Rick Thorne’s Grindz And Rhymez Tour is coming to your local skatepark looking for it’s best rippers by holding a jam style contest for skate and bmx. Each winner from both sports will win Monster Energy and Famous Stars and Straps flow. Plus the Famous Stars and Straps skate/bmx demo will be in the house shredding and a sneak preview of their upcoming news skate video. Also live music from Rick Thorne’s band Good Guys In Black that will be rocking on the park course. So bring your board, bike, style and skills because it’s time to skate, ride, go big and rock out!!

Joe and Gavin Maloof, who own the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, said Tuesday they will hold Maloof Money Cup New York June 5-6 at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, featuring street skateboarding competition. The winner will earn $100,000.
The Maloofs have agreed to donate the $1.8 million, world-class skate park they will build for the competition to the city of New York through the City Parks and Recreation Department’s “Adopt-A-Park” program. Joe Maloof said the cost of the skate park will be defrayed by contributions from sponsors Vans and Monster Energy.

The Maloof Money Cup will return to Southern California for the third straight year, featuring street and vert competition, from Aug. 4-8 at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.
“I always felt the most important thing was to start in California, where it was born,” Joe Maloof said. “We’ll always stay in Orange County and the L.A. area. That will always be No. 1. However, we needed to get an East Coast presence. It’s a privilege to get into New York. It’s not easy to have an event in New York.”
The New York competition will include a wild-card contest to give local skaters the opportunity to compete against the top pros in the industry. Pro skaters Chris Cole and Geoff Rowley, New York skating icon Steve Rodriguez and Joe Ciaglia of California Skateparks will lead the design of the street course. The New York prize purse is nearly $250,000.
The Maloof Money Cup Orange County will expand to five days.
Invited pros include defending champions Cole in the street competition and Alex Perelson in vert. The 18-year-old Perelson won last year’s vert after becoming just the fourth person to land a 900 during a competition.
The Maloof Money Cup Orange County pays out nearly $500,000 in cash and prizes, with $100,000 going to the street winner and $75,000 to the vert winner.
Maloof said the competition will expand to South Africa in 2011.
“I think this thing has evolved from a small skateboarding camp to a major skateboarding event,” Maloof said. “It’s going to expand opportunities for skateboarding around the world.”

Crossroads retail show best trick contest held on 2/4/10. Featuring Chris Cole, Nick Merlino, Nyjah Huston, Ben Hatchell, Peter Smolik and more.

Just in time for the final Grand Prix before the Olympics, Shaun decided to learn this new trick.

The Damn Am Series was created by Brian Schaefer and Rob Meronek as they noticed that there was a need to bring the Tampa-style am contests to skateboarders outside of Tampa. If you can’t get into Tampa Am directly through your sponsor, entering a Damn Am is the only official way to qualify for Tampa Am. Basically, the flavor” of the Tampa Contests is taken to locations around the country and Europe, too.

The first Damn Am started in 2001 at the Volcom Warehouse in Costa Mesa, CA and has been going strong ever since. The success of that event led the inception of the Minnesota Damn Am, taking place every June at 3rd Lair Skatepark in Minneapolis, MN, which has been running strong since 2003. In 2006, Volcom decided to help us take the Damn Am Series over the pond and the AmsterDamn Am was born and has been etched into the schedule as a yearly event.

Here is some footage of the Damn Am Best Trick Contest which was held on October 25, 2009