With a labor dispute threatening to keep some of the sport’s biggest stars on the sidelines and creating uncertainty surrounding the 2011 season, principals at the Dew Tour and Maloof Money Cup reaffirmed their commitment to street skating for next year.
“We’re putting the pedal on street skating, not letting up,” said Wade Martin, president of Alli, which runs the Dew Tour action sports series, where the competitive skate park season concludes in Las Vegas Friday night. “We want to invest more against it and will look to continue to improve it.”   … Details
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Thrasher Magazine’s recent King of the Road contest pitted the C1RCA, Converse, Etnies, and Nike SB footwear teams against one another in a month long cross country competition. For those that don’t know, the competition features four teams of five skaters each completing goals in cities across the United States as well as knocking out tricks and random objectives (such as making out with old women or getting whacking tattoos) from a list of impossible-sounding challenges, all in the hopes of earning the most points. Â
In the most recent edition of KOTR, the Nike SB team took the prize money. With an elite squad of Eric Koston, Grant Taylor, Ishod Wair, Cory Kennedy, and Justin Brock, there’s very little out there that someone on the illustrious Nike SB team couldn’t handle … Details
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