London will host a mini ramp comp with £4k prize money at The Ledge Trade Show that will be held at Olympia on the weekend of September 2nd. Visit www.londonedge.com for tickets that are £16 for the weekend stuffed full of skaters, new skate gear and more.
Essex have a new bowl at Brentwood now courtesy of the good fellas at Wheelscape. The new build is located on the site of the old skatepark in st George’s Playing Fields CM14 5AE, and is open to the public.
This is the first phase which will also see a street section built at some point. Visit brentwoodskatepark.org.uk for all local info.
The Skateboard Mag traveled to Lance Mountain‘s home to film the Flip team at a Pizza party.
Arto Saari, Louie Lopez, David Gonzales all get stuck in and Greyson Fletcher smashes it on a Banana board.
Jeff Grosso returns with his Love Letters feature this week. Take a look at this round up of pain filled slams with words from Arto Saari and Jerry Hsu.
Derby’s scene are in for a treat this month as Rollersnakes have built what looks like a killer little indoor park built by Craig Smedley, Dave Rampchild and Adam Boyfield to fight the winter ahead and also jumped through hoops to make their TF publicly accessible so you can skate it on special occasions.
The Vault will be open on 24th August for the first one off public session with BBQ and good times. You will need to fill out forms of consent to skate it, so head over here to find out more details.
This is just a quick heads up to let you know that a plethora of teams will be on the annual Lords of the Swords video mission across the whole of Essex filming their socks off for this year’s comp on the weekend of 24th-26th August. Once the damage has been recorded and edited, we will bring you the full vote so that you can all pick your favourite edit from the crop and a winner will take the honours.
Watch 2011’s entries to this here and get hyped for the return.
Witchcraft have some fresh blood in video from online this week alongside their new decks that have landed in your locals SOS. Victoria Park, Shoreham, XC, Saffron Walden and more crete feel the pain of the Coven with Mikey Joyce, Mark ‘TIBS’ Tidbury and Marc Churchill.
Witchcraft new product now available. from Darc Churchill on Vimeo.
The Fabric Skateboards team hit up Madrid for a feature in Sidewalk and came back with this footy feating Mark Baines, Paul Regan, Connor North, Jason Lewer and guest, James Coyle.
Check out this pool session down under with John Dickenson, Bugs Fardell, Casey Ainsworth, Luke Pease, and more. Fun times.
Qld Pool Clip from Skateboard.com.au on Vimeo.
The first European video featuring the DC Shoes team titled Where EU At? has been uploaded to the web this morning in full so if you are looking for something to watch tonight, this 45 minute promo comes recommended.