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Extreme Thing has come again to Las Vegas for its 19th more exciting additions to the well-known and one of a kind music and action sports festival. Coming this year on March 29 at Desert Breeze Park, this one day event will have exciting performances by The Used, Taking back Sunday, Bring Me Back the Horizon, Killswitch Engage, and many more upcoming artists which will all perform on four main stages. Special guest Brett "Mad Dog" Banasiewicz will be attending as a guest judge as well.

Returning for its 11th the world to compete for the win of the pro

Vans is proud to announce the launch of its second #LIVINGOFFTHEWALL Documentary Series feature – Upstarts by Patrick O’Dell. Upstarts shares the stories of three small business DIY entrepreneurs--Clara Cakes, Burger Records, and Power Plant Choppers— all self-starting visionaries that have found cult success. Doing what they love, all three have built brands representing their organic passion and motivation.

Outside Magazine, New Mexico Brewers Guild and Cycle Santa Fe have combined resources to build a new form of outdoor festival aimed at the active lifestyle tourist who is seeking the balance between adventure and sophistication, recreation and relaxation, living healthy and living happy. Outside Bike & Brew Festival, scheduled for May 16-18, 2014 in Santa Fe, is a handcrafted event that blends a variety of rigorous biking activities with beautiful scenery and delicious craft beer in the cultural capital of the Rocky Mountains, including a BMX Dirt jump jam. “We planned this event to coincide with National Bike to Work Week and American Craft Beer Week,” says Christopher Goblet, event director.

Five memorable days and nights of music drew to a close Saturday night in Austin with the final sets at the House of Vans at the Mohawk. Thousands of music fans joined Vans at the beloved Mohawk for an Off the Wall mix of musicians ranging from the world’s best emerging bands to well-known iconic talent that are not often seen under one roof. The Vans showcase hosted punk rock legends X, hardcore favorite Cerebral Ballzy, Primus founder and frontman’s newest project, Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang and independent acts The Black Angels, ††† (crosses), Gap Dream and TEEN.

The Vans Village also closed its doors after five days and nights of packed events including daily open mic sessions which provided a platform for more than 100 musicians to share their music and BMX demos by Vans BMX pro athletes Scotty Cranmer, Gary Young, Dakota Roche, Daniel Sandoval, Kevin Peraza and Austin local Sean Sexton on a custom built ramp right by Red River St. Vans artists Jay Howell, Rich Jacobs, Zio Ziegler and

Releasing a new collection is a big deal for any brand. Kid DynaMite just posted up their early spring 2014 collection online and is available right now. New prints, new designs, and new products. Not only for the kids out there who think they're Kind Of A Big Deal, but for the grown ups as well. Check the sizes from the United States Apparel brand and find something that will fit you.

The Braaab BMX Contest information, put on by Daniel Wedemeijer is coming closer. The riders list is looking awesome as well as the price money and prizes for the amateur class. The 040BMX park in Eindhoven is ready for a good weekend, are you? Here's the 411:

Amateur Contest (22.03.2014)

With a maximum of 50 riders this is how the contest will go down.

-Qualification:
50 Riders
1 minute run + last trick (2 tries)

-Finals:
16 Riders
8 minute heat (4 riders) + last trick (2 tries)

Fans of action sports can now ride the wave into the future as they follow their favorite athletes across the Internet. Arnette, the creators of stylish sunglasses, prescription eyewear, snow and MX goggles that fuse exceptional design with bold attitude, invites fans to get in on the action and share the social media feeds of all of their favorite Action Sports Icons. “The Action 360 Mobile App is a must-have for action sports enthusiasts,” says Joe Freitag, Global Brand Director for Arnette. Providing a simple way to view and share all of the social media activity of top Action Sports icons and exciting events, the Action 360 App allows fans to scroll through the categories of BMX, Skateboarding, Surfing, Snowboarding, Wakeboarding, Skiing and Motocross to find their favorite athletes and personalities to see what they are talking about and sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo, Tumblr and You Tube.

Featuring an easy-to-use interface, Action 360™ takes social networking to a whole new level. With Action 360™, users can:

Vans invites aspiring filmmakers across the country to share stories of #LIVINGOFFTHEWALL through a short-film documentary competition – Be A Documentarian. Inspired by the fans and wave of creativity that came with the launch of #LIVINGOFFTHEWALL, Vans is now opening the concept to all aspiring filmmakers for the chance to win a $50,000 donation toward completing a personal film project. “We are so inspired by what the documentarians and our fans have been doing with #LIVINGOFFTHEWALL that we had to make the next level happen to say thank you,” said Doug Palladini, vice president and general manager of the Americas at Vans. “We just launched this ongoing effort and hundreds of thousands globally are already jumping in to be a part of our family.”

Be A Documentarian is an extension of Vans’ #LIVINGOFFTHEWALL Documentary Series which debuted on www.vans.com/livingoffthewall in February. The competition seeks to inspire and support aspiring filmmakers while unveiling a vast

It was time for Fly Bikes and Kevin Kalkoff to part ways. Here's Kevin's statement: I'd like to thank Flybikes for all the support they gave me over the years, giving me the opportunity to do what I like, along with the travels and people I got to meet. While being very appreciative of all they did for me, I feel it was time for us to part ways. Washing only the best to everyone at Flybikes.