Brighton Fresh Blood Dave Wallace has racked up ten super tech ledge tricks in Burge.
Watch below for some switch and nollie madness and head over here for an interview we did with Dave earlier this year in which he talks about witnessing a woman give birth on a dancefloor amongst other pieces of serious business.
Here’s a friendly reminder from Kenny Powers that the KROOK3D DVD from Krooked Skateboards is out to buy now for all those who are into that whole sitting on a sofa wearing stupid glasses and have stuff come right out in your face.
The éS team conquered Europe this summer and left behind some good times on their travels.
Here’s a full 7 minute edit featuring Mike Anderson, Justin Eldridge, Kellen James, Josh Matthews, Rick McCrank, Jimmy McDonald, Ben Raemers, John Rattray, Kevin Terpening, Bobby Worrest, Mark Frolich, Nicky Howells, Ricardo Paterno, Gauthier Rouger, Javier Sarmiento, John Tanner and Christian Vannella skating various spots in Bordeaux and Bilbao.
If you missed the first edit with all of the UK footage then click here.
éS ‘To Europe With Love-tour’ part 2 from éS Europe on Vimeo.
The infamous Black Label skateboard brand have welcomed San Diego ripper Peter Watkins to their pro ranks this weekend.
Look out for his Snake Life model at your local SOS when they are shipped and get hyped on a few tricks
Peter Watkins Snake Life from Black Label Skateboards on Vimeo.
If you’re the kind of person who would rather watch Gino push than do anything else for the next three minutes then you’re in luck. Here is a fresh mixtape of Gino Iannucci’s best clips set to some cut-up Wu-Tang.
Enjoy. We just did.
Does anyone have more fun than the Kings Park crew down in Bournemouth? If you do you have never thrown a ‘Tranny Jam’ to date. Enjoy this edit from Danny ‘Bummer’ Bulmer of this summer’s gay-off with the Boscombe massive. Too much fun!
For the third year running Adrenaline Alley in Corby opened its gates only to get shut down by the constantly progressing standards of British skateboarders at the Vans UKSA Championships.
Element’s Ross McGouran battled his way to keep his number one position by matching serious consistency with huge tricks. The gap over the pyramid to nosegrind down the rail will go down as the highlight of the weekend for many who witnessed the street comp over the weekend.
Superdead rider Harry Lintell continued to prove that all the hype surrounding him is for legit reasons – he’s simply one of the best skateboarders in the country and took second place with fluid lines filled with big tricks all performed flawlessly. Style for miles.
Unabomber’s Keith Walsh took 3rd place with plenty of idiosyncratic tricks and an unexpected leap over the pyramid to flat. If there was a big air award for this year’s street comp this Irishman would have took it no problem.
Best trick was awarded to Will Golding with a kickflip nose manual nollie flip out down the sloped block. Caradog Emanuel took second with a kickflip backlip down the same block and Barber earned some cash for a perfect backsmith pop over down the big rail. Sam Beckett destroyed Corby’s vert ramp and took 1st place with Andy Scott coming second and Jussi Korhonen in third. Helena Long put the girls comp on the map with Lucy Adams and Lois Pendlebury, the girls got some.
Another year, another testament that British skateboarding is something to love, support and brag about. Look out for more from this weekend including all of the results on this site once we get back into London and get rid of the hangovers.
Street Final Results
1st – Ross McGouran
2nd – Harry Lintell
3rd – Keith Walsh
Vert Final Results
1st – Sam Beckett
2nd – Andy Scott
3rd – Jussi Korhonen
Girl Street Final Results
1st – Helena Long
2nd – Lucy Adams
3rd – Lois Pendlebury
As ever the Chrome Ball Incident has churned out the goods. Here Chops draws from his wealth of knowledge gained from years of nerding out over skate mags to question one of our all time favourites, Mike Carroll.
Click the picture below to read it.
This week the Crossfire Chronicles takes off its nostalgic glasses that were previously fixed on gnarly music videos and french hip-hop and lays its ears down on the pulse of the current UK skate radar. The names we’ve been looking at for this are those that have emerged above the up-and-coming Fresh Blood status but are still incoming. None of these have a pro model out yet but this is something we’re expecting to swiftly change. There’s more to come from all of these guys, much more, but here are five brief written and video introductions to some of the naturally gifted UK heads who have deservedly gained nationwide attention in the last few years. And if each of them keep killing it as hard as they are now, they could very easily win the apparently-golddust-like respect of certain overseas message board lurkers.
