Young filmmaker Blaine Davies's new trailer for the 2012 Crisis Skateboards team video nails the perfect mix of what everyone wants to see in a proper skate vid: It's a combination of equal parts mind-blowing, technical, holy-shit skateboard prowess and people wrecking themselves over and over again, as if you can't fully appreciate the one without the other. The forthcoming video features Crisis Skateboards owner Jeremy Frankovis as well as team riders for the skate shop at 6821 West 120th Avenue in Broomfield, including Connor Grosh, Carleigh Samson, Kevin Davenport, Chris Schwartz, Keenan Meyer and Justin Rice.

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The new Arvada Skate Park took Best of Denver 2012 Best Skate Park honors last month, and the more time we spend there, the more we love it. This edit from local filmmaker Tristan Minton, of Royal Stain Design, which features 303 Boards team rider David Reyes and The Denver Shop team riders Ryan Lybarger and Josh Murphy, helps illustrate why:

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Some of our favorite local skate crews have been busy this month, dropping Spring video clips that will have you ready to take to the streets. First up... Ben Ericson and Tristan Minton's 2012 Spring Street Trash edit (above) featuring the 303 Boards team.

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Broomfield's Crisis Skateboards shop is hosting the local premiere of the new Think Skateboards film Business As Usual tonight at 8 p.m., at a free screening at the shop at 6821 West 120th Avenue. Can't make it? Boulder's Meta Skateboards is presenting the film tomorrow at 8 p.m., with a free showing at Illegal Pete's, 1320 College Avenue.

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Stacy Peralta, a '70s-era skateboarding legend in his own right -- and co-founder of the Powell Peralta Bones Brigade skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill and dozens of the top pro skaters of the '80s and '90s -- will be the featured guest at 12:30 p.m. today at St. Cajetan's, 1190 Ninth Street on the Auraria campus, as part of the University of Colorado Denver's College of Arts & Media speaker series.

Peralta, an alumni advisory boardmember of the Sundance Film Festival, is as well-known today for his documentary filmmaking as his own skateboarding days, and he'll be showing clips from his films, including Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001), Riding Giants (2004) and Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008), as well as his brand-new documentary Bones Brigade: An Autobiography. We've got some of his career highlights after the jump...

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Windsor James and David Reyes, two local skaters on the 303 Boards shop team, are blowing up big this month with the release of the final segment of Mystery Skateboards' Color Theory video series. James is from Colorado Springs and just turned pro; Reyes is from Denver and is expected to make his own pro debut shortly.

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Collaboration is the new competition, and eight of Colorado's coolest local skate shops and skateboard brands are banding together in an unprecedented partnership to release Malfunction, a new video from filmmakers Brandon Greer, Corey Miller, and Travis La featuring skaters James Batcheller, Dan Hunter, Scott Johnson, Mike Marks and Garrett Soares, among others.

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Launch: Community Through Skateboarding

If you -- or your kid -- have been dreaming of making your own custom skateboard decks, don't miss this week's three-day Build Your Own Skateboard Workshop at Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden Street, starting on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 p.m. The $60 workshop, which continues February 25 and February 26, is presented by local nonprofit Launch: Community Through Skateboarding, includes materials and instruction for designing, shaping, finishing, painting and griptaping your custom deck, and comes with a 15 percent discount coupon to hook up trucks, wheels and bearings through MRKT, a local skate shop.

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If you still have decent legs under you after hitting the slopes this weekend, stop by the Barn at Woodward at Copper on Sunday at 5 p.m. to get a session in with pro skateboarder Andy MacDonald. The Barn has a pretty sick wooden skate bowl in addition to all the foam pits, trampolines, and SnowFlex features in there for working on new snowboarding and skiing tricks, and MacDonald -- aka Andy Mac, an X Games competitor since 1995 who now has more medals than he can count on all his fingers and toes -- is one of the best guest coaches a skater on the come-up could hope for.

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The November issue of Thrasher included the results of a contest in which the magazine had asked readers for the worst skateparks in their towns for a list titled "Certified Piece of Suck: Doo-Doo Skatepark Construction."

One of these pieces of suck is located in Colorado.

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