For those who’ve seen Extremely Sorry you’ll remember the Clay introductions, well if you’ve wondered how they’re created head on over to the Flip website for a look behind the scenes!

Tucked away within deep within the Habitat Footwear catalog, Habitat have announced Guru Khalsa will have a pro board released this spring. Surprised it took so long to turn him pro, congrats to him.

The past year has brought so many high and low points for skateboarding many of these low points are from across the atlantic where we’ve seen Sheckler continue to destroy his reputation within the skate world with the Clean and Clear adverts, a half baked attempt at a motion picture from Rob Dyrdek called Street Dreams, the rise of corporate skate footwear, Jereme Rogers switch to a rapper and a slap in the face from the Berrics with their extortionate advertising program. All of which collectively may have helped increase the impending death of skateboarding as we know it, at least in America.

The UK on the other hand seems quietly optimistic as in the past year we’ve had the rise of the concrete mega parks, some new UK video gems in the form of Heel Toe Magic, Dimensions and the scene video Bristol’s Finest and of course the rise of skate video uploading – all of which is helping UK skateboarding grow stronger.

The US did have some highs obviously there was a spectacular backyard mega ramp session from Burnquist, flatground madness from Jimmy Carlin with Flippity Flop Pit Stop, Chris Cole never stopped, Malto was everywhere, Mike Mo was far too consistent, we’ve had Debacle, Strange World, Sk8Mafia AM, Diagonal, State of Mind, Right Foot Forward, The Blind Video and so much more insane footage which have helped take skateboarding to a whole new level.

Recommended viewing from the year gone by:

• Bob Burnquist – Extremely Sorry
• Jamie Palmore – Sk8mafia AM Video
• Shane Oneill & Theotis Beasley – Debacle
• Barney Page – Dimensions
• Sean Smith – Dimensions
• Eli Reed – “Zoo York State of Mind”
• Dennis Busenitz – “Diagonal”
• Jimmy Carlin – Flippity Flop Pit Stop

Happy New Year! Looks to be a good one, who knows Plan B may even release their video but then again Pigs could also fly.

Adidas have just relaunched their website – in flash which is seriously irritating but ignore that and head over and watch Frisco Stand Up with new footage of their team including the likes of Benny Fairfax, Lem Villeman, Denis Busenitz, Gonz, Silas Baxter-Neal, Tom O’Connor, Pete Eldridge and Nestor Judkins.

This guy knows far too many tricks, the first trick is ridiculous! Well to be honest the whole thing is ridiculous, Mike Mo is a machine..

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More Christmas video surprises with Hold Tight London and Slam City releasing a Christmas Special, it’s a shame the weather is so bad cause we could all do with a nice long session I think!

Head over to Hold Tight London for all the goodness, you wont be disappointed.

Just read this on our forums and it’s defiantly worth sharing, Macba has finished it’s complete redesign and is looking better than ever, next summer is looking better and better!

Head over to http://www.moleirodesign.com/macba/macba1.html for all the details and pictures!

Happy Christmas All!

As you should already be aware the full Blueprint team have been at the Berrics all this week, they’ve now released a Blueprint United which features mini sections from all their team riders. They kill it, definatly something to help cure Christmas boredom!

Head over to the Berrics to watch it, also stop by the canteen for limited edition Blueprint decks!

The Blueprint team will be featuring on the Berrics all this week, so be sure to stop by and check out regular updates involving them!

Maverick Skateparks have posted up a little Christmas edit from Mansfield Plaza with Rodney Clarke as bad Santa.