The Best Commercial
Nestle Aero
La tabla Skaters
Woodward

Best US Film
Hallelujah
Extremely Sorry

Best Documentary
Skateistan
10,000 Kilometers
Deathbowl to Downtown

Best International
Plank
The Gypsea Tour
Riding the Long White Cloud

Best Independent
Machotaildrop
Wizard Smoke
Fresno

Best Emerging
Corridor of Shame
19 Years Young
Symmetry

Best Skate Shop
The Dango Is Dead
Spot On
ZVD

…and the Winners Were… Drum Roll…

Best Emerging Filmmaker: Symmetry, Directed and Produced by Dayman Cash.

Best International Film: Plank, Directed by Billy Pols, Produced by Maarten Kuit. Executive Producer: Jeroen Van Den Idsert.

Best Skate Shop Video: The Dango is Dead, Directed and produced by Joe Perrin. Executive Producer: John Montesi.

Best Independent Film: Machotaildrop, Directed by Corey Adams and Alex Craig, Producers: Oliver Linsley and Jared Valentine, Executive Producers: Shon Tomlin and CJ Olivares.

Best Documentary: Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul, Directed by Orlando Von Einsiedel, Produced by Orlando Von Einsiedel and Louis Figgis. Executive Producers: Jon Prever, Thanh Ma, Rod Stanley.

Best Commercial: Nestle Aero, Directed by Ty Evans, Produced by Nathan De La Rionda. Executive Producer: Dana Garman.

Best US Film: Extremely Sorry, Directed by Flip Productions, produced by Ewan Bowman. Executive Producers: Geoff Rowley and Jeremy Fox, Claymation: Edgar Alvarez, Original Music: Baron.

Best Soundtrack: Extremely Sorry, Original Music: Baron.

Best Editing: Wood, Directed by Colin Kennedy, Produced by Cullen Pythress. Executive Producer: Tim Gavin.

Best Photography: Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul.

Some interesting videos that are a little different than what we would associate with the skateboarding video.

The Best International Film winner Plank hosted on the emerica website was made last year by Billy Pols. It’s a story about Dutch/Morrocan skateboarder Nassim Guammaz. Although he didn’t win it in 2009, he went on to win the Street Section of the 2010 etnies European Skateboard Championship in Basel, Switzerland.

Also here at Tacky.

Best Commercial Winner Nestle Aero, with skating by Bob Burnquist.

The Best Documentary Winner was Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul. Skateistan is Afghanistan’s first co-educational skateboarding school. Here is the trailer for the film.

Another trailer from the Best Emerging Filmmaker, Dayman Cash for his video Symmetry.

If you’re interested in seeing more from Dayman Cash here is his YouTube Channel.

The L.A. Skate Film Festival has some clips on YouTube.
The url for it is http://www.youtube.com/user/LASk8FilmFest

A while ago I posted something on longboarding and in particular downhill longboarding and I was intrigued about it. I thought it had died around the time things started changing and the industry contracted. Skateboarding used to have a lot more facets than we see today in the mainstream skateboarding media. I noticed that their equipment had evolved and was better and more tailored for going down hill with speed.

Well imagine what I thought when I saw publicity for the 2010 World Championships of Freestyle Skateboarding. Freestylers were another group that suffered from a downturn in skateboarding popularity. On their blog I note that it’s the 10 year anniversary of the re-birth of competitive Freestyle skateboarding, apparently ten year ago, after it bottomed out and went underground, keen freestylers got together and started freestyle competition up again. It’s truly international with the last competition having been held in Japan and in the current competition, among the 80+ entrants 11 different countries represented.

I was always led to believe that freestyle changed into streetstyle with Rodney Mullen. I looked at the development of the whole S.K.A.T.E. thing as what kids who would have freestyled do today. I didn’t realize it was alive and well in all it’s original glory. Another layer of skateboarding resurfacing. I like all the textures and differences that are starting to appear in today’s skateboarding.

Here’s some modern European Freestyle it seems to have taken hold there.
Joe Flemke

Episode One of Road to Philly: A Freestyle Skateboarding Saga, two freestylers and their quest for freestyle glory.

From the original 1999 Baker Bootleg video.

From SkimtheFat:
Following the release of Birdhouse The End, Jay Strickland (who was Birdhouse’s manager at the time) and Andrew Reynolds decided to develop an idea for their own team and company. Unhappy with the image of being at Birdhouse, the two shared sentiments about not identifying with the team and wanted to create something they felt better represented them and their crew of friends. Back then, a majority of their crew was living in Huntington Beach (the infamous Warner Ave. Mob). They hung out, skated together, filmed each other, threw the footage onto VHS tapes and suddenly, Baker was born. Bootleg represents the early days of the crew before they were actually considered a team.

