Industry News

Curren Caples is 16 years old today and to celebrate Vans put together about three minutes of footage of him and his homies ripping. Happy Birthday, Curren.

JR arrested following a drug inspired nude blitzkrieg through a New York City hotel, charged with criminial mischief and illegal possession of a narcotic, police say.

In this week’s Loveletters to Skateboarding, Grosso catches up with Allen Losi, the man who came up with the traveling Smith Grind, the Lein to Tail, the Ollie to Fakie and the No Handed Footplant. Losi ripped through three generations, one of the few guys to make the Layback Air look good.

Nick Trapasso and Sinner’s vision have become a reality with new board brand, LE Skateboards, short for Life Extension through Blitz Distribution. Nowison nowison.

Krolick released another batch of old skate clips, this time starring Jacksonville’s finest, Mike Peterson.

Brad Staba has announced on the Skate Mental website that long time street ripper Dan Plunkett is finally pro. His boards will be in shops February 1. Hell yeah Dan, congrats!

Fly Society Spring 2012 Lookbook Featuring Braydon Szafranski and Furby modeling some of the new gear.

Check out this little welcome video of Peter Ramondetta terrorizing the streets for Omit Apparel.

Skateboarder’s Amazon Series is up for a Helliez over at Hellaclips. Go over and vote for us and vote for a ton of over stuff. Hellaclip’s has been killing all this past year. Support the cause!

High 5, Steve Nesser and Familia Skateshop just released a new video part for us all to enjoy for the low cost of free ninety nine. Midwest skateboarding at its finest with more wallies and jams than you can shake your pole at.

Real turned Ishod Wair, pro at the Ambush Westchester demo a while back. Check out the video from the event and enter for your chance to win Ishod’s first pro decks. Congrats Ishod!

Usko Collective has its first hype video out now with stylish ripping from Stacks am Nick Zizzo.