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Skateboarder’s Best Photos of 2011 Part 2 of 3 featuring: Nick Garcia, Omar Salazar, Sammy Winter, Austyn Gillette, Spanky and more.

Instagram pop page mainstay, freedom roller, rookie Real yeti pro, and all around solid son of a gun, James Hardy picks his top 5s from this year for us, Skateboarder Magazine.

Ricki Bedenbaugh, aka “The Dude,” is a filmer/editor based in Long Beach, CA who has worked for 411VM, New Deal Skateboards, Element skateboards and currently works with Etnies. Ricki let us dig around in his home office for a few hours and here’s what we found. Check back next Friday for part 4 of 4.

Master heelflipper Neen Williams for today’s Daily Film Blog post.

Following up Skateboarder Magazine’s first episode of our new video series “In the Editing Bay” with Nike SB’s Jason Hernandez, here we have Jason answering questions from our followers on Facebook and giving some good tips on filming and editing.

Here’s just a few skate photos from the Eight Annual Etnies’ Holiday Festival that provides new shoes to hundreds of kids. Nick Garcia and skate legend, Tony Alva, were a few of the rippers that day. Check it out.

This week on Mehring’s Bearings, a blast from the past. Our photographer Jonathan Mehring posts some rare gems from 2004.

One of Toy Machine’s veteran rippers and Long Beach local, Josh Harmony, gives you this week’s Tuesday 25.

Take a walk down memory lane with us as we journey back through the year’s best videos, events, new pros, new product, sponsor changes and more. We’ll start it off with Brandon Westage, who hit hard early in the New Year with his Pro Shoe part, and continued killing it all year.

Our Straight to the Internet Best of 2011 mega edit is six and half minutes of mind melting skating from the likes of Sean Malto, Ryan Sheckler, Marty Murawski, Clint Peterson, Anthony Schultz, Yaje Popson, Johnny Layton, Daniel Lutheran, Nick Garcia and many more.

Long Beach nights are filled with things to do besides skating. After a long day of hucking yourself down stairs, why not come see one of the best skaters alive play music

Ricki Bedenbaugh, aka “The Dude,” is a filmer/editor based in Long Beach, CA who has worked for 411VM, New Deal Skateboards, Element skateboards and currently works with Etnies. Ricki let us dig around in his home office for a few hours and here’s what we found. Check back next Friday for part 3 of 4.