The Winners
1st – Nyjah Huston 116 points – $150,000
2nd – Shane O’Neill 114.9 points – $80,000
3rd – Torey Pudwill 112.8 points – $25,000
4th – Sean Malto 111 points – $10,000
5th – Chris Cole 109.6 points – $7,500
6th – Chaz Ortiz 102.2 points – $6,000
7th – Paul Rodriguez 100.1 points – $5,500

The Best Trick Winners
Creative Section – Peter Ramondetta – Ollie Impossible 50/50, 6.2 points – $5000
Line Section – Shane O’Neill – Nollie Backside Heel over the gap then Switch 360 Flip down the stairs, 6.3 points – $5000
Tech Section – Shane O’Neill – Nollie Kickflip Noseslide 270 shuvit – 6.9 points – $5000
Big Section – Was a draw between Chris Cole and Nyjah Huston with 7.5 points each. Chris Cole did a gap out to frontside 180 switch backside feeble on the kinked rail with Nyjah Huston doing a gap out to big spin flip boardslide on the same rail. The next best trick settles the draw. Chris Cole’s three sixty flip 50-50 on the big section hubba beat Nyjah Houston’s second best trick. – $5000
Best Overall Trick – Chris Cole gap out to frontside 180 switch backside feeble on the kinked rail. – 7.5 points – $5000

Here is the ESPN take on the competition and the video I embedded from their site.

In the US it will feature on ESPN2 on September 15th at 8pm EST/5pm PST so maybe there won’t be too much more footage forthcoming before the screening.

Here are some Am Cam clips from the event. Not filmed very well but cool because it’s what you’d see if you actually went to it, but not so cool if you actually wanted to know what went on. Just looking through some of the clips it doesn’t look like quite the spectator event that I thought it would be and I guess it’s probably more designed for TV, and in reality that’s where the money is anyway.

Here’s DC’s take of “The DC Pro”. There is going to be some exclusive coverage of the contest on the site a little later and I’ll link it up once it appears. Until that goes up here is a link to the Street League Qualifier that was held earlier.

Here’s a video of some of the pre competition publicity. A video I liked because it featured second placeholder Shane O’Neill who I thought got a little cheated at Maloof – New York, just shows sometimes qualifying in a competition sometimes isn’t as good as being ripped off. Nugget suddenly became a lot of peoples new favorite skater.

… and finally an article from ESPN giving some of the background about Street League for those who thought it was a basketball (streetball) league.

Andrew “THE Boss” Reynolds comments on the Video.

Stay Gold features sections by Aaron Suski, Andrew Reynolds, Brandon Westgate, Braydon Szafranski, Jerry Hsu, Kevin Long, Bryan Herman, Ed Templeton, Leo Romero, Marquis Preston, Collin Provost, Justin Figueroa, Jamie Tancowny and Heath Kirchart (as an easter egg).

The Bonus has Andrews’s Madness – looking at his OCD, a feature on Ed’s Book in the Deluxe version, Emerica Europe flow sections, an International Montage and US riders who are on the flow program.

The DVD has hidden footage (easter eggs) of Heath Kirchart (from the chapter select menu, select “back to main” button, hit right arrow button once, hit enter) and the Barrier Cult (from the bonus menu, select “Andrew Madness” button, hit left arrow button once, hit enter).

Heath Kirchart has retired from skating in demos and videos, hence his reduced role in the video. His “hidden section” was a career summary rather than groundbreaking new footage. After the US premiere Justin “Figgy” Figueroa became pro for Baker.

Here’s Ed Templeton talking about the deluxe DVD set that includes a photographic book with 148 pages containing photographs of the Emerica team over the last ten years by Ed Templeton, Michael Burnett, Atiba Jefferson, and Mike O’Meally.

Some photos, with amusing comments from the Baker Boy’s Distribution blog on the Stay Gold World premiere.

The Deluxe DVD with Book.

Here are some of the product to go with that Stay Gold DVD. A Romero shoe…

… and my personal favourite the Reynolds 3 – Stay Gold.

There are six shoe styles available in the Stay Gold colourway.

The schedule of the three days is:
Saturday 23rd October – practice session
Sunday 24th October – qualifying and semifinals
Monday 25th October – semifinals and finals

The sections are:
Open Mens
Open Womens
16 and under
13 and under

To register to enter the competition contact Cheapskates Khyber Pass Phone 09 379 5048 or qualify at your Regional Qualifying Competition.

Long before the event officially started and the organizers had set up skaters sessioned the sevens.

Chey Grace - nollie heelflip

Nick Bright - fakie mellon

Chey Grace - 360 Flip

With the the lights, sound system and the ALC ollie barrier set up, the competition started.

MC Beau and Seth

Competition started keen in the first event, the ALC high ollie comp. Skating on the sloping uneven bricks competitors displayed their pop…

Chey Grace

Josh Malthus

…until there was one left.

Nick Bright - Five Rails

Nick Bright - Seven Rails

With light fading and dew forming on the bricks the stair comp kicked off.

Nick Bright - backside kickflip

Ryan Clark - backside pop shuvit

Chey Grace - switch frontside flip

Here’s some footage of the night courtesy of Alex at Fresh Grip.

YouTuber thraagen comments “Well, just measuring off google maps it’s pretty much exactly 2km from where the onramp joins the expressway and the beginning of offramp… that takes 85 seconds… average speed 84.7km/h… I’d say he probably hits around 100 at fastest point……”

The longboarder featured is Andrew Chapman, a professional longboarder who skates for Landyachtz a Canadian longboarding company. Here’s a summary of his travels including a trip to the World Champs where he placed Third and finally a trip around the North Island of New Zealand.

Here is a link to a blog entry of his trip around New Zealand.

Here are some comments from SkateNParty that interviewed Andrew Chapman who skated and filmed the action.

These guys aren’t your normal longboarder.

Still an interesting viral promoting longboarding. Worldwide coverage in the expensive media for something loaded on YouTube.