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Peacehaven’s concrete park made by Canvas Spaces will be hosting an annual jam on Saturday July 15th. Get it in your diary if you are local and spread the good word. There’s an FB event page here for you to join.
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Almost’s “3AM” Video
This is a technical delicacy featuring three of Almost‘s am brigade. Get stuck into 3AM with Yuri Facchini, Fran Molina and Tyson Bowerbank.
Look back in time to the Death Skateboards crew skating Gran Canaria back in 2010 with footage from Adam Moss, Dan Cates, Steak, Moggins, and Mark Nicolson from his archived tapes alongside filmer, Jake Martinelli. Good shit.
Watch Nassim Guammaz, Jaakko Ojanen, Rob Wootton and Christian Bica spice it up from Goa to Bangalore in this skate mission to India.
Always got time for seeing this fella rip come ‘crete.
Nothing like waking up to see new footage from one of skateboarding’s finest. Trujillo is back with his new part for Spitfire rolling with that steel and steez he is so famous for. Amazing stuff also with stunts from Beres, Van Der Linden, Gerwer, Ramondetta and Austin Kanfoush.
Asian skateboarding style and domination is discussed in the latest Loveletters from Grosso and Vans with honour for the late Shogo Kubo who passed in 2014 to Tom Inouye, Lester Kasai, Christian Hosoi and more.
Very heart breaking news is breaking today confirming that skateboarder, Ignacio Echeverría who was caught up in the terrorists events of London Bridge last Friday, did in fact die in the attack. He was said to have helped a woman by shielding her with his skateboard from the terrorists who were stabbing pedestrians at will – whilst wearing ‘fake’ suicide bombs.
Spanish journalist and relative, Isabel Durán tweeted last night saying that Ignacio was “now in heaven,” and since then it has emerged that his employer HSBC carried out their own private investigation into the incident due to a lack of information from Scotland Yard.
Ignacio Echeverría atacó a los terroristas para intentar salvar a una mujer. Está en el cielo con su inseparable monopatín #héroeespañol pic.twitter.com/qqtOiCAJbS
— Isabel Durán (@IsabelDuran_) June 6, 2017
This delay raised eyebrows in Spain too, as Alfonso Dastis, Spain’s Foreign Minister said on a trip to Moscow that he was “rather baffled” why officials here have not been able to provide any information of his well being since the tragedy hit London’s most famous tourist attraction. “It’s really hard to understand the delay,” he said. “We can respect whatever protocols need to be observed, but you have to think of the situation the family – who are also victims – is going through. It’s a situation that isn’t far off being described as inhumane.” These quotes were taken from the Guardian.
Why did mainstream news channels say he was missing when whatever team the government use to clean up terrorist events already knew of his whereabouts? Surely he had ID on him. How did people go missing after the three attackers were all shot and killed? We appreciate that this event was carried out on a bridge so people can fall in but how did Ignacio lose his life? Where is the footage from all of the hundreds of cameras in the London Bridge area of the atrocity as it happened? Not just the footage after it happened, there seems to be plenty of that on YouTube. Why did it take 63 hours for UK officials to confirm his death to his family? Why is this information still not shared? Why should a skateboarder leave his house to lose his life after offering such heroics? When will we get these answers? When we will receive the truth of why this event happened in the first place smack bang in the middle of a shaky election?
His sister Isabel wrote on Facebook today: “My brother Ignacio tried to stop the terrorists and lost his own life trying to save others. [Ignacio] we love you and we will never forget you.”
Our thoughts go out to all of his family and friends who must be asking the same questions right now. What a dreadful experience to have been caught up in knowing he did his best, as a skater, to help others just like all the other people who put themselves forward to help others when needed. Absolutely tragic news.
There will be a session at his local park at Mile End tonight in honour of his heroism.
May Ignacio Echeverría rest in peace. #chooseskateboarding
Get the teas on for a 6 minute short docu on one of skateboarding’s greatest servants, Mr Heath Kirchart. Top lad, Joey Sinko is behind the production that honors and captures his highlighted work exclusively at the University of California, Irvine.