This weekend at Northern Kentucky University (Cincinnati area) is the Action Sports World Tour, this is a qualifier for the LG Action Sports World tour championships in Seattle at the end of the month. Sorry, there's no street action at this stop, probably because GvR is taking place this weekend.

Anyway, Street's not the only skating that's fun to watch. These vert pro's will be competing. I've seen most of them skate vert at various contests in the last few years. Being there is way better than seeing it on TV, you get to see everybody skate, not just the one's that the event sponsors want hyped up. All of the skaters have something to show, perhaps a different style or a different trick that nobody else does.

Now if you went to the June party this year you would have seen the Indy 30th Anniversary tour arrive on Saturday. This kid Peabody ripped!!!

Here's a link to their website if your not familiar... skatopia.org

Also, did you know that a production company is making a Documentary on Skatopia? Check out skatopiathemovie.com

What I did at surf expo was try and video really good skating as well as other things to spice up a video. Thursday at Surf Expo I found people getting ready for the show, putting up boothes and such. Along with that, I saw forklifts tring to move an 80' wide miniramp (intact, hahaha). Friday, best trick contest went off. I couldn't believe these dudes hurling themselves at the flat bank. Saturday, the main contest, it was cool, though the Chicken and Hot Dog fighting at the end of it made the trip worth it.

I went back on Sunday to get an interview with the Chicken and the Hot Dog, unfortunately they were not drunk... I missed the opportunity! Then I had Ryan Clements give the run down on the contest as well as comments on the Chicken/Hot Dog fight, unfortunately I pressed the record button and it was already recording (I paused recording while Ryan gave the low down) Eh, sometimes that's how it goes.

So check out the contest video I made...