The art of shredding concrete has been a long traveled journey for passionate boarders and the skateboard industry. Skateboarding has come a long way since the 1970′s, but now everyday it seems there is a new device that aims to alter the existing board and morph it into an all-around street movement. Thus presents the [...]

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The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Colombia will be taking place in a few weeks but meanwhile, the Winter X Games (the premier action sports event in the world) in Aspen, Colorado are set to commence on January 28 and run through January 31. The Winter X Games will feature more than 200 of [...]

Hey, you’ve mastered the art of freeride snowboarding. You can turn heelside, toeside, go fast, go slow, and maybe even ride switch if you’re lucky.  Black Diamonds are not scary anymore, and you think Greens are boring. Good for you! It sounds like you are ready to hit the park and learn some freestyle. If [...]

This clip is from the Far East Skate Network taken from a Takahiro Morita film Overground Broadcasting. The production values and skating are excellent!

When I was a kid, Captain Lou Albano, who died on Wednesday at the age of 76, belonged to my church. On a good day, my family would arrive for the twelve o’clock Sunday mass at St. John’s Church in Mahopac, NY, at about 12:20, but more typically around 12:30, just before the communion wafers [...]

Tentative Jabs, Then the Takedown Roy “Big Country” Nelson defeated Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson by ground-and-pound technical knockout on the third episode of The Ultimate Fighter 10 reality show, which aired on Spike last night. Spike and the Ultimate Fighting Championship had been hyping this fight as “the greatest fight in the history of The [...]

What a tremendously great idea. So great that I can’t even imagine how these guys came up with it in the first place. What’s next? Skateboarding while balancing two parrots on each shoulder? Skateboarding while playing throw and catch with a plastic bouncy ball? Skateboarding while playing the solo from Stairway to Heaven on an [...]

Mixed Martial Arts fans got a special treat last night with a truly outstanding UFC Fight Night live event, shown free on Spike TV, followed by the season premiere of The Ultimate Fighter reality show.  The fighters were at the top of their game, leaving it all in the cage for the screaming fans, while [...]

I think this video’s beautiful. I can’t say I get the symbolism of the wood but I don’t really care that much. DVS won the contest last year. The credits for this film are: DVS Teamriders: Daewon Song, MVP Torey Pudwill, Andrew Brophy, Zered Bassett, Kenny Hoyle, Jimmy Cao. Directed and Edited by Colin Kennedy [...]

When I was in college in the mid-1980s, I had a friend whose roommate, Harold, owned an exceptional collection of action-oriented videotapes, ranging from Blaxploitation movies like Dolomite to martial arts films so obscure that today I can hardly remember the titles of more than a handful of them. But his Holy Grail was an [...]

What is it about extreme sports that makes us action junkies so interested in them? Is it the technicality? The speed? The heights? Or is it that we just like to see people fall on their face over and over again. Maybe it is a combination of all of these. New extreme sport videos get [...]

There are plenty of different ways to bungee. You can bungee upright, bungee upside down, bungee with a horizontal harness, bungee with a partner, be suspended by your waist your feet and many other things. As long as you are jumping off of somewhere that doesn’t eventually smash your head into the pavement you are [...]