Author: Crossfire

Enjoying the late September sun, are we? Well, you could have enjoyed it a whole lot more if you made it to the Stoke Plaza Palooza skate jam last weekend (Sept. 10th) sponsored by Etnies.

With all the rails, hips, dips and drops on hand, the shreddage was manadatory and everyone busted out something worthy of a mention. Here are the results:

Full results:

PIER 7

1st: Craig Smedley, Nottingham, fakie bigspin manual
2nd: Jethro Coldwell, Stoke, nollie flip nose manual

BLOCK
1st: Craig Smedley, noseslide bigspin shuvit
2nd: Ryan Evans, Exeter, Backside Bluntslide

BOWL
Shared 1st: Aaron Sweeney, London, backside indie tailslap
Daryl Nobbs, Ceventry, Madonna straight into hip

HIP
1st: Woody, Manchester, Bluntslide to fakie
2nd: Craig Smedley, frontside flip
AM: Barney Page, Exeter, nollie heel flip

RAIL
1st: Ben Grove, Manchester, flip frontside boardslide
2nd: Barney Page, backside smith grind

BIG 3
1st: John Fisher, fakie flip
Shared 2nd: Joe Lynskey, Morley, frontside flip
Craig Smedley, 360 flip
AM: Ross the Boss, Birmingham, shuvit heel

DOUBLE SET
1st: Tom Knox, London, Half cab to feeble shuvit
2nd: Anthony Demascio, Harrow, Kickflip to feeble

A Special mention goes out to Tom Knox for traveling 12 hours return from London, and little 8 year old Theo from Macclesfield who literally broke things off in numerous attempts to leap the big stairs.

Watch dad-cam footy here (skaters in order of appearance – Smedley, Orlando, Pants, Ben Grove, Gnargore Fran, Rogie, Porno Paul, Tom Knox, Fran, Jason Cane* c.f. pic. Switch Ollie Ph. Tim Sadler*, Craig Smedley, Ben Grove, John Fisher, Joe Lynskey.)

For pictures visit www.afour.co.uk
Photo by Tim Sadler

In a similar vein to Day In The City, Dublin skaters can take part in a skating/filming session across the European city on September 24th for the G1 Skate Supply My Goodness! Comp.

The teams are as follows

“Monkeybird” – Mini Brown, Ollie O’Hanlon, James Black, Dan, Ryan filming.

“The Glory Holes” – Al Collins, Dion McGarity, Tim Mills, Ross Dunne, filmed by Gibbo.

“The Chungfellaz” – Mark “Snowy” Brew, Keith Walsh, Paddy Clear, Anto Thornberry, filmed by NOB.

“Stab City” – Dave Hurley, Rueben Shortt, Luke Shortt, Donal, filmed by Dave.

“How About 10 Major?” – Jer Evans, Gav Coughlan, James Carroll, Craig Yule, filmed by Ciaran.

Footage from the various entrants will be available on G1’s website in the near future. Check it out here.

Over on the other side of the pond better known as the Atlantic, a huge skateboard tour organised by Mountain Dew is doing the rounds and placing some of the sports biggest names head to head for some mad competition time.

Now, if you considered these events like a skateboarding Who wants to be a millionaire? Then the smart money is on the Kickflip Kid Ryan Sheckler. Ryan has yet to phone a friend to step in for him or offer a simple 50-50 instead of all the crazy kickflip boardslide business he’s been dishing out.

Ryan just won the third comp (he won the previous two too!), and is looking to win the fourth and final comp of the Dew Tour. The next generation is no joke!

www.dewactionsportstour.com

Belgium really isn’t all that far from the UK, and in the last 6 months the land of Mussels and Beer has been seriously spreading a lot of ‘Crete.

A new street plaza thing with a bit of quirky transition is currently getting trowelled up by visiting Team Payne heads and locals in Antwerp (Holla back to the good ol’ contest days, eh?). Whilst further north on the Coast, Osstend has just released plans for a sick bowl park with cradle and full pipe details to boot.

The park will be situated in the OG spot a.k.a. the Velodrome (C.f. Antiz Antizipated fun park skit).