Category: Skateboarding

Worrest moves up at éS

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 19, 2006

Krooked AM rider Bobby Worrest is moving up the ranks thesedays after his impressive video part in the most recent contender of video of the year, Krooked Kronichles.

Not only does The Gonz rate this skills but éS shoes who have flowed the East Coast rider for some time have promoted Worrest into the superior team this week.

Sources at Sole Tech who own éS have revealed that his part in the forthcoming YéS video will blow minds, the proof will be in the pudding once the video drops. We will drop more news on YéS when it’s available but for more info on Bobby’s new movement, hit up www.esfootwear.com or click here to read an interview with him at TWS where we blatantly robbed this image..

Skateboarding News

RLD ties the knot..

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 18, 2006

For those of you familiar with this news column on a daily basis, you may or may not be familiar with who actually writes all this stuff.

Well, he was married to his lovely new wife Pauline this weekend and we send our congrats to the happy couple who threw a lavish do in Chelsea to celebrate their future together supplying us with champagne hangovers!

Please raise a glass to Ralph and Pauline Lloyd-Davis and if you are reading this Ralph, speed up that honeymoon as these guys need fresh news!

Skateboarding News

Zero Tour

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 18, 2006

Some Zero team members will be in the country from this week, and will be in Leeds, Stoke and Glasgow. If you’re around, make sure you check it out!

www.zeroskateboards.com

Skateboarding News

Bastien Salabanzi Off Flip

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 18, 2006

All good things must come to an end. Love him or hate him Bastien Salabanzi has parted ways with Flip Skateboards.

The Congo born-French bred ripper shot to fame when he hit the contest circuit hard and blew people away with hella consistent runs, doing tricks that most pros hadn’t dreamt of trying to pull during their 60 second dash. Bastien knew there was competition and wasn’t afraid to let everyone know he knew it – Something that would later cause a lot of hate for the Champ.

But Bastien was never one to let critics get the best of him and threw down not one but two amazing parts for the Flip videos. In any case, the Backside boss has been released by Flip and will probably emerge elsewhere.

Where? Who knows… we wouldn’t be surprised if Bastien quit everything and pursued a career as a guitar player, only to come back and kill the competition again and say, “I told you so!”

Skateboarding News

Helsinki Pro Skate incoming

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 18, 2006

Our man with the death lens in Europe this summer Guido Gazzi is about to unleash a video feature on this site from the Helsinki Pro Skate Comp in Finland that went down a couple of weeks back.

The comp was won by Globe Shoes rider Eero Anttila who also rides for Alis Skateboards.

Expect a video feature and interview on this site over the next week and if you want to see Eero in action, click here to watch his video part from the most recent Alis video “Who Cares”.

Skateboarding News

Document’s Big Push completed

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 17, 2006

This years Big Push organised by Document Skate Magazine went down last weekend in fine style with team riders from Blueprint, Death, A Third Foot and East Skateboards taking part in the carnage.

The Blueprint team had Andrew Brophy on board as a guest who apparently was at the top of his game and Death Skateboards surprise guest this year was none other than a famous pro skater you will know well who was drafted in by Zorlac for the trip. Who could it be?

A Third Foot had a napalm injected maniac onboard their bus as a special guest which was reportedly like a night club on wheels all day every day! Allegedly one of their riders also managed to get kicked off the tour!

You will find out all the details we cannot give away just yet at Document Skate Magazine when they release the footage in a future issue.

If you want footage of the Blueprint Team in 2005’s Big Push, then click here.

Features

DuFFS Concrete Carnage 2!

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 17, 2006

In case you hadn’t heard the DuFFS concrete carnage at Rom took place last weekend and went off!

Heads from all over the place turned up to get their hands on some cash in the Snickers best trick comp and prizes from DuFFS, Eastpak and Independent.The whole park got hit up with the pool getting the most attention!

