MNSS SKATEBOARDER CHRIS COLE EARNS 2ND IN STREET AT THE DEW TOUR SALT LAKE CITY STOP

The Sports Syndicate’s Chris Cole was up to his usual tendencies this weekend, stomping super technical tricks, which secured him silver in Salt Lake City. Chris is now sitting first in the overall Dew Tour standings in skate street. Cole had an amazing run in the finals completing slides up and down the rails and nailed some of the most difficult tricks in his arsenal. The crowd was astounded by his backside 360, double flip, shifty over the hydrant, three-shuv mute, switch frontside flip, switch backside flip and backside 270 on the down rail. Chris is looking forward to adding to his medal collection come this October in Orlando at this year’s final Dew Tour where he will seek to secure the 2009 Dew Tour Championship.

MNSS SNOWBOARDER DARRELL MATHES "KEEPING IT COOL" INTERVIEW ON ESPN.COM

Few snowboarders are as dialed in as Darrell Mathes. He carries a style all his own confident, careless of outside opinion. His sponsors are among the most desirable brands a rider would want to be associated with. He has his own production company, Videograss, through which he and his fellow founders have managed to put out one of the most anticipated videos of the year. He has a new accessory company with a growing team. The sum of all these parts? There is pretty much no downside to being Mathes. As the new shred season starts to rear its ugly head, ESPN linked up with the Portland slayer to find out just how he's been able to hook himself up with arguably the best life in pro snowboarding, how fresh Videograss is going to be and why he will always think contests are wack. Click here to visit ESPN.COM and read more of the interview with Darrell.

MNSS SNOWBOARDER LOUIE VITO INTERVIEW ON TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING WEBSITE

Transworld Snowboarding recently featured an interview with Louie Vito to discuss the latest announcement that he will be appearing on this season of ABC’s Primetime hit show Dancing With The Stars which premiers September 21st. In addition to his DWTS obligations, he’s making a push for the US Team and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In preparation for the upcoming contest season, Louie has been in down under for the last month working out new tricks. At the New Zealand Open Superpipe event Louie revealed his newest trick, one never before done in competition, the frontside double-cork 1080º ushering in what is sure to become the year of the double-cork spin. Louie Vito has a lot going on so in a quick interview from New Zealand, he filled in some blanks with Transworld Snowboarding's Joel Muzzey. Visit http://snowboarding.transworld.net to read the interview and catch up with Louie.