Making the decision on what blips on the buzzing radar are the biggest is of course impossible, which is why we’ll be doing a series of these lists. There are just too many heavy hitters in this new British landscape of impossible post-videogame era standards to get a definitive five but this list is a good start. It’s the raddest time to sit and watch the UK scene flourish right now, so pay some attention, buy scene videos and let’s big up where we’re from. Sketchy spots, cups of tea and all day bus passes for life.
BEN RAEMERS
Despite my own Essex heritage I get a little unnerved by those who go so far as to get the three swords inked on their bodies. This has less to do with how much I don’t bum Essex (because I do, lots) and more a consequence of the three swords frequently being represented by troupes of ignorant idiots. Ben Raemers on the other hand is none of that sort, he’s a proper skateboarder who can rip on any surface. Not only does he tear concrete a new hole on a skateboard but can take on handrails and street with enough control for the US to wake up and pay attention. éS, Volcom and Enjoi are already fully aware of this.
Ben is far from the grom at Rom days. He is a full-blown Essex ripper, already established as one of the biggest blips on the global skateboarding radar from these shores and will surely only swell up in reputability like a bashed elbow with each transatlantic visit. He can rep the three swords and if I can score some associated gnar points then I might get it too. ‘ave it Essex.
JOHN TANNER
John Tanner has the inherant ability to summon that jazzy street skateboarding spirit that’s rarely let out of its Tincan Folklore timecage. Not only can he roam the streets as fluidly as Carl Shipman as shown in the clip we have chosen to show you (his welcome to éS edit, filmed with the same street spirit by Hold Tight Henry) but he can get 90s tech on ledges and throw a mega nollie heel down the kind of sets that cause your illegally downloaded Adobe Staircounter CS9000 add-on to crash. If you haven’t witnessed his section from HTL North Vs South yet then do yourself a favour and click that link. Expect more as he flows out of London and takes his bag of perfected tricks around the globe with the help of some wood from Cliché.
How many people can you name that have done a line on the Great Wall of China?
CHRIS JONES
When I was living in Essex I had the pleasure of being around skaters like Ben Raemers who we’ve already discussed a couple of paragraphs ago, as well as many other similarly get-some gnarbringer sorts, with the exception of smooth operator Gorgeous Dave who brings a whole other platter of rad to the packed table.
Living in Wales offered a totally different approach to skating. Sure, you had the likes of Jess Young and Nick Jones getting their honourary three swords on, but it was the quiet and inconspicuous shredders like Chris Jones that really made your head explode. Things that good just shouldn’t be done so nonchalantly. Chris is an enormous pleasure to watch in the same way that listening to Boards of Canada while on a comedown sounds amazing. Simultaneously calm and epic, whilst overflowing with substance. He killed it for the swoosh at the Nike Demo in London during the summer, and more recently on Crayon’s Wheelscape tour but if you’re not up to date then have a look at last year’s Christmas offcuts from Crayon Skateboards to see what I mean.
KEITH WALSH
Dirrrrrrrrrrty Dublin stand up! One of the post-LAF fresh bloods who seemingly came out of no where with an extraordinary talent, Keith Walsh is one of the mega Irish powerhouses. Cian Eades and Gav Coughlan could easily have made this list but whether it was the mega helipops that swayed me or the handrail stomping over the other side of the pond I’m not sure, but Keith Walsh is one to watch on that increasingly busy radar. A long-term stand out on the UK DC team and now one of Unabomber’s gnarliest assets, and that’s saying something…
BARNEY PAGE
Even though Etnies play him down as a carpenter with fat fingers, Barney Page is the kind of skater that has an already natural talent that will only just keep getting better. Disgusting isn’t it? Good thing any jealousy or envy that you may suffer watching Barney skate is instantly overshadowed by how massively stoked his skating makes you feel, not to mention how much of a bloody nice gent he is too. I wish nothing but good things for his future, but he’s destined to go supernova on the radar sooner than you’d think regardless of my good wishes. If you’re still sleeping on him then you better wake up because when he fully blows up worldwide I’m afraid that you’re going to get severely burnt. Watch his section from the Motive Skateboard’s incredible Dimensions and see why…
Chris Nieratko has interviewed Austyn Gillete and Kerry Getz about filming for the new Habitat video, Origin.
Click the picture below to head over and have a read as Gillette talks Europe and Silas Baxter-Neal while Getz tells us to expect more from him in the next few years. Rad!
