This Saturday at 1pm, Bordesley Green skatepark in Birmingham will re-open with a jam. In Ideal’s own words: “It starts at 1pm so head up there and show the locals what skateboarding is about. The park has been cleaned up and painted and there will be a youth worker on site during daylight hours so at last this place can get some use. And the bonus is you won’t need to spend an hour sweeping the place out before you can get a skate.”
Parlour Skateshop have hooked up with Lakai Shoes this Thursday 21st June for a cruise across London to support Go Skateboarding Day. The street sesh will include hitting up 7 spots that start at Mile End and finish at Old Street kicking off at 4.30pm. The first 50 people will receive FREE Lakai tees. How can you miss this?
Yet again, Daewon Song returns with another video edit that will have the rewind button on lock, made up of more incredible skateboarding that takes in every form of nature on offer. In this new video part as the b-side to his ridiculous section in the new 5-Incher DVD from Almost, Daewon gets to work as usual, shredding rocks, trees and any curved or flat surface to conquer on his travels.
Yet again, Daewon Song is light years ahead of anyone else on a skateboard. Yet again, he takes our Edit of the Week spot hands down.
The upcoming Girl/Chocolate DVD title has been announced today and it’s called Pretty Sweet. Get hyped on what will be dropping in November this year!
Ramp City Skatepark will be celebrating 10 years of service this month. Join them for a Go Skateboarding Day event open to everyone this Thursday 21st June for a FREE evening session in Blackpool.
The Black Label crew went up to Wade Speyer’s ranch to enjoy some of the country life and the “Raise Hell” annual barn bowl jaunt and a session at Ripon. Watch Tyler Mumma, Riley Stevens, Brandon Perelson, Peter Watkins, Javan Campello, Peter Raffin, Wade Speyer and many more.
Renfrew skatepark in Scotland got rinsed by Colin Adam, Mark T-bag Murray and many more. Catch up with thr session from this edit put together by Zander Ritchie.
Manchester’s Rob Smith will be skating Ricta Wheels officially from this week. Watch his new welcome edit here.
The Simple Skate Store in Sheffield hosted the launch of Shaun Currie’s welcome to the Skateboard Cafe team last week. Watch Shaun, Josh Arnott and Matlok at Sheffield’s local spots.
Bay Sixty Skatepark tops the news for a second week running. Why? Well, after much planning and secrecy round these parts, the skatepark has scored a 2 year lease after fighting the system for the last couple of years and have allowed Nike to come in and redevelop the place over the next 8 weeks. So the Go Skateboarding Day jam next Thursday will officially be the last before it is completely bulldozed and rebuilt over the summer with a state of the art refit.
The plans for what they have in mind down here are pretty mindblowing but these will be rolled out soon. In the meantime get hyped on a FREE day of skating with their team riders skating the final session with others from 6.45pm. Details here.
Don’t be fooled though into thinking that the skatepark is safe forever just because a brand has announced its involvement in developing the park. Bay 66 still needs your support and needs it right now. The park needs to have a long term future and not just 2 years, so please sign the petition that is online here and do your bit. It takes 3 minutes of your life. Even if you are viewing this from another part of the country or outside of the country, London’s skateboarders need your help.
Watch the 2010 Xmas Jam to reminisce some of the good times we have had at the park next door to Crossfire and look forward to what is to come in the future.