If there is one park in the UK that every skater needs to skate and graze their skin on it’s Romford! This concrete behemoth from the age of dinosaurs boasts some of the best and toughest transitions, bumps and lumps, so it’s only right that this Summer a comp is going down on these holy grounds.
June 17th is Rom Day with the Duffs Concrete Carnage challenge. Don’t fret if you aren’t sponsored or pro because this one’s open to anyone with the minimal motor neuron skills to stand on their sled. Best trick comps, cash prizes and Duffs riders will all there to get you amped to shred so make sure you’re there!
Check out www.duffs.co.uk for more info…
If my memory serves me well, Ricta was one of the first skate wheel companies to pioneer the ‘hard’ core element into the urethane world. Since then, it has become standard procedure. ‘Nuff said.
Whilst skateshops stock up on the big names and flavour of the month product, there are still small operations running all over the land. Eothen Skateboards is one of these operations, and it’s about to step up to the next level. I tried one of the very first boards to come from this homegrown skate company a couple of years ago and was pleasantly surprised. I didn’t hear much from Eothen after that and wondered if people had overlooked the occasion, but I was wrong. There are now riders (Jack Ryder, Ben Bucklee and Tom Davey) and a whole new line of product to choose from. 
The Kingdom deck is one of the new models that I got to test ride. The first thing I noticed was the shape: This board is virtually identical nose and tail wise. It took me a few minutes to figure out which way to set my trucks up… Next was the concave. There isn’t much, but I don’t mind that. In fact, the concave worked just fine and I din’t have any trouble trying to control the deck. There’s nothing worse than battling to control your board because it’s too flat or bent like a fish bowl.
Here is a quick rundown of what happened over the weekend:
It didn’t take long for the brand new Stappelbaddsparken Bowl in Malmö, Sweden, to get a proper thrashing, and the Quiksilver Bowlriders was the occasion to bring it on. The constant threat of rain over the weekend of May 19th to 21st, could not dampen the excitement of the huge crowds or riders in attendance. Riders dropped in from all over the Globe, including America, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy and Great Britain of course.
News just in from Malmo, and the line ups for tomorrow’s Semi Finals have just been finalised for the Quiksilver Bowlriders Comp.
Crossfire is in Malmo right now at the 2006 Quiksilver Bowlriders Comp and Friday’s heats are done and dusted and the results are in. Here are the qualifiers from the heats so far:
Consolidated news in – this time in regards new riders and collaborations with the UK’s favourite dysfunctional family, 
Not long ago, a scandal broke out in the industry pitching two sworn enemies head to head: Consolidated Skateboards Vs. Nike Footwear.
Globe have just launched a web page dedicated to Dirty Sanchez frontman, Matt Pritchard.