The Creature Skateboards team will be visiting the UK in the next 2 weeks and will be shredding parks across the UK from June 11th-16th. The line up of US guests is monsterous so expect some incredible sessions going down at Clissold, Hastings and other spots listed on this flyer. UK team riders will also be on the road including newly appointed ripper, Ben Devine who joins the Creature UK set up this week. Plan for this as it looks to be a blast.
The Supra team are heading back to the UK next week for another tour. Expect Ali Boulala, Terry Kennedy, Lizard King, Chad Muska, Stevie Williams, Erik Ellington, Jim Greco, Matt Mumford, Tom Penny, Furby, Spencer Hamilton, Keelan Dadd, and Boo Johnson to be in your local area in the following locations.
JUNE 7
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
SKATE DEMO & TEAM SIGNING
SAUGHTON SKATEPARK, 4PM BALGREEN ROAD EH11 3BQ
PRESENTED BY: FOCUS SKATEBOARD STORE, ROUTE ONE SKATEBOARD STORE
JUNE 9
MANCHESTER
SKATE DEMO & TEAM SIGNING
PROJECTS SKATEPARK, 4PM, LONDON ROAD, M1 2PG
PRESENTED BY: NOTE SKATE SHOP
JUNE 11
LONDON
TEAM SIGNING ONE AT SLAM CITY SKATES, MIDDAY, 16 NEAL’S YARD – COVENT GARDEN WC2H 9DP
SKATE DEMO – STOCKWELL SKATEPARK, 5PM SW9 9TN
15 minutes of extra footage of Jerry Hsu has been released today from Emerica’s Stay Gold DVD. Enjoy his full B-Side here.
Those who follow John Rattray’s unsurprisingly excellent blog will have had the pleasure of watching this already. For those who don’t, well, you should start. You should also start by watching this superbly documented trip to New Zealand, Riding The Long White Cloud. Here’s what John himself has to say about this project:
“Below, in 5 parts, you should hopefully find a film of a muscle-powered tour that a group of skateboard enthusiasts undertook in New Zealand one summer. My idea was to use the trip as a speculative platform from which to investigate what life might be like in a post-industrial society. That is to say a society whose main fuel source has been depleted to the point of being scarce and expensive. Please let me know in the comments if this objective is not clear from the film. Thankyou.”
Expect great things, and reward your expectations with something beyond them. Check it and find Rattray’s blog here for more goodness from one of skateboarding’s most interesting minds.
Riding the Long White Cloud Part 1 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Riding the Long White Cloud part 2 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Riding the Long White Cloud part 3 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Riding the Long White Cloud part 4 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Riding the Long White Cloud part 5 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Superdead Skateboards have launched a new site today featuring the full range of their summer 2011 catalogue stuffed with new deck designs, wheels, bolts and clothing. Visit www.superdeadskateboards.com for the full experience.
Click here to win a huge package from the team thid month including 3 decks, a tee, bolts and wheels!
If you are subscribed to updates on our facebook page then you would have seen our post of this ollie by Aaron ‘Jaws’ Homoki that graced the cover of Thrasher this month in the US.
Watch this beast of an ollie and try not to replay it. Click here for another of Jaws’ personal bests from last April.
The last 2 Downtown Showdown events that Vans have rolled out in Europe in the last 2 years have been amazing to watch from afar so it’s welcoming news today that this fantastic gathering will be hosted on our doorstep this year!
The VANS European Downtown Showdown event has been announced today to be held on the Saturday 20th August in Old Spitalfields Market, London and will be a free event for all. 50’000 Euro’s will be up for grabs for those pro riders invited to partake so get this in your diary and let your parents be aware in case they have plans to get out of the country in the school holidays!
Watch this footage of the Showdown in Torino/Italy in 2009 and get hyped on the news.
We have been sent a mammoth amount of product for inclusion in this month’s Line Check so enjoy June’s selection that you can find in your local skate shop this month from Death, Blueprint, Superdead, Witchcraft, Girl, Pig, Addict, éS, Emerica, Dekline, Etnies, Lovenskate, Unabomber, Heathen, Volcom and Fourstar.
If you would like to send us product for inclusion in next month’s round up, contact us from the link at the bottom of the page.
561 to NYC is the latest forthcoming visual offering from one of the more reputable Slap lurkers Mandible Claw. To generate a consistent flurry of anticipation and excitement for the full release he’s been drip-feeding sections via Vimeo and Youtube, including this latest clip, which features two time One In A Million finalist John Clayton. Mike Rosa has some tricks in there too. Scroll below the flyer to see it and get hyped.
The full video features the likes of Jimmy Lannon, Johan Stuckey, Billy Rohan, Sean Conover and many more. Full release details coming soon.
It’s not often that the UK and the US have a three day weekend at the same time, but you can feel assured that when they do, some absolutely fire edits are gonna be popping up all over the web. The good folks at Quartersnacks were amongst those that seized the time off and popped their creativity hats on, as shown in that little video embed below. The stylings of Billy Rohan and many other NYC locals are waiting for you at the press of a button. Get to it.
Did you film or edit some footage over the bank holiday weekend? Get that ish online and send it to us, either through here, facebook, twitter… whatever. We want to see it.