For those who don’t know Rom is one of the OG parks in the UK and is 30 years young! Its rough, gnarly and it’s a real proving ground, there are endless lines and the fun potential is huge, as long as you go there not expecting a street plaza.

The whole idea was to have a fun jam session on the whole park with anyone and everyone who dropped something good getting prizes and a chance of some cash!

In the house were living legend Trawler, the “count” otherwise known as Death pro Lee Blackwell, Steak, Sean Goff, Rob “wob, wob” Smith, Chris Ault who ripped all day and Robert and the Welsh side crew!

Simon Skipp and other local rulers Nige, Pedge and Dion and even Jon Hayward put in an appearance and made a kickflip rock in the pool!

The DuFFS squad were in full effect, Mattias Nylen the cockney Swede is back in town although he is injured right now alongside Ben Raemers, Carl Wilson and team manager Munson. The Bay 66 boys were also about with Awad ruling and kev the plasterer gave himself a battering trying to axle stall 270 in the pool! Local grom Andrew was killing it all day! Even little Alex from Milton Keynes was in the mix getting some airs going. The kids session was rad all of them were killing themselves! with everyone getting stuck in and most of them going away happy with some prizes!

Raemers did a NBD fs alley oop over the hip in the snake! And FS blunts over the hip in the pool.The pool session was fierce with locals Paul, Dion, Fred and the boys going off, alongside legends like Sean Goff who was throwing todd twists and maddona’s in the pool!

With Blackwell getting sweeper’s, egg plants, Munson fingerflipped to tail ,FS inverts and maydays in there. Carl Wilson put down some nice fs airs and stalefishes and an ollie blunt! Wob Smith was ruling with FS 50’s to fakie! Everyone ripped and the whole park saw some action!

In the end the money got split between Sean Goff, Trawler, local ruler Paul who was riding with bare feet and trying to break the coping with FS grinds! And Wob Smith also got his hands on the cash for some craziness like heel blocks in the pool and a mental nose blunt off the fence!

All there was left to do was hit the BBQ and sink a few well earned Beers!

If you missed it you missed out! But you never know Concrete Carnage pt 3 may well be on in 2007!

Check out the footage to see what went down on this page put together and donated by by Kevin Parrott..

Skateboarding News

Extreme Channel July Listings

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 14, 2006

Here is the skate schedule on the Extreme Channel for July:

Saturday 1st July

• 09:30 Genex with Cates
• 16:00 Genex with Cates
• 17:30 Thrasher: Skater of the Year
• 20:30 Danny Way’s Vegas Bomb Drop
• 21:30 LG Action Sports

Sunday 2nd July

• 12:30 Genex with Cates
• 13:00 LG Action Sports
• 15:00 Danny Way’s Vegas Bomb Drop

Monday 3rd July

• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 16:10 LG Action Sports 2005: LG Street Course
• 16:15 Trick & Tips: Ollies with Pete King
• 16:20 Genex with Cates
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp
• 16:55 Globe Wildcard Series
• 17:25 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 17:55 Tricks & Tips: 50-50’s with Pete King

Tuesday 4th July

• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:15 Tricks & Tips: Kick & Heel Flips with Pete King
• 15:30 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 16:20 Concrete Carnage
• 16:55 Globe Wildcard Series
• 17:25 Mobile Skatepark Tour

Wednesday 5th July

• 15:00 Hardcore Candy
• 15:35 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 16:20 NASS ’05
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 17:25 Mobile Skatepark Tour

Thursday 6th July

• 10:05 Tricks & Tips: Ollies with Pete King
• 10:10 Hardcore Candy
• 10:40 Ultimate Gumballers: Rob Dyrdek & Big Black
• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 15:00 Hardcore Candy
• 15:30 Tricks & Tips: Kick & Heelflips with Pete King
• 16:15 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 16:20 Globe Bowlbash
• 16:55 Globe Wildcard Series
• 17:25 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 17:55 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 19:30 Etnies Bowlmasters 2006 PREMIERE

