Evan Smith came good with designing DC Shoes’ latest model, the ‘Switch S’ that are available this month in skate shops. These come in wine red and also black colourways, made in durable suede with perforation detailing, achilles relief technology at the heel, a seamless toecap and cushioning via DC’s OrthoLite™ footbed.
Latvian ripper Madars Apse has rolled out incredible skateboarding to the scene for years now, so it’s fitting that his name will be on a new Element deck before the start 2015. This amazing welcome part ‘Subject Madars’ proves it was more than well deserved and takes Skate Edit of the Week – be prepared to rewind certain tricks on impulse.
Just when you think you have seen it all a Frenchman (with obviously too much time on his hands) decides to line up a series of scenarios of skateboarding fruit and veg in his kitchen. Welcome to Skitchen, where the foods we eat daily become a skateboarding subject for a Parisian artist you should know by the name of Benoit Jammes.
Salad grind anyone? Pick a winner.
Find more of Benoit Jammes’ art here.
Illustration by Jack Hamilton.
Bonus: Let’s kick this off with something classic.
7. Did you ever see the unedited footage of this Garrett Hill coffee clip?
6. Sean Johnson breaks both hands following a sick run in Venice.
5. And it’s unfortunately the ragdoll treatment for this lady.
4. You pay to play. Robie De Leon takes this rail square in the nuts.
3. Ye olde pogo and plant pot nut break from Carlos Almazan is a winner.
2. Nothing like the sack to scorpion move.
1. Before you click play on this, prepare yourself by taking a deep breath. The Carlsbad Gap took no prisoners.
The good guys of Rock Solid distribution down West have rocked up with a fantastic edit featuring their crew. This is the first of an ongoing series so look forward to more from Sam Bunton, Joe Paget, George Hill, Ollie Lock, Tom Gibbs, Wes Morgan, Frankie Darby and Mungo in the future.
“This was a clip sent to sponsors in 2008. Some of this is old news but a few clips never saw the light of day due to a computer theft, so I thought I would post.” – BringThat.BEER
Part 4 of this fine series looking back on 20 years of Chocolate Skateboards with Vincent Alvarez discusing his upbringing in dangerous East LA whilst Paulo Diaz explains his musical influence playing with the Beasties and Beck. The subject of drugs and fame are also raised of those who were unable to get parts ready for videos and the addiiton of the Trunk Boys and Jerry Hsu make this a must watch.
Dive in, and if you missed the others, scroll down.
Work your way up from the bottom.
It’s been a decade to the day since Wu Tang rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard left the universe by way of an overdose after many years of success with his unique Shimmy Shimmy Ya. Prison spells for crack cocaine possession, shot wounds in the abdomen and aggressive lyrics aside, his legacy lives on as a killer MC who went way too early, so take some of this dope new mixtape that dropped today in homage over on the I.D site put together by NYC producer Tanner.
RIP.
Rewind skateboarding life back to 8pm on Saturday 14th December, 2003 to West London’s Subterania Club and you would find 600 skaters awaiting the Crossfire premiere of Fifty Fifty’s Jus Foolin’ video put together by Tidy Mike and Danny Wainwright. It followed the first ever Xmas Jam and had rad parts from Flynn Trotman, Dan Wileman, Joe Habgood, Zak Pitter, Will Ainley, Paul Carter, Wainwright and Matt Keal.
Today you can watch it in its entirety, so get those teas ready and take yourself back to where good times were seriously rolling.
Get the teas on for this new 20 minute British skateboarding documentary, ‘It Takes More Than A Trick‘ put together by Paul Scott who looks back on how skateboarding was filmed throughout the late 90s and 2000’s with Adam Mondon and Paul Gonella.
Mondon discusses working with Dan Magee on British footage for Panic and Blueprint productions and the pair also talk about the technology and techniques available for skateboard filmers alongside clips from Mixed Media, Anthems, Waiting for the World and more.