Matt Schleyer uploaded his Frankie Spears and Tyshawn Jones footage from the Schleyer video released last year. Watch two upcomers from the US who should be on your radar this year.
Category: Skateboarding
Those lazer-eyed cats that run Skate Mental have rolled out their Spring 2013 catalogue this weekend. Shane O’Neill, Dan Plunkett, John Motta, Brad Staba and Matt Beach all have new pro decks. A selection of one-off decks are also available alongside a new Evil Cat tee, tees featuring a Girl snogging a Dolphin, Wet T-shirts, stoned dinosaurs, Rainbow Uzi’s, beanies, caps, long socks, Fake Crap wax, Three in the Pink, One in the Stink Wheels and loads more.
There’s some of the new range featured here but find the full set on their site.
Mark Gonzales and friends piss about on a hot summer’s night in this short film with street beers and nosepicks.
Tampa am winner Alec Majerus features a full section of his skills in this new ‘Best Friends’ edit. Click to see why Flip has added him to their team.
Reskue skate shop in Southampton have challenged UK skaters to one up Darren Tate‘s tricks at the spots featured in his section featured here. In the next month, film your tricks at the same spots, submit them to Reskue to win stuf from Darren’s favourite sponsors/companies.
James Cruickshank left Sheffield’s Brass Monkey weather and traveled down under to film some lines in the heat of Wellington and Melbourne. Click play for his new Australian street edit.
When the full Fifty Fifty crew rolled into DC’s Embassy, Barcelona’s indoor spot was instantly shut down. Press play for a team outing that will never be forgotten with Danny Wainwright, Syd, Flynn, Korahn and many more. 15 years strong.
Fifty Fifty from THE DC EMBASSY on Vimeo.
Real pro Ishod Wair shows once again why he is one of the very best around. Watch this smooth operator’s remixed Sabotage 3 part all filmed and destroyed in Philadelphia. There could not have been a better end to this week.
It looks like the area of Hampshire is to receive more treats from the concrete designers of Maverick this year following the unleashing of this new design for a new park in Winchester overnight. Exact details will follow but for now this looks like it will be a really good addition and we are loving the brick wall and the rock on the top of the hip.
Whilst going through a tonne of footage and photos, old magazines and memorabilia from various skaters around the world, Jono Atkinson came across an old cine film sent from Australia with unseen footage from Skate City back in 1977. The unedited footage owned by Ron Williams is an amazing find and and no doubt the tip of the iceberg as he trawls through various content whilst editing his ongoing Welsh skate documentary Over Plywood that will premiere on Crossfire once it is completed.
Skate City was situated on the banks of the Thames near to Tower Bridge and was a phenomenon at the time when it opened. These photos were scanned from Skateboard Magazine in October 1977. Find the full article here.