Friday 7th July

• 10:05 Tricks & Tips: Kick & Heelflips with Pete King
• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:55 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 17:25 Mobile Skatepark Tour

Saturday 8th July

• 12:00 Genex with Cates
• 13:00 Etnies Bowlmasters 2006
• 13:30 Genex with Cates
• 17:00 Danny Way’s Vegas Bomb Drop
• 18:00 Eastpak Transition Tour: Part 1
• 18:30 LG Action Sports
• 21:00 Danny Way’s Vegas Bomb Drop
• 22:00 Thrasher: Skater of the Year
• 00:00 Danny Way’s Vegas Bomb Drop
• 01:00 Eastpak Transition Tour: Part 1
• 01:30 LG Action Sports

Sunday 9th July

• 09:00 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 09:05 Etnies Bowlmasters 2006
• 09:35 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 09:40 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 09:45 Concrete Carnage
• 10:15 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 10:20 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 10:25 Etnies European Tour
• 10:55 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 11:00 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 11:05 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:30 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 11:35 Thrasher: Beer, Bowls and Barneys
• 12:00 Cactus Garden
• 12:30 Genex with Cates
• 15:30 Danny Way’s Vegas Bomb Drop

Monday 10th July

• 08:00 Gravity Games
• 10:05 Tricks & Tips: 50:50’s with Pete King
• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:55 LG Action Sports: Beats & Breaks
• 16:15 Tricks & Tips: Drop In’s with Pete King
• 16:20 Etnies Bowlmasters 2006
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: Ollies with Pete King
• 16:55 Beyond Warped
• 17:25 Moblie Skatepark Tour
• 18:00 Gravity Games
• 23:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour

Tuesday 11th July

• 10:05 Tricks & Tips: Drop In’s with Pete King
• 11:20 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 13:00 Gravity Games
• 16:20 NASS ’05
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: Kick & Heelflips with Pete King
• 16:55 Beyond Warped
• 18:00 Gravity Games
• 21:00 Gravity Games
• 23:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour

Wednesday 12th July

• 10:10 Hardcore Candy
• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:20 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 13:00 Gravity Games
• 15:35 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 16:20 Vans World Championships: Skateboard
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: 50:50’s with Pete King
• 16:55 Beyond Warped
• 17:25 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 18:00 Gravity Games
• 21:00 Gravity Games
• 23:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour

Thursday 13th July

• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:20 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 15:30 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 16:15 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 16:20 Concrete Carnage
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: Drop In’s with Pete King
• 16:55 Beyond Warped
• 17:25 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 18:00 Gravity Games
• 19:30 Genex (New Episode with Dan Cates)
• 21:00 Gravity Games
• 23:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour

Friday 14th July

• 10:10 Hardcore Candy
• 10:40 Ultimate Gumballers: Rob Dyrdek & Big Black
• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:20 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 13:00 Gravity Games
• 15:00 Hardcore Candy
• 16:20 Almost Round 3
• 17:20 LG Action Sports: The UK Scene
• 17:25 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 17:55 LG Action Sports
• 18:00 Gravity Games
• 23:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 00:00 Gravity Games

Saturday 15th July

• 09:00 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 09:05 Etnies Bowlmasters 2006
• 09:35 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 09:40 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 09:45 Concrete Carnage
• 10:15 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 10:20 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 10:25 Etnies European Tour
• 10:55 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 11:00 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 11:05 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:30 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 11:35 Thrasher: Beer, Bowls and Barneys
• 12:00 Genex with Cates
• 14:30 Northwest
• 15:30 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 16:00 Planes, Trains and Skateboards

Sunday 16th July

• 12:30 Genex with Cates
• 00:00 Planes, Trains and Skateboards

Monday 17th July

• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:25 Genex with Cates
• 15:30 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 16:20 NASS ’05
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: 50:50’s with Pete King
• 16:55 Genex with Cates
• 17:25 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 17:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 19:30 Genex with Cates

