June 12, 2010: MEGA DEGA IS OUT and Interview with MediaBlvd Magazine

+ Nic & Tristan go Mega Dega has been released! It can be purchased at many online retailers. One retailer selling it is Walmart Canada, which sold 15,000 copies of the DVD in the first day! Walmart USA may sell it later this summer but right now, the best way to buy it would be online. I'm getting it this weekend! Are you? Watch the trailer below....

+ Check out "The Road to Skateboarding is a Family Affair for the Skateboarding Twins", featured on the main page of MediaBlvd Magazine at MediaBlvd.com. It is an interview with Nic, Tristan and their Dad about the movie and their skateboarding. There is also a free podcast on iTunes from the interview (search "Mega Dega" and look for the podcast list!).

+ There are many more updates to come! Stay tuned!

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June 3, 2010: Free Screening of Mega Dega!

+ If you live in the Los Angeles area, you can't miss this! Nic and Tristan Go Mega Dega will be playing FOR FREE at the Downtown Independent at 721 S. Main Street in Los Angeles at 7:00pm on June 8, 2010. It's a DVD release screening and party! Hope you get the chance to attend!

Originally I wrote it was on June 5th but please notice the change to June 8th!

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May 20, 2010: Thrasher's Stoke of the Day!

+ Check out Thrasher Magazine's Stoke of the Day page as Nic & Tristan were featured yesterday (May 19th)! It's a great picture of them doing a doubles trick. Very cool!

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May 17, 2010: Nic & Tristan Hit the Big Time Article

+ Check out this great article written by Andy Laughlin for a newspaper called Village Life in El Dorado Hills, California!

Fraternal twins Nic and Tristan Puehse, 12, of Shingle Springs, are becoming well-known in the media (and no doubt among preteen girls) as the skateboarding twins. They’ve made appearances on Fuel TV and Ellen DeGeneres. They’ve collaborated with The English Beat and L.L. Cool J on skate videos, and skated half pipes and pools alongside legends like Christian Hosoi and Duane Peters.

And this June they’ll be starring in their very own feature film, “Nic and Tristan Go Mega Dega.”

The movie features the boys as skateboarding brothers Nic and Tristan Fishtickle who accidentally break a family heirloom statue on the day of their parents’ anniversary - which also happens to be the same day as the titular Mega Dega Skate Competition. They scramble to try to fix the statue, outsmart a babysitter, escape an angry mob and make it to the Mega Dega ... all in the same day.

Co-starring Ariel Winter ("Modern Family"), Lindsey Shaw ("10 Things I Hate About You") and Bobb’e J Thompson ("Role Models"), the movie will be released on DVD June 8.

Nic and Tristan could hardly be described as “ordinary” 12-year-olds, but stardom hasn’t gone to their heads. They’re both friendly, intelligent and well-spoken. They enjoy many of the same activities as their friends from the old El Dorado Hills neighborhood (the Puehses moved to Shingle Springs in 2005). They’re a bit competitive, each pushing the other toward the next big trick.

But even with a half-pipe ramp in their backyard, they only spend a few hours a week skateboarding, taking plenty of time for their studies (the boys and their younger sister, Tasha, have been home schooled by their mother, Caryn, since kindergarten) and other activities like tennis and bike rides, their dad, Mike Puehse, said.

The brothers had their introduction to skateboarding at Cumming’s Family Park in Folsom, where they learned to ollie and carve on the half pipe at age five.

“We used to go wakeboarding on Folsom Lake,” Mike Puehse said of the early days. “Then they wanted to learn to skate.”

“We decided to check out the skatepark in Folsom,” Nic said. “We were like, five, and our skateboards were almost as tall as we were. The other kids laughed at us allot. But we got better.”

By age eight, the boys were consistently bringing home trophies from local skate competitions - most of which ended up stored in boxes in the attic.

“The boys did a ton of comps, mostly in their first three years,” Mike Puehse said. “It was the same kids over and over.”

