Chris at Burton just sent through this cool clip of the N.Z. Open finals. The vid takes you through the scoring and talking about Ipod run versus Louie Vito's three back to back double corks. Some great footage in there, check it out!

Grenade has got a crew together on tour  in Europe at the moment. Eero Niemela, The Dingo, Dustin Craven, Tom Ryen, Louie Vito, Rip Zinger and others are all trekking around having fun. The whole thing is being documented over on the Grenade site with some pretty funny posts written by Danny Kass. ...

Sorry for the delay in this... I got sent the Burton N.Z. Open details yesterday. It kicks off next week in Cardrona where the likes of Mikkel Bang, Mark Sollors, Chas Guldemond, Louie Vito,Charles Reid, Kazuhiro 'Turbo' Kokubo, Marco Grilc and others will be competing. According to the email, the whole thing is ...

(Photos by Julius Kellar) Some new hottness from Nike 6.0. These are the Mavrk Mid 2's in pine green/white-stadium green. For those that don't know, Nike 6 is a sub brand of Nike that covers action sports and lifestyle - they have a ridiculously good snow team with guys like Kevin Pearce, Mikkel Bang, Mason ...

Louie Vito took bronze at the Euro XGames but he blew the crowd away by opening his second run with three back to back double corks. The video is pretty amazing – read more to check it out.

There's a rad new commercial out for the Sony Vaio featuring Shaun Neff. A lot of the team get a look in too with background appearances from Louie Vito and more. Check it out below. (Via Boardistan)

Update: Full rankings added. The Olympic Halfpipe finals are over and the gold has gone to Shaun White! He definitely put on a show with his finals runs scoring 46.8 and 48.4 - his final lap included the double mctwist 12 although it was already in the bag by then. Silver went to Peetu Piiroinen, ...

UPDATE: Complete semi rankings added. The semi finals are just about finished and the top six, Markus Malin, Gregory Bretz, Scott Lago, Mathieu Crepel, Markku Kaski and Justin Lamoureux, will be joining Shaun White, Ryo Aono, Louie Vito, Peetu Piiroinen, Kazuhiro Kokubo and Iouri Podladtchikov in the finals at 2:15pm today. Ben Mates came ...

UPDATE: Added full list of riders in the Semis. So, the top three from each heat are directly into the finals. Riders in position four to nine ride in the semi-finals. Ben Mates came in 9th in his qualifier and goes onto the semis. Scotty James came in 12th and just missed out after a ...

TTR have put together a rad little video featuring some of the medal hopefuls in the Olympic Halfpipe event. Featuring Shaun White, Iouri Podladtchikov, Peetu Piiroinen, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Louie Vito, Scotty Lago and more... As the blurb says, "With his (Shaun White's) infamous bag of tricks including back to back Double ...