ESPN skate coverage is usually right on the money (no pun), especially when it comes to the comings and goings of the skate kings, the folks that drive the industry and all of its innovations. Yesterday, they published a pretty timely piece, one that many other skate publications would rather avoid, about the state of the skate biz and the effects of the recession. Our boy Greg Lutzka, who is in many ways a leader in the industry (both the skills and the biz), goes on record…

Video games have come a long way, and even the iPhone app games rival anything you’d see in an arcade back in the day. So it was a matter of time before skating became a game sector of its own, and our local, Greg Lutzka is the main character of this new one called S.K.A.T.E. which is the skate version of H.O.R.S.E. You challenge the virtual Lutzka to a head-to-head game of S.K.A.T.E…

While P-Rod may have squeeked into second, the fire was with Chris Cole on this year’s Dew Tour, who had kinda quietly owned his competition throughout the tour. So, Greg Lutzka’s podium spot is all that more sweet. His contender status kicked into overdrive in Orlando, and Lutzka gave P-Rod and Cole a run for their money with his signature frontside threes and flips…