The five best competitive skateboarders in the world had yet to compete against each other at one time this year, that was until last Tuesday. That’s the news I was greeted by upon arriving at a top-secret airplane hanger somewhere in Los Angeles, straight from the mouth of the man himself, Street League founder, Rod Dyrdek.
It was early, about 10:45 AM; that’s early in the skate world, Drydek had already been there for some time and was hyped. He was in his standard DC hat with matching Street League shirt, and you know he had his bling. I hadn’t even been there five minutes when he … Details
Last Sunday there was a bit of an uproar at the 2010 Maloof Money Cup OC. The unbeatable Chris Cole was supposedly beaten by the kid with dreadlocks as long as his body, Nyjah Huston, but in the end still finished atop the leader board. The dread heads of the skateboard world were beside themselves, booing as loud as they could. How un-rasta of them. Anyway, Cole collected another $100,000 check courtesy of the Maloof brothers, and Nyjah once again went home with second.
If you remember the first Maloof, just about the exact same thing happen. The only difference is it was Paul Rodriguez who brought home first place to people asking what about Nyjah?  … Details
Welcome to the third installment of the “Glory Bound Skatepark Tour” edition of Mondays With Mike V. Episode #17 features all the skate action from this past week of demos from Mike V, Duane Peters, Bill Danforth, Kristian Svitak and Cyril Jackson. Episode #17 also features Bill’s epic slam, Doctor Peters, the new Regulator Distribution theme song and an epic roller skating intro. Enjoy #17