The Pretty Skateboards Blog just put up an amazing video of Randy Ploesser. Pure epicness. Shredding the wedge and looking good. Click here to watch:

Thrasher just posted a video from their Soty video. The first ever soty: Tony Hawk, 1990. CHeck this classic footage, and get ready to vote for the skater of the year for 2009. Click here to watch.

Adio just put out a new commercial showing off Nesser's new shoe, the SNAP. Also go get the new issue of transworld to see steve's full interview. Click here to watch Adio commercial.

The question asked at the Zero "Strange World" premiere was, what's your least favorite candy. Find out what Matt Ball's answer is. I'm sure you are all dying to know. Click Here:

Final video from our east coast trip. Rye Airfield, and Lewiston Maine. Crew killed it. Click here for the vid:

RIP Gold Rail. This was gregoire's old hometown rail. He has had a shitload of tricks on it. Check out the transworld site to get a rundown of some of the tricks that went down. Click Here:

We finally got home a couple days ago. To recap the trip: Riley MVP, Bart down $1200, John Rob welcome aboard. Stay tuned for more videos and photos.

Props to our boy Clint Walker for getting 2nd place at damn am this year. He also got 1st in the best trick contest. Yeeeeeee

First David Loy, now Riley. That cast didn't stop riley from getting down on a 10 rail the other night.

Lots of updates going on. We're on the last leg of our trip. Just finished Boston today, Got some amazing stuff. Riley...wow. You will see what we're talking about. Got some pics and a couple other video updates. Click here to check out the Quiksilver blog. They've been following us around in their rv capturing everything too. Aslo, click here to check a video from our new york stop.

Here's a little update from our trip. Got some random pics form NY and CT. Hurricane Bart hit CT, and we barely survived.

Here's a little sneak peak of what's to come from our trip. We've just started and already had a crazy demo in Columbia, MO. Check this little video to ge tthe idea. CLick Here:

Nesser just let me know the Adio team will be out in Arizona doing a big demo at Peoria Skate Park, Sat Oct 24th. Nesser will be out there with the rest of the adio team. Check the flyer for more info...

Just found out that Matt Ball will be featured on skate talk with Bob tonight at 8pm. Get your questions ready, you can either call in or write your questions on the site. Skate Talk

Head over to The Skateboard Mag's website to check out their newest installment of "trippin." This time with the Ipath dudes. Jaws killing it. What else is new. Watch Here:

Transworld just posted up a little montage from Carmel Valley Skatepark. Eaton along with scorpo and others rip the place up. Watch here:

Just got word that Riley's homies are making their new video. Brand new trailer with some crazy riley footy in it. The banger is straight gangsta. Watch the trailer here:

Oct 14th from 11:30am to 1pm, Tony Hawk and Willy Santos will be there speaking and eating a little lunch. Check the flyer or this website for more details if you are interested in attending the event... CLICK HERE

Been going out filming non stop last week. John Rob, Buster and our new boy Tyler Franz been handling business. Be on the lookout for Franz. Coming up! Oh ya, Bart still is the raddest. After a long night of skating, we had a VIP pizza party. Amazing. We also took our AZ boys to the beach for a little fun.

Vote for JAWSSS. Head over to the Skateboard Mag's website and cast your vote for jaws as years best am. There's some tough competition but Jaws can do it. It's on the homepage under the 2 cent column. Click here:

If you didn't watch the live show of skate talk with Willy Santos, you can still watch it on their website. Everything you wanted to know about willy will be answered. Watch it here:

Willy has two events coming up: the Arnette All Day Antics Skate Series, and he will be appearing on Skate Talk. Skate talk is Patrick Odell's and Bob ALtamirano's new streaming web show. Peep the flyers below for more info...

We are all sad to say goodbye to our good friend Eric Stricker. He was an amazing guy and will be truly missed.

Sorta. After a little sesh we decided to hit the range. Ya he sucks. Got lucky on a couple. I hit one over the fence and may have killed someone. Check eaton's sequence

Had a fat sesh at Hollywood High the other day. Ghost and Clint were jumping down that beast. Jared from Bones came out too with Hoffart, Fiorini and Josh Hawkins. Bart was there. Stay tuned for the footy...

