Gareth gets his shred on, over on the Skateboard Mag. Gareth, it’s time to have an intervention—a shred intervention. Check it out.

It has been a epic battle. Check the Benny Farifax and Mike Mo final here.

The Adidas Skate team hit up Osaka Japan and captured it in HD. This video is awesome. Make sure you check out the HD version on youtube.

I just watched a great interview over on Plan-B TV with the Skateboard Mag’s Dave Swift. He’s a collector of all things skate, and he has a kick ass hand painted Neil Blender board. Check out the interview here. [via the skateboardmag]

Not sure how we missed this one. Any who, Crailtap had a Lakai Final Flare edit contest last month. The winning entry is a animation short by Cosme. This is a pretty awesome video. [via Bonza.com]

The new SLAP magazine is becoming favorite skate web destination. This time around, they visit with Jason Jessee at his warehouse near Santa Cruz California. Jason Jesse is a true original. Enjoy.

Fourduos.com is a Dallas Texas based blog that covers the skate scene all over the Lone Star state. Check out out the their January Montage video.

This game intro out does the one from the original SKATE game. The all star cast on SKATE 2 looks awesome. Noticeably missing is the Gonz. [via]

GiantBomb covered the Electronic Arts event earlier this month that showed off some of the features of Skate 2. In the process, they spoke with Darren Navarette and Pat Duffy about their thoughts on the game. If you liked SKATE then you will really like SKATE 2. Check the video below.

Check the latest EPICLY LATER’D over on VBS. The Carroll brothers talk about growing up with certain hardships and how skateboarding literally saved their lives. I’m sure you can get similar stories from a lot of skaters who worked their way up the ranks. Mike and Greg have a inspirational story.