Maverick Industries have posted up the plans for their forthcoming skatepark in Emerson’s Green, Bristol.
The park is reportedly due to be completed for Spring 2011 and we are already getting itchy skate feet just looking at the plans. The brick hip looks like it will prove to be popular and the view from that bench looks like it’ll be pretty spectacular. Get hyped below…
Slimjim (AKA Mr. James Cheetham) is currently winning the acclaimed title of ‘our favourite person on the internet’ today as he uploads sections from his superb Brighton scene videos to his website.
Get started by watching Louis Cooper’s mind-blowing section in ‘Brighten‘, it clocks up at 8 minutes long but these are 8 minutes that you won’t mind giving up.
Zander’s latest video edit features this year’s Scottish summer sessions with Matty Welsh, Declan Welsby, Shaun Allison, Chris Weir, Scott Ramsay, Daniel Nicholas, Miles, Jake Wason, Keith Allan, Adam Logan, Campbell Begg and Colin Young. Start praying for a dry winter from today.
Einmal Reicht (or ‘Once Is Enough‘) is at once an eye-opening scene video from the young, Berlin-based Chinchilla Crew and a further example as to why professional filmers need to step up their game. In the hands of Nico Kasterke, one can be sure that a camera will be put to good use and put some of the industry’s entry-level standard filmers to shame. We live in a glorious age. In the same way that the internet has rogered the music industry but placed the tools of production into the hands of the many consequently opening the doors for wonderful musicians we may never have heard of in previous generations, here we are able to watch Eimal Reicht online for free. When made the most of, living in the disposable footage generation isn’t always a bad thing. This is one of those golden examples that remind us how lucky we are to be in a smaller world where we can witness such talented skateboarders and filmers right from the beginning.
After a textbook introduction complete with shameless benihanas and a shit-the-bed backside 180 we’re introduced to Nino Ullman who seems to be having a bit of trouble at the Kulturforum. He later redeems himself with a disgustingly nonchalant b/s 5-0 fakie the hard way at the same spot before taking his sleepskating style to a variety of spots across Europe with a deep bag of tricks including one potentially lethal switch f/s bigspin. We’re off to a great start. Next up is Nepomuk Herok is a literal little ripper. He’s not as far away from the sky as some of Flip’s notorious young gunners but he can rip just as hard. This is the kind of section that makes street grabs not only legit again but rad too. Nepomuk can tuck knees over nipples in a way that’s probably illegal for someone his age.
Max Von Nolting follows a gruesome rib-cruncher with some steezy lines at Berlin’s famous benches. He’s swiftly shoved aside in a very Nick-Jensen-in-Static-2 style introduction by Mortiz Zimmerman who preludes a banging friends section by holding his own with some solid ledge bangers and some quick-footed lines.
It’s already been mentioned but the friends section really is fucking great. I watched it twice before moving on to Brian Rietze who’s got a cool lanky steeze that I can relate to. I really dig that he’s not afraid to get that foot on the ground and do some double flips too. Tim Wixwath steps shit up with a rad boneless 360 to get me excited. Those who suffer from boniophobia need not apply, but this kid is ruling. He kind of skates in a weird crunked out Beagle way and I like it.
Georg Balchamischvili will never hear me pronounce his name correctly but he will perhaps read me write some props for his last trick. Unexpected and gnarly as hell. Reik Manig doesn’t take more than three tricks to instantly become my favourite skater in this video. He’s got style, plenty pop, mad trick selection, gnarly spot choice and balls. After a leg-splitter that would send most packing he steps back up and gets shit done. There’s a front wallride grab out over some stairs that will make you pay attention to whatever this guy is doing in the near future for sure.
Paul Röhrs takes one to the face for the team but delivers a sick section to match how sickening his opening bail is. Expect some pro-standard tech, huge nollie heelflips and lots of smiles. Farid Ulrich claims the last part for good reason, it takes a lot of style and substance to be given the honour of a cover shot for Place Magazine. You’ll find style and substance in abundance here.
You can watch the entire video below. Props Chinchilla Crew, this shit is über and watching this once is definitely not enough.
Chinchilla “Einmal Reicht” from NicoK on Vimeo.
It may be Friday but when stuff this good happens on a Monday it’s still relevant. Watch below as Alex Davis drives and skates around Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati mondays, With Alex Davis. from Tyler Macko on Vimeo.
In addition to having a brand new website to get hyped on this week, Flip have posted some footage hot and fresh out the kitchen for all to gawp at.
The ‘Arizona Power‘ edit features Geoff Rowley, Rodrigo TX and footage of Bob Burnquist 50-50ing into the Grand Canyon. Click the picture below to see it.
The Vans Royal Challenge blew up in Torino a few weeks ago with Greg Nowik claiming first place on the enormous mini-ramp that was shoved in the middle of Piazza San Carlo.
Watch below to see action from Nowik, Josh Young, Jake Collins and more.
German tank Roland Hirsch is the newest member of the Antiz Skateboards family as of this morning via news direct from Berlin.
This welcome video should justify some free wood, click it and get some of this as this is a contender for edit of the week for sure.