Tuesday 18th July

• 16:20 Globe Bowlbash
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 16:55 Genex with Cates
• 17:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 19:30 Genex with Cates

Wednesday 19th July

• 10:05 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:15 Tricks & Tips: Pop Shuvits with Wainwright
• 11:25 Genex with Cates
• 16:50 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 16:55 Genex with Cates
• 17:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 19:30 Genex with Cates

Thursday 20th July

• 10:05 Tricks & Tips: Grab’s with Wainwright
• 11:15 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 16:15 Tricks & Tips: Grab’s with Wainwright
• 17:25 LG Action Sports: LG Bomb Drop
• 19:30 Genex with Cates

Friday 21st July

• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:15 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 16:10 LG Action Sports: LG Artillery
• 16:55 Genex with Cates
• 17:30 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 19:30 Genex with Cates

Saturday 22nd July

• 14:30 Thrasher: King of the Road

Sunday 23rd July

• 09:00 Concrete Carnage
• 09:30 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 09:35 Tricks & Tips: Tailslides with Wainwright
• 09:40 Etnies European Championships 2005: Basel
• 10:05 Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 10:10 Tricks & Tips: Ollies with Pete King
• 10:15 Globe Wildcard Series
• 11:15 Tricks & Tips: Kick & Heelflips with Pete King
• 11:20 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 11:25 Globe Bowlbash
• 11:55 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright

Monday 24th July

• 10:05 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 10:10 Hardcore candy
• 10:40 Ultimate Gumballers: Rob Dyrdek & Big Black
• 11:15 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 11:20 Thrasher: Beer, Bowls and Barneys
• 11:55 Future Primitive
• 15:00 Hardcore Candy
• 15:35 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 16:15 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 16:20 Thrasher: Beer, Bowls and Barneys
• 16:55 Future Primitive
• 19:30 Genex with Cates

Tuesday 25th July

• 11:20 Bones Brigade Video Show
• 12:15 What If?
• 13:00 Planes, Trains and Skateboards
• 15:35 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 16:15 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 16:20 NASS ’05
• 16:55 Tricks & Tips: Pop Shuvits with Wainwright
• 17:00 What If?
• 17:55 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 18:30 Planes, Trains and Skateboards
• 19:00 Genex with Cates

Wednesday 26th July

• 11:20 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 12:00 Thrasher: Skater of the Year
• 13:00 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 15:35 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 16:50 Thrasher: Skater of the Year
• 18:30 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 19:30 Genex with Cates
• 21:30 Thrasher: King of the Road

Thursday 27th July

• 10:45 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:25 Thrasher: Beer Helmet
• 12:25 Concrete Carnage
• 16:20 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 16:25 Thrasher: Beer Helmet
• 17:25 NASS ’05
• 19:30 Genex with Cates

Friday 28th July

• 11:25 Vans World Championships: Skateboarding
• 11:55 Tricks & Tips: Ollies with Pete King
• 12:00 Fruit of the Vine
• 15:35 Tricks & Tips: 50:50’s with Pete King
• 16:20 NASS ’05
• 16:55 Fruit of the Vine

Saturday 29th July

• 09:00 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 09:05 Etnies Bowlmasters 2006
• 09:35 Tricks & Tips: Melon’s with Wainwright
• 09:40 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 09:45 Concrete Carnage
• 10:15 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 10:20 Tricks & Tips: 360 flips with Wainwright
• 10:25 Etnies European Tour
• 10:55 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 11:00 Tricks & Tips: Tailslides with Wainwright
• 11:05 Mobile Skatepark Tour
• 11:30 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 11:35 Thrasher: Beer, Bowls and Barneys
• 12:30 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 14:30 Northwest
• 15:30 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 18:30 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 19:00 Planes, Trains and Skateboards

