Crossfire caught whiff of a new Street park that got built in the French Jura region, Morteau to be more precise, and apparently it’s so good that people are coming from up to 200km away to ride it!
The boys at Syndrom/Skatanova took just under a year to complete the park, from the first shovel of earth to the last tree planted, and this is the sort of fun you can have there.
Keeping it rootsy, Pat Smith and his pals at Coda Skateboards have just released a new batch of sick boards built for all terrain thrashing.
Still waters run deep, so don’t sleep on the New York underground scene!
This news is only interesting for those of you that live in Lyon, or are thinking of passing through there between the 6th to 11th November. Cliché are holding their annual sale where good deals are the order of the day. In association with four Lyon skateshops (Wall Street, ABS, Namasté and Ballz Out!), make your way over to Cliché HQ and pick up a board, sweatshirt, jeans or socks for half the price.
Cliché HQ, 29 Rue F de Préssensé 69100 Villeurbanne (metro Charpennes) – Exit metro and walk up Cours Emile Zola until you reach Rue Jubin on your left. Walk up Jubin and take a right on Cours André Phillip/Rue F de Préssensé. Cliché is on the left hand side of the street. Open from 10am till 7pm.
Little wonderkid and all terrain vehicle, Ben Raemers has just been approved full International team status over at Consolidated Skateboards.
The odds are looking good for Crossfire – we’ve had money on the ripper for quite some time now. Now you know!
Watch a raw edit of Ben’s skating here. And don’t forget that the footage on the Consolidated site is in his section in This N That.
We mentioned this French filming comp a while ago, and now the footage is in! Loosely based around the idea of King of the road and Day in the city, La rue vers l’image has gathered short video montages from 11 teams, including skate tricks by Cliché, Metropolitan and Landscape riders.
Be warned! – The website takes longer than a spit roast to cook, so either be patient or check with Sugar Magazine who are backing this project and should release the whole thing on DVD soon…
• Javier Mendzibal: Drop in of death! [Seq. Oscar Sueiro]
• Joxa – Frontside disaster.
• Chet Childress – Bluntslide pop-in.
• Tony Cox – Huge japan tweaker.
• Tom Harrison – 50-50 gap out.
• Andrew Brophy – Backside 180.
Top 5 lost soles:
1. 2 Fish
2. Genetic
3. Pyro
4. Kastel
5. Recs
Top 5 Needs:
(results from 156 people skate zine poll)
Question: If i was to session a spot tonight i would choose:
1. A Ledge – 43 people
2. Mini Ramp – 38
3. Bank – 29
4. Bowl – 27
5. Bench – 13
6. Vert – 6
Shot of the Week:
Jono rocks a back smith at Dagenham.
Harry and the team just back from a week long Belgium trip and mentioned that it was amazing! – “Loads of shit got done and all the lads made it back alive and in 1 piece, massive thanks to Geoff Van Hoven”.
New Unabomber Doss bags are in and they are way better than the last ones if you are old enough to remember them? Also the DVD is well underway now and hopefully should be out some time in November providing we aren’t all underwater by then……expect to see a nice little article in Sidewalk in the coming months for coverage of that particular trip. Until then, Unabomber will treat them mean to keep them keen.
Nikita Clothing proudly presents its brand spanking new website. Profiles of team riders including that of our infamous UK skateboarderess, Lucy Adams, feature alongside a “Whazzup” section – which almost sounds like a programme from my Andy Peters days – but is actually a page documenting the success of their girls around the world.
This year sees two different clothing lines on offer. Firstly Nikita presents its first Outerwear specific collection, this I understand to be aimed mainly at snowboarders with a range of Icelandic temperature tested jackets and pants. The other, the Streetwear line offers an enormous variety in it’s ‘largest to date’ collection of clothing: anything from skate wear – hoodies, beanies and trousers etc to going out clothing – dresses and underwear, all of which can be viewed in the gallery which has a refreshingly high quality of imagery to give you a very good idea of the garbs on offer.
The website is very user friendly has a pleasing layout to the eye and is well worth checking out. The clothing on offer has a good range of styles, something to suit everyone, and on all accounts is very durable. In addition, there is a completely new section on how or where to find your nearest stockist of Nikita – simply click on the ‘Where’ section.
Liverpool’s The Maybes? are to go out on a big tour to play shows which they call “sonic temples”. You can check the band out and hear tunes from their debut release Olympia at the following dates:
October
16th – Newcastle Digital
17th – Sheffield Plug
18th – Leeds Faversham
19th – Fopp Instore (acoustic) Camden, London
21st – Liverpool Stanley Theatre
22nd – Stoke Sugar Mill
23rd – Coventry Coliseum
24th – Huddersfield Tokyo
25th – Wigan Kings Electric
26th – Bournemouth Consortium
29th – Brighton Engine Rooms
30th – Bristol Academy
31th – Doncaster Boiler Rooms
November
1st – Carlisle the Brickyard
2nd – Hull the Lamp
4th – Manchester Piccadilly Gardens.
A Swedish man who was accused sharing movie files illegally has had his conviction overturned. The man was accused of illegally sharing “Hip Hip Hora“, a Swedish film, via P2P, and had been found guilty of copyright violation, being fined over £1,000.
However, the Court Of Appeal said there wasn’t enough evidence for conviction and overruled the decision. The evidence used against him was the link of the film to an IP address but that wasn’t enough the appeal court ruled. This presents a problem for anti-file sharing authorities as the law in Sweden prevents the police from searching a home and/or PC to get evidence.