior function, Stance offers the “Gripper Cush” performance sock with Cool Max® technology too.

There’s quite a bit of skateboard truck related news this morning with his “Welcome” video and the addition of the Northwest’s Johnny Turgesen to Fury’s growing roster. Independent Truck Co. has rolled out its Fall 2010 catalog with a few videos including an edit of rapid-fire stunts with Greg Lutzka, features of the Stage X truck and their “Stupid Light” Forged Hollow truck, and a historical look at Burnside with Mark Scott, Christian Hosoi and others. Theeve chimes in with a new online feature called Mini Mondays. this first one kicks off with Chad Bartie. Thunder has premiered its epic King of Trucks video with the launch of their Fall 2010 catalog of goods and Chris Cole’s signature Cure For Breast Cancer trucks.

The last and youngest professional to sign paper with the exclusive Street League took home $150.000 for his consistently skilled efforts this afternoon in Glendale, Arizona. We can only assume that there are tears of joy streaming down his face this time around as the young and virtually sponsorless kid from Davis, CA gears up for the next Street League sanctioned event in Southern California two weeks from now. Congrats Nyjah.

Final Results
1. Nyjah Huston 116 points 82% consistency $150,000
2. Shane O’Neill 114.9 points 79% consistency $80,000
3. Torey Pudwill 112.8 points 82% consistency $25,000
4. Sean Malto 111 points 86% consistency $10,000
5. Chris Cole 109.6 points 79% consistency $7,500
6. Chaz Ortiz 102.2 points 79% consistency $6,000
7. Paul Rodriguez 100.1 points 71% consistency $5,500

If you’re not already out doing some skating of your own, look for the televised broadcast of this event on September 15th on ESPN2 at 8pm EST/5pm PST.

The qualifying rounds are over with Chris Cole stacking first place points heading into the finals followed by Shane O’Neill, Paul Rodriguez, Sean Malto, Nyjah Huston and Chaz Ortiz yesterday. Street League Skateboarding’s™ first event, the 2010 DC Pro Tour Fueled By Monster Energy in Phoenix, AZ kicks off this afternoon where Greg Lutzka, Ryan Sheckler and Torey Pudwill will have to bust moves in the last chance qualifier in order to make it to the big show. Stay tuned to the DC Skate website for exclusive photos and video.

Vans has announced that their ‘Get Out and Do Something Tour’ with Ray Barbee and John Cardiel will kick off Monday, August 30th at the Vans store in Virginia Beach, VA. Ray and the Mattson 2 will be performing live, followed by Cards spinning some of his favorite music. Vans will be giving away a Fender guitar, Element and Anti-Hero boards and more at each stop!

Whether you missed the live broadcast of the Maloof Money Cup from Orange County or just need to re-live all the madness you can watch the re-broadcast on FOX today.  All the action kicks off at 3PM EST/ 12PM PST.