Bored with the competitive scene, they decided to focus primarily on learning new tricks to showcase in videos on YouTube, hoping to get the attention of fans or potential sponsors to help support their habit.

It worked.

Though not quite an overnight sensation, Nic and Tristan racked up hundreds, then thousands, then hundreds of thousands of views of their videos over the following months. They eventually got offers for demo shoots, giving them the opportunity to travel for months at a time overseas. They skated in China for an action sports company, and were lucky enough to film at the famous Cayman Islands Black Pearl Park - the world’s largest skatepark.

They also got the opportunity to collaborate with some high-caliber musicians, with The English Beat providing the soundtrack to one video and L.L Cool J performing for another.

The movie deal happened last year, after Mike Puehse made a few calls to production companies, pitching the idea of featuring Nic and Tristan in a feature film.

“I got a call back within one week,” he said. “And we were filming within five months.

“It was a very eye-opening experience for the boys,” he continued. “They were used to seeing crew around shooting their skateboard videos. But nothing like this before ... Tristan got his very first, real-life kiss on that set.”

For now, Nic and Tristan are practicing their tricks and eagerly awaiting the release of their movie. To catch up with the skateboarding twins, visit skateboardingtwins.com or visit facebook.com/gomegadega.

+ If you were following them on their twitter, you might've seen they're back to riding for Electric Visual! They're a sunglasses company that the twins were with a couple of years ago :)

Posted by Natasha

May 9, 2010

+ Happy Mothers Day to all the Moms out there (and Nic & Tristan's mom Caryn!). I hope you're all having a great day!

+ Nic and Tristan Go Mega Dega is now available to add to your Netflix queue! If you use Netflix, here is the link to add it to your queue to be able to watch the movie when it becomes available!

+ If you're interested in buying Nic & Tristan Trick Tip DVDs, there is now a place to buy them from Amazon.com! Their beginner and advanced DVD's are available for purchase right away at $19.99 each (through the distributor Tricolas)!

+ According to their official twitter, Nic & Tristan did an interview with News10 last week! Hopefully it will be available to watch soon!

Posted by Natasha

May 2, 2010: Skateboarding Twins Go Hollywood

+ Check out this Fox News story on Nic & Tristan called Skateboarding Twins Go Hollywood! Watch it here in great quality, or see a quick view below!

Posted by Natasha

April 23, 2010

+ The official release date for Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega is June 10th! There's even a page on amazon.com that states you will be able to buy the movie on the 10th (you can pre-order now if you would like!). I know I can't wait to see it! Don't forget to Become a Fan of the Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega group on facebook!

+ According to their official twitter, Nic & Tristan are working on tricks for an upcoming story on Fox News! They now have over 2000 followers and update pretty often so be sure to follow them!

+ I added some more great photos from their trip to Arizona a few weeks ago! Check them out in the album below...

Nic, Tristan & family in Arizona

Posted by Natasha

April 13, 2010

+ Nic, Tristan & their family spent the last little while visiting Arizona and had a great time. They enjoyed the nice weather and their parents are pretty confident that they will move there from Northern California. After experiencing the fantastic Arizona weather - it's hard to go back to anything else! Check out some photos from their trip in the album below...

The Puehse Family in Arizona 2010

+ Very soon Nic & Tristan will be starting to do press and advertising for Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega. The movie website is going to be re-designed in the next few weeks to reflect the new movie title! Also, if you haven't already "Became a Fan" of Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega on facebook, make sure you do that! Their distribution company, Phase 4 has hired the PR firm Sunshine Sachs (who has also worked with Leonardo Dicaprio and Barbara Streisand!) to do press related things for the movie, so look forward to that!

+ Are you signed up for the movie updates at Nicandtristanthemovie.com? I received an email a few days ago from the website updating me on the current events. If you go to the website and click "Get Updates", you will be put on the subscribers list and you will receive emails when anything new happens!

+ Many people have been asking about when the next youtube video will be released and my best advice would be to tell your friends about Take 5! The more views Take 5 gets, the quicker you'll be seeing the next video :)

Posted by Natasha