Check out the team page and check out Willy's clips from Australia. Also if you still haven't seen our OZ tour vid get it here:

Head over to shred or die to check out Riley's Free Lunch. Riley talks about life as a Hawk, and how he got hooked up with Lakai. Watch Here:

Head over to the berrics website and check out Jaw's installment of Text Yo Self. Jaws gets some funny texts and busts out for you. kickflip blunt kickflip! Damnnnnn. Watch Here

This last weekend, we all went out to Vegas for Ball's wedding. That's right, ball got hitched. All of dirty business was in attendance including: Eaton, Braydon, Jeremy, Ragdoll and the rest of the crew. Klein and Kirchart were there as well. Elvis married them. What a great day. Couple screen shots for you. stay tuned for some video.

If you haven't heard of skate talk yet, then you are blowing it. Its Patrick Odells and Bobs new online show. In this episode Matt Ball gets questioned. Everything you ever wanted to know and more... Watch the vid here.

CrailTap just posted a mini top five's wth none other than Steve Nesser. He lists the top 5 things about being brother in laws with greendays lead singer. Watch here:

Sep 5th is the kickoff of Arnette's "All Day Antics Skate Series." Join Willy Santos and Danny Supa for a game of skate at willy's workshop PQ. 11am to 2 pm. Check the flyer below for more info...

Nesser and the boys at Familia Skateshop held a little best trick contest this past week.  Some mad tricks went down.  Footy here:

We got Willy Santos to answer some q\'s the other day. Enjoy:

1. Being on the road or being at home

              -I enjoy being with my family especially hangin\' out with my son & I really enjoy being on the road skating new spots.  So I                  like both...

2.  Demo or autograph signing

           - Both is cool.

3. Phillipines or Japan

           -Japines...

4. Who would win in a fight: Ball or Eaton

           -Ball

5. Pho or udon

          -Phodon

6. 540 on vert or Hollywood 16

         -540 ollie on vert

7. Berrics or Syndrome Park

         -Berrdrom

8. Street fighter or mortal combat

         -Street Fighter II

9. Cement park or wood

           -Both

10. Game of skate: David vs jaws

          -Riley Hawk

11. Spencer nuzzi or spencer nuzzi

          -Suspence

12. Ice cold beer or ice cold water

          -Ice cold water during the day & a ice cold beer in the evening.

13. SD or LA

         -Both

14. Skate in the day or at night

         -Both

Ball and I had a little sesh with Bart from The Skateboard Mag a little while ago. Bart got a banger. Check it here:

Check out the Transworld website for this week's installment of "5 Trick Fix". This week our homie Chris Gayson supplied the footy. Jaws has the first trick. Watch it here!

Last Friday I checked out the Oceanside Surf Museum's "Skate Exhibit". They had a lot of really cool old pictures and old graphics. There were a ton of old skate legends, including Per welinder and Duane Peters.The event was sick, minus the $5 beers.

Tony just uploaded a clip of riley skating our mini ramp. Frontside blunt to disaster. Yeah Right! Riley is killing it. Watch here:

Activision just released a new trailer for the new Ride game. Trailer has interviews with Lynz Adams, P rod, Stevie Williams and more. Click here to watch now...

Just got word from Swift that copies of the new Skateboard Mag just got sent out. Birdhouse has a full Australia tour article in it.  Make sure you grab a copy of that mag. Tons of good stuff in it! Click here to subscribe to the mag.

Nesser just told me about Familia\'s "You Interviewed" contest. Check the flyer below for all the details. Email steve@familiaskateboardshop.com with all your answers, skate photos, and portrait.

Check out fuel tv's website for their coverage from our premiere. Got some good interviews and photos. Check it Here:

Also, be sure to check out the video when it airs on Fuel TV this October. Stay tuned for dates...

This last friday we had a private showing of our new tour video "Its Always Sunnies in Australia." Both showings were full. Alan Young was the local star. Thanks to everyone who helped and came out to make the night great. If you still haven't seen the video, click here to purchase it from Itunes.

Just uploaded some new footage from alan young and shaun gregoire. Had a lil sesh at the park. Peep the vid here:

Tony and Shaun Gregoire went out to South Africa a couple days ago to do a little skating. Check the full article here:

Our boy Spencer Nuzzi was featured on the transworld site. Still straight killin it. If you are ever in San Van, Keep your eyes out for him.

A while back Eaton and I headed over to transworld so he could test drive one of Harley's new bikes. So Blair hopped in and we took some shots driving on the coast. Click here for full story...

If you haven't seen failblog, i highly recommend it. In this installment, birdhouse gets mad BGP's. Check the vid here:

Here is our final trailer for our australia tour video. Click here to watch:

Click here to purchase the video from Itunes.

Craziest doubles tricks I've ever seen. Damn! Warning: video contains Andy Mac. Click Here for Vid

Randy was just out in Canada for the ams getting paid contest. Check out the Red Bull site for a little recap...