There are plenty of enigmatic personalities in skateboarding, but rarely does the enigma come with as much substance as Heath Kirchart. It’s unheard of that a skateboarder puts out a part as inspirational as his in Sight Unseen in 2001, almost a decade after his curb-tech part in Foundation’s Super Conductor Super Collider, and then silently raises a bar he was always carrying almost another ten years later in AWS’ Mindfield. Concentrating on nothing but what he personally wanted from skateboarding he achieved what more or less everyone would love for free, the ability to do whatever he wanted on a skateboard.
Yet, he remains to this day as modest, quiet and as self-deprecating as he always has been, reluctant to take interviews too seriously and straight up refusing to acknowledge the extent to which people love him. This has – whether he likes it or not – led him to be one of skateboarding’s most endearing characters whose ability on a skateboard will never cease to astonish me.
This year he made his farewell to actively filming video parts with some final eye openers in Emerica’s Stay Gold and so we decided to pay our respect in two ways. Firstly, we managed to steal five minutes from him for some words as he cycles across the USA in the kind of eccentric manner only someone who has previously had a game of skate against himself could achieve. Secondly, we have gathered a collection of our favourite video parts that can be watched online so anyone who missed out on his early days can witness the career of someone who has made skateboarding exponentially better than it would have been had he not given up the paper boy job and skated more. Here’s to you Heath, we know you won’t raise your glass with us but we love you all the more because of it.
Interview: Stanley
Now that you’ve hung up your professional boots are you excited to just go out and skate for yourself again?
I’m just excited to be able to skate without the pressure of having to work on a trick to film. If I feel like cruising for a week a month or a year I can.
Would you get pissed if someone wanted to film you now, even if it wasn’t for a part?
I imagine I’ll still go skate with Miner, Jet, or Greg and if I feel it would look cool I’d film it.
Foundation – Super Conductor Super Collider (1993)
What kind of work do you reckon you might end up into now that you’re not skating? You’ve said before about how you’ve never wanted to do a real job so have you had any ideas or is it a wake up and see deal?
I’ve never want to HAVE to get a real job, I always wanted to work a job because I felt like doing it not because I have to make ends meet. I haven’t really decided what direction I’m going to go in yet.
Would you involve skating in future work in any way… or will it just be a pastime?
For me to work in skating it would have to be for a brand I really like and get behind. I couldn’t work for someone I wouldn’t ride for.
Foundation – Rollin’ Thunder (1995)
You’re often labelled as enigmatic or quiet, do you feel that this is sometimes a misunderstanding or that remarks that you’ve made have been taken out of context?
I’m quiet. I just try not to make a fool of myself. I’m not a very easy conversation.
What did you learn from skateboarding? A lot of people talk about how it offered them a unique path in life that no other pastime can provide, but what did it do for you personally?
It allowed me the freedom to be who ever I wanted to be. I was never told to do anything. In my entire career I was only “talked to” like once or twice.
Birdhouse – The End (with Jeremy Klein 1998)
Who or what got you into skating rails?
I think it was just the progression of skating at that time. I was in the generation of big rails and tech rail skating. That’s what you did if you wanted to stand out.
What decade for you was the most fun and why?
90’s, it was just about going out and filming with your friends. No pro filmers or nothing, you just filmed each other. Their was no pressure. The flipside was that there was no progression and it looked like shit.
Baker – Bootleg (1999)
In the last ten years you started and finished with two sections that many consider to be among their favourite parts of all time. Did the way in which you approached skating change in any way after the massively positive response for Sight Unseen?
I live in a very small circle so when that video came out it was just another video coming out. Only now that people still talk about it do I feel that it was something memorable.
You must get it a lot of praise now though, right? How do you take it these days?
I don’t get much of anything. I could skate a skatepark for a couple of hours and not have one person talk to me or even stare. I always felt bad that I was paid to endorse products when skaters didn’t even recognize me.
Transworld – Sight Unseen (2001)
Your last video part in Stay Gold wasn’t included on the iTunes version, are you happy that your career filming parts remained only or the physical video and DVDs put out?
Yeah, I like that it may drive a could more people into the skateshops. Plus it’s hidden so you have to want to see it to see it.
What’s your opinion on where skateboarding is going online?
Everything is so instant now. I couldn’t keep up, as soon as someone does something the next day it’s online for everyone to see. It took years for me to get things together for people to see.
Emerica – This Is Skateboarding (2003)
Will you be skating the mega-ramp again any time soon?
I’d skate it any chance I get, but there is only one and I’m not really “in”.
Was it your idea to have a game of skate against yourself?
Kinda, I just headed down to Emerica and Jet, Timothy and I decided to do it.
Battle At The Emerics – Heath Kirchart Vs Heath Kirchart (2009)
Looking back on the twenty years would you have changed anything?
Yes, a lot. But I don’t want to bring up the things I’m not proud of.
What will you miss most about skating professionally?
The money, the traveling, the family aspect of it on tour.
What will you miss the least?
The interviews.
Alien Workshop – Mindfield (2009)
Click on the picture above to stream Heath’s Mindfield part directly from Greg Hunt’s website. It’s one of the finest parts ever produced and should be seen in the best quality imaginable.
After 8 years of riding the swoosh, Reese Forbes has parted ways with Nike SB and has moved on to an as yet undisclosed shoe sponsor.
The shoe company have compiled all of Reese’s ads together, so jump right in by clicking the one below to see 8 years of skateboarding history from the big popper.
