In front of 700 suited business men, Jaime Thomas accepted the Ernst & Young Regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Consumer and Business related Products on behalf of Black Box Distribution.
That’s one hell of a step away from sleeping rough on the streets of San Francisco with a cardboard sigh reading “Will drop hammers for money…”!
The kickflip kid, Ryan Sheckler is definitely a force to be reckoned with! Last weekend, Sheckler won the Dew Action Sports Tour aswell as the Skateboard Park Finals.
That should round off his end of the month nicely, and perhaps pay for some stronger windows in his SUV after blowing them out at the dealership with his $90000 sound system!
Stone Sour have streamed their new single, Through Glass, online, which you can check out by clicking here.
A video for the track was just finished and should be seen on television soon. Their upcoming album, Come What(ever) May will be out in August.
Turntablist extraordinaire Mike Relm has been hand picked to man the decks for the upcoming Peeping Tom dates, Mike Patton’s new project. The announcement came on Relm’s Myspace and is exciting for everyone involved. The dates he’ll play in the UK are:
July 15th – Latitude Festival
July 17th – London Astoria
Well, what can we say?! Crossfire’s annual Southbank7-Set Jam went down in style on Saturday with incredible skateboarding and special guests from all over the world.
The 7-Set Jam was won by Plan B rider Adam Howe who licked the £200 cash with a switch 360 shove it. He was followed by Reese Westlake in second place with a shove it late flip and Australian Enjoi Skateboards rider Richard Flude came in 3rd with a fakie flip shove it.
Enjoi pro Louie Barletta won the bank jam with a blunt frontside flip out on the block which was insane, Alai UK pro rider Chris Oliver won the manual/rail jam with a straight ollie that cleared the entire manual area and the rail plus some pretty swift manual skills. For the record, Blueprint’s Neil Smith was the only skater to 5-0 the rail that was set up on the day for the jam.
The cheese block jam was won by Richard Flude with a kickflip nosepick from the bank although Australian Quiksilver rider Josh Roullion came close with a fast nose grind into the bank from block and unfortunately Element rider Lucien Clarke or Chris Oliver could complete what they wanted to get down as the Crossfire minutes melted down on the clock.
The Southbank was rammed with over 400 people, spirits were as high as usual and the atmosphere was electric thanks to all the people who came down and supported the event.
Also , big thanks to all of you who skated down to the mayors office to protest about the state of UK council funded skateparks in the London area. The secret 5 minute jam was a total success, winners to be announced in the feature.
Look out for a full feature on this site as soon as we can russle up the footage and photo’s. If you have good pics, please send them in to info@caughtinthecrossfire.com.
The event will be featured on Genex at the Extreme Sports Channel on August 3rd.
Crossfire favourites Lamb Of God are releasing their new album, entitled Sacrament, on October 16th in the UK although it;s out in the US this month (August). It’s produced by Machine and will contain 11 tracks.
The first single from the album, Redneck, is available for streaming along with snippets of other tracks at www.sacrament2006.com. They are also going to tour the UK.
Mark Morton, guitarist for the band said:
“The music’s influenced by what the five of us are listening to, what we’re writing about, the context in which we’re writing, our lives and our experiences. We made a deliberate effort not to be so politically motivated this time. We still care about and think about those things, but at this point, creatively, we wanted to step out of that for a moment, and address some other things. So the lyrics are more introspective and more personal, and I think just about anybody will relate to them. Not everybody pays attention to the war or politics.”
The tour dates are:
Oct 30 – Cardiff Arena
Nov 01 – Birmingham NEC
Nov 02 – Glasgow SECC
Nov 03 – Manchester MEN Arena
Nov 05 – Dublin Point Theatre
Nov 19 – London Brixton Academy
Nov 20 – London Brixton Academy
Skate legend and international funny man, Lance Mountain has come a long way since his early years as a Bones Brigade member.
Recently Lance clocked off for the last time as Boss of his own company, The Firm, and went back to his roots as a pro for (in his words) “one of the best skate companies” – Flip.
Check out this interview and hear Lance explain his decision to stop the Firm, the importance of Graphics and the current state of skateboarding. It’s really good stuff, so take a coffee break and enjoy!
I hope everyone went skating on Wednesday, June 21st – It was Go Skateboarding Day!
In any case, Chicago felt wood and urethane rumble and roll through its city streets as Emerica rode into town for Wild in the Streets 2006.
Apparently the day was a huge success and no-one got arrested- which is a surprise in a city like Chicago.
What better way to start your third decade on this planet than skating with your pals in a foreign land with free booze and wallrides galore?
Geoff Rowley just turned 30 during the Flip Feast Tour of Canada which travelled through Toronto and Quebec, but it wasn’t all about skating as the boys broke it out on a mad donut ride for kicks.
Heroin’s skateboard stick insect, Colin Fiske has just arrived in England, so keep those eyes peeled for some mental wallride/slide variations.
Congrats also go out to Stephen ‘Rogie’ Roe who has found a spot on the Vans squad, Well done!