Kechaud Johnson has been hittin’ up the contests all over the nation this year. Core Action decided to take him out to the Southside Showdown and document his trip for you. He’s a beast who skates everything…enjoy!

City Stars Skateboards
NEFF Headwear
Kicker Car Audio
Adio Footwear
Red Bull
Index Skate Supply
KRUX Trucks
Alliance Skatepark

Street League DC Pro Tour fueled by Monster Energy Secures Domestic and International Distribution With ESPN, Inc.

LOS ANGELES, CA (July 2, 2010) – Street League Skateboarding™ announced today that they will be entering a multi-year partnership with ESPN for worldwide distribution in more than 198 countries. The 2010 Street League DC Pro Tour fueled by Monster Energy is a prestigious, invite-only, three-event series featuring the top 24 pros in the world. Founded by twenty-year professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, Rob Dyrdek, Street League™ raises the bar of competitive professional skateboarding with the most prize money in skateboarding history, skate plaza course design in world-class arenas, and an instant-scoring format that makes every trick count.

“What Dyrdek has done for skateboarding with the creation of Street League is right in line with the quality sports programming that is the cornerstone of ESPN,” says Chris Stiepock, ESPN X Games’ Vice President for content and sponsorship. “We are excited to broadcast competitive street skating with the world’s best pros in a package that is both compelling and new for our audience.”

“ESPN is an absolute perfect fit for Street League,” adds Dyrdek. It is undeniable that they have helped lay the groundwork for televised skateboarding 16 years ago with the launch of X Games and have stayed with it ever since. With this deal, competitive street skateboarding will finally move from afternoon programming on the weekends to consecutive primetime slots so the audience finally has a chance to tune in and watch the same time every week.”

Street League™ will air the first stop of the tour beginning Wednesday, September 15 at 8p.m. PT on ESPN2 and will continue its coverage of each stop every Wednesday at the same time slot through September 29th.

Street League™ features the exclusive participation of 24 of the best street skateboarders in the world. To assist their transition into the league, each pro has been given the option to compete in two non-sanctioned wildcard events until the end of 2010. Beginning in 2011, the pros will compete exclusively in the Street League™ series and other Street League™ sanctioned events worldwide. Street League™ will work in conjunction with ESPN to allow Street League™ pros to participate in ESPN-owned events for the duration of the partnership. Using real time scoring and an exciting proprietary competition format, Street League™ will tell a compelling story about each skateboarder’s performance and will have fans on the edge of their seats from the first trick to the very last. The inaugural year of Street League™ features a three-stop arena tour beginning at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Arizona on August 28th; Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California on September 11th; and the final stop in Las Vegas at the Thomas & Mack Center on September 25th. The skaters will be competing at each event for a total purse of $1.2 million. For more information please visit www.streetleague.com .

Dieter Galvan has done it again and come through with some banging coverage of this past Sunday’s Volcom Wild in the Parks Qualifier for the Wild in the Parks Championship in Arizona later this year for the $25,000 purse. Southside managed to crack that 200+ competitor mark and ended up with a ton of heads rolling massive crews out of every city in the state and Louisiana. The day was so gnarly with many NBD’s going down on the Tranquility Rail replica and massive pyramid. Check it out, you won’t be dissapointed!

Wild in the Parks 2010 Core Action Sports Videos

Volcom Stone’s “wild in the Parks Quallifier” 2010
Southside Skatepark, Houston Texas

Results

14 & under Division
1st ~ Ryan Thompson
2nd ~ George Karvounis
3rd ~ Joe Brinkley
4th ~ Johnathon Pharrer
5th ~ Mason Coletti
6th ~ Zach McBide
7th ~ Cody Listrom

15 & Over Division
1st ~ Justin Williamson
2nd ~ Frankie gamboa
3rd ~ Devin Cain
4th ~ Justyn Shoemaker
5th ~ Zach Godlewski
6th ~ Nekio Cruz
7th ~ Cody Listrom

Electric’s $50 “hype of the Day”
Justin Williamson
(b/s blunt f/s bigspin tranq replica)

Pro-Am Division
1st ~ Ke’Chaud Johnson
2nd ~ Chris Luhring
3rd ~ Michael Tang
4th ~ Michael Beuhler
5th ~ Michael Cross
6th ~ Frankie Heck
7th ~ Sean Villars
8th ~ Josh Love