Skateboard Video Clips Links

New site shows the best of YouTube's worst

We watch more than 2 billion YouTube videos every day, but let's admit it -- we're usually viewing a top 25 clip, a video forwarded by a friend or an old standby like David After Dentist (some of those 66 million views must be repeats).

Huntington native, skateboarding insider has works featured in California exhibit

HUNTINGTON -- Whether it is a Marshall University graduate getting his skateboard-inspired art splashed on a national ad campaign and soda cans, or a seminal skateboarder getting honored in Los Angeles, Huntington and West Virginia native skateboarders have been making some noise this summer.

WIN: Artsy Skateboarding Vid

However, I'll make an exception for this one because a) Vimeo just changed their embed code so that their clips should now be viewable on the iPad, and I wanted to give that a try, and b) the re-recorded 1970 version of The Coasters' 1956 hit Down In Mexico that they use-- and that showed up in Tarantino's Death Proof -- is a seriously incredible song.

Watch the Top 20 Craziest Basketball Trick Shots on YouTube

Trick shots. Who doesn't like them? Trick shots wow us and make us watch video clips of them over and over again until we are sure what we saw was in fact real and not the work of a crafty computer nerd. Trick shots have made a legion of bored teenagers and young men into internet heroes for their mastery of the seemingly unmake-able. It is those shots and the creators of the trick shot that we ...