Westbound Boarder

The first night and Dew Tour SLC qualifiers are officially a wrap, and what a night it was. It is always pretty chill to sit back and watch the qualifiers and it was a great showing for the Last Chance Events which is the athletes final opportunity to progress to the events of the next 3 days. We watched BMX dirt jumping at an awesome outdoor track, BMX Vert, and 4 amazing Street Skate Jam sessions. The Street Skate especially was a great event with incredible talent. The Finals for this event will surely be a show to see as these qualifiers proved there is a lot to look forward to. Stay tuned for more. . . .hope to see you there!

Schedule:

Friday, September 9th
2:00 PM – 7:30 PM FESTIVAL VILLAGE OPEN
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM BMX Dirt Semi-Final
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM BMX Vert Semi-Final
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Skateboard Street Semi-Final
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM FMX Speed and Style
9:00 PM – 11:00 PM Concert

Saturday, September 10th
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM FESTIVAL VILLAGE OPEN
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Skateboard Vert Final
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Gatorade Free Flow Tour Skateboard Street Final
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM BMX Dirt Final
9:00 PM – 9:30 PM BMX Dirt Big Air

Sunday, September 11th
12:00 PM – 5:30 PM FESTIVAL VILLAGE OPEN
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Gatorade Free Flow Tour Skateboard Vert Final
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Skateboard Street Final
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BMX Vert Final

One of our favorite snowboard brands, Planet Earth is introducing a new perspective. As if they haven’t already done enough with keeping up on the most fashionable (because admit it, that matters) AND eco-sensitive product line in action sports, they are now looking out for the little guys.

What’s Planet Earth’s Perspectives? It is a mic for people making things happen, because let’s get real not all of us are pro’s. The perspectives series offers down to earth, real life stories in the form of videos, interviews and photos to be shared with the rest of the planet. The Planet Earth Perspectives, in my opinion serves as motivation for all of the shredders out there who have one thing in common, the love of their sport.

The Dew Tour consists of five major, multi sport events spanning across the country, with a cumulative points system. The Tour features skateboarding (men and women, park and vert), BMX (park, vert and dirt) and freestyle motocross. At season’s end, the overall points leaders in the five disciplines will be crowned year-end champs and awarded the prestigious Dew Cup title. A Portland, Ore. stop is on the schedule, so listen up…

Shaun White is at it again. This time he will by fighting for the Skate Vert World Championship title at the Dew Tour Skateboarding Open. It all goes down this June 25-26 at Boston’s legendary TD Garden. Those competing against White this year include Dew Tour defending champ, Bucky Lasek, Boston Local Andy Macdonald, Alex Perelson and vert legend Bob Burnquist.

In addition to the Vert Competition we have also got the Skate Park World Championship competitors, including Paul Rodriguez, Chaz Ortiz , Greg Lutzka and defending champ Ryan Sheckler.

Dew Tour Schedule:

The Gatorade Free Flow Tour is the official amateur series of the Dew Tour and yesterday they announced their complete skate schedule for the 2010 season. It all begins May 22^nd and registration is open to all amateur skaters and BMX riders (21 and under) across the country. The contest is comprised of 47 events across 30 parks, featuring skateboarding (park and vert) and BMX (park and dirt) competitions. Destinations include the series park highlights at the Kona Skatepark (Jacksonvill, Fla.) and our very own Department of Skateboarding (Portland, Ore.) among many, many more.

The winner of each event earns a trip to compete against the pros in the Dew Tour’s season-ending finals this summer. For registration and more details on when the tour is headed to your neck of the woods this spring/summer, check out gatoradefreeflowtour.com.

…I am for reals here! All you have to do is submit your best video and you could earn yourself a spot in the Gatorade Free Flow Finals stop of the Dew Tour. It all takes place in Salt Lake City and these guys will even pay for your airfare and lodging if you are selected!

Events included are BMX park, Skate park and Skate vert – so check out Dylan Stark’s submission that the Dew Tour has shared with the world – think you are better than this youngster? Than get your video in ASAP, there are only a few days left to enter.

And I almost forgot, since the Gatorade Free Flow Tour is an amateur circuit competition, you do have to be an am to enter… (21 & under for BMX, 18 & under for skate). On top of competing in the Dew Tour, you just may find yourself competing against your favorite pros, because the winner of each competition will be up against the Dew Tour Pro’s in Orlando bABy!

UPDATE: We just spoke with the dudes at the Dew Tour and ladies are welcome and encouraged to enter the contest! C’mon ladies, make us proud!!

For those of you not paying attention, August has proven to be a pretty epic extreme sports month for the Portland area. Downtown Portland was host to the 2009 Wake Jam a couple weeks back (check out our recap & pics!) and is now bringing you the Dew Tour this weekend. That’s right. Today, Thursday August 13th – Sunday August 16th, the best Skate, BMX and Freestyle Moto Cross athletes will be competing for the highly coveted Dew Cup, and you can be there to witness it.

Tickets are available at the Rose Quarter and Online. Prices are quite reasonable and you can enjoy the entire weekend for less than $100 bucks.  It gets better too, with any single day or all session ticket purchase, you will receive a free ticket for Thursday’s event’s, which are not on sale to the public.

Still wondering what the Dew Tour is really about? Check ‘em out online, but here is a brief run down. The Dew Tour has been around since 2005 and is the first ever action sports tour. It consists of a five month tour, featuring competitions in three different action sports (Skate, FMX and BMX). At the end of it all an overall Dew Cup winner is determined and over $2.5 mill in prize money will be allocated accordingly.

Last years Dew Tour champs include FMX pro Adam Jones, BMX Vert competitor Jamie Bestwick, BMX park rider Daniel Dhers, BMX dirty dawg Cameron White, Skate Verter Pierre Luc Gagnon and lastly Chax Ortiz, Skateboard Park extrordinare. Where were all the ladies last year you ask? I really don’t know, but I will be on the look out for them this weekend, that is for sure!