Habitat are set to release their retrospective video ‘Origins‘ complete with new footage of all team riders on October 18th. They’re currently generating a little hype by posting some great Field Logs, including this recent one from the smooth ledge technician Mark Suciu.
Click the screengrab to see what’s good.
Keith Walsh keeps going from strength to strength this year, having recently landed a sponsorship with Unabomber the amount edits featuring the Irish heavy-hitter are growing.
Check his smooth operator style in his ten tricks at GTF Skatepark in Dublin for Sinister Pigeon.
Well, this edit probably isn’t exactly what you’d expect. It turns out that Ben Raemers and Horsey’s adventures abroad are even less coherant than we could possibly imagine.
Watch the edit below to see some mini-ramp skating, some ditch skating, some awful tattoos and a bunch of kids possessed by what must be the weirdest, shittest Sesame Street demon ever.
Enjoy.
John Demar is a flow rider (makes you want to just quit, doesn’t it?) for Element, who has just put out this jaw-dropping section.
From start to finish, you haven’t seen anything like this all year. Watch below and find out for yourself…
Yes Fam TV (Morph’s Pootube Channel) have hit up Mile End skatepark with Neil Smith, Mark Brewster and Dave Chesson for a full minute of piss-about shredding.
Check out Smithy’s keraaazy push! Shit’s wild!
After sitting on some hot footage from various Lincolnshire shredders for over a year, Andy Rayner has taken the footage that was heating up his harddrive and uploaded the full ‘Mardy‘ video that got a teaser in 2009 complete with some fresh footage from more recent trips.
The video features Tom Day, Tom Pain, Martyn Hill, Ben Devine, Ali Steele, Ben Footitt, Nick Ristic, Mikey Taylor, Sam ‘Binman’ Aisthorpe and more.
You can watch the entire video below. You should too, it’s bloody rad. Props Andy!
From all accounts, Tim Brauch was one of skateboarding’s most uplifting and proverbially ‘supercharged’ individuals who brought joy to many through his own optimistic and ‘go out and get some’ approach to life. Sadly, at the young age of 25 he passed away from a sudden cardiac arrest brought on from years of dealing with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Sudden deaths like his are an extreme rarity in people with the condition and it will go down in history as one of skateboarding’s most tragic losses. But melancholy is for the most part in the background of this production, it is in this documentary that we learn through family, friends and video footage of Tim himself how his condition neither worried him nor prevented him from going out and doing what he wanted to do. It is, from the off, a very inspiring watch as well a crushing reminder of mortality. Ultimately, the film is a celebration of Tim’s life and the joy that he infused in his friends and family is captured brilliantly by director Pete Koff who manages to instill it flawlessly into anyone watching.
To say that Tim Brauch ripped on a skateboard would be an understatement; he is one of the originals, blessed with the rare innovating spirit that can be attributed to few besides him. Willingly ignorant of trends or industry/marketed progession, Tim skated how he felt he should skate, and doing so awarded him the respect of his peers, Steve Caballero, Jason Adams, Salman Agah and Bryce Kanights to name but a few. Their collective message is that watching Tim inspired them more than any other to have fun, be creative and make the most out of every day. The quote that adorns the DVD ‘this is going to be the best day ever‘, couldn’t be more appropriate and it’s not at all hard to imagine Tim saying that at the beginning of every single day.
In the hour long feature we witness a meaty chunk of skating from Brauch, Cab, Jason Adams and more from an era in which skating was unquestionably a lot more fun and pure. It’s rad, really rad to look back at the wonderful colours that even the best HD cameras aren’t designed to capture. But the overwhelming sensation you get from watching this video is the optimism, inherant in both the impromptu of-the-moment skating and shameless approach to taking what you want from life and giving all of those good vibes back. It is enough to inspire and motivate even the most pessimistic skater that there is joy out there for all those willing to go out and find it.
The DVD features over two hours of bonus features and all further information can be found here. You can donate towards and find information about the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund here. Look out for the film in your local skater-owned-store.
Stanley
“The movie was off the hook, very inspirational story for sure. Tim was awesome and it’s great that his legacy still lives on today, go see this film if you haven’t already… it rocks!” – Steve Caballero
Tim Brauch is Super Charged! from etnies on Vimeo.
Hot off the press! The Kr3w team will be hitting our shores later this month for some in-store signings. Ali Boulala, Tom Penny, Lizard King and Horsey will be appearing at Welcome, Ideal and Slam as well as various European locations.
There are no official demos due to injuries but the team will probably doing some skating here and there. Keep your peeled open for updates.
Peep the flyer for all the dates, write them in your diary and go meet some legends…
To top off a fantastic year, the heavy Leeds quartet Pulled Apart By Horses will be releasing ‘Yeah Buddy‘ on November 29th.
On top of that they will still be embarking upon a lengthy UK tour in November and you can see the revised list of confirmed dates below…
November
5 – Carlisle, Brickyard (14+)
6 – Wakefield, The Hop (18+)
8 – Bury St Edmunds, Old Maltings (14+)
10 – Norwich, UEA (w/Foals)
11 – Lincoln, Engine Shed (w/Foals)
12 – London, Brixton Academy (w/Foals)
13 – Derry, Nerve Centre (14+)
14 – Belfast, Auntie Annie’s (18+)
15 – Dublin, Olympia (all ages)
16 – Cork, Cyprus Avenue (18+)
18 – Newcastle, Cluny (16+)
19 – Dundee, Hustler’s (14+)
20 – Inverness, Ironworks (14+)
21 – Aberdeen, Drummonds (14+)
23 – Glasgow, Oran Mor (14+)
24 – Preston, 53 Degrees (16+)
25 – Wrexham, Central Station (14+)
26 – Stoke, Sugarmill (14+)
27 – Sheffield, Leadmill Steel Stage (14+)
29 – Leicester, University (14+)
December
1 – Brighton, Audio (16+)
2 – London, Garage (14+)
Keep your eyes open for a video for ‘Yeah Buddy‘ dropping soon. Until then, entertain yourselves with the rad video for ‘High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive‘ below.
The Franco-Dutch duo, The Narcoleptic Dancers, are set to release their debut EP ‘Not Evident‘ on November 8th.
The video for the title track has just dropped online and is the perfect visual compliment to their melodic female-fronted indie sound. It’s the sort of tune we can imagine fitting a summer park edit or in this case, a couple of severely hairy face-hiders eating breakfast.
You can watch the full video below.