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Redstar-Demo

Redstar Skateboards did a demo today in Waterloo at one of the worst parks in Ontario, however, they still made the most of the slick plastic benches that the city somehow paid $30 000+ on putting together on some ashpalt. This is Paul Trep and Grant Patterson and Chad Dickson, shout out to Opeyc for putting this together.

If you missed the demo in Waterloo you can check the team out this weekend:

July 31 – The Board Shop, London

August 3 – Ward Skate Park, Guelph

August 7 – Wake Stock

Etnies and DC have formed the ultimate shoe company. The conglomerate will no doubt be poising themselves to take over the massive European snowboard shorts market soon.

Chinese markets are the best.

So I’m going on a surf trip to Costa Rica to partake in some ocean shralping for a month or so, and it turns out that there is a sick snake run right around the area I’m staying at first! Looks pretty classy. I’m sure there’s no doubt some rippers that reside in the surfer/hippy/gay (yes, it’s kind of gay) zone of Tamarindo. Footage coming soon….make sure you check back, I have some clips of Josh Cowan, Greg Vandermey, Scott Varney and Matt Scott ready to put up.
TOES TO THE M@#$*#$*@#F(*#(*&@N NOSE, BRO’S!

I’ve already posted a link to this vid I produced in Brasil in 2007, but I uploaded it back when youtube didn’t have the lovely HD option..so, here it is again in stunning almost HD quality but not quite.

Bigup to all the Avuatauba crew, Raphael Buarque and Fabricio Sacramento from Cartel Design, Rio de Janeiro. Fabricio’s making a proper website for SOTI right, thank Buddha, Mohhamed and whatever other deity you can think of.

Well, SOTI didn’t win, but our entry to Crailtap’s Famous Duos competition made it to the finals….

Literally. My friend and photographer/teacher Evan Nash lives in Seoul, Korea.  He’s been getting his class hyped on skateboarding, and  was able to get the kids to pay their respects to Stickiest of the Icky’s birthday with some art.

Just a reminder the STICKIEST OF THE ICKY 1.7 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SKATE JAM is going down this Friday, 9-midnight!

All Wrapped Up ghetto quality version

The FIRST full length skateboard video out of China!~ It just got premiered on December 25th, 2009….so have a look at this bootleg and go and buy it as soon as you can find it in North America. You’ll definitely want to see the Johnny Tang (from Toronto) and Johnnie Tang (from Hong Kong) parts. Great job by Tommy Zhao with the filming and editing, check out his blog, Zhaopower.

NEW DATE: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5th, 9pm-Midnight

Stickiest of the Icky is 1.7 years old, so that was a good enough excuse to rent out the Ward Skatepark for a couple hours and hopefully get some heads out for a good indoor sesh.

Prizes from Sanction Skateshop (aka the only real skateshop in KW)
No helmets or pads required
Xtreme Fruit platter by TJ
Brew dogs allowed
Spectators and Hecklers get in Free
$10 to skate (same price as members on any day)

Thanks for your support over the last 1.7 years ;p

York’s site is up! Check it out @ TURF GLOBAL

SOTI did an interview with Mike York not long ago, so read it and learn something.

New Dork Trick Tips coming this weekend.

Kevin Long + a wizard. Photo by SOTI, Wizard by Kevin Long

There’s a lot going on in Shanghai right now, so plenty of updates for your bad self. The Asian X-Games are in town, so I’ve got some good footage of what went down on the street course coming soon, 3 new Dork Trick Tips are on the way, an interview with Johnny Tang is about to go down along with some footage from the FLY skateboard team’s trip to Beijing. Check back on the regular, content is flowing like a bumbaclaat, or perhaps even a rasclaat.

Here’s the results from the Shanghai X-Games Street Finals:

Austen Seaholm USA – 88.00
Fabrizio Santos BRA – 83.67
Carlos de Andrade BRA – 82.67
Juergen Horrwath GER – 82.33
Danilo Do Rosario BRA – 82.00
Dayne Brummet USA – 79.00
Tyler Hendley USA – 78.67
Tomas Vintr CZE – 77.33
Rodolfo Ramos BRA 76.00
Andy Macdonald USA 75.00

Good judging by Dave Duncan and the WCSK8 crew, Austen definitely deserved first, and Andy definitely deserved last…

And why is there a picture of Kevin Long for this long winded update post? Because he’s in Shanghai right now as well and the wizard he drew is f****n sweet.