Sport Tek Exclusive!

Sport Tek today made the Casio Limited Edition BLOW DW-5600V G-SHOCK available to its customers. Only 1,000 of these watches are in existence across the globe and they were originally intended for the Japanese market. However, these are very rare items which automatically makes them an essential for any collector!

The watch is an exclusive item created in conjunction with the very popular Japanese clothing company, Blow. The company are also linked to many top sports people, such as the pro surfer, Nick Mita.

Each watch has stainless steel back with the Blow logo engraved on it along with the unique watch number out of the 1,000 created.

The best part is probably the price! Sport Tek are selling these rare watches at only £98.98 each! Remember: Once they're gone, they're gone! There's only 1,000 of these in existence across the world!

For more information, and to purchase your rare BLOW DW-5600V G-SHOCK, visit Sport Tek's website, here.

Bonhomme Determined To Get Result

Paul Bonhomme, Britain's chance at winning the Red Bull World Series Championship, is determined not to let this years lead out of his hands after not getting the result last year.

Bonhomme finished second in the last race at Detroit, beaten by the American Kirby Chambliss. However, he still managed to widen his lead at the top of the leader board with five points, and is now standing at 26 points in total.


Last years champion Mike Mangold was trailing by 3 points before Detroit and only picked up 6 points there in the last race. Mangold, Chambliss and Austria’s Hannes Arch now all have 21 points each.

Bonhomme insists that he gets no special pleasure from beating Mangold - his arch rival after stealing the Championship from him in 2007.

At the moment, the championship could go to anyone. A five point lead could easily evaporate with just one bad race due to two reasons:

- Wins are now worth 9 points
- A new system, TVSS, has been introduced. This means that penalty points and disqualifications are more likely due to the more systematic use of instant replays to crack down on violations.

Bonhomme says; "This is definitely not the time to feel comfortable."

"I’m not dwelling on last year’s results," Bonhomme said. "I’m purely looking forward to this year. I think my flying has improved and Wade’s (Paul's engineer) work on the plane is, as usual, working extremely well. We are well prepared and are looking forward to the next stage on the racing calendar."

The Red Bull World Series Championships starts it's Europe leg in Rotterdam on the 19th and 20th July.

Go Skateboarding Day

"On June 21 skateboarders around the globe will celebrate the pure exhilaration, creativity, and spirit of one of the most influential activities in the world by blowing off all other obligations to go skateboarding!"

The DVS team will be invading the Norwegian city of Oslo for this year's Go Skateboarding Day.

Go Skateboarding Day kicks off at noon, on June 21st, with an autograph signing at Oslo's Whitewater Skate shop. Then, join skaters Guru Khalsa, Torey Pudwill, Keith Hufnagel, Andrew Brophy, Paul Shier, Mark Baines, Kristian Bomholt, Lucien Clarke, and Janne Saario at 2pm for a cross-town skate to Frognerparken - one of Norway's most famous street spots.

The Frognerparken session will include a free BBQ, best trick contests, prizes, and tons of skateboard fun with the DVS crew.

To find out more about Go Skateboarding Day, visit their website: http://www.goskateboardingday.org/

Jeremy Klein Retires

Jeremy Klein is retiring from professional skateboarding after 16 years with Birdhouse.

Klein will be remembered for his streamlined skating style and tendency towards irreverance.

To commorate his legacy, Birdhouse will re-release his last deck, which is a print from his very first deck, as a special edition.

Malfunction Longboard Champs Named

For the second year running Dane Pioli, 24, has won the prestigious Surftech Men’s Professional final. Australian longboard champion, Harley Ingleby, finished 2nd. The former world surfing champion Josh Constable came in 3rd and Delmaney Points Ray Lawrence in 4th.

The blue ribbon event of the 2008 Hyundai Malfunction Surfing Festival was so close that only decimal points separated 1st to 3rd at Main Beach, Kingscliff.



Josh Constable got off to an early lead with 7.5 on his first ride and quickly backed that up with a 5.83 to extend his lead.

Harley Ingleby managed to overtake Josh whilst coming up to the half way mark with 6.17 for his first ride and then posted a 6.93 just before the half way make to take him into the lead. As he did last year, Dane Pioli waited patiently and, with 10 minutes to go, overtook his high profile rivals with an excellent 8 point ride.

While Josh and Harley struggled to beat their scores, Pioli finished off with a 6 point ride to win his second title in a row.

Kickflip Record Broken - By 13-Year-Old

The consecutive kickflip record was broken at the beginning of this month - by a boy of 13.

The record was broken by Zach Kral from Waterford, Wisconsin, USA. He made 1200 consecutive kickflips in the space of 1 hour and 42 minutes at the Fuze Kickflip Challenge at 4Seasons Skatepark in Milwaukee.

Zach began getting tired when reaching kickflip number 1160, but decided to go on and round the result to 1200 kickflips, before quitting.

Zach broke the previous record of 566, which was set and held by Dutch skater Laurens Groenveld.

Burton New Zealand Open

The Burton New Zealand Open Snowboarding Championships returns this year from July 29 to August 2, at Snow Park NZ in Lake Wanaka, welcoming back the world's top snowboarders.

The Burton NZ Open is the pinnacle of snowboarding competition in the Southern Hemisphere. It brings together some of the world's top professional riders including X Games champions, Olympic gold medallists and world champions. All of them are competing for one thing - the largest title payout in snowboarding.



The male and female cumulative-points champions will each collect $100,000 USD after competing in the New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and USA events. New Zealand being the first of the six international events.

Spectators will be able to watch all the action for free from a specially created grandstand carved out of snow.

The action begins on Wednesday July 30 with the men's and women's halfpipe qualifiers. Then, on Thursday July 31, the action moves to Snow Park NZ's newly designed slopestyle course for the qualifiers. Afterwards, the Slopestyle Semi-finals and Finals will take place on Friday August 1.