Dew Tour Street Style: Highlights

Pretty high kickflip at the first spot of the whole course.

If there's any word to describe the whole competition, this word would definitely be "garnly". So long and so far, the Dew Tour real street competition, held at the Keegan Sauder's backyard at San Francisco, has been the most strict and fastest street course. The lap starts with small and almost broken kicker, but taking into account the high speed of the park, the riders were popped up into the air, and fastly launched to the hard pavement.

David Gravette grinding a big five-o at the truck gap

Another awesome spot at the couse was the big rail section. Although some riders skiped the section, the most braves ones, such as Gravette and Schekler, shredded the rail whit tigh tricks, including David's five-o and Sheck's back lipslide. It's important to highlight the speed that skaters got while ridding, based on the fact that the whole park was located at a downhill concrete street.

If you want to check at whole street course, check out the video with the highlights of the competition at San Francisco.

                                   

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Nyjah Huston: Dew Tour Winner

Huston, Pudwill and Rodriguez at the podium

After a rough battle between the four most profitalbe riders these days, Nyjah did ti again, and took back home the jackpot and the respect for all the crew at the San Francsico course. The decision was difficult, but  the judge finnaly decided to give Huston the big prize. The second place was for the charismatic DVS rider Torey Pudwill, which with tight and pretty technical tricks impressed the crew and the local judges. The third place was given to P.Rod, who dominated the course with perfectly landed switch and nollie tricks.

    The crew at the SF course.

To end up the show, the organization prepared a show with Nyjah's personal friend Lil' wayne, who after winning millions thanks to the rap music bussines now is really comitted to the skateboarding scene and progress. According to Huston, current Dew Tour Toyota City champeon, “It’s great to have Lil Wayne out there supporting skateboarding”. Also, it's important to highlight the participation of Latin American pro riders, sucha as Milton Martinez (Argentina) and Felipe Gustavo (Brazil) who won the fourth and fifth place respectively.

                                            Weezy performing at the Toyota City Championships

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Skater of the Day: Bastien Salabanzi

The nowadays very popular and loved European skateboarder, Bastien Salabanzi, is being covered by RideTime!

For those who doesn't know, Bastien has been ripping it since 1999, having performed parts on different skate videos, through a variety of sponsors and labels. Going back to the past, in fact ten years ago, a pretty young Salabanzi was killing it along the Flip's crew, job that ended up with this living clasic. (check out the first trick on the video, the signature Salabanzi's flip)

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Skate Spots: The DC Embassy

After creating the biggest skateramp under the supervision of the living leyend Danny Way, and constructing the first and largest Skate Plaza, the DC Shoes company did it again, and provided to the European riders one of the cleanest skate training facilities, The DC Embassy. This"Embassy" is located on Barcelona, and it has been visited by riders from all over the globe. Bacerlona is considered as the "Meca" of the sport, so for that reason, the international shoes company decided to invade the country and settle down for once on the old continent. The outcomes of this facility can be already seen, in fact some of the finalist of the nowadays popular Street League were strictly trained on this park.

Bastien Salabanzi, one of the biggest European skateboarders out there, is part of the selection of riders that represents the brand on Barcelona and at rest of the continent as well. Salabanzi trains at the Embassy as much as he could, and the results are visible to all the skateboarding community. This fact let us think in one aspect that may be affecting skaters from the rest of the world, especially ones who belong to poorer regions. The question is, does these kind of facilities, such as the "DC Embassy", improves directly the level of pro skaters? The answer is definitely yes. For this reason, "embassies" must be constructed in different parts of the world, making the progression of the sport a little bit more fair and democratic.

These are the facilities, the dream of any skater, the pleasure of just a little group, am I right?

Check out the latest video of the Embassy, with their special guests, the Razis brothers, Enjoy!

Southamerican attack! from THE DC EMBASSY on Vimeo.

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Pic of the Day: Historical Noseslide

History and skateboarding are finally here, enjoy this piece of art shreding all the place out!

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Pic of the Day: Cameron Strand

Old school skateboarding and a bit of punk style mixed in a picture. If you want to go back to past for a moment, enjoy this black and white for a while. Cheers!

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RideTips! : How to Snowboard 360

Following with the tips, today you will have the chance to learn one of the basics but classic! the old school 360

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RideTips! : How to Snowboard Backflip

Backflip, one of the most catchy and impressive tricks out there, and today ww will learn the basic of this amazing but pretty easy move.

Check out the vid!

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Pic of the Day: Snowboarding sequences!

It's time of sequences, so get ready and enjoy this little compilation that Ridetime! prepared for all of you!

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Pic of the Day: Chris Greiner

Snowboarding has been influenced by skateboarding since its birth. This pic reveals that influence, and at the same time the style which Chris Greiner has at the moment of performing FS boardslides!

FS boardslide down the rail
Photo: Andy Wright

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Arts and Skateboarding: Skate and Create!

Arts plus skateboarding?, yeah believe it or not, this idea is more old than what you think. Skate and Create is a competition that was made up on 2009, and it has been carried out since then. Fueled by RedBull, the main idea of this contest is to mix up skateboarding skills and art abilities, fact that provides amazing outcomes. If you want to comprehend the real meaning of what I'm talking about, stop reading this sentence and enjoy these awesome pics!

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Thrasher Magazine: KING OF THE ROAD 2012 IS ON!

Yeah, believe it or not the Thrasher Magazine crew is back on the bussines, and as every year, they are about to bring us the best thing that they do, get gnarly! For  this 8th season of the Thrasher's journey across the States, the crew will be conformed with the sickest skaters out there, obviously with the company of the charismatic big boss "Phelps". If you never have seen Trasher's King of the Road before, be prepare to a whole new experience based on beers, chicks and skateboarding, and if you are already a fan of this badass crew, just open yours beers and lay down. The Thraseher's tour is due start the following September 7th, on the mean time, check out the trailer and enjoy!

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World Largest Skateboarding

Gretting Ridetimers!

Worldwide Guiness records are beaten day by day, from the world's strongest women alive to things that I'm not able to write about on this blog (just use your imagination).Today we remember Rob Dyrdek's record performed in 2009, which was the largest skateboard ever built. There have been some other tries, but Dyrdek was the one that really got the big prize!

Fueled by Rob's skate company, Alien Workshop, history was made as well as a lot of accidents,laughter and crazyness!

Check out the pics of Dyrdek's creation:

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Pic of the Day: Greyson Fletcher

This is the outcome of mixing speed and balls! Today we present Fletcher, a young boy who really knows how to take it to the limits.

Frontside Transfer

Photo: R. Sakurai

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Pic of the Day: Andrew Reynolds

Hi there everybody, today I have the pleasure of presenting The Boss!

Andrew Reynolds "The Boss"
FS Flip

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Pic of the Day : Levi Brown

There are some skaters that can't wait until the parks are finished. This the case of Brown, who sticks this gnarly frontside rock&roll at the top of  these concrete pipes.

Levi Brown, FSRock in Phoenix, AZ
Photo: Matt Price

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Pic of the Day: Aaron Homoki

Aaron Homoki is recognized as no-fear skateboarder, and this pic proves it. For Transworld Skateboarding Magazine, Homoki performs this mindblowing frontside 180º, getting its own "meme" and consequently the Pic of the Day.

Aaron Homoki / Frontside 180º
For Transword Magazine

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Pic of the Day: Matt Hensley

Skateboarding can be practiced at any spot, but this time Matt Hensley takes it to the next level. Even though this picture was taken ten years ago, it still rips!, with a technical fronsite at the corner of that cowboy hat, Hensley gets today's Pic of the Day!

Matt Hensley, Seattle 1992
Photo: Daniel Harold Stur

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Pic of the Day: Danny Way

This pic is more than a classic. I remember the good old days when day used to skate and break records as part of his daily routine.

This time we find him jumping "The Great Wall", and he even make it look easy!

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Nyjah Huston Won The Street League Second Stop! Unstoppable!

Nyjah Huston was once again in victory at the second stop of the Street League 2012 which took place in Ontario, California. As he did at the first stop (Kansas City) Nyjah lend the best tricks (one such was a Kick Flip Backside caballerial Lipslide in the Best Trick) to take home $ 150,000.

Second and third place were Chaz Ortiz and Sean Malto who fought very hard in the championship game but were unable to perform Nyjah's tricks, which seems to be unstoppable in terms of championships are concerned.

Check out the official ST website, and stay tuned with every single detail.

For more information about the 2012 Street League, keep on visiting RideTimes! your favorite Skate/Snowboarding blog!

Check out the video now!

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