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A look at the new Gymkhana Subaru.

[Ed.'s Note: The Action Sports Report is a weekly blog that covers sports from skateboarding to snowboarding to FMX.]

Last October, a video featuring DC Shoes founder Ken Block performing motogymnastics in his Subaru rally car was dropped onto YouTube.com with virtually no promotion. Modestly titled Gymkhana Practice, the video showed Block sliding, spinning and skillfully maneuvering his custom Impreza WRX STI around cones, Jersey barriers and one very daring video producer on a Segway at El Toro Airfield in San Diego. The video, which became a cult classic in both the action and motorsports worlds, was viewed more than 20 million times in less than six months. The driving was impressive and unlike anything seen in motorsports. So after watching the four-minute clip, viewers were undoubtedly left wondering what the heck they'd just seen. Gymkhana? Isn't that an Olympic equestrian event?
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U a total shrd dwg.

[Ed.'s Note: The Action Sports Report is a weekly blog that covers sports from skateboarding to snowboarding to FMX.]

No two action sports icons are alike. Turns out neither are their Twitter habits. Just like their riding or skating styles, they've all got unique quirks, tendencies and go-to moves. Some complain to no one in particular about the trivialities of life on the road or mundane chores like waiting in line or packing for a trip. Others let you know what they're about to eat just after they've said grace. Don't be surprised to see a link to a pic of a nicely healing scab from a recent slam. With all the tweeting that's going on we decided to break down the Twitter styles of your favorite shredders so you don't have to. Maybe you're already following one of them. You may have even Re-Tweeted a few of their pithy remarks. Either way, feel free to hit them up when you're out there in the great wide Twitterverse.
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Drake McElroy during his heyday, X Games Eleven.

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Goal setting. Skills drills. Friendly competition. Sounds like the daily itinerary for a typical summer sports camp. Then you spot the oversized foam pits, giant resi landings and metal motocross ramps and realize this is anything but.
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Sofia and her mother, Ines, wait for their interview at the Hilton.

[Ed.'s Note: The Action Sports Report is a weekly blog that covers sports from skateboarding to snowboarding to FMX.]

This was supposed to be a story about something else. It was supposed to be a story about two Peruvian superstar athletes, a boxer and a surfer, who are both world champions. They were childhood friends who surfed together in Punta Hermosa in the summers and were reuniting in L.A. for a story in a Peruvian newspaper, El Comercial. Their reunion was supposed to take place in a Huntington Beach hotel, where 25-year-old Sofia Mulanovich, a world champion surfer currently in the middle of her world tour, had scheduled a stop in order to meet with boxing sensation Kina Malpartida. Malpartida, 29, now lives and trains in Huntington and is fresh off a title bout. On February 21, she won the WBA super featherweight championship with a 10th-round TKO of Maureen Shea at Madison Square Garden.
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We need you now more than ever, Ricky.

[Ed.'s Note: The Action Sports Report is a weekly blog that covers sports from skateboarding to snowboarding to FMX.]

The great thing about action sports is that they evolve at warp speed compared to other sports. But, like most action aficionados, I'm still always craving more. Not just on the ramp, but off it as well. If I ruled the world, here are nine random things I'd make happen. Or at least pray really hard they would.
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