Kill City Skateboards have announced the arrival of a new flow rider to the team today. Sox was born in Kent then moved to Florida for 11 years and now resides in Wales.
Check out what Sox brings to the team here and pick up a copy of Rookies at your local skate hole.
When Moynihan worked here a while back, he would always remind me that Steve King was a legend and was seriously under-rated. Today, a showreel of Steve’s talent has been unleashed onto the interweb. Get a large taste of Welsh goodness here.
Volcom have rolled out the 2nd part of their European tour video this weekend. Watch Rune Glifberg, Raven Tershy, Pedro Barros, Alex Perelson, Dennis Busenitz and Roberto Aleman get stuck into Malmo’s concrete wonderland here.
Palace rider Karim Bakhtaoui gets the teaser treatment today from Slam’s incoming City of Rats film. Both London premiere’s at the Prince Charles Cinema have now sold out. If you missed out on tickets then enter this comp to win a pair, plus a limited edition collab deck and wheels.
Craig Questions, Jake Snelling, Joe Howard, Dan Cates enjoy smashing a car up in this latest Unorthodox montage.
The Fourstar team visited Hawaii for demo’s, bowl and street shredding and came back with a video edit from the trip. Watch Featuring Brian Anderson, Tyler Bledsoe, Andrew Brophy, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Eric Koston, Guy Mariano, Max Schaaf and Tony Trujillo get amongst the surf and blue skies here.
Good Bye Emerica.
“Last week I quitted Emerica after a 10 year long relationship. Like any relationship there has been some great times and memories vice versa. The last years the connection and feeling has not really been there, I been over it for quite some time and I like i once said – When life is on repeat it is time to move on… So I did. I have a new shoe sponsor already and the future is looking amazing. A new chapter is about to start and I feel really stoked and good about it.
Well here is a clip that never made it out there. It was suppose to be two parts and so on. This is the rough version of the first part….
Of course I personally wanna thank Emerica for the good times we did had over the years and for their support from time to time.
Keep the stoke burning.”
The Blueprint team have were one of four teams invited to Transworld’s annual Skate & Create video competition to win the cover of the magazine. Watch Nick Jensen’s Sylvain Tognelli, Marty Murawski, Paul Shier, Danny Brady, Jon Nguyen and Kevin Coakley in their new US job roles put together by Oliver Barton.
Patrick Melcher, Dan Cates, Benson, Dave Allen and Rob Smith all have new pro decks this month on Death Skateboards. The Horror series is the latest in Death’s Spring deck run illustrated by artist Alex Duke “who shreds hard as well as being a rad artist.”
Speaking to Zorlac last night, footage is steadily coming from all over the globe in for their forthcoming Ordinary Madness DVD. Zarosh has just hand screened a new run of his custom shape ‘Bleeding Heart’ decks. You can see the new top screen print below. Dan Cates is celebrating a fan tattooing his signature on their arse cheek. Manchester’s Rob Smith is getting better from a back injury due to a nasty slam and Dave Allen is enjoying the new skatepark down the road from his house in Atlanta. Last but never least, Australian trick machine Richie Jackson just got a Slap Pals questions feature that you can see if you scroll down this page.
Visit the Death blog for all updates.
Three Kiwis have become the first people to ever skateboard through the driest desert in the world. Alan Carnaby, Troy Bilbrough and Guy Parsons spent five weeks skating 1600kms from Arequipa (Peru) to La Serena (Chile) became the first people in the world to skateboard over much of the Andes, through the Atacama Desert and then down some of northern Chile’s spectacular coastline.
The trip raised awareness “about sustainable travel and how, with a little effort you can make more environmentally sustainable choices” but was also a journey that had its ups and downs.
“We had a bit of drama” says Troy. “Halfway through the trip I was attacked and bitten by wild dogs (and needed rabies injections), Alan got sick, Guy pulled a muscle in his leg and we had to survive on just eating biscuits for three days. Needles to say we had a few tough times, and not to mention having to deal with the raw elements: the wind, the altitude, the hills, the potholes, the sun scorching your back, the wild jaguars in the jungle… but overall we had a heck of a lot of fun”.
Website here.