If you have been watching Real Skateboards’ brilliant ‘Pushing’ video series and been waiting for Dennis Busenitz‘ part, the wait is over. Get stuck into San Fransisco’s finest at speed.
Real Skateboards Dennis Busenitz Pushing San Francisco from dlxsf on Vimeo.
Mike pearson and Dykie have unleashed footage from their recent jaunt to North Wales with members of the Crayon and Lost Art teams. This three day trip in September brought some good times as you will see from this edit here. Music comes from the wonderful Tame Impala btw.
lostcrayontour from Crayon Skateboards on Vimeo.
Pics by Kevin Broadbent
After a week of voting and over 21,000 people visiting the Lords of the Swords 2012 video page, the winner has finally been decided thanks to everyone involved. Team Pasty Attack Force have taken the most votes making them champions of 2012.
It went to the wire in the end but Corey Bayley, Batfink, Rob Jones, Simon Gillard, AJ Martin and Marc Carter had the most ‘likes’ and probably the most mileage on the clock with over 550 miles driven during the weekend of filming. Their win left the Banana Hammock crew in second place and Michael Barrymore’s Skateboarding Dream Team in third.
The pro team comp went head to head over the last week too, crowning the Zombie Skateboards team as the raddest in Essex despite a strong push from the Monster Network lads. Look out for party photos soon and thanks to all of the teams involved in this year’s get together.
Geoff Rowley speaks to Fos last night and discusses camping in the snow with Jimmy Boyes, plays Lungfish and a whole bunch of other great music.
We also mailed Fos to ask Geoff what band he would be in (other than Motorhead) so click play to find out here.
There’s no worse news than when someone you skate with breaks a bone, so last night’s news that Scott Madill broke an arm skating that crappy little bowl in Putney Park was annoying to say the least.
Aside from generally tearing it up whenever possible on a deck, Scott has been making some new tees under the Flicknife moniker and has a new “Shoot From The Hip” tee out this week in white ultra-weight cotton. These are limited edition and only £15 from flicknife.bigcartel.com
Have a butchers at what he’s been up to and get well soon Scott!
Sid Melvin rocks. Watch his section from the ‘Ooh La La’ video put together by Garret Taylor.
Here’s one from the vaults. Watch Vaughan Baker, Franklin Stephens, Alan Rushbrooke, Harry, Olly Todd, Pete Helicar and Toby Shuall repping the Unabomber team from 1999 skating the old bus station skatepark in Norwich. It says on this video description that this was the 1st and only demo featuring all of the original team members. (Paul Sylvester was there but injured.) Nothing like a blast from the past.
Press play and note that Alan Rushbrooke features in Monster Network’s Lords of the Swords edit here. Have you voted yet?
Geoff Rowley is this week’s guest on Mark Foster’s Fos FM show in California tonight at 9pm in the US, 5am tomorrow morning in the UK. The Brits abroad will be spinning what will probably involve a healthy dose of rock and roll and much more on kchungradio.org. All of these shows are archived so if you don’t run a farm or live like Dracula (or Zorlac) then you can find the full session on www.fosfm.com where you can find other shows with the pro’s and the ho’s.
Grab a bunch of Rowley’s moments in the meantime.
Geoff Rowley remix from Manolo on Vimeo.
Flip’s legendary ‘Sorry’ full length video was released in 2003 and went down in skateboarding history as one of the very best ever made. Tom Penny‘s part featured mini ramp skating in a French barn whilst Edith Piaf sang ‘La Vie En Rose’. Eleven years later, ‘French Fred’ Mortagne has unleashed the extra Penny footage. Press play.
In related Flip news, new recruit Oscar Meza will unleash a full section online on October 8th. Put it in your dairy.
Flip “Classics” Video – Tom Penny Extras from FLIP SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.
Yesterday’s front page news in the Evening Standard in London featured Kilian Martin and Alfredo Urbon skating a longboard for a new advert to promote the new Smart Car. It simply says, search youtube – skatefortwo.
Art on Wheels is what he calls it. Like ballerena skateboarding. As Kilian Martin says himself on his own website, he’s: “creating an all new way to extend freestyle into the realm of street skating. His unique movements set him in a class of his own.”
They certainly do that, there’s no denying it, but will this start a new trend of doubles in the parks of London? Will Hyde park have a new trend? Do we care? Of course not, but this is firstly a hilarious way of depicting what skateboarding is to people who don’t know and secondly a kick in the teeth for those who cringe at what skateboarding is becoming again due to mainstream exposure.
Freestyle skateboarding back in the 80’s was sneered at and laughed out of the parks but what came from that was an era of change. Players like Rodney Mullen upped the game by taking his flatground moves to the streets and the 90s flourished as a result. But this, maybe it should stay as a game for two, as yesterday’s news and today’s chip paper.
STATIONPARK from Juan Rayos on Vimeo.