Speaking of Nike 6.0, their whole program is pretty rad right now from their team to their programming and now down to their new product. This has all to do with the people behind the brand. Tim, Sierra, Driscoll, Zach and crew are dedicated heads who know exactly what they are doing which made it surprising that they allowed me to jump onto the the Nike iD program for their new silhouette, the Mavrk Mid 2. Psych – I killed it! Check out this flip I did in correlation with Rad Collector and my personal label Caranguejo do Norte – the Nike 6.0 Mavrk 2 “Beleza.” Todos meus Brasileiros sabem o que eu significo! 360 looks after the jump. I can’t wait to rock them!

My homie and Rad Collector columnist Jason Bergh is a busy man these days. So busy in fact that we were in the same city like 5 times over the last 2 months (LA, Park City, Aspen etc) but I only got to see the dude for about 2 minutes over all that time, in the driveway of a Marriott no less! But it’s all good, it’s not like he’s not working. Check out this short he just did for Vitamin Water of 50 Cent meeting Louie Vito, Gretchen Bleiler and JJ Thomas at the X Games. I’m surprised 50 didn’t recognize Louie from Dancing With the Stars, I woulda thought he’d be up on that shit!

Every year in March, I make a pilgrimage to Vermont for the last great weekend of the East Coast season: The US Open and World Quarters. Its an almost Groundhog Day-esque affair, each year the snow is sparse, the sun is shining and everybody is in the mood to wile out. Ok every now and then the weather gets wack but the wile out part, that’s always true. This year was no different. Actually, this year was off the hook. Uncle Craig (Frank151), Michael (Shut NYC), Tracy (ESPN) and I packed up a brolic Toyota Tundra LTD Crew Max and headed up to Stratton on the Wednesday before the Open so we could get entrenched before the madness. For the next 6 days the entire shred world dropped in and did it right: Danny Kass won his fifth US Open halfpipe, Louie Vito turned 21 and the World Quarters pushed the boundaries of competitive riding from rad to literally fucking insane. Check out the full trip photo gallery courtesy of Craig Wetherby after the jump.