Category: Skateboarding

Where would you be without us eh?

Stuck in the stands, not allowed to get anywhere near your favourite pro skaters, queuing for an autograph, only to be shown the door once it’s all over empty handed?…

Well, Crossfire have arranged for you to get the real deal when Torey Pudwill
Zered Basset, Jeron Wilson, Andrew Brophy, Kristian Bomholt, and Mark Baines drop into London’s Bay 66 Skatepark next WEDNESDAY JUNE 28TH at 6pm because 3 lucky people will have… wait for it…

FREE entry to the skate park + a DVS promo pack (demo tees + shoes!)

But that is not all….

Each person gets to hang out with the team and go to dinner with them after the demo at about 8:30pm!

5 Conditions:

1. You have to be a skateboarder!
2. You have to be a human being!
3. You have to be able to consume food!
4. You gotta love getting FREE stuff!
5. You will have to be at the demo at about 5.30pm to get into the park, meet the team and collect your free stuff and then go out for dinner with them at 8.30pm!

So what are you waiting for?

Click through to the competitions page here and enter the easiest competition in Crossfire history as you may well be one of just 3 people who will have the DVS Golden Crossfire Ticket!

Winners will be picked NEXT Tuesday midday and published on this very website, get your ass in gear, it could be you!

It’s here once again! On the 21st June every year International Go Skateboarding Day arrives and promtly tells us to go shred our local spots, but where will you be shredding today?

Have you bunked school or college or taken a day off work to heat your urethane?

Events are happening all over the world but have your local scene planned anything. Last year, Crossfire organised a session with the Habitat Team in London at Bay 66 which was great fun, sadly this year we have moved our attention to making sure you will have the best street skate comp of the year at London’s Southbank, so this Saturday 24th June will be our official Go Skateboarding Day this year and what a buzz it will be.

The sun is out, stop reading this and GO SKATE!

To find out more about International Go Skateboarding Day – visit http://skateboardiasc.org/

Is your shoe fetish satisfied? Do you know what to wear to the next video premiere?

Maybe these new kicks can help – Z-Boys Skate Shoes have run a limited number and are available in the UK through Out of Step Distribution.

For more info or orders, visit: www.myspace.com/zboyshoes or email info@outofstep.ltd.uk

Support Skater Owned Skateshops! It’s an order!

If you’re in the Chester vicinity, here’s the address of a brand new SOS that has just opened:

NO COMPLY SKATE SHOP
Shop A7
Chester Indoor Market
6 Princess Street
Chester
CH1 2HH

E-mail them at: nocomskate@aol.com

The second round of the annual Globe Bowlbash got underway in Hamburg over the weekend of June 3rd and 4th. Apparently the turnout was hampered due to the German’s love for beer on a long weekend, but that didn’t mean they weren’t killing it on their boards. The bowl featured extensions and a mad over-vert corner pocket with coping.

Naturally, this obstacle took a few out, but not Daniel Beck who hung upside down and set the coping on fire with his tricks. Despite a great show, it was Anders Tellen who took first place with some ridiculous stalefish grabs over the hip and massive backside airs.

The next round will take place in Burnley, England, over the July 15th-16th weekend. Expect some serious carnage!

The boys at Flip are on the road this Summer and they’ll be hitting Europe up very shortly! Before they reach the motherland, Geoff Rowley and Co. have been busy throwing down demos like this one for Zumiez [see picture] and a week long trek through Canada for the Feast Canada Tour.

Get yourself over to Prissick Plaza, Middlesbrough on July 2nd if you want to catch a glimpse of Rowley, Arto Saari, Ali Boulala, Danny Gonzales, Rune Glifberg, Mark Appleyard, Rodrigo Texiera, Lance Mountain or Eric Fletcher. Phew!

Oh! And don’t forget, Geoff Rowley will have an exclusive interview with Crossfire very soon!

www.flipskateboards.com

There’s nothing like a local contest to support the scene in the summer. If you live in the area, or feel like making the trek, the skaters at Perdy will be holding a comp for over and under 16’s with loads of prizes (kindly supplied by A Third Foot, Death Skateboards, Spine Skateboarding and Gnargore) and malarkey on July 9th from 11am onwards. All the money raised will go towards renovating the already existing park. Good stuff!

This week will see more additional obstacles being installed at the Southbank. On Sunday night/Monday morning, Badger and Zac went down to the Southbank with a car full of self levelling concrete, water and gravel to kick start the build of a brand new manual pad where the cobbled stones have always been.

They will also install a rail that will be attached so you will be able to ollie onto a double rail into the drop over the other side. This should be finshed for Saturday, please do not skate it until it’s finished.

As well as the best UK street skaters from all over the country, various riders from the Emerica European Team such as Julian Dykmans, Jo Lorenz, Pontus Alv, Maxime Genin, Oli Buergin, Adam Stoddart, Vaughan Baker, Woody, Joe Gavin, Rory Milanes plus a couple of Element European teams will be in attendance. More when we get it.

The urban athlete crew of City Skateboards has just lost two of its professional riders supposedly in a bid to concentrate on its amateur squad.

I doubt it’ll take long for Pete Eldridge and Mike Maldonado to get hooked up again. In the meantime, City looks like this – Terrell Robinson, Jason Wakuzawa, Jeremy Reeves, Russ Milligan, Tony Montgomery and Alex Klein.

www.thecitystreets.com

Set up a new deck for the summer allnighter that is Lockdown at Interact skatepark on August 12th. A full 12 hours of non-stop shredding from 8pm to 8am with an open bar and live music from the likes of World Champion DJ Woody. The event costs £10, but you’ll have lost 10lb by the time you stop skating.

For more info visit www.interactpark.com