“At this point in young Arto’s story, he’s decided to commit his life to skateboarding and is on his way to America to fulfill his destiny by joining the elite Flip team. Along the way, Arto makes a small pit stop with the Platinum team, and wins yet another big contest.

This episode has a hearty dose of Flip history, as well as never-before-seen footage of Tom Penny speaking French with a nurse.”

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The Passion Crew find themselves at one of the craziest private spots we’ve ever seen. Jaws closes down the big bowl, but not before Lizard shows some rad transition skills.

What do you get when Travis Glover, Marcus Mcbride, Anthony Williams and Sean Malto all come to Da Playground? Check the newest Recess clip at Da Playground to find out.

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Dolphin Days #1
Shot and Edited by Riley Blakeway
Featuring:
Chima Ferguson
Bo Reid
Rhino
Josh Pall
Jake Hayes
Ryder Lawson
Sammy Winter
Bjorn Johnston
Title by: Shinya Dalby

Hard miles are not uncommon in skating. But here’s Lizard, Figgy, Nuge, Neen, Dickson, and others putting their bodies and brains through a blender. As seen in the June issue. Second part tomorrow.

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Paul Rodriguez, Shane O’neill & Torey Pudwill got in a solid practice session at Paul Rodriguez’s private skatepark. Street League goes all the way LIVE on ESPN2 May 19th at 9PM. Buy tickets now www.streetleague.com/tickets

Follow along with Element Am Boo Johnson and Future Nature Videographer Cole Mathews as they take the Element team van for a spin around LA and Orange County to drop off advanced copies of Future Nature to all of the sponsors that got behind the production. Stops include DC, RVCA, DVS and KR3W and SUPRA. They also stopped at rising Element am Trent McClung’s house to make sure he was taken care of. Jump in the van and take a ride.

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Have some fun with the Blind team at Ryan Sheckler’s Skate For A Cause that went down May 5 at the etnies Skatepark Of Lake Forest. Kevin Romar, Morgan Smith, Ronnie Creager, Sean Sheffey, Filipe Ortiz, and James Craig rip it up for a good cause. See what the Blind team is up to next at blindskateboards.com and at twitter.com/billweissblind. Stay up on Blind’s Facebook too!

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Here is a bunch of footage of our friends that don’t really skate anymore and our good buddy Jamiel Nowparvar, who recently moved to Long Beach, California. Suck it.

Part 2 in the series revival. Filmed/edit by Chris Thiessen
Additional filming Mark Stewart, Ryan Alvarado, Jake Smith
Skateboarding from 2011 and some new stuff from 2012. Some of this skating as seen in Blueprint’s Skate & Create, “The Skatelord Returns: Volcom in Colombia” and Transmission: Shuriken Shannon

Sugar riders Marko Jazbinsek, Jason Nguyen, Christian Sereika, Nate Principato, and James Fitz Shredding at Harvard Skate Plaza.

Open Horizon
by Russell Houghten
Skateboarding, Timelapse and everything in between…
Video by RussellHoughten.com
Music
Composed by RichardHoughten.com
“Open Horizon”
Performed by Richard Houghten, Nicole Calhoun(cello) and Heidi Yoo(violin)
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Featuring: Dylan Rieder, John Rattray thepredatorybird.com , Shuriken Shannon, Tom Karangelov, Jordan Taylor, Arto Saari, Oscar Meza, Dominik Dietrich, Jon Goemann, Jared Huss, Sam Winter, Jake Johnson, Stefan Janoski, Ben Nordberg
This was my section from the Transworld video “The Cinematographer Project” bit.ly/Kfehkw
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Filmed with a Canon 60d, Zeiss and Canon L lenses

A day in the life of the friendship between Madars Apse and Sam Sitayeb… In the brief few days of early sun of spring… all filmed at Mile end skatepark east London…
Parlour skatestore proudly welcomes Madars to the team and are always glad to have Sam lurking daily…
Filmed by: Carl Richardson, Maksim Kalanep and Klavs Laivenieks
Edited by: Carl Richardson and Normen Luzinsky.

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Neen Williams takes us through some of the essential things he bring on a skate trip in the first episode of
Trip Essentials.
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Directed by: Dennis Martin
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“Zack joins Ryan Lay as enjoi’s newest ams, and boy is this part a doozey. Zack completed a two-week tour of duty in Scandinavia and Russia (as documented here) to prove his worth on the team. In the Torn Off Balls tour article in our June 2012 issue, we polled the current enjoi roster to find out what Zack and Ryan bring to the team.

Louie Barletta responded with, “Homosexual vibes and beefcake bodies,” while Ben Raemers was more specific stating, “Zack’s the buff male model guy.” Nestor Judkins noted, “Zack’s big dumb grin reels in the ladies,” and Cairo simply put, “Zack is a powerhouse skater.” Jerry added, “Zack was like Wilt Chamberlain out there (in Europe). What a legend.” Welcome to enjoi, Zack.”

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If you haven’t seen Element’s new am video, Future Nature , do yourself a favor and go download it. Element has assembled some of the finest ams in skateboarding and everyone in the video put in the work and came out shinning. In this week’s trick tip, Element am and Future Nature star, Boo Johnson, breaks down the secrets of frontside 360 shuv. He was even nice enough to pass along his now famous version of the trick as seen in Future Nature across the grass gap at Long Beach’s famous Cherry Park. Watch and learn.

