Ryan Clements Is Back! | The Nine Club – Episode 300

Ryan Clements discusses the economics of skateboarding events, big corporate sponsors and how they’re perceived, the world of skateboard agents & managing “athletes”, is anyone making money throwing contests, the Boardr’s live scoring system for contests, did the Olympics have any effect on skateboarding, giving advice to clients & dealing with skater’s parents, getting into the skatepark construction game and much more!

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Tony Hawk, Avril Lavigne and More at When We Were Young | X Games

Is that Avril Lavigne?! Damn right it is, punk music and skateboarding collide at the When We Were Young Fest! X Games dropped the vert ramp off and hit up a heavy crew of rippers to hold it down. Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, Jason Ellis, Jimmy Wilkins (honestly the list goes on) all showed up to rip the ramp and mosh a little. Check it out!

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Cody Chapman for The Villa – Lakai

Lakai’s newest model, The Villa, was designed, tested and approved by Cody Chapman. A hi-top cupsole with a “less is more approach”, built to be simplistic yet durable and responsive. Custom artwork by Cody, along with his “Cold Dawg” branding top of this new style worthy of the Lakai archive.

Shop the new Villa model by Cody Chapman, along with his “Cold Dawg” apparel collection HERE.

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