Here's some footage from Red Bull's 2009 Manny Mania contest in SF. Dane Vaughn won with second going to Ryan Guiso and Dwayne Galloway taking third.

Toad and Salmon took the show on the road up to Seattle and the Ballard Bowl for the 2009 Chowder Bowl.

August cover boy Chris Cole talks about Back To The Berg in this video recap, with a special bonus .mp3 extended interview.

A ring of fire, pig roast, a great course, and lots of cold ones made the Copenhagen Pro pretty epic. Torey Pudwill and Eric Koston put down some good shit in the finals and the electric box heated up during best trick. Torey Pudwill ran away with the win followed in second by Koston. Cheers.

The Lizard King talks looks back on his tricks at Wallenberg…and his supposed "thong."

Here's a closer look at Cody McEntire's bigspin with a little voice over from the Catfish.

Horseshoes and Handgrenades. You asked for it, you got it. Here's some of the almosts that went down at Back To The Berg. Who do you think was closest to a roll-away?

Close but no cigar—Kevin Romar talks about his attempts at almost making the nollie 360 at Back To The Berg.

This shit went off! Marissa Dal Santo gave it 11 tries and was as close as you can get without rolling away. This is what went down in order: Chris Cole - bs 360 (second try); Lizard King (Mike Plum) - bs 180 one foot; Nick Merlino - switch heel; Lindsay Robertson - bs heel; Lizard King - airwalk, ollie onto last stair; Jordan Hoffart - varial heel (hand drag, caught last step); Cody McEntire - big spin, Chris Cole - sw fs flip; Andrew Pott - hardflip.

You asked for the slams, you get the slams.

Here's a polished recap of the Bust or Bail contest that went down August 30th, 2008. David Gravette, Moose, Andrew Reynolds and Ryan Sheckler. Holy shit!

Black Box held an industry pow-wow back in January 2009 at their plant with an epic best trick contest in their park. Here's some photos

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Vert contest in the valley. Is vert back???

The contest from Sydney Australia's Opera House.