Jake Brown wins the gold medal at X Games 15 Skateboard Big Air Finals. Jake had to knock Bob Burnquist off of the first place slot and did so successfully!! Go Jake! Check out the clip below of Jake busting out a 21 foot high 540!

Heavy Boxes: Drew Dezort

Drew Dezort is on the Adio Flow team and he got hooked up for being a narly skateboarder.

Skate Like A Girl

Hot on the heels of the Shh Just let this happen tour. Skate Like a Girl presents Winnipeg or Bust!, a van full of international female skaters weaving in-between the US and Canada to skate! The tour starts in Seattle, WA, traveling north to Vancouver, Calgary, Missoula, Winnipeg, and everywhere in between – teaching girls and women to skate, performing demos and competing in See Jane Skate (seejaneskate.com) and Chicks Flip Out (chicksflipout.com)! The mission is to promote girl’s skateboarding!

How To Do A Tailslide On A Skateboard. This is a pretty difficult trick. You have to know how to F/S 5-0. Go at a pretty fast speed but you have to feel comfortable with it. The easiest way I find is to go parallel with your target. When you come up to your target try to Ollie as high as you can then in the air turn a lat 90. If you have trouble doing the 90 or always land on a salad grind turn your shoulders when your doing you 90. When you land lean on your tail and put all your weight on it to make sure you slide. The you can twist off or kickflip off or whatever. Kickflips are aren’t that hard if your a good skater. Just pop down and really put pressure on your front foot when dragging up the grip tape.

Dropping in on a skateboard is the technique a skateboarder uses to enter a skatepark or bowl. When learning how to skateboard, this is one of the most difficult skills to master. This video breaks down the skills and shows you how. Learn how to get over the fear of a drop in and how to drop into a ramp on your skateboard from an expert in this free instructional video on skateboarding tricks.

RIDGEWAY School pupil Leon Perrott tore up the competition when he competed in skateboarding at the London Youth Games.

Skating was debuting at the event as a demonstration sport and the 13-year-old wasted no time in becoming one of the first winners at Crystal Palace’s National Sports Centre.

The event was held in a skate park-style arena with jumps, grind rails, quarter pipes and a fun box.

Perrott performed some big ollies, kickflips, 360 pop shove its and 50-50 grinds, along with some of his own tricks.

The youngster had two runs lasting a minute each, and he managed to land his moves to achieve a score of 67 per cent, and take the crown.

The X-Games are right around the corner and will be kicking off July 30, 2009. Here is a look back at 15 of the best moments during the past 10 years of the Xgames existence. From Tony Hawk’s 900 to Travis Pastrana’s double backflip and over a dozen staggering feats in between…

1999 – Skateboarder Tony Hawk successfully lands the first ever 900 (3 rotations) on a skateboard at X Games Five on the San Francisco Pier.

1999 – Motocross icon Travis Pastrana completes a nearly perfect run in Moto X Freestyle with a score of 99.0 at the age of 15. During his second run, Pastrana launched into the San Francisco Bay off the Pier.

2000 – BMX pro Dave Mirra competes in the Bike Stunt Park final at X Games Six and successfully lands the first double backflip on a BMX bike, giving Mirra his ninth gold medal.

2001 – Skateboarder Bob Burnquist took his third run of the Skateboard Vert final and gave one of the most beautiful displays of skateboarding ever seen. Connecting a switch kickflip Indy to a fakie-to-fakie 540 then to a darkside to fakie, Burnquist did this fluently the entire run and didn’t repeat a single trick.

2002 – In the Moto X Freestyle final at X Games Eight in Philadelphia, Mike Metzger cemented his legacy by becoming the first ever rider to land back-to-back backflips.

2002 – After crashing in 2001 on an attempt, Motocross pro Carey Hart got the “monkey off his back” by sticking a backflip on his motorcycle at X Games Eight and took home silver.

2002 – BMX legend Mat Hoffman successfully landed the first no-handed 900 (3 rotations) on a BMX bike at X Games Eight in Philadelphia.

2003 – Skateboarder Ryan Sheckler made X Games history when he became the youngest gold medalist when he won Skateboard Park gold at X Games Nine in Los Angeles.

2004 – Motocross pro Chuck Carothers competes in the Moto X Best Trick competition and lands the first ever body varial that was dubbed “the Carolla.”

2006 – Once again, Travis Pastrana makes X Games history in the Moto X Best Trick final at X Games 12 when he successfully lands the first double backflip on a motorcycle in competition.

2006 – Rally racing legend Colin McCrae enters his first X Games Rally Race, goes head-to-head with Travis Pastrana for gold, rolls his car mere feet from the finish line in the “Super Special”, barely loses any time and leaves X Games 12 with silver.

2006 – BMX champion Kevin Robinson began competing in X Games when it debuted in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1995. It took 11 years, but at X Games 12, Robinson successfully landed the first double flair ever done in BMX Vert Best Trick giving him his first X Games gold.

2007 – Skateboarder Jake Brown made headline news at X Games 13 when he fell from above the top of the quarterpipe after successfully landing a 720 (2 ½ rotations) over the gap, and after being examined by the medical team, Brown was able to walk off the ramp under his own power.

2007 – Skateboard and Snowboard phenom Shaun White completed a near flawless run during the Skateboard Vert final at X Games 13 to finally capture his first X Games (summer) gold.

2008 – Skateboard icon Danny Way showed off his determination and toughness at the Skateboard Big Air final after picking himself up to continue the rest of his runs after taking a hard spill on his second run. Way went on to finish behind champion, Bob Burnquist.