The Daily Mash have are up for humouring us again stating that: “MATURE skateboarders have been urged to stop pretending a plank on wheels can get them from A to B.”
“The Institute for Studies found that skateboards are effectively useless for even short trips to the shops, and that anyone pretending to undertake a journey on one is just showing off.”
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The Familia crew have uploaded raw footage of Shaun Witherup, Steph Morgan and Yann Horowitz to their Vimeo feed overnight. Take this in before heading here to find thier latest deck range.
Familia Raw Feed – Shaun Witherup from Familia on Vimeo.
Familia Raw Feed – Steph Morgan from Familia on Vimeo.
Familia Raw Feed – Yann Horowitz from Familia on Vimeo.
Essex dagger Ben Raemers has joined the top line up of fine skateboarders on the Lost Art shop team this weekend. He joins Barney Page, Chewy Cannon, Chris Jones, Danijel Jugga Stankovic, Denis Lynn, Geoff Rowley, Howard Cooke, Jerome Campbell and many more repping Liverpool’s skater owned shop. Congrats.
Polvo have released their first promo video in years for the track ‘Light, Raking‘ lifted from their incredible new album Siberia. This album is a contender for album of 2013 and sees Polvo back in the hot seat again for writing killer twisted tunes in their own unique way. Have a taste from this new yarn unravelling video and search for this album on Merge Records today. You will not be disappointed.
George Watsky from US band Watsky & Wax has made his apologies after breaking a girl’s arm in a wreckless stunt that backfired this weekend at the Warped UK show at Alexandra Palace.
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Watsky made this statement last night on his FB page:
“This is news to some, but many of you may have heard about the incident today at Warped Tour London. I jumped off an extremely tall lighting tress during my last song, and was taken to the hospital for examination. I was released, and I’m fine, besides some nicks, bruises, and the shame of endangering the crowd. The fall broke a girl’s arm and hurt another guy. My tour manager Nils and I stayed at the hospital for 6 hours til the visiting period ended, and all I know about the man’s condition at this point is that he has no breaks and the injury seems to be muscular/ bruising. I’ll be going back in the morning to try to apologize, but I wouldn’t blame the guy if he spits in my face. The jump was not awesome, it was not badass, and it was not ballsy. It turned what should have been a great day for the people who got hurt into a nightmare. It was stupid and wildly irresponsible, plain and simple.
I have no excuse for my actions, and the only way I can explain my mindset is that it was a huge overreach in the heat of the moment. No, I was not drunk or on drugs. I used to be a kid who was afraid to do anything physically dangerous– I was scared of the ball in little league, didn’t want to jump into lakes and would never have had the nerve to crowdsurf. But in the last year of touring, I’ve done increasingly risky things, maybe pushing myself by some dumb sense I am conquering my early timidity. I pride myself on trying to put on a good show and always giving 100% energy, but jumping off some high shit doesn’t make someone a good musician or performer. I feel fucking terrible. I made a boneheaded decision that got people hurt, and it’s extremely lucky it wasn’t worse. Putting your own body on the line is one thing, but putting other people in harm’s way is inexcusable. Today I let down my supporters, I let down the Warped Tour and I let down my band and the people who work their asses off behind the scenes to make these shows happen. My #1 priority right now is to somehow make this right for the folks who were hurt.
I will not be canceling the remaining 6 tour dates. I will do the shows, as usual I will meet everyone afterwards, and I will NOT be jumping off anything. I am deeply sorry and I promise to learn from this mistake.”
The UKs Sam Beckett has footage in this skatepark montage filmed at Prince Park. Click play for footage of Jordan Hoffart, Mason Merlino, Taylor Bingaman, Chad Bartie, Shuriken Shannon and more.
The Desert Crew are about to drop some decks and have whipped up some goodness ahead of the drop. There’s some old Sean Smith footage here too.
This new clip has James Bush knocks out 10 magic tricks on the flat ground at the MK Plaza but can you name them all? Press play for technical prowess and dancefloor steez.
Check out this really well crafted piece of film with Jon Nguyen skating a ledge in black and white. Great way to to end the week thanks to Tiltmode.
The Wu Tang Clan’s RZA is joined by Jefferson Pang, RB Umali, Kareem Campbell, Josh Kalis, Gino Iannucci and more to discuss how music and skateboarding grew hand in hand with individuals from both sides of the scene busting out the very best creativity from the hoods of NYC.
This celebrates the 20 year anniversary of the 36 Chambers album and how DC and the Wu hooked up years back. Click here to check out the new DC x Wu Tang collection.