This month, all your favorite RVCA skate team bros (well, not all of them, but almost) are heading East, then down - hence, East Bound and Down. BE THERE!

Stereo has gathered and edited a collection of bump to bar footage with the Agency’s red hot am Ben Gore.

Two years in the making, the 40-minute video “It’s A Wrap” introduces the country’s best skateboarders and GIFT team riders Che Lin, Johnny Tang, Boss Xie and Jeremy Hu with a special appearance by Paul Rodriguez. Footage was captured from spots all over China: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Hong Kong.

Ubisoft’s just announced its next sports venture, Shaun White Skateboarding. Release follows… Today Ubisoft announces the creation of Shaun White Skateboarding, a video game in development with dual-sport professional athlete and two-time Olympic gold medalist, Shaun White.

Teenage Runaway has new goods for 2010 including wheels made from G13 urethane which is guaranteed against flat spots.

Flip has a new David Gonzales video on their site.

This weekend, San Francisco’s Cruz Skateshop will be celebrating it’s 2nd Anniversary in style. Saturday’s events kick off with at contest a 3rd & Army at noon.

Tucsonans Brienne “Bri” Duvauchelle and Gregg Foster are trying to turn fun, in this case longboarding, into a profitable business. They’re making the long, narrow skateboards for a new and relatively small, but growing, clientele: female longboarders.

Longboards are longer and narrower than skateboards and used more for transportation than tricks.

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Girls Riders Organization will be at Skatepark of Tampa for the entire 2010 Tampa Pro. Come hang out with the ladies at the GRO Booth, see what’s been happening since we last met and learn how you can get involved! It will be a weekend full of fun.

Sunday, the ladies skate. GRO will be holding a Girls Game Of SKATE in the SPoT back warehouse. Registration starts at 10am and the contest goes down at 11am Sharp! It is $10 to skate the game and there will be prizes for the winner. Noelle Stolp is our current champion, winning the game at Tampa Am in December.

Sunday is also the finals for Tampa Am, so the tickets will sell out!!!! Get you tickets today! You will also need a waiver on file to skate the event. So if you are under 18 and do not already have an up to date waiver at SPoT, make sure you have a legal guardian bring you.

After the contest settles, we will be offering beginner one on one lessons for new ladies that want to learn to ride. All equipment provided. All that, games and more. See you at Tampa Pro!

The International Association of Skateboard Companies is pleased to announce the creation of Local Skateshop Days, two full days honoring specialty skateboard retailers. The celebration, set for October 9-10, 2010, will encourage manufacturers to focus their attention on the front lines of their distribution, the core skateboard retailer. IASC members will take this opportunity to create special promotions for their key retailers and show their recognition of shops worldwide that are the cornerstone of the skateboarding scene in their communities.

“Skate shops have always been essential to the heart, soul and spirit of skateboarding.” says Don Brown, IASC Chairman of the Board. “By creating “Local Skateshop Day” skateboarding, as a whole, can focus on driving awareness, energy, support and friendship to our family on the front lines- the core retailer. It’s essential that we do whatever it takes to support these shops in order to keep the true passion and creativity of skateboarding alive. Let the good times roll!”

Local Skateshop Day will utilize many of the successful elements from Go Skateboarding Day, a worldwide celebration of skateboarding created by IASC in 2004 and held every year on June 21. Look for more information on Local Skateshop Day on Skateboardiasc.org and coming to a skateshop near you!