Skaters around the edges of the Cotswolds area of Great Britain will be delivered a brand new 890 sq metre plaza this summer. Kingshill Sports Ground in Cirencester has been awarded the facility after securing a grant from the Sport England Inspired Fund. We spoke to park designer Marc Churchill from 1Skateparks last night to give us an insight into how this all came together:
“We’re really stoked to be starting work on the Cirencester project. It’s been a long time coming, we’ve been working with the Cirencester Council and Decimal Skate shop really closely tweaking back and forth the design until it was exactly what everyone wanted.
There were in total 3 consultations and 5 revisions with Gaz and the crew at Decimal, but those guys knew what they wanted – a rad Plaza! Work begins really soon so it should be ready for shredding by the summer.”
For updates and info check out the Decimal and 1skateparks Facebook pages.
A new tour video from the Volcom team in Europe has just hatched. Watch the ever impressive Nassim Guammaz, Axel Cruysberghs, Victor Pellegrin and tour-guest “Petit Ju” Benoliel in this trip across France this January that ended down down South in Marseille. This is not too long, but fuck is this good.
Volcom Stone-Age | Fiasco Foiré – Mini Tour in France with SOMA from Volcom on Vimeo.
Hi-8 video tape footage of Chris Pastras, Tommy Guerrero and Jason Lee has been unleashed today by Bryce Kanights. Shot back in 1989 at Studio 43 in SF, this archived footage features all three of them padded up skating a mini ramp. Enjoy.
Studio 43 Revisited – Chris Pastras, Tommy Guerrero, and Jason Lee from Bryce Kanights on Vimeo.
Just when you though that the DECE video was enough after watching 25 minutes of bangers from the likes of Brady, Yaje Popson, Lucien Clarke, Austyn Gillette, Shawn Powers and many more, Rob Harris has uploaded another full 15 minutes of extra footage from this production overnight filmed over the last 3 years with hits, misses and dog slides.
Dykie’s amazing relationship with Dirty Sanchez’ Matt Pritchard goes back many years. The two of them have ran the entire country together and skated many spots for years. This week Dykie’s Crayon Skateboards have released a collab deck honouring ‘Sleep When You’re Dead‘- Matt’s own brand.
This deck comes as an 8″ and is available now from here.
It does what is says on the tin. Manny Lopez in Switzerland, throwing them tricks down for fun. Enjoy some raw footage filmed in Geneva of Fabric’s Manuel Lopez.
Chocolate pro Marc Johnson has new footage online this morning for his new Lakai pro shoe that is out this month.
Click for 2 minutes worth of Pretty Sweet ‘B-sides’ and take in that style. Once you have watched it, just imagine if your ‘b-side’ footage was as good as this.
A remix of Gino Iannucci‘s footage from the Pretty Sweet film has been unleashed by Brick Harbour today with a few extra tricks that didn’t make the cut. Enjoy this.
British skater Simon Evans is the latest guest artist for Altamont and has designed two exclusive t-shirt designs that are available this month. Simon’s artwork reflect the stains left on society by the poor and the rich and bring something totally unique to Altamont’s ever growing clothing range that also include works with G.G Allin in this recent Spring collection.
Evans grew up in our local area skating South London, Surrey and London’s street spots and made his mark back then by hooking up with New Deal. His graphic works can now be seen in galleries worldwide showcasing his irony and absurd humour to enlighten the eyes of those who peep into his world.
Watch this recent video interview for a brief insight on Simon’s life with classic footage from Southbank days of old and much more. It’s great to see that his art and vision has travelled so far. In fact, if you are reading this Simon, the last time we skated together you borrowed an elbow pad off me at the Worcester Park spine ramp, but it never came back – please post it to the address below mate…