The Spring Classic in Varraze opened with the first European premiere of the Bones Brigade Documentary and ended with an awards ceremony that celebrated the diverse styles and talent of some of the best transition and street skaters in the world.
Seventeen different titles were up for grabs at the 3-day event on the Italian Ligurian seashore. Judges awarded technical tricks, old school style, switch skills and even attitude to spread the 10,000 Euro prize across genres and award cash to a crew of deserving skaters.
Saturday qualifiers narrowed the field in the Mini Ramp contest to 20 competitors for Sunday’s finals. The “Cash for Tricks” best trick event gave several skaters the instant gratification of cash in hand as soon as the judges saw something they liked. In batches of 10-40 Euro, cash was doled out with Alain Goikotxea, Guillaume Mocquin, Kevin Kowalski and Dannie Carlsen stacking up the biggest piles of money.
The Street competition awarded prize money to the best single lines in the course, which stretched almost the entire length of the Varazze Pier, shouldering a small line up of surfers catching waves throughout the day. Martin Pek came in first with 2000 Euro for a Nollie Crooked grind down the big rail and a nollie bigger spin over the gap. Nassim Guammaz took home 1200 Euro after landing a nose blunt slide down the big rail and a 50-50 on the down rail over the gap. Kris Vile came in third with 800 Euro for a lipslide on the big rail and bigspin kickflip over the gap.
Saturday night, over 5000 filled the street for an unforgettable concert in the heart of Varrazze. Headliners Turbonegro shook the crowd with their fierce brand of hard core rock n’ roll while fireworks lit up the night sky. Alternative Hip Hop crew Doomtree reached out to energetic party goers through beats and rhymes, with an intelligent blend of showmanship and sheer talent. Italian hip hop samurai Salmo dropped heavy beats and spit furious raps to stir the crowd into a frenzy after opening acts Those Furious Flames and The Peawees started the night off right. Beer flowed, the streets were closed and the typical Italian Riveria was transformed into an outdoor concert venue to write home about.
Vans raised 2000 Euro for local charity Oratorio Salesiani Don Daniele to help underprivileged kids in the area by selling t-shirts and hats at the event.
THE PRIZE MONEY
Mini Ramp Total Prize Purse – 10,000 Euro
King of the Line – 4,000 Euro
Tricks For Cash Session – 1000 Euro
STREET RESULTS
1st Place Martin Pek 2000 Euro
2nd Place Nassim Guammaz 1200 Euro
3rd Place Chris Vile 800 Euro
MINI RAMP RESULTS
Best line/combo of the finals “Il piatto completo” 600€ JOSH YOUNG
Best technical rider of the finals: “L’ingegnere” 600€ DANNIE CARLSEN
Best Double ride of the finals: “La Famiglia” 1000€ KEVIN KOWALSKI / ANDY SCOTT
Hottest single trick of the finals: “Il Vesuvio” 600€ ANDY SCOTT: EGG PLANT TO DISASTER
1st rider not qualified for the finals: “Il Fantozzi” 100€ ADRIEN MARCO
Most Original tricks of the finals: “Mamma mia!!!” 600€ DAAN VAN DER LINDEN: ROPE STALL FAKIE
Best Switch trick/ride of the finals: “L’uomo Vitruviano” 500€ MICKY IGLESIAS
Longest Rock’n'roll or lipslide of the finals: “Il Sifredi” 500€ IVAN RIVADO
Best style of the finals: “Il Dongiovanni” 600€ ROSS MCGOURAN
Worst slam of the weekend: “The Spaghetti Western” 400€ MASON MERLINO
Best oldskool tricks/ride of the finals: “Il Padrino” 500€ ROB SMITH
Luckiest move of the finals: “La botta di culo” 300€ KRIS VILE
Best attitude of the weekend: “La Dolce Vita” 500€ FERIT BATIR
Fastest rider of the finals: “Il Beep-Beep” 500€ JAKE COLLINS
Best use of all the mini ramp’s options: “Il Tutto Fare” 500€ ROSS MCGOURAN
Most resistant rider of weekend: “Il Gladiatore” 800€ ALESSANDRO SORGENTE
Overall best rider of the finals: “L’Imperatore” 1400€ ALAIN GOIKOTXEA
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Over two and a half minutes of East Coast underground street gnarliness. Nate who? Nate Greenwood, motherfuckers. Hard times comin’ your way.

Riverbanks spine gets tapped in this session with Frank Faria, Ratface, Wade Speyer, Harley Morse, Cody Steinberger and Joel Jutagir. everybody hauled their Big Bottom across the spine, When Wade Speyer started skating the session turned Heavy Duty Me n Cody managed to eat a few “Shit Sandwiches” trying to flip in and flip outta some blunts, for a second there i was sure we’d dug ourselves into a Hell Hole but it was all gravy cause in the end we are all proud to bring you this Rock And Roll Creation! Filmed by http://www.youtube.com/blackness1992 edited by http://www.youtube.com/leathertramp85 SUBSCRIBE!!!
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Local companys Frozen Skateboards, Perfect Skateboards, Gullwing Trucks, and VOX Footwear put on a contest at Memorial Skatepark the other weekend, lots of shredding from lots of different areas.
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“Arto Saari’s story is nothing short of miraculous. Obviously he’s naturally gifted and skated his ass off as a kid, but his rise to prominence is like no one else’s. If you wanted to describe it to someone who doesn’t skate, you could say: Imagine a boy from a faraway country showing up at the World Series and asking if he can play.

And not only does he play, but he hits four home runs and becomes the MVP. That’s basically what Arto did; he showed up at the best place to show off your skills as a walk-on and kicked off one of the most apex (that’s Arto’s word for amazing) skate careers of all time. ”

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