Sunday 30th July

• 16:00 Planes, Trains and Skateboards
• 17:00 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 19:30 Thrasher: King of the Road
• 22:30 The Big Push

Monday 31st July

• 10:10 Hardcore Candy
• 10:45 Etnies Bowlasters 2006
• 11:20 Tricks & Tips: Mini Ramp with Wainwright
• 11:25 Northwest
• 12:30 Thrasher: Beer, Bowls and Barneys
• 13:30 The Big Push
• 15:00 Hardcore Candy
• 16:20 Northwest
• 17:25 Thrasher: Beer, Bowls and Barneys
• 17:55 Tricks & Tips: 5-0’s with Wainwright
• 19:00 The Big Push
• 19:30 Genex with Cates
• 22:00 The Big Push

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Features

Triple-Shot with Dominic Marley

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 14, 2006

Dom’s Triple-Shot is the first in a series of interview and photography features from various invite only photographers from around the World. Crossfire will introduce you to their favourite photography with a little inside of how they see skateboarding through the life of a lens. Enjoy the very first one of many..

Full name please sir? Dominic Marley

How long have you been a photographer?

I got interested in photography about five years ago.

How did you get into skate photography?

Through Skateboarding and getting into shooting photographs, also seeing Wig Worland and Leo Sharpe about and thinking they were cool!

What were the best and worst bits of advice anyone gave you in regards to photography?

Wig gave some amazing advice and help when I started getting into shooting photo’s, he really did take some time to talk things through and Leo has always given really good advice too. They are both inspirations.

Have you ever felt bad about taking a photo?

If I feel bad about taking a photo I won’t take it. There’s time’s where you feel it’s not right too take a photo. Personally I think a photo should be an agreed thing.

What image first inspired you to take up photography?

There wasn’t one particular photo that made me take up photography, but its definitely amazing to see great photo’s.

I can remember seeing a photo of Rick McCrank doing a kick flip out of that sculpture at La Defense on a Transworld cover in around 2000. The photo was amazing it was spot on, I think it was shot by Pete Thompson and if you’ve ever skated that spot you will know that riding up that thing is a mission in itself let alone getting the speed to pop a kickflip out of it! The footage was amazing too.

As for non skate photo’s David LaChappelle’s work is amazing. His photo’s are more like stills from a film, each photo has a narrative and is put together with a team of assistants and with amazing lighting.

It’s also amazing to see Nadav Kander photo’s, his photo’s are also the culmination of an idea and technically they stand out as fantastic. His portrait work is really great.

What are the best days shooting skateboarding?

It’s great sitting by a sunset….

What’s the relationship like between a photographer and filmer?

When it’s your mate its good because you’ve got someone to sit there and have a natter with.

What advice would you give to upcoming skate photographers?

Don’t carry too much stuff because its not good for posture.

Are there ways of getting better/free equipment as you continue to grow or do you have to fund everything yourself?

Well if there is any lighting company out there that is selling free flashes i’l definitely try and get down there.

What is your most favourite skate photo that you have shot over the years?

This would probably be a photo of Mark Skinner doing a front board at Fairfields in I think 2001 or 2. It was the first photo I had published in Sidewalk. Skinner’s such a laugh, he’s the boy, it’s always a laugh hanging about with him and always good times.

That was on one of the days where there was an amazing atmosphere at Fairfields, the place just erupted when he rolled away.

..and your most cherished photo that you snapped outside of skateboarding?

This would Be Hilder the Butcher and the Dog’s 2002, 5.30am.

Sometime’s as a photographer you learn that no matter how much time and preperation you put into shooting a photo, you can always get a pleasant suprise from just throwing everything together and having no time at all.

This photo was for a project we (Hilder in the photo) were working on and we had arranged to shoot this photo with John the Butcher from Shortlands. He told us to meet at Shortlands train station at 5am on a Sunday morning so we could go with him to the dog training facility in New Addington where he keep’s his dog’s.

