Ph: Ben Gore
The heavy hitters from Prize Fighter Cutlery bring us more late-night city surfing, this time with Evan Kinori entering the ring. San Francisco acts as host to Kinori’s fluid and inventive style, with filmmaker and the mind behind Minuit, Yoan Taillander capturing alongside.
New York’s ‘Championship Urethane’ can be found in the UK at Ideal in Birmingham. Scout them out.
– Bradley Howe
The Aussies at Skateboard.com have served up some fresh VX footage of various heads in a new montage edit. Look out for Shane O’Neill, Andrew Brophy, Dane Burman amongst a plethora of local Melbourne heads.
Whilst you are running around stressing about your life trying to make enough bread to feed the projects, the Skateboard Cafe crew are sat back in Bristol chilling hard. Their new summer collection has been launched this week and looking as fresh as it comes, so take 2 minutes out and stop everything around you to take in what’s been cooking in their kitchen.
All of their decks come with a free sheet of Diamond Supply Co grip. That’s the Skateboard Cafe Cup Board above and below is the Cafe Blend Board.
New neon tees are also available. Machine wash cold for the best results.
New diner long sleeves come in black or white.
There’s plenty more, go find it.
Tony Hawk explains how the ollie over the moving mini video came together behind the scenes of the shoot.
Photo: Dave Allen rules by Jon Burgess
Dennis Busenitz, Grant Taylor, Justin Brock, Dan Plunkett and Reggie Kelly turned up to Dave Allen‘s gaff in Atlanta for some bowl slaying and came back with a bunch of sick footage. Yeah Dave!
Prepare yourself for a rad edit filmed by Beagle for the The Cinematographer Project from TWS featuring many Baker/Deathwish and Shake Junt players dropping hammers.
Etnies have rolled out their plans for their ultimate summer chiller shoe this morning with three new mesh colourways for their Jameson 2 Eco series. We’ve been sent a few pairs of the canvas styles in the past and they have never let us down. Expect a really comfortable, simple shoe that comes in a huge range of colours, not just these four, as you can see here.
If you are looking for some kicks that you can wear without socks this summer then put these on your list. You will not be disappointed.
A new film called All This Mayhem documenting the wild lives of the Pappas Brothers has been made and will be heading to a screening near you shortly.
Tas Pappas and his Brother Ben (RIP) were at the forefront of the Australian skate scene for many years until Ben passed away in 2007 following chaotic times. This film chronicles the brothers’ winding rise to number one and two in the world, touching upon their revolutionary styles, feuds with Tony Hawk, and ingestion of every mood-altering substance going.
Expect interviews with Henry Sanchez, Lance Conklin, Dom Kekich, Bill Weiss and many more alongside hand cam footage of the ups skating with the best, the downs from drug abuse, jail terms and everything else in between.
We went to the London premiere, read the review and Q&A video here.
Remember us posting a sewer shot on FB last week? Funny how shit works out but these storm drain skaters have nailed it.
Get your disco biscuits ready for this belter!
From this flick:
Imagine if you were outside a skateshop minding your own business and a stranger did this to you for no reason?
Thomas Hammer (uncanny name) was suspended from Cielo Vista Elementary School in Rancho Santa Margarita in the USA after this footage surfaced of him losing the plot on a skateboarder who was sessioning a curb. He took the kid’s deck, tried to throw it onto a balcony, and then appears to be ready to hit another kid with it. None of the skaters knew who he was.
The teacher returned back to school this week but kids are refusing to attend classes as a result of this madman. We don’t blame them.