Monster Energy brings you this quick clip of Kevin Baekkel’s kink rail battle.
360 Flips w/ Aurelien Giraud – Monster Energy
Monster Energy gives you this Aurelien Giraud quick clip…. there is no better 360 Flip.
Lizzie Armanto, Women’s Skateboarding Pioneer and Olympic Athlete – UNLEASHED Podcast E15
Trailblazer, innovator, global icon: Women’s skateboarding pioneer Lizzie Armanto joins The Dingo and Danny for an unforgettable episode of UNLEASHED.
MIRADOR II – Monster Energy
Mirador 2 is back with a unique take on skateboarding making the most of an FPV drone. Kevin Baekkel, Jorge Simoes, Gabriel Fortunato, and Marek Zaprazny hit up the spots of the Mediterranean but with a difference. Gaps and ledge tech are accompanied by full loops and graceful drone flying, showing skateboarding from a new perspective.
MATT BERGER | Aspire – Inspire: Ep 06 – MONSTER ENERGY
Get into the mindset of a technical street skating powerhouse! Watch Matt Berger as he prepares to represent Team Canada at the Tokyo Olympic games and earns silver, his first X Games medal, in the Real Street video competition.
NYJAH HUSTON | Aspire – Inspire: Ep 05
Get into the mindset of the world’s top-ranked street skateboarder! Recognized as the most winning street skater of all time, the 13-time X Games gold medalist will represent the United States in skateboarding’s debut at the Tokyo Olympics this July.
If you think you’ve seen it all from Nyjah – think again. In Ep 05, get an early peek into the upcoming biographical film project, ‘Nyjah’, directed by boundary-pushing skateboard filmmaker Ty Evans. The movie will showcase his backstory from the beginning to present day. And then his present-day journey to the Olympics. The film is set to release later in the year from Ghost Digital Cinema.
AYUMU HIRANO | Aspire – Inspire: Ep 04 – Monster Energy
It was snowboarding that came first for 22-year-old Ayumu. Then skateboarding. This snowboarding phenom holds two Olympic silver medals and two X Games gold medals to his name.
Now he’s aiming for the top with the chance to make history as the first board sports athlete to take medals at both Winter and Summer Olympics.
RUNE GLIFBERG | Aspire – Inspire: Ep 03 – Monster Energy
Witness the rise of an enduring skateboard icon.
The 46-year-old Olympic Skateboard Park discipline skater hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, has built one of the longest and accomplished careers in modern-day skateboarding. At a time when vert riding was redefined by a new generation of pros, Glifberg brought a potent mixture to the table: A talent for blasting high airs, contorted with grace and style, mixed with kickflips and switch stance variations adapted from street skating into vertical terrain.
Being able to land difficult tricks when it counts, Glifberg advanced to win the world’s most prestigious halfpipe competitions, sometimes several times in a row, including the Slam City Jam in Vancouver (1996, 1998), Tampa Pro (2003), Gravity Games (2001, 2004), Vans Pro-Tec Pool Party (2005, 2007, 2008), Mystic Sk8 Cup (2006), and Copenhagen Pro Vert (2007, 2009).
Glifberg’s pro career also entered a highly successful second act when the competitive focus shifted from halfpipes to Park skating, a mixture of vertical bowls and street elements. Today, “The Danish Destroyer” is even designing public skateparks as a partner and co-founder of Glifberg – Lykke, a skatepark architecture and design office in Copenhagen.
AURELIEN GIRAUD | Aspire – Inspire: Ep 01
Witness the rise of a young international skateboard phenomenon. Monster Energy is proud to announce the first episode of the “Aspire – Inspire” mini-documentary video series, starring French skateboarding marvel Aurelien Giraud.
Giraud’s rise has been a long time coming. The Olympic-hopeful from Lyon, France is known for his larger-than-life skateboard tricks in the streets – particularly on massive gaps and handrails – as well as his success in big-ticket skateboarding competitions such as X Games, Dew Tour, and Street League Skateboarding (SLS).
Finding Monsters – Monster Energy
Taka Higashino, Clayton Vila, and Lizzie Armanto don’t seem all that similar at first glance. Sure, they are professional athletes on the Monster Energy roster, but in completely different places. However, they did share one thing when they were young: Where they grew up was not conductive to their dreams.
This film follows these three as seven-year-old kids on all sides of the planet as they become infatuated with their action sport for the first time. The problem? Clayton lives on a tiny island with no ski mountains in sight, Taka is from Osaka, Japan where FMX is nowhere near a commonality, and Lizzie lives in a society where seeing a girl at the skatepark was considered cute at-best. But none of them seemed to even noticed – they were completely obsessed. And in time, they started to show real talent.
This short story is a call to action to anyone who notices talent and determination at an early age. Whether you just give them some props at the local skatepark, or you risk it all shipping your kid off to a program, to pursue their dreams, your support and encouragement is paramount to a child turning young talent into world-class athletic success.
Monsters are hiding everywhere.
E101 – Nyjah Huston Talks Olympics, Injuries, & Film Projects
Nyjah Huston is the winningest skateboarder in history. The Dingo and Danny sit down with the pro skater and Team USA Olympic athlete in the very first episode of UNLEASHED. It’s a heavy one: The reigning SLS World Champion and winner of 19 medals at X Games speaks on his road to the Tokyo Olympics, ‘sending it’ on big tricks, current video projects, dealing with injuries and staying motivated despite the ongoing pandemic.
Shadow Day | Nyjah Huston & Filipe Mota – Monster Energy
What better place to prove you can hang with the big dogs than Nyjah Huston’s state-of-the-art private park. At 13 years old, Filipe Mota can skate as well as guys twice his age and he’s only getting started.