Yesterday, Madame Tussauds' Wax Museum unvealed their newest sculpture... Tony Hawk. Peep the video here: 
The wax sculpture is rediculous...

Check out the newest installment of "lurker Vision" featuring jaws. The question was, what do you get from mcdonalds??? Click here for vid:

This weeks trailer for our "sunnies" tour vid features Derek "ghost" Burdette. You can purchase the whole tour vid Aug 3rd from Itunes. Stay tuned for the full length trailer...Watch Part 3 Here:

Congrats to our boy Jaws for snagging first place in the best trick at the Converse Coastal Carnage Contest. Jaws did a blunt kickflip fakie on the weird taco obstacle. Yeeeeee. stay tuned for some video of the contest...

Checkout the 2nd trailer for our new tour video, "Its Always Sunnies in Australia." Peep it here:

Ball, Eaton and myself met up with Bart ffrom the mag. Did a lot of spot checking and found a sick bump. Ball's finally back 100% on his board. Keep your eyes out for some banging stuff from him. Props to bart for being the raddest dude ever.

The Mag just put up a remix of Eaton's Mag Minute. Footy was so good they had to make another edit. Peep it here:

The first trailer from our new tour video "Its Always Sunnies in Australia." Keep checking back this week for more trailers. You can get the whole video from Itunes August 3rd. Click Here for Video:

Got another email from our boy Alan. We love you Alan!

yessss!!!! just hangin out in bali! just got back from this island surfing and living in a hut with chickens and cows everywhere and no electricity!! just getting barreled and doing double shockahs in the green room!!! yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! found some sick unskated spots here in kuta!! gonna try and get some clips!!! thow art rad!!!! speek to you soon! take care friend!!!\
love, alan

Always wondered where Tony Hawk's favorite places are to travel? Well here you go. Tony lists his top places on google maps, along with a video explaining why. Check it here:

If you live in the DC area, check out this art show featuring some stuff by Shaun Gregoire. He's got some sick stuff. They're having an opening night party July 18th. Check the flyer below for more info...

Kevin Staab just got put on Armourdillo, joining Corey Duffel for their pro team. Be on the lookout for Kevin's signature Belt and wallet coming soon. If you haven't checked out their gear yet, peep their website here:

Our flow guy Spencer Nuzzi sent over some footage he got from the Syndrome park. Killing it. Spencer is a big 18 year old now. Woowoo. Watch here:

David was captured by Mike Mo on his cell phone, as a segment of Mo Knows. Might need to work on those moves. Watch here:

Nesser just sent me the video of Familia's best trick contest. Such a simple, yet gnarly obstacle. Mad trick went down. Keep up the good work Familia! Check the vid here:

Birdhouse is killing the Mag Minutes, this time with Sean Eaton. This part is straight banging. Eaton is still holding it down for Dirty Business! Sean's now busy filming some stuff for the new Adio all HD vid. Peep the vid Here:

Check out the skateboard mag's website for Ghost's Mag Minutes "REMIX"!!! Watch the remixed part HERE!

The IPATH "Up In Stoke Tour" is taking over Canada this July. Featuring IPATH teamriders Matt Rodriguez, Kenny Reed, Fred Gall, Adam Alfaro, Richie Jackson, Ben Raybourn, Birdhouse's Jaws Homoki and Ryan Lay.

The Dates Are:
July 17th Vancouver, British Columbia
July 18th Victoria, British Columbia
July 19th Kelowna, British Columbia
July 21st Dufferin Square, Toronto, Ontario
July 23rd South Parc, Montreal, Quebec
July 25th Ottawa, Ontario

Just checked out the Maloof Course with David loy. Course looks amazing. Vert ramp with the mini mega! Its going to be an amazing contest. Be sure to check out Loy skating in the Am contest this Friday and Saturday at the Orange County Fairgrounds.

Just got news from Nesser that his shop is holding "The Steep Bank of Doom" best trick contest on July 12th. If you live in the area, check out the flyer below, or visit familiaskateshop.blogspot.com

The skate mag just posted Ghost's Mag Minute. Ghost has been getting down for that, and it shows. Mad props to Ghost. Peep it here:

Mag Minute:

Peep this vid of Fight Club Park, in DC. Shagoire shows how to rip a park. Click Here:

also peep this fs 360 from Gregoire. Photo: Corn

Check out Shredordie.com to watch the Birdhouse crew kill it at the grand opening of the Compton Skatepark. All the street skaters better watch it, Tony's coming up!

