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Shaun White is a guy who divides his time between snowboarding and skateboarding. Two different tools for riding, but both on the same structure, a vert ramp/halfpipe. He without a doubt focuses more on the ramps made of snow, but he is still a world class skateboarder. Take this past weekend for example, White won his second straight Dew Tour Skateboard Vert contest, which bumped him up to the fifth slot for the overall Dew Tour Championship. Fifth doesn’t sound that great, but when you take into consideration he didn’t skate in the first contest of year because of an injury, it sounds a lot better. Of the three Dew Tour Skateboard Vert contests this year, he has skated in two and won two. Now, it all comes down to Las Vegas, the final stop of the tour.
This isn’t about what is going down on the Dew Tour though. It is about White’s attack on vert skateboarding. We all know what he did on a snowboard this year at the Olympics. If you’ve ever  … Details
Shaun White made it two Dew Tour victories in a row Sunday when he edged out Pierre Luc-Gagnon (PLG) to win the Toyota Challenge in Salt Lake City, Utah. He had been skating with the lofty amplitude he is known for all day, and was able to link some very difficult tricks in his winning run including back-to-back fakie-to-fakie 540s into a giant 720. Then, he sealed the deal with his signature trick, the armadillo, a heelflip body varial frontside 540.
“You want to do probably your hardest thing, but just hold back one trick so maybe you can bump up you score later,” said White.
“I was definitely  … Details