There’s nobody better to introduce the curves at the new Hebden Bridge skatepark than Mike Wright. More flawlessness from Yorkshire’s most gifted skateboarder can be found here alongside Phil Long at a recent session filmed by Tebbs.
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The annual carve up in Varraze, Italy went down last this weekend with great mini ramp skating and live sets from both Crossfire faves Turbo Negro and Doom Tree. Brits were abroad for the ride and took home some cash home from the mini ramp jam. Ross McGouran, Jake Collins, Kris Vile and Rob Smith all made it into the top six. Watch the footage.
BEST TRICK RESULTS:
1st Martin Pek – Nollie Crooks + Nollie bigger spin
2nd Nassim Guammaz – NS Blunt 50-50
3rd Kris Vile – Lipslide bs180 big spin flip
MINIRAMP RESULTS:
1. Alain Goikotxea
2. Alessandro Sorgente
3. Ross McGouran
4. Jake Collins
5. Kris Vile
6. Rob Smith
The new Maverick built park in Churchdown opened last week with an event. Ryan Price, Ollie Lock, Matt ‘Boyo’ Williams, Adam Keys, Andy Coleman and Tom Gibbs all went down to check out the new concrete. Here’s a 60 second edit of what it looks like up there.
Heroin Skateboards welcome a new pro rider to their team this morning. Daniel Shimizu is their first, official American pro rider whose pro deck will be released this week in your local SOS. Read the full release from Fos and Heroin here.
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Zack Wallin Enjoi welcome edit
Enjoi Skateboards have a new am to on their impressive line up of team riders this week. Click play to see one of the best welcome edits you will see out there this year from Zack Wallin.
Work has started on The House Skatepark in Sheffield this week so if you are local, please note it will be closed from Monday 14th May until Saturday 19th May.
The new back piece and driveway will be replaced with a massive raised section with added extras. The front of the section will be a eight-set of stairs with huge hubbers either side, with banks either side of them. One bank features a rail, the other has a gap in it. On top there’ll be two eleven foot wide quarter pipes and a six foot roll in in the middle.
This weekend’s Pro-Tec Pool Party in California provided one hell of a session as Pedro Barros delivered another mammoth set of runs to take home the honours. This footage below captures the ridiculous skating that went down in both the pro comp and the legends sessions with the Bones Brigade and friends. Amazing stuff.
Pro results:
1. Pedro Barros
2. Rune Glifberg
3. Bucky Lasek
Masters results:
1. Steve Caballero
2. Tony Hawk
3. Lance Mountain
This weekend’s pro tec pool party in the US is gearing up to be another classic. Tony Hawk and Chris Miller talk about the old days of skating the infamous pool, plus Hawk discusses his son Riley quitting Birdhouse for Baker and his fondness for Heath Kirchart.
This edit could well be the most fun footage we have seen all week. Frank Faria, Ratface, Wade Speyer, Harley Morse, Cody Steinberger and Joel Jutagir go to eleven on a spine with help from Spinal Tap at Riverbank skatepark in California.
The Isle of Wight’s skateboard company Wight Trash are about to unleash a guest board by Kris Markovich following their most recent guest collab with Alex Moul. Markovich created the graphic himself for the one off deck that will be available next month.
In other related Wight Trash news, Greg Nowik’s cock board is still happening and the company are said to be issuing a limited run of 10 cock shaped boards too.
More surreal video madness has been released this week from Jesse James who proves you can flip in clown feet. Scroll down this page for a bizarre new edit titled ‘Fingerings and other things’ and visit www.wight-trash.com for more.