Mag minutes from Randy Ploesser and Shaun Gregoire. Definately worth watching again. Be on the lookout for Ghost new mag minute dropping this week.

Randy's:

Shaun's:

Congrats to Tony for getting 1 million followers on twitter. If you still haven't seen his page check it here for daily updates on Tony's crazy life. twitter.com/tonyhawk

Fuel Tv's "The Daily Habit" is having their 900th episode this friday. For this special occasion, they decided to film the entire episdoe here in our warehouse, featuring an interview with Tony. So be sure to check it out this friday at 6pm, pacific on Fuel TV.

Finally met Jaw's homie John Rob. He drove out from AZ. He stopped by the office to grab some boards and mess around on our little street park. John Rob = Awesome. He also brought Ryan Reyes and his friend Pete to join the sesh. Pete was getting all the shots on his nascar track cam. Check Shred or Die for some clips filmed on my digi cam:

Another day of trick tips at the office. This time we had the pleasure of watching Riley do every trick on a box within 20 minutes. Showed up, did all his tricks, and left. Handling business!

A couple weeks ago, ABC came to follow Tony around through Tony's day. Check the whole show right here:

Tony was invited to the White House by President Obama a couple days ago. Wow. What an amazing honor. Check the link for more info on why Tony was invited to the White House. Cbsnews:

Got a call from the Loy yesterday bringing bad news. Guess he managed to break his other wrist the other day when he went street skating. That won't keep him off the board though. Check the photo below. Looking Good.

Shred or die posted a clip of Tony going down at Bucky's rediculous new bowl. Thing is massive. Tony was still trying to get used to it yet. Click here for vid:

Our pals at Shredordie.com are holding a video contest on their site. Edit and upload your footage from Go Skateboarding Day. There will be 5 winners and the contest starts June 21st til July 4th. Click here for more info:

Here's a couple more shots from the awards: Got a nice photo of Ball and Lutzka. What a great photo.

Birdhouse was holding it down at the transworld awards held at the Avalon in Hollywood. Tony, Willy, Ball, Eaton, and Ghost were all there. Tony presented Hosoi with the Legends award. Everyone was there having a good time and watching the new vid. Brezinski had best part. Peep the photos below:

Adio's got some mad footage on there website from their recent trip out to chicago. Nesser and the rest of the team are working hard on their all HD video. There's also footy of our old pal jon dickson. That guy is damn good. check the footy here:

We recently flew Alan Young out to Colorado for a park grand opening. I asked him how it went, and he sent me the following email:

"hahaha YEEESSSSS!!!! colorado was awesome!! i was there for the first day by myself! so i skated to this awesome skate park like a mile away from the hotel! it was soo good! then on the way back i bought a twelve pack of pabts and kinda got lost. i came up on this railway with a fence on the other side, i hopped over the first train and when i jumped down the twelve pack ripped and the beers went all over the track! and there was a train coming! so i was trying to get all the beers before the train came! it was awesome and scarwy!! then i jumped the fence and ended up in the parking lot of our hotel! it was coooooool!!!"

We Love you Alan

Just caught a glimpse at Jaw's newest Ipath ad. Jaws got this bs lip on our Birdhouse Australia trip. Great shot taken by none other than Matthew Price. Jaws is currently on the road with Ipath in Colorado. Check their site for more Jaws news. www.ipath.com

Matt Ball agrees with this. Check out his new comune ad below. Matt is back 100% on his board, and he's got some big plans. Been training for months to get his ankle back to normal. Just wait for an interview coming out later this year. Shit's going to be amazing.

TheComune.com

Steve Nesser and all the homies at Familia Skateshop just posted their first video online. Steve has got some bangin stuff. Nice work guys.  Peep it Here!

Had an interesting trip up to SF. I grabbed the van and picked up Ball, Ghost, and a couple homies and we drove up friday morning. We stayed at our friend Kyle's house, who lived 3 blocks from wallenburg, so that was sick. The contest was crazy. Ghost was ready to get down on the big four, but, it was complete chaos. Phelps was kicking a bunch of people out. Ghost would have got that sw pop shuv! After the contest, we met up with Sean Peterson. He showed us around to all the standard SF spots. Most of the spots had already been killed years ago, but we hit up a couple decent spots. We got back to our friend's house only to find that the toilet was flooded, and the whole place smelled like shit. So we decided to just head back home. On another note, i left my camera at a bar, so i didn't have it for a whole day. But i got it back. We'll be back SF.

Shaun White came by the office to skate the ramp. There was a huge movie production team there filming for a new 3D XGames movie. Shaun busted out, and Atiba was there shooting. Ya Shaun, back shredding on the board.

