In case you haven't visited the Stay Gold page in a while, we've added three video clips--Leo On His A Frame, Kevin's Tranny Line, and Stay Gold Teaser 3--plus a grip of new wallpapers. So, stop wasting time. Get in there and check 'em out!

Get an eyeful of this brand-new Wild in the Streets 2009 clip shot and edited by Mike McKinlay, courtessy of Emerica Canada. This is one of the best ones we've seen so far, as it really puts you right in the middle of the action. When you're done watching that, check out all of the other coverage from this event.

Leo got an ice cream headache.

Tune in over on the Skate Talk channel on Ustream for a live interview with Emerica pro Heath Kirchart conducted by Bob and Boosh on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. Pacific time.

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Congratulations to Emerica team rider Jamie Tancowny, who got an eight-page New Jack interview in issue 64 of The Skateboard Mag. It's full of banging photos and a funny-ass conversation with Jamie, so go buy a copy down at your local skate shop right now!

One of the best days in skateboarding history, June 21 2009, Emerica's Wild in the Streets 2009 brought together over 2,000 skateboarders to raise awareness for the Vancouver, B.C. skateboarding community. Over $7000 was raised to benefit LeeSide, a DIY skatepark that will hopefully be recognized as an official Vancouver city skatepark. Long live skateboarding!

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Enjoy a set of photos from the Hang With Braydon and Herman! tour that went down a little while back in New Jersey, New York and Cali. Thanks to all of the shops for having us and to the kids who showed up and hung out. Now go buy a pair of the Braydon and B.Herman 2 down at your local skate shop!

Lay your eyes on this super cool news clip about Emerica's Wild in the Streets 2009 from CTV News up in Vancouver. The focus is on how the event was held in memory of Lee Matasi and to benefit the LeeSide skate spot.

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Cowtown, with the help of Emerica, Girl, Fourstar and TransWorld held its annual Go Skateboarding Day festivities on Sunday, June 21, 2009. This year, with the amazingly bad economic conditions, we decided to have The Recession Session. It started at about 6:00 p.m. with roughly 500 slices of pizza in back of our Phoenix shop. Ten minutes later, we were down to two slices that had dropped on the 100-plus degree asphalt, and a dumpster full of empty boxes.

Hundreds of skateboarders finished devouring the grub, then began rolling around on the makeshift manual pad and flat bar, warming up for the High Ollie and Jump Ramp contest. First, the 12 and under kids stepped up to the High Ollie contest. After disqualifying the 14 year old, an actual 12 year old Brian Downing won with a 26 inch high ollie. Then it stepped up a notch, actually 15 notches, when Robbie Brockel ollied 41 inches for the win in the older division.

Then the Jump Ramp contest began. For nearly an hour after the high ollie contest, people of all ages and sizes hucked themselves off the ramp. Everyone was trying to either recapture their glory days of 1987, or figure out what it felt like to land flat on asphalt instead of down the backside of a perfect concrete pyramid in a skatepark. It was fun for all, but a painful reminder to some.

Josh Heath had a big bag of tricks, including a Bennihana and a big Japan, but Jason Schooley held it down, bringing back the same smooth method and judo airs that he remembered from way back. Newcomers to the jump ramp were surprisingly good, too. There were hardly any early grabs here, but many of the same classic tricks.

With a Jason Schooley the clear winner, everyone's knees had enough of the jump ramp, so we started the premiere of TransWorld's Right Foot Forward. Jon Holland, once again, did a great job on TransWorld's 21st video, which was really good, and the crowd was pleased. So, with the help of the entire skateboarding industry, we began the final phase of the Recession Session.

We climbed up onto the roof of the shop and began one of the best product tosses of all time. It was as if the sky were raining skateboard product into a massive dust cloud of fiendish skateboarders. A fun time was had by all who were in attendance of this already classic event. The dust cleared, we cleaned up and headed out, happy to be part of skateboarding. A huge thank you to Emerica, Girl, Fourstar and TransWorld, and everyone in or out of the industry who has helped support skateboarding in any way. View some more photos and a video clip from this event.

