Pete King’s Vauxhall vert ramp will be turning up on Brighton beach this weekend (9th-10th September).
The ramp will get rinsed by skaters Pete King, Andy Scott and Dave Allen, alongside BMX riders Bas Keep and Zack Shaw for Best Trick and Highest Air Comps.
Local turntablists such as J.F.B. (Vestax Champ/Battlejam/Movement) and DJ Buckwilde (DMC Finalist/Fatboy Slim tour DJ) will be providing the audio backdrop for the weekend along with secret special guests.
Click here for more info.
Four of France’s finest skate photographers – Benjamin Deberdt, Cédric Viollet, Eric-Antoine and Sebastien Charlot – have set up a website that showcases various areas of their work so that you can pretend you’re working in the office, but in fact you’re looking at amazing shots that capture brief moments of our culture.
Go to www.misc-photo.com and open up your monochrome mind.
The Etnies Plaza Palooza event will take place at Stoke Plaza next Sunday 10th September.
The competition format is all about sessioning 10 pre-decided spots within the plaza, including steps, rails, banks, gaps and blocks for the £1000 cash prizes up for grabs.
Competitors will be divided into amataeurs and pros and the jam sessions are open for all ages. Each spot session will last between 15 and 30 minutes and the strongest skater in each category will take home a cash prize.
The etnies, éS and Emerica UK skateboard teams will be present throughout the day plus signings, product tosses, lead sing-alongs and general fun and games.
Do it.
Prague boasts one of the best skateparks and summer contests in Europe plus a fun indoor bowl with crazy mad dogs and beer poured from the keg….but that might all end if the bulldozers are let in.
The Mystic Skatepark has already been resuscitated once after falling victim to terrible floods a couple of years ago, but this next threat seems much more permanent.
Click here to try and help keep the park alive.
Right, the Dartford skaters are about to get a new park built but they want your help in deciding which will be the final design.
Click the images to submit your views and choice. Deadline is September 8th.
After the demise of the Firm, the team found itself split apart (even a if a few riders rejoined forces elsewhere).
Well, Ray Barbee decided that Element Skateboards would be the best place for him to ooze his flavour and pop a few cheeky no-comply variations.
Good vibrations.
10 o’clock meet at the park and quickly cut a stencil for the makeshift steward tees after assembling the tonne of fencing, and the faces start to appear, among them, eothen from eothen skateboards, poch from somewhere, the Bucks Boarding Crew, some Kent boys, the cock skateboards lot, and Jed and James from simple…
Everyone gets right to it with the Cock skate crew busting out some wild and wacky tricks on the mini while froggy and I session the channel gap, me succeeding, then failing miserably for the cameras!
Just as the call for entries goes out, the heavens open and the crowd disperses while others rush to desperately throw the tarp over the mini. After half an hour of torrential downpour, we decided to fuck the park comp off, grab the beer and prizes, and hit up bottle alley (a local landmark built in the early 40’s, 400m long alley with banks one side, and coloured glass shards in the walls the other, all situated under Hastings seafront).
After waiting for a call to see if the park was dry, and a session on the ledges, we decide to make the most of another day of typical British weather and have the comp down there.
First up was best trick on the ledges, Asher hit a f/s 50 50 to ride in, BBC Alex tried some shuv wall rides, (at 9yrs old!), Jono (cock) tried some layback 5-0’s but local Rob wins with a perfect wall ride 50/50 all the way along and in.
Next up craziest drop in, seeing Asher (cock) win with a blindfolded nollie out of nose blunt into the tight incline, well deserved! Then a mass game of skate won by local ripper Toby. Next up longest Ollie. At one end a crutch, at the other, some fresh death wood. Gradually the distance gets larger, and the contenders start falling, until Andy from Kent steals the glory from Aaron Derman (cock) at about 9feet!
Next, longest manual won by Giles from BBC, followed by Badger and Rob. Cool John took a harsh slam slipping out on his hard pink wheels, nasty! Next up highest Ollie, won my Joe Sandland, and Aaron Derman, at 6 decks before highest hippy jump, won by Murren at about nipple height.
Next, my highlight, the tic-tac racing from one end to the other. Now that was a sight, 30+ skaters Tic-Tacking into the lead in a 10ft wide alley! After 3 heats (to nacker them out), Dylan Ewing came out on top, after Joe fucked up trying to show off over the finish line! Then power slides through the puddle comp, where the winner (max) was the only one not to fall into this mix of cider, rain and tramps piss! After a few more prizes are given out, we decide to call it a day. A true underground (literally) skate comp, just what was needed, where all had fun and prizes!
The after party was also a huge success, with the WADA pirate video from Sk8-Goa, a Witness the Shitness Cock Skateboard advert (can’t wait!) and the cock skate euro flick. Then some rock and roll from Gorilla, a huge disco by the jukebox to So Solid Crew & Queen, more rawk from regular John, then into the 7seaters to Cool Johns where more drink was to be had alongside best trick comp on his indoor vert wall! Everyone passed out about 5AM on an awesome day! That’s what Hastings is about, who needs flashy skate comps when you’ve got alleyways full of amped skaters?!?!
Thanks go to Death, Duffs, The Source, Eothen, Simple, SK8-GOA, Bucks Boarding Centre, and Sidewalk for all the prizes, Document & Crossfire for coverage, Heroes for the after party, the bands, JP, Asher and Tom for the vids, me for MCing the day, Matt Davey for council bullshit, everyone who helped with fencing, rufus + deano for the PA and Joe for all his hard work…See you next year!!!!
SR
I don’t know if this is news but Dread Head Supremo, Karl Watson, has shaved his head and now rocks the fade.
Don’t Rastas lose their power if they do that..?
Meanwhile, Crossfire can drop the exclusive news that JB Gillet now rides for Gold Wheels after running into the Kayo boys whilst filming for the new Lakai video in Barcelona.
When Element realized there was a lot of untapped talent abroad, it didn’t take long for the Element Europe team to start turning heads and make a name for themselves on the old continent.
Well, today the skate world is no longer reduced to the West Coast of America and a lot of the major American companies are following Element’s trail and starting up their own Euro divisions.
So far Blind have scooped up Jani Laitiala but couldn’t get their hands on Petr Horvat who chose Habitat Europe, and finally Zero has started sending equipment to Dominic Dietrich. Apparently the Chief tried his hardest to get Steve Forstner but Steve stood strong and remains on Antiz Skateboards.
Globe Shoes have also been working hard promoting their Euro team, and this footage proves that Europe is the place to be right now..
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