
To celebrate the release of Paul Rodriguez’s third shoe, Nike SB has produced a new commercial titled “Today Was a Good Day.” In addition to the commercial, there will also be a web exclusive extended version of “Today Was a Good Day” that stars Paul with some special friends. This version premiers on 7/31/09 at: [...]

The Pirate Movie Production just released the long awaited Teaser for their upcoming movie “Jolly Roger”. The teaser and the movie stand out of the crowd through the unique mood transported by the nice analog 16mm atmosphere. Yes, right the whole movie was shot on 16mm. The DVD will come with a 100-page art book [...]

Robotron Skateboards just released two new Deck Series. The first one is the Rainbow Reloaded! Series showing the well known HerrSchulze Robo graphics just masqueraded. The Quote Deck series consists of three different graphics, more colorful with a humorous approach on certain “facts” in skateboarding history, for example that roller skate graphic playing with the [...]

This is one of the most promising Trailers you’ve ever seen. Born to Skate is a Skateboard Roadmovie with Chris Heck and Sebastian Linda, they travel the world trying to find skateboarding’s essence again.
The whole project came into existence because art director and filmmaker Sebastian Linda from Fluchtpunkt Videproduction was bored of all the same [...]

Welcome in Round 10 – This time Orlando Acosta shows you how your Pop Shoveit Late Varialflip should look like. Means to you: find a piece of flat ground, do your Pop Shoveit Late Varialflip with as much style as possible, film it and upload it at www.king-of-skate.com. The most stylish copied [...]

Lakai created this “high speed” slow mo commercial in HD for the new Rick Howard Pro Model and Rick Selects. We just love this commercial. The Lakai guys do not take things too serious after they started with this high speed slow mo trend with the Fully Flared Intro and now come up with this [...]

SUR Skateboards just came up with a line of fresh looking decks, wheels and bearings as well as griptape. The got 5 deck collections, the Animal (shown above), the Calavera, the Loto, the Rasta, and the SUR Logo Decks. The Animal line features animal illustrations combined with the logo, the calavera shows a SUR customized [...]

The Nike SB HD Video Project, Debacle is the first skateboard video entirely filmed in HD. Directed by Jon Humphries and Jason Hernandez, Debacle was filmed by Hernandez, Joey Ruiz, and Chris Middlebrook. The followed the Nike SB team riders Daryl Angel, David Clark, Shane O’Neill, Theotis Beasley, Justin Brock, and Grant Taylor to 10 [...]

Welcome in Round 9 – This time you see swiss precision from Severin von Ow: Backside 360° Biggerflip. Means to you: find a piece of flat ground, do your Backside 360° Biggerflip with as much style as possible, film it and upload it at www.king-of-skate.com. The most stylish copied Backside 360° [...]

Is this what skateparks will look like in the future? Well according to TheCoolHunter, yes. TCH created these two pop-up skateparks, one with a Transformers Theme the other one features Space Invaders. Those concept renders look pretty nice colorful and all that. But for me it doesn’t really look skateable, although one could shoot some [...]

Welcome in Round 8 – This time Danjar Adelmann out of Germany shows a Switch Bigspinflip.
Means to you: find a piece of flat ground, do your Switch Bigspinflip with as much style as possible, film it and upload it at www.king-of-skate.com. The most stylish copied Switch Bigspinflip will win a nice [...]

The adidas Skateboarding Busenitz Pro Model just released and the adidas www.ebsite got updated. Now they come up with an interesting insight on how they developed the Dennis Busenitz’s Pro Model, that it’s inspired by Copa Mindiam, his favorite soccer shoe and the Samba, as well as some energetic Busenitz lines.

9five Eyewear just came up with one of the most creative skate commercials we’ve ever seen. Responsible for these nice shots and well done editing is Mike Metcalf. He recorded and edit the all the skate sounds we’re familiar to. He managed to compose a cool beat with them and at the same time you [...]

Welcome in Round 7 – This time Irelands finest Cian Eades shows a Switch Laserflip.
Means to you: find a piece of flat ground, do your Switch Laserflip with as much style as possible, film it and upload it at www.king-of-skate.com. The most stylish copied Switch Laserflip will win this nice Jart [...]

The New Skateboard Graphics book by J. Namdev Hardisty is very interesting for skateboarders, graphic designers as well as product designers. The book contains almost 300 selected skateboard graphics and interviews with designers Michael Leon and Yogi Proctor. Another interesting aspect are the last pages where all deck designers are credited, a nice insight on [...]

Welcome in Round 6 – here we go! This time french techmachine Mathieu Dupuy shows aBS 180° Casperflip.
Means to you: find a piece of flat ground, do your BS 180° Casperflip with as much style as possible, film it and upload it at www.king-of-skate.com. The most stylish copied BS 180° Casperflip will win this nice [...]

One of the best skateboard video parts ever! From the “Wheels of Fire” with following riders featured: Rob Roskopp, Christian Hosoi, and Claus Grabke. Claus Grabke’s band Eight Dayz performs the song “What’s so strange about me”. Updated: You might know this song from Standard Films – White Balance Terje Haakonson’s part Of course it’s [...]

Playboard.de has just relaunched their website. Responsible for that new fresh looking site is Stuttgart, Germany based formzwei.de consisting of the two Graphic Designers Yannick Simon and Carlo Bernauer. With that update there comes a daily updated blog, the movieplayer has been improved and the whole site itself looks way clearer. Pretty good job!

Everybody’s talking about Mr. Koston and his Nike SB sponsoring these days. We want to show you one of the most exclusive Pro Models from his time at Lakai. This is the Lakai Koston Select “Don’t Stop Push It” designed by Germany based graphic designer Julien Fincker.
Get a detailed look in the gallery.

Welcome in Round 5 and at the same time the last chance to join this global Game of S.K.A.T.E event. This week Severin von Ow shows a Halfcab Doubleflip with swiss precision.
Means to you: find a piece of flat ground, do your Halfcab Doubleflip with as much style as possible, film [...]

Another little piece from the long awaited Street Dreams movie. Yahoo Movies has an exclusive scene from the film on its website, ”Tape Dollar” features the entire cast and is live right now on Yahoo! Movies. It provides an better insight on the movie than the Trailers. It starts pretty cool with Ryan stagediving the [...]

Welcome in Round 4. This week we could convince the czech techmachine and Horsefeathers teamrider Tomas Svoboda showing you a Pop-Shove-It Late Backfootflip.
And now it´s your turn: find a piece of flat ground, do your Pop-Shove-It Late Backfootflip with as much style as possible, film it and upload it at www.king-of-skate.com. [...]

The Adidas Worldpremiere of the European Team Video ‘Diagonal’ took place in Stuttgart, Germany. The decision to have it there is justified by having filmed lots of shots in that rising skate city and it’s Lem’s hometown. A pre-party was held in the Skateboard Museum where a pretty nice bowl session was going on. After that, the party crowd went to the rented cinema including all the riders. After having seen the riders list, expectations were pretty high. And yes, the video delivered all expectations even more than that. Lot’s of uhhs(…)

The collaboration between California based skateboarder Buddy Carr and New York based graphic designer Antonio Carusone is kind of a masterpiece. It’s the best bridge between design and skateboarding I’ve ever seen. You might not have a Street Skateboard but I’d define it as a cruiser just to get from A to B the [...]