Straight outta Orange County, Vans would like to welcome Dakota Roche to the BMX Team for 2010. The Huntington Beach native will join a host of BMX icons, legends and all around bad-asses in representing the original waffle sole squad of two-wheeled bicycle hellions. Dakota will join Ty Morrow and Sean Sexton in the BMX Street contest this week at X Games in LA, so be on the look-out for some massive hanger 180s to go down.

Join Geoff Rowley, Lance Mountain, Andrew Langi, Curren Caples, David Gonzalez and more at the Vans Store in Costa Mesa, CA. Autographs, giveaways and more will go down on Tuesday, August 3rd at 3pm. Don't miss your favorite riders all in one place!

Los Angeles is becoming X Games heaven as of today. Over 200 of the best action sports athletes in the world will take over ramps, rails, dirt, park and street courses until Sunday, August 1. Keep your eye out for a grip of Vans athletes competing in Skate and BMX. If you can't make it out to see records being broken, and unbelievable tricks, ESPN has all the coverage you've ever dreamed about so you won't miss anything.

Check out part 1 of the Vans Skatepark Round-up on Thrasher!  From Tony Alva to Andrew Langi, the Vans team showed up to the Venice park in droves for Thrasher's biggest round-up yet!  Stay tuned for more footage and photos over at Thrasher.

Yesterday was the first day of the Vans x Surf Diva Boarding School at La Jolla Shores, and it pretty much ruled. Follow along with our girl Alexia on the Vans Girls Blog where she is posting photos and videos from the surf camp. Then be sure to check back next week for a review of Friday's session with our team rider Leila Hurst!