Category: Skateboarding

Mike Pearson caught the footage at this weekend’s Fun Day at Dean Lane in Bristol with Grant Taylor, Raven Tershy, Josh Arnott
Ronnie Sandoval, Div Adam and more from the Thrasher Vacation Tour stop. Gnar fest.

Route One covered the Thrasher Vacation trip to the new Ramp 1 skatepark in Warrington this weekend and brought back the best of the action from that session with Grant Taylor, Raven Tershy, Ronnie Sandoval and Div Adam.

The annual skateboard romp also known as Lords of the Swords went down this weekend with teams leaving urethane all over Essex’ most treasured spots to complete this year’s challenges. Expect edits to drop soon with a public vote but for now, here’s the word from the inner sanctum:

“It kicked of friday morning with our best turn out yet. We had teams of skaters that we had never seen before, we had teams from Suffolk, all over Essex and even a team that was taking part from Australia. The Green Team turned up throwing bird scarer bangers at the other teams and the Zombie boys returning fire with green smoke grenades! It was like something out of nam. (lol). Over the weekend every park we turned up to had at least 2 to 3 teams going hard for the challenges. On Friday night we had the 20 deep Zombie crew and 3 other teams camping out at Dunmow skatepark doing acid and whatever else as we watched a thunder storm roll over. The rest of the weekend was just ass crazy. Delside’s tiny DIY build in Rayleigh got rinsed and was over spilling with teams – expect some great footage!”

The lads at Sore Skateboards up North have blogged a few words on how to start a skateboard company and throw some light on the realities on how to make it work. It’s quite an interesting article considering over 50 board companies exist in the UK right now.

“There’s no easy route to becoming a successful independent skateboarding company and it’s very unlikely that you ever will, so I hope this will make people think harder then they want to start a new co and in doing so we might get stronger skate companies!”

Read the full blog feature here.

20 years ago, the famed skateboard and music photography of Glen E.Friedman hit the coffee tables of pretty much every skateboarder that grew up appreciating amazing music and skateboarding. Two of his many epic photography books, ‘Fuck You Heroes’ and ‘Fuck You Too’ are staple must-have’s for anyone connected or fascinated with our favourite two past-times and for a reason: Friedman’s work is unique and tells many stories in each frame.

If you are one of the lucky people that are obsessed with Glen’s work then get hyped on the fact that he has been working on a new book that is scheduled for release this September. ‘My Rules‘ takes inspiration from Friedman’s first ever solo publication in 1982 and packs in 324 pages of skateboard and music loving, weighing in at an astonishing 7lbs. This book will pack in the very best of ‘Fuck You Heroes’ and ‘Fuck You Too’ but in much larger formats; many as full bleed, and up to 300% of the their originally published size.

The best part of it is that 30% of the book is made up of never before seen photos, so expect over 100 shots from his archives that will sit alongside contributions from the likes of Henry Rollins, Tony Alva, LL Cool J, Jello Biafra, Chuck D, Rodney Mullen, Duane Peters, Ian MacKaye, Jeff Ho, Alan ‘ollie’ Gelfand, the late Jay Adams (RIP), Shepard Fairey, C.R Steckyk III and many more.

We simply cannot wait for this. You can pre-order your copy that is released on September 6th from here for £21.

Spread the word and enjoy this video featuring Fugazi’s Ian Mackaye looking through some of his classic shots and discussing the shoots throughout the years.

An investigation into the death of a 22 year old skateboarder is underway in Los Angeles this week following an incident on the famous Sunset Boulevard where Carlos Arellano was stabbed on the pavement.

Locals believe that he was mugged for his skateboard and would not hand it over and have now hung a full set up on a lamp post with a message to his gutless killer that reads:

“Did they kill him for a skateboard? Or just for fun? Here’s your fucking skateboard. I looked at a dying man in the face last night. Is this the first time you’ve killed? Will you brag at school? Did you get a merit badge?”

Absolutely sickening story. Our thoughts go out to family and friends.