Congrats Charlotte Van Gils, the young Dutch snowboard princess end up 4th in the X GAMES finals, Cheryl Maas with a 7th place!! With the best women snowboarders in the world gathered to shred X GAMES slopestyle it proved to be one heavy compitition. Each of the girls in the ...

2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the greatest skate shoe of all time, the Vans Half Cab. http://vimeo.com/35720010

For those who thought Erick was just living the life as a rock star.... think again. The west-side locals are always down to surf.... even when it means to suit up from head to tows to get some barrels.

Last Wednesday Vans launched its spring OTW line during Fashion Week in Berlin as part of a 3 day pop up House of Vans experience featuring live performances by the Patta Sound System, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and new OTW advocate Lupe Fiasco. Nearly a thousand people braved the ...

Charlotte Van Gils rips!! This girl can jump and jib. Check out this park edit riding Breckenridge and Keystone Colorado http://www.tacky.nl/snowboard/video/default.aspx?id=216128

Big many's going down in Gent city, see how Slick and his friends handle some amazing manual combinations http://www.woodmag.be/?p=8742

Motocross racing is fun and thats why we love it so much, but how do you train in the cold and snowy wintertime? Not by playing x box or cooking.. In Royal Hills you can practice every day in totally Californian weatherconditions, check out Stoica hitting this new hot 30 ...

We met up with Iggy Pop to talk about his collaboration with Vans on his signature shoe. Watch to learn where this punk rock pioneer got his dance moves from and more.

I just use the same words to discribe this video..... When it comes to filming and editing Sneep and Sami know whats up. They make you want to go and skate. The level of riding in the teaser of BOMBAKLATS is off the wall. cant wait to see the whole ...

While his crew "Westsidelocals" where freezing to death in the waters at Hoek van Holland, Erik Ringelberg went south to see some sun while surfing. Seeing the video he send .... I cant blame him for doing so. Seems mister party had a good time in and out of the water ...

While the rest of the world is looking to the Alps for snow and long powder runs.... Cees and friends headed for Scandinavia! Cees just send us a small update on what happened so far. E-mail from Cees: First few days Sweden.. Cees, Gerben, Lenn and Rik drove Saturday 25 ...

Hey everybody, No Turning Back just posted a brand new song: BITTER FOREVER

Our friends from Tacky hooked up with Steve and followed him around, spend a 'weekend with' on trip to a worldcup big air in Sweden. This is what a weekend in his life looks like http://www.tacky.nl/snowboard/video/?id=215383

Get great tips from Cees Wille and stick that 270 boardslide, follow these tips and it will keep you landing on your feet. http://www.tacky.nl/snowboard/video/?id=215512

We know orange is the coullor of the Netherlands. I'm sure this is why Orange Juice blog asked Stijn to make a vid when they teamed up with Cult. Roy van Kempen and Stijn are rocking the Burnside skatepark in Deventer (NL) Every Thursday slapped a new Rokinon fisheye ...

When it comes to filming and editing Sneep and Sami know whats up. They make you want to go and skate. The level of riding in the teaser of BOMBAKLATS is off the wall. cant wait to see the whole video. Here Sebastian Vijverberg who keeps on Rolling. Cant believe ...

Check this out!! Na het grote succes van vorig jaar organiseren wij ook dit jaar weer een trip naar Mayrhofen in Oostenrijk! Van 10 t/m 17 maart zullen we verblijven in het gezellige Gasthof Zillertal. Dit jaar is de trip niet alleen voor gevorderden, maar kunnen ook de meiden ...

The Vans Wängl Tängl announces a new open qualification format designed to create the largest gathering of shred crews to battle it out in the famous supersized Vans Penken Park, customised for the event with another Red Bull Endsection by Ästhetikers Steve Gruber and Wolle Nyvelt. For the 10th Anniversary ...

To celebrate a new year, the Grounded crew threw down a jam at Somic skatepark and captured the riding. Check out the video here http://vimeo.com/34873926

Please join us for a night of music and art in Berlin January 18 and experience what the Vans OTW Collection is all about. This celebration creates a special opportunity to welcome new OTW advocates Lupe Fiasco and Chris Kong to the Vans family as they join current OTW advocates ...

You don't see photo's of him every day in the media, but I know Pieter is skating every day. And when a photo comes out.... its always a banger. Put http://www.tagsters.nl/ in your favorites if you love the life of skateboarding.

While we are here in the flat lands enjoying the rain the Vans Benelux snowteam is enjoying the snow all over the mountains of Europe and the rest of the world. David van Gessel send me a mail with the first images of the 2012 series of " tales from the ...

The perfect event for all BMX riders looking to hibernate. Unlike previous editions, an international power hour competition will be held this year. There will also be a best trick / highest air competition, and several workshops including freestyle and flatlanding. Do you think you can handle this? Dress warm, zip ...

A few weeks agoo Tacky took Vans riders Cees and Anthoney for a seasen opener to Hintertux. We already saw some nice picks of this first snow trip. Not to much snow...... but always good Erwin Jason found some photo's he wanted to share with us. http://www.tacky ...

Gerben Verweij is not one to stand still. On and of thee board this man is one creative bowl of positive energy. If you need a rail or any other obstacle to get some extra snowboard fun... Now he has this...... the turbo winch cant wait to see G or ...

An all new episode of Jeff Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding is now live on Offthewall.tv! In episode four, Grosso catches up with Allen Losi, the man who came up with the traveling Smith Grind, the Lein to Tail, the Ollie to Fakie and the No Handed Footplant. Losi ...

While Cees is on his way to Scandinavia for a month to attack the street-rails with his buddy Gerben, his parents attack the dirt roads of Africa and Asia. Travel and attack is in their blood. We wish them both a lot fun and good times.

Hi all, here a short message from our buddies WASTED BULLET: We've had a bit of a quiet period lately. Due to Christmas and new year we didn't have a lot of shows, but that's going to change soon as we've got 3 shows in  a ...

For all that live the life of skateboarding......! Put this on your favourites.: http://marcelveldman.com/blog/ Skateboarding, music, art and straight up good times.... that's Marcel Veldman.

NA DE RELOAD COVER NU HET INTERVIEUW VAN TIMOTHY. Kijk op de Reload website voor het intervieuw: http://reload.nl/gewoon-first-try-en-big-shit/ photo: DVL

Our French friends wish us a happy new year with a nice video Some month ago all our French Skate took the road across Canada for a long trip across this beautiful country. You had a chance to watch our teaser at this moment and it is now time to ...

Het is bijna zover volgende week woensdagavond 4 januari 2012 gaan we weer los. -De hapjes van Mora zijn binnen, de champagne glazen en flessen worden klaar gezet. (Ook zal Redbull de extra non alcoholische drank sponsoren voor de contest) -De hoogwerkers zijn afgeleverd voor de jury en voor de ...

Tacky caught up with Anthony Smits and talks about snowboarding parksessions, injuries, future plans..and a lot more http://www.tacky.nl/snowboard/video/?id=214494

Here's part two of Four Corners: West- New York, the last chapter in our year long video project that previously visited China, Sweden and Israel. NYC is a unique city when it comes to skateboarding and the Vans Euro crew relished the opportunity to experience it first hand. Check ...

As an ode to 2011 we got Vans skate teamriders Jonathan Thijs, Tim Jacobs and Lennard Vranckx in to crush the park of Eindhoven and Tilburg http://vimeo.com/34431455

Welcome to 2012! We hope you had a fun, safe celebration and brought the new year in with style. What's your New Year's resolution? Whatever it is, we hope it involves a lot of shredding, creativity and happiness. Cheers to another decade of getting rad!