In Richie Jackson‘s last show he tackles conspiracies, gorilla grip ollies and will be back with a full video part soon.
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This weekend’s annual jam at the Big Three with Fifty Fifty skate shop, Monster and DC came about again with more amazing skating going down in Bristol despite wet weather. Enjoy the footage from Saturday.
Results of The Big Three Jam:
1st: Andy ‘Evs’ Evans
2nd: Steve King
3rd: Danny Abel
Results for game of S.K.A.T.E
1st: Jack Collins
2nd: Barber
3rd: Big Bean
FIFTY FIFTY / DC / MONSTER BIG THREE JAM 2013 from FIFTY FIFTY STORE on Vimeo.
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Battle of Hastings footage
Red Bull have dropped their edit of this weekend’s annual jam down in Hastings featuring the full day’s shredding. The weather held and some good shit went down, press play.
The Get Lesta crew hit up a session at the new Radlands Plaza and came back with some gems. Click play for footage of Will Golding, Mark Stern, Shehzad Jaffer, Eric Thomas, Mike Simons, Matt Clarke, Kris Vile and James Bush alongside some smooth stuff.
Troy West has returned with another of his infamous video blogs, this time covering the latest 2ER ‘Builders Jam’ in Hannover, Germany. Various concrete heads from around Europe were invited to build new obstacles over three days. The hosts provided tents, ‘crete, tools and vegan foods, the rain tried to stop play and in Troy’s own words:
“The place looked like a war zone with fires burning from trolleys & bins, numerous scroungy dogs roaming, gracing us with their husky barks and yelps, water puddles everywhere mixed with fire-ash, cement, the screeching sounds of grinders, concrete cutters and cement mixers like a non stop shelling attack; it was full blown trench warfare against the concrete and elements!” – Enjoy this, it’s hugely inspiring.
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Airboarders
This could not wait until Friday, get familiar with one of the funniest trailers we have seen in a while. Airboarding will no doubt now become a staple road trip must-have. If you Airboarded every damn day, you could be huge. The fame could be potentially mindblowing with money, birds, drugs and notoriety. Press play for Alva and Dogtown inspired comedy on 11 with Airboarders – coming to a car window soon.
Julian Davidson has moved up to the pro ranks over at Element Skateboards tonight. Watch this welcome clip unleashed from today.
Following the re-designed plans and mock up computer images that were announced this morning of the new Southbank skate park, the Long Live Southbank campaign have rolled out an interview with Ben Powell, editor of Sidewalk Magazine this afternoon.
Landscape Skateboards have just unleashed an amazing new street edit featuring Joe Gavin filmed and edited by Sean Lomax. Press play and take in a huge amount of switch and regs steez from Manchester’s finest and check out his new deck released this week.
Joe Gavin X Krek – Landscape Skateboards from Landscape Skateboards on Vimeo.
The Southbank Centre has been working on new designs for their new £1m skate park and unleashed this press release today.
They asked Iain Borden, Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and Rich Holland, an architectural designer at Floda31, who has made many skateable installations and sculptures – and both are skaters – to prepare a draft design brief earlier this summer. They then invited three architectural practices to respond to the brief – 42 Architects, SNE Architects and Rich Architects – who all have experience in designing skateable spaces.
The architects were asked to respond to designing a space, which transferred many of the physical aspects of the existing space, with the following qualities:
• Not looking like an explicitly-designed or purpose-built skatepark
• Not having any skatepark forms e.g. full pipes or large transitions
• Urban and gritty in appearance, for example using materials commonly found in non-skatepark urban spaces, such as bricks, flagstone paving, granite, stone or rougher concrete surfaces
• Provide a distinctive overall design quality or character, which is open and transient
• Facilitating or encouraging the site being appropriated or taken over by stakeboarding and other urban arts
• And being highly visible to the public, whilst welcoming approaches which integrate the public within the space.
• NEW, PERMANENT SPACE IS 120 METRES UP RIVER, 10% LARGER THAN EXISTING SKATE SPACE
• ARCHITECT WILL BE SELECTED WITH EXPERT PANEL OF SKATERS
• DESIGNS WILL BE SHARED AT EVENT THIS WEEKEND WITH SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S COMMUNITIES AS PART OF FESTIVAL WING CONSULTATION
Southbank Centre today (9 September) released design options by three architectural practices, which show what an alternative skateable space could look like under Hungerford Bridge – just 120m from the current undercroft and 10% larger than the current space. The designs demonstrate three different potential approaches to transform this area into a permanent, riverside skateable space and are part of Southbank Centre’s Festival Wing consultation process.
Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre, said: “These architects’ designs show what a great public urban space this could be. We want skating and other urban arts to continue to flourish at Southbank Centre and we hope these proposals show we’re committed to a permanent, riverside skate space right next to the Royal Festival Hall.
“We also understand that community sites like these are enormously enhanced by organic development through the use and input of the users themselves, which is why I emphasise that these designs are not set in stone. We welcome input from the skateboarders who regularly use the undercroft and any other skaters, graffiti writers or BMXers who want to be involved in helping develop the design.”
The next step in the process is that a selection panel will be formed with representatives of interested communities including the skating community who are being invited to take part. The panel will be responsible for selecting the architect they’d most like to work with, finalising the design brief and developing the design. It could then be ready in a year’s time.
The Long Live Southbank campaigners responded to these plans overnight: