The I-Path team hit up the deserts of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico to film this amazing Search and Enjoy tour. This is one of the most fascinating ideas that we seeen this year so press play for the treats.
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Flip Skateboards are about to announce the arrival of a new am to their ranks today, one of two new ams we are understand will be joining the official team roster this month.
18 year old Canadian skater Matt Berger joins Rowley and co today and brings some firm street skills to the team. He is said to be the next Mark Appleyard by his countrymen. Watch this impressive welcome clip and look out for another announcement from Flip soon. In related news, have you seen their new Pinkyvision psychedelic deck series yet?
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Vans UKSA Championships 2011
This weekend’s Vans UKSA Championships at Hemel Hempstead’s new XC skate park saw the creme of the UK scene in attendence and of course, with that, some amazing skateboarding.
The 20 skaters that made it through the semi-finals brought chaos to the street section. Conhuir Lynn, Dave Snaddon, Daryl Dominguez, Joshua Young, Ross McGouran, Keith Walsh, Alex Barton, Kris Vile, Neil Smith and Gav Coughlan fought it out in two groups of five people jamming for just over 10 minutes a piece.
Devestating runs followed, the sweat descended, the tricks erupted and the points were racked up fairly deeming Joshua ‘Manhead’ Young in first place for all round trick annihilation, Ross McGouran in second and Conhuir Lynn in third. This year’s best trick comp was won by Korahn Gayle whose fakie flip fakie nosegrind down the ledge took the dough on the night alongside the same trick with a fakie 50-50 that you can see below from my crap cam.
The girls comp was won by Lucy Adams riding for Lovenskate with Helena Long and Lois Pendlebury taking second and third respectively. The Writer’s Tailblock fastest trick speed challenge went to Eddie Belvedere with a whopping 28mph nollie flip!
Quote of the Day was from Nic Powely whose first words when I arrived were, “…those knobheads broke a lift in the hotel and they want £3000 out of me to pay for it!” Maybe Manhead will be donating his prize money, or maybe not. When asked what he would do with his £3000 win in the car park on the way out, his response was: “I will probably spend it on Xmas presents” and with that only a few weeks away we will see you at the Xmas Jam on the 10th December in London for more carnage like this. Well done to all involved, enjoy this gallery of heads from the finals day.
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The Vans UKSA Championships is go this weekend at Hemel Hempstead’s XC Skatepark. We will be up there today for the semi-finals and thought you may like to know who will be skating today from yesterday’s qualifiers.
Joshua Young heads the pack on points alongside Ross McGouran, Harry Lintell, Gav Coughlan and Kris Vile in the top 5. The top 20 people in this list below will be skating today in the finals so look out for updates and results on our twitter and facebook pages today if signals in the skatepark allow.
Scores out of 400
Top 20
1. Manhead 357
2. Ross McGouran 353
3. Harry Lintell 346
4. Gav Coughlan 340
5. Kris Vile 338
6. Keet Walsh 334
7. Conhuir Lynn 331
8. Korhan Gayle 327
9. Dan Wileman 323
10. Nick Remon 322
11. Neil Smith 322
12. Alex Barton 316
13. Caradog Emmanuel 313
14. Daryl Dominguez 313
15. Ewan Bower 312
16. Nev 305
17. Dave Snaddon 305
18. Matlock Jones 304
19. Jake Collins 303
20. Kelley Dawson 300
Overall points for unqualified skaters:
Jason Cloete 298
Steve King 295
Ben Grove 294
Chris Oliver 293
Manny Lopez 291
Jed Cullen 290
Nick Roberts 288
Rob Smith 287
Adam Moss 284
Charlie Birch 282
James Hewett 282
Nicky Howells 278
Eddie Belvedere 277
Awadh Mohammed 277
Alex Retard Lally 276
John Howlett 274
Tim Prozorov 273
Luke McMans 271
