It’s official. Heroin Skateboards has yet another new pro rider today and it’s Luda Crooks! Fos has been working his magic in California and has snapped up the king of all party airs today.
Talking to ESPN on how this happened, Chet Childress says: “I don’t know, it just did. Shimizu kind of said something to me. I didn’t know what I was doing. I got offers to ride for some random stuff and then I talked to Fos (owner of Heroin) and it just seemed like a real cool thing — and I dig Fos’ art. The board should be out soon and I’m going to be filming a video part, which I’m psyched about doing again and again and again. The main thing about this is that I’m re-stoked. I spent a couple months not really bummed on skateboarding but not really that motivated. I was skating, I love skating but I didn’t care about any of the other stuff and this got me fired up to do a couple more things before I disappear into this dumb world.”
Heroin welcomed Danny Shimizu last month. As Burnley’s finest moves forward across the pond, who do you think could be next to join the ranks?
Legendary street skater 
As you may remember from December 2010’s appeal, Bay Sixty 6 skate park in London was under threat due to various plans being proposed to turn the park into offices. Since then, the owners of the skatepark have fought a hard battle to renew their lease for another two years and the local council now recognise that there needs to be a facility for us. The park will be issuing a statement soon about redeveloping the park which will be more good news for you but this battle has not ended yet, it still needs your help, and it needs it right now.
Ahead of the 5-Incher premiere’s incoming this week, the Almost team shred Japan’s spots in this recent edit featuring the sterling skills of Cooper Wilt, Lewis Marnell, and Chris Haslam.
Whether it’s a backside bonesless over the fireplace, or a wallride in the dining room, this old house that was transformed by Philipp Shuster‘s and friends sure looks like a good time in Salzburg. Find and build people.
Stevie Thompson has a new edit online this week in a fight with the Shoreham Bowl thanks to Andy Evans’ and the Push SKateshop in Brighton.
Some of the Drawing Boards team visited Horsham’s park for a recent session. Click for a little sesh with Jak Tonge, Potts and Isaac Miller whose new 
Watch these tricks filmed at 1,000 frames per second with a Redlake N3 high speed camera and then try and name them all in the comments below.
Get an insight of what’s going down in Russia with the Union Skateboards team with Alexei Bobrov, Vlad Esaulkov, Gena Kakusha, Max Kruglov, Sasha Kuliev, Egor Golubev, Egor Kaldikov, Kirill Ivanov, Kostia Kabanov, Gosha Konishev, and Dima Rodionov.