We managed to turn up late and drove down to the Kennel’s to look for him. When we got there we bumped into him on the driveway there, he was heading back in with his dog’s, he literally gave us five minute’s to shoot the photo, so the flashes were thrown up there and then and we quickly started to shoot. It was fun shooting that photo and John gave us a good tip on the dog Shadwell Lemon!

If you were to buy a pocket snapper for capturing skating on a budget to get going, which camera would you suggest?

Fm2 all the way, it’s still a camera that holds the test of time today. Some skate photographer legends are shooting on them all the time and they are great cameras.

Would you recommend digital or film?

For sequence’s its definitely digital, its no stress you can shoot all day and not feel bad.

What are the benefits of using film or digital?

Film and digital both have their good points, digital is a really quick way of producing photo’s. It’s great to know that whatever you have shot worked out there and then.

Thanks for kicking off this series Dom, do you have a website address of your work if people want to see more?

Yeah, it’s www.dominicmarley.com

Dominic Marley regularly shoots for Sidewalk Magazine and also shoots photo’s for Blueprint Skateboards adverts.

Skateboarding Product Reviews

Be Unlimited (BeYou Ltd.) – Freestyle All Terrain Board

Post author By Crossfire
Post date July 13, 2006

Now, I know a lot of skaters are all hardcore and strictly stick to one domain i.e. Street skating, but this is only a small part of skateboarding as a whole when you look at all the areas we can ride boards in and around. In any case, I’m down for all board sports and all terrain, so when I was approached by Tim over at BeYou, I had to have a butchers.

Instinctively dirt boards rhyme with juggling balls, and boomerangs for me. I know that is a prejudice, but all my prior experience of 180mm wheels, 25 inch wheelbases and 10 ply planks has been hanging from the wall of a kiteshop… Oh well. Tim insisted I try one of his unique Freestyle All Terrain boards and once I read the brochure and watched the demo videos I knew I couldn’t refuse. You see, the special design quality to these boards is the fact that the trucks are fixed on top of the deck with a foot strap behind each axle. This technique means the board is low enough to the ground that you can actually use the concaved tail to pop tricks and slide across surfaces.

When the box arrived, I got permission from my girlfriend (We’re going on holiday soon and sunny beaches and plaster casts are not a good look!) and reconned a forest setting where bikers had moulded bumps and jumps. Visions of Rick Howard from Mouse came flooding back. There was even a natural downhill halfpipe! Along with a the board came distinct instructions to pad up which my frieds and I complied with because needless to say, be it dirt gravel, sand or stone that shit hurts when you slam. It literally took about two test runs each and we were already powering through the undergrowth, popping ollies here and there, rotations but no slides. Sorry but we were so stoked to get my mate to leap a huge tree stump that we were all tired out by the time we got to Nature’s birch handrails. Next time I guess.

Before I sign this off, I must say two things: The Freestyle All Terrain board leaves you with a bizarre sensation of snowboarding at times. I don’t know if this is intentional, but seeing as the board is slightly shorter than a snowboard, this makes carving and sliding a lot more fun. Secondly, I think you might want to watch out for your back foot and leg which when you twist and turn can make contact with the wheels. This may result in undesirable effects, but this is mainly a design remark. Overall these boards have a great and functional design and a lovely finish to their 10 plies. Look outside the box children and be unlimited.

For more info visit email Tim Paddock at timpaddock@ntlworld.com

BeyoU Ltd. Registered Office: 109 Westbourne Rd. Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, U.K. CF64 5BQ
Company No. 4683123

For the UK
Contact: –

Shiner Ltd.
Church Rd,
Lawrence Hill,
Bristol,
UK.
BS5 9JB

Tel: – (UK) 0117 955 6035
E-mail: – chris@shiner.co.uk

8/10

Ralph Lloyd-Davis
13/07/2006