Love,
Cowtown

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June 21, 2009 marked the very first time Emerica’s Wild in the Streets Main Event went international. Somewhere between 1,500 to 2,000 Young Emericans joined the whole team for a seven-stop skate through the jewel of the Northwest—Vancouver, Canada. The meeting place was Downtown Plaza—a sweet spot full of buttery ledges, wedges and rails (Oh, my!) underneath a phalanx of freeway overpasses. Leo Romero manhandled a tall, horizontal rail with front blunts, back lips and more, while he and Brandon Westgate effortlessly sailed ollies off the brick bank and over a long platform, leaving The Boss to shut it down with his patented frontside flip.

Then the seething skate masses plopped their boards down to get Wild in the Streets! There’s nothing like pushing, cruising and weaving through hundreds upon hundreds of other skaters as their combined thousands of wheels roar down the pavement, and pedestrians line each side of the streets in rapt attention with smiles on their faces and cameras held high in the air. At the Hot Spot, we encountered a buttery-ass ledge that formed a half circle. Vancouver local Daniel "Alien" Nelson declared a front blunt war with a guy all decked out in a black t-shirt and bright green pants, as they took turns guiding the trusty trick halfway around the thing. Alien’s blunts were smooth as butter, but it was Green Pants who finally came out on top as he landed it and rolled away.

Next up came Emerica’s Walk in the Park as we leisurely made our way over to another section of the Hot Spot, a five-stair with about six feet of landing space right in front of a fence. After a few minutes of flailing, everyone hightailed it on down to another no-landing-space spot called Victory Square, where a guy named Mickey Papa landed a 360 flip down the eight stair, then cruised across a short slab of concrete and on into the grass.

The urethane-wheeled masses once again took the streets of Vancouver by storm as we headed on down to a gnarly-ass double set called Black Ice. Several randoms tried and failed to land maybe an ollie down it, while another dude or two landed a trick; but it took skateboarding god Andrew Reynolds to shut this spot down with an ollie then a frontside flip. After another short rollerplank commute, we arrived at the New Spot, where Matt Berger switch heeled over a rail. Mother Nature started sending hints of rain, so the massive swarm of skateboarding humanity took to the streets once again.

At the corner of Burrard and Georgia streets, the announcer of this year’s Wild in the Streets instructed everyone to stop and hold their decks high in the air for a show of skateboarding solidarity. As thousands of Young Emericans emitted a giant roar, they once again developed a hive mentality, threw down their rides, and coasted at speed down a huge hill on Georgia street like a gigantic six block-long python. Red lights, annoyed cross traffic and police officers alike were forced to give way as the gigantic urban organism barged straight ahead, across a huge, curved viaduct and on to the final destination.

Strathcona Park was such a sweet spot to end the day, with a huge grassy area and a fun little skatepark full of banks and street obstacles. Underneath the Emerica tents, hot dogs and veggie dogs got grilled and tunes became blasted while Ed Templeton pulled an impossible noseslide and impossible crooked grind across the bank-to-ledge, Beagle 5-0’d it, Leo crooked grinded up a rail, and Herman ollied over five decks in high ollie contest. (A couple of locals cleared seven!) What a way to end a spectacular day. Big-ups to everyone in Vancouver—especially G-Man and our Canadian distributor, Timebomb--for showing us such a good time, and special thanks to everyone who got Wild in the Streets with the Emerica team! Here’s looking forward to 2010!

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View more photos over on the Wild in the Streets page.

About this year's event: Emerica’s Wild in the Streets 2009 Main Event was organized to benefit LeeSide, the underground DIY skatepark that Vancouver skateboarder and artist Lee Matasi envisioned and began creating before his untimely death in 2005. Emerica raised funds with our distributor, Timebomb, and local skate community organizers through donations, t-shirt sales, and a barbecue at the last stop. All proceeds raised will go to the construction of new obstacles and financial support of the LeeSide skatepark. Get more information on Lee Matasi and LeeSide.