Jason Lewer 267
Rawdog 267
Andy Scott 266
Alex Dechuna 266
Philip Long 263
Jess Young 263
Salar Kooshki 262
Jamal Bendriss 261
Scott Howes 259
Steak 259
Ollie Beeby 257
Dave Pegg 254
James Bush 254
Ryan Hurt 253
Gary Coombs 249
Eric Thomas 248
Tom Gibbs 248
Kyron Davies 247
Greg Nowick 242
Giles Brown 238
Tomas TG 232
Nathan Farrow 232
Carl Wilson 231
ATT 225
Gurtis Jesba 222
Radman 221
Alex Halford 216
Joe Marks 213
Luke Jarris 212
Gorgeous Dave Watson 208
Rupert Antoine 206
Domingoe Gumares 206
Ant Smith 198
Chav Dan 197
Phillippe 193
Dave Chesson 191
Keiran Mansley 189
Welsh Socks 180
Ryan Cotton 180
Adam Keys 178
Sam Pulley 176
Craig Loveless 175
Jacob Bettinson 157
Martin Mcguire 156
Gareth Evans 156
Jed Jolly 156
Louis Antoine 148
Dan Smith 139
Sir Jimmy Saville 136
Ricardo Camargo 131
Tom Bailey 130
Araf Koushesh 115
Reece Adams 110
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Through the Eyes of Denis Lynn
Sidewalk have unleashed a new video feature this week on Irish skater Denis Lynn. Watch his ‘Through The Eyes‘ edit below and don’t forget to enter the comp to win sticker packs, massacre tickets and Vans shoes with a photo of your sticker collection here.
You’ve got until midnight on Tuesday 25th October to enter!
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Over the last 2 months Matthew Bromley has been beavering away in here contacting who we thought were the best 12 illustrators out there to produce a deadly, toxic, nuclear mutated sticker ahead of our TOXIC WASTERS skate sticker exhibition that will be held at our Halloween Massacre on October 28th.
In the end, invitations were sent out to Paul Parker, Mr Gauky, Kyle Platts, Sam Taylor, Matthew Bromley, French, Stu Smith, Fos, Craig Scott, Dan Singer, Paddy Jones and Tom Slater. All of them replied with excitement as who else has thrown a sticker exhibition in years? They make up one of the most important parts of skateboarding. Read our recent feature on skate stickers here for proof. The illustrations came back swiftly and Stu Smith at Lovenskate was waiting for them. Watch this video of how these stickers were printed and get hyped on the results.
Only 100 limited edition, collectors sticker packs have been made, all cut and made by hand. Visit our store to pick up an exclusive slice of skateboard sticker history now before they get snapped up, available now for pre-order at £10 (+postage) before Halloween on 31st October, or £15 (+postage) after Halloween.
Not only will you receive 12 limited Toxic stickers, but also 2 bonus x Vans stickers, 1 x Front Magazine sticker and a Crossfire in the packs!
Thanks to all of the artists involved and for your support in making this work!
Manchester skater Ben Grove has officially left Vans shoes this week. A statement wishing him luck on the Vans website says:
“After many years of service skate team rider Ben Grove is moving on. Everyone at Vans and the rest of the team all wish him well in the future.”
We can confirm that ‘Champagne Supergrover’ joins the Supra European team this week who have also welcomed Harmony pro Vaughan Baker as their new European Skate Marketing Manager this month.
Look out for more riders added to this team very soon and check out his Zukie clip that was released at the beginning of this month.
The Big Push has just been released on the front of Sidewalk Mag this week, featuring a full DVD with the best of the best out there. Go and get your copy today and vote for your favourite video edit now!
Enjoy these offcuts from the DC team that went live overnight and feast on the cover shot of Dan Cates paying homage to a classic cover of yesteryear.
This was a nice surprise today! Crossfire advocates Tim ‘Moose’ Mogridge and Martyn Phillips suddenly appeared in my RSS feed on vimeo playing pop stars. Thursday funny indeed!
Brighton artist Pinkyvision discusses his work on the new psychedelic Flip Skateboards skate series. Hopefully there will be a part 2 to this!