The Lakai team recently went on a tour through Germany, Switzerland and France called Voltage. And guess what? They brought along some cameras, and those cameras do process called "recording". Then there's this other process called editing, and that's exactly what they're in the process of right now.

Below is a teaser of the 25 minute video that documents the tour and will be released on December 6 over at www.lakai.com. It's kind of an early holiday present.

So check out: Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Guy Mariano, Marc Johnson, Brandon Biebel, Sean Malto, Vincent Alvarez, Riley Hawk, Mike Mo, Jesus Fernandez, Sean Brady, Danie Espinoza, Cairo Foster, J.B. Gillet, NIck Jensen and Raven Tershy:

Crailtap has released some more Mini DV raw footage from when Lakai was filming for a little flick entitled, "Fully Flared." This is recipe 54. So check out Marc Johnson, Mike Carroll and Eric Koston at work attempting to get clips for quite possibly the biggest skate video of all time.


MJ went on to win a "Thrasher Skater of the Year" trophy because of his section, Carroll got even more hypie and Koston said thanks for the part I'm off to Nike (and that was after Pappalardo already left for Converse, and Alex Olson for Vans).

In case you don't know, when you're a major skate company that makes major skate video releases, internet shorts and whatever else, there is a lot of leftover footage. That's what the Crailtap Mini DV series is all about, going back and releasing more. The number is actually the number of the tape used, so in this case they're up to 54.

Check it out:

Last Thursday night, the folks at Skateboarder magazine threw the Sunset Rampage, a mini-ramp bash at the Sunset BLVD. staple, The Standard Hotel (pretend "Standard" is upside down like it is on the hotel sign). If you've never been, The Standard is a creative little "crash spot" right smack in the middle of the Sunset strip in Hollywood, complete with things like "giant hand" chairs and trippy bathrooms. And due to the locale it's also a pricey joint, which makes what Skateboarder successfully pulled so, as Mike Carroll would say "hyphy."

Speaking of Mike Carroll, the Girl skateboards boss was in attendance along with other skate industry bosses like: Lance Mountain, Sal Barbier, Eric Koston and "The Boss," Andrew Reynolds. Others in attendance were Kenny Anderson, Dylan Rieder, Curran Caples and Vincent Alvarez. Translation: Some serious ripping went down on the strip that night, even industry guys like Gravis TM, Mark Oblow, were getting in on the action.

In the end though, the youthful heavyweights of transition skateboarding prevailed:

1. Raven Tershey - $2,500
2. Andrew Langi - $1,500
3. Tom Remilard - $1,000

Photos:

Dylan Rieder blunt to fakie by Owens via Skateboarder Magazine.

The winners by Mehring via Skateboarder Magazine.

For more galleries full of pictures from the night cruise on over to www.skateboardermag.com

Here's a little video Aaron Meza and Roger Bagley put together for Skateboarder:

Italian video extraordinaire Feds, who's probably watching the boring-ass World Cup right now made a little video of Lakai's recent stop on the Zumiez Couch Tour, Salt Lake City, UT. Check out Rick Howard, Mike Carroll, Brandon Biebel and more kill it in a city by a lake of salt. Speaking of saltiness, I'm just a little salty about this World Cup thing just because my local bar ran out of beer because of all the British people watching all this damn soccer.

Anyway, here's the video:

Editor's note: If you didn't already know how big Brian Anderson is look at him dwarf Frank Grewer in the photo above.

On a not-so-regular basis Fourstar clothing releases little videos on their website to show their styley clothes in action. Their latest release is from their Gang of Fourstar European trip a few months back. It was supposed to be released on Monday, but because of overwhelming demand, the video crashed, I think that's what you call it when it doesn't play. I don't know, I'm not a computer guy. It had something to with bandwidth, and traffic, and I think somehow Bill Gates was involved. Anyway, because of technical difficulties most of the world saw it yesterday, or as I like to call it "Tuesday."

To get the proper avionce I sat down "Tuesday" with a nice frosty Stella and a bowl pop corn. Right off the bat I found out my Stella was the only frostyness that was going to be in attendance. Fourstar boss, Frosty himself, aka Eric Koston, couldn't make the trip because of a little thing called child birth. His wife Ashlee gave birth to their first mini-Koston a few months ago, and guess what? Baby Frost makes an appearance at the very beginning of the video, which was a nice little surprise.

Minus Koston, the Fourstar team is still killer with names like: Brian Anderson, The Gonz, Guy Mariano, Mike Carroll, Tyler Bledsoe, Rick Howard and the soon to be S.O.T.Y., Sean Malto. Oh, did I speak too soon? He did destroy 2009.

The video was aesthetically pleasing as usual. Fourstar has a secret editing weapon known as Aaron Meza, and as usual he killed it. The skating was on point, and for all you skate fashionistas out their, you get to see different ways of combing the new Fourstar threads. I'd have to say the gnarliest part of the video is Brian Anderson's fall. It can't be described just watch the video, click here to check it out.