The official Tony Hawk: Ride game website, THRide.com, has now added a new video showing how the game board works, with guests P-Rod, Lynn-Z and Hosoi. Check it out.

Nesser and his homies from MN are getting ready to premiere their first video: "The Video." Check the flyer for details on the premiere. Also, peep the promo they just put out. Nesser's part is going to be Bangin'! Familia Promo

Congrats to my boy the Loy for getting 9th place at the Damn Am, MN contest, as well as 2nd in the bowl contest. Managed to rip it up even with a cast on his wrist. Check this video of him in the street qualifiers...

Alan sent over some footy from his recent trip to OZ, along with a couple other clips we already had. Enjoy his footage. Because its cooooool. Click Here:

Had a little green screen fun the other day in the warehouse. We got Tony and Eaton to come bust out some flatground. Tony was keeping up, throwing down tre flips, variel heels, and fs heels. Damn!

We took Roger's advice and grabbed Clint Walker for the flow squad. Be sure to see alot more from him in the near future. Video:

Matt has a lil interview over on the Skateboarder Magazine website. He talks about the new team Beer Series, and also talks about a few dilemas he's gotten into with the help of some beer. Click here for interview.

Check out Birdhouse's newest, Jon Rob! His mag minute is straight gnar. Putting AZ on the map. Check it here:

Tony just announced details on his newest game, "Tony Hawk: Ride." This game is unlike any of his previous games, mostly because the controller is a skateboard! Check their website: www.thride.com for more info.

1. MO or CA:   MO in the Spring and Fall,  CA summer, AZ winter. Transient life is trife sometimes but at least the weather is nice.
2. Flannels or Leather:   Flannel chaps.
3. Budweiser or Coors:  Schlafly 
4. Skate  a rail or skate some stairs:  I'll take the rails.  They're just skinny bank ramps right? 
5. Wrestle Ball wasted or Room with Loy:  which personal hell do you prefer sir? door A or door B?
6. Filming or Shooting a photo:  I like to get them both over with at the same time if possible. 
7. Skating around home or On a trip:  Skate at home until wanderlust gets the best of me. 
8. Game of flatground skate David or Jaws:  I'll give myself an S-K-A-T handicap and play both of them.  And, no, that doesn't       count, i'm not giving you another rebate.  Sorry.  Just kidding, it may not be the prettiest thing but they can both hold their own.    They'll get some pop once they get run over by the puberty train.  I wish I still had rubber knees though, that only gets worse with time.
9. Fastfood or home cooking:  home cooking.  cmon.
10. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater or EA Skate:  I used to play THPS all the time when I was younger, haven't really played the EA one but it looks weak.  Was that enough brown-nosing to get my own character birdman?
11. Beer before liquor or liquor before beer:  Its all going to hurt in the morning.
12. Dolphin flips or variel flips:  can't do either worth a shit.  If you have a good variel flip, lets see it.  Thats a rare beast.
13. Myspace or facebook:     OMG like facebooks fuuurr days, LOL, lamespace is, like, so '06.
14. Bird Flu or Swine Flu:  SARS

Checkout Randy's super awesome Sponsor me video HERE!

Slap recently posted an article on the great city of St Louis. Randy has a photo in it, and there is footy of our new flow rider Drew Etzkorn. Congrats St Louis, you are on the map. Click Here for link.

Tony and his friend "Rooftop" Mike Escamilla just sent me an update from their Gumball Race. There's two videos on Shred Or Die to give you a glimpse on what their journey is like. Some sick skating, and some random weirdness. Check them out here:

Willy will be on the show "Shades of San Diego" May 7th @ 9, and May 11th @9. Check the flyer for more details.

If you still need to know how to ollie, check out the CNN website to see Tony explain how. He gives you the general basics on the ollie. Click Here for the vid.

Just got some more photos from Nesser's recent travels to Columbia. He was out shredding with the adio guys. Check the photos out below...

Riley and his buddies just put out a promo for their new vid... The Shep Dawgs Video. Check the promo:

Tony has been on twitter non stop lately. His recent nationawide skateboard giveaway was recently posted on CNN. In the article he talks about how this idea came about, and how twitter was used to help spread the word. Click Here for the full story.

Be sure to head over to the berrics website and vote for Steve Nesser for the battle of the berrics 2. Click here to cast your vote now!

Just got an email today from Nesser. He sent me some pics from his recent Adio trip down to Miami. Check the photos below. Thanks Ian Oconner for the photos...