Dew Tour Shop Showdown: Asylum Vs. 35th Ave.

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For the second year in a row, TransWorld SKATEboarding and Dew Tour heave teamed up to host a Shop Showdown video contest on TWSkate.com to find the best shop team in the country. This year, we invited 15 new shops along with our returning champs, 303 Boards from Colorado, to create a 3-5 minute video edit in the span of one month featuring their best shop riders. With no pro involvement, this contest is a prodigious way to shine some light on the underdogs who constantly put in work for their local shops. From coast to coast, all 16 videos will be posted to TWSkate.com and bracketed against each other until the final 4 videos are determined through a blend of audience voting and expert analysis by the TWS edit staff and pro skateboarders from Mountain Dew. The final 4 teams will be flown to Long Beach, California, to attend the Dew Tour on July 23 and 24 where they will compete head-to-head on the newly updated Dew Tour course, which will be broadcasted shortly after on NBC Sports. The winning shop will receive a $5,000 cash prize, 2-page editorial feature in an upcoming issue of TransWorld SKATEboarding, and much more.

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303 Boards | 35th Ave. | Ambler | Asylum | Blindside | Blue Tile | Boardertown | Index | Jokers | Prestige | Silo | Sixth Avenue | S.P.O.T. | Subsect | Terrace | Underground

Keep up with everything on social media using #DewTourShopShowdown!

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Skate For A Cause 2016 Photos

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Our good friends over a The Sheckler Foundation put on the 7th Annual Skate For A Cause charity event which continues to benefit their Be The Change initiative this past Saturday at the Etnies Skatepark in Lake Forest, CA. Hundreds of spectators came out for an afternoon of fun, skating, and good vibes. A who’s who of skateboarding’s finest pros showed up to help raise money to benefit this year’s Be The Change recipient Andrew Hale from the Adaptive Action Sports athlete. In January 2016, Andrew Hale, was in a snowboarding accident suffering SCI and TBI injuries. This grant will support Andrew’s road to recovery. It’s always great seeing the good folks at the Sheckler Foundation, along with their friends and family, continually helping others in need.

Photos: @jaimeowens

The list of winners from each skate section that all had money donated in their name:

Transworld Legends Bowl – Christian Hosoi

Lume Cube SkaterCross – Daniel Vargas

Red Bull Tech Center – Greg Lutzka

Oakley Tranny Best Trick Contest – Charlie Blair

Tillys Stairs, Hubbas, Rails Best Trick Contest – David Reyes

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SLS Nike SB Pro Open Returns to Barcelona, Spain May 21-22

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The 2016 SLS Nike SB Pro Open returns to Europe’s mecca of skateboarding in Barcelona, Spain on May 21-22 to kick off the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) Nike SB World Tour. This international contest will be hosted for the second straight year at the Skate Agora BDN Barcelona concrete skate plaza, built in 2015 by Lateral Thinking in conjunction with Nike SB and the City of Badalona and designed by California Skateparks.

As the official international qualifier, this contest serves as gateway into SLS season of live televised arena events on FS1. The two highest scoring non-SLS Pros will advance into the series giving them a career-forging opportunity to make their mark alongside today’s greats of street skateboarding. In 2015, rookies Evan Smith and Cody McEntire outperformed a pool of international hopefuls for the last remaining spots in SLS, and then proceeded to shake up the rankings land in the final season top 10 ahead of several SLS veterans.

For existing SLS Pros, the SLS Nike SB Pro Open is a chance to gain crucial Championship Points for the season and compete for the coveted Golden Ticket: an express pass straight into the SLS Nike SB Super Crown World Championship this October in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Nike SB’s Nyjah Huston will be returning to Spain to defend his victory from 2015, alongside Paul Rodriguez who narrowly missed taking the top of the podium on the last trick.

New for 2016, the latest SLS wildcards, Kyle Walker, Kevin Bradley, Miles Silvas, and Chris Joslin, will also compete in Barcelona after joining this year’s SLS contest line-ups thru the SLS Picks gateway. The Picks will also be skating for their chance to join SLS. With the unique winner-takes-all first-place prize open to all finalists, innovation and continued elevation of skateboarding is guaranteed.

Day One of the SLS Nike SB Pro Open will cut the field of the best pro skaters not currently in SLS to eight Qualifiers. The competition lineup will be full of heavy hitters from all over the world such as Belgium’s Youness Amrani, Norway’s Karsten Kleppan, Australia’s Chima Ferguson and Americans, Curren Caples and Nick Tucker. On Day Two, the top eight qualifiers will compete against current SLS Pro Veterans and the newly named SLS Picks to form the Final, and compete for first place and the sought after Golden Ticket.

Who will advance into the SLS Nike SB World Tour and battle it out with the current seasoned SLS Pros? Can Nyjah Huston take his third straight Pro Open win and take the coveted Golden Ticket straight to the SLS Nike SB Super Crown World Championship? Will a rookie shake up the competition and earn the victory? Tune in on May 21st and 22nd for the live webcast on StreetLeague.com or catch it on May 22 on FS1.

For an official rider list, click here

International fans can watch each event webcasted live exclusively on StreetLeague.com. Fans in the United States can watch SLS on FS1 and customers of participating cable and satellite TV providers may access the live stream through the FOX Sports Go app for iOS, Android, Windows and Kindle devices, as well as on desktops through FOXSportsGo.com.

SLS NIKE SB WORLD TOUR DATES AND VENUES:

  • May 21-22     SLS Nike SB Pro Open | Skate Agora BDN I Barcelona, Spain
  • July 2             SLS Nike SB World Tour: Munich | Olympic Park | Munich, Germany
  • August 28      SLS Nike SB World Tour: New Jersey | Prudential Center | Newark, NJ, USA
  • October 2 SLS Nike SB Super Crown World Championship | Galen Center at USC | Los Angeles, CA, USA

TUNE IN SCHEDULE:

SLS Nike SB Pro Open Live Webcast – Saturday, May 21 (8:00 AM ET)

SLS Nike SB Pro Open Live Webcast – Sunday, May 22 (5:15 AM ET)

SLS Nike SB Pro Open on FS1 – Sunday, May 22 (9:30 PM – 11:00 PM ET)

SLS Nike SB World Tour: Munich on FS1 – Saturday, July 2 (1:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET)

SLS Nike SB World Tour: New Jersey on FS1 – Sunday, August 28 (5:00 PM – 6:30 PM ET)

SLS Nike SB Super Crown World Championship on FS1 – Sunday, October 2 (10:30 PM – 12:00 AM ET)

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