This week, Blueprint’s head hat-wearing honcho Paul Shier takes us on a guided tour round this year’s course at the DVS CPH Pro which blew up in Copenhagen last month.
Expect lot’s of crusing, a little bit of homo-erotic shredding and constant narration from the only person who could get away with talking to himself while skating the park.
Head over here for the clip and see below for a reminder of what went down at the event in Copenhagen a few weeks ago…
When we visited Soletech’s labs in LA last summer, Bobby Worrest’s collection was being prepped and looked like one of the highlights of 2010. A year later and Bobby’s signature éS shoe the First Blood is being voted by most skaters as one of the best shoes on the market.
This month Bobby has collab’d his successful shoe with Cycle– a graffiti artist famous for his artwork spanning over 20 years in Washington DC. The 2 guys met in a local bar, shot the shit and got their heads down to design this end product.
The shoes are strong, comfortable and lightweight and made from a wonderful shiny leather that makes you feel as though you have more than just a skate shoe on your feet. The tongue is not too fat that it gets in the way, the System G2™ heel cushioning gel insert provides cushioning only found in a Soletech shoe which feels perfect and skate straight out of the box.
The suede versions of course tend to get battered a little harder where your feet scrape the griptape when you ollie so these leather versions should last you a little longer which is worth thinking about if you go through skate shoes like Chunk does Baby Ruth’s.
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Destructo Trucks have posted some exclusive new footage of the inconspicuous east coast killer Jake Johnson.
Can anyone switch wallride as good as this guy? Wonderful stuff…
Felipe Gustavo and Scott Decenzo are under spotlight here as Plan B’s Am team are accused of disgustingly good skateboarding.
The new Plan B promo, ‘Vamdalism‘ dropped online today and is a fine example of how fast skateboarding is progressing and how more baffled the rest of us can be made watching it.
It’s 2010 and tricks are becoming too difficult to become trends. Woah.
In the past year Element have gone from strength to strength; the online release of Trio gave skateboarders an unexpected tour de rad from three of their most ‘proper’ skateboarders. That is to say that none of them have ever had to politic-tac their way out of a bad reputation for their activities outside of skateboarding. Why this was unexpected didn’t surprise me too much, even if Element have consistently provided skateboarders with excellent hard goods and above average videos it’s always cool to turn your nose up on the big guys. But for people to still be surprised when the Europe-based Get Busy Living exploded on the web (for free, again) that Element were capable of something so worthy of reaching for that rewind button (or for our generation, awkwardly finding the exact spot on the timeline of the stream and failing but not complaining because the whole section was bonkers), is beyond me.
Let’s just look at the roster for the Euro team: Michael Mackrodt, Janne Saario, Ross McGouran, Marcus Apes, Pirkka Pollari – all are names associated with very good things, maybe one or two funny looking hats but nothing more. The hype machine for this video should have, theoretically, exploded into a cataclysmic fireball throwing shards of excitement into everyone. Hopefully, with this and Trio combined, everyone can expect more gems like this in the future – these were both free, don’t forget.
Talking about what’s in the video itself is essentially redundant given the obviously amazing content, whatever I say is guaranteed to be filled with hive mind commentary. The skating is otherworldly. Marcus doesn’t hesitate to make heads explode with one particular 5-0 grind that’s probably better than any other. His ender is a bed-shitter too so watch out. Phil Zwijsen does some late shoves and fullpipe airwalks to a heft cover of Prodigy’s Fuel My Fire. Ross McGouran has more board control than more or less everyone in the continent. Pirkka has a disgustingly good section, Janne Saario’s first trick (or line on two wheels) is impossible even in video games and Mackrodt dances on ledges and skates mammoth spots. And to close, Guillaume Mocquin get’s hesh and if that isn’t proper then I don’t know what is. The gap to backlip aint nothing to fuck with.
Basically, it’s one of the sickest videos (not online video, not DVD but all encompassing video) to drop in a very long time and that’s exactly what everyone else who’s seen it is saying. The filming is perfectly framed, and HD looks so encouragingly awesome when it’s not subject to an editor who’s a little too liberal with the slow-motion. The colours, man, everything looks sublime.
You can watch the video online, in HD for free below. Let’s shut the door on politics and welcome radness with open arms.
Stanley
Element Skateboads Europe – Get Busy Living from ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.
Lots of good new stuff from the good ship Science this week!
The new line of sexy, sexy looking decks with transatlantic artwork courtesy of LA-based Steven Harrington and London’s Matthew Green and Chris Morgan is now available in all good shops along with some equally fine looking tees.
On top of that our eyes were treated to a 2010 teaser this morning. It’s awesome, keep on scrolling and have a look at it below after the new decks. Ben Cruickshank’s trick at the three block near St Pauls is very special…
The long overdue concrete plaza in Cardiff is very, very close to demanding everyone across the UK to make a pilgrimage to some hot new ‘crete and spread their wheels all over it.
The official opening is on July 27th so to make sure everyone in Cardiff finally gets a ‘proper’ park, DO NOT skate it until that time. Fences are there for a reason, no matter how tempting they are to climb…
Some of the heads behind the design of park were invited for a test run and you can see how the place is looking. This is one of the raddest looking small parks I’ve seen in some time, if you’re town is lacking one then let this inspire you to do something about it.
Birdhouse are currently shredding their way across the world and are getting fully stuck in to the transition Europe has to offer them. Here’s footage from their recent outing in Berlin with some action in Skate Halle. Jaws on a mission!www.birdhouseskateboards.com
Birdhouse in Berlin from Birdhouse on Vimeo.
In this week’s Traffic Report we head east to see Deshi skate some of Tokyo’s gnarliest natural quarters and ride walls better than I can ride down the street.
Still one of the most consistent and best things on the web right now, Traffic’s weekly report show no sign of slowing down the flow of banging footage.
If you missed last week’s then scroll a little further down for Ricky Oyola doing what only he can do…
Stupid Bloody Tuesday recently posted their video edit of their Go Skateboarding Day experience.
The crew hit up the Pump Cage for a warm-up on a lengthy day of sessioning some of Manchester’s most famous spots. Projekts Skate Shop were down with the blower making sure everyone had a blast and got some.
Have a look below for SBT’s edit. Heaven knows I’m amped for a skate now.
Go Skateboarding day 2010 from dan mccourt on Vimeo.