The SLS Nike SB World Tour is the primary focus for Street League Skateboarding. Every bit of qualifying (Damn Am Select Series, Tampa Am, Tampa Pro, SLS Nike SB Pro Open) all feed into the World Tour. Throughout the Season, SLS Pros earn Champ Points at each World Tour stop, skating to be one of the final eight in the SLS Nike SB Super Crown World Championship.
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Skateboarder, artist, unpredictable traveller, pioneer. There are many words to describe Chet Childress. Having discovered skateboarding in 1984, Chet’s led a three-decade strong career from living on the run, in constant search of the stoke. Desillusion Magazine editor Robin Pailler spent five days with Chet in his childhood town of Wilmington, North Carolina, to gain an insight into the mind of one of skateboarding’s greatest living legends.
Contrary to our expectations, Puerto Rico had loads of skate spots. With the economy in the doldrums, there were plenty of abandoned buildings, bankrupt stores and unfinished building projects, which offer skaters some unlikely – and unseen – spots. Vladik Scholz, Denny Pham, Adrien Bulard, Kris Vile and Jaakko Ojanen close out the trip with some good sessions in Color Rico.