Curren Caples is one of the best young skateboarders out there right now, especially in transition. And there's a contest coming up that will feature 30 of the best tranny skaters in the business on the beach skating one of the best bowl setups around. The Converse Coastal Carnage Bowl Jam is a 3 day event at the US Open of Surfing with $75,000 in prize money up for grabs, and Mr. Caples is one of the invitees.

In an ironic little side note, the person Curren is named after, none other than pro surfing legend, Tom Curren, has stood on top of the podium with a 1st place check in his hands at the US Open a few times. Now, a little over a decade later there's another Curren about to make waves at the same contest site, but this one will be on wood and wheels.

Check out this interview Hurley did with Curren. He talks about skateboarding, surfing, migraines, money and more.

GRINDTV.COM Newswire via Alli:

What: The Alli Best Trick contest took place Saturday, May 15th at the Woodward Beijing grand opening this past weekend. Ten street skateboarders threw down for three 20-minute jam sessions, and the skater who showed the most consistency was named the overall winner.

Who:
Ryan Sheckler
Tom Asta
Jimmy Carlin
Curren Caples
Aaron "Jaws" Homoki
David Loy
Riley Hawk
Billy Rohan
Dane Burman
Andrew Cannon

When: Saturday, May 15, 2010

Where: Woodward Beijing Grand Opening

Zone One Results and Obstacles - 3-stair rail, a ledge over gap and a pyramid gap:

1. Tom Asta
2. Ryan Sheckler
3. Dane Burman
4. Billy Rohan
5. Aaron "Jaws" Homoki

Zone Two Results and Obstacles - a-frame and an up ledge:

1. David Loy
2. Aaron "Jaws" Homoki
3. Jimmy Carlin
4. Ryan Sheckler
5. Curren Caples

Zone Three Results and Obstacles - 6-stair set with two hubbas and a center rail:

1. Tom Asta
2. Ryan Sheckler
3. Jimmy Carlin
4. Dane Burman
5. Aaron "Jaws" Homoki

Overall winner - Ryan Sheckler

The much anticipated premier of the new Flip video, Extremely Sorry, will be September 16th in Orange County, CA with an international premier tour to follow. DVDs will be available shortly after. More info will soon be announced.

The arrival of the third installment of the Flip skateboards Sorry series is getting closer and closer every day. Flip's a funny company because they were around for awhile before they released a video. It just took them a little bit to get their act together, which is expected. This is skateboarding, as much as some other companies want it to be more like baseball or something, or even snowboarding for that matter. We're not in the fucking Olympics, and let's hope we never are.

Alright, well back to my point. It took this British skateboard company some time to release a video, so when they did in 2002, they called it Sorry. Then a year later they released some leftovers under the name Really Sorry. That was six years ago, and now it's time for Extremely Sorry. This much anticipated video is going to have some new guys, and is expected to be one of the videos of the year.

Here's a MORINformed Top 10 list of reasons and questions as to why you should be prepared to cruise by your local shop, cough up the money, and pick a copy up for yourself.

1. Mark Appleyard's part. May just be the best section of 2009.

2. Geoff Rowley as usual has a lot of say in what makes the cut, so you know it's going to gnargit.

3. The young-new guys who haven't been in a Flip video yet. Names like: David Gonzales, Rodrigo TX, Luan Oliveira Louie Lopez and Curren Caples are going to show you what the future holds.

4. The old-new guys who haven't been in a Flip video yet. Lance Mountain and Bob Burnquist have been in the game for longer than most, are still on a pro team, and still kill it.

5. Tom Penny? You never know what you're going to get with this guy.

6. Shane Cross tribute? I wonder if they've been sitting on some unused footage of the one we lost way too soon.

7. Will Johnny Rotten, excuse me, I mean John Lydon make another appearance.

8. The sound track. They hired this guy Baron from England to make an original soundtrack for the movie.

9. Will General Rowley take us on a Mountain Lion hunt, or show us some footage from the secret skate facility in the desert.

10. If Rune has an absolutley killer section of pool and park destruction, and since Rowley, Appleyard and Burnquist already have one, could Phelps make it a foursome and declare Rune the Thrasher "Skater of the Year," aka S.O.T.Y. He has been killing transition everywhere, and winning contest after contest along the way. Plus, you know Jake Phelps is all about the pool/park guys. Fuck, Tony Trujillo has a S.O.T.Y.